Ouran High School Host Club
| Ouran High School Host Club | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Haruhi Fujioka (left) and Tamaki Suoh (right) | |
| 桜蘭高校ホスト部 (Ōran Kōkō Hosuto Kurabu) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Bisco Hatori |
| Published by | Hakusensha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | LaLa |
| Original run | September 2002 – November 2010 |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takuya Igarashi |
| Produced by | Toshio Nakatani Manabu Tamura Masahiko Minami Masahiro Yamashita |
| Written by | Yōji Enokido |
| Music by | Yoshihisa Hirano |
| Studio | Bones |
| Licensed by | Crunchyroll
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| Original network | Nippon TV |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 5, 2006 – September 26, 2006 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Television drama | |
| Produced by | Choru Han Yasuhito Tachibana |
| Written by | Ikeda Natsuko |
| Music by | Kyo Nakanishi |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original run | July 22, 2011 – September 30, 2011 |
| Episodes | 11 |
| Live-action film | |
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Ouran High School Host Club (Japanese: 桜蘭高校ホスト部, Hepburn: Ōran Kōkō Hosuto Kurabu) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Bisco Hatori. It was serialized in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine from September 2002 to November 2010. The series follows Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at Ouran Academy, and the other members of the school's popular host club. The story focuses on the relationships within and outside the Club.
The manga was adapted into an animated television series directed by Takuya Igarashi and produced by Bones, which ran from April to September 2006. Other media based on the series includes a series of audio dramas, a Japanese television drama series, a 2012 live-action film adaptation, and a visual novel by Idea Factory. Three musical adaptations were staged in Japan from 2022 to 2023.
Ouran High School Host Club has been generally well-received, with its comedy and parody of otaku culture being particularly commended. Its depiction of LGBTQ characters has seen both praise and criticism. The manga was a commercial success, with over 13 million copies in circulation by December 2011.