My Heavenly Hockey Club 3
Posted: January 4, 2008 Filed under: My Heavenly Hockey Club Leave a comment »…Ooh. While I still thought this series was a riot, I wasn’t as charmed by this volume as I was by the first two. I’m wishing there was slightly more character development, particularly for the two main characters. They’ve got enough personality to make them funny though, and I still like the situations they wind up in.
My favorite chapter in this volume was one towards the end of the book which forced the two main characters to pretend they were engaged. This is in the rich boy’s house, and Hana doesn’t really know how to act, nor does she particularly care. But she has to pretend to be the boy’s fiancee so he is not forced to marry a girl who seems to be able to conjure ghosts. There’s lots of good gags, including the inexplicable appearance of his father. Hana also winds up drunk and disrobed at the end of the chapter, so I’m all for that as well.
There was another really funny chapter where the characters show up at an old-fashioned Hot Springs resort and find it a little too… old and run-down. In the middle of escaping, they break things, including the proprietress’s back, so they wind up having to stay on and help while she recuperates. The old couple that runs the inn exploits the boys for all their worth, and they wind up getting a lot of business by forcing the boys to do things like… bathe older women and the like. Hana winds up causing a really weird situation by feeding the boys aphrodisiac mushrooms, and then bails with them when something bad happens.
I take back what I said. This volume was hilarious and every bit as good as the first one.
