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Love Hina

“Failed exam-taker Keitarou becomes manager of an all-girls dorm while chasing a childhood love promise.”

Love Hina

7.8
1,596 rank · 71,569 readers · 3,924 favorites
Shounen Harem Award Winning Comedy Romance Ecchi
120 chapters · 14 volumes · 1998 - 2001 · Manga
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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.

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Community consensus

Derived from 37 sampled reviews

8.4 /10

What 37 readers settled on.

91% recommend
Score distribution
median 9 mode 10 σ 2.02
1510
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Polarized

σ 2.02 · split reception

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The polarity gap

6.1 pts

Recommenders 9.1 · others 3.0

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Score over time

↓ 1.59

Running avg · Oct 2007 → Dec 2023

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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

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