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ways_back_room2008-01-08 08:08 am
muji) wrote in ways_back_room2008-01-08 08:08 am
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Daily Entertainment.
Ugh.
Work.
Ugh.
So, I only really have one question, y'all.
...Did you miss me? :D???
Work.
Ugh.
So, I only really have one question, y'all.
...Did you miss me? :D???
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Ouran is the school; it's a very exclusive school populated mostly by very very rich people. A host club is a club where handsome guys flirt with girls and tell them how pretty they are and stuff; it's kind of like a really G-rated escort service. Ouran's club is big on themed parties, mainly as an excuse to have the hosts dress up in all kinds of costumes. Also, about 99% of the school's female students seem to be fangirls who are probably writing RPS about the Host Club.
In general, this world functions by anime tropes and narrative crack rather than actual logic. It's a very meta show; the fourth wall gets smashed into bits and jumped up and down on a lot, metaphorically speaking. Rose petals appear out of nowhere, doors magically appear for people to pop out of (and characters say, "Uh, was that door always there?"), and so forth.
It's also a very character-based show. The plot arc, such as it is, is less a plot as such than an exploration of the growth of the characters over the school year. All of the characters are cracked-out caricatures and anime cliches; they're also all surprisingly nuanced, and the show likes to blindside the audience by suddenly providing moments of insight and humanity for all these immensely silly people.
The characters!
Tamaki (Suou Tamaki) is the founder and president (king, if you ask him) of the club. He's blond (half-French), full of harebrained ideas, and really genuinely cares about making people happy while being deeply and utterly clueless about how the world actually works. He's very sparkly! Everyone else lets him think he's actually in charge.
Kyouya (Ootori Kyouya) is the vice-president of the club, and the one who's actually controlling most things. He wears glasses, takes notes on everything and has mental dossiers on everyone, and has the scary glinting-glasses thing going. He's kind of like Machiavelli plus Moiraine in the body of a teenaged boy.
Haruhi (Fujioka Haruhi) is the newest member, a freshman. She's a girl who looks very androgynous, and so most of the club took her for a boy at first; the crossdressing fiction is now deliberately maintained by the host club, although she herself doesn't much care who knows. She's a relatively poor scholarship student, very smart and very practical, and the only sane one in the club. She does a lot of facepalming at everyone else.
Hikaru and Kaoru (Hitachiin Hikaru and Hitachiin Kaoru) are identical twins. Nobody can tell them apart. (Except Haruhi.) Their priorities in life are: 1) each other, 2) the rest of the Host Club (this is a recent and growing development), and 3) everybody else, who exist only for their amusement. They are kinda hyper and easily bored. They also tend to talk in unison, and pretend to be having twincest. This delights the entire female population of the school, so far as I can tell. (When I said they were all fangirls? Yes. They're that kind of fangirl.)
Honey (Haninozuka Mitsukuni) is a senior, blond, and looks about ten years old. Acts about ten years old, too. He's hyper, adores anything cute or sweet, and eats his weight in cakes (seriously, I am not exaggerating here) on a more or less daily basis. (He's also an incredible martial artist. Tiny details.) His constant companion, aside from his stuffed pink bunny, is Mori.
Mori (Morinozuka Takashi) is also a senior, and Honey's... best friend/cousin/babysitter. (I tend to call him Honey's Warder.) He is very tall, very impassive, and tends to speak in grunts rather than sentences. He and Honey are more or less inseparable; they're not quite as codependent as the twins, but they hold their own.
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Unless you mean the poi poi poi poi poi onomatopoeia.
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