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By OtakuGirlByHeart

Ouran High School Host Club

“Ouran Private Academy is defined by one, prestigious families and two, wealth and prosperous people who have much time on their hands. Thus, this Ouran host club is about these bishounen who have time, giving hospitality to those lovely ladies who also have much time on their hands and profit off of them. It’s an elegant game exclusive to this super-rich school.”

Well, that was according to the Host Club before a girl entered their lives.

Meet Fujioka Haruhi, a studious commoner mistaken for a guy because of her tacky clothes. Only able to study in Ouran because of a scholarship, she starts her first day looking for a quiet place to study. On the top of the Southern Wing, in the abandoned third music room, she stumbles onto the Host Club instead. After a complex of twists of events, she ends up breaking a vase that she can’t pay (amounting to 8 million) and becomes the Host Club’s dog doing menial tasks here and there.

Only when she trips, and her glasses fall, did they see that she has the looks to be a host and find out that she is natural to these kinds of things.

Ouran High School Host Club is a 26-episode anime which focuses on the ups and downs of being rich and popular.

The opening and closing tracks (Sakura Kiss by Chieco Kawabe and Shissou by the Last Alliance) are upbeat and catchy to anyone’s ear the first time they hear it. Although the plot often takes place in the school’s grounds, the animation and scenery of every frame is spectacular and consistent with everything. Also, I can’t comment about the character designs. Can anyone spell bishounen?

All in all, Ouran Host Club is a good find if you’re looking for a bit of shounen-ai and are a sucker for romantic-comedies. So what are you waiting for?

Join Prince-type Club President Suou Tamaki, Cool-type Vice-President Ootori Kyouya, Senior students Wild-type Morinozuka Takashi and Loli-shota-type Haninozuka Mitsukuni, Little-devil type twin brothers Hitachiin Hikaru and Kaoru, and natural-type Fujioka Haruhi (who’s really a girl) in their funny, misfit but heart-warming stories.