"About Ouran High School Host Club"Ouran High School Host Club is created by Japanese author Bisco Hatori centering around a group of high school friends in the same club - the Host Club. The first episode aired on April 5, 2006 and the last episode aired on September 26, 2006; it contained 26 episodes.
Spoiler Warning!! [+/-] Show/Hide Synopsis... Ouran High School Host Club is a story that takes place primarily at Ouran High School, an exclusive institution for students from incredibly wealthy and affluent families. One exception is scholarship student Haruhi Fujioka, a young student from a lower-middle class family. Because of the superlative cost of the school uniform, Haruhi resorts to wearing long slacks, polo shirts and a vest that resembles the male student's uniform with large glasses and tousled short hair. Therefore, upon entering school, Haruhi was assumed to be, by most, a male student.
Because the Ouran High School libraries are filled with gossiping students, Haruhi seeks out the Third Music Room, supposedly unused, as a quiet place to study. But Haruhi finds that this room has been taken over by the Host Club - a group of six attractive male students who spend their time charming and entertaining the school's girls for profit. During their first meeting, Haruhi is shocked at their behavior which causes her to accidentally knock over a very expensive vase valued at ¥8,000,000 ($80,000 in the English manga). This causes Haruhi to contract a massive debt with the Host Club. In order to pay off the large sum, Haruhi is employed as the club's "dog" and is constantly ordered to do menial tasks for the members such as serving food or cleaning up.
Once the club president, Tamaki Suou, sees how attractive Haruhi looks without glasses, Haruhi is promoted to be one of the hosts of the club as a way to pay off the huge debt. One by one, the other club members take notice, until even the club president finally discovers that Haruhi is, in fact, a female, with a self-proclaimed 'low threshold for gender identity'. However, since she has already been accepted by the club's customers and has become one of the main attractions, Haruhi is allowed to continue being a host provided she conceals the fact that she is a female. She is forced to stay until she has accumulated a total of 100 (later, 1000) customers, at which time her debt would be considered paid in full.
Later, Haruhi develops close personal relationships with the members of the host club, managing to capture most of their hearts. In Volume 10 of the manga, Kaoru is the first to openly say that he likes her. But in episode 16 of the anime, Kaoru sets up Hikaru and Haruhi on a date. Hikaru is the first to go out with her.
