Music Room 3

Music Room 3
Name Kanji	音楽室3 Ongaku-shitsu 3
Information
Type	Music Room/Club Room
Location	Ouran Academy
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 1
Anime	Starting Today, You are a Host!

Music Room #3 (aka the Host Club room) is the room where the Ouran Host Club meets daily and where most of their hosting events are carried out.

Appearance

The third music room is actually a suite comprised of three or four rooms within its substantial size. The walls of the music room are covered with marble-inlay panels of differing shapes and sizes. The ceiling is pink and white, and is adorned with bas-relief scrollwork. The double doors to the room are also colored light pink with golden doorpulls that  coordinate with the various gold highlight patterns and decorations adorning the walls and ceiling.  The main part of the salon is furnished with red upholstered chairs and couches of varying lengths, accompanied by wooden tables suitable for tea and/or coffee service. On each table sits a vase of red roses that are replaced daily. 

Quite often, the Host Club have a cosplay "theme" and the salon is altered to go along with it.  The room also includes a state-of-the-art air-conditioning, ventilation and heating systerm, controlled by remote, which the Host Club adjusts to reflect their cosplay theme, as deemed necessary.  This is best seen in the episode, The Job of a High School Host, when the central room is filled to capacity with jungle flora and fauna and the temperatures imitate those found on the island of Bali.

Background

Music Room #3 was originally a spare music room at Ouran Academy until Tamaki Suoh graduated from middle school and founded the Ouran Host Club with Kyoya Ootori.  Further history regarding the room's use remains unknown. With that said, the instruments in the music room remain, though hidden behind a big yellow curtain. Haruhi learns this fact in the episode The Grade School Host is the Naughty Type, when Tamaki reveals the grand piano on which he demonstrates for Shiro Takaoji his impeccable musicianship. Music Room #3 is located on the top floor of one of the high school campus buildings, at the end of the north corridor. 

Gallery

The main door.

The lighting and ceiling.

The windows with a grumpy Host.

An example of a salon sofa.

The Rennaissance vase that put Haruhi eight-million yen in debt.

A table set for tea and conversation.

Themes

Throughout the series in both the anime and the manga, the Host Club regularly engages in cosplay, which is wearing costumes to resemble particular characters from well-known pop media sources.  They also conduct events with "themes" and/or host events in which they wear special, or matching, garb.  Some of these thematic events include:

1. A Southern-Country - This theme is seen in Episode 2 of the anime, The Job of a High School Host, and Chapter 2 of the manga. The male hosts wear Balinese royal garb and Music Room #3 is transformed into a lush, tropical jungle with the temperature of the room reflecting the humidity and heat of such a place. Tamaki gets the idea from a travel brochure on Bali given to him by Kyoya.

2. Garden Tea Party - This theme is seen in Episode 3 of the anime, Beware the Physical Exam, and Chapter 4 of the manga. Tamaki, Kyoya and the twins appear as cafe waiters while Mori, Honey and Haruhi wear yukatas. The host club conducts their event in an outdoor garden. 

2a. The Dance Party - While not a theme, per se, the hosts appear in dressy outfits, including Haruhi who is later made to dress up like a girl.  The Dance Party occurs at the end of Beware the Physical Exam.

3. Japanese Traditional - This theme is seen in theEpisode 4 of the anime, Attack of the Lady Manager, and Chapter 3 of the manga. The hosts are all dressed in kimonos designed by the twins' fashion-designer mother, Yuzuha Hitachiin. The Music Room is adorned with traditional Japanese decorations.

4. An Arabian Palace - This theme is seen in the Episode 6 of the anime, The Grade School Host is the Naughty Type, and Chapter 6 of the manga. The music room is turned into an Arabian palace with Tamaki dressed as an Arabian sheik while the rest of the Hosts dress as Arabian traders and warriors.  

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5. Brave Knights - This theme is shown in the Episode 9 of the anime, A Challenge from Lobelia Girls' Academy. The male hosts wear colorful armor and musketeer ensembles, but the room remains plain.  

5a. The Hostess Club - This secondary theme is also seen in Episode 9 of the anime, A Challenge from Lobelia Girls' Academy.  Except for Mori who wears the garb of a cavalier, all of the other male hosts are decked out in ball gowns and full makeup. In the manga, the twins and Honey are the only ones dressed as girls.  Tamaki calls this "The Sweetie Campaign" designed to convince Haruhi to stay at Ouran Academy.

6. Law Enforcement -  This theme is seen in Episode 11 of the anime, Big Brother is a Prince. The hosts all wear uniforms from various police groups and ranks.  The music room lacks decoration except for what seems to be an interrogation room set up, where Haruhi is cross-examined by Kyoya.

7. The Heian Era - This theme is shown in the Episode 14 of the anime, Covering the Famous Host Club. The hosts are dressed in ensembles from the Heian era of Japanese history.  The event is held, once again, in an outdoor garden made to look as it might have appeared during the Heian era.

8. Halloween Vampires - This theme is seen in Episode 21 of the anime, Until it Turns into a Pumpkin. The male hosts are dressed as elegant vampires and the music room features Halloween decor.

9. The Edo Era - This theme is seen in the Episode 22 of the anime, Mori-senpai Has an Apprentice. The music room is decorated to look like the Ikedaya Inn, which is a famous place in samurai history. The hosts all wear matching samurai garb and forehead protectors, with Tamaki dressed as the leading shinsengumi warrior.

10. The Ouran Fair - This theme is seen in Episode 25 of the anime, The Host Club Declares Dissolution. The hosts wear two different formal outfits - the first being matching serving outfits with vests and bowties, the second being matching tuxedos with tailcoats.  The event takes place in the Central Salon of Ouran Academy which is open to the general public during the fair.

11. 18th-Century French Nobility - This theme is seen in Episode 26 of the anime, This is Our Ouran Fair. All of the hosts except Tamaki appear as 18th century French nobility for the final day of the Ouran Fair. Haruhi's costume has her dressed as a girl.