(The HOSTS of the Ouran High School Host Club)
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Probably one of the silliest, most humorous and entertaining animes I have seen in a LONG time and quite possibly one of my new all-time favorites!Ouran High School Host Club, is about a group of high-class students who attend a prestigious acadamy. Some of the male students, have created a group called the Host Club to cater to the young ladies who also attend this private acadamy.
Enter Haruhi Fujioka, a student who "accidentally" stumbles upon the host club while trying to find a quite place to study. While trying to escape from the room, Haruhi accidentally knocks over a VERY pricey vase that the club was going to auction for over 8 million yen and is thus given a make-over and unvoluntarily enlisted in the club to pay back the amount of the vase.
While in the club Haruhi engages in many strange adventures and episodes. She even introduces this "High Society High School", to what they call "Commoner's Food". In one of the first episodes, Haruhi is sent to pick up some Coffee and ends up picking up common every day coffee instead of the expensive brands that they club is used to. Out of all the members, the club's "leader" so-to-speak, Tamaki, decides to try it out despite the pleas from the other members of the club and some of their clients.
So, lets meet the members of the Ouran High School Host Club!
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Haruhi Fujioka: A 15-yr old first year at Ouran Acadamy. She lost her mother at a young age and has a cross-dressing father. She attends the Ouran Acadamy on a special scholorship in which she must rank first in the class. She is completely mistaken as a male by everyone in the entire acadamy. She doesn't dress like the other students and when she is first seen, she wears a heavy sweater, eye glasses and has pretty messy hair.
She stumbles upon the Host Club by accident, when looking for quiet place to study. While trying to escape the music room in which the club meets, she knocks over an 8 million yen vase and is thus unvoluntarily made a member of the club. The members, give Haruhi a make-over by styling her hair, giving her contacts, and even going so far as to give her the official uniform of the acadamy since she cannot afford one of her own.
It isn't until she is asked to change out of some wet clothes that the club prince, Tamaki, notices that Haruhi isn't a he, but is instead a she! Now that her secret is out with the other male members of the club, they will stop at nothing to keep her gender a secret!
Unfortunately, she must still keep her gender a secret from all of the clients who attend the host clubs meetings, parties and gatherings. Haruhi also loves Fancy Tuna and the other club members often bribe her with a reward of some, if she completes something that they ask of her.
Tamaki Suo: Is the 17-yr old, second year and the so-called "Prince" type of the club. He is completely dedicated to his job as a host and will do almost anything to keep Haruhi's gender a secret. There are numerous times, where Tamaki has fantasies about Haruhi. he is pretty much the entire comic relief of the series. (more to be added later lol!)
Kyoya Ootori: Is 17 at the beginning of the story and is a second year student and is the sly and cunning vice president of the Host Club. He is best friends with Tamaki despite the differences in their demeanor and is often considered "Just as reckless as Tamaki." Tamaki is often calls Kyoya "mama" in a reference of Tamaki calling himself "Daddy"
It should also be noted that Ootori, unlike the other hosts does not put on an act for the ladies who are members of the club. (More to come later)
Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin: Twin brothers who are 16 at the beginning of the series and are considered mischivous, devious and childish young men.
They like to take their brotherly love to extreme and use that to please the ladies who attend the club. The twins also talk at the same time and finish each other's sentences which just adds more to the humor!
***While watching this series I noticed that Greg Ayres and Todd Haberkorn voiced the twins. I then began to wonder, just how many outtakes there had to have been while filming each one of these episodes! they are simply awsome VA's, along with the rest of the cast especially Vic Mignogna who voices Tamaki!***
Mitsukuni "Honey" or "Hunny" Haninozuka: Despite his height and his demeaner, Hunny is actually 17 yrs old and loves sweets and adores stuffed animals and is also a cake lover.
on the wikipedia page, it is written down that Hunny is actually much stronger and more powerful than what he lets on and seems to care deeply for Haruhi.
He is also a cousin to another Host Club member, Mori.
Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka: Is 18 years old at the beginning and is a third year student. he is considered the strong, Silent type. He too is one of the Host Club members, who does not do much to impress the ladies.
However, ladies admire him, because of how much he cares for his cousin, Hunny. (More to come later lol ^^()
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The character descriptions, are not that great here ^^ and I may end up posting info from Wikipedia's page at a later date, when I give my final review.
As of right now, I am REALLY enjoying this series and it is all thanks to a friend of mind, NDW!! Thanks NDW!!! I greatly appreciate you telling me about this series!
Currently the series, with all its zany humor and cool animation I find Ouran High School Host club to be an A+ in my book!
Anyway, take care everyone! and stay tuned for further anime reviews that will take place at a later date and time!
~Mellie
PS: I was half asleep when I typed this out, so you will have to excuse the poor explanations lol! XD
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Final Thoughts
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Well, I finally finished the 26 episode series. I must say I REALLY loved this series and found myself enjoying the story and the zaniness more and more as I continued the show.
However, I was SLIGHTLY disappointed. From what I read about the manga, Haruhi finally realizes that she loves Tamaki and eventually confesses this love. However, In the anime, you can clearly see this is evident in each one of the characters, but neither one openly confesses to loving the other.
I was also disappointed in the extras that were included in the complete series boxed set. I was happy to have the outtakes and the usual clean openings and endings however, I figured that they would have at least included character concept art as well as interviews from the VA's or something like that.
Sadly though, the only interesting extras that I really like, were the outtakes. Though not as funny as say live outtakes but humorous none the less. Some of the funniest ones were included on either the last or 3rd to the last disc.
Anyway, my final rating for this series, is 4 1/2 stars. This goes for the extras too. I seriously think that they could have given the Ouran High School Host Club fans more for their money, but hey, thats just my opinion. ^^
(Oh! and the opening song SAKURA KISS is a really good song as well!)
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