Club 9 | |
へば!ハローちゃん (Heba! Heroo-Chan!) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Makoto Kobayashi |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Mr. Magazine |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1991 – 1994 |
Volumes | 5 |
Club 9, known in Japan as Heba! Hello-chan! (Japanese: へば!ハローちゃん, Hepburn: Heba! Heroo-Chan!), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Kobayashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Mr. Magazine from 1991 to 1994, with its chapters collected in five wideban volumes. In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Dark Horse Comics and published entirely in their Super Manga Blast! manga anthology magazine; however, only three out of the five collected volumes were released.
Club 9 centers around a young country girl named Haruo Hattori who is attending university in Tokyo, Japan. She initially lives in her college dorm, but due to circumstances has to move out to an apartment and find a job. When a friend gives her a job as a club hostess at a posh Ginza hostess bar (Club 9), she finds herself getting more attention than she initially wanted.
Written and illustrated by Makoto Kobayashi, Club 9 was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Mr. Magazine from 1991 to 1994.[4][5] Its 42 chapters were collected in five wideban volumes, released from April 1992 to February 1994.[6][7] Kodansha republished the series in three volumes from February 23 to April 23, 2004.[8][9]
In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Dark Horse Comics; they published it in their Super Manga Blast! manga anthology magazine from July 4, 2001,[10] to September 7, 2005,[11] and released three collected volumes from February 12, 2003,[12] to April 20, 2005;[13] however, they did not release the two remaining volumes.[14][15]