Ouran High School Host Club 11: Volume 11

daughter loved it.

I don't have much to say about this volume. I watched the anime a few times and decided to pick up a volume based on volume summaries on wiki. The sports festival is entertaining especially with Kyoya my favorite, plotting and scheming to win. Tamaki and Hikaru are oblivious to their feelings but Tamaki's the worst. I thought the episode with rebuking was cute as well as funny. There's some character development between the twins and a bit with Kyoya. Mori, also a fave, is great with animals. (So adorable)

This volume is really a turning point in the series when the gentlemen of the host club begin to vocalize more thanks to their friendship with each other and Haruhi.Its a more serious volume, and arguably not one of its best. The humor is not completely lost, but with Kyoya at the forefront in leading the red team with his partly dark (but still funny) humor.The twins begin to have their first real confrontation with Haruhi stuck in the middle (though she continues on as clueless as she can always manage when in a romantic situation).Good volume and necessary for the future developments, but not a favorite.

Hatori strikes again with this very amusing volume containing the Sports Festival, an encounter with a wild tanuki, and some personal introspection (mostly on Hikaru's part). Nekozawa (red team) at the sports festival was the funniest thing in the book. I really laughed like crazy at Kyoya's (white team) "tactic" to psych out Nekozawa during the hurdles race. There's not much Kasanoda (red team) - just a few scenes with him talking to Haruhi at the festival and giving her some yams from the gardening club later. Too bad, because I love him and Nekozawa more than the host club guys. Tamaki is worse than usual throughout this volume: more full of himself, but less amusing. And it starts to get heavy when Hikaru spends pages thinking about things. But this is relieved by the story of Mori and the wild tanuki as well as the ending bit about Chika and Hunny and Mori's pet baby chick. I would say this is a strong volume, probably on a par with the volume about the twins' youth & how Tamaki recruited them. (Volume 9?)I do wonder if there are new translators working on the series. Kyoya seems to be translated much more "roughly" than previously, although there are a couple scenes where he merits this because of anger, and some of the twins' talk is a bit more stilted than their usual artless chatter.Still, keep up the good work, folks!!!

Bought this for my granddaughter. She watched series on tv and became a fan.