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Ouran Academy is an [[Elaborate University High]] catering to the ultra, ultra-rich. Haruhi Fujioka is a frumpy working class scholarship student, a rarity at the school. While searching for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles on an unused music room which turns out to be the club room for the school "Host Club" -- [[Better Than It Sounds|a group of idle rich boys who entertain female clients]] in a sort of [[Bleached Underpants]] version of actual [[Host Club|host clubs]].

 

 

''Ouran High School Host Club'' emphatically plays with the cliches and character types inherent in the medium. It hardly ever takes itself seriously, but at times emotions can run quite high, making for [[Mood Whiplash|some touching moments among all the silliness]]. The manga version ended in September 2010. The anime was licensed as part of Viz Media's "Shojo Beat" collection, and the anime was made available in North America by FUNimation in October of 2008 (you can watch it for free [http://www.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=67 on the video section of their website], as well as [http://www.youtube.com/show?p=IQ_voZPsL8k&feature=sh_ac_show_1_10 on their YouTube channel]). Both are well worth your attention, even if you're not part of the series' [[Periphery Demographic|normal demographic]].

 

A [[Live Action Adaptation]] began airing July 2011.

 

* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Mori-sempai manages to turn his neck a full '''''180 degrees''''' in ''"Mori-Sempai Has An Apprentice Candidate!"'' upon [[The Last Horse Crosses the Finish Line|finally realizing that his character, up to that point, has had no major impact on the main plot.]]

* [[Accidental Kiss]]:

** Also, bananas.

** The live action drama has some of this too. Renge is only seen in one episode like in the manga, and the Halloween contest, the Refreshing Point competition at the hostel, the Zuka Club, and Kasanoda are nowhere to be seen.

* [[Adult Child]]: Tamaki.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]:

* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: Tamaki plays this in his first instance on the piano in the live action version.

* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Tamaki

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Tamaki shares alot of the attitrubes of a dog, (plus that he also ''is'' a dog lover), Haruhi is often made fun of by the other members for her apparent resemblance to a "tanuki" (raccoon dog), and the twins again are sometimes portrayed as sneaky and "devilish" as cats (which just adds to the humor to their [[Vitriolic Best Buds|relationship to Tamaki]].) And is it even necessary to say what animal Honey is associated with?

* [[Anime Accent Absence]]: Eclair and Renge can speak fluent Japanese, despite there being little to no indication that they had been required to learn it. Same goes for Tamaki, as he moved to Japan when he was fourteen, but he at least [[But Not Too Foreign|has a bit of an excuse...]]

* [[Art Evolution]]

* [[Art Shift]]: The anime's opening (for the most part) has slightly more stylized animation than in the show proper. Also done hilariously with Tamaki in episode 19 for two brief moments.

* [[Ascended Extra]]:

** Renge's appearances as an [[As You Know]] [[Meta Guy]] fangirl are much more frequent in the show.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Haruhi is quite a popular host when she's crossdressing. She also looks better with smaller eyes and boyish short hair than with large eyes and long girlish hair.

* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]: Not shown in either anime or manga, but the author states in the final volume that Tamaki and Haruhi are the first out of the Host Club members to have children. Mori was also revealed to get married and have kids.}}

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Honey.

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]:

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: "Princess" Ayanakouji.

* [[Black Cloak]]: Nekozawa, with [[Speech Bubbles]] to match in the manga.

** However when we get a glimpse of Kyouya's desktop he is not only using an undisguised Mac OS, we can also clearly see icons for Skype, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.

* [[Blank White Eyes]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Occurs quite a bit. In the manga, you can see Kyouya say "I thought I wasn't going to appear in this chapter" and others pointing out that they're well aware that they're in a manga. Haruhi also seems to talk to the audience, and the twins refer to "the readers" frequently.

* [[Bros Before Hoes]]: Kaoru gives up on his romantic feelings for Haruhi so that his brother, Hikaru, can realise his feelings for her so that he might learn to grow to be a little more independent.

* [[Call Back]]: During the final chapter, there's one to chapter 2 -- Haruhi dances with Kanako, and does much better. There's also a couple in the final two episodes of the anime.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]:

** "Summon gryphon!"

* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: The first few pages of chapter 79 involve Haruhi standing in front of {{spoiler|Tamaki blushing, and looking at the ground. She then says "Tamaki-senpai... I'm in love with you." (The [[Squee]] of many a fangirl was heard.) Tamaki looks stunned, but then goes off saying that he's so happy because he's in love with himself, too! He takes this and runs with it. Haruhi looks mortified, but then}} she sits up and we find out it was [[All Just a Dream]], much to her relief.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The manga starts to delve into dramatic territory around the fifth or sixth volume, but tries not to sacrifice the funny. This was probably (more or less) of the intended variety.

* [[Character Development]]: Tamaki, Haruhi and the twins especially. More visible in the manga.

* [[Charm Point]]: Mori is an odd case since his [[Charm Point]] is another ''[[Moe Couplet|character]]''. When the club tries to instruct a delinquent that a [[Charm Point]] can work wonders for one's image, they bluntly point out without Hani around people would see Mori as just a huge scary thug who barely talks, much to the latter's distress.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Parodied. A large, blinking arrow highlights plot devices until they see action.

** Haruhi, oddly enough.

** [[Captain Obvious|All of the host club members count.]]

* [[Club President]]: Tamaki.

* [[Color Failure]]:

** Honey has talked to Usa-chan as if he were real. Tamaki's done the same with Kuma-chan, too.

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Honey does this a lot.

* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: The live action drama -- only 11 episodes and an upcoming movie.

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Hikaru and Kaoru take after their grandmother's tendency to troll people. Said grandmother motorcycles, travels around the world, and is [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|amazing in tanabata (flower arrangement)... and has worn her hair like a tanabata arrangement for fourteen years]] {{spoiler|as a tribute to her grandsons}}.

* [[Corner of Woe]]:

** Often done by Tamaki.

** "I'm making a hamster home..."

* [[Cosplay]]: As a part of their "job", the Host Club regularly changes their outfits and music room's decorations into various themes (ancient Japan, tropical island, etc), maintaining appropriate temperature by air conditioning - which was, loosely citing Tamaki, "invented specially for those kinds of things".

* [[Costume Porn]]: Said cosplay outfits are, as can be expected, very fancy and/or stylish.

* [[Cosplay Cafe]]: The titular "[[Host Club]]" is actually more like one of these.

* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]: Renge, who at one point is said to have created a hugely popular doujinshi about the hosts.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Honey [[I Know Karate|knows kung fu]], and as mentioned earlier will kick your ass if you mess with him, Mori, or Haruhi.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Renge's interesting film project which screams of "NEEDS MORE ANGST!"

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Everything about Nekozawa is ridiculously "dark". He lives in a dark Gothic mansion, wears a black cloak, listens to ominous, creepy music, deals with the occult, is surrounded by black roses and even his maid and butler look like vampiric murderers. He's actually a pretty nice guy.

* [[Date Peepers]]:

** They then save Haruhi from the {{spoiler|Zuka Club}} and ruin the date.

* [[Darkest Hour]]: Chapters 73 to 80.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Lady Eclair in the anime, {{spoiler|Tamaki's grandmother}} in the manga.

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: Honey.

* [[Deranged Animation]]: You know a series is going to be insane when a character not only loses his coloring when depressed, but actually '''''DISSOLVES INTO A PILE OF SAND''''' when things don't go his way.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Tamaki seems to have misunderstood just ''how'' a host club ''really'' entertains...leading to many a shocked reaction when he tells them about the school's Host Club. Not to mention his understanding of how "commoners" live is a bit mixed.

* [[Discriminate and Switch]]: When Haruhi didn't take her dad to Take Your Parent To School Day, her dad and his co-worker assumed it was because he's a transvestite. Later, the co-worker brought her dad home piss-drunk due to how upset he was about not being told about the school event, which causes Haruhi to reveal that she didn't say a thing because she felt he was overworked and wanted him to use the opportunity to rest.

* [[Down the Rabbit Hole]]: Not only does Haruhi compare the experience of being in the Host Club to being in another world, but the door to the music room heavily symbolizes this in several episodes. There is also an episode that directly parodies ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''. By the end, she says that around here, it's hard to tell when she's asleep or awake.

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Haruhi does this to Tamaki, Kasanoda, and in the final chapter, {{spoiler|the club customers}}.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: For {{spoiler|Tamaki and Kyouya in the last two episodes of the series.}}

* [[Episode Title Card]]: Every episode of the anime opens with one of these and Haruhi's voice reading it out loud.

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Goes without saying.

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Subtly in the anime, but much more obvious in the manga. After Haruhi realizes her feelings for {{spoiler|Tamaki}} it's unbelivably obvious to everyone EXCEPT him. Honey and Mori seemed to be the first to notice {{spoiler|Hikaru's and Kaoru's}} budding feelings for Haruhi, as well. Kyouya may have seen it, too.

** amaki, somewhat. For the guy he is, he doesn't really emphasize it much.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Initially parodied by Hikaru and Kaoru when they dye their hair pink and blue after a staged fight because they were bored. Played straight later in the manga when Hikaru dyes his hair darker after he and Kaoru have a ''real'' fight. This is a big turning point for them and shows that they permanently want to be seen as separate people. They even move into separate bedrooms.

* [[Fear of Thunder]]: Haruhi.

* [[Fiction 500]]: Most of the cast. The Host Club is filthy rich, meaning that if [[Rule of Cool]] allows something, they will simply pay reason to take a hike. One character owns a beach, for example. An indoor beach.

* [[First Episode Spoiler]]: Just try describing the series to someone without giving away the fact that Haruhi is a girl. While it's certainly possible in many languages (including Japanese) the plot makes little sense if Haruhi's true gender isn't known.

* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Haruhi, every time she's confronted with one of the more outrageous aspects of the clubs ultra-rich lifestyle. Conversely, the boys often show fish out of water tendencies when they step out of their world to visit Haruhi in hers. Even uber-cool Kyouya is ultimately perplexed by some of the commoner things at the trade exhibition.

** [[Cover Art]]/[[The Hero]]: Tamaki

** [[The Lancer]]: Hikaru and Kaoru

** [[The Smart Guy]]/[[The Hero]]: Kyouya

** [[Team Pet]]: Honey

** [[The Chick]]/[[The Sixth Ranger]]: Haruhi

* [[Free Fall Romance]] In the final episode when {{spoiler|Haruhi falls off of a bridge while trying to convince Tamaki not to leave for France and he jumps off after her}}. It's a slow-motion fall that's quite romantic until the splash.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Tamaki (not surprisingly) is this.

* [[Friend to Bugs]]: Haruhi, as implied in episode 8 when she finds a centipete 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.''"

* [[From the Mouths of Babes]]: "Debauchery! There's debauchery here! Yay!" From a tiny ''three year old girl''. Who looks ridiculously [[Moe]] and took ...three seconds?... to realize exactly what the [[Reverse Harem|Host Club]] is.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: Mori and Honey in various episodes of the anime.

* [[The Gadfly]]: The twins towards Tamaki and Haruhi. They don't really feel close enough to most others to do this with them.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: All of the main characters.

** Special mention to Tamaki for being [[Genre Savvy]] in a similar manner to [[The Order of the Stick|Elan]].

** Even some of the side characters too. Renge has the justification of being a [[Dating Sim]] otaku and Kirimi due to overexposure to [[Shojo]] manga.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: This quote from episode 4 speaks for itself:

Hikaru and Kaoru: If you don't know, never mind. }}

** The original Japanese actually used the words ''seme'' and ''uke''.

** [[Bonus Points]] to the fact that Kaoru seemingly admits to prefer [[Unusual Euphemism|playing catcher.]]

Haruhi: Your brain? }}

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Mori and Kasanoda.

* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: The first step to Haruhi's transformation into a pretty "boy" is losing her huge, clunky glasses.

* [[Harem Genre]]: A rare variation where the protagonist is female and the harem is male.

* [[Harem Nanny]]: Kyouya

** The last episode of the anime counts too considering Tamaki. If you've read the manga to beyond chapter 80, the similarities between the chapters beforehand and the anime's end is quite striking.

** For that matter, Kyouya and Tamaki

* [[Hexagonal Speech Balloon]]

** Tamaki is [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|Kamishiro Tsurugi]]

** Honey is [[Tensou Sentai Goseiger|Alata]]

** Kaoru is [[Juken Sentai Gekiranger|Retsu Fukami]] while Hikaru is played by the actor's twin brother who played evil Retsu doppelganger in episode 38 of Gekiranger.

** In the drama CDs, [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Mercury]] was Haruhi. There's also a sly [[Take That]] to Gundam pilots being Bishounen. [[Gundam Wing|Heero Yuy is Tamaki]], [[Gundam Seed|Kira Yamato is Hikaru]], [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Shinn Asuka is Kaoru, and Sting Oakley is Kyouya.]]. Oh, and Pikachu is Honey.

** And Nekozawa is [[Rurouni Kenshin|Sanosuke]].

** Due to the dub being Funimation, some of the voice actors are the same as in their previous dubs. For instance, Kasanoda and Tetsuya are Ayame and Shigure from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. Haruhi's father is Ritsu (also a cross dresser, interestingly).

*** Actually, Tamaki is Death Scythe. Hikaru is Death the Kid. Mori is Free. Hunny is Medusa. Haruhi is Kim.

*** For the dub, yes. The original Japanese version seems to be like an Ouran reunion. A very strange reunion.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Played with regarding every character, parodied in one of Renge's early episodes.

* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: ''Many many.''

* [[Hime Cut]]: Haruhi used to have this kind of hairstyle before the unfortunate bubblegum incident.

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Hikaru. And for a short period Kaoru, too.

* [[Hot Dad]]: Haruhi's father, and even more so, Tamaki's father.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Hikaru's and Kaoru's mother falls into this category, as did Haruhi's. In the manga, {{spoiler|Tamaki's mother...}} just, ''wow''. No wonder {{spoiler|Tamaki's dad went after her.}}

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Kyoya, again to Tamaki.

* [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Tamaki

* [[I Let You Win]]: Subverted. Mori, having watched many of their battles, predicts that Honey will purposely lose to his brother in their last fight. However, cake is on the line and Honey shows no mercy.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Tamaki most frequently, but it happens to others, such as Kasanoda from time to time.

** Inverted once when the boys assume Haruhi is in an [[Imagine Spot]] based on the distant expression on her face when she's actually envisioning the day's sales at the supermarket.

** In chapter 76 {{spoiler|Hikaru says that this new obstacle in Haruhi and Tamaki's friendship gives him an advantage against Tamaki in winning her heart.}} Kaoru looks shocked and apalled until Hikaru says he was just kidding and {{spoiler|says "Don't you think it would be a waste if I said I don't really wish for this to happen?"}} It's quite clear he doesn't want to see either of his friends miserable.

** In chapter 80 {{spoiler|When Haruhi says she's going to be an obstacle to their rescue and that she's having doubts about her abilities, Hikaru tells her that it hurts, but she's the one who knows Tamaki the best and vice versa and because of that, she must go escort him to the airport}}. Awwwww.

** Hikaru's still a bit of one during the Karuizawa arc.

* [[Kaiju]]: Used in a throwaway image in Episode 23 between a namahage and a shisa as part of Tamaki's imagination (the episode is a flashback to when he first moved to Japan)

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: "Don't you think this is overly dramatic for a toothache?"

** The anime has this in spades; Haruhi is the worst offender.

** And of course, inverted as well

'''Honey:''' "It's always been there, silly. This is a music room." }}

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Haruhi is a girl, but given that this is revealed at the end of the first manga chapter and first anime episode, it's not all that surprising that all the blurbs on the back of the manga volumes and DVDs tell you straight away.

* [[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.

* [[Legal Jailbait]]: Honey... Enough said

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]... or father and daughter.

* [[Loving a Shadow]]: Renge initially has a crush on Kyoya because he resembles her favorite guy from her favorite [[Dating Sim]].

** {{spoiler|Eclair seems to have legitimate feelings for Tamaki based almost entirely on the stories that her housekeeper (Tamaki's mother) told her about him.}}

* [[Love Chart]]: Hikaru makes one in the manga with him, Kaoru, Tamaki, and Haruhi. Renge makes one later on, too (although Kaoru's not included on that one).

* [[Love Epiphany]]: Quite a few of these in the manga. Haruhi's is rather funny and adorable because until then she was completely [[Oblivious to Love]] and at first thought her sudden blushing and flustering around her [[Love Interest]] were due to a cold or her heart rejecting her.

** Haruhi quite adorably has alot of them too upon realizing {{spoiler|she's in love with Tamaki.}}

* [[Maybe Ever After]]: The anime doesn't doesn't definitively state whether Haruhi will end up with Tamaki or Hikaru, though it does give some pretty strong hints.

* [[Measuring Day]]

* [[Meganekko]]: Haruhi, though she's only seen wearing glasses for the first half of chapter 1, and even then she looked uncannily like a boy.

* [[Micro Monarchy]]: Tamaki and pals meet a princess from a tiny imaginary European country.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Haruhi's (dead) and Tamaki's (in France and his [[Evil Matriarch]] grandmother doesn't let him contact her)

* [[Moe Couplet]]: Honey and Mori. Even discussed in episode 22, though [[It Makes Sense in Context|neither of them take it as a compliment]].

* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Takaouji Shiro. Chika could fit this too.

* [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad]]: Done with money, of course, since they are ultra-rich. More like My Dad Can Buy Out Your Dad's Company.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Kasanoda is neither Casanova nor Bossa Nova.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: The narration in the live action drama is done by [[Maaya Sakamoto]], who voiced Haruhi in the anime.

* [[Nakama]]: Tamaki sees the Host Club as a family, to the point of assigning everyone roles within it...with Haruhi as his ''daughter''.

** And Kyouya as the "mother," and Mori and Hunny being the couple who lives next door... We wonder if Tamaki notices the [[Ho Yay]] or not. The fans sure do.

* [[Noodle People]]

* [[No Romantic Resolution]]: The anime lacks a definite ending, though it does imply that Tamaki/Haruhi is bound to happen.

** Subverted with Honey. The rumor goes that his family was once in a military complex, and a soldier carelessly woke Honey up, and he BLEW THE PLACE UP, leaving only a bunny-shaped mushroom cloud, killing two entire Green Beret battalions. Of course, this is Tamaki's version of the story. The subversion? Honey was taking a nap during the DAY.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]:

** Hikaru as well. It takes him a ''damn'' long time to figure out.

** Tamaki is probably the worst offender, going so far as to think his constant fawning for Haruhi could only mean that he sees her as his daughter.

** Shima to Tamaki - in the manga, [she not only helps Tamaki realize what he wants to do with his life, she helps the Host Club get to Tamaki to take him {{spoiler|to his mother}} at the airport. In the anime, she's the one who convinces Kyouya that the Host Club should stop Tamaki from {{spoiler|quitting school and and going off to France with Eclair}} since she thinks Tamaki's mother wouldn't want him to do that.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: I bet the first time you saw Honey, you didn't think he was the second oldest in the club.

* [[One Head Taller]]:

** All the host club members (save [[Older Than They Look|Honey]], of course) are taller than Haruhi by a few heads. Visually, Hikaru and Kaoru look closest to one head taller, though they're only supposedly six inches taller.

* [[Only Sane Man]]:

* [[Orbital Shot]]: During Renge's first major confrontation with the male club.

* [[Otaku]]: Renge, of [[Dating Sim|Dating Sims]].

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Tamaki, towards Haruhi.

* [[Perky Goth]]: Nekozawa and, in the manga, the rest of the Black Magic Club.

* [[Personality Blood Types]]: Brought up a few times.

* [[Pettanko]]: Haruhi, again. Of course, it certainly helps her masquerade.

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: When Tamaki and Honey-kun crossdress, they chose pink dresses. Honey even calls himself a [[Princesses Prefer Pink]].

* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Haruhi subverts this in a bonus chapter of the manga and episode 12 of the anime by being stuffed (almost stuffed in the anime) into an ''Easter'' Bunny outfit by the rest of the hosts in desperation for fear that Honey would discover Usa-chan to have been stained upon waking up (which he does, actually, but Mori covers for the hosts).

* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Chapter 80. Tamaki says something like this to Haruhi while on the way to the airport {{spoiler|to see his mother after three years.}}

* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Kyoya, to Tamaki, see episode 14.

* [[Priceless Ming Vase]]: The destruction of an actual priceless Ming vase kick-starts the plot. Very heavily [[Lampshaded]] by a flashing arrow that points at the vase any time it's seen.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Mori.

* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: Some of the host club's customers mention that they think Haruhi would look good in a dress.

** They aren't quite colour coded, but Tamaki and Kyouya seem to embody this trope rather well (cool-headed, intellectual [[Chessmaster]] vs. exhuberant, people-focused [[White Prince]]).

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|Haruhi and Tamaki}} become a couple in chapter 81.

* [[Rich Boredom]]: The motive for the club.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Ayanakouji and Eclair, but none of the other rich girls suprisingly enough.

* [[Rival]]:

** The Host Club has their share of actual rivals, such as the school newspaper club and the Zuka Club.

** The new transfer student that Tamaki saves from getting kicked by a horse is this.

** In the anime, this role was given to Lady Eclair.

** Not to mention the Otori family's heavily-armed ''private police force'' that Kyouya dispatched when Honey got [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|lost at the pool]].

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Haruhi is dolled up and used as bait to lure Kanako and Toru back together in chapter 2. Add makeup and a long, straight black wig, and nobody except the hosts were able to recognize her (though Haruhi had to convince Toru at one point that they've never met).

* [[Ship Tease]]:

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Played straight most of the time, but played with when the twins gave out a picture of a topless Haruhi for money -- it turns out, her head was Photoshopped on ''Tamaki's'' body.

* [[Shojo]]: [[Affectionate Parody|Affectionately parodied]] and deliberately invoked. The Hosts [[Genre Savvy|consciously and intentionally]] play to Shojo sterotypes.

** The Twins. They're probably trying to [[Invoked|invoke]] this trope on purpose.

** This fits better for the anime. In the manga their hair looks much more natural and isn't quite as poofed out, although it's obvious they style it with hair gel most of the time.

** And [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], in form of a ball looking like SD Ed's head.

** [[Giant Robo|Something-Or-Other Robo?]]

* [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: It doesn't get much shinier than this.

* [[Smug Snake]]:

* [[Something About a Rose]]: Roses are all over the place for the Host Club in general, but Tamaki in particular seems to like randomly producing one to gesture with.

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: Happens in Haruhi's dream, when she {{spoiler|runs toward her mother}}.

** Haninozuka Mitsukuni's nickname, Honey (Hani? Huni? Hunny?) seems to be spelled differently depending on what fansub you're watching (or on which Troper is editing the page). The Viz translation uses Honey, which seems to be the official spelling.

** Also Kyouya/Kyoya. And let's not get started on his last name. Or Tamaki's.

** Tamaki ends up falling on her in a very suggestive position just as her father walks in.

* [[Suddenly Always Knew That]]: Honey comes out of nowhere and single-handedly beats 20 grown men in SWAT team gear. It turns out he's from a family of martial arts experts. Also lampshaded by Tamaki. Inverted when Haruhi faces off against two thugs at the beach and is promptly tossed off a bluff into the water: Tamaki sarcastically cites this trope while berating her for endangering herself so recklessly.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Haruhi. It's enforced by the rest of the Host Club; Haruhi herself doesn't care very much whether she's seen as a boy or a girl.

* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: There's one episode in which this happens at least three times.

* [[Team Dad]]: Tamaki (self-proclaimed).

* [[Team Mom]]: Kyouya (dubbed so by Tamaki).

** Also implied in the school physical episode. Tamaki grabs up Haruhi in an enthusiastic hug; within seconds, she's making an angry sound and demanding that he stop touching "those places."

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]:

** The show's ending theme also makes an appearance, as the ringtone Hikaru uses to I.D. when Tamaki is calling. When Hikaru is comforting Haruhi in the church (and puts his headset on her) the song plays again.

** There's also a slow, waltz version of it used during the closing credits scenes in the final episode.

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: The Zuka club.

* [[Thunder Shock]]: Occurs [[Running Gag|quite often]], mostly [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]:

** Honey loves his cakes.

* [[Twincest]]: Hikaru and Kaoru's schtick.

* [[Twin Telepathy]]: During the Test of Courage chapter. After Hikaru and Kaoru are separated, Hikaru somehow manages to find Kaoru and explains that he had heard his twin's voice telling him where he was, even though Kaoru had no way of telling Hikaru his whereabouts and the latter could not have found out through someone else.

* [[Twin Switch]]: And the "Which one is Hikaru-kun Gaaame!!" Haruhi, who has known the twins for the least amount of time, seems to be the only one able to tell the difference.

* [[Uncle Pennybags]]: All main characters, really (except for Haruhi).

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: And Haruhi's at the center of it. Tamaki, predictably, reframes it as a heartful love comedy with himself as [[First Girl Wins|the actual lead]] along with a bunch of "[[Pretty Freeloaders|homosexual side characters]]".

* [[Watching the Sunset]]: Tamaki envisions him and Haruhi doing this while walking along the beach together in one of his many [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]].

** Used for laughs a number of times, such as Tamaki's dramatic declaration that he's going to try instant coffee in the first episode.

* [[The White Prince]]: Tamaki, obviously, but the twins also embody part of this trope.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Several, including Haruhi ''and'' her father.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. "Princess" Ayanakouji fakes getting attacked by Haruhi, but Tamaki sees through it and bans her from visiting the club.

 

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