Tamaki Suou

 

Characteristics

Name Kanji 須王 環 Suou Tamaki

Age 16

Birthday April 8th

Star Sign Aries

Gender Male

Height 6'

Blood Type A

Ethnicity French-Japanese

Personal Status

Favourite Subject(s) English, French, World History (Fond of Japanese History)

Favourite Food(s) Common Folk Ramen (recently, especially pork flavour), Common Folk Foods (Especially Baby Star)

Club Ouran High School Host Club

School Ouran Private Academy

Occupation Second Year High School Student, Host Club Chairman

Relatives Yuzuru Suoh (Father)

Anne-Sophie Grantaine (Mother)

Shizue Suoh (Grandmother)

Haruhi Fujioka (Wife)

Ryouji "Ranka" Fujioka (Faither-in-Law)

Kotoko Fujioka (Mother-in-Law)

Unnamed Children

First appearance

Manga Debut Chapter 1

Anime Debut Episode 1

Portrayal

Seiyū Mamoru Miyano

Voice Actor Vic Mignogna

Actor Yusuke Yamamoto (Live Action)

René Tamaki Richard de Grantaine (better known as Tamaki Suou), is the son of Ouran Academy's Chairman and is also the official president of the Ouran Host Club. Tamaki is in Class 2-A, the same class as his best friend, Kyouya Ootori.

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PersonalityEdit

Tamaki Suou is credited as the co-founder (along with Kyouya Ootori) and President of the Ouran Academy Host Club. Although his outward manner would be best described as flamboyant and egotistical, he is a young man dedicated to his studies, his friends, and his duties as a host.  He is considered "the Princely type", entertaining the female customers with upper-class etiquette and shameless flattery. He views the club his 'family' with himself as the father; Kyouya Ootori as the mother; Haruhi Fujioka as the daughter; Hikaru Hitachiin and Kaoru Hitachiin as the devilish sons; and Mori (Takashi) and Honey (Mitsukuni) as the neighbors. His real family consists of his mother, Anne-Sophie de Grantaine (who he is forbidden to see by his grandmother until late in the manga); his father, Yuzuru Suou (Chairman of the School Board for Ouran Academy/High Schhol); and his strict paternal grandmother. He is an accomplished classical pianist.

As the main comic relief character of the series, Tamaki is portrayed as outspoken and naive for his age.  He is especially blind about his own feelings of romantic love towards Haruhi, despite everyone else being completely aware of it. Of all the hosts, Tamaki's personality as a host differs the most from his true personality. Although he seems both poised and charming as a host, he is often bumbling and attention-seeking outside of his occupation.  His desire to please the Host Club's female guests, however, is genuine- to the point that he sets aside his love for Haruhi in order to continue pleasing customers without any hindrances.

 

Tamaki is born under the star sign of Aries, the Ram.  The positive traits of this sign are adventurousness, courage, versatility, liveliness, positivity and passion.  The negative traits of this sign are arrogance, stubborness, impulsivity, undisciplined, being confrontational and a tendency to leave projects midway.

 

AppearanceEdit

 

Tamaki as he appears in the mangaBeing half-French and half-Japanese, Tamaki has light-blonde hair and violet eyes. When he's not at school, he prefers to wear designer clothing.  His good looks and charms often allow him to win over others and he is known by the rest he club as Tono (or King) with a 70% request rate by guests. He enjoys cosplay and does so with the Club often.  He is able to cry without the use of eyedrops (which he claims to be the mark of a true host), and has been compared to Umehito Nekozawa (President of the Black Magic Club) in appearance.

His rose color in the Host Club is white, signifying happiness in love. This is ironic in that, although he genuinely strives to provide his female customers with happiness in their love, he himself is unable to recognize his own love for Haruhi.

RelationshipsEdit

Haruhi FujiokaEdit

At first, Tamaki sees Haruhi as a commoner and is the last of the hosts to realize that she's a girl (which he only realizes this when he observes her changing).  For most of the series, he expresses his feelings towards her as "Fatherly Love," not understanding himself that the feeling he has for her is, in fact, romantic love. At first, Haruhi  calls him obnoxious but later, realizes that he is always kind, good to her and a genuinely thoughtful person. After they overcome countless difficulties (mainly realizing their dense feelings for what they are), the two are shown marrying in the epilogue of the manga series, and are noted to be the first of the Host Club members to have children.

Kyouya OotoriEdit

As Tamaki's best friend since middle-school, Kyouya has been in the same class as him since they met; their extremely friendly relationship has manifesting itself in the Prince's frequent reference to him as 'Mommy' and his reciprocal (and occasional) reference to him as 'Daddy'. Despite their differing outward personalities, they are both shown to share the quality of helping others, Kyoya often assisting Tamaki in realizing his plans to help. When first introduced to each other, Kyouya was polite but secretly envied Tamaki's heir apparent position and the wealth that the blond male owned, despite his status as an illegitimate child. Eventually, the bespectacled male let his feelings go in an emotional outburst, where he accused Tamaki of not trying hard to which Tamaki responds that he himself is the one that refuses to try.  This epiphany leads Kyouya to realize this truth. 

Hikaru and Kaoru HitachiinEdit

Hikaru and Kaoru first meet Tamaki when he recruits them for his newly-formed Host Club during their first year in high school.  They agree to join on the condition that the blond male could win the 'Which One Is Hikaru? Game without having to randomly guess. Despite the fact that he fails many times, he finally manages to win the game and the identical twins, secretly impressed with his determination, decide to uphold their end of the bargain and join the Host Club. Through their interaction with the club members, they develope friendships and generally become more social. It should be noted that Tamaki is the one to suggest their mock 'twincestuous' relationship as a means to draw customers to their club.

Mitsukuni HaninozukaEdit

Mitsukuni (aka Honey) refers to Tamaki as 'Tama-chan' and is shown to like and care for him greatly, since he was one of the only people to accept him for what he was, even going as far to advise him that real courage is the ability to be oneself. In the incident with the nefarious Newspaper Club, when Tamaki is accused of using his power over the other hosts, Honey defends him saying, 'Tamaki would never do that. We all love Tama-chan. That's why we're in the Host Club in the first place'. He could also be seen to feel indebted to the Prince, as the latter was the one that allowed him to break free and became the -shota boy that he is in the Host Club.

Takashi MorinozukaEdit

Takashi (aka Mori) and Tamaki became close friends as a result of their connection to Honey, though they don't seem to interact on a personal level as much as the blond does with others. It should be noted that, at one point, Tamaki is shown apologizing to Mori due to the fact that he doesn't have many lines to say throughout the anime.

Éclair TonnerreEdit

Éclair is an anime-only character that is both the heir apparent to the French-based Grand Tonnerre Group, as well as Tamaki's betrothed. After developing a crush on him thanks to stories from his mother (who was a servant in her employment), she flies over to Japan unannounced and manages to manipulate his grandmother into allowing her to marry him. When she recognizes that her fiance is attracted to Haruhi, she 'blackmails' him into leaving the Host Club and come to France with the promise that he can meet his estranged mother. However, on the way to the airport with Éclair, Haruhi drives a carriage up to them and begs Tamaki to stay with the Host Club because of their affection for him.  When she topples off a bridge that the two vehicles are passing over, he goes to save his love interest instead of staying with his fiancee. Éclair has remarked that, despite her nasty behavior towards him, he can still muster up a genuine smile for her, showing that he is innately sweet to all people.

FamilyEdit

Suou FamilyEdit

Tamaki is the only child of Yuzuru Suou, Chairman of Ouran Academy's School Board, and Anne-Sophie de Grantaine, the beautiful/kind-hearted French woman whom Yuzuru fell in love with.

 

Tamaki when he was little.It should be noted that Shizue, Tamaki's grandmother, was the one that forces Tamaki to spend his life in Mansion #2 as opposed to the main mansion, due to his illegitimacy. Although not permitted to see his mother, he lived with her in his childhood, hence his love for childish games and playing the piano. Despite his grandmother's cruelty towards him, Tamaki treats her with genuine kindness and hopes that, through his actions or by some other means, the matriarch will accept him as a Suou.

An interesting fact about the Suou family is that they maintain friendly relations with Haruhi's father, Ryouji.

Yuzuru SuouEdit

Yuzuru Suou is the patriarch of the Suou family, and is also Tamaki's father. Despite his age (48) and his status (Chairman of Ouran Academy's School Board), he enjoys teasing his son, but can do nothing to help his mother (i.e. Tamaki's grandmother) reconcile with him. In fact, the only act of rebellion that Yuzuru exhibited towards his mother was when he refused to marry his mother's choice of a bride for him to be with Takami's mother. Later, in Volume 9 of the manga series, it is revealed that Yuzuru knew where Anne-Sophie could be located but kept this information to himself so that Tamaki might come to be accepted by his grandmother and be allowed to take over as the Suoh patriarch, in time.  He supports Tamaki being with Haruhi.

Although Tamaki's looks come from his mother, his charming nature is much like Yuzuru's. In his father's presence, he is shown to be very serious, but the same cannot be said of the opposite; in fact, Yuzuru is portrayed in the manga series as someone who is eager to tease his son whenever the chance arises.  Examples of this include sending his son red herrings in the middle of an investigation and telling tall tales of his son.

 

Anne-Sophie de GrantaineEdit

Anne-Sophie de Grantaine is Tamaki's estranged mother, who met Yuzuru Suou while he was on a business trip to Japan.  They soon fell in love and Tamaki was born.  Tamaki's grandmother forbade her to return to Japan with Yuzuru and forced her son to marry a woman of her choosing.  As a result of this, Anne-Sophie is responsible for Tamaki's upbringing for 14 years, but gives up custody and all other rights concerning her son when she is offered financial security.  She does so thinking of Tamaki's future and her own ill health, after which she goes into hiding. In the Manga, during a Second Year school trip to France, Kyouya Ootori discovers her hiding place and finds her to be quite healthy (albeit longing for her son's presence).  It is later revealed that she has Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.  In time, mother and son are reunited in Japan.

Shizue SuouEdit

Shizue Suou is the matriarch of the Suou household, as well as Tamaki's paternal grandmother and Yuzuru's mother. She controls all of the Suou Family holdings and acts as the Suou Enterprises's President.  She is dismissive and mean towards Tamaki causing even Mitsukuni Haninozuka (Honey) to hate her, one of the very few people to achieve this. Shizue clearly shows her hatred for Tamaki's mother and Tamaki himself, to the point that she calls him 'filthy child' due to his illegitimacy and refuses to acknowledge him as her grandson. However, due to her grandson's loving nature and his genuine desire to become closer to her, she slowly comes to love and acknowledge him, as well as accepting Anne-Sophie. It should be noted that she finds Haruhi a very interesting girl, and is supportive of Tamaki's decision to be with her.

GalleryEdit

 

Depressed Tamaki, eating 'commoner noodles'

 

'Ranka' calls depressed Tamaki from his mushroom closet

 

Tamaki attempting to explain his presence at the market

 

A serious/daydreaming Tamaki

 

Tamaki naively checking out his uniform...?

 

Tamaki being bowled over by Antoinette (his dog)

 

A highly dreamy Tamaki

 

Tamaki's White Rose

 

Tamaki's frequent daydreams of him and Haruhi's lovey-dovey life

 

Tamaki fails to protect Haruhi's lips

 

A furiously blushing Tamaki

 

Tamaki finally realizes Haruhi's true gender

 

Tamaki and Arai, conversing

 

Tamaki kneeling next to Dr. Yabu

 

Kirimi mistakes Tamaki as her princely elder brother

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TriviaEdit

He has a brown teddy bear named "Kuma-chan".

He is the "Father" of the Host club. His "Wife" is Kyouya, his "Children" are Hikaru, Kaoru, Haruhi (the youngest); and their "neighbors" are Honey and Mori.

Throughout the series, he calls himself Haruhi's Daddy, thinking of her as his little girl and dosen't like it when other guys flirt or warm up to Haruhi.

Tamaki's birthday, April 8th, is on the same day as Buddha's birthday. Another popular suggestion was April 1st - April Fool's Day.

In Chapter 21 of the manga Episode 11 of the anime, Tamaki has been proven to have a similar appearance to Nekozawa Umehito, even though the two personalities are nothing alike.

He has a tendency to wake up early, much to the chagrin of the other Host Club members.

The Japanese character, 王, in Tamaki's surname means "king" or "ruler" which may be one of the reasons why he is the "princely type."

Kyouya stated that when he and Tamaki first met that Tamaki, he "Couldn't speak proper Japanese."

In anime episode number 17, Tamaki buys a dog that constantly his face, naming it Antoinette. In the manga extra, however, Tamaki receives Antoinette as a puppy upon arriving in Japan as a welcome gift from the household staff. His mother's dog, Hachibei, is Antoinette's brother.

He is 183cm tall(6ft)

His favorite subjects are English, French, and World History.

His favorite foods are peasant ramen and peasant snacks.

QuotesEdit

(To Kyouya) "Kyouya, I just had an incredible idea! Lets form a club!"

(To Haruhi) "Handsome men can't be hurt by water."

(To a customer) "When you're in front of me, my heart beats so quickly as if I am a youth tasting love for the first time. You are the beautiful mermaid who sheds lights to the sea of loneliness!! The sinful goddess who taught me about the forbidden fruit!"

(To a customer) "Aah Princess, even if the world ended this minute, I want to be the man who even sacrifices his own life to protect you..."

(To a customer) "The spring of my heart surges upon the sight of your fresh smile, my love."

"Our Ouran Host Club exists to bring fortune to the ladies."

(To Haruhi) ''"Do you know this proverb, Fujioka-kun? When in Rome, do as the Romans do. If you don't have the money, pay with your own body! From now on, you are the Host Club's dog!!"

"Call me king!"

"Evil Twins get away from my daughter!!"

(To Kyouya) "Mom! Haruhi's using foul language!"

(To Haruhi) A little water never hurt anyone... besides, people always say I'm dripping with good looks."

(Referring to Kyouya)"All right! The Low Blood Pressure Evil Lord has given his approval! Fellow subjects! Let's dress up the evil lord and bring him to the car! "

(To Haruhi) "Come here. I'll be here for you from now on.I'll try to have an eye on you so that you won't ever end up alone."

(Pointing to Haruhi) "You're gonna pay for that! And look at what she`s wearing! It`s super cute! Really super cute!"

"BRAVO! KYOUYA! MON AMI! MON AMI! YAHOO!" (Upon when he first met Kyouya Ootori)

(To Haruhi) "It's not everyday God creates a perfect person like moi, beautiful both inside and out."

(To Haruhi) ''"Isn't this crab... CRABtivating?"

( To acustomer ) " Ah princess! I'm so glad to see your bright warm smile! "

"I'm making a hamster home."

(Referring to the host club excluding Haruhi) "You boys...are the homoual supporting cast."

(To Haruhi) "I'm not your Sempai, I'm just an acquaintance"

(To Mitsukuni Haninozuka ) " Do you think you could tell me what true strength is? I may be out of line, but hiding your true self and putting on airs doesn't seem any different than running away to me. I would think that embracing the things you truly like and being able to enjoy them is worth more than anything. To just be yourself... I believe that's what true strength really is"

(To Hikaru and Kaoru) "Do you really think im going to let Haruhi marry you guys? DADDY SAYS NO!"

(About Hikaru and Kaoru) "Their world is still so small... It's such a shame..."'

(To Haruhi) Experiences of all kinds!