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.

I just finished reading this today and here's my short review about this manga.

Story: the story is great, it has some ecchi but i'm probably sure that your not going to mind it since it's only light ecchi and i think it's created so the story can proceed smoothly. The romance is great but sometimes it will make you think why the characters can't just become honest with each other since their feelings are already obvious, well i'll tell you that its going to be part of a great ending.(7.5or8/10)

Art: I think the art is really fantastic specially it was created around 1999 or something, well not really sure but yeah its great so. 7/10

Character: The characters has unique attitudes and i think that it's great cause there's a lot of chapter on this manga that will make you laugh because of their attitude. for character development it think it's fair and fine for me, meeh maybe because i used to read ichigo100% and I"s that i already have some immunity on weak MC. 8/10

Enjoyment: well i really enjoy reading this manga so its pretty fair to give this a score of 9/10

Overall: I will say it now read it already and i'm sure that your not going to regret it specially if your a fan of a romcom manga. 8/10

This Manga is a masterpiece a classic, and to my opinion obviously way better than the anime series. Storyline is very good, a mixture of funny, hilarious scenes, Serious, and a little bit of everything else.I highly recommend reading this series it may be old, but its well worth the read.

Im not very good on this review since im new here and its been months that i finished this series so cut me some slack here.

This is a fairly decent manga. You shouldn't go a full volume without at least a couple chuckles.

I remember first hearing about the anime and watching a bit around 2003 (which I mostly disliked because of the constant violence against Keitaro) but the aesthetic and allure remained.

I had heard the old phrase "the manga is better" so I eventually gave it a shot (almost 2 decades later), and I have to mostly agree. The violence still exists but it's simply in the nature of this kind of story, he gets destroyed but is back the next panel with a bandaid, there's even a running joke in-universe that he's immortal.

The first arc is great but after that it's mostly misadventures and character focused arcs of all the side characters, some better than others.

My main complaint is that a lot of those characters stop growing, and one of the main characters (Naru) illustrates this point all the way up to and including the final volume. She can't seem to get past her own insecurities, and the one time it seems like she does (end of vol 12), she just relives them again in 13 and 14, and literally has to be told why it's nothing to worry about, not sure that's character growth so much as being given a freebie considering how it's handled.

I ended up liking three characters the most. First being Keitaro, who after being rejected in many aspects from love to college, finds what he really wants to do with his life, and helps those close to him. Second being Shinobu who grows from a shy adolescence to a motivated young woman with more confidence. Third being Motoko who learns to accept her feelings and overcome her own family issues. Unfortunately I don't feel any of the others had any real growth at all (Su, Kitsune, Mutsumi), Kanako was close but her main issue didn't so much get resolved as much as pushed aside.

So my final verdict is a 7/10. Pretty enjoyable but not without its issues. I feel like you could also trim quite a lot of the 14 volumes out without changing the narrative, but since it's a lot of gag humor it's still not completely without merit.

Well, it took some time but here I am, making a review for the very first manga I ever read. I just never thought to give it a review. But I am going to do it now. If you have seen any other reviews of mine, you should know that I rarely give anything a 10. When I rate manga and anime, if I think it's worth a 10 rating I have to think if there is anything I would add or change to the story to make it better. This manga could have been better. It does fall a little short compared to Akamatsu's other manga I enjoyed, Negima! Magister Negi Magi, but it is still just a great. I would recommend this manga to anyone who enjoy comedy and romance, as well as harem. I do dislike how the same things happen every time. The main character is marked a "pervert" but he is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I have re read this manga 5 times. I love it so much and wish there was more of it.

I once saw this series when I was in about 6th grade, and I always felt a tie to it. When I finally read it about 4 years later, I realized how incredible it really was.

It's my number one manga series because of its ability to always make me smile and feel better about the world. Its happiness formed around life at "Hinata Inn" seems to be contagious to the ones who read it. There are sometimes sad turns within the series and the unfortunate luck of Keitaro's life (though some may find his luck to be very good indeed), but during every one of those times, it just shows how to make the best out of the worst.

All the characters in this series are kept up to date. That is to say, each character plays a role form time to time and are never forgotten. It truly brings the characters to life which makes some readers (myself included) feel like they really ARE at Hinata Inn living the hilarious, wonderful, and happy life that they live.

My first manga review, and it would be about the manga that I was so embarrassed to read when I was younger.
Spoiler Alert.

Story: 9
Love Hina follows Keitaro, a ronin (A person who failed their entrance exam, and spending time studying to attend the next year). He has been kicked out by his parent and was offered a home by his grandmother at her inn. In turn though, the inn has became a female residence dorm and Keitaro being a very unlucky (Yet immortal) character. The other main character is Narusegawa, a female who is quick to punch our main character for any type of perverted thing he does. I really enjoyed seeing their relationship grow alongside the relationship of Keitaro and the other girls who live there.

The ending was handled well, as all the characters recognize they like Keitaro, but let Narusegawa have it. A great art of the series was all the girls competing for him, as we got to see sides of characters we never have seen.

The best part of the story comes in the epilogue, which I will cover why in the character section of this review, but the epilogue offered amazing closure to the series and put the biggest smile on my face.

The story of Love Hina was paced a bit slow for my liking but tolerable. This slow pacing was caused by this pattern of different character arcs for the girls living in the dorm, and then an arc focusing mainly on the two main characters. After the main arc finishes, character arcs are then done again, and after those are done, we head back to the main story with Keitaro and Narusegawa.

Art: 8
The rating of 8 is a bit high, partly due to my lack of completed mangas. (I don't really have much to compare it too...) but the art was still enjoyable.

The only real problem with the art were some of the action scenes, as it was a bit hard to tell what was exactly going on. Maybe it is because I don't watch a lot of action anime and read a lot of manga in general, but a lot of the action parts had to be re-read in order for me to make sense.

Character: 10
I loved every single character in this manga. Every character had a unique personality, so it was easy to separate them from each other. Every character also had a great character design, as the artist put so much work in every outfit, such as festivals, or tropical island outfits.

The best part for the characters though (besides most of them being girls) was the character development that all of them had. Every character (Besides Su, but Su does whatever she wants) had around three or four character arcs, which gave them enough time to develop. This is where we can see the result of character development; we get to see the dreams of all the characters fulfilled with an amazing happy ending.

Enjoyment: 10+
This was a series I got to part way as a 13 year old. I was so embarrassed to read this because of all the naked girls in the series (I was so scared that I would get caught). I only got to volume 2 before I stopped risking it. This was a great read from my past, as something that has always been on my mind since I stopped reading it when I was younger. The enjoyment I got from this series was so unreal, I laughed, I even yelled at parts that surprised me.

Overall: 10
I love this series, and I will re-read this sooner or later. Why couldn't the anime adaption be good (From what I know, the anime doesn't even get far with the manga).

To be honest this manga was pretty amazing. The romance the comedy was just right and perfect. I really enjoyed it and every chapter was worth reading. The end was so sweet and cute too. This was a manga that my friend introduced to me like 4 years ago when I was 12 or 13 in Thailand. He was reading it and told me to read it. But I didn't get to read it till now. This manga was truly amazing and romantic. The character development was also quite amazingly well done. I loved it :D I am glad that I was able to read this great manga, so I'm telling you people out there, even if you think its boring just give it a shot. I loved it and I mean every single word I say. So enjoy this amazing manga!!!!! :D

great manga, better than the anime. great story and the ending is most likely to bring tears to your eyes. there's not enough adjectives to characterize this masterpiece. love hina's manga is the best amongst many i have read of it's type!

This manga is one of my favorite ones. Love Hina is a wonderful read, and after watching the anime and not feeling satisfied with that, I decided to read the manga. I rarely ever enjoy manga as much as I did with Love Hina. It was short, but it was packed with story and character development. I will always remember it.

Story: 9
The story in Love Hina is hilariously crazy and sweetly romantic, at the same time. It has ups and downs, but overall is a very well-developed story and although it starts off a bit strangely, it quickly becomes a memorable one with funny scenes and romantic moments all packed together. Some of the funny parts are so crazy that I found myself in tears from laughing. Sometimes it did get a little too crazy, and at times, it was even a little repetitive (especially Naru's punches and the ecchi scenes), but one thing is for sure: the romance between the main couple did develop well, even though both were initially nervous and reluctant to admit their feelings.

Art: 10
The art is amazing, to be direct. The art in Love Hina is some of the cleanest and cutest, yet also detailed, manga art I have seen in a romantic comedy manga. The shading is especially beautiful, and each character design is fitting for the character. The backgrounds are nice, too. I admire Akamatsu's art.

Character: 9
If this manga series doesn't have great character development, then smack me. Unlike lots of romantic comedy harem manga, each character is developed fully. Sure, the girls fall for the harem cliche personality types sometimes, especially Naru (dat tsundere), but I was able to let it slide. Whatever the case is, each character has a unique and charming personality. I grew attached to each one, even Keitaro.

Enjoyment: 10
So, I basically enjoyed the daylights out of this series. Not much to be said, other than I really loved it.

Overall: 10
Like I already stated, this manga is great on multiple levels. It's a shame this manga isn't as popular now as it was a few years ago, but no matter what, I will always hold on to this series. I overlooked it at first because it was an ecchi harem kind of manga, but after enjoying the anime (although I don't think it's anywhere as good as this), I decided to read the manga. I'm happy I did.

When I think of Love Hina, I think of, "repetitive", but in a somewhat good way.

I read Love Hina about 2 years ago. Main reason why I read it because many people say Love Hina is a "Classic", "Great", "Wonderful","fantastic" harem manga series; plus I wanted to read something fun. I read it and..."Meh". Its not bad, but its no where near good.

Story:
Basic plot:
Two kids, in love, promise each other they will both go to Tokyo U, get married and live happily ever after. Simple right?

Here's my problem: Why make a BIG deal like that? I mean, both of them are kids, and most likely they're appearance will change over time, so even if they both get in Tokyo U, they need to look for each other. Plus making a deal to get married, as kids, like that sounds a bit...Dumb. Like Twilight level dumb. Egh, whatever, its a manga. :P

Even though that plot device sounds a bit lazy, but it does keep the story going. As well the story does try to throw a curveball, keeping you guessing who the main character lover might be, but that little twist comes off a little weak, and you probably know who the true lover might be. As well the plot has this repetitive device in it. About everytime something big happens to the characters, they all start running away. Few time in the series are understandable, but later on, it feel like the creator has no idea how to deal with his characters situation. That, or get one character to point A to point B. Plus the series humor is pretty weak too. I did luagh at some joke here and there. But thats kinda rare.

Even with all these complaints I'm giving, its not all bad. Oddly enough, the story has well pacing for its characters development, as well calm moments. There's not whole lot of character development (Well, just a few do), but nearly every character have their moment to shine; some more than once. As well with all the hectic moments the series has, there are many moments the series slow down a little, give the reader a breather. One big example of this is the valentine chapter. Nothing to crazy is happening in that chapter, but there's some development for the main character, as well some funny moments.
And, at time, rare time for me I mean, there's some touching moments in the series that really work.

Speaking of characters....

Characters:
Typical. Not too typical, but typical. You got:
-The hot head
-The shy one
-The energetic one
-The trouble maker
-The party girl
-The absentminded one
-The goof ball one
-The "Don't judge a book by its cover" one
-The weird lover one
-The "guy" friend one

Really, those characters are in this series. Though, like I said before, each character, the side one, does get their moment to shine. Some do development the plot a little, as well have some character development too, while sometime, they are put on the side for other MAIN characters.

Art:
It ok. Though its nothing new. Its kind of stander manga art style, but there are few cute moments here and there....AND FANSERVICE! I could of add this much sooner while I was talking about the plot. But about 85% of the time, its really pontless and doesn't effect the plot at all.
And yes, there are "some" loli fanservice. NOTHING OVER THE TOP THOUGH. If I can remember, the fanservice is up to PG-13 level. A lot of T.N.A but nothing too detal about it. Try to imagin those store mannequins, by nudity, is like that. If you can handle it, great. If you can't well, don't read the first chapter.

Over all:
I won't say Love Hina is a bad series, but with all the love and prase it has, don't believe all the hype around it.
If your looking for a fun series to relax, enjoy its very basic plot and stander characters, Love Hinda is your series.
Though, personally, for a harem series, I'll take Teachi Muyo any time.

-The King has spoken