{"id":581,"date":"2006-07-18T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=581"},"modified":"2006-07-18T07:28:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T21:28:21","slug":"ouran-high-school-host-club-episode-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Ouran High School Host Club &#8211; episode 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Haruhi in Wonderland&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-01.jpg\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"450\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This episode is way too much like hard work, with absolutely no ambient music until the end and almost no real humour to reach its point.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine when a comedy goes serious, but there&#8217;s a difference between serious and trying-too-hard to the point of being boring.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Haruhi has a dream which likens the Host Club to Ouran High&#8217;s &#8220;Rabbit Hole&#8221;. There, <s>Haruhi finds that Ouran High is actually a series of machines that survive by harvesting humans, and the Host Club is the one cadre in this world that can fight for freedom<\/s> Haruhi has musicless adventures that culminate in an examination of the parent-child relationship. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s funny to see Kyouya dressed as a giant, hookah smoking caterpillar, but cosplay alone can&#8217;t make something so leaden entertaining. This <i>could<\/I> have been more madcap in its adventurousness yet, for a story about eating bananas and having tea parties, it&#8217;s remarkably dour.<\/p>\n<p>Lesser men may say that this spells the end of <i>Ouran High School Host Club<\/I> (because, you know, one subpar episode out of thirteen, with more still to come, is <i>totally<\/I> reason enough to lose all faith), but I still believe. We get a happy revelation at the end and a brief glimpse of Kyouya in drag.<br \/>\nThe moralising and going through the motions it takes to reach that point aren&#8217;t really that worth it. Even Mori cosplaying as a mouse can&#8217;t bring it quite up to pace.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-02.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-03.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-04.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-05.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-06.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-07.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-08.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-09.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-10.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/oh13-11.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Secret Confession:<\/b> I don&#8217;t like Haruhi&#8217;s female design because her eyes make her look dopey when they&#8217;re framed by that hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Haruhi in Wonderland&#8221; This episode is way too much like hard work, with absolutely no ambient music until the end and almost no real humour to reach its point. I&#8217;m fine when a comedy goes serious, but there&#8217;s a difference between serious and trying-too-hard to the point of being boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouran-high-school-host-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}