Ouran High School Host Club.

Position: President.
Aliases: King, Tono, Dad, Tama-chan (Honey.)
Birthday: April 8th.
Age: 17
Zodiak Sign: Aries.
Height: 183cm (6'0")
Blood Type: A.
Good at Subjects: English, French, World History.
Liked Food: Commoner's ramen, commoner's candy (Baby Star)
Disliked Food:
Mid-term Ranking: 2nd Year, 2nd Place.
Host Type: Prince.

Tamaki is a half-Japanese, half-French Ouran High School second-year student and the president of the Host Club, the founding of which was his idea. He is sometimes referred to as the "King" of the Host Club and is by far the most popular host, with a 70% request rate. The usual instigator of all of the Host Club's antics, Tamaki is prone to dramatics and often acts without thinking or overreacts to trivial things; the other members of the club, particularly Hikaru and Kaoru, often take amusement at his expense. However, they also almost always follow his lead, and staunchly support him when it's needed.

Despite his foolish behavior, Tamaki is very generous and easily moved by the distress of others, even strangers. Once aware of others peoples' problems, he will do all he can to help them and "ascertain justice". He often makes elaborate plans or "strategies" to fix many solutions. His family is involved mostly with the business market, but also handles the school administration. In fact, Tamaki is the son of the superintendent so in effect his family is financially supporting Haruhi as a scholarship student.

Tamaki's grandmother, the true head and decision-maker of the Suoh family, bears a grudge against him over the fact that his father had an affair with Tamaki's mother and divorced his legal wife when Tamaki was born. Because there is no other heir to the Suoh family, his grandmother acknowledges Tamaki as a Suoh, but refuses to allow him to live in the family's main residence and forbids him any contact with his mother in France (In the manga, his mother ran away from home after his return to Japan, although Kyoya commented that given his father's influence, he (the father) should know where she is.) In spite of this, Tamaki appears to hold no hard feelings against his grandmother, and retains an almost excessively positive outlook on life.

For all his immaturity and silliness, Tamaki proves to be a naturally excellent student, routinely placing second in his class (behind Kyoya) without making any particularly great effort towards studying. He is a talented piano player, and unlike the other members of the Host Club (such as Kyoya and the Hitachiin brothers) there is surprisingly little artifice in his treatment of the club's customers. In his profile at the end of volume 1 of the manga, Hatori notes that despite his apparent glibness with the girls, he genuinely means what he says. Haruhi, however, finds his behavior more troublesome than charming - much to Tamaki's chagrin, as he quickly developed a romantic infatuation with her which she has yet to show any signs of reciprocating.

Position: Clubs Vice President.
Aliases: Shadow King, Low Blood Pressure Demon Lord, Mom, Kyou-chan (Honey)
Birthday: November 22nd  
Age: 17.
Zodiak Sign: Scorpio.
Height: 181cm (5'11")
Blood Type: AB
Good at Subjects: English, German, Physics
Liked Food: Spicy things
Disliked Food: Sweet things
Mid-term Ranking: 2nd Year, 1st Place
Host Type: Cool.

Kyoya is a second-year student at Ouran High School, and vice-president of the host club. The "cool type" of the club, he is extremely intelligent and quite calculating, capable of manipulating events to serve any number of purposes. His family is primarily involved in hospital management and the medical industry with various other business interests as well, and supplies the school's medical staff and security (via its 100-member private police force). As the third son, Kyoya is unlikely to inherit leadership of the family's business unless he can surpass his older brothers' achievements to his father's satisfaction. This puts a lot of pressure on Kyoya, but he claims that he cannot think of a more interesting challenge. Also, in the manga, he's shown to be sympathetic to his elder sister, Fuyumi, who was married; when their father saw her back in the house, he commented that married women shouldn't return home so readily.

Although Tamaki is the official leader of the club, Kyoya can easily influence Tamaki when he wants, and in a conflict between the two the other members of the club follow Kyoya's lead, causing Haruhi to refer to him privately as the "Shadow King." He was the only Host Club member to realize immediately that Haruhi was a girl, but kept the knowledge to himself in order to see what would happen; he often goes along with the Host Club's more eccentric antics, or even encourages them further, on the grounds that the results could be "interesting." Kyoya keeps track of various information about the students at Ouran Academy and is even in contact with Haruhi's father, who turns out to be the source from which Kyoya obtained Haruhi's photographs and information about her middle school popularity. He does not hesitate to turn a profit from the Host Club's popularity, even to the point of auctioning off items like Haruhi's pencil, and he keeps Haruhi in debt to the Host Club by finding various ways to add to it.

He claims to do nothing which does not profit him, and tells Haruhi that this is the only reason he is friends with Tamaki and involved with the Host Club, saying that there is "not one millimeter of similarity" between himself and Tamaki. This, however, appears to be a lie. Kyoya is altruistic in his own way, and often seems to act on Tamaki's behalf, most notably during the school festival in volume six of the manga. In his profile, Bisco Hatori notes that despite what he says, he and Tamaki are good friends.

Kyoya has low blood pressure and wakes up with a bad temper, earning him the nickname of "Low Blood Pressure Demon Lord". As such, he tends to sleep in until noon.

Aliases: Hika-chan, Kao-chan (Honey)
Birthday: June 9th. Hikaru being the eldest.
Age: 16
Zodiak Sign: Gemini
Height: 178cm (5'10")
Blood Type: B
Good at Subjects: 
Hikaru: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Art
Kaoru: English, Modern Japanese, Art Liked Food:
Disliked Food:
Mid-term Ranking: 
Hikaru: 1st Year, 5th Place
Kaoru: 1st Year, 4th Place
Host Type: Little Devil. (Kaoru to the left and Hikaru to the right.)

Hikaru and Kaoru are first-year students in the same class as Haruhi. Identical twins, Hikaru (who parts his hair from his right side) and Kaoru (who parts his hair from his left side) tend to imply they have an incestuous relationship, making a show of it for the benefit of the "boys love" fans among the Host Club's customers. Unlike Tamaki, their interaction with the club's customers is entirely calculated; the "little devil" types of the club, they enjoy making a game of manipulating others for their own amusement, and are easily bored.

The two of them are extremely close and dependent upon one another, seeing the world primarily in terms of "us" and "those apart from us" and having little concern for anyone else. Prior to joining the Host Club, they had very little interaction with other people. It is only after Haruhi joins the Host Club that Hikaru and Kaoru's world really begins to expand. Haruhi proves to naturally distinguish between the two of them and sees them as two individuals rather than interchangeable; she can easily tell them apart even when they are intentionally posing as one another. This is something new for Hikaru and Kaoru, and the two of them grow very fond of her, sometimes to the point of being possessive. Since they also enjoy poking fun at Tamaki, they often rub their friendship with Haruhi in Tamaki's face and flirt with her just to provoke him. For a long time, they have been playing a game where people have to guess which twin is which; while this initially seems nothing more than a game, it is revealed that this is an important matter to the twins, who wish to be recognized as individuals. Of late, it seems that Hikaru is developing a romantic interest in Haruhi, although he may not be fully aware of this himself. Kaoru has noted that Hikaru is a bit 'slow' in this particular area.

Their mother specializes in clothing design, and they occasionally provide clothing of her design for the Host Club's events or in an effort to get Haruhi to dress more femininely. When their mother appears at the school festival, she proves to have a very strong personality, and it is clear that the twins take after her. They, too, have a mutual knack for fashion, and in the manga they are sometimes shown styling Haruhi's hair or doing her makeup. Of the two twins, while Hikaru is usually the leader, he also seems to be the more insecure one. Kaoru displays a somewhat larger measure of emotional maturity. Also, it's noted that their surname was their mother's, and that their father had married into the Hitachiin family. In the manga, it was commented by one of the twins that the Hitachiins are primarily of a matriarchal lineage and female Hitachiins are more outstanding than the males. The twins are afraid that they might end up being weaklings like their father since they resemble him, but Haruhi noted that they resemble their mother more.

Aliases: Mori.
Birthday: May 5th
Age: 18
Zodiak Sign: Taurus
Height: 192cm (6'4")
Blood Type: O
Good at Subjects: Geography, Japanese History
Liked Food: Oriental (such as natto)
Disliked Food:
Mid-term Ranking: 3rd Year, 2nd Place
Host Type: Wild

Mori is also a third-year student of the school and is the tallest, most silent member of the club. Despite the fact that he rarely speaks or smiles, his tall, tanned, and handsome figure earns him many customers. According to Kyoya, "his taciturnity is his selling point," and many of his admirers are the more introverted and serious girls at Ouran. He's labeled the "wild type" host. Because Mori acts largely on his instincts, this label fits him rather well. Also, Mori is the national champion in kendo.

Additionally, Mori is Hunny's cousin. The Morinozuka family had protected the Haninozuka family for many generations. The two families were joined by marriage two generations ago, the families became related to each other, thus breaking the master-servant tradition. Nevertheless, Mori still faithfully protects Hunny and is always by his side, attending to his wishes and watching out for him. Also, in the manga, he has a younger brother, Satoshi, who is friends with Hunny's brother.

In contrast to Hunny, who is bad-tempered when he wakes up, Mori becomes uncharacteristically talkative and friendly when he is tired.

Aliases: Honey/Hunny
Birthday: February 29th
Age: 18
Zodiak Sign: Pisces
Height: 148cm (4'10")
Blood Type: AB
Good at Subjects: Math
Liked Food: Cake, strawberry, sweet things, spicy things
Disliked Food: Carrot
Mid-term Ranking: 3rd Year, 1st Place
Host Type: Loli-shota.

Mitsukuni is the Host Club's "Loli-shota" host and always goes by the nickname "Hunny"; In the Japanese versions his nickname is romanized as "Honey" (¥Ï¥Ë©` Han¨©). Despite the fact that he looks like a child and always carries a stuffed toy bunny named "Bun-Bun" with him, Hunny is a third-year in Ouran High School and the club's oldest member (in episode one of the manga. In episode three, [according to their Zodiac Signs] the oldest is Mori, seeing as how Hunny is a Pisces and Mori is a Taurus). His customers love his "cute little boy" behavior. Indeed, he often calls everyone by affectionate nicknames like "Haru-chan" for Haruhi and "Tama-chan" for Tamaki. The only exception is Mori, who Hunny calls by his first name of "Takashi", and vice-versa. As cute and defenseless as Hunny looks, he comes from a prestigious martial artist family and is a national champion martial artist himself.

Before the founding of the Host Club, Hunny was the captain of the school's karate club, and did his best to seem strict and tough in order to please his father. However, when Tamaki approached him about starting the Host Club and expressed the opinion that being true to what makes a person happy shows more strength than living a lie, Hunny chose to leave the karate club and join the Host Club instead. His decision greatly dismayed his younger brother Yasuchika, who is disturbed by Hunny's childish cuteness to the point that he thinks Hunny might be an alien. Yasuchika, who succeeded Hunny as captain of the karate club, periodically challenges Hunny to sparring matches, which he uses as a means of learning from Hunny and improving on his techniques.

In light of Hunny's martial arts prowess, some rumors have been spread about him amongst the members of the club. One such story involves an alleged international incident between Japan and the United States which occurred as a result of Hunny being woken up from his daily afternoon nap too early by a soldier on a training holiday, causing a "Bunny swell phenomenon" (A rabbit version of the "Seven Swell Phenomenon"; see Eureka Seven for more details), wiping out two United States Green Beret platoons instantly. Humorously, Haruhi dismissed this as rubbish only to be convinced when it's revealed that Hunny's bloodtype is AB, the same as Kyoya. He also wakes up in a bad mood due to low blood pressure, like Kyoya, though he tends to wake up early.

Hunny was once described by the author as "so cute that it's almost a crime".

Aliases: Haru-chan. (Honey.)
Birthday: February 4th
Age: 16
Zodiak Sign: Aquarius
Height: 155cm (5'1")
Blood Type: O
Good at Subjects: Classical Japanese, English
Liked Food: Sushi, ramen, strawberries, ootoro
Disliked Food: Sweet things in general
Mid-term Ranking: 1st Year, 3rd Place
Fear: Thunder
Host Type:  Natural

Haruhi is the main heroine of the story, a lower-middle class first-year student who is able to attend Ouran High School through an academic scholarship and because her grades in school are so high. Shortly after arriving at Ouran, Haruhi accidentally breaks a vase worth ¥8,000,000 ($80,000 in the manga's North American English version) while in the Host Club clubroom and since then has been forced to work for them to pay for it. Mistaking her for a boy, the club initially has her running trivial errands for them, but they make her a host once they discover that, beneath her glasses and rumpled clothing, she is actually good-looking. Her natural sincerity and consideration makes her a hit with the club's customers, and it is only after she has been accepted as a host that the club learns the truth about her gender.

She is a very sensible, honest, and forthright individual, and her down-to-earth practicality has charmed both the Host Club's members and its customers. However, her lack of hesitation in expressing her opinions can sometimes lead her to say, without any intended malice, things which others find hurtful. Her stubborn independence can also sometimes get her into trouble, as it typically doesn't occur to her to ask others for help even when she is in over her head, and has trouble understanding why people like her father and Tamaki worry about her. She is often bemused and sometimes irritated by the antics of the Host Club, but in spite of that, she has developed increasingly strong friendships with her fellow club members. She seems to be a bit dense where it comes to interpreting the subtler signals from people around her, especially when it concerns romantic interest.

It appears that Haruhi has chosen to attend Ouran with the intention of following in her late mother's footsteps and becoming a lawyer. She has stated on more than one occasion that she is at Ouran in order to pursue her dream, and wants to see how far it can take her.

Haruhi admits that she has a low threshold for gender awareness; she was not actually trying to pass as male, but didn't feel the need to correct the others' assumptions. Her lack of differentiation between male and female gender roles was probably influenced by her father, who was originally bisexual and, saying that he could never love another woman, took up cross-dressing after the death of his wife. Whatever the reason, she is a fairly androgynous person who does not care much about the clothing she wears and seems to have little interest in romance. She enjoys taking care of household chores, particularly cooking, and is not easily frightened by things like bugs or ghost stories; her only weakness is a paralyzing fear of thunderstorms.

She has a soft spot for expensive food she usually is unable to partake in such as ōtoro (a type of tuna sushi), otherwise referred to as "Giant Tuna", as to her they are a luxury. She likes tasty food in general, but gets especially excited over seafood. In some cases, the promise of such food can be used to bribe Haruhi into going along with the less sound plans of the host club.