Spoiler Alert.
Story: 9
Love Hina follows Keitaro, a ronin (A person who failed their entrance exam, and spending time studying to attend the next year). He has been kicked out by his parent and was offered a home by his grandmother at her inn. In turn though, the inn has became a female residence dorm and Keitaro being a very unlucky (Yet immortal) character. The other main character is Narusegawa, a female who is quick to punch our main character for any type of perverted thing he does. I really enjoyed seeing their relationship grow alongside the relationship of Keitaro and the other girls who live there.
The ending was handled well, as all the characters recognize they like Keitaro, but let Narusegawa have it. A great art of the series was all the girls competing for him, as we got to see sides of characters we never have seen.
The best part of the story comes in the epilogue, which I will cover why in the character section of this review, but the epilogue offered amazing closure to the series and put the biggest smile on my face.
The story of Love Hina was paced a bit slow for my liking but tolerable. This slow pacing was caused by this pattern of different character arcs for the girls living in the dorm, and then an arc focusing mainly on the two main characters. After the main arc finishes, character arcs are then done again, and after those are done, we head back to the main story with Keitaro and Narusegawa.
Art: 8
The rating of 8 is a bit high, partly due to my lack of completed mangas. (I don't really have much to compare it too...) but the art was still enjoyable.
The only real problem with the art were some of the action scenes, as it was a bit hard to tell what was exactly going on. Maybe it is because I don't watch a lot of action anime and read a lot of manga in general, but a lot of the action parts had to be re-read in order for me to make sense.
Character: 10
I loved every single character in this manga. Every character had a unique personality, so it was easy to separate them from each other. Every character also had a great character design, as the artist put so much work in every outfit, such as festivals, or tropical island outfits.
The best part for the characters though (besides most of them being girls) was the character development that all of them had. Every character (Besides Su, but Su does whatever she wants) had around three or four character arcs, which gave them enough time to develop. This is where we can see the result of character development; we get to see the dreams of all the characters fulfilled with an amazing happy ending.
Enjoyment: 10+
This was a series I got to part way as a 13 year old. I was so embarrassed to read this because of all the naked girls in the series (I was so scared that I would get caught). I only got to volume 2 before I stopped risking it. This was a great read from my past, as something that has always been on my mind since I stopped reading it when I was younger. The enjoyment I got from this series was so unreal, I laughed, I even yelled at parts that surprised me.
Overall: 10
I love this series, and I will re-read this sooner or later. Why couldn't the anime adaption be good (From what I know, the anime doesn't even get far with the manga).
