Audience reviews
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Curlybrace101
One of the worst sins a work of parody can commit is to use the guise of “parody” as an excuse to earnestly do the thing they’re “parodying” and presume self-awareness excuses it from any criticism. This presumption is very false, yet it’s one that Ouran High School Host Club subscribes to.
All things considered, the premise of OHSHC is both the perfect setup for not only the reverse harem genre but especially a parody of it: Our female lead, Haruhi, is a poor girl on scholarship who must crossdress as a male to work at a very rich host club she has found herself indebted to. Being in a host club, this means she is not just surrounded by pretty boys, but specifically by pretty boys who make themself into a certain “archetypes” that they can sell to women—literally a pre-made reverse harem…
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The demographic for this is so oddly specific. You either love it because you watched it during your weeb awakening in middle school , OR you ARE a middle schooler who is in their weeb awakening. The CHOKEHOLD this anime has had on the shoujo loving community for years now, is absolutely wild.
I remember watching this on repeat for three years of my life (12-15 y/o), but stashed it away so I could enjoy other new series. Now, watching it as an adult... girl.. it HURTS sometimes. It really does. The specific era this came out of; that mid-2000's internet where you watched the pirated episodes in parts on youtube or kissanime. This anime captures the humor and character tropes of the time, which does in fact include the homophobia/transphobia/ and.. yes, the N*zi jokes. I promise that if a…
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I had liked this anime but I really can not over look how fucking problematic and offensive it really is.
I have seen a couple of people on tiktok talking about this as well.
There are so many "jokes" in this that are really intensive and just wrong. I'm not going to even talk about the "incest trope" with the twins cause that's self explanatory.
1. The transphobia, they literally use the use the T-slur at haruhi's dad (its in the dub not sure about the sub)
2. The blatant lesbophobia and misogyny
3. The literal n3zi "jokes" 4. The one episode where kyoya tried to r4pe haruhi to teach her a "lesson" what
the actual fuck
idk care if you say "oh he was just trying to scare her he wasn't actually going
to
do it" he still tried to though
5. The beach episode
Read at the sourceCharlesBarkley
Ouran Highschool Host Club is one of the most terrible anime I have ever seen. First off, the soundtrack is downright awful. We have upbeat, bland music playing at the most unfitting times. And also, this anime is just trying to shove the "emotions" down your throat. It's like the violin is trying to hunt you down and kill you. Every second of this anime is absolutely cringe-worthy. We have stereotypical characters there for the "love drop." We have the bland, composed guy, the money bags, twins with the characteristics of sandpaper, and some other useless side characters. Did I mention the one that's there for yaoi? Oh wait, that's every single one of them. The anime tries to set up some "heart-breaking" story about loss and new family found in friendship. It tries to make characters pare…
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I would recommend this show even if you aren't a fan of the romantic comedy genre. It is an incredibly fun show. Even if you aren't super keen on reverse harem this show doesn't take itself seriously enough for that to be a major issue. There is of course a fair bit of romance for those of you who are looking for that but for me this was a show that was more comedy than romance. It has a really nice mix of silliness with a touch of sweet.
This isn't a show that will blow your mind with art. I found the style a little dated, but for me that is never really a problem, the poster should give you a good sense of whether it is a problem for you. It is typical shoujo style really, big eyes, lithe framed men. Similarly the music is pretty standard and unremarkable.
The story I found to be enjo…
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I decided to watch this series after seeing the great reviews, scores, popularity and general acclaim it boasted. I dont remember much about this series because i watched it years ago but i dont really give a fuck.
This show was in held in such high regard and coming straight off my first love of a romcom anime in toradora, i was itching for more. The show had a great pre-text and potential for entertainment but alas, i could not enjoy it as it is CLEARLY intended for pubescent girls.
Basically this girl does her best amanda bynes impression by attending a boys school and all the boys are total hotties and she eventually has feelings for one and then some carriage/ maze thing?? and they live happily ever after. She samples each guy, as if she was tasting her favourite cheese, as each ha…
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As a heterosexual male, I am not into girly anime, so when my girlfriend insisted I watched a reverse harem, I instantly thought this will be a soppy, chick flic anime about who know's what. After watching this anime, I now know how completely and utterly wrong I was. Instead of a perverted anime about 5 guys trying into get in some girl's pants, it is a comedy filled anime that isn't centered around the romance aspect of it.
Story: 9.34/10 *Review
Haruhi Fujioka is a tomboyish, poor female student who enters Ouran Highschool that is populated excessively by the wealthy (besides her). Upon entering the highscool, she tries finding a quite place to study, and enters the Music Room at the school, to her surprise finds the Ouran Highschool Host Club. After showing disinterest, and as she was…
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This is my first review. I'm not going to tell you what the anime is about, that's what the synopsis is for.
Anyway... I'll tell you why this show is the most overrated anime in the world. I'm a girl, bi, and I LOVE gender-benders... so naturally, I should love this show because Haruhi is posing as a boy, right? No... I hated it. The characters were "okay"... but they were all stereotypes.. and VERY typical. And the comedy? I never laughed... not once. The drama? THERE WASN'T ANY! Sure, some people will TELL you there was... but there really wasn't. I often finished an episode feeling so bored that I could just fall asleep.
Also, the story is terrible. The entire time, I was waiting for the story to climax... and have this HUGE twist that we wouldn't have seen coming. Alas, there wasn't…
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On the technical side of things, the animation in Ouran is top-tier for shoujo. Like its characters, this series is spoiled rotten with Studio Bones great animation staff, getting both the pretty design work of shoujo that we expect and fluid A-list animation that we don’t. Every inch of the Barbie Kremlin is immaculately detailed, and the character designs are very…appealing. (SQUEE! ^_^)
The music in Ouran is all waltzes, ballads and sweeping orchestral pieces, and all that beautiful, dramatic music is used not with reverence, but for satire, and it makes everything so much funnier than in the standard comedy with cartoon jingles. It also helps to keep the mood uniform when some minor drama surfaces and that same music CAN be used seriously…but just for a second.
In terms of voicewor…
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Ouran Host Club mocks all your shoujo stereotypes while simultaneously utilizing those same stereotypes to create a wonderful series. I'd say that takes talent.
STORY - I avoided this series for a long time just because the premise didn't interest me, and from a distance, it seemed like one of those parodies that would err on the side of taking itself too seriously. I'm really glad I ended up giving it a chance though; Ouran High School Host Club manages to be hilarious from the get-go and is surprisingly adorable. It's perfect in portraying the handful of stereotypes that appear over and over again in shoujo and doesn't shy away from blatant self-references and mockery to make sure it doesn't take itself too seriously. And yet, the series somehow still manages to have a captivating "seri…
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--The review contains spoilers--
Ouran High School is one of the best reverse harem anime series I have watched. The first episode really made an impact. It did not start as to be draggy but rather it easily showed the main idea of the story which started when they have discovered that Haruhi is a girl. The story was quite shallow at first which was just showing the different themes of the club and how they entertained the guests but when you continue with the later part of the series, you'll realize that behind all the smiles of the characters, there is a bitter past. The flow of the story is also good. It starts with the story of a certain character, followed by an episode just for enjoyment, them the story of a certain character and so on which promoted the balanced flow of the story.…
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Title: Ouran High School Host Club
Manga, Anime: Ouran High School Host Club was originally a manga created by Bisco Hatori that began running in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine on August 5th, 2003, and is still ongoing. It has been licensed Stateside by Viz Media, and the releases are up to the 10th volume Stateside as of February 5th, 2008, while it currently stands at 12 collected volumes in Japan.
Ouran High School Host Club is a twenty-six episode series that was produced by Studio Bones (famous for their work on Darker than BLACK and Fullmetal Alchemist) and directed by Takuya Igarashi (famous for his work on random episodes of Sailor Moon and Darker than Black). It ran on Japanese television from April 4th to September 26th, 2006. It has been licensed Stateside by Funimation, though i…
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Charming, comedic, and thoroughly enjoyable. These three phrases are the perfect descriptors of Ouran High School Host Club, a "romantic" (but it's not really romance), "high school" (if your high school was also attended by the children of multi-millionaires) comedy that simultaneously pokes fun of at the types of anime that it spawns from as well as crafting an elegant story that stems from that very genre.
Ouran's characterization is its strong-point: each individual is an exaggeration of an anime template, taken to its very (il)logical extreme. You have your lovable caretaker, your brooding mastermind, your "loli shota-type", a stoic guardian, and a pair of twins, lost in each other's world. Thrown into this multidimensional cast of characters if Fujioka Haruhi, an independent spirit,…
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Story :9: This anime is adapted from the manga series by Bisco Hatori and tells the story of a poor girl that was excepted in to a very rich high school. She finds herself in debt for 8,000,000 yen and is forced to become the schools Host Club's dog until she pays it back. The story is wonderfully rounded with mostly comedy and romance but it throws some drama in at the appropriate moments. It kept me coming back for more and more and in the end it left me wanting. I only gave it a nine because of some small missing people or story lines from the manga that I really enjoyed.
Art :10: The art in Ouran is amazing. Not necessarily the animation itself, but the storyboard was done beautifully. It had a flavour all its own that sets it apart from the manga and from other animes in it's genre.…
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I really enjoyed this anime. More so than a lot of of other stories, it was witty and clever and just that amusing. It's one of those animes where *everything* is pointed in the same direction; it's cohesive and put together like a Swiss watch.
On an each-episode basis, the story may not be so great... it's a little erratic. Some episodes are better than others and I definitely have my favorites and have ones I'll probably always skip over. But the whole arc of the story from first episode to last? Terrific! And the good parts are so good that it's easy to tolerate the less-good. ;)
The characters, despite their flaws, are endearing and incredibly charming (well, with the exception of a few). You start out with these cutout sterotypes and during the course of the season, each one of them…
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If I had to describe it in one word, it’ll be this word : PERFECT.
I had no qualms about it at all. Even Renge became acceptable at the end. I just love the plot, the cute topics per episode. It was done so beautifully. I have to say, whoever made Ouran knew me well. Back then I didn’t know there was fan service for girls because I’ve never witnessed it before. Now I know there is such a thing! I just love it when the guys go topless!
Every episode was so great. Every topic was charming and funny, which is what I love about it. My favorite episodes were Hikaru and Haruhi’s date. That episode made me squeal so much, but then again, I squeal at almost every episode. Like I said, the creators know me too well.
The plot was so cleverly crafted. It was so simple an…
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A story based on Bishounen boys in High School and a girl who has no qualms about being either a girl or boy. Haha.. One of the best animes watched after Yamato Nadeshiko Shinchi Henge (which is still not finished yet.. haha.. Still waiting for epi 25).
The plot is very simple but as the story unfolds, we are able to see life in and beyond high school and how these 5 Bishounen boys and 1 indifferent girl cope with their troubles / misgivings.
Well, the ending did indicate a hint of something, but since the story stops only at 26, we won\'t noe if that something will develop into something more.. Haha.. I\'m currently reading the manga.. We\'ll see if that particular something develops in the manga itself (wich I hope so.. hehe..).
To those who hae doubts watching this anime, you might…
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I had heard about Ouran High School Host Club, I'm guess around last summer. A friend of mine was rabid about it, however, for some reason or another, I didn't read the manga... Later that summer my other friend also went rabid for it, and again I ignored it.... It wasn't until I read Kanashimi's review for it when I decided to watch the seemingly popular show.
The story is basically about a student by the name of Haruhi Fujioka who gets into a prestigious school for rich kids, and how she stumbles in on the school's "Host Club" and ends up having to become a host (and cross-dress) to repay the club for breaking the vase. After this the anime's story line follows the activities of the club and it's members.
Story -
I can't really think of any really good words for Ouran's story. However…
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Character(s) & Their Development
Every character is based with a sterotype near the beginning of the series. The real question though is if the characters actually grow out of their set roles. After watching the whole series that's both a yes and a no. It all comes down to the fact that the manga is still going and the characters are still maturing in that format; thus, they can only grow so far in the anime without making it a new story entirely. Sure, they stay towards their first impressions but, there are a handful of episodes that explain each Host Club member and their reasoning behind attitude, outlook, and for joining the club in the first place.
A keen example is Tamaki and his feelings for Haruhi. In the beginning, he takes on a father role towards her and the audience is made t…
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Looking for a show to laugh your ass off? Look no further, Ouran High School Host Club will not fall short in that aspect.
All the characters are uniquely lovable. Each person has their own specific traits, and without a doubt, their own problems they need to overcome. Everyone has their favorites too, so within a few episodes you'll be rooting for one person to get with the other, no doubt.
Character development and the enjoyment level were the biggest pluses for Ouran. It keeps you entertained nearly the whole way through (except for one or two episodes around 19 or so).
Only weakness I found was the sound. I didn't particularly care for either the opening or the ending (though the opening wasn't all that bad I guess).
So, in conclusion, it's almost impossible to not enjoy this show…
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