Ouran High School Host Club Characters

A first-year scholarship student who wanders into Music Room 3 looking for somewhere quiet to study and knocks over an antique vase worth ¥8 million. The hosts take her for a boy at first, so she works off the debt as a host, and once they learn she is a girl they keep it secret; she turns out to be a natural with the guests. Practical, blunt and unimpressed by wealth, she wants to become a lawyer like her late mother, keeps hoping to taste fancy tuna and is terrified of thunder.

The second-year co-founder and president of the Host Club, a flamboyant, theatrical 'princely type' who charms the guests with old-world manners and shameless flattery, then sulks in a corner the moment anyone teases him. He is the son of Ouran's chairman and of a French mother he has not been allowed to see since he came to Japan, and he treats the club as the family he never had, with himself as Haruhi's father. Beneath the clowning he is a gifted pianist, ranks second in his class and cannot stop himself from helping anyone in trouble.

Tamaki's best friend and the club's vice-president, called the 'Shadow King' because he keeps the accounts, sells the club's photo albums and steers Tamaki's ideas from behind the scenes. Cool and calculating, he keeps notes on every student at the school and claims to do nothing that does not benefit him, yet he looks out for the others far more than he admits and is more like Tamaki than he lets on. As the youngest of three sons in a family that runs hospitals, he works hard to win the respect of his father, who first told him to befriend Tamaki because it would be good for business.

The older of the Hitachiin twins, in Haruhi's class, and the more hot-headed and childish of the two. As boys, he and Kaoru trusted no one but each other and challenged everyone to the 'Which one is Hikaru?' game, and Haruhi is the first person who can always tell them apart. He is slow to understand his own feelings for her, and sulks when an old middle-school friend of hers turns up in Karuizawa.

The younger twin and the calmer, more considerate of the two, and the first to see that he and Hikaru will have to grow less dependent on each other. When Hikaru starts to care for Haruhi, Kaoru quietly gives him a push, asking her out and then pretending to be ill so that his brother goes instead. Their mother, Yuzuha Hitachiin, is a world-famous fashion designer and supplies most of the club's costumes.

A third-year who looks like an elementary-school child, carries his pink stuffed bunny, Usa-chan, everywhere and lives on cake and sweets. He comes from a famous family of martial artists and is frighteningly strong, and the other hosts are terrified of waking him from a nap. He once tried to act like a 'real man', and he gave up the captaincy of the Karate Club for the Host Club after Tamaki persuaded him that real strength means being yourself.

A tall, quiet third-year and Honey's cousin: the Morinozuka family served the Haninozuka for generations until the two were joined by marriage, and Mori still stays at Honey's side. He speaks only when something needs saying and watches over Haruhi and the rest of the club like an older brother. When Honey gets a cavity, Mori blames himself for not reminding him to brush his teeth.

An otaku from France who arrives at Ouran convinced that Kyoya is her fiancé, because he looks like the hero of a dating-sim game she is obsessed with, and promptly makes herself the club's manager. Loud and dramatic, she knows every convention of shōjo manga and keeps telling the hosts how to play their characters, usually rising out of the floor on a motorised platform to do it. When she loses her temper, her hair turns into snakes like Medusa's.

The hooded president of the Black Magic Club, a third-year who carries a cat puppet called Beelzenef and claims that light will make him collapse. Under the black cloak and wig he is blond and blue-eyed. His little sister Kirimi, who is afraid of the dark, runs from him in fright until the club helps him step into the daylight to save her from a cat.

Haruhi's widowed father, who works at a bar under the name Ranka and adores his daughter, though she usually ends up looking after him. Cheerful, dramatic and hopeless with money, he is a lot like Tamaki, which may be why he declares Tamaki his enemy almost as soon as they meet while getting on happily with the rest of the club. A friend of his from work, Misuzu, runs the Karuizawa guesthouse where Haruhi spends her summer job.

The president of the Zuka Club at St. Lobelia Girls' Academy, adored by her schoolmates as 'Benibara-sama', the Lady of the Crimson Rose. She takes one look at Haruhi and sets out to bring her to Lobelia and into the Zuka Club, which looks down on the Host Club and on boys in general. As confident and theatrical as Tamaki himself, she comes back in episode 19, when her club carries Haruhi off to St. Lobelia to perform in their stage show.

A character created for the anime: the proud heiress of the French Grand Tonnerre Group, who arrives at the Ouran Fair in the last two episodes. Tamaki's grandmother arranges for him to marry her and leave Japan, and Éclair offers him the one thing he wants most, the chance to see his mother again, who works in the Tonnerre household. Her arrival breaks up the Host Club and sets up the anime's finale.