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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Yasushi Murayama, Masakazu Hashida, Osamu Sato (II), Yoshiaki Iwasaki, Kôichi Sugitani, Shigeru Ueda, Takashi Sudo, Kiyotaka Isako, Toshinori Narita, Wendee Lee |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pioneer Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Animated |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 669198190094 |
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Customer Reviews of Love Hina - Moving In (Vol. 1)
The start of a great anime! I personally own the whole series and have owned them for about 3 years. This was my first collection and still is my favorite. It begins with a boy named Keitaro Urashima and how he is determined to go to Tokyo University. The reason is because of a promise that he made with a little girl when he was 5 years old. Later on his grandma invites him to go to the hot springs and little did he know that it was a all girls dorm. Since he arrived his grandma left him in charge and now he is the owner of the Hinata Apartments. Later on he realizes that one of the girls that lives in the dorms might be the little girl that he made his promise to and now he is out to find out. This is the start of a very promising anime and a great collection. P.S The ending is actually decent because it actually ends the way you want it to!
Paradise...or so Keitaro thought...
From the great Ken Akamatsu, Love Hina another Romance/Comedy series. There have been quite a few now and very much alike. IE Ai Yori Aoshi, Chobits, Oh My Goddess! etc etc though i dont think they're quite as good as Love Hina.
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>Awesome characters all of which have a decent background. Packed full of awkward and hilarious moments, Love Hina is a Romance/Comedy series well worth watching, also be sure to check out the Specials and Final piece Love Hina Again. And to avoid any Confusion they should be watched in the following order...
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>Love Hina TV, Xmas Special, Spring Special and ofcourse Love Hina Again. Also keep in mind that there is a Special Episode on the Xmas Special disc Episode 25! Cool.
Disjointed, overrated, rip-off of Maison Ikkoku!
The Love Hina manga are some well written, heart aching, and over the top comedy books ever to come from Japan. In a direct rip-off of Maison Ikkoku, it desperately tried to find it's own niche and failed wonderfully. So discovering that an anime series exists under the same name, one would logically assume it to be a well planned and executed enhancement of our favorite still frames from the books. Unfortunately this is not the case.
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>Watching the anime series of Love Hina is like watching cars drive down the road with lead-foot chipmonks in bikinis behind the wheel. Funny: yes, smart: no... and certainly not feasable. The main character is a complete pervert, (perhaps even more kinky than Ataru from Urusei Yatsura, which is less funny than it is frightening) yet he hides it under the overly cliche'd nice guy demeanor. So the relatively smart yet semi-unattractive dorky haircut and lame glasses look may fool anime girls, but not real girls, sorry guys.
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>And then there's the story... I remember following the DVDs in numbered order only to find out that one of the main characters all of a sudden was a pop star, and had this strange new character following her as if he'd been there all the time. Did I miss an episode? No, I didn't. The developers of this series (perhaps strapped for time and money) most likely did a second edit of each episode, making them feel like a series of comic strips scenerios that fit together only by sheer luck. Since the manga moves at a much more reasonable pace, (and is leagues beyond the "attempted" narrative in the anime) this is inexcusable. Never is time given to appreciate an individual character's thoughts or feelings, everything is implied (which is a very old but unnecessary trend in anime) until someone gets hurt... which is always the guy.
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>And when I say hurt, the guy is lucky that he isn't dead. The boarding house girls attack him with everything from tanks to katanas. In fact I dare say that every 5-10 minutes expect him to get a bloody nose from seeing one or more of the girls in various states of undress, followed immediately by a blow that launches him 100 feet in the air. The last time those kinds of gags were funny was way back in Ranma 1/2, and mostly becuase like everything else in life should be, it was dealt out in moderation. But no matter how much true pain and suffering the guy must have truly gone thru there is only one scene in which he actually ends up in the hospital. But that, (along with the many other unfortunate coincidences that occur in bringing the two leads together) also was lifted liberally from Maison Ikkoku.
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>But the line between total insanity anime and comedic romance is pointlessly being blurred at both ends. Perhaps it was inevitable, but considering the works of Rumiko Takahashi (Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2) did it all first and did it all both better and funnier, the series feels more like a jump start update of a formula that didn't need it. Taking those cherished series to extremes in Love Hina (as well as in A.I. Love You) is not bringing the genre up to speed as much as saturating the market with sub-par quality anime by standing on the shoulders of others. That said I can see why those who aren't aware of the afore-mentioned series would appreciate this, but let me be honest with you. You're selling yourself short watching this anime, as the manga version is far more a complete version of this story. But if comics are not your thing Urusei Yatsura, Maison ikkoku and Ranma 1/2 are available on DVD... like gems waiting to be discovered. And they don't insult your intelligence with the exact same bathhouse peeping scenes over and over again.