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Ouran High School Host Club Episode 9 Recap — 15 Comments

  1. I believe you won’t enjoy so much the next episodes then. It will focus so much on Hikaru that likes Haruhi – poor Kaoru who likes her too but is ok to let his brother have her and Tamaki will also have a shock, because Hikaru will start to treat him as a rival what will hurt Tamaki’s feelings.

  2. anyone noticed that Nekozawa isn’t wearing his cloak? guess his “training” with host club worked!

    kyoya as a dalmation… soo random yet soo adorkable!!

  3. Yea this episode did fall flat.

    It’s hard to put in my un-biased opinion about it, but it was lacking chemistry wise [Hikaru/Haruhi]. Maybe because I was excited for this particular part. If we ask a fan of the manga/anime what are the most memorable scenes in Ouran, one of them would definitely be this one.

    While the two were on the date I was kinda expecting Kyoya to shoot out jealous/sadden expressions, but he was too busy with Honey. Pfffft :’). But I guess in a way the director wanted it to appeal to the Hikaru/Haruhi fans so I guess he didn’t want the other characters to steal his thunder.

  4. I totally giggled in that scene with Honey and Kyoya. I was expecting Mori to be the one doing the petting. I guess the production team heard the fangirls’ cries and gave us more to squee over with Kyoya.

    Thank you for the recap! Too bad Hikaru doesn’t really work in the live-action. He is much more convincing in the manga.

  5. No matter how I try to go about it I can’t seem to like the live action much. Oh… well begger can be chooser…. What I really enjoy was watching Kyoka and Honey.

  6. I actually stopped watching this drama a while back because it’s just not my cup of tea. (some mangas can be well adapted into dramas but there are just some mangas that need to stay as mangas…) However, I did make it a point to watch this particular episode because it really stood out in the manga. This really was the start for the Hikaru/Haruhi shippers.

    For me, I actually liked it. It was really on point with the manga until the end. I dunno, I’m kinda more biased towards the HikaHaru pairing than TamaHaru so I was kinda in shock when at the church Haruhi comments that it was okay since she knew Tamaki was coming (not in the manga) and that she was glad that Tamaki came to rescue her (she was already passed out in Tamaki’s arms by then in the manga). I just felt like it was a real waste of chemistry between the HikaHaru pairing. I suppose I understand…this is a drama, it needs to anchor to one guy more than the others and it’s clearly Tamaki who’s gonna get the girl at this point.

    So yea, I guess the changes were made to accomodate more to Tamaki for the sake of the live action but as far as manga canon goes, Haruhi’s feelings were a little bit more ambiguous at this point. Oh well. Sorry to rant lol. But apart from that, it wasn’t too bad a watch. I actually though the actor who played Hikaru was spot on. Props to the actor playing Kaoru as well.

  7. hmmm…interesting method of combining/cramming an arc(?) into 1 episode…

    i forgot how the manga did it, but the anime split it into 2 episodes… (no “refreshing” competition, huh? ^_^)

    i guess it’s because the show is crammed for time.. (especially before the movie) even the anime had 20-something episodes…and to go from 1 manga–>anime (that ended when manga was ~vol 11…into 20-x episodes) –>10 episode live action drama…

    (and here i was praying for the shopping mall episode…yes, i’m a kyouya/haruhi shipper)

    oh well…thanks for the recap

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