I have waited a very long time for a show like this to come around. One that took just about every cliché from just about ever poncy, prancy, self-important high school drama ever made, and then urinated all over them for all the world to see. For starters it is set in an unimaginably rich and exclusive school, where as it states that entrance is based on:- 1) Great wealth 2) Great families. That somehow a poor student from a humble background is, well, only to be expected then. So far, so normal. But everything, especially, the animation shows you that something is amiss here. What we in fact have is a kind of dig at the upper classes and their infactuation with the lower classes that Oscar Wilde or P.G. Woodhouse would have understood. Tamaki (the most predominant of the rich students) could almost be described as coming from a very English line of clueless, yet lovable young aristocrats. The sort whose great monies have usually hid his many clear failings, yet is really what you would have once described as 'a decent sort'. I.e. he means well, and ultimately that enough sees him through whatever difficulty he may have got himself into this time. Not for a second does this show truly take itself seriously, yet, through that do you really get to understand and get to love all the characters on show. I could go on for hours about each of them and what makes them so good, but my advice is watch it for yourself and enjoy what you've been missing.
Review of Ouran High School Host Club
