History Manga / OuranHighSchoolHostClub

* HappilyMarried: Haruhi's parents, Ranka and Kotoko (when she was alive). Although not married, Tamaki's parents appear to have this sort of dynamic despite the situation. Hikaru and Kaoru's parents are also happy together and we're told they eventually have another child, giving the twins the little sister they wanted.
** The author states at the end of the final volume that Honey and Reiko, Tamaki and Haruhi, and Mori and his wife are all happily married in the future.

* BabiesEverAfter: Not shown in either anime or manga, but the author states in the final volume that [[spoiler:Tamaki and Haruhi are the first out of all the Host Club members to have children. Mori was also revealed to get married and have kids.]]

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Haruhi is a girl, given this is revealed at the end of the first manga chapter and first anime episode not all that surprising all the blurbs on the back of the manga volumes and [=DVDs=] tell you straight away.

* MediumAwareness: Just the anime, for RuleOfFunny.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: [[strike:Casanova]] [[strike:Bossa Nova]] Kasanoda.
** [[strike:Creamy]] [[strike:Sashimi]] Kirimi also gets this treatment in the manga.

** This is so bad it could be a StealthParody of this.
*** [[spoiler: Then they got over it.]]

** Well's he kind of right, as it is something of a romantic anime and they are the protagonists, and therefore, are love interests.

* AdaptationDistillation Or, well, minor adaption change. The anime is generally quite loyal to the manga, though things are blown even further out of the water, but a couple of subtle character alterations do stand out - for example, making the twins and Kyoya more sympathetic earlier on and, strangely enough, making Honey less so, as the end of the episode "Chika's Down with Honey Declaration" deliberately inverts the manga chapter's denouncement.

* AmazingFreakingGrace - Tamaki plays this in his first instance on the piano in the live action version.

** Kyoya cares so much about his friends he's not above bitching out Tamaki's father for using Tamaki despite the son's desire to see his mother again.

* CatapultNightmare: The first few pages of chapter 79 involve Haruhi standing in front of [[spoiler: Tamaki blushing, and looking at the ground. She then says "Tamaki-senpai... I'm in love with you." (The {{Squee}} of many a fangirl was heard.) Tamaki looks stunned, but then goes off saying that he's so happy because he's in love with himself, too! He takes this and runs with it. Haruhi looks mortified, but then]] she sits up and we find out it was all just a dream, much to her relief.

** Haruhi has also done this multiple times from the beginning when she broke the vase and found out how much it was worth as well as when she finds out the Host Club followed her to the inn she was working in.

* {{Cosplay}}: As a part of their "job", the Host Club regularly changes their outfits and music room's decorations into various themes (ancient Japan, tropical island etc), maintaining appropriate temperature by air conditioning - which was, loosely citing Tamaki, "invented specially for those kinds of things".

* CreepyTwins: Hikaru and Kaoru. Often eerily reminiscent of (siamese cat pair) Si and Am from LadyAndTheTramp. Also more reminiscent of the twins from The Shining... just watch their childhood/coming-of-age episode! Less so in the manga.

* DownTheRabbitHole: Not only does Haruhi compare the experience of being in the Host Club to being in another world, but the door to the music room heavily symbolizes this in several episodes. There is also an episode that directly parodies ''Alice In Wonderland''. By the end, she says that around here, it's hard to tell when she's asleep or awake.
* DropInCharacter: Renge, although she's more of a rise-out-of-the-floor-on-a-pedestal character.

** Haruhi's hair is a mess when she first appears, which adds to her masculine and poor appearance. The Host Club gives her a hairstyle which makes her look boyishly cute. Flashbacks show she used to wear her hair in a waist-length HimeCut which made her look very feminine indeed. the original cut is later explained away as being a self-inflicted emergency cut after Haruhi got gum in her hair.

* EvilMatriarch: Tamaki's grandmother, who controls all the resources of the Suoh estate. She has forbidden Tamaki from seeing his mother under threat of cutting off the funding his mother needs to combat her illness, and verbally abuses him and his father. [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter She Gets Better]].]]

* FauxHorrific: Tamaki's nightmare about the squalor the Haruhi might be living in.

** CoverArt / TheHero: Tamaki

** TheSmartGuy / TheHero: Kyouya

** TheChick / TheSixthRanger: Haruhi

* TheGlassesGottaGo: the first step to Haruhi's transformation into a pretty "boy" is losing her huge, clunky glasses.

* HeyItsThatGuy: In the live action adaptation, four of the main character will be played by Tokusastu actors:

* HeyItsThatVoice: Going down the list, we have the voices of [[FullmetalAlchemistAnime Winry Rockbell, Edward Elric, Roy Mustang]], [[OnePiece Nami, Eneru, Kohza]], and [[MahouSenseiNegima Negi Springfield]] for our main cast in the dub. As well as [[MahouSenseiNegima Konoka]] as a recurring character and [[{{Shuffle}} Rin]] as a one-episode supporting role.

** Haruhi is also [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]]

* HoYay/ IncestSubtext /Lolicon: Used for laughs in order to gather more customers for the Host Club.

* {{Fiction 500}}: Most of the cast.

* MediumAwareness: Just the anime, perhaps for RuleOfFunny.

* PrincessCurls: Hikaru and Kaoru wear their hair this way when they crossdress for one of Tamaki's schemes.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Not breaking the rules in a game, however. The Host Club is filthy rich, meaning that if RuleOfCool allows something, they will simply pay reason to take a hike. One character owns a beach, for example. An indoor beach.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Haruhi and Tamaki becomes a couple in chapter 80. Cue the fans rejoicing.]]

* OfficialCouple: Tamaki/Haruhi. Revealed in the extra volume 18: [[ShipSinking Honey/Reiko]] and Kasanoda/Mei.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Haruhi and Tamaki becomes a couple in chaper 80, much to the delight of the fans.]]

* [[spoiler:RousseauWasRight: In the end, just like [[FruitsBasket another very popular shoujo manga,]] all strife between the Host Club and other, "antagonistic" characters is not so much due to any one character being greedy, evil or unreasonable, but rather to tragic misunderstanding of each others feelings that is eventually overcome. Even Tamaki's grandmother is eventually played as sympathetic.]]

* BishieSparkle: Used liberally in the manga. And occasionally in the anime, too.

* FearLeadsToAnger: Tamaki

** Hey, Tamaki took {{Naruto}} as an apprentice and [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys he]] turns out to be a better ChickMagnet.
** Kyoya thinks that [[HetaliaAxisPowers America and England]] need to do something about their tacky military clothes as well as their sexual tensions.
** Haruhi is also [[FinalFantasyVII Aerith]] and [[FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]]

* IKnowKungFu: Honey comes out of nowhere and single-handedly beats 20 grown men in SWAT team gear. It turns out he's from a family of martial arts experts. Also lampshaded by Tamaki. Inverted when Haruhi faces off against two thugs at the beach and is promptly tossed off a bluff into the water: Tamaki sarcastically cites this trope while berating her for endangering herself so recklessly.

* CuteBruiser: Honey [[IKnowKungFu knows kung fu]], and as mentioned earlier will kick your ass if you mess with him, Mori, or Haruhi.

* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: Parodied. A large, blinking arrow highlights plot devices until they see action.
* [=~Chekhov's Gunman~=]: [[spoiler:The Zuka Club]] in chapter 82.

* [=~Everything's Better With Bunnies~=]: Honey never EVER goes anywhere without his dear Usa-chan, so he is also featured in every episode.

* [=~Finishing Each Other's Sentences~=]: Hikaru and Kaoru

* [=~Noblewoman's Laugh~=]: Renge Houshakuji has what may be the cutest evil laugh ever.

* [=~Please Don't Leave Me~=]: Chapter 80. Tamaki says something like this to Haruhi while on the way to the airport [[spoiler: to see his mother after three years.]]

* [=~Screw The Rules, I Have Money!~=]: Not breaking the rules in a game, however. The Host Club is filthy rich, meaning that if RuleOfCool allows something, they will simply pay reason to take a hike. One character owns a beach, for example. An indoor beach.

* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=]: Used for laughs a number of times, such as Tamaki's dramatic declaration that he's going to try instant coffee in the first episode.

* BigBrotherWorship: Played straight in the manga with Satoshi morinozuka's adoration of his brother Takashi.

* BabiesEverAfter: Not shown in either anime or manga, but the author states in the final volume that [[spoiler:Tamaki and Haruhi are the first out of all the Host Club members to have children. Mori was also revealed to get married and have kids.
* BackForTheFinale: Some characters from past episodes reappeared in the final anime episode.]]

* BabiesEverAfter: Not shown in either anime or manga, but the author states in the final volume that [[spoiler:Tamaki]] and Haruhi are the first out of all the Host Club members to have children. [[spoiler:Mori]] was also revealed to get married and have kids.
* BackForTheFinale: Some characters from past episodes reappeared in the final anime episode.