Heba! Hello-chan!
Club 9

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Makoto Kobayashi is an author known for creating the famous cat manga "What's Michael?". Nine years later he created "Heba! Hello-chan!" which in America was named "Club 9". He is known for his very unique character designs and these are definitely what will attract or push away people from this work. Kobayashi strongly accentuates individual aspects of faces in Club 9. This ends up giving this manga a world populated by people with caricatures for faces. Another attribute that will either appeal or turn people off is the heavy countryside accents used by the characters. The whole story revolves around a main character who was ... born in Akita, a rural prefecture in northern Japan, and that is one of her main charms. The famous Studio Proteus adapted it by replacing it with a heavy American southern accent and this might sound way too different to some folks.

This is the story of Haruo Hattori, an energetic and very honest girl from the countryside of Japan who finds herself working at a glamorous Ginza host bar. In Japanese host bars, clients pay for drinks and the company of the staff. Hosts will give their time and empathy for those willing to pay. Haruo stands out because of her authenticity. Being a young country girl who avoids using personas and is just her sincere self all the time just keeps winning the hearts of many of the clients she meets. The book starts very slow, but once Haruo starts working at Club 9, things get going.

This is not a manga for everyone. This is either for people who rarely read any manga at all or people who have read so much that they want something different. I'd say the majority of people who are reading manga are usually looking for specific tropes they are used to and many of those are definitely not in this story.