Ouran High School Host Club/Characters

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A list of characters from the Ouran High School Host Club manga and anime series.

The Host Club as a Whole

  • The Beautiful Elite: Their presence, understandably, turns quite a few heads in-universe.
  • Bishonen: Even the girl is one.
  • Costume Porn: Furthered by the fact that Hikaru and Kaoru's mom actually is a fashion designer.
  • Estrogen Brigade Bait: Kinda the entire point.
  • Seven Man Band
  • Sharp Dressed Men Plus Girl: The Ouran high school boys' uniform is a rather stylish suit, and they wear other types of formal wear for special events.
  • True Companions: All of them grow really tight over the series, exemplified by both the anime and manga's finales.
  • Fiction 500: With the exception of Haruhi.
    • Kyouya Ootori is able to threaten others into submission by simply stating that he's able to eject someone from the country if they piss him off. That's not even including the insanely huge indoors beach that had a forest in it. He's also independently wealthy, being able to buy his family's failing company.

Haruhi Fujioka

Voiced by Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese), Aya Hisakawa (Drama CD), Caitlin Glass (English)

The main character of the series. A transfer student to Ouran High School who winds up working with the Host Club to help pay off her debt after accidentally breaking a really expensive vase.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Animal Motifs: Often compared to a raccoon for her cute face and homely nature.
  • Attractive Bent Gender: See Sweet Polly Oliver.
  • Bad Bad Acting: In the anime, when helping the Zuka club with their play. There was no emoting involved whatsoever.
    • Averted when dealing with the club's customers, but maybe she doesn't think that's the same as acting on a stage. When she's a host, she's mostly just being herself.
  • Berserk Button: She is one. Mess with her and the whole Host Club will be after your blood.
  • Bifauxnen
  • Bob Haircut
  • Brainy Brunette: Scholarship student and more focused on studying than anyone else in the series.
  • Brutal Honesty: She doesn't mince her words.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Her feelings for Tamaki until Chapter 80.
  • The Chick/Sixth Ranger: The newest member and the only girl.
  • Clueless Person Magnet: When Arai asked her out on a date, she thought he meant apply to Ouran with her.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Daddy's Girl
  • Deadpan Snarker: Usually around Tamaki (oh, say, 95% of the time?)
  • Defrosting Ice Queen/Kuudere: Haruhi may not have been a full-blown Ice Queen, but she initially cared little for the Host Club and solely cared about fulfilling her debt until she gradually befriended all the Host Club members and grew to love the Host Club.7
  • Dude Magnet: She becomes this after joining the club. As such most of the other hosts start harbouring feelings for her.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Do they ever!...Except they don't know she's a girl.
  • Fear of Thunder: One of the few things Haruhi is genuinely afraid of.
  • Friend to Bugs: Implied in episode 8 when she finds a centipede on a crab and, instead of killing it, she simply picks it up and throws it aside. When asked if she could have been easier on it, she said, "It takes a lot more than that to kill a bug."
  • Gender Blender Name
  • Generation Xerox: Looks and acts a lot like her deceased mother. Like said mother, she becomes a lawyer and falls in love with and marries an idiotic Nice Guy.
  • Hime Cut: Before she cut her hair short. Perhaps a inversion as she lacks every single trait normally associated with it.
  • Hot Chick In A Badass Boy School Uniform
  • Insistent Terminology: She always refers to Tamaki with the honorific of sempai, even after they've been dating for 2 years despite him wanting her to call him daddy.
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse: It's constantly lampshaded how similar Tamaki is to her father (minus the fact that her father is a professional bisexual crossdresser). They get married at the end of the final bonus chapter.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Masculine Girl to Tamaki's Feminine Boy.
  • Meganekko: A rare Bifauxnen example, both at the very beginning and in later chapters.
  • Missing Mom: Hers has been dead for several years.
  • Non-Singing Voice: Revealed in episode 19, she doesn't even get an Image Song! Ironically, both her seiyuu and English voice actress are known for their singing abilities.
  • Oblivious to Love: Painfully oblivious at first. Kind of.
  • Pettanko: Pointed out by the twins in case anyone failed to notice.
  • Precision F-Strike: She says "ore" twice early on.
  • Scholarship Student
  • Sexy Man, Instant Harem: Well, she's got three of the four down. Does a pretty good job of faking the 'man' part as well.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: It's just that cleaning up is such a drag for her. If it were up to her, she would be going around school in her infamous Haruhi Potter wear every day.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man
  • Sloth: Apart from being something of a jerk occasionally, this is her main flaw. She never wants to do anything new or even slightly troublesome.
  • The Snark Knight: "You rich bastards..."
  • Sweet Polly Oliver: Not that she cares if anyone knows she's a girl or not, but the rest of the Host Club persists in maintaining the charade in order to keep her in the club.
  • Tareme Eyes: Strong willed but possibly because its more a quiet sloth than a aggressive thing.
  • Tomboy: Less of a 'likes traditionally boy activities' than a 'doesn't care about traditional girl activities'
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Ootoro (fatty tuna, very expensive and fancy). It's turned into a Running Gag.
  • Unwanted Harem: Tamaki, Hikaru, Kaoru (shown more so in the manga), Renge, Kasanoda, and her middle school classmate Arai all like Haruhi. She was even confessed to by her old schoolmates an average of once per month prior to transferring to Ouran. Not that Haruhi noticed any of that.
  • Women Are Wiser: She seems like this as she is much more sensible then her clubmates, but its more like 'commoners are wiser' as the club's customers are just as silly as they are. Both live in awe of "commoner wisdom."
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Played straight with Haruhi herself, but zig-zagged with the club guests/fangirls. At first, they invoke this trope when they remark that they'd love to see how Haruhi would look dressed as a woman, and later, when they claim to have figured out Haruhi's "secret", they agree that "he" actually DOES look good as a woman. It's not until later that they actually realize that Haruhi is, in fact, female, and that the "closeted gay boy" they've been championing this whole time was not.
  • Work Off the Debt: The only reason Haruhi joined the club in the first place.

Tamaki Suoh

Voiced by Mamoru Miyano (Japanese), Hikaru Midorikawa (Drama CD), Vic Mignogna (English)

The president of the Host Club and quite the charmer (even though he comes off as a well-meaning idiot half the time). Tamaki likes to think of himself as the "daddy" of the Host Club, and thinks of Haruhi as his "daughter".

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Kyouya Ohtori

Voiced by Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese), Junichi Suwabe (Drama CD), J Michael Tatum (English)

The vice-president of the Host Club, and one of Tamaki's closest friends. Kyouya tends to take a more responsible approach to the club's activities, and tries to make sure that Tamaki and the others don't go overboard.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Hikaru & Kaoru Hitachiin

Kaoru & Hikaru
Hikaru is voiced by Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Soichiro Hoshi (Drama CD), Todd Haberkorn (English)
Kaoru is voiced by Yoshinori Fujita (Japanese), Kenichi Suzumura (Drama CD), Greg Ayres (English)

A set of cunning and mischievous twins in the same class as Haruhi. Joining the Host Club helped them open up to others, as they previously believed that they could only depend on one another.

Tropes exhibited by these characters include:


Mitsukuni "Hani (Honey)" Haninozuka

Voiced by Ayaka Saitou (Japanese), Ikue Ohtani (Drama CD), Luci Christian (English)

Honey is the youngest-looking member of the Host Club, yet actually the oldest one. He's a cousin to Mori, and his family owns a prestigious martial arts dojo.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka

Voiced by Daisuki Kirii (Japanese), Kenjiro Tsuda (Drama CD), Travis Willingham (English)

Mori is tall and intimidating, but very soft-spoken. As his family is sworn to protect the Haninozuka family, Mori shares a very special kinship with Honey and his friends.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Badass: He can slice through a falling flower pot with his bare hand without so much as a flinch. And don't forget, he is the only person who can keep Honey under control.
  • Badass Baritone: His voice is deep, especially in the English version.
  • The Big Guy: Biggest, strongest, etc.
  • Big Brother Instinct: To Honey, who ironically is his older cousin.
    • He also has shades of this with Haruhi, almost from the very first time they meet - in the first episode of the anime, she calls out to him for help and he runs to her aid without a second thought.
  • Big Brother Mentor: To Honey again. While normally very supportive, he's the one to tell Honey when he can't do something, and is the only one who can really stop him. In the manga, he occasionally acts as one to Hikaru as well.
  • Brown Eyes
  • The Comically Serious
  • First-Name Basis: Mori calls Honey by his first name, and vice versa (they're the only ones who do this).
  • Friend to All Living Things: In the manga he has a habit of befriending animals, including a tanuki and a chick.
  • Gentle Giant: There was an episode about this: He looks intimidating but cute adoring Honey is a visual cue that he's friendly and gentle.
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: With Honey.
  • Kuudere
  • Legacy of Service: Mori comes from a family with a long line of serving the Haninozuka clan. The master-servant bond was dispelled when the families were joined by marriage, but Mori still watches over and protects Honey like a big brother would.
  • Master Swordsman: Though never seen, he is a kendo champion, and on occasion swings a sword around.
  • The Quiet One: Mori does occasionally speak, but it's usually in short sentences. Apparently, when he is very tired he becomes quite flirtatious and chatty. Weird.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Yet another pair, yet another blue oni.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: With his younger, more outspoken brother Satoshi.
  • The Stoic
    • Not So Stoic: When he's really tired, his personality does a complete 180.
  • Tall, Dark and Handsome
  • Tsurime Eyes
  • Undying Loyalty: To Honey, though in a more brotherly manner.
  • Unkempt Beauty: He's called the "Wild Type" for a reason, you know.

Supporting Cast

Renge Houshakuji

Voiced by Kozue Yoshizumi (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)

An occasional visitor and "advisor" to the Host Club.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Umehito Nekozawa

Voiced by Yuji Ueda (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)

The photosensitive president of the Black Magic club.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Ryoji "Ranka" Fujioka

Voiced by Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Mike McFarland (English)

Haruhi's father, who seems to share the same relaxed views on gender as she does. He works in an okama bar, which is why he more often than not cross-dresses.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Ritsu Kasanoda

Voiced by Wataru Hatano (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English)

Kasanoda is the successor to one of the most powerful yakuza groups in Japan. He is one of the first members outside of the Host Club to learn of Haruhi's secret. She calls him "Casanova", while the twins jokingly refer to him as "Bossa Nova".

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Eclair Tonerre

Voiced by Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)

An anime-only character. She's a young girl from France who is in love with Tamaki and ropes him into an Arranged Marriage with an offer he really can't refuse... the chance to see his Missing Mom again.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Mei Yasumura

A manga-only character, Mei is Misuzu's daughter, and is one of the first non Host Club members to realize Haruhi's feelings for Tamaki. She admires the twins' mother and enjoys designing fashions. She seems to be Haruhi's only female friend.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: With Kasanoda.
  • Gal: She looks to be the ganguro type - with her tanned skin and lots of makeup. She gives Haruhi a Gal magazine to help her realize that she loves Tamaki.
  • Love At First Sight: Falls for Tamaki upon seeing him and asks a somewhat reluctant Haruhi for her assistance.
  • Parental Abandonment: Her father's crossdressing is the reason for her parents divorce and her estrangement from her father.

Benio Amakusa

Voiced by Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Stephanie Young (English)

Benio (or "Benibara", as she's known to her peers) is a student from the all-female St. Lobelia academy. She believes that all females are meant to be pure, and dislikes the flirtatious nature of the men of the Ouran host club.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Distaff Counterpart: Except her Straw Feminist tendencies, she's basically Tamaki with brown hair and occasionally in a sailor fuku.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: More than half of St. Lobelia is deeply in love with her and formed a fan club.
  • Large Ham
  • Nice Girl: At the end of chapter 31, she reveals that she merely wanted to borrow Haruhi for the sole purpose of helping out with walking Zuka Club newbies through playing boys onstage, and makes up for the trouble she might've caused the Host Club in the process by inviting EVERYONE in the Host Club (Haruhi included) to the latest Zuka Club production.
  • The Rival: To Tamaki, too.
  • Schoolgirl Lesbians: Her, and presumably everyone in her school.
  • Straw Feminist: Played more for laughs than drama.

Yasuchika "Chika" Haninozuka

Voiced by Kei Watanabe (Japanese), Aaron Dismuke (English)

Chika is Honey's younger brother. Like Honey, he is an expert martial artist, and is also the captain of the judo and karate clubs. He takes his work very seriously, and is disappointed that Honey doesn't.

Tropes exhibited by this character include: