My Heavenly Hockey Club 2
Posted: September 15, 2007 Filed under: My Heavenly Hockey Club Leave a comment »In case you were wondering, volume 2 is still hilarious. The random, one-off gags were what got to me this time, and my favorite part was probably a one-panel gag where Hana was sleeping in a hammock, wakes up and looks at her arms, then yells “HAM!” with a shocked expression on her face due to the pattern the hammock left on her skin. I don’t know why this struck me as so funny, but I laugh every time I think about it. Another good one involved a Japanese pun that didn’t translate so well in English, but the feeling was there, and the boys suddenly appearing in overalls and declaring themselves the “Chub Club” is a hard image to shake.
The relationship between Hana and the main male character (whose name escapes me right now) is cute, but developing way slower than I would like. While it’s cute they keep falling asleep on each other, I would like more, please.
The best chapter this time around was probably where the Hockey Club got invited to play a game for the first time. The club who invited them turned out to be one who was too poor for away games, and actually so poor that they couldn’t afford proper equipment. Since their stuff was so broken, no one around their school would play them either. Of course, with the main characters all being rich boys, there are a bunch of obvious gags, but this situation just keeps building on itself and getting better and better. There’s food involved in the end (of course), but there’s a lot of weird stuff, too. The main male character, for instance, thought one boy’s cardboard shin guards were awesome, so he traded his. All the main characters are pretty fascinated with the way these boys work. The main male character also gets a lot of development in this chapter, and he even does a nice thing after being sort of a jerk to the poor boys.
Another good chapter involved the Hockey Club briefly becoming the Judo Club. The manly girls in the Judo Club are into this, since the main males are kind of rolling around on each other trying to pull off moves they saw in manga. Really, the manly girls carry the chapter in this case. Hats off to them.
And that really was the moral of this volume: hats off to manly girls.
