# Ouran High School Host Club (2006)

> A scholarship student stumbles into an elite school's all-male host club and gets pulled into its gender-bending comedy of errors.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/980

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 26
- Episode runtime: 23 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, drama
- Network: Nippon TV
- Cast: Maaya Sakamoto, Mamoru Miyano, Ayaka Saito, Kenichi Suzumura, Masaya Matsukaze, Daisuke Kirii, Keisuke Oda, Mitsuki Saiga
- TMDB rating: 8.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816397/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: playful, whimsical, breezy, warm, comedic

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively, appreciating its lighthearted romcom energy and its charming cast of host club characters.

## Synopsis

Ouran High School Host Club (2006) is a Japanese animated shoujo romantic comedy series produced by BONES and broadcast by Nippon TV. Its scholarship student Haruhi Fujioka (voiced by Maaya Sakamoto) stumbles into the Ouran High School Host Club, an all-male group of wealthy students who entertain the school's girls for profit. Tamaki Suou (voiced by Mamoru Miyano) leads the flamboyant club, while Kyoya Ootori (voiced by Masaya Matsukaze) keeps the books and Hikaru Hitachiin (voiced by Kenichi Suzumura) and Kaoru Hitachiin (voiced by Keisuke Oda) play a mischievous twin pair. Haruhi's engine is simple: she must work off a vase debt by joining the club, while the lavish rich-kid world keeps tripping her up. Each episode is built from small misadventures, cross-dressing mix-ups, and host-club schemes set in a contemporary elite Japanese high school. The tone is breezy, playful, and affectionate, with a warm ensemble energy and gentle romantic undercurrents. Its single 26-episode season follows a serialized but largely episodic rhythm. Fans of Fruits Basket, Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, and Gintama will find resonance in its comic exaggeration and bishounen charm.

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