A review by anbar
Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1 by Bisco Hatori

3.0

Based on the first volume, I'm not crazy about it, but it's all right and I don't mind trying the next volume or two to see if it gets better. A light comedy of class differences, where a poor scholarship student and a rich kids' academy ends up having to work off a debt for the school's host club (a group of good-looking guys who run a kind of exclusive teahouse/club where female students go to be professionally fussed over and charmed--socially and flirtatiously, not sexually). There's a lot of good-natured, teasing play on the club members' eccentricities and the poor kid becoming kind of like an exotic museum/zoo exhibit of How The Other Half Lives for all the rich students. As of yet there isn't really an overarching major storyline; it feels more episodic, like Seinfeld. I've heard this series has a devoted following, though, so I'll stick with it awhile and see if it develops.