October 9, 2025 • 21 mins
The first notes of “kiss, kiss, fall in love” still flip a switch. This solo deep dive revisits Ouran High School Host Club with fresh eyes and a full heart—why Haruhi’s grounded kindness cuts through the glitter, how Tamaki’s theatrics hide a fierce tenderness, and what makes Kyoya’s “Shadow King” strategy more protective than cold. We walk through the early episodes where comedy sparkles and the stakes feel light, then follow the threads that pull everything taut: identity, class, obligation, and the courage to choose your people.
We break down the hosts beyond their archetypes. The twins weaponize performance to mask loneliness, only to be disarmed by someone who truly sees them. Honey and Mori reframe strength as care. Renge crashes in like a meta tornado, poking fun at tropes while spotlighting how the club protects its culture. From the physical exam shenanigans to the “which one is Hikaru?” prank, the show’s humor primes you for the emotional gut checks that follow.
The Oran Fair storyline raises the curtain on power—Eclair’s leverage, family politics, and what happens when romance meets reality. Tamaki’s carriage, Haruhi’s leap, and Kyoya’s quiet rebellion build to a finale that feels both theatrical and true. We also touch the manga’s continuation, sharing satisfying reveals and futures that reward fans who wanted more than the anime delivered. Whether Ouran was your first anime or a comfort rewatch, this review maps what makes it timeless: satire without cynicism, romance without melodrama, and the chosen family that blooms in Music Room 3.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
It's time to kiss, kiss, fall in love.
Hey, it's everybody, it's SebbiePhantom here doing a solo review
on my favorite anime, my first,my start, or on high school hose
club.
Now I can go on and on and onabout this anime, and I'm going
to.
(00:22):
This anime is something that isclose and dear to my heart.
I've read the manga, I havewatched the anime, I have prayed
for a second season, even thoughwe're not going to get one.
I wish.
But this anime is special to me.
So Oran High School Host Club,known as From Oran Academy.
(00:43):
They're located in Music Room 3,and they're sufficed of some
members, right?
Alright.
So let's get into this.
So we have, like I said, ourmembers.
It was founded by Tamaki Subo,who is the prince character and
president of Oran High SchoolHost Club.
And our vice president, KyoyaOtari, who is the vice, like I
(01:06):
said, vice president andassistant to the prince, Tamaki
Subo.
Now, the Oran High School HostClub is an independent,
functioning high school club,like I said, founded by Tom King
Kyoya, and is located in musicroom 3 of none other than the
high school building of OranAcademy.
So, who are these beautiful andamazing hosts?
(01:28):
You have Tamaki Suo, the PrinceCharming type, Kyoya Otari, the
cool type, Mitsukiri HoneyNozuka, the lolish type, Takashi
Mornozuka, the wild type, or thestrong and silent, Kyoya, Kyoya,
sorry, Kaori Kaoru Hitachin, oneof the little devils, Hikaru
(01:51):
Hitachin, the other twinbrother, and then Haruhi
Fujioka, the natural.
So I'm gonna go into why thisanime and go into it.
So we'll start off with HaruhiFujioka, our main character and
our main female heroine.
She's forced to join the hostclub after breaking an expensive
renaissance vase.
(02:11):
Haruhi is the only girl in theclub, although when they do
first meet her, they mistake heras a gay boy.
Loving it already.
Each host realizes the truth,and she reluctantly accepts the
invitation to become a host clubin order to work off the cost of
the vase.
Continuing to disguise herselfas a boy over time, they become
(02:32):
welcome and a valued member.
She is known as the naturalrookie and attracts customers
with her modesty.
And of course, her rose, eachguy has a rose.
Her rose is the color of deepred.
And even Haruhi admits that sheenjoys the romantic attention
from all the girls.
By the end of the manga, she hasentertained over 200 guests, and
(02:53):
the six hosts love her dearly indifferent ways.
And we're shown how protectivethey can get.
And she turned grows deeplyattached to each of them.
Well, Tamaki, Hikuru, Kauru, andKyoya, they develop romantic
feelings.
And in the anime, unfortunately,the romance is not really
(03:13):
explored, but it is revealedthat she does marry Tamaki.
So let's go in now to who isTamaki?
Tamaki, like I said, is thePrince Charming.
He is the leader of Oran HighSchool Post Club.
He is the president, like Isaid, and the most popular
member with 70% of the requestrates going to him.
(03:36):
And his color is white.
He enjoys being called king.
And he personally recruited allthe other members except for
Haruki.
And of course, he's persistentin declaring his affection for
Haruki, even sometimes callinghimself daddy.
But eventually he does realizethat he falls in love with her.
(03:56):
So then we have Kyoya.
He is shrewd in calculating andhe's known as the Shadow King
because he controls it from he'slike behind the scenes.
He allows Tomaki to serve as itsfigurehead and top draw.
He and Tomaki have a kind ofdifferent personality.
So like Tamaki's so outgoing,while Kyoya is so like, I'm kind
(04:18):
of here.
They're actually really goodfriends and they met back in
middle school.
He is the mommy of the host clubwhile Tomaki is considered
daddy, and they reference eachother like that majority of the
anime and even in the manga, buthe is rarely seen talking to
guests and he keeps track ofexpenses.
(04:39):
Um, he's also a second year justlike Tomaki Suo.
The club's existence depends onfundraising, and he keeps the
host club's treasury full withand without their knowledge.
And he claims he never doesanything that will not benefit
himself.
However, he's much more likeTamaki than he lets on.
(05:00):
Next, we have Kaudu and Hikaru.
They're known as the LittleDevils or the Twin Cest.
Uh Hikaru's rose is pale blueand Kaudu's rose is orange.
When hosting, they demonstratethe excessive brotherly love,
which is, like I said,borderline incestuous, but that
appeals to 90% of theirclientele.
(05:22):
Now, this manga and anime cameout in the early 2000s, so
you're gonna hear a lot ofyowie.
Yeah, that's all I'm gonna sayabout that.
Um, no one else had had Haruhi,so like Haruhi becomes a really
significant part of their livesbecause they're all freshmen,
(05:43):
they're all first years, so theyall tend to come together.
Um, and she uh Haruhi was eventhe first ones to identify
identify each of them and theirdifferent personalities.
Um, next up is gonna be thethird years, so Mitsukuni,
Honey, Hani, and then there'sTakashi Mori.
So those are the two eldestmembers.
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Honey is the only club memberwho is smaller than Haruhi, and
even though he's 18, he's helooks to be about six years old,
and his rose color is pink.
The Mori Nozuka family.
So going with Takashi Mori, umthey are cousins, yet they do
(06:24):
have like a master servantrelationship.
Mori continues to watch out forhoney, and we're definitely
gonna see that when I talk aboutsome of the episodes.
Um, but they're almost kind oflike brothers almost.
Honey is known as the boyLolita, and he charms the girls
by being really excessivelycute, while Mori is the strong
and silent type, and his rose isdark blue.
(06:47):
After they graduate in highschool, they constantly visit
the host club, and they actuallyentertain quite often.
So, and there's also some othercharacters such as Renge, who's
the house club's self-proclaimedmanager, and then we have some
(07:10):
like some hosts that come in, soCasinoda, and then I'll go on to
talk about the rest of them heresoon.
So let's get started on theseepisodes.
So there is a total of 26episodes, starting with today
you are a host and ending withthis is our Auron Fair.
So I'm gonna go over each andevery single one of them so we
(07:31):
can get to know a little bitabout each one of them.
So starting off with today youare a host.
So Haruhi is looking for a placeto study, and unfortunately,
Haruhi Fijioka, she's the honorstudent, and she comes upon this
high school host club's wholelike music room.
(07:52):
Um, it's composed of spoiledboys with wealthy families, and
the host club entertains andpleases young girls using their
individual charm.
I mishap, which index Haruhi tothem, they call her or him the
commoner, and is taken as theirdog to work off the debt.
But Tamakisu senses potentialand soon upgrades Haruhi's
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status to host.
As the training begins andparties ensues, they don't
really catch on to the vitaldifference in the fact that
Haruhi isn't a boy, she's agirl.
So when we first saw this, wegot to see our main characters,
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you know, Haruhi Fujioka.
Like, she's strong, she'switted, she's straight to the
point.
Like, I know there's a word, Ithink that my favorite quote is
there's a word to describepeople like him.
What is it?
Obnoxious, yeah.
While Tomaki's in thebackground, like, here's a tip
when setting down your glass,extend your pinky finger as a
cushion.
(08:55):
So when you set it down, itwon't make a lot of noise.
I still do that.
That's how like that's just howcrazy it is.
Like, yes.
Um, going on to the next one,the job of a host club host.
Now, this like I said, this cameout in 2006.
I know.
So the second episode has todeal with a young lady named
(09:18):
Kaniko.
She's having trouble with herfiance, Toru, who's planning to
leave to study abroad.
So there's a ball that's aboutto happen.
Um, it's like a spring dancealmost.
So they state that the groupplans to reunite them at an
upcoming dance by making Haruhidress like a girl and approach
Taru as an admirer.
Though he feels flattered, hedoes care for someone else.
(09:41):
Um, they confirm that they stillhave feelings for one another,
and at the end of the dance,Kanako is chosen as the queen to
be given a kiss on the cheek.
However, Tomaki realizes this isHaruhi's first kiss.
And though he runs a stop herand stumbles, he slips on a
banana peel left by the twins.
He pushes Haruhi's face withKanako, and surprise, it doesn't
land on the cheek, but on thelips instead.
(10:05):
Episode 3 is Beware the PhysicalExam.
So the house club scrambles tofind a way to prevent Haruhi's
gender from being discoveredbecause she's still trying to be
a boy.
Um, however, this failsmiserably until like they're
trying to like cosplay.
So Tomicky shows up and justlike, Yeah, I'm Haruhi.
(10:28):
And the twins are laughingbecause they're like, Yeah, this
is gonna work great.
But Kyoya steps in with a doctorwho promises not to reveal the
secret.
However, a man of the name Dr.
Yabu enters the room searchingfor his daughter, and he grabs
the girl's shoulder, anotherstudent, and the female student
thought he was making a pass.
(10:51):
Um, Kyoya assesses that this manis not, his daughter's not at
the school, but at public high,due to Dr.
Yabu's financial difficulty,Tamaki provides him with
directions and that realizes howdo he realizes that you know
Tomaki isn't that bad at all.
He actually is super sweet andhas kindness, so she decides to
(11:13):
stick with him.
Episode four is my favoriteepisode.
Well, one of mine.
Attack of the Lady Manager.
We meet Renge.
Renge is a French ataku whoarrives to the host club
claiming to be Kyoya's fiance.
Why?
Because she looks like an anime,he looks like an anime character
that she idolizes.
She declares herself clubmanager and makes a film
(11:36):
highlighting the host's darkerside.
So they kind of like as theyfilm, she enlists like two main
characters, like students toplay villains.
So she makes Haruhi the bulliedcharacter and has two, like I
said, two students playvillains, um, alongside Mori and
(11:57):
Honey.
Um poor Honey cries during thisepisode, and he's like, I'm so
sorry.
And then the twins arebasketball stars, and one of the
twins like twists their anklethat you have to go on, it's
just so much stuff.
Um, however, at the end, Kyoyabreaks the camera because he
(12:17):
deems this violent because itstarts to get kind of crazy.
Um however, the club'sreputation is not damaged, but
they were actually able tosubmit that existing footage to
their customers.
They were able to sell it, andRenge no longer crushes on
Kyoya, but Harohi.
The next episode, the twinsfight.
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Hikudu and Kaudu trick Haruhiinto letting them play the which
one's the Hikuru game.
So they put a cap on and they'relike, oh, which one is the
Hikaru game?
But Haruhi correctly identifiesthem, which triggers like a huge
fight, one dyeing their hairpink, one dyeing their hair
blue, and the feud carries intothe classroom where like they
start fighting.
(13:00):
Kaudu threatens Hikuru withBielzanef, a curse to all
obtained by Nekozawa, who is thepresident of the Black Magic
Club.
And this whole fight is staged.
Like they don't apologize, theydon't do anything, it's just
that they were staging, theywere just trying to play around.
So they dyed their hair twodifferent colors, pink and blue,
(13:23):
again, except they switched it,and then they started playing
which ones that he could dogame.
And when Hadu goes, you're thatone and you're that one.
They're like, Nope, we've dyedour hair again.
Ha ha.
The next one is the grade schoolhost is the Naughty Type.
This is where we meet Shiro TakaOji.
So he's one of the young boyswho end up becoming the Naughty
(13:44):
Type um Shota boy.
Um, Shiro denounces the club uhidiots and runs away, but the
host club infiltrates a schooland discovers that Shiro has a
crush on a girl named Hina whowill be moving away soon.
So they prepared to play a duet,and Shiro is unprepared, but
Tomaki being the Tomaki that heis, he is actually an
(14:07):
accomplished pianist and tutorsShiro, where they invite Hina to
play the duet together beforeshe moves away.
I'm not gonna go through all ofthese episodes, I'm just gonna
go over now a couple of myfavorite ones.
Of course, we have the challengefrom Lobelia Girls Academy,
where Benebara, head of the ZukaClub at St.
(14:29):
Lobelia's, realizes that why isa girl having to be a man?
And they realize uh they don'tlike the host club because
they're men and believe infemale superiority.
Um but they realize that sheleaves the like Hadohi realizes
(14:52):
like she leaves the club inanger because they started
selling some of her stuff, andthen she realizes that she
doesn't need all these frillydresses like to be a part of the
like Hadohi will always be apart of Oran Academy and that
she'll never leave.
But they warned the Zuka Clubwarned her that they'd be back
(15:13):
anyway.
One of my other favoritecharacters that we get to meet
is Ronka, Hadohi's father,father named Ryoji.
Um, they are a professionaltransvestite named Ronka, and
this is like one of my favoriteepisodes.
When they go to Haruki'sapartment and she serves him
(15:36):
tea, but Tamaki lags behind tolike pay her specs because
Haruhi's late mother, becauseunfortunately she passed.
Um he and Hadohi exchange amoment of empathy, but he trips
and falls on top, creating a badimpression with Ronka.
Now, when she when Ronka comesin is like, oh what are you
doing?
Get off my child and pushes it,like it's great.
(15:59):
Haruhi is thoroughly annoyedwith Ronka, but Ronka's been in
contact with Kyoli ever sincethen.
So Tomaki tries to impressRonka, but Ryuji refers to him
as the enemy.
Of course, we have to it.
This is in a 2006 anime withoutan Alice in Wonderland, except
(16:19):
it's called Haroki inWonderland.
Because why would you not?
Um we have an episode where theLobellia girls come back, they
have a Halloween episode, um,depression, the day that they
met, and then it comes all theway down to this is our Oran
(16:43):
Fair.
And I'm gonna skip back to oneepisode.
The host club declaresdissolution.
So the annual Oran Fair is achance for the school's club to
showcase student leadership.
The host club is using the mainsalon to entertain when Yozuru
Soa, Tamaki's father, meetsHaruhi for the first time, and
Hadohi notes that they don'tlook alike, they share a flair
(17:03):
for flirting.
Um, Yoshio Oturi, Kyoya'sfather, he's upset because his
son, his third son, is wastinghis time on this club.
But Haruhi defends Kyoya,beginning to see the downside of
the wealth.
She learns more when Sizui Suacomes here and is very curt and
dismissive to Tamaki, butintroduces Lady Eclair.
(17:26):
The mysterious diva who hisgrandmother commands he
chaperone.
While Eclair is deemed likewealthy and powerful, um, she's
also very selfish.
She then releases the fact, likeTamaki then releases the fact
that he's actually engaged toEclair on his grandmother's
orders, and that the host clubis to dissolve after this
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episode, like after thisfestival.
Tamaki will leave Japan withEclair and go back to France.
Hadohi also learns of Tomaki'smother, who was his father's
mistress.
So Tamaki's father had an affairwith Tomaki's mother, and how
Tamaki's entrance into theprestigious suo family was on a
condition that he would never beable to see his mother again.
(18:10):
And the very last episode onSeptember 26, which is coming up
in when I record this, LadyClaire pays off Haruhi's debt
once she notices Tomaki'sinterest.
But Haroki declines leaving andrealized she doesn't want to
lose her friends.
And the host host race acrosstime to try and get Tamaki back.
(18:36):
But Yoshi Yoshio Otari orderedthe what's called the Black
Onion Squad, which is a policecommand, which the Old family
police, they have like a hugething.
But Haruhi, so they take thishorse-drawn carriage and they
start bolting towards them.
Haruhi catches up to the carcarrying Tamaki and Eclair as
they cross a bridge and shestands begging for Tamaki to
(18:58):
return.
Tamaki begins to respond, butstopped by Haruhi.
Haruhi falls from the carriageoff the bridge, and Eclairs
finally realizes Tamaki is hisheart is with Haruhi.
So she releases him and thankshim before he jumps off to save
Haruhi.
At the Oran Ball, Haruhi danceswith all the members.
(19:20):
Yozuru and Yoshio discuss theirsons, with Yoshio revealing that
Kyuya outmaneuvered him bystealing his company, then
giving it back to him as proofhe didn't need it to be happy.
Both men agree to remainfriends, but disagree over
whether Tomiki or Kyuya willmarry Haruhi.
And of course, the final scenereturns to the music room 3.
(19:42):
Because the host thanks theviewers for watching.
This anime is, like I said,something so very special.
It was my first anime that Iever watched.
This was something that I lookedforward to.
Like I started watching it whenit was coming out on Funimation
at the time.
(20:03):
This it's a 10 out of 10 for me.
Favorite character is Kylia.
But to know that this anime hadsuch an impact on a lot of
people, it's very heartdeeringto me.
So I recommend watching it toanybody.
Like I said, this anime, I couldgo on and on and on, and I could
(20:25):
talk about this anime for hoursupon hours.
The manga continues on afterseason one.
It shows things that we didn'teven realize.
For example, Honey, after hegraduated, he was actually the
first to marry.
He married a goth girl.
(20:45):
So that just tells you what youneed to get started on.
But that's it for me today.
This was, like I said, Oran HighSchool Host Club.
10 out of 10.
Recommend you should watch it.
But again, this is Sebi Phantom.
Thank you so much for listeningto me, and I'll see you guys
later.
It's time to kiss, kiss, fall in love.
Hey, it's everybody, it's SebbiePhantom here doing a solo review
on my favorite anime, my first,my start, or on high school hose
club.
Now I can go on and on and onabout this anime, and I'm going
to.
(00:22):
This anime is something that isclose and dear to my heart.
I've read the manga, I havewatched the anime, I have prayed
for a second season, even thoughwe're not going to get one.
I wish.
But this anime is special to me.
So Oran High School Host Club,known as From Oran Academy.
(00:43):
They're located in Music Room 3,and they're sufficed of some
members, right?
Alright.
So let's get into this.
So we have, like I said, ourmembers.
It was founded by Tamaki Subo,who is the prince character and
president of Oran High SchoolHost Club.
And our vice president, KyoyaOtari, who is the vice, like I
(01:06):
said, vice president andassistant to the prince, Tamaki
Subo.
Now, the Oran High School HostClub is an independent,
functioning high school club,like I said, founded by Tom King
Kyoya, and is located in musicroom 3 of none other than the
high school building of OranAcademy.
So, who are these beautiful andamazing hosts?
(01:28):
You have Tamaki Suo, the PrinceCharming type, Kyoya Otari, the
cool type, Mitsukiri HoneyNozuka, the lolish type, Takashi
Mornozuka, the wild type, or thestrong and silent, Kyoya, Kyoya,
sorry, Kaori Kaoru Hitachin, oneof the little devils, Hikaru
(01:51):
Hitachin, the other twinbrother, and then Haruhi
Fujioka, the natural.
So I'm gonna go into why thisanime and go into it.
So we'll start off with HaruhiFujioka, our main character and
our main female heroine.
She's forced to join the hostclub after breaking an expensive
renaissance vase.
(02:11):
Haruhi is the only girl in theclub, although when they do
first meet her, they mistake heras a gay boy.
Loving it already.
Each host realizes the truth,and she reluctantly accepts the
invitation to become a host clubin order to work off the cost of
the vase.
Continuing to disguise herselfas a boy over time, they become
(02:32):
welcome and a valued member.
She is known as the naturalrookie and attracts customers
with her modesty.
And of course, her rose, eachguy has a rose.
Her rose is the color of deepred.
And even Haruhi admits that sheenjoys the romantic attention
from all the girls.
By the end of the manga, she hasentertained over 200 guests, and
(02:53):
the six hosts love her dearly indifferent ways.
And we're shown how protectivethey can get.
And she turned grows deeplyattached to each of them.
Well, Tamaki, Hikuru, Kauru, andKyoya, they develop romantic
feelings.
And in the anime, unfortunately,the romance is not really
(03:13):
explored, but it is revealedthat she does marry Tamaki.
So let's go in now to who isTamaki?
Tamaki, like I said, is thePrince Charming.
He is the leader of Oran HighSchool Post Club.
He is the president, like Isaid, and the most popular
member with 70% of the requestrates going to him.
(03:36):
And his color is white.
He enjoys being called king.
And he personally recruited allthe other members except for
Haruki.
And of course, he's persistentin declaring his affection for
Haruki, even sometimes callinghimself daddy.
But eventually he does realizethat he falls in love with her.
(03:56):
So then we have Kyoya.
He is shrewd in calculating andhe's known as the Shadow King
because he controls it from he'slike behind the scenes.
He allows Tomaki to serve as itsfigurehead and top draw.
He and Tomaki have a kind ofdifferent personality.
So like Tamaki's so outgoing,while Kyoya is so like, I'm kind
(04:18):
of here.
They're actually really goodfriends and they met back in
middle school.
He is the mommy of the host clubwhile Tomaki is considered
daddy, and they reference eachother like that majority of the
anime and even in the manga, buthe is rarely seen talking to
guests and he keeps track ofexpenses.
(04:39):
Um, he's also a second year justlike Tomaki Suo.
The club's existence depends onfundraising, and he keeps the
host club's treasury full withand without their knowledge.
And he claims he never doesanything that will not benefit
himself.
However, he's much more likeTamaki than he lets on.
(05:00):
Next, we have Kaudu and Hikaru.
They're known as the LittleDevils or the Twin Cest.
Uh Hikaru's rose is pale blueand Kaudu's rose is orange.
When hosting, they demonstratethe excessive brotherly love,
which is, like I said,borderline incestuous, but that
appeals to 90% of theirclientele.
(05:22):
Now, this manga and anime cameout in the early 2000s, so
you're gonna hear a lot ofyowie.
Yeah, that's all I'm gonna sayabout that.
Um, no one else had had Haruhi,so like Haruhi becomes a really
significant part of their livesbecause they're all freshmen,
(05:43):
they're all first years, so theyall tend to come together.
Um, and she uh Haruhi was eventhe first ones to identify
identify each of them and theirdifferent personalities.
Um, next up is gonna be thethird years, so Mitsukuni,
Honey, Hani, and then there'sTakashi Mori.
So those are the two eldestmembers.
(06:04):
Honey is the only club memberwho is smaller than Haruhi, and
even though he's 18, he's helooks to be about six years old,
and his rose color is pink.
The Mori Nozuka family.
So going with Takashi Mori, umthey are cousins, yet they do
(06:24):
have like a master servantrelationship.
Mori continues to watch out forhoney, and we're definitely
gonna see that when I talk aboutsome of the episodes.
Um, but they're almost kind oflike brothers almost.
Honey is known as the boyLolita, and he charms the girls
by being really excessivelycute, while Mori is the strong
and silent type, and his rose isdark blue.
(06:47):
After they graduate in highschool, they constantly visit
the host club, and they actuallyentertain quite often.
So, and there's also some othercharacters such as Renge, who's
the house club's self-proclaimedmanager, and then we have some
(07:10):
like some hosts that come in, soCasinoda, and then I'll go on to
talk about the rest of them heresoon.
So let's get started on theseepisodes.
So there is a total of 26episodes, starting with today
you are a host and ending withthis is our Auron Fair.
So I'm gonna go over each andevery single one of them so we
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can get to know a little bitabout each one of them.
So starting off with today youare a host.
So Haruhi is looking for a placeto study, and unfortunately,
Haruhi Fijioka, she's the honorstudent, and she comes upon this
high school host club's wholelike music room.
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Um, it's composed of spoiledboys with wealthy families, and
the host club entertains andpleases young girls using their
individual charm.
I mishap, which index Haruhi tothem, they call her or him the
commoner, and is taken as theirdog to work off the debt.
But Tamakisu senses potentialand soon upgrades Haruhi's
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status to host.
As the training begins andparties ensues, they don't
really catch on to the vitaldifference in the fact that
Haruhi isn't a boy, she's agirl.
So when we first saw this, wegot to see our main characters,
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you know, Haruhi Fujioka.
Like, she's strong, she'switted, she's straight to the
point.
Like, I know there's a word, Ithink that my favorite quote is
there's a word to describepeople like him.
What is it?
Obnoxious, yeah.
While Tomaki's in thebackground, like, here's a tip
when setting down your glass,extend your pinky finger as a
cushion.
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So when you set it down, itwon't make a lot of noise.
I still do that.
That's how like that's just howcrazy it is.
Like, yes.
Um, going on to the next one,the job of a host club host.
Now, this like I said, this cameout in 2006.
I know.
So the second episode has todeal with a young lady named
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Kaniko.
She's having trouble with herfiance, Toru, who's planning to
leave to study abroad.
So there's a ball that's aboutto happen.
Um, it's like a spring dancealmost.
So they state that the groupplans to reunite them at an
upcoming dance by making Haruhidress like a girl and approach
Taru as an admirer.
Though he feels flattered, hedoes care for someone else.
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Um, they confirm that they stillhave feelings for one another,
and at the end of the dance,Kanako is chosen as the queen to
be given a kiss on the cheek.
However, Tomaki realizes this isHaruhi's first kiss.
And though he runs a stop herand stumbles, he slips on a
banana peel left by the twins.
He pushes Haruhi's face withKanako, and surprise, it doesn't
land on the cheek, but on thelips instead.
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Episode 3 is Beware the PhysicalExam.
So the house club scrambles tofind a way to prevent Haruhi's
gender from being discoveredbecause she's still trying to be
a boy.
Um, however, this failsmiserably until like they're
trying to like cosplay.
So Tomicky shows up and justlike, Yeah, I'm Haruhi.
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And the twins are laughingbecause they're like, Yeah, this
is gonna work great.
But Kyoya steps in with a doctorwho promises not to reveal the
secret.
However, a man of the name Dr.
Yabu enters the room searchingfor his daughter, and he grabs
the girl's shoulder, anotherstudent, and the female student
thought he was making a pass.
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Um, Kyoya assesses that this manis not, his daughter's not at
the school, but at public high,due to Dr.
Yabu's financial difficulty,Tamaki provides him with
directions and that realizes howdo he realizes that you know
Tomaki isn't that bad at all.
He actually is super sweet andhas kindness, so she decides to
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stick with him.
Episode four is my favoriteepisode.
Well, one of mine.
Attack of the Lady Manager.
We meet Renge.
Renge is a French ataku whoarrives to the host club
claiming to be Kyoya's fiance.
Why?
Because she looks like an anime,he looks like an anime character
that she idolizes.
She declares herself clubmanager and makes a film
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highlighting the host's darkerside.
So they kind of like as theyfilm, she enlists like two main
characters, like students toplay villains.
So she makes Haruhi the bulliedcharacter and has two, like I
said, two students playvillains, um, alongside Mori and
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Honey.
Um poor Honey cries during thisepisode, and he's like, I'm so
sorry.
And then the twins arebasketball stars, and one of the
twins like twists their anklethat you have to go on, it's
just so much stuff.
Um, however, at the end, Kyoyabreaks the camera because he
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deems this violent because itstarts to get kind of crazy.
Um however, the club'sreputation is not damaged, but
they were actually able tosubmit that existing footage to
their customers.
They were able to sell it, andRenge no longer crushes on
Kyoya, but Harohi.
The next episode, the twinsfight.
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Hikudu and Kaudu trick Haruhiinto letting them play the which
one's the Hikuru game.
So they put a cap on and they'relike, oh, which one is the
Hikaru game?
But Haruhi correctly identifiesthem, which triggers like a huge
fight, one dyeing their hairpink, one dyeing their hair
blue, and the feud carries intothe classroom where like they
start fighting.
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Kaudu threatens Hikuru withBielzanef, a curse to all
obtained by Nekozawa, who is thepresident of the Black Magic
Club.
And this whole fight is staged.
Like they don't apologize, theydon't do anything, it's just
that they were staging, theywere just trying to play around.
So they dyed their hair twodifferent colors, pink and blue,
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again, except they switched it,and then they started playing
which ones that he could dogame.
And when Hadu goes, you're thatone and you're that one.
They're like, Nope, we've dyedour hair again.
Ha ha.
The next one is the grade schoolhost is the Naughty Type.
This is where we meet Shiro TakaOji.
So he's one of the young boyswho end up becoming the Naughty
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Type um Shota boy.
Um, Shiro denounces the club uhidiots and runs away, but the
host club infiltrates a schooland discovers that Shiro has a
crush on a girl named Hina whowill be moving away soon.
So they prepared to play a duet,and Shiro is unprepared, but
Tomaki being the Tomaki that heis, he is actually an
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accomplished pianist and tutorsShiro, where they invite Hina to
play the duet together beforeshe moves away.
I'm not gonna go through all ofthese episodes, I'm just gonna
go over now a couple of myfavorite ones.
Of course, we have the challengefrom Lobelia Girls Academy,
where Benebara, head of the ZukaClub at St.
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Lobelia's, realizes that why isa girl having to be a man?
And they realize uh they don'tlike the host club because
they're men and believe infemale superiority.
Um but they realize that sheleaves the like Hadohi realizes
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like she leaves the club inanger because they started
selling some of her stuff, andthen she realizes that she
doesn't need all these frillydresses like to be a part of the
like Hadohi will always be apart of Oran Academy and that
she'll never leave.
But they warned the Zuka Clubwarned her that they'd be back
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anyway.
One of my other favoritecharacters that we get to meet
is Ronka, Hadohi's father,father named Ryoji.
Um, they are a professionaltransvestite named Ronka, and
this is like one of my favoriteepisodes.
When they go to Haruki'sapartment and she serves him
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tea, but Tamaki lags behind tolike pay her specs because
Haruhi's late mother, becauseunfortunately she passed.
Um he and Hadohi exchange amoment of empathy, but he trips
and falls on top, creating a badimpression with Ronka.
Now, when she when Ronka comesin is like, oh what are you
doing?
Get off my child and pushes it,like it's great.
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Haruhi is thoroughly annoyedwith Ronka, but Ronka's been in
contact with Kyoli ever sincethen.
So Tomaki tries to impressRonka, but Ryuji refers to him
as the enemy.
Of course, we have to it.
This is in a 2006 anime withoutan Alice in Wonderland, except
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it's called Haroki inWonderland.
Because why would you not?
Um we have an episode where theLobellia girls come back, they
have a Halloween episode, um,depression, the day that they
met, and then it comes all theway down to this is our Oran
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Fair.
And I'm gonna skip back to oneepisode.
The host club declaresdissolution.
So the annual Oran Fair is achance for the school's club to
showcase student leadership.
The host club is using the mainsalon to entertain when Yozuru
Soa, Tamaki's father, meetsHaruhi for the first time, and
Hadohi notes that they don'tlook alike, they share a flair
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for flirting.
Um, Yoshio Oturi, Kyoya'sfather, he's upset because his
son, his third son, is wastinghis time on this club.
But Haruhi defends Kyoya,beginning to see the downside of
the wealth.
She learns more when Sizui Suacomes here and is very curt and
dismissive to Tamaki, butintroduces Lady Eclair.
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The mysterious diva who hisgrandmother commands he
chaperone.
While Eclair is deemed likewealthy and powerful, um, she's
also very selfish.
She then releases the fact, likeTamaki then releases the fact
that he's actually engaged toEclair on his grandmother's
orders, and that the host clubis to dissolve after this
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episode, like after thisfestival.
Tamaki will leave Japan withEclair and go back to France.
Hadohi also learns of Tomaki'smother, who was his father's
mistress.
So Tamaki's father had an affairwith Tomaki's mother, and how
Tamaki's entrance into theprestigious suo family was on a
condition that he would never beable to see his mother again.
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And the very last episode onSeptember 26, which is coming up
in when I record this, LadyClaire pays off Haruhi's debt
once she notices Tomaki'sinterest.
But Haroki declines leaving andrealized she doesn't want to
lose her friends.
And the host host race acrosstime to try and get Tamaki back.
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But Yoshi Yoshio Otari orderedthe what's called the Black
Onion Squad, which is a policecommand, which the Old family
police, they have like a hugething.
But Haruhi, so they take thishorse-drawn carriage and they
start bolting towards them.
Haruhi catches up to the carcarrying Tamaki and Eclair as
they cross a bridge and shestands begging for Tamaki to
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return.
Tamaki begins to respond, butstopped by Haruhi.
Haruhi falls from the carriageoff the bridge, and Eclairs
finally realizes Tamaki is hisheart is with Haruhi.
So she releases him and thankshim before he jumps off to save
Haruhi.
At the Oran Ball, Haruhi danceswith all the members.
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Yozuru and Yoshio discuss theirsons, with Yoshio revealing that
Kyuya outmaneuvered him bystealing his company, then
giving it back to him as proofhe didn't need it to be happy.
Both men agree to remainfriends, but disagree over
whether Tomiki or Kyuya willmarry Haruhi.
And of course, the final scenereturns to the music room 3.
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Because the host thanks theviewers for watching.
This anime is, like I said,something so very special.
It was my first anime that Iever watched.
This was something that I lookedforward to.
Like I started watching it whenit was coming out on Funimation
at the time.
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This it's a 10 out of 10 for me.
Favorite character is Kylia.
But to know that this anime hadsuch an impact on a lot of
people, it's very heartdeeringto me.
So I recommend watching it toanybody.
Like I said, this anime, I couldgo on and on and on, and I could
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talk about this anime for hoursupon hours.
The manga continues on afterseason one.
It shows things that we didn'teven realize.
For example, Honey, after hegraduated, he was actually the
first to marry.
He married a goth girl.
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So that just tells you what youneed to get started on.
But that's it for me today.
This was, like I said, Oran HighSchool Host Club.
10 out of 10.
Recommend you should watch it.
But again, this is Sebi Phantom.
Thank you so much for listeningto me, and I'll see you guys
later.
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