It's like a combination of Boys Over Flowers and Hana-Kimi. The premise is totally dumb - at an exclusive school for rich kids, the six richest students have formed a host club for the wealthy, bored daughters of aristocrats and CEOs. One day Haruhi accidentally enters the library they use for 'hosting,' upsets an antique vase and ends up working for these spoiled rich kids. Totally silly, but I'm enjoying it. ( )

When scholarship student Haruhi steps into the supposedly unused music room, hoping to get some studying done, she discovers the Ouran High School Host Club. The club entertains female students with teas, parties, conversation, and lots of drama. They also happen to think that Haruhi is a boy and, when she accidentally break an $80,000 vase, they demand that she repay them by working for the club.

I liked this manga, but it took me awhile to get into it. It's goofy, manic, and a little confusing, but I think that as the first volume goes on, the characters get nailed down and are a bit more defined. There's a great moment where a fangirl is "casting" each member of the club in their stereotype. Haruhi isn't quite what I expected... she's tough, capable of holding her own, and sees through a lot of the acts in the club. I'm not all that attached as of yet, but we'll see how I feel about the next volume. ( )

A hilarious manga about a host club where girls can go to be attended to by handsome guys. The fact that this is a s high school club makes it even stranger. Scholarship student Haruhi is drawn into the club after she breaks a ridiculously expensive vase, and needs to pay off the debt by pretending to be male and working in the club. This manga constantly breaks the fourth wall and pokes fun at the usual cliches of shoujo manga, so I would especially recommend it to people who have read a lot of other manga and don't take the genre too seriously. Each character is terribly interesting in their own way, so everyone is sure to find a favorite (Mine is Kyoya, ha.) ( )

"Ouran High School Host Club" supposes you understand the concept, unique to Japan, of host clubs, places where men go to drink and have lovely (hired) women keep them company with witty banter and sexy appeal as they do so. Enter the plot of this manga, wherein 5 bishounen in a very rich school have developed a host club with a reversal - young men entertain young women over tea. The catalyst is a young person who accidentallys stumbles into their midst, the one "poor" student who must earn back the value of a broken vase. The comedy ensues over gender identities, bishounen 'type-casting,' rich vs. poor sensibilities, etc. These are very funny, and touching, stories. ( )

The premise of the story is that Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at a very elite private school. One day Haruhi is looking for a quiet place to sit and read and accidentally stumbles upon the "Host Club". While trying to make a hasty retreat, Haruhi accidentally knocks over a 8 million yen vase. To pay back the debt Haru-chan agrees to a variety of punishments- from being the host club's dog to becoming a host and getting 1,000 customers. The first volume follows the adventures of the host club through a Christmas party, tropical getaway, bullies, and an amateur film. Extras include a bonus chapter about Hunny's bun-bun and a small character gallery with full page illustrations and profiles for each host member.
The characters, while following the general stereotypes (the serious one, the cute one, the wacky one) seem to have a potential for more. The situations and the dialogue between the characters are done very well. I like it when a manga makes me laugh out load, and I did several times reading this.
According to the information in the booklet this is the author's break out manga. You can tell that she still needs some practice on things. Some faces are contorted, which would normally not be so noticeable. However to make the twins exactly alike, many times the images of the twins appear to be one image flipped and facing the other image. When the artwork is flipped you can see some of the mistakes in proportion. Also compared to the later chapters, the first chapter has a large amount of grey-tone and seems much more jumbled. ( )