Drama: Ouran High School Host Club ep07

 Official Site: TBS - Ouran High School Host Club

Story:

The story starts with Tamaki taking a trip down to whatever scary ass place Nekozawa's Black Magic Club hangs out at.  He gets a reading from them to see what would happen when he meets Haruhi's father.

The host club head to Haruhi's apartment complex.  In style, of course.  Heading over in a Hummer limousine, they attracted the attention of the neighbors angering Haruhi.  She tells them to leave but convinced her to late them stay with some fancy cake.

 The boys take their first look into a commoners household and are truly amazed at... pretty much everything.  How small the place is, how interesting it is to reuse jars, Kyouya intrigued by aluminum foil (haha!) and Tamaki finding the kotatsu (table with a heater).  After eating their cake, Honey suggested Haruhi making lunch for them.  She agrees but needed to go to the grocery store to pick up items.  All them wanted to go since theyve never been to one before.

 Before heading out, Tamaki days a prayer to Haruhi's mother.  Tamaki becomes enticed by Haruhi and eventually, while getting up, trips and falls on her. Lo and Behold, Ranka, Haruhi's transvestite father, comes home and sees him on top of her.  He ends up tossing Tamaki out of the way.

 The club has a group talk with Ranka.  Tamaki is super depressed after being turned down by Ranka.  The boys find out that Kyouya has been texting Haruhi's father.  Tamaki getting even more depressed is hurt by Ranka's outburst to him and runs out of the apartment crying.  Haruhi goes and comforts him and takes him to the super market.

 Tamaki wanted Nabe for lunch (even though it's summer).  He was so amazed at how everything worked in the market.  He loved how everything was inexpensive and went crazy like a kid in a candy store.  The rest of the club members and Ranka went to go spy on them. 

Ranka refuses to recognize Tamaki as a "father figure" and basically tells him to gtfo.  As this was going down, a little girl accidentally knocks over a canned food display that was going to topple over Haruhi.  Tamaki comes to the rescue and protects her.

 In the end, they all had lunch together, under the kotatsu.  Ranka was close to accepting Tamaki until he opened up his big mouth again causing Ranka to get angry and giving him the mushrooms that Tamaki had cultivated to eat for lunch instead of the nabe in the pot.  Of course, Tamaki gets depressed and yells out.

Comments:
(I wrote this before I went on hiatus) I really liked this story line.  It's nice to see them outside of the high school, especially since its the first and basically the only time you actually get to see Haruhi's apartment.  It's also funny to see Ranka for the first time and it transitioned really well from the manga/anime to live action.  I also like the portrayal of Tamaki cultivating mushrooms in their closet.

I don't have much to comment on since I turned off my Ouran Live Action fangirling when the series ended haha.

(new comments) As I was taking screencaps for this episode I noticed a lot of small things again that they added at subtle nods to the anime and manga.  Honey passes his carrots to Mori.  While Honey didnt mention it in the drama, if you read the manga, you'll know he doesn't like carrots which I thought was really cute.

Also, why was Kyouya not wearing his glasses at the last few seconds of the episode.  He was wearing it when they said grace, but as they were actually eating, they were off haha!  Must have been fogging up from the food, small space and kotatsu warmth!! :)

Also, the mushrooms that Tamaki was given to eat... those are poisonous haha!!! As a scientist, we know that the brighter the color of items, the more poisonous they'll be.  Yikes!