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Summary: A new Christmas favorite for my collection...
Review: Before this DVD, my Christmas movie mainstays were "It's A Wonderful Life", "Holiday Inn", and "Scrooged". This special will be added to the list. It fits well with the theme of love and caring that the others evoke in me. It's a wonderful heart wrenching story.
If you're a Hina fan, you must own this one. A Love Hina collection will be incomplete without it.
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Summary: Laughter, Love, and Swordplay
Review: First off, this dvd is wonderful and highly recommended. Summaries of the xmas movie can be found all over the web so I thought I'd review the product itself. The dvd case is a translucent iceblue that I think complements the snowy xmas scene on the cover quite well. The cover itself is reversible with the Hinata girls in new year's garb wishing you a happy new year on the other side. The dvd also comes with a foldout 2003 calendar (xmas miniposter on the back) with the birthdays of the Love Hina characters marked on the calendar in case you wanted to know for some reason. The dvd has the same print design of the cover with some of the characters repositioned so that they all fit on face of the disc. The bonus material.. ep25 is HILARIOUS!! Buy this dvd just for episode 25 if you don't care for the xmas movie. I don't think Motoko's sis Tsuruko ever shows up in the anime again (in the manga she comes back after the events in Love Hina Again) so don't miss out! The extras also included some preview stuff for other anime including the magnificent COWBOY BEBOP! The animated menus are fun to watch. There is scene access for the movie and ep25, plus a textless ending for the movie which is pretty funny but makes more sense if you read the manga.
The movie itself is heartwarming and definitely sweet and fun to watch. The Love Hina anime series is very funny though I felt it wasn't quite as deep or hilarious as the Love Hina manga, but episode 25 is just so damn funny! Oh yea, the English dubbed voices sound strange to me (Keitaro sounds WEIRD) but I guess I'm just too used to the Japanese cast. And I think they even dubbed Tama the turtle. Why the hell would you need to dub a turtle that says "MIYU"? Anyway, buy this dvd and be happy that you did ^_^
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Summary: An episode of the TV series that lives up to the manga
Review: First off: This dvd is something no Love Hina fan should be without. Its got a nice story, as opposed to the rest of the tv series which i think is kind of boring and fillerish compared to the manga. The "Bonus" episode 25 isn't nearly as good, which is one reason why this gets four stars instead of five. The video quality of this show continues to be excellant, while the english dubbing continues to be flat out bad. If you haven't read a fair amount of the manga or seen the show up to this point, you probably should wait before getting this. It requires the viewers to have a fair amount of knowledge of the previous events. Overall, this is a very enjoyable episode of Love Hina.
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Summary: An episode of the TV series that lives up to the manga
Review: First off: This dvd is something no Love Hina fan should be without. Its got a nice story, as opposed to the rest of the tv series which i think is kind of boring and fillerish compared to the manga. The "Bonus" episode 25 isn't nearly as good, which is one reason why this gets four stars instead of five. The video quality of this show continues to be excellant, while the english dubbing continues to be flat out bad. If you haven't read a fair amount of the manga or seen the show up to this point, you probably should wait before getting this. It requires the viewers to have a fair amount of knowledge of the previous events. Overall, this is a very enjoyable episode of Love Hina.
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Summary: Christmas Special = Good! Episode 25= Bad!
Review: For those of you wondering, yes, the Christmas Special is definentley worth the money for the DVD. I won't spoil anything, but take my word for it.Episode 25... Episode 25 is BY FAR the worst episode they could (and did!) make. It's TOTALLY out of whack with the rest of the story that's developed so far. Naru and Mei go to visit their family's grave (And Keitaro doesn't come for comfort? I doubt someone like Naru would really allow that), so that knocks her out of the story, and leaves room for Motoko's sister to show up and be quite the opposite of what my impression of her was for someone Motoko looked up to so much. Going against what I thought she would've stood for, she tells Motoko she has no chance of inheriting the school. So Motoko tries to become a normal woman, and little romantic tension develops between her and Keitaro. THIS EPISODE HAS NO PLACE IN THE SERIES. IT'S COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY UNWORTHY OF THE LOVE HINA NAME. They AT LEAST could've put the episode somewhere else, it makes no sense where it is. Keitaro and Narusegawa have come so close to eachother, and all of the sudden this? It's preposterous. This episode reminded me more of a pitiful sitcom than what Love Hina is (which is an excellent sitcom without the obnoxious audience, and pockets of an underlying serious romantic plot). The Christmas Special was excellent, though. WATCH THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, DON'T WATCH EPISODE 25.
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Summary: Great special for fans of the series
Review: I got this movie just in time for Christmas and I thought this was a great time to release this. First, nobody should buy this unless you have seen the series (the original episodes 1-24) or at least read the manga up to volume 6 which is the manga equivilant to the Christmas special (they both are completely different though). If you haven't you'll probably be bored with this. Overall it's very entertaining, it's basically about a rumor that if you make a (love) wish on Christmas Eve it will come true. And even if you don't like the movie, this DVD also comes with Love Hina episode 25 which IMO is another great reason to buy this. I also found it neat that series creator Ken Akamatsu made an appearance in this (anime style, of course). Definitely worth the money.
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Summary: Five star
Review: I loved this movie! I'm a huge Love Hina fan, and this one was by far my favorite.
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Summary: Not as advertised
Review: I read the review for another version, that was the Region 1 version with the extra episode. Instead, I got just the movie in the Region 2 version (Japanese/Chinese). I liked it better this way because I mostly bought it just to see the movie anyway.
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Summary: Touching, funny and very very romantic! Love Hina rocks!!!!!
Review: I was reading the reviews to this movie and some of them say that if you haven't seen any of the other episodes you will be bored. I haven't seen any of the other episodes except 25 and the Christmas special but more on that later, and I absolutely loved this and am going to get the other episodes! Love Hina-The Christmas Special:
Before this I thought that the Charlie Brown Christmas Special was cool, but SCRATCH THAT! Love Hina's special is 10x better! Love Hina- Episode 25:
This is the episode that really got me into this series. The episode is filled with very very funny scenes that are beyond hilarious! Overall this DVD is really good. I am going to be picking up the other episodes of this show VERY soon. Rated 13 and up: brief nudity, minor language, some violence and provocative humor.
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Summary: great movie.... but
Review: I would have to say this is a great movie, especially while rolling except I just have one problem with it. Why is Shinobu treated like a dog? The only reason Keitaro goes out with her is to make the other girl jealous. And then, when Shinobu asks if she is a terrible person (presumably because she fell in love and had a dream), she is told "You're a good kid." A kid? A kid who can only have crushes that fade away (not real love, truly). And Shinobu is left to be content with being alone.... or is she? The writer tacks on a false happy ending for her, by letting her pass out books and accept money (which is supposed to make her VERY happy). But I don't buy it. After, the greatest disappointment of her life, is she supposed to be satisfied with this? How sad. Nobody thinks of the other person who gets hurt. But otherwise this movie was very sweet and realistic (realistic because just like in life, everyone gets a happy ending).
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