Product Description

After failing to be accepted to Tokyo University a third time, Keitaro visits his grandmother only to be made manager of the all female apartment comp

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Product Details

Publisher	Funimation Prod
Number Of Discs	4
Format	DVD Animated Box set Color DVD Full Screen NTSC
MPN	704400095856
Brand	Funimation
EAN	0704400095856
Directed By	Kiyotaka Isako,Kichi Sugitani,Osamu Sato,Shigeru Ueda,Takashi Sudo
Release Date	2009-02-24
Label	Funimation Prod
UPC	704400095856
Region Code	1
Title	Love Hina: Complete Series Box Set
Studio	Funimation Prod
Starring	Yji Ueda,Yui Horie,Masayo Kurata,Yu Asakawa,Reiko Takagi
Running Time	625 minutes
MPAA Rating	PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio	1.33:1
Manufacturer	Funimation Prod

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Customer Reviews

A good clasic

Review by randomerror128, 2010-09-05

This is a good old classic that any anime lover or someone just getting into anime would like... however I would not give it to anyone under the age of 13, as it is .... graphic in a nudity sort of way. That said, this is one series that needs to be watched at least once in a life time...

However I dont think that its something that you would watch every day or every week.... it would get tiresome.

Good story line, always keeps you laughing when you get into the story a bit of a ways.

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Love* Hina* awesome

Review by Gregory J. Holmes, 2010-08-15

Love Hina" is one of my all-time favorite anime series, and one of the few that ever made me laugh. It has been quite a few months since I visited the girls at the Hinata Lodge, and I am happy to say that the series is just as awesome now as it first was when I watched it 2 years ago.

At first, glance, "Love Hina" seems formulaic. Lovable loser Keitaro dreams of success, but seems to fail at everything he tries. Out of luck and plans, he goes to visit his Grandmother Hina and winds up the manager of the Hinata Lodge, a fantastically beautiful building with a backyard hot spring that is populated only by beautiful and feisty girls. Keitaro, the incurable romantic, has long be searching for his "promise girl," the love of his life that he knew back when he was about three years old, and to whom he promised they would grow up and attend Tokyo University (think Harvard) together, and get married. He can't remember the girl's name, but he hasn't given up hope. Just possibly, one of the gals at the Hinata Lodge is Keitaro's long-lost Promise Girl, and he just might find her if he doesn't get killed first. Hijinks ensue.

The storyline is pretty typical of "harem"-style anime series, but somehow "Love Hina" does everything right. Series creator Akamatsu Ken (Negima!) knows how to work an ensemble cast, giving each girl a distinct personality and story arc. Sure, much of the hijinks comes from Keitaro doing his best only to wind up with panties on his head, or walking in on one of the girls naked, only to get a swift kick for his troubles. That is standard Akamatsu fare. But "Love Hina" has some serious undercurrents and nuances that makes all the over-the-top stuff just that much freakin funnier.

The animated series differs from the manga, which is pretty common in Japanese anime. I love both, personally, and felt that they did some really creative things with the "Love Hina" anime. One of my favorite episodes features the kendo girl Makoto in the in the flickering, black and white style of old Samurai films. There are other homages as well, to places as various as Godzilla and Pokemon and nods to other anime series.

This release from Funimation is just great, with nice picture and sound. The subtitles can be hard to read in spots, when the white fades into the background, but that is my only really complaint so I Hope Funimation makes tha lovehina complete series with tha love hina movies and the bonus 25 episode ^_^ and a good release of tha complete series of negami :D

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Its a good one.

Review by Rick Dooley Sr., 2010-06-27

I just got this series and have finished the first 2 discs and the only complaint I have so far is that there are only 2 discs left . Oh well there are still the OVAs I can get to help with my Love Hina addiction . If you like harem comedies or shows like School Rumble you'll probably like Love Hina.

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Well...

Review by Raymond Cole, 2010-06-25

Having previously read Ken Akamatsu's "Love Hina" as a manga, I had my hopes set high as I purchased this item. I was sorely disapointed by its lack of parallel to the orginal manga story, so much so that I could not finish the third episode.

After taking some time away I decided to give it a clean start and try again, this time with a more open mind. I wantched as new characters were introduced and as some that should have been were completely forgoten.

Overall, I was not impressed with this particular anime. As the episodes rolled by, the story never really progressed and the characters never evolved. Each episode starts with the same cookie-cutter template.

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NOT Ken Akamatsu Quality

Review by Kevin R. Bryson, 2010-06-09

After reading a manga series I find myself saying "This would be awsome as an anime". As for the Love Hina series, the manga out does the anime 100 fold. First let me point out that the mangas are rated 16 an older. The reason for this is because Ken Akamatsu enjoys creating a story that has light adult humor. This light adult humor is never SO bad that people get offended by it (its mostly only panty shots and "convenient" censorship) but insted find it more funny.

These 24 episodes are NOTHING like Ken Akamatsu's mangas. However, the 25th episode (the bonus episode) for some strange reason is more what I would expect from Akamatsu. Why is it that Manga's (not just Ken's) all seem to be rated one thing and the animes for those same manga's are rated something total diffrent. Any way, yes I did purchase this because I was expecting pantie shots left, right, and all around. I was also hopeing for the "convenient" censorships while the girls are in the hot springs. It made the books 10 times funnier and was actually kinda board with the animes because they didn't have that same humor.

I gave this anime 2 stars because its a diffrent story then the books, so your not getting the same exact story word for word. I also gave it 1 star for the 25th (bonus) episode. So in total 3 stars.

In conclusion I wish they would stop takeing mangas for older teens and creating an anime for kids from it. And I wish they would stop takeing animes for older teens and creating kids mangas. If the manga is made for a kid, make the anime for kids as well. If the anime is for adults, make the manga for adults. That is all I have to say.

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