#ouran ep 26

[goldenspirits]

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#3

If you've watched Ouran High School Host Club or Revolutionary Girl Utena while growing up I can tell you have a cooler, weirder gender now

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#2

lmao get utena ep 7'd idiot

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this might be my favorite quote in the history of anime.

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[retadoesthings]

My cosplays from 2010

Click the character's name to find related posts.

Inuzuka Kiba from Naruto: Shippuuden Photo by Nasu Clothes modified by me. Headband was bought as is.

Ash "Ashley" Ketchum / "Satoko" from Pokémon anime ep. 26 Photo by my mom First costume sewed by me! (With some help from my mom. ♥)

Meroko from Full Moon wo Sagashite Photo by Tiia Costume made by me & Kuvitelma.

Crash Bandicoot from Crash Bandicoot games Photo by Eve Niemi Bought clothes, selfmade box props :D

Toboe from Wolf's Rain Photo by Kuvitelma Bought clothes compiled by me.

Ash Ketchum / Satoshi from Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Photo by Riikka Clothes modified by me.

Haninozuka "Honey" Mitsukuni from Ouran High School Host Club ep. 13 Photo by my sister Costume made by me & Kuvitelma.

Liru from Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan (Magipoka) Kuvitelma as Yuuma Photo by Kyuu Eturautti Costume made by me with help from Kuvitelma. Used in group cosplay competition (performance included) in Tracon 2010; my first competition!

#masterlist #2010

[dont--mindme]

List of Stuff Warenai Needs to Watch: Anime Version

Netflix:

Records of Rangarok (~27 ep)

Little Witch Academia (~25 ep)

Saiki K (~120 ep)

Cardcaptor Sakura (~70 ep)

Monster (~74 ep)

One Piece (~way too many ep lol)

Edens Zero (25 ep)

Aggretsuko✨ 5/5

The Legend of Korra✨ 5/5

Violet Evergarden 5/5

Mononoke 4/5

Crunchyroll

Love is War (~37 ep)

Naruto (500 ep)

Do It Yourself (~12 ep)

Restaurant to Another World (~24 ep)

Danganropa (~13 ep)

Black Clover (~170 ep)

The Daily Life of the Immortal King (~39 ep)

Laid-Back Camp (~12 ep)

Saga of Tanya the Evil (~12 ep)

Talentless Nana (~13 ep)

Free! (~12 ep)

Blood Blockade Battlefront (~12 ep)

Death Parade (~12 ep)

Konosuba (~20 ep)

Your Lie in April (~23 ep)

Mob Psyco 100 (~39 ep)

Bungo Stray Dogs (~12 ep)

Rent-a-girlfriend (~24 ep)

Akira ( ep)

Attack on Titan (~89+ ep)

Tokyo Ghoul (~12 ep)

Terror in Resonance (~11 ep)

Noragami (~29 ep)

Eden of the East (~11 ep)

The Ancient Magnus' Bride (~24 ep)

Psycho Pass (~22 ep)

Nichijo (~26 ep)

91 Days (~13 ep)

Claymore (~26 ep)

Plastic Memories (~13 ep)

Link Click (~12 ep)

Madoka Magica (~12 ep)

The Rising of the Shield Hero (~38 ep)

Full Metal Alchemist (~64 ep)

Hunter X Hunter (~148 ep)

Lupin the 3rd (~155 ep)

World Trigger

Fena: Pirate princess

How heavy are the dumbbells you lift?

Tower of God

That time I got reincarnated into a slime

Blend s

Death Note (~37 ep)

How to Keep a Mummy (~12 ep)

Demon Slayer✨ 5/5

My Hero Academia✨ 5/5

Fairytail ✨️ 5/5

Spy x Family 5/5

Ouran High School Host Club 5/5

Jujutsu Kaisen ✨ 5/5

Chainsaw Man✨️ 5/5

Buddy Daddies 5/5

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan 4.5/5

Haikyuu!!✨️ 4.5/5

Promised Neverland 4.5/5

Deadman Wonderland 4.5/5

Black Butler 4.5/5

Kamisama Kiss 4.5/5

Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie 4/5

Fruits Basket 4/5

Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time 4/5

Kurokos Basketball 4/5

Tokyo Revengers 4/5

The Royal Tutor 4/5

Charlotte 4/5

ERASED 4/5

My Little Monster 3/5

Other:

O Maidens in your Savage Season

No Game No Life

Bakuman

Durarara

One Punch Man (S2) 4.5/5

Movies

Spirited Away

My Hero Academia: Two Heros

My Hero Academia: Hero's Rising

My Hero Academia: World Heros Mission

Wolf Children

Children of the Sea

Child of Kamiari Month

Your Name

Howl's Moving Castle 5/5

Ponyo 5/5

Secret World of Arrietty 5/5

Modest Heros 5/5

A Silent Voice 5/5

Mirai 5/5

My Neighbor Totoro 5/5

Kiki's Delivery Service 5/5

Ni No Kuni 5/5

Patema Inverted 4/5

Bubble 4/5

Okko's Inn 4/5

A Whisker Away 3/5

[roseillith]

#ohshc #ohshc haruhi #ouran #ouran kyoya #ouran ep 26 #anime gif #haruhi fujioka #kyoya ootori #gif #gifs #ouran high school host club

[spookyvance]

Guess.

Who's.

BACK?!

I'm back from my trip!! Woo. It was real fun. I managed to go onto the Blue Ridge Parkway, uhh catch and release firefies, among other stuff! It was fun. It was a nice break from the events of the world for a while. It was real nice.

I'll probably draw y'all something later, or not. Who knows? It's good to be back.

~Nova

#ari chats #hewwoo!!!! #i uh #started and finished ouran host club #good dub #i ALSO uh #started and (pretty much) finished death note #stopped at ep 26 and my bro told me how it ends #we'll just keep it at ep 26 #i do not see #not one bit #ok bye

[eurydicees]

optimistic

send me a word and i’ll respond w/ what it reminds me of!

optimistic

a song: sunshine riptide (fall out boy)

a movie/TV show: ouran high school host club (specifically ep 26)

a book: the gardener’s year (karel capek)

a character: shoyo hinata (haikyuu!!)

a food: cherry garcia ice cream

a colour: bright yellow

a name: asa

#ask

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

"Reverse Harem" is just an anime trope where 1 girl has several boys vying for her attention, lol. It's usually full of weird romance tropes, usually meant to fluster the heroine or make it hard for her to choose. Kinda like a Love Triangle on steroids. Ouran isn't really like that though? The tropes are often called out and Haruhi is definitely far more no nonsense than the genre's standard protagonist. Plus everyone gets character development, which is impressive for a 26 ep run with 7 mains

Y’know, I always say that romance is over-centralized in media, but this just kinda of feels like...like almost a parody of that idea? I suppose anime in general sometimes has tropes like this but damn, that’s kinda hilarious. (Even if I normally detest the love triangle trope.) 

But I will always live for tropes being lamp-shaded (That’s one of the things that Hogwarts Mystery has done well) and Haruhi sounds like a pretty neat character. In general, characters are kind of what make or break a story for me. 

#Anime #Tropes

[lunarity2013]

so the last episode (ep 11) of the ouran live action drama is infinitely better than the anime ending (ep 25&26) and i definitely cried but it was all good tears bc it flowed so well and theyd hinted more at tamaki and haruhi being endgame sooner even tho nothing actually happened and im just super great rn

In related news, I'm gonna hunt down and watch the movie soon...

#ohshc #ohshc live action #live action ouran #ouran host club #tamaki ouran #haruhi ouran #tamaki suoh #haruhi fujioka

[jjonghyun]

if I’ve never watched anime in my life where would u recommend i start? basically what’s good and gay

OOO it’s kinda a difficult question bc anime is super broad and there’s a bunch of dif genres and types that some people prefer over the others but here are my recs:

shounen (ppl with powers fight other ppl with powers): 

the first anime i watched was fullmetal alchemist brotherhood (64 eps), which i still think holds up SUPER well, and its a classic so i think its a really good starting point. 

hunter x hunter is also beloved but its a little longer (148 eps) so i wouldnt start with it maybe but i’d def check it out. 

ALSO mob psycho 100 (24 eps) is a newer anime that is absolutely wonderful and has the biggest heart ever, the animation is very unique and i love it and everyone loves it.

sports anime: ok i know SPORTS doesnt seem like it would be good and gay but some of my fav animes are in this genre and i super recommend both 

haikyuu (volleyball gays, ~60 eps i think) which i adore (ike ike ike ike sEIJOH!)

and kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteru (running gays (like. pretty gay tbh) 25 eps). TEAMWORK MAKES DREAM WORK.

also I've never seen it but yuri on ice is gay gay for real and I hear it's sweet and I think it's only like 12 eps

shojo (highschool romance): 

i usually dont watch these types much but i did finally get around to watching ouran high school host club and even tho it’s a bit outdated it is so fun and good and the main protagonist is basically nb so thats great. 

also i hear the new fruits basket is good.

ALSO noragami idk if it counts bc there’s also like spirit world and gods stuff going on as well as the romance part but i LOVE this anime (26 eps)

classics: 

some classic animes i think hold up really well, like cowboy bebop (26 eps) which famously inspired firefly, so if you like space cowboys you’ll probs like this

and neon genesis evangelion (26 eps) which u might have seen has controversially been added to netflix, so try to find the og dub if you watch it. both of these are beloved and critically acclaimed pieces of animation.

Also the ghibli movies if u haven't seen any are all beautiful, my personal fav is howls moving castles bc I like narcissistic thots but u can't go wrong with any of them.

hope this helps! 

#finally gets to talk about anime on main. paragraphs . just paragraphs #obvs i like jojo's too but i think that would be uh. an overwhelming start. #u have to lose at least 10000 anime braincells before starting jjba

[kashimasyuu]

8, 11, 26, 28!! ✨

8 + 11: already answered!!

26. manga you have read all the way through

lmao this is a short list

ouran high school host club, kaguya sama wa kokurasetai, gekkan shoujo nozaki kun, kono oto tomare, given, ganbare nakamura kun, wotakoi

i think that’s it, honestly more than i thought there would be

28. most upsetting moment in anime

like 90% of banana fish

also all the reomabu angst at the end of sarazanmai?? that was real brutal

and probably next week’s fruits basket ep sjkdsjsjk rip

send me an ask!!

#fear #ahhh thanks for the ask!! <333 #ask #czqy

[hitachiin-devils]

fave episode?

ahhhh that’s honestly such a tough question ! every episode has something that i like about it....so here are my top six faves lol 

Ep 5 - The Twins Fight! 

Ep 10 - A Day in the Life of the Fujioka Family!

Ep 16 - Operation Haruhi and Hikaru’s First Date!

Ep 20 - The Door the Twins Opened!

Ep 21 - Until the Day it Becomes a Pumpkin!

Ep 26 - This is Our Ouran Fair!

but honestly i like all the episodes; these were just the ones that stuck out to me the most ! (you can see that i like the hitachiin twins a lot) 

thanks for your question ! 

[myanimerecs]

Ouran High School Host Club

Ouran Koukou Host Club

Rating: 3/3

Categories: club, comedy, crossdressing, debt, dub, hosts, manga adaptation, reverse h/arem, romance, school, shoujo, social gap

KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE! After accidentally breaking an eight million yen vase Haruhi Fujioka is forced to join the host club and work off the money. However the club members are typical rich people and find Haruhi’s average lifestyle fascinating while being extravagant in every way.

S1, 26 eps

#Ouran High School Host Club #Ouran Koukou Host Club #Ouran #3/3 #club #comedy #crossdressing #debt #dub #hosts #manga adaptation #reverse h/arem #romance #school #shoujo #social gap #1 season only #14 - 26 episodes #medium series #anime recommendation

[emypony]

Every number, lol

ily lmfao

gdi lina

((now i gotta open my own goddamn tumblr to find it smh))

i’ll do edits throughout bcs i go on other questions and i legit like, answer them and go back and add stuff

1. first anime you ever watched

tbh i can’t freaking remember?? Though it might’ve been something on animax. I don’t count pokemon rly bcs i rarely watched it. I think watched thoroughly…???

Frick. Deltora Quest (??) ((god I just remembered I need to hype that too crap)) but I’ll be proud to say front to back as a really long anime is going to be Inazuma Eleven. God I was so trash for it. Saw a few eps on Disney and decided “i want to see this but without this crappy romanian dub thx”

I can’t remember any other anime I watched but amongst the first ones were: Shugo Chara, Princess Tutu (I NEED TO DRAW THIS AS WELL AUGH LINA WHAT’VE U DONE) uhhhhhhhh, Kaleido Star? Zero no Tsukaima (VERY BAD ANIME TO START WATCHING WHEN UR LIKE 13) and other trash stuff like Oran Highschool Host club, Toradora (I didn’t watch the last ep gg me), Brother’s Conflict (another harem AND I DIDN’T WATCH THE LAST EP EITHER GG OMG) and this is all I can remember great…

EDIT: UNDERRATED ELEMENTAL GELADE LIKE DID ANYBODY EVEN HEAR ABT IT like AAAA

look at me i can’t even do one question without rambling this is gonna be long asf

EDIT:::: Shaman King was the first. Used to air dubbed on some non cartoon channel over here and I got hooked.

2. first anime crush

Shun from Bakugan. I’m trash. (yes this was after I found out that it was originally japanese. I think i wanted to watch the jap dub but i couldn’t find it anywhere and i couldn’t take Dan having Naruto’s voice either thx)

Then i discovered Spectra (aka the Brother of that girl from the 2nd season) and i cried bcs how could I choose

3. favorite anime character

Tsurugi Kyousuke and you know it girl

TSUNA FROM KHR (in his more serious form)

ALSO GOKUDERA ^^^^

4. least favorite anime character

fricc. uHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…(inazuma eleven makes everybody lovable I mean…)

5. list all anime you have ever watched (do non finished one count too thx)

NOTE: The ones with * means I didn’t finish them.

I DID THIS IN QUESTION 1 THANKS BUT LET ME ADD SOME

Mob Psycho 100

Shokugeki no Souma**  (in prcess of watching)

Oban Star Racers

Sword Art Online

SMILE PRECURE - it’s so clichee but I love it

Kaichou wa Maid-Sama

K-ON!*

Fruits Basket!!!

Sukitte Ii na yo

edit: Noucome

Dog Days!* (i can’t even what is this anime)

Kamisama Hajimemashita* (THERE’S LIKE A 2ND/3RD SEASON I NEVER KNEW ABUOT)

//screams

SHAMAN KIIIIIIING

DNANGEL AHHHHHHHHH

Beyblade (newer series tho)*

To Love-Ru* (wasn’t my thing but i saw a bit of it)

more Pretty Cure series which I can’t remember tbh

SUGAR SUGAR RUNE //CRYING

Gugure! Kokkuri-san*

6. popular anime you didn’t like

NOTE: I DIDN’T ACTUALLY WATCH MOST OF THESE BUT THE HYPE OVER THEM JUST KILLED IT FOR ME

Vampire…s-something with Vampire? With the Subaru and stuff. 

EDIT::: DIABOLIK LOVERS

LIKE ONLY 1 GUY WAS CUTE AND HAD REASONABLE REASONS BEHIND HIS AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, THE REST WERE JUST F*CKED UP PSYCHOS THANKS

Naruto (I mean first seasons are nice and all but like, it becomes confusing)

One Piece, Fairy Tail, YURI ON ICE , HETALIA ((MISS ME WITH THAT SH*T THX)), Death Note, Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, Clannad, Boku no Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Z (and what have you), Kuroko no Basket, Haikyuu, Free!, Bleach, Inuyasha, YuGiOh (i’ve seen a bit but meh..), Mirai Nikki, 

//inhales Sailor Moon

idk just not for me, though maybe I should give it a chance??

7. anime you are currently watching

I guess Shokugeki no Souma since I’ve yet to finish s3

But I’m still in IEGO hell rn, rewatching it for the lolzies

8. anime character you are most like

Tenma, ofc. 

9. favorite anime child

uHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Tenma. ;;w;; he’s so precious and doubts himself and I think he’s great  ahhh 

Konoha. She loves animals and she’s kinda cute ouo

idk if there’s more i am really not recent anime trash sorry

10. favorite anime animal sidekick

Kili who’s Jasmine’s(?) -idk if that was her name in the jap version too- crow

I frkin love crows holy danm

Sasuke is such a cute dog save me

11. anime you didn’t expect to like but did

Inazuma Eleven (I don’t even like soccer) , Princess Tutu (I don’t like ballet and it was old af so I literally put it off for watching Shugo Chara), uhhhh idunno anymore

12. anime that should get more attention from others

PRINCESS TUTU I CAN’T STFU ABOUT THIS

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

INAZUMA ELEVEN ALSO!!!

13. funniest anime you have watched

the one anime with the guy who had to make decisions or else

Noucome? (wikipedia: short for My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy) Yeah that’s the one.

Shokugeki no Souma

14. saddest anime you have ever watched

PRINCESS TUTU (screw me, right?)

15. anime you never get sick of watching

INAZUMA ELEVEN THX

16. 10 best animes you have watched

oH COME ON

Inazuma Eleven

Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Princess Tutu

Bakugan

Deltora Quest

Sugar Sugar Rune

Noucome

Shokugeki No Souma

Shaman King

i don’t know another one save me

17. biggest anime crush

TSURUGI KYOUSUKE

18.10 worst anime you have watched

how can I even- 

19. favorite anime ships

kYOUTEN

YuuiChi ( ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ;)))))) furiously winks)

RanMasa

Ibuki x Shindou ((idk the name of this together lmao))

i don’t have anything more tbh x’D

20. least favorite anime ships

ShinKyou (I’m sorry but how?)

Fakir x Rue (Princess tutu. But like y these 2 srsly they hate each other)

21. anime that made you cry, when

Inazuma Eleven, not sure when but it did. I’m p sure it did

UHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fricc. Princess Tutu defs at the end

22. age you started watching anime/person who introduced you to it.

idk how the hecc I found it but i think i was like 11/12?

23. unpopular character you love

YUUICHI

I mean c’mon we only see him a few times like give the poor guy some love

SARU!!!

24. popular character you hate

Fudou

Idk just… :^) not ma’ thing

25. anime you would recommend to someone who hates anime

i can’t?? my anime choices are literally trash

26. manga you have read all the ways through

i…didn’t read mangas xD

((yes you’re free to kill me now :^))

(((TBH THERE IS ONE. And that’s Nana to Kaoru I think..but it’s nsfw sorta but it was nice as well? like you don’t see that often)))

27. anime you plan to watch in the future

uhhhh crap good question. I had some lists somewhere but idk

28. most upsetting moment in anime, why

WHEN KAZEMARU LEFT THE TEAM LIKE AAAAAAAA MY BOY

When Shun from bakugan cut his hair but damn he was still hot

THE CUTE BOY FROM DELTORA QUEST WHO WAS SUCH A CINNAMON BUN TURNED OUT TO BE SOME MONSTER FREAK LIKE HOW DARE YOU

29. anime that deserves another season

PRINCESS TUTU

DELTORA QUEST (THERE WERE 3 BOOKS BUT THEY ONLY MADE ONE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB

FRUITS BASKET AAAAAAAAH

i can’t think of more

30. one anime conclusion you would change

((SPOILERS))

Princess Tutu: MAKE AHIRU GODDAMN HUMAN SERIOUSLY I WANT TO SEE MY SHIP SAIL AUGHHJKFGBG

I FREAKING HOPE I DIDN’T MISS ANY AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#this is too long #god dammit lina #why did you do this to me #i love you though #ask me questions people but like not lina over here #neither these questions either cuz im not answering them again fo sho

[ichimacchus]

for that anime ask thing,, all of them

wrow

1. first anime you ever watched

Technically, it was the first Pokemon series as a kid butttt i’d say OsoSan

2. first anime crush

Wrow uh-

3. favorite anime character

//points dramatically at Osomatsu

4. least favorite anime character

Idk man I have a lot of anime characters i don’t like

5. list all anime you have ever watched

hmm-

> Pokemon (Original series)

> Osomatsu-San

> Attack on Titan

> Death Note

> One Punch Man

> Free! 

> Mob Psycho 100

> Popee the Performer??

> Gudetama

> Bananya

> Chi’s Sweet Home / New Address

> Ouran High School Host Club

> Yuri on Ice

> Assassination Classroom (One episode)

> My Hero Academia (one ep)

> JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (One ep)

> Fullmetal Alchemist (One ep)

> Pop Team Epic (one ep)

6. popular anime you didn’t like

Soul Eater (I watched the first ep on Netflix and didn’t actually like it)

7. anime you are currently watching

> Osomatsu-San

> Attack on Titan

> Death Note

> One Punch Man

> Free!

> Mob Psycho 100

> Popee the Performer??

> Gudetama

> Bananya

> Chi’s Sweet Home / New Address

> Ouran High School Host Club

> Yuri on Ice (Planning on continuing)

> My Hero Academia (Planning on continuing)

> JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Planning on Continuing)

> Fullmetal Alchemist (Planning on Continuing)

> Pop Team Epic (Planning on continuing)

8. anime character you are most like

Idk

9. favorite anime child

Idk

10. favorite anime animal sidekick

Idk??

11. anime you didn’t expect to like but did

Death Note (A friend said I wouldn’t like it so I thought I wouldn’t until i actually watched episode one… then I connected w it)

12. anime that should get more attention from others

Idk??

13. funnest anime you have watched

Bananya, OsoSan, Chi’s Sweet Home, Gudetama

14. saddest anime you have ever watched

Idk??

15. anime you never get sick of watching

OsoSan

16. 10 best animes you have watched

OsoSan

AoT

Death Note

Free!

idk

17. biggest anime crush

Osomatsu

18.10 worst anime you have watched

does Noteflix count

19. favorite anime ships

Too lazy to list them all

20. least favorite anime ships

Any BLmatsu ship, Popee x Kedamono, SaiGenos (dont kill me), and others

21. anime that made you cry, when

uHH OsoSan on a few occasions//

22. age you started watching anime/person who introduced you to it.

15 (current age), @sugalawliet

23. unpopular character you love

Osomatsu, Sasha, and uhh others

24. popular character you hate

Karamatsu

there i said it

25. anime you would recommend to someone who hates anime

idk??

26. manga you have read all the was through

None actually bc im still working through a bunch

27. anime you plan to watch in the future

JJBA, Haikyuu!!, BNHA, YoI, FMA, PTE, and idk really

28. most upsetting moment in anime, why

L’s death, “Jyushimatsu Falls in Love” and “The Letter”

29. anime that deserves another season

uh?? idk, ososan??

30. one anime conclusion you would change

idkk i havent finished most of the ones i watch tbh

#long posts #asks #anon

[roseillith]

#ohshc #ohshc haruhi #haruhi fujioka #ouran high school host club #ouran #ouran ep 26 #anime gif #gif #gifs

[ionica01]

How to direct an episode

Every once in awhile, I pull out Ouran Highschool Host Club to relax and have a good laugh. But that's not all this show means for me; it is also about great friendship, organic characters with broken pasts and great facades and a lesson about great directing. I was watching my favourite episode, episode 24: And so Kyouya met him, which I've always adored thanks to the powerful message (and my own personal bias regarding Kyouya) as well as for the fact that it demonstrated how complex of a character Tamaki is. Rewatching this episode, I realised one more thing helps it deliver the plot in an absolutely stunning manner: the direction. This episode tells the story of Tamaki and Kyouya's friendship. But first, let's notice one thing: it's episode 24 out of 26, right before the climax of the series and one of the last. This is not accidental: this friendship is the absolute deepest one in the anime. It comes after the Casanova arc, where we finally see Tamaki asking himself questions about his love for Haruhi but then drifting back into obliviousness and Kyouya asks him the right questions, helping him pinpoint his feelings. Up to this point, we've seen Kyouya do anything for Tamaki: being the one to think and pull him back on earth when his head is in the clouds, but also going along with his crazy ideas on a whim. We've all wondered why he does that, we got no answer. The only other Kyouya-centric episode was the one at the supermarket, which foreshadows the similarities between Kyouya and Tamaki and how he keeps up the business front only to be seen through by Haruhi (the onle other person apart for Tamaki who can accomplish such a feat). We can tell he's surprised by that, because he repeats meaningfully: "That's an interesting notion, in and of itself..." We know he hasn't been seen through by many other by this point, so a special connection is established with Haruhi. So up until ep 24, we know next to nothing about Kyouya except for the facade everyone sees and that he's not as bad of a guy as he tries to seem (also see the scene in episode 8 "you can pay me back with your body"). In the end of episode 23, we even get to see him pushing Tamaki towards Haruhi (also note that he was the one who stated at the end of episode 1: "I think we may be witnessing the start of love!"). And right after this proof of friendship/teasing (take it as you wish), Honey and Mori-sempai have a short moment, which changes EVERYTHING! They are up in a tree (pointing to the fact that they analyse the situation objectively, from a distance, and that they have a better understanding of the matter than the rest) and from there, they point out Tamaki and Hikaru's obvious feelings for Haruhi, but then they mention Kaoru and Kyouya, saying they are even more oblivious for they haven't realised they are also attracted to Haruhi. This has never crossed the viewer's mind: Kaoru pushes Hikaru to go out with Haruhi so that he can expand his horizons and also treasures the family carriage so much that he wouldn't break the spell, so he is forgiven for being oblivious. Kyouya, however, says nothing and does nothing to flirt with Haruhi (except for the bed scene, but that is just a lesson for Haruhi and also the moment I'd argue he fell for her, but I'll discuss that in another post, maybe). So we let this pass, but it will always ring in the back of our mind. And then comes ep 24. You'll see this introduction-gibberish is very important to the whole ep. But for now, let's break it in pieces, shall we? We start off with the club as per usual. Tamaki is presenting the kotatsu to the guests: it's only spring, but the club is always ahead of time, so it's fine. Tea is being poured, and the activities begin. Tamaki's usual eccentricity and the normal activities, right? Haruhi disturbs this to ask the question that's always been weighing on our minds: how did the two meet? And so we delve into Kyouya's story, but only after he throws a fond look at his friend and gives Haruhi a cryptic answer: "it's because it was a crazy idea." (That he went on with Tamaki). We turn back in time to see Kyouya in his last middle school year, before Tamaki joined. He's being his business self, but we stop upon each face with the help of a faded picture to see his real thoughts. This, in and of itself, is genius: we see that colour and the actual face don't matter much to our Kyouya as he starts explaining each character's background and their importance to him as business partners. This stops are very formal, and there's an obvious contrast between the voice of storyteller Kyouya and third-year-middle-schooler Kyouya, which is much more polite and friendly, just like his voice with the guests. He was just as diligent as we know him to be now, nothing surprising there, but he's much more distant. When the photo-framing stops on him, too, we know everyone is putting up a front, not just Kyouya. The difference is, Kyouya can read the others' fronts (see their pictures) while the others can't see his, a thing he also says proudly. The first clue that Tamaki is special comes when Kyouya meets him. We don't receive the same photo-panel on the Suoh, instead, we get to see Kyouya researching data on him a night before. That makes us see that Kyouya can't yet quite read through his facade; he attempts to when he sees Tamaki flirting with the vice president, but he isn't sure ("maybe itțs a cultural difference?", a deduction, not a fact). What we get instead is a foreshadowing that Tamaki can see right through Kyouya as the latter politely offers to take his new "friend" on a tour of the school and the photograph-filter stops on our glasses-boy, showing us that his font is crumbling under what he categorises as idiocy. What we get from now on is the crumbling of Kyouya's front. In the first day, he is declared Tamaki's best friend and thinks he's a complete idiot. The second time they meet, Tamaki calls him a God. The scenes are symmetric, taking place in the same courtyard and with Tamaki having the exact same reaction of jumping around yelling: "kyouya!! Mon amiiii!" But the second time around, Kyouya doesn't even bother keeping his feelings to himself as he murmurs them out loud, not keeping up the facade anymore as he's sure Suoh's too much of an idiot to notice. This amazing montage is accompanied by what I find to be the most subtle metaphor: the scenes from home. Before he meets Tamaki, but already knows he has to befriend him from his father, we see Kyouya and his sister hanging out in the living room. At first, we think this is just to prove that Kyouya has someone in the family he can confide in, someone who he isn't just business with. We see his sister showing genuine concern and asking if he "would be happy", to which he answers: "it doesn't really matter." Afterwards, the camera zooms out from where it only stood on their faces to show us the entire room and what his sister is doing: pulling out clothes. In the context, the image becomes a great metaphor: his sister as his inner conscience brought to life and his clothes as his thoughts, the inner thoughts that take over him whenever he thinks about how he's only the third in line for the Ootori group and how hard he has to try to paint the canvas in the beautiful frame (a metaphor the show explains, making it even harder to figure out that the living room could be a metaphor in and of itself, symbolising Kyouya’s brain). As his sister remarks: "these don't get back in once you took them out!" (the scene apparent comedic relief), we understand it actually means: once Kyouya starts asking himself questions about his place in the Ootori group, he can't take that back. The question, the worry will keep floating somewhere in there, without him being able to deal with it. When he says: "then don't take them out!" He's actually arguing with himself not to think about it anymore, to stop doubting himself. In the end, he just says: "let the maid take care of them", which translates to: "i'll figure it out. Just stuff them back in for now.” After his first meeting with Tamaki and having labeled him as an idiot, we return to the living room where the clothes are stuffed in the drawer, hanging partially outside. The meeting has put Kyouya at ease, since he couldn't be seen through-although we have a hint that's not entirely true. That means he can temporarily put his doubts away, but that is only a solution for now, as the clothes are still crumbled (questions not yet answered or that didn’t receive a satisfactory answer). The next scene in the living room is when Kyouya prepares for a trip to Okinawa. He's apparently composed, but we see all the clothes his sister keeps pulling out and, as she pulls more and more, Kyouya's voice starts cracking and he starts breaking his facade: that moron isn't happy with anything is what he tells us, but while a business Kyouya would sugarcoat it and use as less words as possible, this enraged Kyouya starts ranting and his voice is pissed. The clothes don't fit back in; his facade is crumbling and he can't keep it up. The last scene we see in the living room tells us that indeed, Kyoumi (Kyouya's sister) wasn't able to fit anything back in, so she made do with hanging the clothes around the room. The direction here tells us that Kyouya has finally accepted his doubts about the Suoh and realised he can't match him (in terms of idiocy is what he'd say), and so all of his anger and other "uncharacteristic" feelings have overflowed, occupying his entire mind (symbolised by the room: whereas they used to be only in a drawer, they are now all over the room). And so Kyouya paces through them, meaning that tons of thoughts race through his mind and he exteriorises them to no-one in particular, maybe to himself, for the first time. Kyoumi enters the room but she leaves him be, since it's the first time he got so engaged in something and she wants him to have fun, proving that deep down in his conscience, Kyouya isn't so angry and is actually finding this refreshing. The next important scene is when Tamaki comes to visit. Kyoumi waits for Kyouya outside to tell him Tamaki came: his conscience is warning him, preparing him for the impact. For the first time now, he sees a new side of Tamaki, a sensitive, affectionate one, but this is not what Kyouya thinks about: instead, he worries that this could bring himself to such a state, and that he himself can be brought to tears but what he considered to be an "idiot". What follows next only serves to enforce this feeling: Kyouya doesn't really have a link to Tamaki up until now. He's still Suoh to him, and he only sees him as the "lucky heir who doesn't even have to try", taking his frustrations out on him. Up until now, Kyouya hasn't seen Tamaki for who he is: instead, he has grown more and more worried that this guy can break his facade. All their interactions have been simply an excuse to hear Kyouya's thoughts and see his front slowly crumble, so when Kyouya brings tea, it's the first time they ever really talk. Not this scene is framed interestingly: firstly, Tamaki and Kyouya are sitting on the couch together, but they’re obviously far apart from each other. As if this wasn’t enough, Kyouya has his head turned away from him, but when Suoh talks, he glances sideways with anger to see him (although that’s covered by his glasses, but we have another panel confirming this). He is also completely in the shadow, while Tamaki is in the light (just like their hair color suggests, they are complete opposites), which also means that Kyouya hasn’t warmed up to him just yet. He only turns to face the blonde when he starts talking about the main estate (business as per usual) and his face is finally in the sunlight: he is open-minded to what his friend has to say. As Tamki touches the sensitive subject of Kyouya as a heir for the Ootori group, Kyouya turns his head back in the shadow when he talks about his brothers: ressentiment; self-hatred; grief. When Tamaki exclaims “that’s a surprise”, Kyouya is pulled away from his thoughts and faces him again. The next lines he almost spits are said without us getting to see his face, only for his feeling to overflow again and for him to turn the table over (the spilt tea is a metaphor for his feelings, too). He hates that Tamaki can see through him and he hates that he’s right: he almost gave up on being the successor, but what right does an outsider have to rub it in his face? He knows he messed up, but he’s even more annoyed at Tamaki’s light-hearted tone when he explains he may not be a successor. In a total uncharacteristic manner, Kyouya violently pins Tamaki down and starts yelling, grabbing at his shirt. This could mean that he’s actually grabbing onto his own thoughts, that he is fighting with himself and not with his friend. Even in this enraged state, though, Kyouya doesn’t say exactly what he’s thinking: “How can you see through me?” He knows, deep down, that Tamki isn’t blessed; he know he doesn’t have it easy from his little sighs (“the decor is… western”; “we don’t have a kotatsu” and so on). But he projects what he would like to be onto Tamaki. The final metaphor (and the most obvious one) now gains full screen time: the canvas. A frame is a delimitation, the borders you can’t cross no matter what. We see Kyouya painting ever since he was born, but he can’t improve anymore: he can’t overcome the boundaries of his condition as a third son, almost a curse. And it only takes Tamaki to voice his inner doubt for Kyouya to realise is: he has given up. He has labeled himself as the third son and used that as an excuse to give up, since t was easier. And that’s when he takes the first step outside his frame: it’s a red dot, intense, fierce, angered, passionned. And from thereon out, he doesn’t have to be the elegant purple: he can be any color but that and he can grow to heights no one would have imagined. It’s thanks to Tamaki that that he steps out of his frame and reaches his full potential. As he envisions that, he lets go of Tamaki’s shirt (aka his own doubt) and bursts into a hysterical laughter as he realises how easy it was and that it took an “idiot” to realise it. After this revelation, we see him banging Tamaki’s head and his tone becomes that of the Kyouya we know now: relaxed, sly, ironical, mean. The last scene is that of the two sitting under the kotatsu, eating mandarins and talking just like Tamaki described at their first meeting: and it came true. But this is more than just a meeting between friends: it’s proof that Kyouya has changed as he playfully kicks Tamaki. It’s proof of their deep bond. It also symbolises family for Tamaki (as he earlier declared) and thus we understand that their connection is more than friendship. It also proves that, whatever Tamaki has in mind, he always accomplishes. But most importantly, it makes a perfect point to end the story, as it is perfectly symmetrical with the beginning. We now know that the kotatsu is a motif of Kyouya and Tamaki’s friendship, so we understand why Kyouya looked up from his notebook at the start of the episode, when Tamaki introduced the kotatsu to their guests (a little early, just like when they met). We also link the ideas of their talk (about starting a club) and Haruhi’s question: “you and Tamaki-sempai started the club, right?”. We know that ever since back then, he thought it was crazy: “dream on”. We know he went along with it because of that craziness from the smile that reflects in his cup of tea, the same green oolong tea that was being poured in cups at the start of the episode. And we simply know that’s how Kyouya must have been smiling while telling the story. And so, we close this episode perfectly without having to turn back to the club. Maybe we don’t turn back because Kyouya never told the story and only remembered it. He isn’t the type to share his thoughts, after all. But I did argue in the beginning that there is a special connection between bim and Haruhi, so maybe he did. That isn’t so important though, because the show connects beautifully with the beginning, letting us draw our own conclusions. So now we know how this relationship started and we know it’s as strong as a family bond. We also see, yet again, Tamaki’s determination to make friends and help those around him. Without beating us over the head with a leach and absolutely casually, we also find out that Tamaki’s grandmother doesn’t like him, which will be the cause of the climax in the last two episodes. Last but not least, we understand that Kyouya isn’t oblivious to his possibly blooming feelings for Haruhi, but that he cherishes Tamaki’s happiness much more (in the manga, he even says it: “I found something I love even more” referring to Haruhi and Tamaki as a couple, when Honey asks him if he’s fine with that). We need this episode to experience the climax at full power, we simply have to see why all the members love Tamaki and aren’t with him simply because of business relationships, but because they genuinely care for him. That was hardest to see with Kyouya, but the anime did it justice. Might I add, the clothing scene was in the manga, but only the first one (they didn’t perpetuate it as a metaphor, simply as comedic relief), whereas the canvas and the photograph panels were never there to begin with. Neither was the perfect comeback to the beginning: it was all merely a flashback Kyouya had (so you may think he never told Haruhi anything, which makes relating the scene to its origins all the more impressing). And that, friends, is how to direct a great episode, with recurrent metaphors and stunning visual symbolism. If you’re a sucker for that, I suggest watching Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, for each episode is full to the brim with visual metaphors. I ought to make an analysis on that one soon, too. I hope you enjoyed:) let me know if you have any suggestions on what I shall do next!

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