[Anime] Ouran High School Host Club

I've been meaning to make a topic of this for a while but you did a better job of it than I could have. So far this is my favourite show this season, Haruhi is good, but Ouran is just that much better. Is it Shoujo? Sure, which would mean I wouldn't watch it, but I downloaded the first episode by accident and now I'm hooked.

I love their attitude towards everything as well. Loli? Yeah, we've got it. Twincest? No trouble. Tamaki is possibly the biggest blonde ever seen, which makes him all the funnier. And you feel sorry for Haruhi having to put up with him.

Best show of the new season.

Edit: And the part with arrows in the first and second episodes was fantastic. It took a moment for me to figure out what it ment and from there you're waiting in anticipation for whatever is going to happen. I didn't get the lightbulbs till Honey's one lit up though.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by booboocat

i wholeheartedly agree. the premise is very interesting, if not fresh. plus, one of the few shoujou artstyles i like.

Its different, the colours they use are very vivid and the way its drawn makes them look flat at times, like a comic strip, it suits the show perfectly.

But seriously, I know the school is rich and all, but a Big Ben?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

Yes HYD is a awesome live action, but the GTO live action, and I.W.G.P top it IMO.

I'm anxiously awaiting episodes 1, and 2 to finish downloading. Need some comedy in between the gaps of School Rumble episodes!

Episode three is also out, you can get torrent links here if you're looking for them.

Episode 3 is glorious.

The episodes tend to be out of a thursday/friday night.

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Originally Posted by Conan-the-3rd

heheh, Episode 6, the whole time, the only thing that registered in my mind was "That's Naruto's voice..."

And of course, a trip to ANN confermed it

I had trouble not picturing him as Naruto as well, but that was a fantastic part at the start of the episode when he completely undoes everything Tamaki is trying to do to stop the whole thing from falling apart and insulting the customers.

7&8 are good, though they're a bit more indepth character-wise, especially the twins and their rivalry with Tamaki over Haruhi. And they know exactly how to push Tamaki's buttons, to the point of where you almost have to feel sorry for him being manipulated all over the place.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The look on Tamaki's face after he stole his customers was priceless. Oh, Lunar just released episode 9. I'm trying to remember what the preview was about last week.

I think they've had an episode for each of the characters now haven't they? Kyouya, Tamaki, the Twins, Mori and Honey have all had had one.

I'm halfway through watching the new one.

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The ballerina that saved Haruhi is so the opposite version of her, a guy pretending to be a girl. And for some reason Tamaki looks like they dragged him in from another show with that armor on.

Edit the 2nd: Okay, so maybe I was wrong about that, but this one has some fantastic parts in it. I'll post some screenshots too, but there's nothing really spoilerish in them, but I'll tag them just in case.

And it turns out Tamaki is half French. That explains a lot.

Oh, and the next episode Haruhi goes home and Tamaki leads the rest of the hosts to visit. Out of the kindness of his heart. Sure

The Host Club's theme for this week:

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Tamaki The Brave? Idiot?

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Upstaging the Girl's Opera Club

Who knew the twins had such good taste?

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Or maybe not

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Next Episode (Haruhi's House)

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Tamaki busted yet again

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Conan-the-3rd

Anyone notice Bones' Insigna on Huraihi's Sold Mechanical Pencil and how almost all of the Ouran HS students weren't impressed with Zuku Club's prefromance?

Not really, I was too busy waiting to see what Haruhi was going to do to Tamaki after she found out to notice.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Mojougwe

My brother downloaded some of this. At first he tried to persuade me it's a comedy. And it was, in some sense. But I was refusing to watch because it was so girly styled.

And here I am..... in my own pathetic way watching it now.

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I thought Haruhi was a guy first time I took a glimpse at this anime, when my brother was watching it.

My girlfriend is completely hooked on it. A lot of the humour is just slap stick but it only gets better and better.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Summonmaster

Since those silly schoolgirls fall for fake twincest and attempted lolicon, I wouldn't doubt if theyd' turn les for Haruhi

I would like to see more exploration of Kyouya-sempai. So far he's the hidden mastermind of everything, but overall pretty bland being just "the smart one".

I get the feeling that Haruhi was wrong when she said that he wouldn't do anything to her because there wasn't anything in it for him. More than anything I think that it just threw him off, he wasn't expecting her to say something like that and so he left.

But yeah, I'd like to something about Kyouya and Mori, because everytime anything starts to revolve around Mori Honey jumps in and derails the episode.

And we need more pointing arrows and games between the twins and Tamaki!

How ya doing, buddy?

This screen shot shows both why Ouran is a fantastic show and why I almost spat soup over my keyboard.

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Easily the best part of each episode is the theme though, I couldn't stop laughing at Tamaki in his suit of armor, especially when he got shot down by the Opera club. I'm just waiting for some other rival school's Host Club to barge in and some sort of Host-Off hijinks to ensue.

Oh, and Tamaki inevitably getting busted in a situation where it looks as though he's taking advantage of her, I'm also glad to see that I wasn't the only one who though that the crossdressing thing being hereditary in Haruhi's family hilarious.

I would like to see some more episodes revolving around Haruhi without being interrupted.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

New episode! Haruhi in Wonderland and it is win. The arrows are back too.

Screen shots ahoy!

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The twins as the Cheshire Cat.


Kyouya as the Caterpillar.


Renge as the Duchess.


Nekozawa's sister all grown up. o.O Fan service HO!


The Mad Hatters Table.

And new Ouran means a new avatar!

I liked the ep, it was a lot deeper than it first seemed to be, had bananas, arrows, Nekozawa and Renge. I think the only downside was Haruhi with the long hair.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bishounen Bitch

I'm crushed that it's over. Granted, I've still got several other series to keep up with but when I think about it they were more like fillers to kill time between Ouran episodes.

It was a fantastic, edge of your seat finale, though. It was just over too soon... *devastated*

Yeah, I'm sort of disappointed. I just finished watching Ouran, Air Gear, Zero and Honey & Clover, all series that I really enjoyed, so now I need to fish aroud for some of the new stuff on the way out.

When the manga gets further ahead I'd like to see a 2nd season of Ouran though.


I hate it when a very good season finishes.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Bishounen Bitch

Shoot! How did I miss the final episode release? Well, I'll just have to wait until this evening to watch it. *sighs* There goes another series.

If you're looking for something new I can recommend Bokura ga Ita. It's high school romance and it's painfully realistic. The character design takes some getting used to but the storyline is solid.

I'll give it a shot, though hopefully it doesn't take itself too seriously. The best part of H&C was that whenever it started being serious Morita started being an idiot.

The last episode of Ouran though was goddamn classy. It had a bit of everything and the part about

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Kyouya buying out his father's company after being such a dick to him

was awesome.

I'm sorely tempted to start reading the manga. How far has it been released translated so far and is it a good enough job that its worth getting, or should I go for scanlations?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Summonmaster

The word that does come to mine when realizing that OHHC has come to a close is tragedy. I was very surprised at how serious and effective they managed to make the last two episodes, especially with all the fruity costume bits and Haruhi's dad present. A couple of things confused me at the end, even with the scenes in the credits and explaining most of it:

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1) So Kyouya himself was theoretically richer than the Tonerre company could afford?
2) All this talk about Honey and Mori's graduation I take it happened in the manga?

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I'm not sure if he was richer, I'm guessing he heard rumours about the company being bought out and took steps to buy it before they had a chance. Its a very Kyouya-ish thing to do and I find it hilarious that he didn't care if he was going to succeed his father running it but would have been able to just buy it if he wanted to.

2)

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Honey and Mori mention at one point in the series (After episode 20 I think) that they are going to be dissappointed when they graduate and have to leave the other members of the host club. It may have been at greater length in the manga though, since I haven't read it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Spidey

I will go ahead and download this. The funniest anime are the ones that make americans blush and get shifty-eyed.

Its excellent. I haven't read the manga but I've heard the anime did it justice, which is a fairly rare thing lately.

Besides, Tamaki is awesome.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?