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Love Hina tv Review
Keitaro and his childhood sweetheart make a promise: to both be accepted and meet each other at the prestigous Toudai University; however, she moves away and he forgets about her. 10 years later, Keitaro has become an artist and a daydreamer, having ranked 27th from the last in the national practice exam. He comes to Tokyo to live with his grandmother, who owns a hotel that turns out to be an all-girls dormitory named Hinata House.
When his grandmother leaves, Keitaro becomes the residential manager and soon meets up with two Toudai applicants...and one of them just might be his sweetheart. They are joined by other tenants: the young Shinobu, who was in a desperate situation until Keitaro helped her; Motoko the swordsmaster who sees men as evil distractions; Kaolla, the genius child inventor; and the sneaky Mitsune.
This story follows the daily life of the Hinata House as well as Keitaro's attempt to once again enter University.
Description: niomea
Story & Characters
Here is an anime that is almost completely devoid of a storyline, opting instead to engage in countless irrelevant sidequests that are not only dull, but irritating as well. Here is an anime that reuses jokes over and over and over and over, until the jokes are not only tedious, but borderline tortuous as well. Here is an anime that has a lead character so obnoxiously unfunny and dislikable that he is not only annoying, but absolutely loathesome as well. And yet... here is an anime that is not only insanely popular, but has an almost rabid fanbase violently defending its "#1 anime of all time."
Though the story is remarkably stupid, it's ridiculously popular, one of the most overated things out there. This show has one of the stupidest senses of humor of any anime. It's not that funny at all, and they continually use the same jokes over and over.
Right off the bat, the plot of a promise between childhood friends is unoriginal to say the least. It's so generic; even though that's all they go on about it goes absolutely nowhere.
There is an awful lot of unnecessary fan service, seemingly put there for the sake of grabbing your attention while assuming that you're a slobbering teenager who gets off on seeing cartoon flesh. Very tasteless to say the least. Basically if you take away the fanservice and the fanservice related jokes this anime is nothing. It's probably a reason why people love it so much. This anime repeats its "pevert" joke over and over and over and over. I don't find laughing at the same joke over and over funny, it wasn't funny in the first place.
I was not impressed by the cliches and unorginiality and typicalness this anime that's it's giving off; I can see them a million miles away. I know that no anime can be 100% original but this anime literally took like all the cliches, unoriginal stuff and made it like a million times worse! I can't describe it, it actually aggravates me with some of this stuff it attempts to pull off.
Everything about it has been done to death before, but Love Hina manages to make turn most of it into something more awful and annoying. Almost everything about this series has been done before, one way or another, and its attraction seems to lie in the fact that most of those who like it have seen very little of what it is ripping off.
The characters are the epitome of being cliche, 1-dimensional, stereotypical, and unoriginal.
half the characters were useless, maybe they aren't if all you were looking for was some fan service since they didn't add to the plot or the comedy. Man the characters' gags were so lame and unfunny and they repeated it, it was pathetic.
Nearly every single character in this series is annoying. It is almost as if the writers just took the most annoying parts of the characters to use in the series. Practically all of them are so irritating and stupid like Mutsumi who is so smart but never made it to be the exam, Naru who is just a bitch - beating up keitaro for no reason most of the time, etc, etc.
Though it is usually a good thing that each character is "unique" in Love Hina, each girl is too damn TYPICAL. It's almost like insulting viewer's intelligence. Every single character behaves just like I predict. All there is is a simple silly misunderstanding which could have been solved through 30 seconds of talking, yet Love Hina drags it throught 20 min or even 40 min!
Almost half the characters are like ripped off.
Here are the ones that are ripped off Shinobu, Kaolla Su, Motoko, Keitaro.
Shinobu - well she's the only character that wasn't annoying directly but she's annoying cause she's so damn shy but I don't like her because she just seems to be ripped off from battle athletes (Anna) which by the way is funnier than love hina. Anna is really likable shinobu is so shy to the point of annoyance.
Kaolla Su - she is clearly ripped off cowboy bebop (Ed), Tanya (Battle Athletes), who are much better charactesr than are sicne they aren't annoying for one thing. Not to mention the inventions thing with her was just ridiculous and it was executed in the most idiotic way. You can even find pics of them doing the exact same pose. she's so annoying and like I said 1-dimensional since all she does is to be annoying. And ther's like an episode for her which was unbelievably stupid (supernatural) and out-of-place.
Motoko - well there's lots of anime characters there are just dressed like her and act like her. She's the men-hating female stereotype . They made it worse by having keitaro fly when she swings her kendo stick at him, just completely idiotic.
Mutusmi - She is a clone from Excel Saga (Hyatt). You can even find pics of them doing the exact same pose. (Excel saga manga came out before love hina's)
Keitaro- just another loser in a harem.
But the point is, because they are so clearly ripped off it just reminds me of so many anime that I liked better ( it includes WAY more than those I've mentioned). I'm not so strict on an anime being original but love hina was unoriginal in such a way that it irritated me like crazy.
Almost all the all the characters that are useless - Motoko, Kaolla Su, Seta, Kitsune, Sarah McDougal, Shinobu, after all it's just all about that generic promise plot. Sara McDougal is probably one of the most annoying characters out of this anime though all of them are tremendously annoying. To top it off they tried to pull off that lame joke they've been using a million times in this anime with Sarah and no it still wasn't funny.
They are just the perfect exmaple of the worst cast of characters in an anime, especially if you've seen battle athletes victory!
so it comes to the point where I can barely care what happens to any of them (unless they get killed in a violent, gruesome death).
The romance is a 0 because the you can't have romance unless you have good characters. The main characters are so pathetic, loathsome, annoying to start off with and their relationship is so shallow and unconvincing.
The plot was weak to start off with and it didn't go anywhere; they just made up some awful fillers. The comedy was extremely lame, the fanservice was gratuitous and it seemed lame/desperate, it takes stuff that's already done before (unoriginal) to death and just makes it worse, and this anime is unbelievably idiotic pretty much every episode.
I did not enjoy this anime whatsoever I didn't see any romance, I did not laugh, I found the series to be mind-numbingly painful to watch.
Rating:
Art
Animation was dull, backgrounds were cheaply drawn. I didn't like it, something about it just bothered me with the colors and it just looked ugly. But overall it would be around average but I just personally am not fond of it.
but gawd why do they have to go draw naru's boobs so much bigger in the certain eps like towards the end, no it doesn't make the anime any less boring or pointless or unoriginal it just looks disgusting and it looks very cheap and desperate, well maybe i'm expecting too much from a harem.
Rating:
Sound
The Opening and ending songs sound fine to me although the opening gets annoying very quickly.
I absolutely hated all the background music/sound effects (from the BMG at the episode title showing part to BMG when they're talking etc)... I never thought I would complain about BMG but it was so irritating to me. Honestly BMG is not a big deal with me but this anime's BMG pisses me off
the seiyuus did an okay job but I despised the characters anyway. Some of the characters had annoying voices but it actually fits the characters' personality but still that's not very good. I should mention though that Keitaro's seiyuu's voice did not fit the character, it just sounded too old.
Rating:
Presentation
This anime is way more childish probably more and definitely more idiotic as some anime geared toward kids yet so many people are standing by this as one of the best and their favorites.
The stupidity in this beats out the fan-service by a long-shot.
Some people describe this anime as wacky or crazy but I just found it stupidity at its worst.
the story/plot/everything about this anime was stupid, unfunny, predictable, boring, cliche, ripped-off, typical,
reminds me of so many animes that are a million times better that need to be fansubbed asap.
So all in all no romance, no comedy, no originiality, no progression, bad characters so there's no point.
I really wish I could say that I had no idea why other people like this anime. Unfortunately, I know exactly what draws fans to Love Hina. This anime appeals to the lowest common denominator, to the losers inside us. Every episode is filled with horrible, blatant fanservice that talks to the average otaku`s low self esteem. Though the story is remarkably stupid, people love this anime for one reason: it provides a perfectly distilled fantasy. This fantasy is designed solely to appease the insecure adolescent in all of us. The anime was made knowing that the best way to sell discs is to fanservice, to give a hentai dream (loser guy getting a hot girl? ) that they think will please the average viewer. I hate, hate, HATE this anime. I hate its condescending tone. I hate the fact that it expects fanservice to replace any shred of a story whatsoever. I hate its ridiculously shallow morals. Though remarkably well made, this can hardly be called art in any sense of the word; Love Hina is a homunculus, an anime that has no soul or wit, but has all the essential ingredients to become popular and profitable.
There aren't many anime series that I actively despise with every fiber of my being. Love Hina is one of those offending shows. If you enjoy pointless harem animes, repetitive sight gags that are grossly overused, and awkward, unconvincing romances, then by all means watch this show.
Series like these are why anime is getting a bad rap in comparison to other forms of visual media. Way way below standard.
Rating:
Final Verdict
2.3333 (very poor)
Reviewed by howtwosave, May 28, 2007
Comments
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wiwin Jul 08, 2008
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pappo1 Jun 09, 2009
really funny, but i prefer manga.
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Kakuseisha666 Oct 09, 2009
I tottally agree with this review,harem-type animes are so cliche u____u'
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vangjlee Oct 14, 2009
its ok. but i like the pix.
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rukasu04 Mute Member Oct 18, 2009
Niiice :D
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SchRita Jan 15, 2010
Thanks for the review!
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Tengaijin Jul 16, 2010
Love Hina is a textbook example of what a harem is. I'll admit, Love Hina is full of perverted, ecchi moments and it does get a little unoriginal every now and then. As for the storyline, the reason why it sometimes gets a little mixed is because the anime only has time to capture a handfull of the manga's brilliance. But it still manages to deliver a message or two. All I learned from reading this is how much you hate this series.
The ecchi wasn't the point of this series and if you believe so then you must not have been paying attention to the important things. This series is supposed to highlight the crazy lives of seven people living in a boarding house and how each of them struggles with the future that is laid before them. As I was reading your review, it kind of sounded like you were more aggravated by the fact that so many people like this series than by the fact that this is a bad series. -
yeppunda Oct 13, 2010
this review is pretty harsh. i haven't watched the series, but it's certainly popular, and sometimes i think it's not too good to look at something with such an extreme view. i'd still give it a try and decide for myself if it's worth watching.
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xanderglz Jan 26, 2011
And you know what the worst part is?
Most fanservice-harem themed animes that were released after Love Hina were WAY worse than that.I liked it to be honest, it was the second "soap-opera-themed" anime I watched (Kanon '02 being the first) and for most of the story, the story kept me going on through it, but I can understand why people despise Love Hina, when there's so much anime series out there that definitely deserve more fan love than this.
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Baraka-Senpai Jul 05, 2011
just good!
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love it! I love this series, thanks for the review! -
hitsu-chan Jul 20, 2011
it's damn funny but I wasn't really attracted... anyway, thx for the review
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kevin10133 Sep 28, 2011
wow that hurts man. i like this series but i also liked how you defended your opinion, personally i wouldn't give it a 2.33 a 4.5 or a 5 seems more fitting
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back07 Jun 27, 2012
nice review but yeah it's kind of boring story, manga is better
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dabigboss Aug 19, 2012
LOL somebody's jealous
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fitarol15 Oct 05, 2014
I Haven't Seen Love Hina Yet..But Your Review makes me curious..
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