This is definitely one of the funniest episodes so far. I've mentioned before how Ouran seems to be a lot better when the series is focused on Haruhi and the group instead of some random characters of the week. This episode is a good example of this. Instead of giving too much focus on the guest characters, the writers simply use them to mine the comic reactions out of the Host club. It also helps that the guest characters of the week are so serious that they provide a good contrast to the silly characters from Ouran. Animation-wise, this is pretty much the same quality as last week's episode so that means the animators are pretty good at maintaining the consistency. As a side note, if you didn't read last week's NANA's discussion, flchick pointed out a PDF document from Nippon TV that lists Ouran as 26 episodes series while NANA has been given around 50 episodes (tentative). http://www.ntv.co.jp/english/pc/ntv-animation.pdf
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So my sister had me buy her some stuff at Amazon.com that resulted in a $30 gift certificate rebate. She told me to keep it as my birthday present. At first I was gonna use it to help buy a Macbook, but I think I'll wait on that. I Remembered that Amazon.com had a buy 3 get 1 free book promotion thing going on ages ago. Apparently it's still going on! So Instead, I used the credit to buy manga! Manga manga manga!
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This episode did it. Ouran has somehow wormed its way into one of my top top shows. With only Genshiken and Honey and Clover standing in its path, Ouran is giving them a real good run. It's been 8 episodes so far and it's consistently spewing out top notch quality. I've mentioned it in the [...]
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For this anime, I didn't like the animation at first. But I still decided to give it a try. The setting is in a rich high school. Our main character, Fujioka Haruhi is looking for a place to study but the libraries seem to be full of noisy high school students. Until he comes across Music [...]
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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni The good anime continues this spring with this H-game turned anime chock full of cute girls, sailor suits, sleepy villages, and disturbingly killer loli’s. Had I not seen the first 30 seconds or so of the first episode, I think I would’ve been misled into thinking this show was just [...]
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So this week we had the reverse of usual. Rather than the episode of Ouran having some element that Haruhi had a week or two before, this time it was Haruhi with the Koizumi x Kyon BL. I actually was kinda disappointed with this episode. It was only “funny” instead of “really [...]
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Kiba (right) wonders when he can have Tamaki for dinner. My best friend and I usually make it a point to find out the seiyuu behind the anime characters. We’re just almost always left in awe by the talent and versatility of the voice actors. When we first saw Ouran High School Host Club, we checked out [...]
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I love Ouran High School Host Club because the comedy is so on. Compared to the manga, it's actually funnier - and this is a rare case where the anime is actually better than the manga. (The manga tends to take the fun out of the humour a little by overexplaining the humour.) One element of [...]
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Shounen-ai, comedy, romance, gender confusion? Hell. Yes. So what is Saria's favorite new series? That's right, you guessed it.
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Hikaru and Kaoru fight for a laugh, Nekozawa is AWESOME ON A STICK, Renge makes a welcome reappearance and Bones’ animation team have no idea what written Greek looks like. Interesting that the Host Club interior background shots were done with CG in this episode; Bones was founded on a minimal CG ethos if I remember [...]
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