Tamaki Suou

René Tamaki Richard de Grantaine Suou, also known as Tamaki Suou, Tama-chan, The Host King, Daddy, Lord, Boss and Milord, is one of the main characters from the Ouran High School Host Club series.
== Charactah Account ==
Tamaki Suou is the founder and president of the Ouran High School Host Club. He is the antithesis to his best friend, Kyouya Ootori. While Kyouya is calm, cool, and calculating, Tamaki is flamboyant, emotional, and narcissistic; however, he is extremely dedicated to his duties as a host. He is the "prince" host type, who can charm any girl with sweet talk—yet he is always truthful in his compliments. To him, all girls are pretty, and the happiness of his guest is his greatest enjoyment. Tamaki acts as the main comic relief in the series, exemplified in his extremely dense and naïve approach to his own feelings, and extreme emotional reactions to Haruhi's comments about his stupidity. He has a family complex, as he asks Haruhi to call him "Daddy" and refers to Kyouya as "Mommy." He is shown to be partial to classical piano music and plays extremely well; one of his favorite pieces being Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major.
Tamaki is revealed to be half-French and half-Japanese. His real name is Rene Tamaki Richard Grantaine. His father, the superintendent of Ouran Academy, fell in love with Tamaki's French mother and divorced his first wife to marry her. For that reason, Tamaki's paternal grandmother harbors a strong hatred towards Tamaki. Nevertheless, he is constantly trying to get her to accept him as part of the Suou family. Because of his family situation, Tamaki sees the Host Club as one big family and tries to maintain that illusion, to the extent of telling himself that his love for Haruhi is fatherly even when it is clearly not.
Later in the manga, Tamaki gets closer to Haruhi even though he says it's mostly like a father; however, he tells Kyouya the reason why he hasn't been cheerful is because of his stricken love for Haruhi.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Ouran High School Host Club
=== Light Novels ===
* Ouran High School Host Club
=== Manga ===
* Ouran High School Host Club
* Ouran High School Host Club Short Special
* Ouran High School Host Club University Special
=== Video Games ===
* Ouran High School Host Club
== Trivia ==
* Tamaki's view of Haruhi Fujioka as his daughter is a defense mechanism known as "sublimation," where unacceptable feelings are relegated into a more palatable framework so that the individual can maintain a particular relationship or situation which would otherwise be considered inappropriate to them.
* Tamaki shares his birthday with Buddha (i.e. April 8); April Fool's Day (i.e. April 1) having been an alternate suggestion.
* In Chapter 21 and Episode 11, Tamaki is shown to bear a striking resemblance to the president of the Black Magic Club, Umehito Nekozawa, when Nekozawa doesn't have his robe on).
* Tamaki doesn't like chrysanthemum as food.
* Bisco Hatori labeled Tamaki's hair as light brown at the end of a volume in the manga although it is seen as blond in the anime.
* Tamaki's English voice actor is Vic Mignogna who also voices:
** Takenaga from The Wallflower
** Zero Kiryuu from Vampire Knight
** Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
** Broly from Dragon Ball Z
* Tamaki's seiyuu is Mamoru Miyano who also voices:
** Light Yagami from Death Note
** Shou Fuwa from Skip Beat!
** Tokiya Ichinose from Uta no Prince-sama
** Masaomi Kida from Durarara!!
* Both of Tamaki's voices actors (Vic Mignogna and Mamoru Miyano) also voice Rin Matsuoka in Free!.
* Tamaki has a beloved bear from childhood named "Kuma-chan" or "Beary".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Tamaki Suoh at Ouran High School Host Club Wiki
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