Ouran High School Host Club – Episode 1

You're A Host From Now On

Ouran High School Host Club just kicks ass! I LOVE it! Look at this beautiful shots from the opening (that song also rocks, by the way)

*deep breath* Ahhhh, this show is so sugoi!!!
*breath again* Let’s come back to normal senses. Together with Nana, The Good Witch of the West and Princess Princess this show was one of the most awaited this season for me. I read the first two volumes of the manga, that were recently published in Germany and I liked them…but the anime adaption is just…I can’t find any words. Besides the great animation of studio Bones (e.g. Wolf’s Rain) – and it’s a pleasure a comedy show is done by a studio like this – the humour coming on screen is a hundred times better then in the mangas. Of course story and characters are the same, but to see the twins alive, Mori lifting up Haruhi like a plush teddy *rofl*, not to speak of Tamaki…
I already watched this episodes two times, and if those to come are just as good, this show will be top ranked in my seasons favourites…and that after only one week.

It’s not only the humour, but there were several scenes that struck me. The art and presentation of the campus are simple beauty. And where else can you find a pink Big Ben?
Before I watched the show one sentence of BluWacky got my attention: “The POST-UTENA DIRECTION!” I totally understand what he means and that makes it even better for me. Sometimes I felt like shows tried to copy the Utena style, not in a good way mostly, but Ouran could be a successor, at least concerning the way of direction. It’s used for the same style of drama, only a bit more modern. I especially love the following shot. I watched this scene several time, just because of it’s beauty!

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