MSRP: US: $59.98

Publisher: FUNimation Productions

Genre: Anime
Disc Format: DVD
Release Date:
US: October 28, 2008

the Ouran Host Club, on one level, is just another show about impossibly cute cartoon boys and their adventures in sexual ambiguity.  The cover art on box set makes it look like disgustingly cutesy gay-slash-fiction fodder, and up to a point that's a fair enough assumption

On another level, though, the series and its characters are completely aware of what's happening on that first level there. This is a silly prettyboy show, but it's also about silly prettyboy shows, and that self-awareness makes all the difference. Host Club gets a lot of mileage out of poking fun at itself, and it has a few laughs at the expense of its intended audience, too, an audience that most of the male anime fans out there would agree is just crying out loud to be made fun of.