My Heavenly Hockey Club

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A friend of mine has leant me the rather entertianing 'My Heavenly Hockey Club' manga and I thought I would start a post about this slightly unusual sports manga. The story goes like this: Hana is a lazy girl who likes to eat and sleep. So lazy that she works extra hard to get into a prestigous school which is only 200yards from her home just so that she can get some extra zzz's. One day Hana is sleepily walking along and is involved in a car crash - however it's the chauffer driven car that is damaged. The car's owner, Izumi, says the car's uninsured and blackmails her to join the boy's hockey club as the only girl member.

Anyone who's ever read any sports manga like Crimson Hero or Prince of Tennis may know of what to expect from a sports manga. Usually they go like this: Outsider wants to play sports, they face adversity, and as a team they take on the champions and through hard work, achieve the impossible!

I say this usually.... because that's what the cover suggests you're buying - a sports manga. What infact you get is this: a Hockey Club who have never played hockey, who travel around the country to hot spring's under the pre-text of a match. There are no sports involved whatsoever but somehow it's all rather entertaining. Okay it may not be Furuba, but it did make me laugh, alot! Will they ever play a single hockey match?... who knows...

In a weird twist of fate, I was reading the book before I went to my freshers fair. And my uni has a hockey club and just like the manga they are trying to recruit members because there are hardly any members. So you can probably guess what I did...

... joined the Hockey Club.

(I'm curious to see if art imitates reality. I probably won't last a week but I'm crazy enough to try...)

M.G xx
 
Sounds like a good idea for a manga and to be fair every manga you have suggested and I have read I have pretty much loved so will be adding this one to my wish list
 
Hi there McIcy

No need to add it to your wish list, PM me your addy and I will lend you my copy!

As it happened, I missed the hockey trials, so it looks like I won't be playing any hockey either.

Oh well...

M.G xx
 
Hot spring's and such? Wish my hockey club did that (been playing for 6 years) and I doubt my uni hockey club will do it in the future :s
 
Bought this on Sunday volumes 1 and 2 and I am loving every page. The characters are funny and weird, I'm loving the idea of a millionaire running a club that has no interest in hockey more on the travelling. Ah the budding romance of a girl who would prefer the fatter guys simply because they are better to sleep on.

I have to say pure genious I can only hope the series keeps going as I would love to see where it can take the reader. After all what other manga has a Bear as a goalie
 
SchoolRumble4Ever! said:
Sounds good, I've never actually read a sports manga before but I've played hockey a bit and I'm always up to something new. I'll try it out sometime.
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you my friend must read 'Slam Dunk'. one of the best sports manga ever created. GO READ IT NOW!
 
Ninja Boy! said:
SchoolRumble4Ever! said:
Sounds good, I've never actually read a sports manga before but I've played hockey a bit and I'm always up to something new. I'll try it out sometime.
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you my friend must read 'Slam Dunk'. one of the best sports manga ever created. GO READ IT NOW!
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Trust me this isn't really a sports manga, as sport is not the main theme..... sleeping really is the main storyline :D
 
McIcy said:
Ninja Boy! said:
SchoolRumble4Ever! said:
Sounds good, I've never actually read a sports manga before but I've played hockey a bit and I'm always up to something new. I'll try it out sometime.
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you my friend must read 'Slam Dunk'. one of the best sports manga ever created. GO READ IT NOW!
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Trust me this isn't really a sports manga, as sport is not the main theme..... sleeping really is the main storyline :D
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nonetheless, you to McIcy, should go and read Slam Dunk now!
it truely is a masterpiece, and not just restricting on a sports genre, but the whole manga genre by itself.
Inoue Takehiko = one of the reasons how i got into manga and anime
 
McIcy

Finally read book 2 and I couldn't stop laughing! There are so many good bits, it had me in stitches. Can't believe it how everytime they almost play hockey, something goes wrong. Especially when the end of the hockey stick comes flying off or the joke about Izumi giving Hana a lift home - I don't know how the manga-ka comes up with these bizzare scenarios.

M.G xx
 
I have pure love for 'My Heavenly Hockey Club' it's just so much fun, so I hope it sells well and isn't just suddenly dropped. With any luck they might re-start/re-release Ai Morinagas 'Your And My Secret' and 'Duck Prince' *forcefully wishful thinking*
 
Manga Girls said:
McIcy

Finally read book 2 and I couldn't stop laughing! There are so many good bits, it had me in stitches. Can't believe it how everytime they almost play hockey, something goes wrong. Especially when the end of the hockey stick comes flying off or the joke about Izumi giving Hana a lift home - I don't know how the manga-ka comes up with these bizzare scenarios.

M.G xx
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I know what you mean they really have no way of ever playing the sport, we shall have to look at the next few volumes in the hope that they finally get to play a game.
 
Hey there McIcy,

Have you read volume 3? It's still really funny, just not as slapstick as volume 2, but still more entertaining than other manga's. Hana gets stuck with Takashi and Izumi invites Hana home for cream puffs. As to whether they actually play hockey, I'll leave that as a surprise for you.

M.G xx
 
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