“Failed exam-taker Keitarou becomes manager of an all-girls dorm while chasing a childhood love promise.”
Love Hina
ラブひな
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Synopsis
Failed exam-taker Keitarou becomes manager of an all-girls dorm while chasing a childhood love promise.
It is said that if a couple gets into the University of Tokyo together, they will live happily ever after. However, for Keitarou Urashima, UTokyo is a distant dream. After failing the entrance exams twice already, he decides to stay at his grandmother's inn in Tokyo in order to prepare for his third attempt. He is, therefore, surprised when he finds out that not only has his grandmother gone on a long vacation, but the inn has also become the Hinata House, an all-girls dormitory! Unfortunately for Keitarou, a series of misunderstandings during his first visit leave him with five untrusting tenants. But when Haruka Urashima, his aunt who works at the dorm, brings up that he is supposedly a UTokyo student, the girls' impressions of him quickly change, and they reluctantly allow him to stay. Feeling guilty about the lie, he slowly gets to know his new neighbors: the cute yet violent Naru Narusegawa, the cheeky and opportunistic Mitsune Konno, the soft-spoken Shinobu Maehara, the straight-laced Motoko Aoyama, and the mischievous Kaolla Su. Thus continues the unpopular Keitarou's difficult journey to get into UTokyo, all for the chance to fulfill his childhood promise to the only girl who has ever shown any interest in him and maybe, just maybe, meet her again.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 37 sampled reviews
What 37 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.02 · split reception
6.1 pts
Recommenders 9.1 · others 3.0
↓ 1.59
Running avg · Oct 2007 → Dec 2023
- 8 “this was the first manga i actually completed. its a very enjoyable manga with a happy ending. id recommend this to anyone who is looking for a good anime which stands from the crowed.”
- 10 “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...”
- 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...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 120 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 16h 00m approx
- Published Oct 1998 – Oct 2001
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0014 catalog