Ouran High School Host Club

Name: Serina

Grade: 12+

Title: Ouran High School Host Club

Author/illustrator: Bisco Hatori

Haruhi is a poor scholarship student at a prestigious school called Ouran High, where only the richest and most cultured people can attend. Haruhi breaks this norm by being neither. Haruhi can't even afford the stupidly expensive uniform. One day, while looking for a place to study quietly and in private, Haruhi encounters the Host Club, a group of dashing male students that sell their time and charm to young women. Overwhelmed by their enthusiastic greeting, Haruhi bumps into an expensive vase and smashes it. The Host Club then demands that Haruhi pay for it by taking on clients as a member of their club. There's just one problem. Haruhi is a girl. With her short, disheveled hair and gender neutral shape, the Host Club mistakes Haruhi for a boy, and Haruhi, who is used to the mistake and thinks gender identification is overrated anyway, doesn't tell them otherwise. Even after discovering Haruhi is a girl, Tamaki, the eccentric head of the Host Club, insists that she stay and hide her true identity. But secretly, Tamaki wishes to see a feminine Haruhi, and often fantasizes about it while Haruhi learns the trade of charming women with the other members. Is this the start of love for Tamaki, who has never truly loved anything but his own reflection? Will the dense and easygoing Haruhi even notice his feelings?

This manga is full of slapstick humor, cliches, and bountiful breaking of the fourth wall.

I picked this book up because I have always been curious about it.

I finished the first book because it was a funny play on traditional shojo series and doesn't take itself too seriously.

I'd give this book to any fan of shojo manga, or anyone who isn't a fan of it and wants to see jokes about it in an endearing way.

Rating: **** Really liked it!