Love Hina plot summaries
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Manga Summaries
Manga Series Summaries
Manga Book Summaries
Names are in Western order.
Book 1
The story opens with an introduction to Keitaro Urashima, a 19 year old boy who has failed the entrance exams for Tokyo University twice.
A promise to an unknown childhood sweetheart at the age of 5 is the reason for his determination to get into TōDai.
Kicked out by his parents he decides to see if he can stay at his grandmother's hot springs hotel while studying for his third attempt at the entrance exams.
Unbeknownst to him his grandmother has not only left the country, but turned the hotel into a girls only boarding house, the Hinata House.
He attempts to take a bath in the hot-spring and encounters one of the residents, 17-year old Naru Narusegawa, bathing naked.
Some confusion ensues in which Keitaro clumsily meets all the residents in turn, 19-year old Mitsune Konno, 13-year old Suu Kaolla, 12-year old Shinobu Maehara, and 15-year old Motoko Aoyama, while attempting to escape the incensed Naru. They are not at all happy with his presence. They call him a pervert, and a thief, and he is only saved from permanent damage by 27-year old Haruka Urashima, identifying Keitaro as the grandson of the Hinata House's owner and her Nephew/Cousin.
He finds himself trapped in a lie, all the residents believe he is actually a student at TōDai, and they allow him to stay.
Eventually the residents discover his deception, which totally devastates Shinobu who has developed a crush on him, and they force him to leave. However, Haruka receives a fax transferring all the deeds of ownership of Hinata House to Keitaro, making him the landlord and so he returns.
After having some more run ins with residents in which he accidentally sees them in various states of undress, the residents decide to force him to leave by making his tenure as landlord unbearable. This plan fails as he takes all the punishment that they can give.
Keitaro is surprised to find out that Naru is attending the same cram school as him and that she has top scores for the whole of Japan. He persuades her to be a study partner/teacher to help him through his practice exams. He is, however, hopeless and gets only a 2 % chance of entering TōDai in his practice exam.
He then makes up for letting down Shinobu and making her cry by organizing an impromptu birthday party for her when everyone else forgets.
The book ends with Motoko believing she is falling in love with Keitaro and is so upset about it she challenges him to a duel. He easily beats her (In a double knockout) because it is not love that has made her weak, but just a cold.
Book 9
Keitaro breaks his leg at the Tokyo University opening ceremony, is forced to take three months off University and tells Naru he loves her (who responds by running off). Motoko's elder sister turns up and is eventually defeated by Motoko, proving her worthy to continue living at Hinata House. Shinobu decides to try to get into Tokyo University, and despite a couple of problems remains determined to go. Seta proposes to Haruka, a while he is turned down by her she does agree to go out on one date with him. Naru sort of confesses that she loves Keitaro too.
Book 12
Keitaro returns in the middle of the war between the girls, and the hostilities are put aside as everyone is happy he is back. Kanako then sets about trying to become Keitaro's girlfriend, eventually tricking Keitaro into making a promise in Hinata Sou's abandoned cursed annex, making the promise binding. After being on the wrong end of the curse a couple of times, Naru runs away and starts travelling north, followed by all the Hinata girls. This (through a set of unusual circumstances) results in Kanoko travelling with Naru, and deciding to 'lend Keitaro to her for now'. Eventually Keitaro catches up with her at the northern-most point of Japan, they end up falling off (but not being injured) and Naru admits that she loves him and gives him a very long French Kiss, which the other girls see. They get upset at this and the book ends with them chasing Naru and Keitaro.
Book 14
Naru runs away from Keitaro after a series of mishaps, believing that she is not Keitaro's promised girl, and this fact is causing all their problems together. They eventually return to Hinata House, but they run from Grandma Hina because she threatrens to reveal the true identity of the promised girl and that it might not be Naru. However, Grandma ends up letting it be known that Naru is the promise girl which is reinforced by a paper found in time capsule. Naru writes that she loves Keitaro and throws that paper as a paper airplane, ending the main part of Love Hina.
In the epilogue, the story continues briefly. Three years pass, and everybody is different. Everyone attends Tokyo U, except Kitsune (although Keitaro and Naru might have graduated already; it seems like they are finished). Shinobu has filled out and become attractive, Kaollo is older but still crazy, Motoko is a 3rd year law student and writes trashy romance novels. In the end, Ema Maeda, a 15 year old girl seeking to get into Tokyo U comes to the dorm. She has an "introduction" to Hinata House that's very similar to Keitaro's. After a mishap where Ema steals Naru's dress's veil, everything goes back to normal, and then Naru and Keitaro finally get married, ending the story of Love Hina.
Anime Summaries
TV Series
TV Specials
Episode 25
The episode 25 is about Motoko Chan fighting her sister as seen in the books except Naru doesn't go to Kyoto for her family but semi-friends.