Ouran High School Host Club facts for kids

Ouran High School Host Club is a fun manga series created by Bisco Hatori. It's a story about a smart girl who ends up in a very fancy school and joins a special club.

The story of the manga and anime is all about a girl named Haruhi. She gets a scholarship to a super rich school called Ouran Academy. One day, she accidentally breaks a very expensive vase belonging to the school's "Host Club." To pay off the debt, Haruhi has to join the club. The Host Club is a group of handsome boys who entertain girl students. Because Haruhi has short hair and wears simple clothes, the club members mistake her for a boy! So, she has to pretend to be a boy while working in the club. Haruhi is a "commoner" (meaning she's not rich), which is very different from the other Host Club members who are all from wealthy families. The series follows her funny and heartwarming adventures with the unique club members.

Ouran High School Host Club in Media

The Ouran High School Host Club story has been made into many different types of media. It started as a manga, then became audio dramas, an animated TV show, a Japanese television drama series, a live-action movie, and even a visual novel video game.

Manga Books

The Ouran High School Host Club manga is like a Japanese comic book series. It was published in Japan in a magazine called LaLa from September 2002 to November 2010. All the individual chapters were later collected into 18 special books called tankōbon volumes. These books were released between August 2003 and April 2011.

Fans of the series could also get a special fanbook released in 2009. The manga is available in English in North America, published by Viz Media. You can also find it in other countries like Indonesia, Singapore, and Poland.

Anime TV Show

The Ouran High School Host Club story was turned into a 26-episode anime TV series. Anime is a style of Japanese animation. This show aired in Japan from April to September 2006 on NTV. The show was made by several companies, including Nippon Television and Bones. Takuya Igarashi directed the series.

The voices for the characters in the anime were done by different actors than in the audio dramas. For example, Maaya Sakamoto voiced Haruhi Fujioka, and Mamoru Miyano voiced Tamaki Suoh.

In North America, the series was released by Funimation Entertainment. The first DVD set with the first 13 episodes came out in October 2008. The second set with the remaining episodes was released in January 2009. The show also started airing on North American TV in April 2009. Today, you can stream the series on services like Crunchyroll.

Music and Audio

The Ouran High School Host Club series also has music and audio recordings. Three drama CDs were released in 2003. These are like audio plays where you can hear the characters' voices and the story.

For the anime TV show, three soundtracks were released. Soundtracks are albums with music from the show. The first soundtrack, Ouran High School Host Club Soundtrack & Character Song Collection (Part 1), came out in July 2006. It had 20 songs, including the anime's opening theme song. The second soundtrack was released in August 2006 with 19 more songs. A special edition soundtrack was released in September 2007, featuring popular songs from the previous albums and some new ones.

Video Game

A visual novel video game based on Ouran High School Host Club was released for the PlayStation 2 console in April 2007. In a visual novel game, you read a story and make choices that affect what happens next. As the player, you control Haruhi and your decisions change how the other Host Club members feel about her.

The game introduced some new characters designed by the original manga creator. These included Jean-Pierre Léo, a French friend of Tamaki, and Sayuri Himemiya, a childhood friend of Haruhi. This game was only released in Japan. A newer version of the game was released for the Nintendo DS in March 2009. This updated version had full voice acting for the characters and new story parts for each character.

Live-Action TV Show and Movie

The Ouran High School Host Club story was also made into a live-action TV series. This means real actors played the characters. The TV show started airing in Japan in July 2011 on TBS. Yusuke Yamamoto played Tamaki Suou, and Haruna Kawaguchi played Haruhi Fujioka.

After the TV series, a live-action movie was announced in August 2011. The movie continued the story from where the TV series ended. All the actors from the TV show came back to play their roles in the movie. The film was released in theaters in March 2012 and later became available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in October 2012.

There was also a short spin-off series called Ouran High School Host Club: Haruhi no Happy Birthday Daisakusen. It featured the same actors and was released in January 2012 as a mobile drama. This short series told a new story written by the manga's author. It was about the Host Club members trying to plan a surprise birthday party for Haruhi, which leads to some funny misunderstandings. Each episode was about five minutes long, and there were four episodes in total.

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In Spanish: Ouran High School Host Club para niños