dangermousie | Ouran Rocks!

Thank you,

redrogue9! I watched the first ep of Ouran High School Host Club and OMG. Instant love. It is utterly hilarious. It involves a girl who gets drafted into being a host in a host club run by a bunch of guys at her school who make $$$$ off the bored rich girls by being hosts. The guys don't know she is a girl at first (it makes sense in context) and she ends up being quite popular as that very feminine guy. Think Victor/Victoria.

I actually recommend checking the eps out (there is a bunch on youtube) even if you've never watched anime in your entire life because I spent the first ep cracking up at all the fangirl stereotypes that the clever boys who run the Host Club exploit. It's like a parody of bad fanfic and teen girl (or other girl) fantasies. There is Tamaki who puts on a manner which is basically like the lust object of every badly written Mary Sue fanfic: all about the girl and sappiness and...you know. You've seen those dreadful 'Legolas falls in love with girl from earth' fics.

There is the little kid who all the girls run around screaming 'kawaii!!!' around. There is a taciturn one and the studious one. And there are twins who target the people who like things like Wincest, with their put-on 'OMG we are twins but we are not-so-secretly in wuv' thing. It's priceless.

Also, I think I might adore Tamaki who, outside the hosting thing, is a rich, sweet, not overly bright blonde. He also seems to be the only one who figures out she is a girl the last (the rest of them got it fairly quickly). And I love the heroine who is cool and matter of fact and thinks all those rich people are odd but whatever... I know she and Tamaki hook up and I can't wait.

Here's the first ep.
First Ep, Part I
First Ep, Part II
First Ep, Part III