#moriharu

[notafandomblog]

I don't know how about you, but I love the fact that we have an Ouran Dating Sim. Also, these pictures are so precious.

#ouran high school host club #ohshc #ohshc kyoya #kyoya ootori #haruhi fujioka #fujioka haruhi #ouran #ouran highschool host club #ouran koukou host club #kyouya ootori #ohshc tamaki #tamaki suoh #takashi morinozuka #moriharu #kyoharu #tamaharu #ouran hshc

[gincoded]

huge smackcam to whoever started the mori haruhi og endgame rumors..bisco hatori has always been a tamaharu truther

#the tiktok moriharu propaganda is so crazy #mori is barely a character in the manga anyways #ouran #ohshc #ouran high school host club #moriharu #tamaharu #haruhi fujioka #takashi morinozuka

[hearmyvoiceoftreason]

the fact that ouran could've had moriharu endgame but didn't is my villain origin story

#moriharu #still mad abt this im sorry #@bisco hatori i just wanna talk #ouran high school host club #mori x haruhi #ohshc

[little-chimchim]

Hello hello! I have recently finished a long Kyoya/Haruhi fic on AO3 titled What Happens in the Dark. At the moment I am working on a Mori/Haruhi fic. If you’re interested, check out Katnowell on AO3. Also, I do take requests, so, if you have any Ouran related ideas, let me know on here because I’m having a touch of writers block. I appreciate it!

#ouranhighhostclub #Ouran #anime #kyoharu #moriharu #kyoya ootori #takashi morinozuka #haruhi fujioka #fanfic #ouran fanfic

[myinterestsvary-writes]

Underrated trio: Haruhi - Takashi - Mitsukuni

The peace corps

#ohshc #haruhi fujioka #takashi morinozuka #mitsukuni haninozuka #moriharu #I still love MH it’s so good for the both of them <3 #the canon could’ve gone in any direction and I am truly happy with endgame but I love moriharu I just do

[kimbertmusings]

I am hip deep in the middle of a longfic in a different fandom right now, but man if I don’t want to try my hand at Haruhi/Takashi fic.

I even have an idea. Just a full rewrite of the manga with Takashi slowly courting Haruhi in the background and no one noticing.

Except for Hani, but he doesn’t miss anything, so that is not a surprise.

I know others have done it, and done it well, but what a challenge! Just an excellent challenge to practice subtlety.

Now I’m going to keep thinking about it.

#ohshc #ohshc haruhi #ohshc mori #takashi morinozuka #haruhi fujioka #moriharu #mitskuni haninozuka #ouran high school host club

[cindytranart]

HaniHaruMori - OHSHC Royal Isekai AU stickers

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#cindytranart #anime fanart #ohshc royal isekai au #ohshc fanart #ouran high school host club #haruhi fujioka #takashi morinozuka #mitskuni haninozuka #moriharu #haniharu

[saintomie]

if i had to erase one thing about the ohshc fandom it would be that goddamn thing about how mori and haruhi were originally supposed to end up together

#it’s not true btw #i’m 90% that rumor was started on here by some moriharu shipper and everyone just ran with it #it’s even funnier when they say it was because tamaki was more popular with the fans #because #there’s a popularity poll in the manga #and he’s literally right above tamaki #if it makes you feel better then fine #but don’t spread false information #ohshc #ouran high school host club #moriharu

[notafandomblog]

HikaHaru and MoriHaru

#ouran high school host club #ohshc #haruhi fujioka #ouran #ouran highschool host club #ouran koukou host club #fujioka haruhi #ohshc haruhi #takashi morinozuka #ohshc mori #hikaru hitachiin #hikaharu #moriharu

[fuckyeahmoriharu]

Tall genes are strong.

Original Tweet Link

#been feeling this lately #tall genes in a short person isn't a forgiving mix #haruhi fujioka #takashi morinozuka #morixharuhi #moriharu #fanblog #ohshc ship #ohshc otp #original edit

[ohshcscenerios]

Haruhi x Mori >:)

Out of all the eligible hosts pining after Haruhi's affections, you choose the emotionless mute. You looked at this brick wall with no character background and decided that's the winning ticket to carry this romcom to the finish line.

This ship offers stability and mutual respect, which is great for someone with childhood trauma, but it's also extremely boring. You can't expect a riveting love story after mushing together the show's biggest pacifists. You probably also love cream of wheat and room temperature water.

Saying Mori and Haruhi is the best match is like saying pen and paper is the perfect team. It makes sense logically but is it really the most exciting thing? The thrill this ship offers radiates the same as paying bills on time. Yeah it feels great during that moment of responsible clarity but that's quickly over once you realize bills aren't entertaining.

#T-T it hurt to write this #moriharu forever #ouran roasts #takashi morinozuka #haruhi fujioka #moriharu

[blue-cobalt]

MoriHaru and KyoHaru appreciation post.

#ouran high school host club #ohshc kyouya #ohshc kyoya #ohshc haruhi #fujioka haruhi #haruhi fujioka #ohshc #kyouya ootori #kyoya ootori #morinozuka takashi #takashi morinozuka #ouran

[myinterestsvary-writes]

fun speculation from reading the manga from my headtop, Tamaki was quite a hated character before the anime came out lmao. Twins’ fans sent hate mail about him saying they hope he’ll be reduced to perverted comic relief supporting role 🤣

also, since I know mori and haruhi were intended to be together originally, I can see seeds being planted for mutual attraction and a relationship between the two before the author changed her mind. Currently on chapter 14

#I mean he’s hated now by these standards now too but his transgressions are more willingly brushed off because he’s so funny lmao #tamaki suoh #Mori x haruhi #ouran high school host club #moriharu

[sojirosteacup]

The (possible) origins of the Mori/Haruhi rumor

Or, I take a look at four different language versions of Mori's character profile to try to debunk this rumor.

You guys probably know the rumor that goes like "Tamaki wasn't supposed to end up with Haruhi, it was going to be Mori, but Tamaki became more popular and the mangaka changed her mind"

Like many others in this fandom, I'm tired of people blindly believing it so I was trying to write a post about how I think this rumor started. I was originally going to focus more on the "it changed because Tamaki became popular" part, because I felt that the "Mori was supposed to be endgame" part of the rumor had already been dissected by other people.

Except when I was I looking for Mori's character profile (the infamous quote that is believed to be the source of it) to use for my post, I found different versions of it depending on the translation. And maybe the "Mori was supposed to be endgame" part needs a bit more dissection, actually.

Especially since I couldn't understand at first why Mori of all hosts is the focus of this rumor, because MoriHaru was pretty much a rarepair before this.

Now I'm going to analyze both the "Mori was supposed to be endgame" part and the "it changed because Tamaki became popular" parts. And I think I may have a pretty good theory for how this rumor started.

Here is my analysis under the cut:

(Beware there are probably some spelling mistakes bc it's 2AM and english is not my native language)

The MoriHaru rumor is widely believed to have come from a quote from Hatori in a manga volume. More exactly, Mori's character profile.

So let's take a look at his character profile for a second.

The English translation that gets passed around goes like this:

"If I leave him alone, he winds up being a 'quiet, sober-faced fellow' so he makes Hatori groan a lot. But his love is vast (laugh), so there's at least an outside chance of Haruhi and Mori becoming a couple."

Here we have what might have confused some people. "Outside chance of Haruhi/Mori becoming a couple" doesn't mean they were supposed to be endgame, it means there is an unlikely chance of them being a couple.

Makes sense people would misread this. But I've always felt it was such a weak sentence to start this entire rumor… especially when there is literally shippy art of Haruhi with every host in the manga. Wouldn't any other character have started a similar rumor? Why would such a weak sentence start something so big?

But I was looking for a clear picture of the English profile to add to my original post idea when I stumbled over the Spanish version. And it got me confused because it was worded differently:

If you don't know Spanish, this is very similar to the English text, except the ending says:

"My (Hatori's) favorite couple is Mori + Haruhi, maybe."

Wait, we have an entirely different sentence here! This one implies Hatori likes MoriHaru more than the other couples, which could point to this being the source of the rumor. But I'm not satisfied. This is not enough. Let's dig deeper.

Spanish is not my native language, so I went to my actual native language, which is Brazilian Portuguese. Fortunately I have the entire collection with me, so I opened volume one to find this:

The first sentence is pretty much the same as the English and Spanish versions, but the rest says "He ends up worrying me, because he gives me the impression he will end up turning the story around. But I like him a lot (laughs). Maybe my favorite couple is Mori and Hani"

And that Hani bit is a fucking mistranslation from the Brazilian Portuguese print! It's supposed to be Haruhi, not Honey. This is the second time I find a mistranslation in this volume! This is why shoujo manga doesn't sell well here, publishers!

But the rest of the text is interesting. He could "turn the story around" (this is the closest translation I can give you for the word "reviravolta"). That means he has the potential to change the plot. Interesting. Seems in line with the rumor of Hatori's plans changing.

Now we have three different translations here, all of them pointing to different things. It's a bit confusing. Which one is the real translation?

But you don't know the depths to my obsession! I do have the first ouran volume in Japanese! And there is no better way to solve this mystery than to look at the original text!

I'm not fluent in Japanese but I have six semesters of beginner level Japanese under my belt + it's 1 AM 2AM and I should be asleep because I'm going to cosplay Tamaki at a con tomorrow + I drank an entire cup of green tea and I'm shaking AND THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME TO FALL IN A TRANSLATION RABBIT HOLE!

Here is a pic of the Japanese text taken straight from the manga:

In the Japanese text, Hatori says Mori/Haruhi (yes, HARUHI, not Honey) is a 大穴 couple. I searched 大穴 on a japanese dictionary app and this is what it means: "Long shot win (in horse racing), big winnings (on a Long shot), a killing (made from a bet)"

So THAT'S probably where it came from. She called MoriHaru an unlikely win and people thought it meant she was planning for him and Haruhi to be a surprise endgame in the long run. Looks similar to the english version, but I feel it has more "winning connotations" here, you know? Add this to the translation calling them Hatori's favorite couple and you have the likely source to the confusion: People thought it was her favorite couple and that it would win in the long run, surprising everyone.

From this to "they were supposed to be endgame but it got changed" it's not a big leap.

I should try translating the rest of the japanese text but let me do it another day when it's not 2AM, thanks

But that does not mean she was planning for them to be canon. If anything it's more likely she didn't know who to ship Haruhi with at first (there are other quotes from the manga that support this or the "Tamaki was always endgame" theory).

So another part of the mystery seems to be solved, but none of this explains the whole popularity part of the rumor. You know, when people say Tamaki became the male lead because he was more popular than Mori.

We know this is highly unlikely because Mori actually got second place at the first popularity pool, losing only to Haruhi. And Tamaki wasn't the only popular character in the group. You can see this in depth in this post by another person.

So where could people have taken that from?

You know which other shoujo fandom has a very similar rumor? Boys over flowers (a.k.a. Hana Yori Dango a.k.a. Meteor Garden).

If you are into that manga, you have probably heard that "Tsukasa wasn't supposed to be the male lead, Rui was. But Tsukasa won the first popularity pool and the mangaka changed her mind."

(Listen, I'm a huge boys over flowers fan but I'm not sure if this is true in this fandom either. I'm not a huge interview reader, so if anyone has a source where Kamio says this, please send it to me.)

But in boys over flowers case it at least makes a bit more sense! Tsukasa did win the first popularity contest (Rui got third place). And I've seen this rumor on bof fansites from the 90s/early 00s, so this one has a higher chance of being true compared to the ouran one.

Honestly, the first time I heard the Mori rumor my first reaction was "???? I've heard this before in another fandom????"

So my guess is that the rumor about Boys Over Flowers somehow jumped to Ouran. But how did people mix up completely unrelated series from different mangaka and magazines? It's not that hard to imagine. They are both popular reverse harem series with the same basic concept (poor girl in rich school with rich boys).

My guess is that someone saw the Mori thing and thought "oh, so it's like boys over flowers where the male lead changed because the other was more popular" and it snowballed from this.

Again, I could be wrong and maybe there is a Hatori quote somewhere on the internet proving the rumor. But for now, I'm going to believe it's a mix of mistranslations/misinterpretations and people jumping to conclusions.

(And this is not an attack on people who ship MoriHaru, btw. Ship whatever you want. This is just about the rumor)

#ouran high school host club #ohshc #takashi morinozuka #meta #please it's 3 am and i'm not a native english speaker be kind to my grammar if i stop making sense here #i know this has been analyzed a lot of times but i need to add my two cents

[sandtrapsorcery]

Writer Nishikawa-kun did an interview with Mr. Moriharu Kamiya, Mr. Yoshio Nishimura, and Mr. Akihisa Kanayama about the development of GrimGrimoire and with it came some images from the original pitch of the game!

Image Gallery of the pictures posted in the article also in this link here

#grimgrimoire #grim grimoire #grimgrimoire once more #I found this completely by accident #I haven't read it all yet but what a gem to read #vanillaware