12/01/2008

Host Club Rivals


Zuka Club

Benio Amakusa (天草紅緒 Amakusa Benio?)                                                                          The President of the Zuka Club. Benio is nicknamed "Benibara-sama" at St. Lobelia's and is the most popular of the Zuka Club's ruling council. Benio is also known as "The Lady of the Red Rose". A "Benibara-sama's guardian club" has been founded at St. Lobelia's just to make sure she doesn't get mobbed when walking down the aisles. There is also a fanclub devoted to her. Benio doesn't exactly help matters; she flirts with girls with the same ease as Tamaki. On one occasion, Benio claimed that she was following in the footsteps of her mother, who was supposedly also president of the Zuka Club in her day. This may have been nothing more than a lie meant to sucker Haruhi into helping the Zuka Club out with a play. Although female, she refers to herself with the pronoun "boku," usually used only by males (see Gender differences in spoken Japanese). Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Callie McHalen (English)

Chizuru Maihara (舞原千鶴 Maihara Chizuru?)
The Vice President of the Zuka Club, also known as "The Lady of the Lily". Chizuru is outwardly the most placid member of the ruling council, but this counts for nothing; she never objects to any of the Club's plans, but rather assists and makes things worse. Voiced by: Miho Yamada (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)
Hinako Tsuwabuki (石蕗雛子 Tsuwabuki Hinako?)
One of the leading members of the Zuka Club, known as "The Lady of the Daisy". Hinako is the youngest member of the club's leading council and arguably the most energetic of the three. They also tend to bother Haruhi, for they think that she shouldn't wear boy uniform and kept on insisting Haruhi to join their club. Voiced by: Yuko Sasamoto (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

Student Leaders

Kazukiyo Soga (相賀 和清 Sōga Kazukiyo?)
The Class President of 1-A, Kazukiyo suffers from nyctophobia and a fear of just about anything else that is scary. He has romantic feelings for Class 1-A's Vice President, Momoka, whom he has known for years, but he is initially too shy to come out and say anything. Hikaru and Kaoru comment that he is the kind of person with pure feelings who they can't tease, possibly because he is more emotionally vulnerable than Tamaki. In the manga, he unwittingly caused Haruhi some problems when he became top of his cohort. (Haruhi has to be the top student in her grade in order to keep her scholarship to Ouran.) In volume 6, it's revealed that his father is a famous politician. Voiced by: Shigenori Yamazaki (Japanese), Kyle Hebert (English)


Momoka Kurakano (倉加野 百華 Kurakano Momoka?)
The Class Vice-President of 1-A. She conducts class meetings with Kazukiyo and has new-found respect for him after he put up with the Halloween ordeal. She is a frequent client of Haruhi in the Host Club. Voiced by: Tomomi Watanabe (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)

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