Anime Review: Ouran High School Host Club

October 17, 2011

This is hands down one of the funniest TV shows I have seen in a long time. The premise says it all: Haruhi walks into the host club room while looking for an empty room to study in and breaks some valuable vase. He is then coerced into joining the Host Club to help entertain the ladies to pay off the cost of the vase. The Host Club is a bunch of boys that entertain the girls of the school, nothing shady but the guys are expected to make the girls happy – only Haruhi isn’t a guy, he’s actually a girl dressed as a guy because she had to cut her hair real short just before school started. Comedy ensues as the rest of the Host Club tries to keep Haruhi working for them without anybody figuring out she is actually a girl. Haruhi quickly learns to just accept her fate and enjoy the opportunity to spend time with the guys, her new friends. But there is only so much of these guys she can take, especially when they follow her on summer vacation!

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 26
Content: Very clean. Two of the characters (brothers) are “sort of” gay with each other though nothing ever happens – if this would bother you then don’t watch it, but it didn’t bother me at all.