Top Floor, South Wing... The unused Music Room located at the End of the Hallway, the door opens to group of rich, beautiful men, who have too much time on their hands, entertaining Rich Beautiful Women who also have too much time on their hands... # Main Theme: Fujioka Haruhi... a girl from a common family, studying at the Prestigious Academy for Rich Men at Scholarship, sought quite and peace for her studies and thus she stumbles upon Host Club! Due to her shabby attire and messy hair she is mistook as a boy (but they discover the truth rather quickly) and to top it off, she breaks a very valuable vase belonging to the host club which leaves her with a debt of ¥8,000,000. Unable to pay back the debt, with her commoner status at hand she undergoes a makeover at the host club and her debt is converted to serving 1000 customers dressed as a boy! # Characters: 10/10 The Story has a rather unique theme with the Characters being a Normal Stereotype at first. The Main Cast Introductions are as follows: - Tamaki Suoh; The Founder of the Host Club. A 2nd Year Student with Blonde hair and Blue eyes. His Character personality is that of a prince you'd see only in picture books with a Beautiful face and awfully cheesy lines. His demand at Host Club is the Highest. He holds his troubles with him and prefers not to talk about them with the others, so as to not trouble them needlessly and make them worry. He is a hardworking guy who goes through many highs and lows so that he can protect whatever he cherishes. - Fujioka Haruhi; Her Character is that of a refreshing boy. She is very refreshing and observative, although she might be dense at many time.She observes slight changes in people, that is why she can tell the twins apart while no one else can. She chases after her dream and is very hardworking. - Hikaru & Kaori; are the twins with Hikaru being the elder twin and Kaoru being the Younger one. Their Character Personality is that of two brothers who love each other unconditionally. Typically being a high demand among the Fujoshi girls of the Host club customers. In the same class as Haruhi. As nobody other than Haruhi can tell them apart they grew up depending on one another and thus closed off their doors to everyone else around them. They are free-living and mischievous. - Haninozuka Mitsukuni; A Third Year student at Ouran. He belongs to the Prestigious Haninozuka Family that specializes in Judo since ages. He is amazingly good at Judo and has been declared a threat if he uses his complete strength despite his short height. He loves Sweet Food and Cute Things. Despite his easy-going and childish personality, I believe him to be the most mature of all the Host Club members. He cares about everyone around him, he watches over them from the sidelines, giving slight pushes from time to time, and getting involved only when its necessary, just like a proper adult should. His nickname is Hunny~ - Morinozuka Takashi; Hunny's cousin, also in Third year. He belongs to the prestigious family of the Morinozuka's who specializes in Kendo. He has a stiff personality at first but he's very soft. He loves small things very much. He takes care of Hunny because of their family's being closely related and them being childhood friends. - Ootori Kyoya; The typical Megane (glasses) character with high spec brains installed in his skulls. He's best friends with Tamaki. Although he got close to Tamaki because of his family status, he now cares deeply for him as a good friend. He takes care of the club's budget and often prepares the details over whatever stupid plan Tamaki comes up with.

The characters all get great development and although short but good arcs. Specially the Hitachin Twins, they get a hefty amount of character depth, and are probably the favorite character of many. Personally speaking, Tamaki might be very annoying to many people, but I loved his stupid character a lot. His character might not look like it but it was the most delicate out of all the cast in the series. I loved all the characters, although they were a bit cringey at first they all proved to be very well written indeed.

Story: 8/10

The Story kicks in a little bit late with a ton of drama sprinkled in it. Each of the character has his fair share of family and social troubles and each of them gets resolved surprisingly well. The comedy is very good and although most of the chapters in the first half provide comedic relief the fail to bore you. The drama kicks in, at the second half almost naturally. I love how the author makes use of the characters even if its for very little roles rather than discarding them after they've served their purpose like many other series. The author did her fair share of research on all the locations and businesses. She drew amazing clothes from different places and giving small information about everything here and there. The family drama in the second half indeed felt a bit forced with everything going according to a certain character's plan and everyone else just dancing over it without much explanation to how he could just go ahead assuming other's moves on his own but I decided to overlook that because obviously the series is a shoujo with romance and characters at it center. Three of the above main characters were in love with Haruhi with one giving up rather quickly and the showdown being between the other two, but in the end all of the characters supported Tamaki x Haruhi's ship and even the love rival made way for them and supported them. Tamaki's stupidity was also quite hilarious and it made a good gag topic in the series, although it might not be as loved by everyone else.

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The only thing I didn't like is that in the last few chapters Hunny mentioned how Kyoya was also in love with Haruhi while he showed no signs of it. I understand that he wasn't really the type of character that would start blushing of show any sign of being in love on his face but he really showed no sign! The only thing I pointed out in the entire manga was that he respected her and that she was a great person, which he himself said so while refusing Hunny's statement.

Art: 8/10

The art is more on the classic side and not really my cup of tea but I have to say that Hatori's art is beautifully detailed. All of the sceneries are very detailed and makes me wonder just how much time would it have taken for the author to draw it. The clothes are pretty and detailed, you'll probably never see these types of clothes in another anime/manga (lol) The character design only got better as the story continued and it shifted more towards the modern style later on. Haruhi's eyes were too big in the start and were a turnoff but their size was slowly reduced to normal.

Enjoyment: 9/10

It is a very good pick if someone wants to read something with good romance, drama and comedy and a slightly different theme compared to th normal highschool shoujo romance. The characters are equally lovable although they might not appeal to everyone as much as they did to me. btw, my favorite character aside from the two main charas was Hunny <3