Ouran High School Host Club Vol. 6: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6
- ISBN
- 9781421505848
- Publisher
- VIZ Media
- English release
- Pages
- 200
Ouran High School Host Club Volume 6 uses the school festival to bring the hosts' families into their public performance. The members are entertaining visiting parents, so the club's charm now has an audience with authority beyond the room. Read this for the friction between Tamaki's position among his friends and his position at home. The festival setting is an invitation to examine who gets to recognize him, rather than simply another occasion for the club to impress guests.
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Tamaki's grandmother excludes him from the main Suoh residence, while his father is the school's chairman. That contrast moves family wealth out of the role of comic scenery and into the role of power exercised against a host. Kyoya and the club act to help Tamaki, reversing the festival's service arrangement: their leader needs support rather than an audience. The argument is not that money has disappeared as an advantage. It is that access to it does not settle whether a family will acknowledge someone. Tamaki can command attention at school without commanding acceptance at home.
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