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Del Rey has a lot of great manga. A LOT of great manga. But there are also their manga that aren't so popular. My Heavenly Hockey Club is one of them. Like a lot of Del Rey releases, the translation is good, there's no editing [as if there was anything to be edited] always fun to read. In My Heavenly Hockey Club, author Ai Morinaga blends in the elements of humorand above all, it's and a tiny bit of hinted romance to create a silver in the rough.

The story is about lazy Hana Suzuki. There are only two things in her world, eating and sleeping. The story revolves around her and this hockey club. She encounters the leader when he almost runs her over [with his car] and she quickly jumps out of the way. Seeing how well her reflexes were, he decided to get her to join the Hockey club. That... and he thought she was cute. Unfortunately for him, she turned out to only like food and sleep. She was unmotivated to do anything and that was a problem for them, which turned out to be the comedic motif for this story. Basically put, this story is about the hockey club trying there best to live and hang out without getting shut down or anything like that.

Volume 1: If you've ever read a shoujo manga before, you know that there's a distinct feature about it that is always there. It's always some form of harem. In this case it's similar to Bisco Hatori's Ouran High School Host Club, being a reverse harem. For those of you who don't know, a harem is when there is a male character in a situation where there are many female characters. A reverse harem is the opposite, one female and many males. Volume 1 will hold your attention, but it does slip off in the later chapters which basically show where this manga is going. Nowhere. From what I can see in Vol. 1, get this manga if you really like shoujo, or you're really bored with other ones. Ai Morinaga does give you some scenes and elements that aren't really there in other shoujo, but it's not as worth it in the first volume. Keep getting volume after volume, and this story might go somewhere.

Volume 2: I picked up this volume a few weeks ago under the impression that this was a cute manga, and I should really give it a chance. I was wrong. Well, I was also right, too. Very much like the first volume, the story goes on about there various adventures including trying to find an opponent to not get shut down and all. The story is basically the same, except volume 1 had a little bit more plot development. I can' see where this story is going, but it'll it's sure worth your buck on a rainy day.

All in all, this book is worth it, but also not at the same time. Don't bother if you ain't got the money.