Love Hina

This was one of the series that helped popularise the harem comedy with a beta inept main character but I can't hate it too much, it at least tries compared to most other harems which are just soft porn.

I did actually kind of like Naru, she was a tsundere done right and Keitaro wasn't so bad, he at least tries to be a decent person in spite of being a loser. Unfortunately the other girls are underdeveloped archetypes (slut, loli, samurai, foreigner) who exist just to fall in love with the MC and provide "comedy".

This was the main flaw of the manga, it has the romance down okay but it isn't remotely funny. It's literally just the same joke of Naru beating Keitaru up because she thinks he is a pervert, how can people find this funny for 120 chapters? How can people enjoy the inevitable blueballing Keitaru gets each time someone interrupts him just before he kisses Naru? Love Hina is tortuous at times.

Classicly shit that is. Actually it's completely fucking awful.

Love Hina is the story about a Ronin who wants to get into Todai the no.1 university in Japan. So he joins the Hinata Inn which is now a girls only dormitory. His grandmother own's the dormitory but now gave the ownership to her grandson the MMC, The Ronin. Now he has to live with like 6 girls including the FMC. And since the author is such a master writing character personalities she has the absolute unique personality of being a Violent tsundere. I know never been done before. I think this is the first series to even try something as bold as this. Guess what else. The main character has no redeeming value whatsoever except he's kind of a hard worker and incredibly debatably nice. Both very unique and never been done before.

Lets talk about what i liked about the series first.

Now lets talk about the garbage aspect of this series which is everything. The side characters are complete trash. Every single of them are the most generic boring pieces of garbage ever. The main heroine however, get this, Is actually the worst one. Amazing i know. It's not just the violent tsundere problem or the fact that the main character is used as a punching bag. They are literally 2 dimensional garbage tier heroines. You can usually forgive the side character in other romance series because they don't have the spotlight often but in here the main heroine is garbage. Tsundere's are really the most garbage tier laziest heroine's in existence this really solidified by feeling that violent tsundere are trash. The only decent character was the 12 year old shy girl who had a crush on the MMC in the series but she's basically just a pointless side character.

The main character isn't better either. Now about 60% of the time i'd say he doesn't deserve to get his ass beaten. But this character is borderline retarded. This man has no understanding of personal space. Constantly he is entering the woman's bathroom or going inside woman's room. This guy is beyond dumb no wonder he was a ronin for 2 years holy shit. Their are other series out there like sora no otoshimono where the main character deserved the ass beaten he got but that made the relationship more equal. It felt sexy to see the naked girls and satisfying to see his ass get beaten. Here he's just a punching for an ecchi manga that doesn't even deserve called an ecchi manga.

Another thing this series has no understanding for serious moments. I laughed 7 times throughout this series. btw im counting a snigger as a laugh which happened 6 times of the 7. The comedy in this series is dog shit repetitive and ruins any serious moment this series had. Last time i read a romcom which a crapton of jokes was Jitsu wa watashi wa and that series sucked massive balls too. Not everything, every moment needs to be a fucking joke. Pace yourself for fucks sake.

Don't worry though their are moments where you are like oh they are going a step forward. But don't worry any sort of attempt of actually making this series interesting is thrown directly into the garbage can for more garbage tier slapstick comedy. What the fuck is wrong with this series.

I do like the fact that the author really did the show don't tell really well tbh. I liked that part. Like the author show'd how the main heroine fell for the MMC. The answer was obvious the entire time.

**She's fucking retarded.**

After that her personality made more sense. Why she acts like she does. Why she falls in love with a guy who constantly falls into her boobs and ass and has no sense of personal space. Like i'm tearing into her character but Honestly the main character is also just complete ass. This is like the tv series friends. 2 of the most incompatible people on the fucking planet end up together. What a shit show of series, What a shit show of character development.

Another thing i enjoyed was so many people stating that they loved the ecchi-ness of this series. Now imagine my surprise when i saw the abhorrent amount of 5-13 year old naked in the series. I'm glad the pedophiles find themselves comfortable in expressing themselves especially the author.

This is an ecchi series without any of the fun. This is a harem series without a proper ending. This is a romance series without any of the romantic interactions. Almost every single time it is a complete shit show. This is one of the most pathetic excuses of a series i have read. Their are 7 panels, 4 pages ,and half a chapter of decent moments. I know because i counted thats how fucking bad it was. This series was awful from chapter 1 and got worse. I guess i can include another *masterpiece* that belong in the fucking trashcan.

TLDR: Domekano was better. 2/10

As much as I didn't like the anime I loved the manga. Thew manga seems to flow off the pages were the anime, for me, just set there and pretended to be Love Hina. The art shows me that there was a genuine love for the work because it is detailed and vivid. The story was interesting and kept going and kept me reading. It was a little perverted but not so much that it took away from the story, most of the time it was used for humor purposes. This was the first manga I picked up on a whim and have yet to put it down. It is defiantly worth reading.

tl;dr: A manga that is pretty simple but has a really funny and likable cast.

Love Hina is an incredibly famous series from what feels like quite a while ago. I actually read the original English release in the mid 2000s, but I felt it was worth a reread as it’s been quite a while and I’d forgotten most of it. I think this was one of my first manga too so it’s something that I have a lot of nostalgic memories for. My opinion on it after reading it again is that it holds up incredibly well.

The manga is held up by two very closely intertwined elements, comedy and characters. The comedy is pretty different from most comedic manga these days in that it relies heavily on being exaggerated, both in terms of its concepts and in terms of its visuals. The world of Love Hina is mostly pretty normal, and thus things that break from that normality stand out very strongly. The manga makes good use of that comedy, which while pretty much never all that complex or witty still manages to be pretty amusing. A very large portion of this humor comes from the protagonist being thrown into misunderstandings and other crazy situations that result in him getting attacked or beat up. That’s something that’s been used in a lot of other manga as well, but a lot of the time it just feels kind of annoying and not all that funny. Here it feels like the author actually managed to use it pretty well. Both in terms of visuals and the effects it has, it just seems so ridiculous that it’s easy to just completely disconnect it from common sense and just laugh at it. This isn’t just as simple as just leaving no aftereffects no matter what happens, as that probably wouldn’t be all that funny. Rather, it actually seems to be a running gag that the characters all acknowledge, with the protagonist even being referred to as immortal at times, and it actually feels like he’s going along with everything rather than just being the victim. This aspect does feel like it gets a bit repetitive at times, but it pretty much gets woven into everything to the point that it’s omnipresent in such a way it doesn’t even really stand out that much after a while beyond keeping things perpetually lightly amusing. Thus, that alone wouldn’t be enough to make the comedy good as it kind of faded into the background somewhat. Thankfully, there’s a good amount of great comedy outside of that that has a good amount of variety with all sorts of crazy completely disconnected things happening which allows the comedy overall to manage to stay funny from beginning to end.

As for the other core aspect, the cast of character’s aren’t all that complicated with deep backstories or complex character arcs. Rather, it feels like the primary motivation that was being considered when designing the characters was how to create an amusing cast that work well together. And that they do. A lot of the humor is directly tied to traits of various characters, and due to the variety of characters the humor too manages to be solid, and as the cast themselves are the source of that, they end up pretty likable. That’s not to say that the characters are completely flat outside of their comedic aspects. Most of them have do get at least some level of character and relationship development, though I would say it’s pretty weak for most of them. The exception to that as one would expect is the main couple, around whose romance the overarching plot revolves. The protagonist Keitarou definitely does grow considerably over the course of the manga, though it isn’t developed all that well. The main heroine Naru also does have growth which does get fleshed out better, but it feels like there’s a lot less of it. The romance between the two is pretty solid, but it’s also excruciatingly slow to the point that you want to bang your head on the wall at times. This isn’t as bad as it sounds as it isn’t as if it feels like the author is simply dragging things out as long as possible for the sake of it. Rather, that it’s being dragged out for so long feels like it’s an element in Naru’s character arc and is also used directly for comedic purposes. Still, while it does have its purposes, it’s still immensely annoying. I should also note that both of them being likable is enough to get invested in them which made the plot pretty satisfying when things finally started progressing, especially the epilogue which was pretty extended and an incredibly good way to end things. It should also be noted that while this does seem to use a lot of what are very common tropes these days, this precludes them becoming so ubiquitous, and yet still manages to use them incredibly well.

I would also like to note that the art is quite nice. The designs aren’t all that unique as they’re for the most part all pretty down to Earth and not particularly creative. Still, the character designs do look nice enough and do a good job of fitting the characters they belong to. The style too is incredibly clean and precise. This isn’t all that special anymore since digital tools have made it a lot easier for art to be that way, but I think it’s pretty impressive for a manga from the turn of the millennium. The art also flowed reasonably well, but I felt that it was packing in too much content at times and that it would have been better to have more portions where the art was given more room to breathe.

I think Love Hina was the first complete manga I ever read. When someone lent me one of the volumes, I became hooked and decided to buy all 14 volumes. That's how much I loved it.

Story (8):
Love Hina is basically a cliché love story with many funny/unexpected/weird twists in it. This is what I like about it. It turns an overused topic into a very enjoyable read.

Art (9):
The art in Love Hina is "nice to look at". Meaning, there's not an exagerated amount of details (so much you can't distinguish the character from the background), but not too little either. In opinion, I think it's just right. The covers are also pretty and colourful.

Character (9):
If this is about the characters in the story, then let me tell you that each character is unique. They're all very different from each other but get along perfectly despite this. This is another fact I apreciate in this manga: character variety.

Enjoyment (10):
Love Hina has a LOT of comedy in it. I laughed all the way through it non-stop and I think it's well incorporated into the story, regardless of the circumstances. It also has a few action scenes which made my jaw drop, since I wasn't expecting such a plot twist.

Overall (9):
Alltogether, I recommend this series to anyone who's into love stories, funny gags and plot twists. I didn't give it a 10 because there's always something that pushes it back to the 9, but it was (and still will be) one of my favourite manga series.

I should say right now that Love Hina vol. 1 was the first manga I ever purchased. So, even after my initial disapointment with it, I found myself rereading it several times out of sheer lack of any other options. Initially, I was to busy pitying the all too pitiable protagonist, Keitaro, as he was relentlessly tortured by the harem of women he'd found himself plopped into.

My gudging view of the series persisted until the third volume (once I start a story, I find it hard to leave it hanging), where I feel Love Hina really hits its stride. For the next 11 volumes, I was enthralled with the lives and relationships of the whole cast (but seriously, can we have a harem manga with more than just one guy? it's kinda sad when all the other girls are left dangling in the wind at the end of these things). So great was my fevered interest that I actually did aquire some pretty intense head-aches after some marathon reading sessions (especially around the time they visited Mutsumi's home island). In my opinion, the series could have ended one or two volumes early, for while the last two are certainly entertaining, there seems to be something lost from the earlier story archs. Still, I recommend the whole series to anyone willing to do a little suffering for what is ultimately a fantastic series.

While it's not the progenitor of tsundere harem anime (I consider Ranma 1/2 to hold that honor), Love Hina is without a doubt one of the most popular and successful series ever in its respective genre, and no doubt had a lasting influence on many series that followed it afterwards.

It all starts with a childhood promise. Keitaro and his Promise Girl both vow at a very young age that they would find happiness together in Tokyo University. Fast forward 15 years later, and the poor guy is struggling with re-tests to get in. And his problems are all downhill from there: He's also the manager of an inn-turned-girl's dormitory full of women that hate him. As the story unfolds, he does grow onto them and they eventually accept him as part of the household, albeit the violence towards him hasn't really subsided.

Love Hina has a wonderful and diverse cast of characters, all of which are memorable and will become dear to the reader's heart. Unlike the anime, which fumbles with their stories and characterizations in opt for more slapstick, every character in Love Hina is fully fleshed out and has a moment in the spotlight. (even Haruka! Get ready for her character arc!) Each character, even secondary characters - have pushed the plot in some meaningful way, and that is something I really appreciate in Love Hina's writing, even if certain gags get overused.

Speaking of gags, the vast majority of them will be Keitaro receiving some pummeling from the girls, but the manga covers far more than that. Even the girls will get their moments of comically bad luck that has plagued Keitaro for most of the series.

Though it is a romantic comedy with a larger focus on laughs, there are some genuinely tender moments in the manga that tug my heartstrings a bit. Without saying too much, the last character arcs for Mutsumi, Motoko, and Shinobu, while they do come full circle, did hit me in the feels and made me love them even more as characters.

Above all else, the manga wraps up the much anticipated question of who the Promise Girl really is. Although there's some crazy intense filler before getting to the ending (which really confirms who it is), all loose ends to the plot have been tied and you have an emotionally satisfying conclusion to the series. If you want the definitive experience of Love Hina, look no further than this now classic manga.

This series should get a 10 overall, but the final 'big' adventure (not the grand finale) left a bad taste in my mouth. I won't say more than that it involved visiting the home of one of the mains, and it seemed rushed (perhaps by the mangaka's work on then-new Negi) and made me resent even the very sweetest character, something I thought impossible.

There are times you can adapt, and there are times you so need the full story. One example is the later seasons of M*A*S*H*. These were already weaker stories than the earlier seasons, and syndicated cuts bled them harder than most shows. Another example is Denethor. If LOTR proved to be filmable, Steward Denethor may have been the exception. How could a film not devoted to him alone successfully show how he is a dark counterpoint to Aragorn and Faramir, the embodied flaws of the Great Race Of Numenor while still being magnificent in those flaws?

Love Hina is that for the manga versus the anime, perhaps more so than any other mainstream series. Do you want to know why this guy stuck around, and why the ladies allowed him to? Do you want a Naru and Motoko who don't seem to channel 90's/2000's US sitcom wives, or conversely a Keitaro who doesn't seem to channel their idiot man-child husbands? Do you want actual sexual tension between Keitaro and his youngest harem members (without crossing any bad lines)? Yes, this Keitaro takes beat-downs, a good many of them unfair, but he doesn't seem a worthless wimp while his (evolving) suitors aren't always smash-smash pervert-pervert baka-baka witches. Even at their most tense, the characters all have genuine affection for each other. Only Kitsune really suffers, never getting her own arc and at times almost being to the exception to the 'more depth' defense. These ladies will annoy you and this guy will make you cringe. But they have normal days, and support each other, not merely when it counts, but pretty much anytime they can-and even the sweetest character has her flaws, some coming from her open affection for the male lead.

Until technology enables fan-authors to use the anime models for a full-on manga adaptation, the Flanderization and Up to 11 nature of the anime (which inspires most of the Naru-hate we know) leaves it looking like a pretty picture and not much more. Even those who dislike the ending and a certain coupling outcome will be at least shown why the mangaka went that way.

But as to the final big adventure, it was to me as bad as the anime on almost all fronts, at times incomprehensible, and made all but two harem members look like horrible jerks, even with the premise's built-in Karma Houdini for their actions. Myself, I wrote a fixfic, though I hope never a vicious one. The grand finale regains its footing, and then some. But I can't shake the bad incongruent taste of that last big adventure, and for me that dials a 10 down to a 9--9 and 1/2 if I had that option. You will love Love Hina, a series so strong, its mains were likely homaged/parodied/deconstructed for the mains in Elfen Lied.

Ok im going to be honest here; this is the very first manga ive read so i might be biased in some areas.

The story is a typical main character tries to achieve somthing and in the end achieves it; in this case, its a enterance to a university. the story is different in a matter that it feels like half if it is a filler ( but a very good filler; character development is usually the only progression). if you like the genure of ecchi comedy with a hint of romance every now and then, you will love it.

well, honestly i think the art is top tier; Mr Ken knows how to draw. unlike most mangas where you have to get adjusted to the art after a few chapters, love hina gets instant reconizition.

The thing i love about the manga the most is the characters. they all feel like they are truly individuals and that you can see their type of people when you go outside to a local area. they are so various and all are very entertaining.

This is where my bias'd comes in; no point in arugeing, i think this is the most enjoyable manga ever. this is what i look for in every manga (and always dissapointed). 10/10 solid on enjoyment

Overall=10/10

Very good manga one of my all time favorites. just finished it for the 4th time. I looked back to the first time i read it and realised how much of an impact it made on me and i remembered this was the first series that i completed. Even though i have read it 4 times i still get just as sad everytime i finish it. it is just so good. I always root for keitaro and naru. This and suzuka are my all time favorites, u kno it is a great series when u are sad for finishing it.