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 …
