Fandom: Ouran High School Host Club, crossover with: Fruits Basket, Gravitation, Yami no Matsuei, Love Mode and Skip Beat
Pairings: gen, although some hints of canon pairings like Yuki/Shuuichi
Categories: crack, humor, crossover
Length: Medium [10,000+ words] Bonus rec!
Warnings: hints at (canon) incest
Author on LJ: n/a
Website: Her page on Fanfiction.net
Review: What Ouran Academy really needed to become even crazier than it already was, were week-long visiting lecturers.
I'm a little leery about reccing the entire series, simply because I am only familiar with the first three crossover canons. Nevertheless, each chapter stands comfortably on its own, and I do recommend the first three chapters without reservation. To summarize:
Chapter One: Fruits Basket is such a shoujo series, that having it collide with Ouran (which may be shoujo but certainly spends more time parodying it than playing the tropes straight) was a stroke of genius. Shigure's interactions and musings about the Ouran students were delightfully in-character, as were their reactions to him. I particularly liked his attempts to bring out "Black Mori".
Chapter Two: Yuki as a willing guest lecturer is a harder sell, but his more cynical nature acts as the glass of cold water to the face that Ouran characters desperately need. Plus, it's at this point that a certain thematic repetition starts to become apparent. Namely, that the lecturers will a) determine that Haruhi is a girl, and b) be able to tell that the twins are faking their incestual relationship.
Chapter Three: Muraki should never have been allowed past the doorstep of a high school. The reader knows just what he's like, and there's a dark humor in seeing the Ouran students get creeped out while remaining ignorant of his crimes.
I am confident that the remaining two chapters are also comedy gold, and personally enjoyed reading them, but I can't be certain that the crossover characters are as in-character as the first three lecturers were. Then again, the series does not have an ongoing plot as such, and the first three chapters stand as a great medium-length story.
Ouran Academy Guest Lecturers Series
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