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Plot Synopsis

Keitaro and his childhood sweetheart make a promise to be accepted at and to meet each other at the prestigous Toudai University before she moved out of his life.

10 years later, Keitaro has become an artist and a daydreamer, having ranked 27th from the last in the national practice exam. He was moving to Tokyo to keep pursuing his promised, and live with his grandmother who owns a hotel, that turns out to be all girls dormitory named Hinata House.

When his grandmother leaves the all-girls dormitory, he becomes the residential manager and soon meets up with two Todai applicants who may have been that sweetheart, since he's forgotten her name.

Then there the other tenants like young Shinobu who was in despair until Keitaro helped her, Motoko the swordsmaster who sees men as evil distractions, Su Kaoru the genius child inventor and the sneaky Kitsune.

This story follows the daily life of the Hinata House s well as Keitaro's attempt to once again enter Tokyo University.

Synopsis by niomea.

Story & Characters

Love Hina sounds simple-a childhood promise is made to a girl and the promise is going to appear in a love scenario later on in life. The truth is that Love Hina is more of a Harem anime( one boy getting the attentions of all the girls) than a love, romance anime and it is pretty good as a harem anime. In term of ecchiness, it does great with breasts getting exposed at frequent occasions and panty shots but sadly unlike other harem this story is really more focused on a particular girl and thus the panty shot is really of one particular girl and that girl is off course Narusegawa, Naru for short. For a harem show, the story does not really much of an importance, it is the girls and ecchi that count and such is Love Hina story. The story does not give the excitement of guessing the right girl that will end up with the main character or the girls’ characteristics other than the stereotypical but it gives the ecchiness that exceeds shuffle and may for some viewers be over excessive.

So for those looking for a harem show that is ecchi and has big breasted girls, and doesn’t care about a over simplistic story line, you would enjoy this show. But for those who wants a more interesting story and characteristics not so stereotypical and still love Harem, see something like shuffle-that gives more background to the girls and a better story line-it is a hell of a ride with everyone guessing which girl he will end up with. And even for more detail about characters and girls not stereotypical in any way and a serious romance story, see To Heart and To Heart 2.

The characters are as followed:
Naru- the typical tough girl that will beat the main characters up on an occasional basis.

Shinobu-the typical shy, clumsy girl

Motoke-she is to be honest not so typical - samurai girl

Kisune - the sly girl that is not in the love interest for keitaro

suu- the out going foreigner-saw her several time

And finally the lucky man keitaro- the sterotypical academical failure, who is good at art.

Rating

5 (moderate)

Art

The art is great - I mean the proportions of the body of the girls are great. The anime follows mostly the classical style that is the artwork does not change in style- to manga all that often. The pictures of the girls are great with each one distinctly different-it is hard to find a more sexy cast of anime girls. If only it has interesting music during the anime.

Rating

10 (excellent)

Sound

Lively op with wacky sound-
The ending song is a direct contrast in style. Overall for the harem show the op song captures what it is about- funny. As for the seiyuu (voice actor), although I don’t really know their names- the did a pretty good job in capturing the mood and the characteristic of the characters. That is only for the Japanese seiyuu though, I am not sure rather there is English seiyuu.

Rating

7 (above average)

Presentation

The humor is really not that good although that is only my opinion because after all some may find its style pretty funny. But for me, the constant breast touching and awkward situations- such as Naru putting on her panty hose (and getting touched by keitaro) may be interesting but after-9 hours of that and similar “funny� situations surely the effect would have worn off ages ago. Still the funniness top the funniness in To Heart and Da capo any day and really for those who is sexually minded (but can not watch Hentai),I suppose this is as close it gets and you Probably would find this anime a great watch.

But still it is an enjoyable watch the first time- after watching so many anime one gets pretty critical and I have seen Love Hina for many times- It is my first anime and unfamiliar to the several similar anime in this genre, I watched it with great joy and excitement but as a more experienced anime watcher, I am just not as appreciative of it.

My ranking for it in the genre is still going to be pretty high – because it fits into the concepts of Harem exactly as it should be-lighthearted and girls.

Shuffle-9
Love Hina –8
Da capo-5
To Heart (It is more of a romance)-3

Rating

7 (above average)

Final Verdict

6.83 (above average)

Reviewed by Kingkaisamakotei, 2y 1wk ago