Ouran High School Host Club Quiz

Ouran High School Host Club (Ōran Kōkō Hosuto Kurabu) is a romantic comedy manga written and drawn by Bisco Hatori. It ran in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine from September 2002 to November 2010 and fills 18 volumes, published in English by Viz Media under its Shojo Beat label. The idea came from Hatori's editor while she was still working on her first series, Millennium Snow: a story modelled on Japanese host clubs, set among handsome boys at a very rich high school, which Hatori used to poke fun at the habits of shōjo manga. Bones adapted the first eight volumes as a 26-episode anime, directed by Takuya Igarashi, with series composition and scripts by Yōji Enokido, character designs by Kumiko Takahashi and music by Yoshihisa Hirano. It aired on Nippon TV from April to September 2006, with Maaya Sakamoto as Haruhi and Mamoru Miyano as Tamaki, and Funimation's English dub followed in 2008, directed by Caitlin Glass, who also voices Haruhi. By January 2026 the manga had more than 14 million copies in circulation.

Ouran Academy is an elite private school in Bunkyo, Tokyo, for the children of the very rich, and Haruhi Fujioka is one of its rare scholarship students. Looking for a quiet place to study, she opens the door of the disused Music Room 3 and finds the Host Club: six boys who entertain the school's girls after class with tea, flattery and lavish costume parties. Startled by the club's president, Tamaki Suoh, she knocks over an antique vase worth ¥8 million. With her short hair and baggy clothes the hosts take her for a boy, so they set her to work as their errand boy and then, when she turns out to be a natural with the guests, as a host. They soon learn that she is a girl and agree to keep it to themselves, and her debt will be forgiven once enough guests have asked for her: 100 at first, then 1,000. Her fellow hosts are Tamaki, the vice-president Kyoya Otori, the twins Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin, the small, cake-loving Honey and his tall, silent cousin Mori.

Much of the comedy comes from the gap between Haruhi, who is practical, blunt and unimpressed by money, and the boys, who have never had to count it and treat her ordinary life (instant coffee, supermarket sales, a small flat) as an exotic adventure. Hatori meant the series as a parody of the genre's clichés, and the anime leans into it: the hosts announce what kind of show they are in, Renge, their self-appointed manager, rises out of the floor to explain each new trope, and the club has a new theme and new costumes almost every day. Reviewers singled out Haruhi herself, whom Anime News Network's Rose Bridges called one of the freshest parts of the series and IGN praised as a heroine who is written as smart and acts it. As the episodes go on, the jokes give way to the hosts' own stories, from twins who trusted only each other to a youngest son trying to win his father's respect and a president kept away from his mother, and Hatori has described Ouran as a story about family and friendship. The anime ends with a finale of its own; the manga carries on for ten more volumes and ends differently.

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