Ouran High School Host Club 15
Posted: December 19, 2010 Filed under: Ouran High School Host Club 3 Comments »Bisco Hatori – Viz – 2010 – 17 volumes
Oh man. Every time I read a volume of this series, I have to remember how much I love Tamaki. He’s a great shoujo manga character. So silly, and he brings out the funniest in everyone. I thought last volume was a lot of giving the reader what they’ve wanted all this time, but this volume kicks it up a notch.
I had forgotten about the surprise the club had been preparing (?) for Tamaki, and a lot of the beginning of this volume is an “Orienteering Tournament” where Tamaki pairs up with Kanoya and goes around to various challenges and checkpoints prepared by the Host Club members (most catered specifically towards Tamaki winning, though they hide it by claiming it’s an event for their patrons and Host Club-centric, rather than Tamaki-centric). The Orienteering tournament is… okay. It serves as a catalyst for Kanoya (we finally find out what’s bugging her) and also as a device for Haruhi to let Tamaki know that he should share his problems with the club rather than bottling them in. It’s important, but honestly, I’m ready to be finished with this series, and I can feel the ending coming… I’d just as soon have the volume spent sorting out the rest of the character problems, rather than going through more plot. Not that the tournament is boring or bad in any way, I’m just impatient to see the resolutions, is all.
In the aftermath, Tamaki admits to everyone that he has a crush on Haruhi, and we get to see the silliness of how he deals with Haruhi now that he’s realized this, and how his superior attitude makes poor Hikaru feel. It’s Tamaki turned way up, and there are just so many cute scenes of him freaking out or going off on tangents, or everyone trying to calm him down. He really is great, the series is 100% worth reading because he’s such a great character, and every volume spent with Tamaki in a good mood is an absolute pleasure to read.
There are two volumes left! I’m very much looking forward to finishing this series up. I’m hoping we’ll see both within the year. I am happy that it hasn’t worn out its welcome yet, and I’m also curious to see how things will wrap up with Tamaki.
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I think there’s three volumes left, it’s ending in Japan at volume 18 – by the looks of it volume 16 won’t be out until at least June though (it’s not showing up yet on Amazon.com, and that has Viz titles up to May).
Can’t wait to read the remainder anyway!
Yeah, wasn’t sure about the final volume count. I knew it had ended sometime in fall, but I wasn’t sure if 17 was the last one or not. We seem to be getting about two volumes a year or so in English… I do hope with only three volumes left, the release will be accelerated a bit, though.