Another manga checked off!

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Ouran School Host Club manga ch 1-83! with this month's chapter another shoujo manga has finished, but I expect there will be some sort of epilogue special. Admittedly, I wouldn't have picked up this manga if it had not been for the excellent anime. I don't like the mangaka's art style. There's something odd about the way the characters' heads are attached to the body. The faces & chins are off much of the time. Her toning and coloring isn't as aesthetically pleasing as other shoujo artists are.

Anyhow, the story after the anime was pretty fun. The mangaka has a good sense of comedic timing, and there was no real 'bad guy' to bring the light-hearted story down. The conflict between Tamaki and his grandmother didn't cause too much angst for too long. I'm glad the mangaka didn't introduce a bunch of girls to pair off the host club members at the end or something similarly inane. The study-abroad device was cliche, but turns out to be more cute than I thought. I also thought it was cute that the fangirls thought they knew Haruhi's secret, and later found out that what they thought was in error. ~7/10 rating~ While a charming piece of fluff, the anime was the better media for the story. Mamoru Miyano and Maaya Sakamoto really brought the story to life.

 

Why does Mori have a chicken and an odd-looking raccoon with him at the end?

Comments

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(I think that’s a tanuki. And I think everyone should have a mascot tanuki with them at all times. Not to mention a chicken or three.)

That show made me stabby because the shoujo’s romantic interest was obviously gay and ugh ugh ugh why — but I will admit that probably 85% of its awfulness was contained in the fandom. Fantards could ruin a rainbow made out of ice cream.

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The fangirls in the manga thought Haruhi's secret was that she and Tamaki were gay lovers, and totally supported that idea...until Haruhi's father says goodbye to his 'daughter', and then they were crushed.

I thought it might be a raccoon because the host club are visiting Boston...though they could have brought the tanuki and chicken as presents from Japan.

Mori was an awesome character. I enjoy japan's idea of a manly male character.

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Well, by the time I came along, everybody knew the chick was a chick and they were planning her wedding to the little blond gay Malfoy-looking dude and gloating, and I wanted to barf my face off. (I think the fujoushi had moved on to slashing the rest of the characters by then, anyway.)

I have never understood the shoujokomi appeal of imaginary gay dudes :[

I thought it might be a raccoon because the host club are visiting Boston
Well, maybe it’s a cross between a tanuki and a raccoon, which is exclusively indigenous to the Boston area.

Also: Boston? Really? That is pretty exotic for a Japanese comic! They usually only get as far as Nyuu Youku. That’s like Miley Cyrus going to visit Maebashi, or something (which of course she would never do, because in the US Japan consists exclusively of Tokyo and its immediate environs, and in some cases possibly also Beijing). I am impressed.