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Ouran High School Host Club is a less than typical shoujo anime, evolving around a cross-dressing girl, henceforth Haruhi, in her 1st year of high school. Being "super-poor" in a super-rich school full of prestigious and affluent families, she has to work hard to maintain her top-of-grade scores in order to remain at Ouran and fulfill her dream of becoming a lawyer.

One fateful day, while looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi enters the 3rd music room and... stumbles upon the Host Club, a group of pretty looking guys who have a lot of time on their hands, dedicated to entertaining girls, and making a profit in the process.

By pure accident, Haruhi breaks a vase valued at 8000000 yen (about $80 000), and being so poor that she can't even afford the school uniform; Haruhi has to work at the Host Club until her debts are paid off.

The main characters are:

Haruhi Fujioka- our unlikely heroine
Tamaki Suou- king of the host club
Kyouya Ootori- the shadow king...
Hikaru/ Kaoru Hitachiin- incestuous twins
Mitsukuni Haninozuka - cake-eating monster
Takashi Morinozuka - the "normal" one

Out of the many side characters, the most memorable are probably:

Renge Houshakuji - crazy manageress
Umehito Nekozawa - who is photophobic
Ritsu Kasanoda- renji's clone

The series consists of 26 episodes, each in a different situation than in the previous episode (there are some exceptions). Therefore, the plot is rather vague, but it's very entertaining nonetheless. The story reaches it's climax in episode 25, when an evil force (slight exaggeration) threatens to break apart the Host Club. It ran for a little over 5 months (April 5th 2006- September 26 2006) on the Nippon Television Network in Japan. For fans in the western hemisphere:, there are plans by Funimation (they also did Fullmetal Alchemist) to dub the series, and broadcast it sometime in 2008. Hopefully, they won't screw it up.

At the moment, the manga contains around 60 chapters, and is on-going. It appears monthly in Lala, a shoujo manga magazine (like Shounen Jump, except it appeals more to a female audience) and has been been compiled into 11 volumes, 10 of which have been released in the U.S at last count.

      

   creator

The creator of this wonderful series is Bisco Hatori, but her real name is not known. Besides the fact that she was born on the 30th of August in Saitama, Japan, there is little else to say... As for her career as a manga artist, her previous works include "A Moment of Romance" and "Millennium Snow".

*Related links- official website, wikipedia article


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