{"id":523,"date":"2006-05-28T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=523"},"modified":"2006-05-28T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T13:35:34","slug":"ouran-high-school-host-club-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Ouran High School Host Club – episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Sun, the Beach and the Host Club”<\/p>\n

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Good times all around! Some comedy, but high drama most of all. The Rose of Versailles<\/i> continues!<\/p>\n

Pivotal scene discussed within; approach at risk<\/b><\/p>\n

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Our friends at the Host Club go to Okinawa, taking several clients with them. When a couple of ruffians get onto the beach and start harrassing the girls, Haruhi stands up to them, creating a rift among the club members.<\/p>\n

This episode christens Haruhi “A-cup-chan”, the girl who can get away with drag as she has no chest. Apparently washboard chests can be disguised by way of frilly swimsuits … and thus important lessons are learned.<\/p>\n

The issue of poverty and richness is very briefly touched upon here, when the twins complain that Kyouya hasn’t taken them to Fiji or some other exotic beach location; it’s because Haruhi can’t be expected to have a passport.They’re all class these clb members.<\/p>\n

On the comedy, since the last episode I’ve noticed that Mori is a good source of visual comedy. If you look at him all throughout this episode, with his movements and facial expressions, he is delight in near silent gargantuan form. As the world fights and reconciles around him, he nonchalantly eats a crab!<\/p>\n

Now, the drama: more serious stuff. I like Tamaki when he’s in serious mode, despite the fact that this is when he is in most danger of having his intentions misconstrued. A key way of showing concern for someone is by becoming a smouldering object of fury and, immediately after the deep sea saviour, Tamaki’s feelings are at their most intense.
\nOf course, several hours pass and he’s back to “normal”, but the feelings remain. The issue is not that Haruhi does things that a girl should not, but rather things that no one person should do by themself.<\/p>\n

More interesting than that is Kyouya’s role in this episode. I was deeply<\/i> concerned when he grabbed Haruhi and threw her into the traditional “I am going to rape you” position, which I most recently saw in Rose of Versailles<\/I> (with a different motivation behind the outcome).
\nThat Haruhi took such a situation so easily was what was strange. Can you really tell someone who is kneeling over your body “You wouldn’t do that, there’s no merit in it for you”? I don’t know the statistics, but I suspect that lots of women are raped by people they know, who they never thought would do something like that, and still can’t quite believe it even after the fact.
\nIt’s to Bones’ credit that the scene was not played for laughs. While it can be shrugged off as a “playing the villain to be nice” segment, I like to think that it reveals a darker side of Kyouya: one that passes quickly, but is there nevertheless. Haruhi will recover from it because she has faith in the people she knows, and I doubt that it will come back to bite her in the course of the series.<\/p>\n

Still, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?<\/p>\n

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