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Prashantttt
Why "Love Hina" is Just 24 Episodes of Pure Garbage ????????
You know those times when you sit down, expecting to enjoy a nice harem and romance show, but instead, you end up watching absolute trash? Yeah, that’s what "Love Hina" is. I’ve seen all the popular harem and romance shows because, let’s face it, it’s my favorite genre. But "Love Hina"? It’s the complete opposite of what a good show should be.
In simple and short terms, "Love Hina" is nothing more than 24 episodes of cringe-worthy scenes, annoying characters, filler episodes, and toxic female leads. But you won’t find a good story anywhere in it. Don’t expect to watch a beautiful romance anime because this show is just one big mess.
Story - What Story?
The so-called story revolves around two characters, our MC Keitarou and the…
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Ah, man, I have not written a review this negative in a very long time. This will be a painful write, especially since I know this anime is apparently mildly popular and I imagine it relates to it being the creator of the harem genre in its rawest form. You know, where the innocent guy is continuously assaulted by women. For real, if somebody can show me just one anime where it's one with with a bunch of guys and the girl, for once, knows how it feels to be beaten up all the time, send me a message.
This review is brutally honest, but it deserves to be. Some of the girls, especially one, got on my nerves so much that I questioned my morality at one point. Any fans of the anime, well, you could agree with me on most of these points I say anime, here. I have not read the manga, and I know i…
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It's been almost a year since I was asked to look at a harem series. This one was written by Akamatsu Ken. In the year 2000 it was adapted into an anime by Xebec. You may remember them from Bakuretsu Hunters, Bottle Fairy, Mnemosyne & Zombie Loan. So, about half their stuff I've reviewed has been good. I don't really anticipate this one joining them but let's take a look and see what happens. Maybe it will surprise me.
Story:
Our tale opens with Keitaro, who I will refer to as Blandon for the rest of this review, our protagonist. He dreams of entering the prestigious Tokyo U, in spite of having failed the entrance exam twice. Why is he so set on this particular school? Because he and the only girl who ever liked him way back when they were really little promised to get into Tokyo U toget…
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Overview:
Love Hina is one of the most famous entries of the infamous Harem Genre, that flourished in the 1990s and still somehow survives to this day. Did this series do anything to deserve its level of fame? We aren't expecting high brow sophistication here, but is it at least funny? The short answer to these 2 questions is "no". The original manga actually was surprisingly funny, well drawn, and had a cheesy sort of charm to it. This anime is an example of a horrendous adaptation that brutally murders everything that made the manga passable.
Story: 4/10
The main story is about a hapless loser that wishes to gain acceptance into Tokyo University, which is one of the most prestigious and difficult to get into colleges in the world. While studying for his college entry exams, Keitaro Ur…
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I'm going to start off my reviewing career with the anime that got me into the whole thing. Love Hina! More like Love Shit! When I first finished the series I thought the same thing every other person without good taste said, "why'd it end? This is so good!". Well now I can say I wish it didn't end. In fact I wish it never even started. Read on to find out why.
STORY: 10
The story for Love Hina is surprisingly unique. A dense dorky guy makes a promise with a childhood friend and embarks on a humongous highway of harem hijinks when he grows up. I have never heard of such a plot before, so I have to give the story a 10 for its originality. The main character, Keitaro Urashima is trying to enter the University of Tokyo (Japan's Harvard or something like that) because he made a PROMISE to a…
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Looking for a romance/comedy/harem anime to kill time? Look no more because Love Hina will SERIOUSLY KILL your time.
I've watched Love Hina before way back when I was still a kid and I remember loving this series, but after re-watching this series 10+ years later, I began to question my taste for anime because Love Hina is by far one of the most stupid and ridiculous anime I've ever watched and I can't believe it’s actually possible for me to hate an anime this much.
I'm writing this review at the risk of getting viciously mauled by an angry mob of Love Hina fans who will do anything to defend their beloved anime, so I'll try not to be too harsh on this. Okay, time to get started with this rant—I mean review.
*CHARACTERS: 5/10
The characters of Love Hina are soooo darn GENERIC and just…
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Like any other anime among casual fans and otakus everywhere, this happens to have a massive fan base as it was based on the manga series by Ken Akamatsu. However, I know little of the harem genre of anime, aside from the fact it’s usually a guy living and/or being with a variety of girls or the opposite being the reverse harem, where it’s a bunch of guys surrounding a young lady with examples of shows like Fruits Basket, Ouran High School Host Club, Ranma ½ & Tenchi Muyo.
Keitaro Urashima is determined to be accepted into Tokyo University, the hardest Japanese University of all to get into, because of a promise he made to a girl when he was young... a girl whose name he can't even remember. After failing to get into Tokyo U twice, he is kicked out by his parents and goes to live with his…
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Absurd, ridiculous and just plain idiotic, Love Hina is mindless entertainment for those days when you want to turn your brain off.
Love Hina is about a run-of-the-mill wimp named Keitaro who develops a crush at a very young age to his nameless childhood sweetheart. Unfortunately, she has to move away. While running after the moving van, he promises her that he would get into Tokyo University – one of the most prestigious and hard-to-get-into universities of Japan – and find her at all costs. Years pass, and he fails the entrance exams of Tokyo University. His parents kick him out of the house, so he decides to move in with his grandma who manages a hotel. But unbeknownst to him, it has since turned into an all-female dorm. While the female residents are initially not happy with a man mov…
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Please be kind this is my first review so bear with me they will get better.
WARNING: This review may contain SPOILERS.
Story-
This is a harem themed anime so let’s set the scene, 1 boy and 5 girls in all girls dormitory. Add some romance, comedy, and a little ecchi and you have Love Hina. This series as its highs and lows (trying to be objective) throughout. While managing the Inn and studying for his exams he ends up in every having a series of misadventures. The main focus of the story is Keitaro and Naru trying to get into Tokyo U, and the developing relationship between the two. As it turns out, wait, I’ll let you find that part out on your own. There are a few other romance sub-plots as well as some filler episodes mixed with in the main plot, but I really felt that they didn’t h…
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What attracted me most to Love Hina was the main character, Keitaro, and his perseverance on achieving his goals. His determination to do his best no matter how many times he had failed getting into Tokyo U, he still tried so that he could fulfill the promise he had made to a girl years ago.
Sure, the story has its funny moments and the love interest aspect, but aside from that, Keitaro's character is one I personally admire. Perhaps this is because I face a lot of my own life's journey's the way he does, and especially refusing to give up on things no matter how many times I had failed before. Love Hina certainly brings out an amazing protagonist.
And he's immortal! Can't count how many times he's gotten the Naru-punch!
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To start things off on a blunt note, Love Hina is the quintessential harem anime. However, unlike works like Shuffle!, it plays with the associated tropes very well, and has enough charm and wit to endear them to the audience.
Love Hina's story won't win any awards for originality or pushing the envelope; it plays very safe and has a very saccharine backdrop; it's not like a character fulfilling a promise to his childhood sweetheart hasn't been done before. Where Love Hina succeeds is pulling it off with such heart, and only touching on it lightly right up until the last few episodes.
Most of the time, the show focuses on the characters and their relationships within Hinata Apartments, and the zany antics they do to keep from getting bored.
The characters, as you'd expect from any hare…
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Since my review is probably last on the list or close to it.. Let me fill in the gaps.. because I actually took time to read all the others.. less than an hour after I watched the series lol.
The one thing none most of the reviewers have wrong is the Ecchi.. in NO way can I or anyone consider this a anime based on "fanservice" .. if you think a couple shots of them in the hot springs are perverted.. Then the high ranking Toradora on this site would be put in the same category. Trust me.. look at my list.. I know fan service.. and this definitely isnt a anime filled with it.
The other thing that noone really comments on is the music. The music in this.. is by far.. the BEST music in any anime Ive seen so far.. There are many songs that the characters sing.. that are very cute.. There are…
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Maybe I'm being a little harsh. Well, the series probably wasn't aimed at my kind of audience. My partner bought the series so I thought I might as well be an anime purist and give it a go. I had the same experience with Fruits basket but I actually enjoyed that a lot. This series started well, I thought. Then it became kind of tedious during the middle, what with Keitaro accidently walking into bath area with bunch of girls, then getting hit every episode for being 'perverted'. Then, every other scene, Keitaro gets punched into the sky by Naru and these two are meant to be in love. I don't know, maybe there's a deeper meaning in there that I'm not getting because I'm about as dumb as Keitaro at this stage. I've gotta say by the end of the series, I absolutely detested Naru. I've seen plen…
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When Love Hina was released, it came with a high pedigree. First anime featuring no cel animation whatsoever, and the foundation of a successful and very popular manga by the soon-to-be-well-known Ken Akamatsu. Yes, everyone looked forward to Love Hina, and everyone most likely had all their hopes for it dashed along the rocks in an instant.
For as innovative as they may have wanted us to think the animation is, it's just bad. I know cel animation anime that flow far more smoothly than this. It jerks, the characters are often disproportioned, character movement is erratic and often impossible even by anime standards. Backgrounds are nice looking but that's about it.
The BGM had my ears bleeding. It's an example of why amateurs shouldn't be playing with artificial synthesizers. It's all o…
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Realy great anime.. has a romantic story that started when naru and keitaro (the main couple) were little kids. They made a promice to each other that when they'l be older they go to the same school... but unfortunetly the were seperated. after a long time they axidently started living in the same dorn and after a few days they recognized each other, but naru i a very shy girl and keeps avoiding keitaro...
anime is filled with jokes and all kins of adventures. and ofcourse the romantic story how naru and keitaro starts to get along and confeses their love at the wery end...
i strongly recomend you to wach it
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Love Hina is really great! From the first moment, I was gripped by this story's violence, drama and slight funniness, s well as the romance, which develops as the story goes on.
So, a young man called Urashima Keitaro suddenly finds himself working as the manager for an all-girls dormitory. Yes, you can probably see where that story is going. Lots of slapstick humor, romance and funniness is the recipe for this show. I think it's pretty cool, and if you like romance/harem anime, this is a definite must-see.
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The story of this anime is a little disappointing if you compare to the manga, but if you haven't read the manga, then the story is pretty good.
The contents in some of the episodes is a bit off the main storyline. It's like each episode have it's own story, and then ends up with the main story.
The art in this anime is excellent, you never get tired of watching it, the animation is well made too. The animation also shows the characters face expressions great, whether it's, fun, sorrow, sad, love etc.
The music fits the scenes good, it catching the emotions, and it's even catchy too.
Also the voice actors plays their roles perfectly, their voices matches the characters and their behavior, and you can really tell how they are feeling.
Love Hina gives you a combination of comedy and roman…
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It starts out very heart felt. This dude has this promise to go to Tokyo University with a girl he played with as a child. He grows up into sort of a nerdy person, but he's a fairly pure hearted person at the same time. He becomes very lonely and continues to try to get into Tokyo U with all of his might. He's failed 2 or 3 times already (I'll edit it later). Then his grandma is going to go off for vacation and asks him to be manager of an All girl dormitory. Hot, right!? Well that's where it splits off from usual Shonen Jump stories, they all end up thinking he's a pervert. He comes in not knowing that it's an all girl dormitory and hops in the spring and UH-OH, here comes a chick. Blah blah blah, all else is a mystery. You watch it, I'm not summing up the whole series.
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Love Hina Review by realanimefan.
"Love Hina" basically, is a romantic comedy. For an idea on what I mean, watch a show such as "Ranma 1/2" or "Tenchi Muyo." If you have seen these shows before, then you should feel very comfortable with the show. "Love Hina" though, takes this genre to a new level, introducing a wide variety of characters, strange situations, a good plot with a lot of twists that will keep you guessing \'til the end, and a countless amount of strange things that seem to happen for absolutely no reason.
"Love Hina" is, simply stating, hilarious. Every episode, you ask yourself, "What will happen today in the Hinata House?" Well, something new happens every episode. And poor Keitaro gets the crap beat out of him every episode by at least Naru. Though this eventually beco…
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I know I\'ll probably get flamed for trashing this show, but really it\'s probably one of my most disliked animes. It was extremely boring and not to mention a huge letdown from what I truly thought would be a laugh out loud farce, instead it turned out to be a poorly written comedy. It\'s a shame because Ken Akamatsu\'s other series, Negima is actually much better and much more funny than this one. My personal problem is with the characters in this series who I pretty much hate for picking on Keitaro nonstop. But my most hated character had to be Sara McDougal who helped heap scorn and hurt on him the most.
I\'m hoping that funimation might redub this series and make it better but to be quite honest, this series is awful and I really didn\'t enjoy this. Probably the only anime show I hav…
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