List of Ouran High School Host Club characters
After accidentally knocking over a priceless Renaissance vase that's worth far more than Haruhi can possibly repay (¥8 million), she is forced to join the Host Club as an "errand boy" to work off her debt.
Through ongoing shared life events, which include dissolution of the club due to the Suoh matriarch's orders, Tamaki's reunion with his mother, and Haruhi going to the U.S. to study, the two become a couple.
He is a hāfu (half-blooded Japanese), living under the custody of his father, the wealthy chairman of Ouran Academy, and is separated from his ailing French mother because of a deal with Shizue, his cold-hearted paternal grandmother.
At the end of the anime, the club is threatened to be shut down by Kyoya's father and Tamaki is blackmailed into marrying a snobby French girl, Éclair Tonnerre, in exchange for seeing his mother again.
Yet, despite his occasionally antagonistic traits, such as his subtle threats, withholding information, and elegant revenge schemes for petty slights, the Host Club would not have been successful without Kyoya's resourcefulness and marketing.
According to the author, if she had allotted forty pages for the first chapter of the manga instead of fifty, she would have cut Kyoya from the cast, but is glad this did not happen as "since the rest of the members are the way they are, he is invaluable for maintaining order and offering explanations.
[citation needed] Voiced by: Ayaka Saitō (anime and later drama CDs),[3] Ikue Ōtani (early drama CDs), Luci Christian (English)[4] Portrayed by: Yudai Chiba, Eito Konishi (first musical),[5] Ginga Shitara (second and third musical)[16][6] Takashi Morinozuka (銛之塚 崇, Morinozuka Takashi), usually called Mori (モリ), is a third year student at Ouran Academy.
Voiced by: Daisuke Kirii (Japanese anime and later drama CDs),[3] Kenjirō Tsuda (early drama CDs), Travis Willingham (English)[4] Portrayed by: Masaya Nakamura, Shō Katō (first musical),[5] Shogo Tazuru (second and third musical)[16][6] Renge Houshakuji (宝積寺 れんげ, Hōshakuji Renge) is the Host Club's self-proclaimed manager who tends to be incredibly loud and outspoken.
As such, Renge proves her worth on several occasions with her ability to predict what will win the most significant approval of the Host Club's customers based on her extensive knowledge on subjects connected to the concept of moe.
[citation needed] Her comment probably led to Renge's numerous anime appearances in situations that initially included Tamaki in the manga, like the coaching of Shiro and Nekozawa.
In the July 2011 special chapter, she is seen as a first-year business student at Ouran University, speculating on Mei's and Kasanoda's possible romantic relationship in dramatic terms.
Since Kyoya tells Kasanoda that Haruhi must appear to be male for "special reasons," he resolves to not cause her any trouble by publicly stating they will be "friends" forever so she will not have to worry about being thought odd by associating romantically with him.
They eventually become friends, despite his being initially intimidated by her audacity and argumentative nature (he comments that she seems more like a yakuza than he does, at least in her use of profanity), what he sees as her excessive amounts of makeup, and her style of dressing.
She even encourages him at one point to make a move on Haruhi (whom she knows he still has a crush on) while Tamaki is in the United States by showing her his carpentry skills; her reason for doing so is that she feels that he should learn to be confident in himself and what he does.
It is implied that it takes a few years for them to finally date, since their entry-level occupations (Mei is a rookie designer, Kasanoda, a florist), rather than their student statuses listed in volume 18 extra about their futures.
In the live-action TV adaptation, instead of running away dishonorably after her plan is discovered, Ayanokoji is touched by Haruhi's decision to forgive her enough to donate food for the Host Club.
In the anime, she is the first person Haruhi ever kisses, by accident, during a ball organized by the Host Club where they executed Tamaki's plan to bring Kanako and Tohru together.
He is a painfully honest person, first pointing out that one of Tamaki's clients looks like a carp (her lips are thick), next stating that the twins are incestuous, and finally that Haruhi is a cross-dresser.
Portrayed by: Aoi Nakabeppu Michelle (ミシェル, Misheru), the princess of a fictional European country of Monaru, gives an official visit to Ouran Academy in place of her older brother, Laurence.
In the live-action TV adaptation, Reiko's portrayal is a composite of her original role in the manga and Nekozawa's family maid, who personally cares for Umehito's little sister, Kirimi.
In one of the later extra chapters of the manga, it is shown that Ryōji was very protective of his wife before they started dating, to the point that he quit his job at that time to make sure she was always safe, and he found her to be a very "cool" person.
In later chapters, it is shown that she was popular at law school and, in a later omake, that while she found Ryoji to be strange and annoying, she liked him from the first moment they met as she saw him cute, a trait to which she was vulnerable.
Yuzuru shares some of his son's characteristics, including a strange way of thinking, playfulness, a penchant for concocting bizarre plans that work, and a tendency to sit in a corner whenever he is kicked out or made fun of.
After her son manages to reunite with his mother after years, Yuzuru meets with Shizue at the Suoh mansion at the end of the series, the two beginning to mend their broken relationship.
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue[3] (Japanese); John Swasey (English) Portrayed by: Takeshi Masu Anne-Sophie de Grantaine (アンヌ＝ソフィー・ド・グランテーヌ, Anne-Sofī do Gurantēnu) is Tamaki's mother.
Falling into depression, Tamaki helps her regain her spirit by playing the piano for her, leading to the discovery that they have a lot in common, such as the same interests in movies and TV series.
During one of his visits to the Host Club, the twins add Tabasco sauce to Satoshi's tea, which he declares is delicious, leaving other characters to doubt that he has any taste buds.
As with the rest of the Nekozawa, Kirimi is descended from the Tokarev dynasty line in Russia, but unlike her brother, she does not inherit their family curse, that is, extreme sensitivity to light.
Voiced by: Kazuki Taketani (Japanese); Jerry Jewell (English) Portrayed by: Ryutarou Akimoto Yuuko Kousaka (高坂 由布子, Kōsaka Yūko) is the lawyer of the Suoh family.
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura[3] (Japanese); Colleen Clinkenbeard (English) IGN praised the Host Club characters for being well-animated in the show, as they are made simpler without losing the details.
