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| - Ouran High School Host Club is a manga and anime series written by Bisco Hatori. The plot centers around a group of students attending Ouran High School which is a prestigious academy, and generally attended by students from wealthy aristocratic families. Much of the series takes place within a Ouran High School host club that is a student operated club where beautiful, charismatic male students entertain female students. The series does not portray characters in stereotypical fantasies that is often found in other Japanese manga. The club was created and presided by Tamaki Suoh, the son of the school's chairman. Such hand-picked most of the club's members for different qualities which he thought would create a rounded aesthetic and personality base for the club's purpose. The exception is Haruhi Fujioka who is a new student that stumbled across the club room while finding a quiet study area. After accidentally breaking a very expensive vase, she is indebted to the club, and was forced to join and work as a host in order to pay off this debt. Each club member plays a specific role: Mori being the strong silent type; Honey the boy lolita type; Kyoya the cool type; Hikaru and Kaoru the little devil type; Tamaki the princely type; and Haruhi as the natural type. In addition to the club members, the club also consists of many customers and associates, as well as various family members, schoolmates, rivals and other characters that come and go. The Ouran High School Host Club characters have been praised as comedic creations that play off bishōnen stereotypes that are also well-rounded. The romanization in the English-language editions of the manga published by VIZ Media and Chuang Yi, and the anime from Funimation differ from the English romanization used on Nippon Television's Japanese-language website.
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