Haruhi Fujioka (藤岡 ハルヒ Fujioka Haruhi) (born 4 February) aged 15, then turns 16 in chapter 70, is the main character of the series.
Haruhi is an intelligent first-year student from a poor family who attends the Ouran Academy, an exclusive private school, on a special scholarship that requires her to rank first in her class. One day, while looking for a quiet place to study, she stumbles upon the Ouran Host Club and accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to them that was to be featured in a school auction. As a result, she must work off her debt to the club by disguising herself as a boy and working as a host for them. She finds this easy because she does not feel that gender dominates her personality. She soon realizes that acting as host and talking to the other girls comes quite naturally and she begins to enjoy it. However, she does not like taking time away from studying and finds the antics of the other hosts extremely irritating, but also increasingly endearing.
Although habitually quiet and unflappable, she has a deep fear of thunderstorms. Haruhi lives with her eccentric father and has become skilled in household chores due to her mother's death when she was 5. Although her independent, straight-forward personality clashes with those of the other, more outgoing hosts Haruhi becomes friends with them, especially the Hitachiin twins who are in her class, a fact that is exceedingly troublesome to the Host Club "King", Tamaki. Her home was formatted after a former Hatori residence. In chapter 57 of the manga, Haruhi realizes that she's in love with Tamaki. Her new discovery leaves her flustered and panicking, blushing and/or running away at his presence. She eventually learns to calm her feelings down, and decides she will have to learn a lot more and grow more as a person before she can tell him. In later chapters she has essentially gone back to her old self, but still blushes on occasions if he touches her in a fond way or gets too intimate. In chapters 65-69 a transfer student by the name Kanoya Megumi appears in Ouran, a girl whom Tamaki saves from getting badly wounded by a horse. From this act Haruhi for the first time shows jealousy, especially as the other Host Club members recognize her as "The Ideal Haruhi". This is revealed in chapter 69, as Haruhi stated she felt so jealous seeing Kanoya with Tamaki that she felt like crying. In chapter 72, they share an accidental kiss leaving them both panicking. Haruhi reacts with blushing and teary eyes. A few chapters before this Kousaka, a lawyer, told Haruhi's dad that she is not suited for Ouran and that she would do best if she left the school. She returned again to inform him that Haruhi had been selected for a sponsored study abroad in the United States and would be wise to accept it.
Haruhi is an intelligent first-year student from a poor family who attends the Ouran Academy, an exclusive private school, on a special scholarship that requires her to rank first in her class. One day, while looking for a quiet place to study, she stumbles upon the Ouran Host Club and accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to them that was to be featured in a school auction. As a result, she must work off her debt to the club by disguising herself as a boy and working as a host for them. She finds this easy because she does not feel that gender dominates her personality. She soon realizes that acting as host and talking to the other girls comes quite naturally and she begins to enjoy it. However, she does not like taking time away from studying and finds the antics of the other hosts extremely irritating, but also increasingly endearing.
Although habitually quiet and unflappable, she has a deep fear of thunderstorms. Haruhi lives with her eccentric father and has become skilled in household chores due to her mother's death when she was 5. Although her independent, straight-forward personality clashes with those of the other, more outgoing hosts Haruhi becomes friends with them, especially the Hitachiin twins who are in her class, a fact that is exceedingly troublesome to the Host Club "King", Tamaki. Her home was formatted after a former Hatori residence. In chapter 57 of the manga, Haruhi realizes that she's in love with Tamaki. Her new discovery leaves her flustered and panicking, blushing and/or running away at his presence. She eventually learns to calm her feelings down, and decides she will have to learn a lot more and grow more as a person before she can tell him. In later chapters she has essentially gone back to her old self, but still blushes on occasions if he touches her in a fond way or gets too intimate. In chapters 65-69 a transfer student by the name Kanoya Megumi appears in Ouran, a girl whom Tamaki saves from getting badly wounded by a horse. From this act Haruhi for the first time shows jealousy, especially as the other Host Club members recognize her as "The Ideal Haruhi". This is revealed in chapter 69, as Haruhi stated she felt so jealous seeing Kanoya with Tamaki that she felt like crying. In chapter 72, they share an accidental kiss leaving them both panicking. Haruhi reacts with blushing and teary eyes. A few chapters before this Kousaka, a lawyer, told Haruhi's dad that she is not suited for Ouran and that she would do best if she left the school. She returned again to inform him that Haruhi had been selected for a sponsored study abroad in the United States and would be wise to accept it.
