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Err, that was an odd way to start a topic.
Anyway, I picked up this gem last night, and I've been watching obsessively since.
Plot, quoting wikipedia,
Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at Ouran High School, a fictional school located in BunkyÅ, Tokyo. Because of the superlative cost of the school uniform, Haruhi resorts to wearing long slacks, polo shirts and vests. Combined with her large glasses and tousled short hair, Haruhi's look causes her to be confused for a boy.
Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the Third Music Room, the working place of the Ouran Host Club, a group of six attractive male students (Takashi Morinozuka, called "Mori"; Mitsukuni Haninozuka, called "Hunny"; twins Kaoru and Hikaru Hitachiin; Tamaki Suou, and Kyoya Ootori) who spend their time charming and entertaining the school's girls for profit. During their first meeting, Haruhi accidentally knocks over and break a vase valued at ¥8,000,000, estimated to be US$80,000.
In order to pay off the large debt, Haruhi is employed as the club's "dog" and constantly ordered to do menial tasks like serving food or cleaning up. The Club president, without knowing she is really a girl, promotes Haruhi to "host" as soon as he discovers her potential. Even after the truth comes out in the Club, Haruhi continues the charade and is allowed to pay off the rest of her debt working as a host; in order to accomplish this, Haruhi conceals her true identity/gender from the customers.
Honestly, I started watching without having read that, so I was initially a little off-put by the all-male cast, but after Haruhi turned out to be a girl, I've discovered something.
Harem animes are "meh" and all, but...Nothing,
NOTHING says comedy like a reverse harem. Scores of women will beat up the protagonist, and that may be funny, but this show in action?
Comedic Gold.