Having failed the entrance exam twice and with his parents no longer willing to support him, he goes to stay at his grandmother's hotel, only to find out that it has been converted into a female-only apartment. However, he has forgotten the name of the girl he made the promise to and hopes to be accepted into the university in order to find her. The story is a shōnen comedy that takes place in the Kanagawa Prefecture, and centers on Keitarō Urashima and his attempts to fulfill a childhood promise that he made with a girl to enter the University of Tokyo together. Both anime and manga have received numerous industry awards in Japan and North America, as well as praise from critics. The English release of the manga has been reprinted many times. In Japan, the manga had 20 million copies in circulation over 1 million anime DVDs were also sold. The series has proved extremely popular around the world, both commercially and critically. The series is also licensed in Australia by Madman Entertainment and in the United Kingdom by MVM Films.
In July 2007, the license was acquired by Funimation, who released a boxset of the television series in February 2009. The anime series, special, and OVA were licensed for release in North America by Bandai Entertainment. It was followed by a bonus DVD episode, Christmas and Spring television specials, and a three episode original video animation (OVA) entitled Love Hina Again. Both novels were later released in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop.Ī twenty-four episode anime adaptation of the manga series, produced by Xebec, aired in Japan from April to September 2000. Two novelizations of Love Hina, written by two anime series screenwriters, were also released in Japan by Kodansha.
The manga was licensed for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop, in Australia by Madman Entertainment, and in Singapore by Chuang Yi. The series tells the story of Keitarō Urashima and his attempts to find the girl with whom he made a childhood promise to enter the University of Tokyo. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 1998 to October 2001, with the chapters collected into 14 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha.
Love Hina ( Japanese: ラブ ひな, Hepburn: Rabu Hina) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu.
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