Host Club manga review

Harui Fujioka is a poor girl with short hair, that likes to wear boyish style and she entered with a scholarship in a high- class- school -for rich people.

One day when she's trying to find a silent place to read, on the top floor, south wing, at the north end of the corridor, she entered in a music class that is full of... beautiful boys, the members of a special club, only for women: the HOST CLUB.

Unfotunately she broke a vase that costed 8 million yen and to pay that debt she become a member of the Host Club, from a simple slave to a gorgeous host, who entertains the rich girls of the school, between tea, languis eyes and pastries.

The genre is the comedy, so in the purely scholastic atmosphere we have grotesque events, like when the Host Club turns into a tropical country or in an egyptian harem, or when the school creates in a flash a Venezia in real scale for a festival.

The five gorgeous boys of the Host Club are the tipical stereotypes of harem manga boys, in this case a girl can choose between:

- the wild, Mori sempai

- the tween, Hikaru and Kaoru ( and enjoy the homo-incestuous scene)
- the cuddly, Honey sempai
- the scholar cool and loan shark, Kyoya
- the king, Tamaki ( <3 )

The first time i red the plot of this manga, actually i tought that it would be an ecchi manga with a patetic protagonist, BUT nothing in this story suggest the erotic line.

Harui is apathetic but she's tough and all the secondary characters have a huge charge of symphaty that drags the reader.

- The thing you real love in this manga is the grotesqueness of the situations:
it obvious that even if a school is unabashedly super rich, it can't create a tropical jungle inside itself

- 2nd: it's comically exaggerated the ignorance of the rich guys respect to the world of the common plebeians, Harui is continuously by the tears (and roses) of Tamaki, who is fashinated by things like sales and instant coffe.

-BUT the intimates problems, the tearjerker sub plots are treated with that touch of sweetness and humor that lead to love this manga.

Is this a shojo?

Yes, it is, it's pleasant because of the variety of the emotions and feeling that propose, but the 'love' element in this case putted laterally, SO, we have mini-hearts that come out from eyes, but they are easily avoidable.

Voto:8

Side effects:

you will want to cross dressing and to leave for Japan to visit Butler's Café …