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Love Hina - Moving In (Vol. 1)

Love Hina - Moving In (Vol. 1)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Love Hina R0cks! w00t w00t!
Review: Hell0! I am here t0 tell y0u h0w awes0me this DvD is! First 0f all I want y0u t0 kn0w that I have only b0ught/seen the first 2 DvDs and it is still my fav0rite anime!!!
0k 0n t0 the review...

Epis0de 1-H0t Spring
Well... this epis0de is basically an intr0 t0 the series. It intr0duces characters and sets the basic st0ry line. It is rather funny...

Epis0de 2-Arr0w Signs
This epis0de intr0duces Shin0bu. She is a very shy yet extremelly patiant and caring y0ung lady. I w0uls be happy t0 be her friend. =) Well y0u see her at sch00l and n0tice that she is very unp0pular (just like me!) Als0, her parents div0rced and their resteraunt is cl0sing. S0 basically everything is going bad in her life. T0 find out what happens simply buy the DvD genius.
... all i have t0 say is THIS ANIME ROCKS!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BEST ANIME EVER
Review: HANDS DOWN, BEST ANIME, ITS SO FUNNY

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A truly wonderful series!
Review: Love Hina, based on the Love Hina manga by Ken Akamatsu, is a wonderful series! When I bought this DVD, I was sure enough it would be good, seeing as my friends have told me is was just super. As I starting watching it, I got hooked after the first episode. I am going to try to see all the episodes of Love Hina, the specials, and all 3 episodes of Love Hina Again. The dubbed voices are really good, and so is the music. Su Kaolla and Shinobu Maehara are really cute, and lovable as well. I reccomend this DVD!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Urashima and his Girlies are Hilarious
Review: The entire Love Hina series is a hilarious addition to anyone's anime collection. It is brilliantly written and drawn out, with hilarious running gags and funny circumstances/situations. The characters, each with his or her wonderfully expressed personalities really adds to this series. It's hilarious that they stuck a modest and shy wannabe Todai student (Keitaro Urashima) into an all-girls dormitory, and had him get accustomed to living with only girls. You'd be glued to your seat for hours, watching episode after episode of Keitaro getting in over his head with the girls, especially Naru Narusegawa (also trying to get into Todai university). This is my favorite anime series so far, and the manga is great as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Insane Adaptation of the Manga
Review: I have only read the bilingual Japanese editions of Love Hina so my comparisons will be dealing with that translation of the manga. I've only read through chapter 16 (Volume 3).

Keitaro is a 20 year-old guy struggling to get into college. He keeps failing entrance exams. He collects photo booth pictures of himself alone since he has never had a girl-friend. The only girl to ever like him was someone he hasn't seen since he was about 5 years old. Back then, they made a promise to go to Tokyo Univerisity together. It's believed that any couple that goes to Tokyo U. together will live happily ever after. Even though Keitaro can't even remember her name, he's still trying to get into the university in the hopes of seeing the girl from his past again.

The animation for this series was done on computers. (There's a featurette in a later volume.) Some people may not care for that - preferring true cel animation. I don't mind it.

The DVD has four episodes.

"All-girls Dorm with Outdoor Bath: Hot Spring" has Keitaro moving into the dorm.

"The Hinata's New Resident, Shinobu: Arrow Signs": Shinobu's parents are getting a divorce and forcing her to move away with her mom. She doesn't want to leave.

"Kendo Girl in Love?: Swordplay": Motoko thinks she might be in love with Keitaro.

"The Tokyo U Promise From 15 Years Ago: Diary": Keitaro falls against a shelf in Naru's room causing her diary to fall and open to a page mentioning a promise from 15 years ago. That's all he could read before Naru shows up. Keitaro begins to wonder if Naru is the girl from his past.

With no pun intended, the anime series is a very cartoonish version of the manga. The manga may have insane moments, but it remains somewhat realistic. Naru may sometimes send Keitaro flying across the room but not a few miles through the sky like in the opening titles of the anime. Based on what I've read so far, Su doesn't have all of the neat toys in the manga. However, she is energetic and may knock Keitaro around a bit. In the anime, there are insane chase scenes through the hallways of the apartments (sometimes with explosions) that do not exist in the original manga.

As with most anime adaptations, there are some basic plots that appear in both versions, but the presentation is rarely the same. There are differences in the stories that are presented in both formats. I don't mind that. Later in the series, I think things get a little too insane but still not too bad. The truly insane bits don't show up in the parts of the manga I have read. True fans may want to stick with the complete anime series anyway. I still plan to see it to the end, including the movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Anime
Review: This anime is very funny, maybe not so much for women, but its a very funny and enjoyable anime, I cant say too much because I'll spoil a bunch of the jokes/gags etc so just buy it and watch!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great romance/comedy with lots of beautiful girls
Review: Many anime viewers will agree that if you liked "Oh My Goddess", give Love Hina a try, which is exactly what I did. It has quickly become my other top favorite anime series with OMG. This is story of a boy's childhood promise to a certain girl and his determination to keep it. At 20 years old, Keitaro Urashima becomes the manager of the Hinata Inn, an all girls dorm that is owned by his grandmother. Put together a mix of craziness with Keitaro being beat up by some of the residents and a wonderful romance story, and you have Love Hina. Spanning 24 episodes, an extra episode 25, X-mas and Spring special episodes, a "Final Selection" concert, and a 3 episode OVA follow up called Love Hina Again, this is one of the best romance/comedy series out there. If romance is your thing, I highly recommend Love Hina. This is a nice long series that you will fall in love with it very quickly and ask for more.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Anime All Around
Review: This is a wonderful show with a great sense of humor. Sure, the panty shots of Naru and the other girls gets repetetive, but they're usually followed by some gret humor or punchline. Kitsune does have a Southern accent in the English dub, but the translators took Kitsune's character, which is apparently from Southern Japan, and tried to keep it close to the original dialect, hence the Southern. I prefer the Japanese, which features the always amazing Megume Hayashibara in a smaller role for once, unusual for her. Overall, this is a great show and will make you laugh with the jokes and animation style, which is very clean and great-looking.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It's probably worse if you've read the manga.
Review: I've watched and read the whole Love Hina series and the video is just horrible. The story in the video is just bad and shows the creators mental need to be the center of its world with three characters that represent himself. Use your money to buy other videos series or the manga of this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is a Great Anime!
Review: This is one of the greatest anime ever! I love the plot and the characters. I bought the first 2 DVD's at an Animation Convention (Otakon 2002) and I just got hooked! I like Kitsune and Naru who are really great in the formation of the story. Keitaro is a great guy and funny, but the thing is how can he survive all those beatings from the girls in the dorm? He must heal fast to be back on his feet the next day. I wish I was a landlord of a girl's dorm. I wonder what it would be like? If the girls are like the ones in Love Hina then I'm in. One-of-a-kind people there are in the story. It's also motivational too. It teaches that you should never give up no matter what happens. "Overcome all obstacles" that's what I learned. It really made me think about myself and my life. Okay! Enough about me. Otherwise, this is a great DVD and you should get the whole series. I know I will! Buy it or regret it!


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