My Heavenly Hockey Club

My Heavenly Hockey Club
Cover from volume 1 of the manga My Heavenly Hockey Club
極楽 青春ホッケー部 (Gokuraku Seishun Hockey Bu)
Genre	Comedy, Romance
Manga
Written by	Ai Morinaga
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	Del Rey (United States)
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Bessatsu Friend
Original run	2002 – 2005
Volumes	14

My Heavenly Hockey Club (極楽青春ホッケー部^?, Gokuraku Seishun Hockey Bu) is a manga series collaborated by Morinaga Ai. It is published by Kodansha in Japan and Del Rey Manga by America. The series is complete in Japan with a total of 14 volumes. The first eight volumes were released in North America.

Hana Suzuki loves only two things in life: eating and sleeping. So when handsome classmate Izumi Oda asks Hana to join the school hockey club in return for being run over by his 'uninsured' car, persuading her with the thought that she has to pay for the damages to the car. True, the Grand Hockey Club is full of boys-and all the boys are super cute-but given a choice, Hana prefers a sizzling steak to a hot date. Then Izumi mentions field trips to fancy resorts. Now Hana can't wait for the first away game, with its promise of delicious food and luxurious linens. Of course there's also the getting up early, working hard, and playing well with others. How will Hana survive?

Hana Suzuki
Hana Suzuki is your average 16-year-old high school girl, besides the fact that her hobbies are sleeping and eating. She acts rather tomboyish, but can act girlishly when she needs to. Hana is very sensitive about her breasts, and can hit anyone who makes fun of it, mostly Izumi. She has a fetish for fat people and people with large stomachs because it gives her the urge to sleep on them. The club found out after they thought she had a crush on the tennis club's captain but was actually looking at his large-sized brother. Usually, when they go on trips, she and Izumi unintentionally fall asleep together in the car/train and in the place where they are staying at. She joins the Grand Hockey Club after she gets hit by Izumi's car while sleep-walking to school and manages to catch herself, but damaging the car instead. Izumi tries to persuade her to join the hockey club after she punched him for telling her the car is uninsured and that she'll have to pay for it if she refuses to join. After hearing that the hockey club travels to hotel resorts for away games, she joins the all-boys sports club, where they believe nobody will find out she's a girl because of how she acts. They make her goalie of the team because she can do unnatural things in her sleep, like blocking everything from going into the net. She can easily be lured by food to go to morning practice at the school. Ironically enough she is actually considered to be fairly attractive with most boys simply being put off by her personality. As shown in chapter 23, when she briefly becomes possessed by Kokkuri from the game and she adopts a more Yamato Nadeshiko-like personality, she becomes significantly more popular both with her club members and the boys at her school.