Customer Reviews

Happy Hustle High, Vol. 1

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Tomboy Hanabi Ozora's all-girls high school is going co-ed and she is the only girl at school who can talk to the boys with out blushing so the girls want her to be Vice President over the whole school. Then she falls in love with one of the most popular and hottest guys in school...but he doesnt know how to talk to girls, so he is a little hostile!The art is great even if the story line is a bit cliche.

Unlike some reviews on this page the following one is for the first volume:

In Happy Hustle High (originally published as H3 School), Hanabi Ozora is a 16 yr old tomboy whose all-girl school is being intergrated with Meibi High (an all boy school). Hyper and cute, Hanabi is excited to have the boys around and on the first day meets the cute student council vice president, Yasuaki Garaku, who seems to want nothing to do with her or any girl. To help her shy and lovestruck friends, Hanabi agrees to fill in as a student council rep. Her first task? Make dating 'legal' again within the school. This means she'll have to get approval from Yasuaki.

I don't want to give too much away and ruin the fun of reading this manga (since that all it really is: fun), but you'll see Hanabi finding herself being in 'like' with both Yasuaki as well as his 'rival' Tokihisa Aido.

Personally, I really like this manga so far. Rie Takada has a nice clean style with good looking guys and cute girls. The story is nothing we haven't seen before, but I thought everything just really seemed to work. Yes Hanabi is lucky finding herself in the midst of a budding love triangle with the school's best looking guys, but she's such a likeable character it didn't annoy me, I was instead cheering her on.

If your looking for a cute, funny, and pretty short (I think it's only 5 vol.) series that is perfect for the manga reader who is looking for something a bit more mature, then I highly recommend Happy Hustle High.

I agree like some shoujo titles this one is deifnately for the older teens versus the young ones who some jokes might not click with them. I LOVED this graphic novel and the characters in my opinion do seem cliche at first, BUT the difference is Yosuke's fear of girls...thats just real cool to see, especialy when his got the relationship with the ultra-hyper Tomboy Hinabi! Its a 5 star series so far in my opinion! Sorry for the miss-spelling of their names but dont have the book on me to check them.

While I actually own all 5 volumes, I can say that this one is ok.

The artwork is beautiful and I wouldn't except anything less from Viz's shojo line. However, the artwork is classic for any shojo work with the same pretty lines and similar faces. In fact if you've read any of Takada's other works the character look all alike. Just compare the covers of Happy with Punch.

The plot is incredibily formulatic. By the first volume you can guess where this one is going. Granted there are a few plot twists but they remain resolved before the individual volume is completed.

What makes me so sad about this work is that the heroine starts out so strong. More so than anyother shojo heroine I've seen, but by the end of the 5th volume she is just another boy-crazed girl. I also think the author played up the sex end of this story way too much. That is pretty much the focus of the work! The only hinder to actual sex is the that fact that the main character's love interest is phobic towards girls. Like that's never been tried before.

Also supporting characters are sadly underdeveloped. The class president was the most consistently interesting and the most widely ignored.

Overall, for a high school romantic comedy I've read better works.

This is not one that I would recommend for guys. I've tried to get one of my guy friends to read it, and he couldn't really get into it. It was kind of cute, but the ending was anticlimatic as far as the series goes. I liked it as far as the romance went, it got interesting. Not the best, but not bad either.

Happy Hustle High is awesome! It has great artwork, likeable characters and a pretty awesome storyline. The only thing that sometimes irked me was, the main guy looked like he was a college student while, Hanabi [the lead girl] looked to be in elementary school.
Seriously, read H3 if you're looking for a great shoujo manga.

Happy Hustle High was a hilarious (at times not really believable, but hey, it's a book) teen story. The cliffhanger storyline keeps you wanting the read the next book and see what happens next. The main characters are pretty solid though there are a view I really wish they would have told you more about towards the end. It's an enjoyable read, the boys are ridiculously pretty and the heroine is a lovable tomboy. Just another teen story, yes, but a pretty good one.

So, I have to say, this series IS for the older readers, but I think it will appeal to everyone who loves romance!

I think this is better then 'Wild Act', Rie Takada's previous work, because the characters seem to be drawn more mature.

The story is cute and HILARIOUS!!! A very lightingning read if you're feeling down!

A girl who can kick butt and really really hot guys in the manga. If you want the opposite of the wimpy girls, this is the one for you. You'll love the main girl and her battles with guys and her frizzapalooza.

i have that problem too, but...that's not the point. Truly a good hearted shojo read, but the ending of this volume and the ending second volume kind of disgusted me. Sorry. Too much info.