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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 11

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This is another great installment of my favorite manga series. Ouran has started to get a little more serious and emotional, especially regarding the Tamaki/Haruhi/Hikaru love triangle, but anyone who has been following the series knew this was coming. For me at least, this is a welcome addition to the story. Bisco Hatori has been able to keep the lighthearted romantic humor in the series while allowing the characters to grow and develop. Way to go! I can't wait for volume 12!

Hatori strikes again with this very amusing volume containing the Sports Festival, an encounter with a wild tanuki, and some personal introspection (mostly on Hikaru's part). Nekozawa (red team) at the sports festival was the funniest thing in the book. I really laughed like crazy at Kyoya's (white team) "tactic" to psych out Nekozawa during the hurdles race. There's not much Kasanoda (red team) - just a few scenes with him talking to Haruhi at the festival and giving her some yams from the gardening club later. Too bad, because I love him and Nekozawa more than the host club guys. Tamaki is worse than usual throughout this volume: more full of himself, but less amusing. And it starts to get heavy when Hikaru spends pages thinking about things. But this is relieved by the story of Mori and the wild tanuki as well as the ending bit about Chika and Hunny and Mori's pet baby chick. I would say this is a strong volume, probably on a par with the volume about the twins' youth & how Tamaki recruited them. (Volume 9?)

I do wonder if there are new translators working on the series. Kyoya seems to be translated much more "roughly" than previously, although there are a couple scenes where he merits this because of anger, and some of the twins' talk is a bit more stilted than their usual artless chatter.

Still, keep up the good work, folks!!!

The ever scheming Kyoya and the consistently conceited Tamaki compete against each other, the twins are fighting over the same girl, Honey and Mori are consoling the twins, and Haruhi is (understandably) annoyed and confused by everything. Also, there is a sports festival, so of course there is a bread tasting contest, a candy art contest, obstacle courses that involve eating cake... (hmm, sounds more like a food festival). There's a treasure map. Someone wears a loincloth in public. There's also a tanuki, an animal which looks like a racoon, wrecking havoc. And yams. Lots and lots of yams.

I just wanted to know what my daughter is watching and reading this days. I started with Ouran Anime and got completely hooked. Now we are reading Ouran Manga and I have to say that books have more to offer. Yes, at first, characters look unreal and too cliche, and situations are ridiculous (as in every Manga book from my "adult" point of view) but it's smart and funny and I felt as one of the review says: "Only a few pages in, I was enchanted. Two more and I was enthralled. And a few more after that I was utterly in love with the entire concept, art, and wit expressed by Ms Hatori".
And even now after reading more Manga this one is still my favorite.

This volume is really a turning point in the series when the gentlemen of the host club begin to vocalize more thanks to their friendship with each other and Haruhi.

Its a more serious volume, and arguably not one of its best. The humor is not completely lost, but with Kyoya at the forefront in leading the red team with his partly dark (but still funny) humor.

The twins begin to have their first real confrontation with Haruhi stuck in the middle (though she continues on as clueless as she can always manage when in a romantic situation).

Good volume and necessary for the future developments, but not a favorite.

...(I ordered this book for my neice as a christmas gift) but I am happy to report that my order arrived well within the time frame allowed for arrival--in fact it arrived before I expected it to much to my delight! You folks make Christmas shopping easy. The book arrived in perfect condition. Thanks!