Ouran High School Host Club 9
Posted: February 5, 2008 Filed under: Ouran High School Host Club 8 Comments »So yes. I am totally addicted to this series now. I don’t know that I can totally gloss over the fact that I didn’t start liking it until volume 5, but I know that I need the rest of it, like, right now. Your mileage may vary.
After getting so worked up over Tamaki at the end of the last volume, I was bummed by the story at the beginning of this one. A Princess from a European country comes to visit Japan and attend Ouran for awhile. She acts extremely spoiled and generally spends all her time making everyone as mad as possible. Tamaki seems to be the only one who is willing to cater to her every whim. There are weepy reasons for all this, but the girl’s general horrible attitude wasn’t easy to forgive.
As payment for putting up with her, we get a real, honest-to-God Tamaki/Haruhi moment. Neither one appreciates it, of course, but there’s a panel of Tamaki blushing that I feel should go into the “Perfect Shoujo Moment” hall of fame.
There’s a chapter about Tamaki being sick and conflicted that follows it. I enjoyed it thoroughly. My enjoyment was knocked up several notches when Mori followed up an offhand comment at the beginning of the chapter at the very end by admitting he does sometimes think about kissing Hunny. There was something totally awesome about that.
I was bummed that there were only a few chapters of the main story, but we get a short side chapter, an Egoistic Club chapter (which I didn’t really like), and one chapter which is related to the main storyline about how Tamaki convinced Kaoru and Hikaru to join the Host Club. I was a little less clear on what their reason was for joining, especially since they were unforgivable assholes before they met Tamaki, but… maybe it will become clearer later? It’s not like Tamaki could have cured them totally when they were that terrible.
I think volume 10 is coming in the mail this week, but… it’s still running in Japan! We are caught up! What am I going to do after that?! I just won’t be able to wait for more.
Well, there /is/ the anime… :)
I started reading about the anime today. I haven’t watched an anime series in forever, and I am now seriously tempted by this one ^_^; Have you seen it? Are there still romantic elements in it, or is it mostly comedy?
It’s mostly comedy, but there’s still a fair share of romance in it. I just watched the last episode a few hours ago, it was great. I’m a bit depressed that it’s over though.
I have seen the first eleven episodes or so. I don’t really remember romantic elements, but it was seriously very cute.
Thanks, I think I’ll have to go hunt it down now. I’m going to cross my fingers and hope my ancient computer will be able to take it.
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I just read this today – I think the twins joined Tamaki’s club because he understood their desire to be both individuals and a unit, so they found him to be interesting. They quit everything that’s boring, but so far, that’s one thing Tamaki is not. :)
Yeah, I think you’re right about the twins. I probably missed that just because I was bummed about how awful they were in the flashback. I do like the fact that they finally just gave in to Tamaki, though.