Reviews for Happy Hustle High, Volume 1

The average rating for Happy Hustle High, Volume 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-06 00:00:00 Joseph Edington I've read Happy Hustle High at least twice before and I loved it. I remember having all of the feelings and totally shipping it. Rereading is a tricky thing, though, because sometimes you find new things to love and everything just gets better though. Sometimes, however, where there once was love, there now is confusion. I no longer find this series charming. The beginning is still a lot of fun with the headstrong Hanabi, but I find her romance with Yasu tepid. She goes from being really strong to being really "girly" and relying on Yasu for everything. It's all sort of summed up by the chapter where the girls of the school get together to scare off perverts, but the resolution has the guys coming out to offer to protect them. I don't really like the message that sends. I really didn't see whatever I saw in this series before this time around, which saddens me.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-29 00:00:00 Gabriel Calderon It's been a while since I've been genuinely surprised by, and able to enjoy, a high school rom-com manga. I never knew Happy Hustle High existed (how it slipped past teen me, I'll never know, she would have been all over this) until I watched a video from DynamicDylan on YouTube and he brought it up as a series he's read and enjoyed. It sounded interesting enough and the few pages of art from the manga that he shared on-screen were fun enough that the first thing I did next was check Thriftbooks and order a copy of the first book. High school rom-com and even just high school drama titles in manga tend to be very hit-or-miss for me these days. The majority of that is probably just due to the fact that I'm older and past that stage of life, so I cannot relate as well to it. Another part of it is that I feel like a lot of these stories tend to bleed together due to an oversaturation in the genre of the same tropes getting reused over and over again. But honestly, this first volume of Happy Hustle High feels like an actual breath of fresh air that I needed. I enjoy all these characters (and outside of the sports-loving nature, teen me would have related hardcore to our MC, Hanabi Oroza,) and I do feel like this volume managed to pack a lot into just 186 pages. The storytelling is very well-balanced and fast-paced without moving at a breakneck speed, and it took me no time at all to fall in love with it. Will I order the next volume? I hope so, because I definitely enjoyed this one enough to want to see where the rest of the story goes.