Happy Hustle High

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Happy Hustle High


caption = Cover of Japanese volume 1
ja_name = H3スクール!
ja_name_trans = H3 School
genre = Romance, slice of life storyInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Rie Takada
publisher = flagicon|Japan Shogakukan
publisher_en = flagicon|USA Viz Media
demographic = Shōjo
magazine = flagicon|Japan Shōjo Comic
first = 2004
last = 2005
volumes = 5

nihongo|"Happy Hustle High"|H3スクール!|H3 School!, is a manga series by Rie Takada. The series is published in Japan by Shogakukan and in the United States in English by VIZ Media.

Plot

"Happy Hustle High" follows the exploits of Hanabi Ozora. Hanabi is an assertive 16-year old who protects her less assertive friends. The all-girls' school that Hanabi attends, Uchino High School, is merged with Meibi High School, an all-boys' school. Once there, Hanabi meets Yasuaki Garaku, a student council member who is also a surfer. Yasuaki expresses the fact that he has no interest in girls. When the Girls' council and the Boys' council start to fight, Hanabi jumps in, hoping that she can convince Yasuaki to change his mind.

Characters

;nihongo|Hanabi Ozora|大空花美|Ōzora Hanabi:Hanabi, the main character, is rowdy and tough. She used to be a crybaby when she was little, but with the help of Takeru Suno, who helped boost her confidence, she is now an outspoken teenager who likes having her way. She goes to an all-girls school until it turned co-ed. She soon gets infatuated by Yasuaki Garaki after their encounter at the water fountain. They then became boyfriend/girlfriend after a little contest. Afterwards Takeru came back for Hanabi making it a contest against crush vs crush. ;Hanabi's friends ("including Wakako"):Hanabi's submissive friends. Hanabi protects them from people such as lecherous teenage boys, sometimes in exchange for food.;Yasuaki Garaku:Hanabi's boyfriend. When he was little he acted like a player, that is, until Yoshitomo, a friend, told the girls that he can only have one wife. The girls fought over him making it a horrible experience which left severe emotional scars on Yasuaki, which makes him see chicks instead of girls, aka his "girl allergy". In High school, he used to go to an all-boys school, and as a student council member, most popular boy in the school, good at surfing among other things, he's basically an ideal boyfriend, but still sees chicks instead of girls, with the exception of Hanabi, who he saw as a game fowl. However, soon enough, Yasuaki and Hanabi start to date. But it isn't long before he meets Takeru Suno, a childhood friend of Hanabi but the two's closeness causes Yasuaki to go into a fit of jealously, and pick a fight with him. Even though he lost the fight with Takeru, Yasuaki won Hanabi and after other mishaps and misunderstandings they begin to get closer, and in book five they even get intimate. This cures him of his "girl allergy" and allows him to see girls instead of chicks.;Yoshitomo Kuon:The student council president. He and his parents own a flower shop. He is Yasuaki's best friend and a very scary guy if angered. He took off Yasuaki and Hanabi's clothes and put them in the same bed and made a student transfer to another school.;Tokihisa Aido:A student council member who bullies other students. Tokihisa soon falls in love with Hanabi, but realizes that she only likes Yasuaki. He considers Yasuaki his rival because Yasuaki is better than him at everything, especially sports. If you look in "Wild Act", also by Rie Takada, Ryu Eba is chatting with a guy who looks suspiciously like Tokihisa.;Takeru Suno:Hanabi's childhood friend. He trained Hanabi to be strong. Ultimately making her who she is now.This series of manga last at least five books and is considered one of the under praised masterpieces to have come out of Japan within the last five years. It is a story full of romance, and packed with cheeky one liners, quirky characters and happy endings.

External links

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