Ouran High School is an elite academy for student of high ranks, or titles. Haruhi Fujioka has no rank, or title; she is just a scholarship candidate. Her life changes when she starts to search for an empty room to drown into study, but ends up in the so-called Host Club. The Host Club is a fancy place where beautiful students with nothing else to do, entertain Ouran High's girls. While trying to escape from the Host Club's grasp, Haruhi accidentally breaks a vase worth 8 million yen... That's how she will have to be the Host Club's errand boy first, and a full-time male host later, to repay her debt!

Even Ouran Koukou is clearly a parody of shoujo anime, exactly as Binan Koukou. While Binan Koukou is a parody of the magical girl genre, Ouran Koukou parodies the reverse-harems. In fact, in Binan Koukou we can find five boys who can transform into flashy princes, while normally that's up to girls; while in Ouran Koukou we find the protagonist, Haruhi, who doesn't play along with the shoujo stereotype, as she is very masculine and takes the role of a host boy. Both these shows are comedy, and full of beautiful boys and amazing gags. Both embrace the idiotic trait put as a premise, and go along with it until the end. To top everything up, fangirls will be happy to know that Ouran Koukou, similarly to Binan Koukou, teases the shounen ai moments between the characters. We can guarantee it; liking Binan Koukou, it's impossible you won't like Ouran Koukou Host Club!

Ayanagi Academy is a prestigious school focusing on music. Freshmen who enter that school, have just one goal, and that's to be noticed by the “Kao Council”. This is an organization formed by the third- year stars, and the only way to be admitted in the “Musical Department”. That's why, all the freshmen's goal is to be noticed by at least one of the member of the Kao Council, and be placed on a special team. That's how five boys – Yuuta, Nayuki, Tsukigami, Tengenji and Kuga – start their adventure to become music stars!

Starmyu and Binan Koukou have a very similar vibe. Both these shows focus on male friendship, and teamwork. On one side we have the five boys in Binan Koukou who has to fight together for a common goal, which is to spread love in the world surrounding them; on the other side we have the five boys in Starmyu who has to struggle for their shared dream to become stars. The feelings the viewers have while watching both, is one of shows that don't take themselves too seriously. As Binan Koukou is a parody and full of comedy moments, similarly Starmyu has a wacky humor and tends to over dramatic moments. In both series there are shounen-ai moments among the characters, for the joy of all the fangirls who love to see cute boys interact which each other in ambiguous ways. As for the art style, both these anime are full of bright colours, and the personality types of some characters are very similar, like for example Yuuta in Starmyu is very similar to Yumoto in Binan Koukou, as both take the leader role and are bright and cheerful; or Nayuki in Starmyu, is very similar to Naruko, as both are the gentle and quiet ones. Long story short, if you liked Binan Koukou, the next step must be Starmyu!

When Tooru – who doesn't like to be bothered – enters a new all-boy school, he is surprised to realize how much his looks catch the attention. In the school, there's a so-called “Princess System”, with one purpose: to scout all the most good-looking boys in the school, and turn them into princesses, making them become the school's mascots. Tooru refuses straight out, obviously, but later on he accepts after hearing the benefits that being a princess can bring him; this is how Tooru becomes a princess and realizes how difficult a woman's life can be!

Binan Koukou and Princess Princess are both shows oriented towards a female audience. They both are comedy full of gags, and full of beautiful boys put in situations where normally boys shouldn't be put. In Binan Koukou, the five boys are forced to transform, and the power of magic coerce them to say weird lines that make them feel very embarrassed. Equally, in Princess Princess, the boys are forced to wear girly outfits and to say the most embarrassing stuff. In both these shows the boys protest against their new status at first, but accept it later on and start to act accordingly. Basically, they start to give their best for their school club's activities, and grow to like it. If you enjoyed the funny gags, and the nice vibe in Binan Koukou, you'll feel the same watching Princess Princess.