Love Hina

Love Hina manga, volume 1 (English version)

Love Hina (ラブひな) is a popular Japanese manga (and anime) series by author Ken Akamatsu. The manga won the "Best Manga, USA Release" in 2002 Anime Expo.

Warning: Plot details follow.

Table of contents

1 Story
2 Sub-articles
3 Related series
4 External links

Story

The series centers around Urashima Keitaro, a young man desperately trying to be accepted into the extremely prestigious University of Tokyo in order to keep a childhood promise. He becomes manager of the Hinata Sou, property of his family and now an all-girls' dormitory.

The story is a romantic comedy of the seinen genre about a clumsy but well-meaning young man with a disproportional amount of personal drive despite horrible luck. The familar set up of one boy living with a group of pretty but unusual women sometimes marks Love Hina as a harem anime, although many fans disagree on the term. This is due to Keitaro's primary (and usually exclusive) interest in Narusegawa Naru, though all the other girls have other sorts of affections for him (including being close friend, a playmate, and nonthreatening crush object)

The series is most well-known for putting humorously absurd elements into an ostenbily mundane universe, such as Kaolla Su's destructive mecha, ghosts, and flying hot springs turtles.