Manga: Ouran High School Host Club - Bisco Hatori [Review]

Title: Ouran High School Host Club

Author: Bisco Hatori

Genre: Shoujo, School life, Comedy.

Publishing year: 2003

Volumes: 18

English Edition:

Price: $7 USD

Publisher: Viz Media

Translator: Unkown. (If you know, please tell me).

Publishing year: 2011

Rating:

★★★★★

I watched the anime adaptation of this manga long ago, but even though I know a lot of people who watched and liked it, they never made a second season, that’s why I decided to start reading the manga, I wanted to know how things ended.

            Ouran High School Host Club starts when a girl named Haruhi Fujioka enters as a scholarship

Haruhi dropping the vase. 

student at exclusive Ouran High School, on her first day she will find a mysterious “music room” that works as a host club. In the host club she meets six super rich and handsome boys who mistake her with a boy because of her looks… then she accidentally breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the club. Haruhi will have to work as a host to pay back the vase… and that’s where everything starts, she will live interesting experiences as part of the host club, good and bad ones. The other members will have to protect Haruhi’s secret when they discover she is a girl, this to avoid anyone else of knowing and to keep letting her being part of the host club.

xxxHolic [Review]

Title: xxxHolic [xxxホリック]

Author: CLAMP

Genre: Sobrenatural, comedy, drama.

Original run: July,2003 – Frebruary 2011

Volumes: 19

English edition:

Price: 10.15 dlls

Publisher: Del Rey Manga

Translator: Anthony Gerard
Buy vol 1: Amazon

Rating:

★★★★★

xxxHolic is one of the most iconic mangas of CLAMP because it’s the link between all their stories.

CLAMP

            In case you don’t know them, CLAMP is a group of four mangakas, Tsubaki Nekoi, Satsuki Igarashi, Mokona Apapa, and Nanase Ohkawa. They’ve created some works with worldwide popularity including Card Captor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth, X 1999, and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, just to name a few. Their stories are known for their intriguing and complex plots.

            xxxHolic is my favorite manga created by CLAMP, before saying the reason I will tell you what the story is about.

      

Yuuko Ichihara.

      xxxHolic tells us the story of Kimihiro Watanuki, a high school student that has the ability to see supernatural stuff, something that has made him miserable. One day, while escaping from a youkai (Japanese demon) he finds a store where he meets a mysterious woman named Yuuko Ichihara, a witch that grants wishes. Watanuki wishes to stop seeing supernatural stuff, but Yuuko tells him that he must pay with something of equal value, and in his case his payment will be working for her until his work becomes equal to his wish. That is where Watanuki’s adventures begin; he often has to confront paranormal stuff while working for Yuuko.