Parent reviews for Ouran High School Host Club

My 14 year old daughter loves this show. However, I would caution parents to watch this with you child to make sure you are okay with the messages, borderline inappropriate scenes, and language. It does open up a conversation for the LGBTQ+ teens which is good for the daughter. I do not think any child under 14 years old should watch this program. This is an older anime, so I understand the stereotyping and name calling which was more common and accepted in the early 2000s. This is why I suggest parents watch this show before letting their child.

This show I watched myself, I think your child should be able to watch this if they are mature enough.

Ouran High School Host Club is the very funny, very sweet tale of how a girl and a group of boys meet under strange circumstances and end up helping one another grow as people. Their clash in culture - Haruhi a "commoner", the host club boys all ridiculously rich - gives them plenty to learn from one another and understand about empathy as well as relying on others as the series progresses. Sexual references are limited to the mild "you pervert!" misunderstandings often found in youth-targeted anime, as well as a handful of suggestive references across the whole series where Hikaru and Kaoru play up their relationship to make girls squeal in delight (it is clear that the brothers do not actually have incestuous feelings for one another, and one of them develops a crush on the main protagonist). Some parents may take pause in the fact that Haruhi's father, who works at a cross-dressing bar, is repeated referred to with a transgender slur in the English dub; while this is in bad taste today, it is clear that the boys aren't terribly bothered by his profession and simply use it as an intended-to-be-humorous shorthand.