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-->''The Ouran Host Club will be waiting for you.''
-->-- '''Tamaki'''

Ouran Academy is an ElaborateUniversityHigh catering to the ultra, ultra-rich. Haruhi Fujioka is a middle class scholarship student, a rarity at the school. One day, Haruhi searches for a quiet place to study, and stumbles on an unused music room which turns out to be the club room for the school "Host Club" -- [[BetterThanItSounds a group of idle rich boys who service female clients]] as a sort of BleachedUnderpants version of actual host clubs.

Haruhi is forced to join the Host Club and become a host after accidentally knocking over an extremely expensive vase that's far beyond what a middle class student can repay. Haruhi proves to be a natural at being a host, but something isn't quite as it seems...

''Ouran High School Host Club'', based on the {{shojo}} manga that became Bisco Hatori's breakout hit, emphatically plays with the clichés and character types inherent in the medium. It hardly ever takes itself seriously, but at times emotions can run quite high, making for [[MoodWhiplash some touching moments among all the silliness]]. The manga version is currently ongoing and licensed as part of Viz Media's "Shojo Beat" collection, and the anime was made available in North America by [=FUNimation=] in October of 2008 (you can watch it for free [[http://www.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=67 on the video section of their website]]). Both are well worth your attention, even if you're not part of the series' [[PeripheryDemographic normal demographic]].

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!!Provides examples of:

* AccidentalKiss: Set up deliberately by Kyoya in the first volume of the manga, as well as the second episode of the anime.
**[[spoiler: In chapter 72 between Haruhi and Tamaki. You could practically hear the {{Squee}}s of many a fangirl when that happened.]]
* AffectionateParody, chiefly of romance and high school clichés.
* AgainstTheSettingSun: Tamaki carrying Haruhi out of the sea.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Parodied in the episode introducing Renge, who thinks that the club members need moar (sic) angst. She tries to recast Hikaru and Kaoru as basketball players torn between brotherly love and the love of the game, Honey as an EnfanteTerrible with Mori as his right-hand man, and Tamaki as a lonesome, stoic WhitePrince.
* AnimeAccentAbsence: Eclair and Renge can speak fluent Japanese, despite there being little to no indication that they had been required to learn it. [[spoiler:Same goes for Tamaki, as he moved to Japan when he was fourteen, but he at least [[ButNotTooForeign has a bit of an excuse...]]]]
** Renge's fluency in Japanese is justified in that she's an otaku so she most likely learned the language by herself. And Tamaki's father is Japanese and he's shown to be a fan of Japanese culture (chances are his mother speaks Japanese as well).
* AscendedExtra: Renge's appearances as an AsYouKnow MetaGuy fangirl are much more frequent in the show.
* AscendedFanboy: She may have gotten some details wrong, but Renge really does end up in a love comedy anime, just like she wanted. She's not the main character, but still enjoying herself.
* BadBadActing: Haruhi really cannot act. The problem is, her English-dubbed voice actress ''can''; however, that's remedied when a scene comes in which Haruhi ''does'' have to act.
* BananaPeel: Littered all over in the anime (never in the manga) for comedic purpose.
* BeachEpisode: Indoors. ''Ultra'' rich.
** The following episode has them going to a real beach, per Haruhi's disinterest for indoor beaches.
* BerserkButton: Don't even think about making an attempt on Haruhi or Mori's life or otherwise harming them or Hunny's Usa-chan, or Hunny will tear you a new one. Guaranteed.
** It's one thing to [[SheCleansUpNicely dress Haruhi up cutely]], but hit on her when an overprotective Tamaki's watching, and God have mercy on your soul.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't make Honey mad. No, seriously, '''[[PersonOfMassDestruction don't]]'''.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Haruhi was a mild enough take to be unironically the most popular of the characters amongst the fandom. [[RoseOfVersailles Benibara]] of Lobelia's Zuka club is a straighter (cough) and over-the-top parody, to the point the author [[LampshadeHanging jokingly apologized to fans]] who liked her.
* BigFancyHouse: Several, most including TheThingThatGoesDoink.
* BigNo: Haruhi has one of these when the club members decide to stay at the pension she's working at during summer break in episode 15.
* BishieSparkle: Used liberally in the manga. And occasionally in the anime, too.
* {{Bishonen}}: The narration at the beginning of each anime episode actually uses the word.
* BlackCloak: Nekozawa, with SpeechBubbles to match in the manga.
* BlandNameProduct: Hescafé instant coffee, Mational light bulbs, Pineapple computers...
** However when we get a glimpse of Kyouya's desktop he is not only using an undisguised Mac OS, we can also clearly see icons for Skype, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.
* BlankWhiteEyes
* BlueBishonenGhetto
* BreakingTheFourthWall: occurs quite a bit in the anime.
* ButNotTooForeign: Tamaki is half-Japanese and half-French; Perhaps to [[HairColors make this more obvious]], the anime changes his hair from brown to blonde.
* ButtMonkey: Tamaki manages to be this and the male romantic lead at the same time.
* CerebusSyndrome: The manga starts to delve into dramatic territory around the fifth or sixth volume, but tries not to sacrifice the funny.
* CharacterExaggeration
* ChekhovsGun: Parodied. A large, blinking arrow highlights plot devices until they see action.
* TheChessmaster: Kyoya.
** more like Magnificent Bastard
* ChickMagnet: Haruhi, oddly enough.
* ClubPresident: Tamaki.
* ColorFailure: Usually Tamaki, but most of the characters have had one of these moments.
* CombatCommentator: Renge, of course.
* ComicBookTime: "Lovely protagonists like us are never subject to time~! (author note: there will be no moving up in grades)"
**Messed with in Chapter 71 by [[spoiler:Hunny, Mori and Nekozawa all lament their impending graduation in their own way, to the shock of the GenreSavvy Haruhi.]]
* CornerOfWoe: Often done by Tamaki.
* {{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 that kind of things".
** And this moment during the first episode's commentary. This did eventually happen during a certain concert at Ohayocon 2009.
-->'''CaitlinGlass''': You're such a cosplay king!
-->'''VicMignogna''': [laughs] What?
-->'''Caitlin''': You're just like Tamaki; "Let's dress up Caitlin!"
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Renge, who at one point is said to have created a hugely popular doujinshi about the hosts.
* {{Creepy Twins}}: 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.
* CrossDresser: Played with until its stitching ruptured. It's played straight with Ranka and Haruhi, subverted with Benibara, parodied/played for laughs with the host boys (consider that they are thoroughly bishounen and would have no trouble looking like girls in the average anime) and Kasanoda, and (shockingly) played somewhat ''seriously'' when Ranka appears without having shaved or made himself up. Oh, and lampshaded when the girls of Ouran talk about how much they'd love to see [[RecursiveCrossdressing "Haruhi-kun" in girls' clothing]]. Way too much fun.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The climax of the final episode.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Don't deny how cool the ending song is for a shoujo.
* CuteBruiser: Honey [[IKnowKungFu knows kung fu]], and as mentioned earlier will kick your ass if you mess with him, Mori, or Haruhi.
** Mori can take care of himself.
* CuteShotaroBoy: Honey, Shiro, and Chika, to some degree.
* DancesAndBalls
* DarkerAndEdgier: Renge's interesting film project which screams of "NEEDS MORE ANGST!"
* DatingSim, parodied.
* TheDaria: Haruhi. "You rich bastards..."
* DarkestHour: The current manga chapters, starting with chapter 73.
* DeadpanSnarker: Some of Haruhi's funniest moments involve violently disillusioning Tamaki.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Honey.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Tamaki seems to have misunderstood just *how* a host club *really* entertains...leading to many a shocked reaction when he tells them about the school's Host Club. Not to mention his understanding of how "commoners" live is a bit mixed.
** Actually...aside from the lack of commission champagne, Tamaki seems to have a good grasp on what exactly a ''true'' host club does. However, this troper does fear for his safety if he attempts to pursue it professionally...[[{{Too Dumb To Live}} the boy is just a bit naive]]...
* DieForOurShip: Eclair, in the anime.
* DoubleStandard: Fandom loves the Host Club guys for their antics, but hates the Zuka Club girls for essentially the same antics. This is especially jarring in case of the anime where the Zuka Club is depicted as a GenderFlip of the Host Club (especially Benio who is pretty much a female Tamaki).
** The Zuka club earned some of the fandom's dislike of them. Their general arrogance and constant assertions of superiority based almost solely on gender have a lot to do with it.
** The problem with the Zuka club isn't that they're women. The problem is that they're stereotypical [[StrawFeminist man-hating]] PsychoLesbian stereotypes. If they had just been flamboyant parodies of Marimite without the UnfortunateImplications, this troper would've loved them.
** In the beach episode, Haruhi steps in when [[spoiler:two thugs easily overpower three client girls in bikinis. She gets thrown off a cliff just before help arrived, alerted by a girl who broke away. While Haruhi could have alerted the others herself, the thugs (obviously lacking any restraint) would have gone further in the meantime]]. For getting herself in danger, she gets scolded by Tamaki, who in the preceding scene was idiotic enough to collect poisonous snakes in an attempt to scare her.
** Though to be fair, the scolding was mostly for [[spoiler:thinking she, a petite girl, could fend off two large thugs. The boys use this to teach Haruhi a lesson in common sense: it's okay to be brave against bugs and snakes, but some things are simply too dangerous for young girls to do alone.]]
** That and Tamaki was searching for harmless non-venomous Rat snakes and instead accidentally picked up deadly venomous Habu snakes instead. So while Haruhi was deliberately taking a risk Tamaki was just being dumb.
* 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.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Tamaki, somewhat. For the guy he is, he doesn't it emphasize it much.
* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: Hunny never EVER goes anywhere without his dear Usa-chan, so he is also featured in every episode.
* {{Expy}}: Honey shares a strong similarity to Momiji from ''FruitsBasket''. Whether or not this is an intentional parody, the anime even gives Honey his seiyuu.
** I believe that they are indeed the same person.
** Tamaki bears a striking resemblance to the comically chivalrous Nokoru from CLAMPSchoolDetectives.
** And don't pretend you didn't think of [[HarryPotter Fred and George]] when you first saw the twins.
* 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.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Tamaki and the girl he's chasing.
** He doesn't "chase" the girls.
*** Getting Haruhi to be feminine then?
* FanNickname: "Haruhi Potter".
* {{Fanservice}}: Lampshaded due to the fact that the entire point of the Host Club is to provide it.
* FauxYay: In ''spades'', and often with hilarious results.
* FearLeadsToAnger: Tamaki
* FearOfThunder: Haruhi
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Just try describing the series to someone without giving away the fact that Haruhi is a girl.
** Hey, in many languages (including Japanese) it's perfectly possible.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Tamaki
** TheLancer: Kyouya
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guys]]: Hikaru and Kaoru
** TheBigOne: Mori and Honey
** TheChick/ TheSixthRanger: Haruhi
* FlowerMotifs: Every member of the host club have a different colored rose that represents them. Naturally, the show uses this for all sorts of symbolism.
* TheGadfly: The twins towards Tamaki and Haruhi. They don't really feel close enough to most others to do this with them.
* GeniusDitz: Tamaki. Despite being an IdiotHero, he's usually second in test rankings.
* GenreSavvy: All of the main characters.
* GentleGiant: Mori, and Kasanoda.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: the first step to Haruhi's transformation into a pretty "boy" is losing her huge, clunky glasses.
* HaremNanny: Kyoya
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Hunny and Mori.
* HexagonalSpeechBalloon
* 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.
** In the drama CDs, [[SailorMoon Sailor Mercury]] was Haruhi. There's also a sly TakeThat to Gundam pilots being Bishounen. [[GundamWing Heero Yuy is Tamaki]], [[GundamSeed Kira Yamato is Hikaru]], [[GundamSeedDestiny Shinn Asuka is Kaoru, and Sting Oakley is Kyouya.]]. Oh, and Pikachu is Honey.
** In the Japanese anime, Tamaki is [[DeathNote Light Yagami]]. What's also funny is that Haruhi is also Kiyomi Takada...
** ... ''and'' Kyoya is Teru Mikami.
* HilariousOuttakes
* HotShoujoDad: Haruhi's father, and even more so, Tamaki's father.
* HotShounenMom: Hikaru's and Kaoru's mother falls into this category, as did Haruhi's. In the manga, [[spoiler: Tamaki's mother...]] just, ''wow''. No wonder [[spoiler:Tamaki's dad went after her.]]
* HoYay: Hikaru and Kaoru, Mori and Honey. Kyouya and Tamaki are not without subtext as well (being "mommy" and "daddy," and so on...)
** Also what the girls think they're seeing when Kasanoda, who joined the club as a customer, picks Haruhi to be his favorite.
*** Speaking of Kasanoda, there's definitely something between him and his servant Tetsuya, at least on Tetsuya's side.
** Haruhi herself has more then enough LesYay.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Kyoya, again to Tamaki.
* IdiotHero: Tamaki
* 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. After Haruhi faces off against, and gets beat by two thugs on the beach, Tamaki asks Haruhi why she endangered herself so recklessly, and whether she's secretly a kung-fu master like Honey.
* ImagineSpot: Tamaki most frequently, but it happens to other such as Kasanoda from time to time.
* ItIsAlwaysSpring: Humorously subverted in that it is always whatever season is most convenient for the plot at hand, especially in episodes entirely indoors. The original creator admits to abandoning a hard timeline in the few chapters of the comic book.
* ItWasHisSled: Haruhi is a girl.
* IWantToBeARealMan: Honey tried this for a while. It didn't work.
* {{Keet}}: Tamaki and Honey.
* {{Kimodameshi}}: A kimodameshi ''tournament''.
* {{Lampshade Hanging}}: "Don't you think this is overly dramatic for a toothache?"
** It's safe to say that at least the anime has this in spades - Haruhi is the worst offender.
* LargeHam: Tamaki (especially in the manga).
* LovingAShadow: Renge initially has a crush on Kyoya because he resembles a character from a {{Dating Sim}}.
* MeasuringDay
* {{Meganekko}}: Haruhi, though she's only seen wearing glasses for the first half of chapter 1, and even then she looked uncannily like a boy.
* MemeticOutfit: Haruhi's first appearance is a wee bit...unflattering.
* {{Medium Awareness}}: The anime producers must have really wanted you to know what it is [[ViewersAreMorons just in case you forget it isn't]] [[LampshadeHanging real]].
* MissingMom: Haruhi's (dead) and Tamaki's (in France, his EvilMatriarch grandmother doesn't let him contact her)
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: [[strike:Casanova]] [[strike:Bossa Nova]] Kasanoda.
* {{Nakama}}: Tamaki sees the Host Club as a family, to the point of assigning everyone roles within it...with Haruhi as his ''daughter''.
* NamesTheSame: Fujioka is one of two characters (the other a [[{{Happiness}} Magical Girl in training]]) who have the [[strike:misfortune]] honor of sharing their first names with [[SuzumiyaHaruhi GOD]].
* NameThatTune: The opening theme is used in a few places throughout the series.
** The show's ending theme also makes an appearance, as the ringtone Hikaru uses to I.D. when Tamaki is calling.
*** The ending theme can also be heard in Hikaru's headset. ...he REALLY likes that song!
* NoblewomansLaugh: Renge Houshakuji has what may be the cutest evil laugh ever.
** In the Japanese version? That laugh absolutely ''terrifies'' this troper.
** You got flashbacks to Kodachi and Naga as well? Yeah, utterly terrifying.
* NoseBleed: In the manga Tamaki gets one of these when he sees Haruhi in a dress during their visit to the beach. Haruhi points it out. Tamaki, being the IdiotHero, thinks he just bumped his nose and Honey's "first aid" only makes it worse.
* NotAMorningPerson: Kyouya, to the point that the rest of the host club is scared of him in the mornings.
** Also [[spoiler: Honey. The rumor goes that his family was once in a military complex, and a soldier carelessly woke Honey up, and BLEW THE PLACE UP, leaving only a bunny-shaped mushroom cloud, killing two entire Green Beret batallions. Needless to say, this is Tamaki's version of the story.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: Parodied, subverted and deconstructed with Kasanoda. He has the FaceOfAThug, is the successor of a large Yakuza group (and trained to be thus), dresses like a {{Delinquent}} and easily aggravated, especially by his appearance and its effect on others. Because of this, he suffers from social isolation despite the fact that he's really a NiceGuy underneath is all.
* OccidentalOtaku: Renge.
* OcularGushers: Tamaki, Kaoru and Hikaru in response to Haruhi ("Cuuuuuute!!!"). Its more frequent in the manga.
* OldRetainer: Mori to Honey - the group even envision them in appropriate period-costumes when explaining the Morinozuka/Haninozuka family relationship. Tetsuya also comes close to filling this role for Kasanoda; though he's only been with him for a few years, he certainly plays the part.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:I bet the first time you saw Honey, you didn't think he was the oldest in the club.]]
* OneHeadTaller: Tamaki is often depicted as way, ''way'' taller than Haruhi in the manga.
* OnlySaneMan: When a crossdressing female is considered the "normal one" in your club, that's ''really'' saying something.
* OrbitalShot: During Renge's first major confrontation with the male club.
* {{Otaku}}: Renge, of {{Dating Sim}}s.
* PeripheryDemographic: There are a surprising amount of male fans. The fact that it [[AffectionateParody pokes fun at]] a genre that males might find a little ridiculous is a key factor. And although the guys don't swoon over most of the Host Club members, Haruhi is [[{{Moe}} so cute!]] Plus it's [[RuleOfFunny just plain funny]].
* PerkyGoth: Nekozawa and, in the manga, the rest of the Black Magic Club.
* PersonalityBloodTypes
* {{Pettanko}}: Haruhi, again. Of course, it certainly helps her masquerade.
* PlayboyBunny: Haruhi subverts this in a bonus chapter of the manga and episode 12 of the anime by being stuffed into an ''Easter'' Bunny outfit by the rest of the hosts in desperation for fear that Honey would discover Usa-chan to have been stained upon waking up (which he does, actually, but Mori covers for the hosts).
** Though until that accident happened, the twins were thinking of what Haruhi would look like in one...
*** Guess the hosts decided against the {{Playboy}} Bunny outfit because the Easter Bunny outfit looked more similar to Honey's Usa-chan.
* PoisonousFriend: Kyoya, to Tamaki, see episode 14.
* PrincessCurls: Hikaru and Kaoru wear their hair this way when they crossdress for one of Tamaki's schemes.
* PuppyDogEyes
* TheQuietOne: Mori.
* RedOniBlueOni: They aren't quite colour coded, but Tamaki and Kyouya seem to embody this trope rather well (cool-headed, intellectual {{Chessmaster}} vs. exhuberant, people-focused WhitePrince).
** Also, Honey-senpai and his younger brother Chiki-kun are {{Colour Coded For Your Convenience}} with this in mind in one episode.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: VicMignogna and CaitlinGlass as Tamaki and Haruhi. While we are reminded of ''FullmetalAlchemist'', this just boosts the squee factor for the dub.
** In the Japanese version, we have [[FinalFantasyVII Zack and Aerith]] as Hikaru and Haruhi.
** Also, [[DeathNote Tamaki is Light, Kyouya is Mikami Teru and Haruhi is the older Takada Kiyomi.]]
* {{Rival}}: The twins often suggest a "game" to Tamaki at the least opportune moment (using secret agent code titles) usually to either save the club or impress Haruhi, and Tamaki even pits his own host members as rivals.
** The Host Club has their share of actual rivals, such as the school newspaper club and the Zuka Club.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Kyoya.
* ScholarshipStudent: Haruhi, of course
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Everyone in the Zuka Club, the rivals to the Ouran host club.
* 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.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Tamaki thinks of Haruhi as a daughter! Really!
** This is lampshaded in the anime. Kaoru comes up with a beautiful metaphor that would explain why Tamaki refuses to admit his romantic attraction to Haruhi and struggles to keep up the family charade. Like most characters who create complex motivations for Tamaki's actions, it's derailed by the fact Tamaki really ''is'' an [[IdiotHero idiot]].
*** It is true that Tamaki's broken family is the reason he tries to keep the Host Club together even at the expense of his own feelings for Haruhi. He's still an idiot though, since it takes several characters to point this out before he realizes it himself.
* {{Sentai}}: In one episode, Renge is seen hosting a live Sentai show, apparently created by her, which features characters ("Hosuto Burakku"/"Host Black") based on the host club members.
* SeriousBusiness: Benibara fan club, Combat Wing.
* SamusIsAGirl: Haruhi, if you watch the first episode [[ItWasHisSled unspoiled]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Haruhi is dolled up and used as bait to lure Kanako and Toru back together in episode 2. Add makeup and a long, straight black wig, and nobody except the hosts were able to recognize her (though Haruhi had to convince Toru at one point that they've never met).
* ShirtlessScene: Played straight most of the time, but played with when the twins gave out a picture of a topless Haruhi for money- it turns out, her head was Photoshopped on.
* ShoutOut: Of {{Rahxephon}}, of all things.
** And FullmetalAlchemist, in form of a ball looking like SD Ed's head.
* SingleMindedTwins: The twins, who zigzag this trope depending on the situation. It's usually subverted whenever the camera focuses on them and played straight for comedic segments and during other character's focuses.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: Happens in Haruhi's dream, when she [[spoiler:runs toward her mother]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Haninozuka Mitsukuni's nickname, Hunny (Hani? Huni? Honey?) seems to be spelled differently depending on what fansub you're watching (or on which Troper is editing the page). The Viz translation uses Hunny, which seems to be the official spelling.
** Also Kyouya/Kyoya. And let's not get started on his last name. Or Tamaki's.
* {{Squee}}: Well, it's more of a "Kyaaaaaa~!", really.
* StrawFeminist: The Zuka Club is an entire club dedicated to straw feminism.
* StoicSpectacles: Kyouya.
** Also KichikuMegane, though he's fairly mellow.
* SuckMyRose: Tamaki has a habit of doing this.
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Kasanoda.
* {{Takarazuka}}: The Zuka club, as stated above.
* TakeMyHand
* TasteTheRainbow: It's not ''too'' vast, but the series does deliberately point out its "menu" of hot boy archetypes. That's the central concept of the club, after all.
* TeamDad - Tamaki (self-proclaimed), Kyoya (actual)
* TeamMom - Kyoya (dubbed so by Tamaki), Tamaki (actual)
* TeamPet - Honey, and to some extent Haruhi as well.
* ThunderingHerd
* TwelfthNightAdventure
* TwinBanter
* {{Twincest}}: Hikaru and Kaoru's schtick.
* TwinSwitch: And the "Which one is Hikaru-kun Gaaame!!"
* [[OneMarioLimit Two Haruhi Limit]]: Fujioka won the competition to be The Other Haruhi, beating out [[{{Happiness}} Kamisaka]].
* UnclePennybags: All main characters, really (except for Haruhi).
* UnwantedHarem: And Haruhi's at the center of it. Tamaki, predictably, reframes it as a heartful love comedy with himself as [[FirstGirlWins the actual lead]] along with a bunch of "[[PrettyFreeloaders homo side characters]]".
* ValuesDissonance: Haruhi [[spoiler: almost gets assaulted in chapter 9]] to make her realize that it's good to have some common sense every now and then. [[spoiler: "You may not care about genders but men ''are'' physically stronger than women, and you're a woman, a slender girl at that, so unless you know martial arts don't pick fights with guys twice your size right next to the ocean, especially if you ''can't swim.''" Haruhi didn't have to take on the two delinquents alone, the host club guys and Kyouya's security guards were in calling distance.]]
* WardingGestures
* TheWhitePrince: Tamaki, obviously, but the twins also embody part of this trope.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Done in a very clever and stylish way.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Several, including Haruhi ''and'' her father.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. "Princess" Ayanakouji fakes getting attacked by Haruhi, but Tamaki sees through it and bans her from visiting the club.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Tamaki thinks that it's a romantic anime in the third episode, so he and Haruhi are the hero and heroine and the rest of the boys are the "homosexual side cast."
* {{Yakuza}}: Kasanoda prominently; It's implied a few times Ouran students lower on the social rank are there simply due to their family's influence.
* YaoiFangirl: Renge, and many patrons to the club, especially the Twins' customers!
** Especially, when Kassanad was in love with Haruhi!
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