Haruhi Fujioka

Haruhi Fujioka
Ouran High School Host Club character
Haruhi in her male school uniform
First appearance	Volume 1, chapter 1
Created by	Bisco Hatori
Voiced by	Japanese: Maaya Sakamoto (anime; later drama CDs) Aya Hisakawa (early drama CDs) English: Caitlin Glass
Portrayed by	Haruna Kawaguchi
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Relatives	Ranka Fujioka (father) Kotoko Fujioka (mother)
Nationality	Japanese

Haruhi Fujioka (藤岡 ハルヒ, Fujioka Haruhi^?) is the main protagonist of Ouran High School Host Club, created by Bisco Hatori. In the manga and its adaptations, Haruhi takes on the role of male host despite being of female sex; keeping her sex secret from the host club's female clients. Haruhi's character was positively received, both because of her fluid gender and her down-to-earth personality.

At the start of the Ouran High School Host Club manga and anime, Haruhi enters the prestigious Ouran Academy on a scholarship. Looking for a quiet place to study, she stumbles upon the school's male-only host club, where she was initially mistaken for a boy due to her short hair and gender-neutral clothing. After knocking over a highly expensive vase, the club forces her to work away her debt. Having a "low perception of gender", Haruhi joins the club as a host, keeping her sex secret from the club's clientele.

At the beginning of the story, Haruhi disliked being forced to work for the host club. However, as the plot advances, Haruhi slowly grows less introverted, and starts to realize the boys of the host club have become her best friends who are helping her learn and grow as a better person. The chapters consist of comedic explorations of shoujo clichés and gender performance. Unlike other shoujo heroines that Ouran High School Host Club parodies, Haruhi is an independent, hard-working asocial character who embraces a genderqueer or "gender-ambivalent" identity.