What Happened to Ouran Highschool Host Club

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"there's no Tsundere" hikaru is literally right there.

I loved tamaki as the love interest for haruhi. A lot of people complained that it wasn’t “subversive” enough for them to get together in the end but in an age where most shoujo male leads were perfect, mean bullies to the female leads, haruhi ending up with a goofy himbo who worships the ground she walks on was perfect

Honestly I think Ouran should get a reboot. It’s one of those shows that stays timeless and can appeal to each generation. I feel that if we get a reboot it would be a good way to stick more to the manga and then hopefully be able to get see the entire story animated.

Haruhi is exactly how you write a female lead/protagonist in anime. Anime writers NEED to take notes

Let's be real, the main reason we all liked this was Haruhi. They're so refreshing with how blunt they are.

To this day, I still look at Haruhi's mindset regarding gender and think "I wanna be like you when I grow up". I'm 21 😭

My favorite part of the bloopers is when the voice actor is like ‘ugh’ after he says that “what is it now daddy” line

"We don't care about real boys, we care about pretty anime boys." -Best line

I found it actually brilliant that Tamaki's backstory wasn't revealed until the end of the show. A lot of times, as viewers and readers, we are privy to information that we aren't supposed to know, and our perception of the character is shaped it. How often do we see a character hated by others only to feel "no, don't hate them, they have a reason to act this way, you just don't know it!" So, in a way, we are used to feeling entitled to a character's past, or their secrets. The way Tamaki's past is revealed to us as viewers is, in my opinion, is very similar to how you would learn something about a friend in real-life. When you make a new friend, you don't know their past right away. You're not supposed to. You're not entitled to that information. You have to go off of the impressions and interactions you have in the moment, and it may take years for you to learn about a tragic event, or a life-changing experience your friends has gone through. And what you lean may change your perception, kind of the way it changes our perception of Tamaki when we learn more about him.

Something I distinctly remember from the manga is that everyone in the school (or at least the females) knew that Haruhi was a female, but they just didn't care. It was a throwaway line in the last book, but it's so sweet to think about.

The beach episode in three manga is different from the anime, Tamaki was upset she went alone and didn’t get anyone to help her, not because she’s a girl. :( I wish they kept that in and not changed it

She actually does end up with one of them. It's just in the manga. it's really late in there like to the end of the manga. The twins also become more of themselves instead of looking exactly alike. It's kind of like they split up but it's not a sad ending. I'm trying not to spoil it but give you a little bit of information.

another brilliant aspect of the show is that it isn't just a great shojo anime, its a CRITIQUE of shojo animes. It uses the customers and renge as a way to analyze shojo culture and then uses haruhi's realism to point out every single one of it's flaws AND THEN uses the boys in the host club to add counter points to show those elements often seen as flaws in a better light. It's truly genius

I actually DO think this series could benefit from a re-boot. I think it has a similar case to Fruits Basket, another really popular early 2000s shoujo anime that was recently revitalized to complete the story after the original anime stopped before it was over. And that re-boot was popular enough to get a prelude movie.

Tamaki VS Hikaru was a HOT debate in 2006, as someone who lived through it. Though my personal favorite was always Kyouya ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also loved at the end how it was Haruhi who did the "Stop them from getting on the airplane(or x thing whatever it is) and confess my feelings" trope instead of the man.

Haruhi was more my aromantic awakening. She has so much fun flirting and hanging out with these guys without (in the show proper) ever getting into a romantic relationship. So often we only see close affectionate relationships as romantic. Haruhi was allowed to just enjoy their company and attention.

Y'all are missing out on so much if you haven't read the manga. The final part of Tamaki trying to reunite with his mom was so heart breaking.

"Was Haruhi your nonbinary awakening or tomboy awakening?" Hahaha jokes on you, Haruhi was both.

For the episode where Tamaki gets mad on Haruhi and says she's a girl, in the manga Haruhi was 1 against 3 guys, and it was made very obvious that the guys were close enough where if Haruhi called for help, the host club would've heard her easily and could've gone over to help her. In the manga the point of girl was just brought up as a additional point and Tamaki heavily focused on the face that she was outnumbered by 2 additional people and should've asked for help. I wished the anime actually made this episode more closely to the manga instead of what was made.