Plot
Love Hina revolves mainly around two characters, Keitaro Urashima, and Naru Narusegawa. As soon as the show starts, you see two kids around the age of 5 running up a flight of stairs and ending up at a playground where they both participate in making a dome-shaped castle together. As they do so, they both promise each other to enter Toudai (Tokyo University) together.

This is mainly due to the myth that if two loved ones enter Toudai together, they will live happily together, forever. Soon(?) after, the little girl is seen looking outside of a moving truck, back at the little boy known only as Keitaro Urashima, screaming out "bye-bye!" and "don't forget!." While this is happening, Keitaro runs after the truck crossing the bridge saying something along the lines of "don't leave!"

Tripping, he falls flat on his front as the little girl watches helplessly as he fades away. Keitaro rises up again to see them out of sight, then grimaces holding up a fist infront of him, reminding himself once again about the promise they had made not too long ago.

15 years afterwards, we see Keitaro once again, at the age of 20, dreaming of the day that he is accepted into Tokyo U. Waking up, he states the facts, saying that the only girl he had ever liked.. well.. he doesn't even remember her name. Twice he had tried to get into Tokyo U, and twice he had been denied for the poor results in his entrance exams. From a phone call, he heads to Hinata Inn. From that point on insanity Insues

Characters

• Keitaro Urashima-Keitaro Urashima may seem like an ordinary, normal how should I say.. nerd. His ambitions go much further than his stupidity. A normal klutz, his thoughts are in no way perverted, yet his situation at Hinata Inn tends to get him into situations where it's impossible not to think perverted. Even though mainly all of the situations were reached accidentally, he is usually pummeled by the Naru Punch or Naru Kick. <
• Naru-Narusegawa -Naru starts out as a resident in the Hinata Inn all-girls dormitory. Keitaro's Grandma decides to travel the world, leaving Hinata Inn to Haruka until Keitaro arrives. They first meet as she enters the hotsprings. Entering the water, she looks at him thinking that he's Mitsune, her best friend. Eventually chaos occurs when she finds out that he isnt Mitsune. Soon after she also finds out that she has to put up with him as Kanrinin
• Mitsune Konno-At first glance you will probably think that Mitsune is much like her best friend, an evil person.. You will find out that she is much more of a gentle person. Though her curiosity gets the best of her at most times, she also tends to take advantage of Keitaro whenever possible. You can probably relate her as a more subtle Ryoko, from the Tenchi Muyo series.
• Kaolla Su-Wild in nature,(much wilder than Mitsune) she's a happy-go-lucky kid in junior high, living her life to the fullest. Continuously, she tends to boss around Keitaro like a toy, kicking him around, yet not through anger but playful-ness. She considers him a fun 3-year failure. A genius in mechanics, she makes many devices and machines. She uses most of them as toys, but many of them were made for the purpose of helping Keitaro and the others achieveing a goal(yet backfiring in a number of ways). I guess you can make her out as an Ed(From Cowboy Bebop) and Washu(from Tenchi series) combined.
• Shinobu Maehara-Probably the only normal resident of Hinata Sou(Hinata Inn), she is the only girl that doesn't purposely hurt Keitaro, as he has been very nice to her from the beginning. She looks up to him and has incredible faith in his abilities, though somewhat not on her own. Her skills as a cook incredibly surpass the other girls of Hinata Sou, and will continuously amaze them. Shinobu has the habit of walking in at wrong occasions, mostly when Keitaro and Naru are together, ending up in tears from saying sorry too much.
• Motoko Aoyama-A noble, skilled warrior, Motoko is usually training with her Katana, or a wooden version of it. She has three followers, three young girls who she seems to teach at their request, yet she is somewhat annoyed by them. She has a hate for all men.
• Mutsumi Otohime-Mutsumi Otohime, has an incredibly weak body. Usually fainting for no reason, she wouldtalk and faint without warning, toppling over. Usually quick to recover, she isn't the most memorable person either, as this is made clear when she forgets to write her name on the entrance exam to Toudai. I think it was, twice she fainted, once she forgot her name. Mutsumi is a very clearheaded person, with not a care in the world. Though it may not look like it, she is a very intelligent person, again made clear from a later score of an A(or was it S) in one of the exams.

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