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 Kanako Urashima is Keitaro's adopted younger sister. She lived in the United States for some years, and returned to Japan only to find Keitaro had just left for the U.S. himself. She assumes control of the Hinata House and immediately changes it from an all-girls dormitory back into a hotel. The residents are given the option of leaving, or staying and working for her.Kanako never came to see Keitaro as a brother after her adoption; she has loved him since they were children. When they promised to run a hotel together when they grew up, she always assumed it would be as husband and wife. She recognizes that all of the girls in the Hinata House have some sort of affection for her brother after she tests them in a variety of ways. She tries to drive them away by being as mean and cruel as she could to them, in much the same way that they themselves had once attempted to drive Keitaro away. At first it seemed to be working as one by one everyone, but Naru, left the Hinata. However in the end, the others ultimately returned. Kanako is a master of disguise and is able to impersonate anyone, which she uses to try to get control over the Hinata house. She also has feelings for Keitaro, reacting in much the same way as Naru does when she sees him kissing someone else (in this case 'Keitaro' was Mutsumi in one of Kanako's disguises, but it was real enough for Kanako). There are slight differences in timing of events between the anime and manga, and some anime-only characters were added by the manga author, so the two adaptations are generally reconcilable with each other. Naru's stepsister, for example, appears in the anime, but never in the manga except in its epilogue, however, she is referenced to earlier in the manga. Jump To: 
posted by: kimikimkim  Noriyasu Seta is a Tokyo University graduate and professor there who specialises in archaeology, appearing to be a parody of Indiana Jones. Like Keitaro, he was a third-year Ronin. He's clumsy (especially with women), a terrible driver, and an exceptionally skilled martial artist, all partly due to his complete lack of self-preservation. Invariably and ironically, Keitaro comes to mimic him in many aspects by the end of volume 14.Seta spends a good deal of his time traveling the world on one expedition or another. His goal seems to be to find evidence of an ancient turtle civilization that once flourished in Japan. During the course of his excavations near the Hinata Beach Tea House in the anime, he uncovered an ancient stage where, he theorized, the ancient inhabitants once performed plays devoted to the gods. After the destruction of the Hinata Beach Tea House during the Urashima family traditional play production, Seta offered to let them use the ancient stage for their play in exchange for a role in the play (Journey to the West.) What was intended to be a mock battle became fiercely real, unfortunately, and the stage was ruined. A hot water geyser surfaced from under the stage, forming a very large new hot springs bath. Haruka was able to recover the costs of rebuilding the Tea House by charging admission to the bath. Seta is also something of an adventurer, and possesses a van that shares his indestructible nature, and apparently has a submarine mode. In the past, Haruka had a major crush on him, though he seemed oblivious. They went on many expeditions together, which are alluded to often in the manga. He had a child with Sara's mother, an American, who later died. Her last request was that Seta marry Haruka. This wish was granted, and Haruka and Seta married at the ruins of Todai, capital of the Turtle civilization. Seta is Sara's guardian, and she refers to him as "papa." Seta is Naru and Kitsune's former tutor. He's Sara's adopted father. He is an archeologist and an awesome fighter (he actually defeated Motoko). He employed Keitaro for a short while. He is a very bad driver. Everytime he drives, he ends up crashing into something and gets out of his van with his head bleeding. He works as a part time substitute in Toudai. Seta is said to have failed the Toudai entrance exam three times and only managed to pass the fourth time. In my opinion, he lives in his van. Jump To:
posted by: kimikimkim  Sarah McDougall (Sara Makudugaru) is Seta's adopted daughter, and initially delights in making Keitaro's life miserable. However, like most of the girls in the story, she eventually warms to him, even if she still calls him a dork.Sarah's is left for a time in the care of the Hinata House residents by Seta, as he feels that travelling the world with him on expeditions would be too disruptive to her childhood. There, she develops a close friendship with Kaolla Su. Sarah eventually does return to travelling with him after his marriage to Haruka. She possesses no unusual talents or skills, though she is adept at bashing Keitaro on the head with priceless artifacts. She also has a panda shaped birthmark on her butt, which she avoids showing at all costs. Sarah's mother was very close friends with Seta, and they were involed in a love triangle with Urashima Haruka. But when Sarah's mother died, Sarah decided to follow Seta to Japan (Sarah is an American), because she had sort of come to call him her father, due to the closeness they have had. Sarah is also very close to Haruka. Sarah is very protective of her step-father. If anyone tries to go near him, she will go crazy. She also seems like a brat and she makes you want to ring her little neck, but, thankfully, later she is easier to deal with. She often plays with Shinobu, Su, and Naru's little sister, Mei. In fact, the four of them go looking for Keitaro and Naru during the Love Hina: Spring Special. Jump To:
posted by: kimikimkim  Mutsumi Otohime is a very gentle, very frail, clumsy and soft-spoken 21 year old girl who lives in Okinawa. Keitaro and Naru meet her while taking some time off for a brief vacation after flunking their entrance exams. (In the anime, Keitaro has a brief and near-fatal encounter with her on his way to the entrance exam.) Like Keitaro and Naru, Mutsumi had just flunked her entrance exam for Tokyo U, and was also taking a trip to get a hold of herself again. And like Keitaro, she too is a third year Ronin.The young Mutsumi played matchmaker to Naru and Keitaro after it became clear that Naru wanted to go to Tokyo University with Keitaro. She deliberately lost a game of Janken (rock-paper-scissors) which was to decide who out of Naru and Mutsumi would become Keitaro's wife. She then made a promise with Naru that both she and Naru would later go to Tokyo University, so that Naru would remember the promise (she was too young to be able to remember when Keitaro made the promise). Despite being clumsy in small things and anemic, Mutsumi generally has good luck when it comes to life-changing matters and always seems to come out all right, even if she gets a few bruises along the way. Even more than Keitaro, Mutsumi has the tendency to fall down, run into things, and generally get into injurous situations while recovering quite quickly. She also frequently has near-death experiences. Her outlook on life is somewhat disconnected with reality, a point reinforced by her worldly goods consisting of watermelons, her test study techniques consisting of random chance guessing, and her almost unrealistically optimistic outlook on life. As something of a counterbalance to her inability to do things anyone could do, she has a number of unusual qualities. She can speak "turtlese" (though she claims she can't), and her guessing method for test taking, involving the sides of a pencil, actually got her through the Tokyo U entrance exams. Her surname, Otohime, comes from the legend of Urashima Taro, where Otohime is the beautiful daughter of the Sea King and the eventual wife of Urashima. Otohime first appears in the legend as a beautiful five colored sea turtle, providing the basis for Mutsumi's association with supernatural turtles. Her character design was supposedly modelled on Aeris of Final Fantasy fame. The portrayal of the Naru/Keitaro/Mutsumi relationship is somewhat different and more bluntly depicted in the anime. She gave Narusegawa her Liddo-kun doll when she left Hinata when she was young. It's a strange way how things turn out. If you were to put Keitaro and Mutsumi face to face, it'd almost be like putting a mirror in their face. As Naru pointed out once, Mutsumi is practically a female version of Keitaro. Like he, she's generally good natured, if clumsy and funny at times, and having a lot of Keitaro's habits. Also like Keitaro, she seems to have made a childhood promise to someone to get into Tokyo University...and again like Keitaro, she's a two-time Ronin, though not because she has trouble with the test persay. She could easily pass...if she didn't faint the day of the test...or forget to write her name on the thing...you get the problem. Her big failing is her tendency to choke when it really counts. She's anemic and prone to fainting (the first time she and Keitaro met, they literally ran into each other, and she ended up catatonic for several minutes), and she forgets things now and then.  Mutsumi has a tendency to kiss friends and acquaintances she happens to run into (friendly ones only, mind you). She also has a pet turtle named Onsen Tamago (Tama for short), who she eventually gives to the Hinata residents as a pet. She seems to be able to communicate with it. She also gave her turtle, Tama, to Keitaro.
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posted by: kimikimkim  Kaolla Su is a 13-year old foreign transfer student. Kaolla is also a boarder at the Hinata Apartments, in Room 301.It is not clear exactly where she is from in the anime, though in the manga she is from the fictional kingdom of Molmol (supposedly located near the International Date Line) and is the princess of said country. Both the anime and manga depict her as having a somewhat Middle Eastern influence, and both specify that she is not Indian. The dot on her forehead seems to have something to do with the 3-eyed symbol of Molmol, though it resembles a bindi dot. She is a very hyperactive girl who is usually either kicking someone, trying to eat something, especially bananas (and Tamago), or inventing some potentially dangerous new device. Her most perpetual project is a serious of increasingly powerful versions of Mecha Tama-Chans, her personal line of robotic combat turtles. A mad scientist to the core, many of Kaolla's inventions contain something that serves as a self destruct device. Molmol itself has a few properties that can be gathered from indirect evidence. It is a kingdom where the sun appears constantly to be red. It also uses a western naming order, although the Hinata house residents never seem to pick this up: Su is Kaolla Su's last name. Kaolla likes all the other residents in the Hinata Apartments and gets along well with them, though they have difficulty keeping up with her hyperactive tendencies (only Motoko seems able to tolerate it). As for liking Keitaro, it is because he reminds her of her older brother. She has an older sister, too; Amalla Su. Kaolla's best friend is Shinobu. Kaolla seems to have developed some affections toward Shinobu, though Shinobu does not realise this. Her ambition is to return to her homeland and establish a computer school so that she could transform her country into a technological power that will rival Japan. You might say Kaolla Su is a genius in the fields of mechanics and electronics...if not for the fact that her creations tend to create more problems for the Hinata residents than they solve. She is currently in her second year at Hinata Middle School (where Shinobu also attends). Yeah she's not from Japan. Everyone else really knows that she came to Japan to get away from her siblings. You can get a clue about where she comes from by checking out her room (Room 301). It's a jungle out there!  Kaolla Su is extremely energetic, and I mean it. Understandably, this means she also has a voracious appetite, preferably for spicy food: the spicier, the better. Her odd behavior and weird comments about things going on around her add to her already-comedic appearance.
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posted by: kimikimkim  Motoko Aoyama is a 15-year old school girl who is extremely serious, athletic and into Kendo. Motoko is also a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 302.She has difficulty dealing with other people, especially males; she finds men to be a distraction that keep her from being able to concentrate fully on her studies and kendo practice. Her relationship with Keitaro initially resembles Naru's relationship with him; he, all too often, finds himself on the receiving end of various attacks as a result of his frequent mishaps. She eventually mellows out as she becomes used to him and eventually finds herself developing feelings for him, along with a habit of writing trashy romance tales involving the two of them. In fact, she is the first of the girls (aside from Naru and Mutsumi) to confess her feelings to Keitaro. As time passes, she fails the Tokyo University entrance exam herself and becomes a ronin as Keitaro had been. The irony of her situation and its similarities to his was not lost on her. She eventually passes the test, and becomes a law student at Todai. Motoko has an older sister, Tsuruko, who gave up the life of the sword to marry some guy. Motoko lives in fear of her sister, though the problem is primarily in Motoko's head; Tsuruko is not nearly as severe and frightening in reality as Motoko remembers. It's interesting to note that Tsuruko is actually Motoko's biological sister. Motoko and Su are the only characters in the series who are actually blood-related to their siblings. Motoko is probably one of the most fully developed characters in either the anime or manga; the calm, almost serene Motoko who appears at the end of volume 14 of the manga release is quite a different person than the hostile, repressed individual Keitaro encountered at the start of the series. Very stoic and serene, Motoko is wholly dedicated to carrying on the family tradition of being top-class swordwielders. Even at her young age, she's considered one of the best, and she moved to Hinata from Kyoto to attend a school renowned for its kendo club, just to make sure she stays in top form. She practices the art of Shinmei Ryuu and can channel her soul energy into her swings. Part of her drive is the fact that she's not too fond of her older sister. Motoko feels that she had betrayed the family by not carrying on the tradition herself: instead, she fell in love and got married. As a result, she has forsworn men. This makes Keitaro's presence at the inn a threat to her calm and concentration, so she's frequently taking swings at him. She also can't stand Onsen Tamago (she's terrified of turtles). Naturally enough, romance is her big failing. Not only can't she stand men and spends all her time in stoic concentration, but she's tall for her age (in fact, she's the tallest person in the entire inn, Keitaro included). Her manners are also a bit archaic: she's all prim and proper, just about 140 years out of tune. Jump To:
posted by: kimikimkim  Shinobu Maehara is a 14-year old schoolgirl who, after a bad start in which Keitaro lied about being in Tokyo University and his subsequent failed attempts to make it up to her, develops quite a crush on Keitaro (or Senpai - a Japanese term for senior - as she calls him). Shinobu is also a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 201.In the anime, she is first introduced as a grieving girl who has run away from home due to domestic turmoil, however, in the manga she is already at the Hinata House when Keitaro arrives. She is quite skilled in both cooking and housechores -- her family once owned a restaurant in town prior to their divorce (the divorce does not actually occur in the manga, merely a feud). She is overly caring of other's feelings, although this subsequently contributes to her own emotional frailty. Towards the end of both the manga and the anime, it becomes unclear whether she wishes for Keitaro to be with Naru or herself. By the time Keitaro and Naru get married, Shinobu is depicted as having gained great confidence in herself. Shinobu's best friend is Kaolla, who seems to consider her more than just friends.  One reason Shinobu has a crush on Keitaro is they actually have somewhat similar personalities, particularly in the manga where she bears the brunt of much embarrassing humor.Shinobu moves into the Hinata Apartments after her parents divorce. Part of the reason is her great fear of uncomfortable or embarrassing situations, which emerges from time to time during her stay in the Hinata Apartments.  She's generally very shy and quiet, but her time in Hinata will eventually warm her up to new friendships.She's the friendliest of the residents, with no angst against anyone and with no one disliking her. That's why she's my favorite character. She's somehow similar with Naruto's Hyuuga Hinata. (Hmm, and the name of the dorm is Hinata...) She's very practical and very diligent since she had to take care of herself a lot before she moved in. She's a good cook who frequently does the meals for the residents. And she's perhaps the only resident who treats Keitaro with any consistent respect. She's always kind to him when no one else is. Shinobu has a crush on Keitaro, but she keeps it respectably low-key, showing her appreciation in the simple things she does around the apartments.
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posted by: kimikimkim  Mitsune Konno, a.k.a. Kitsune, which means "fox", is a 19-year old freelance writer (and is conspicuous in her lack of writing) who is frequently drunk, teasing Keitaro, or both. Mitsune is also a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 205.Her nickname comes from the fact that she never fully opens both eyes at the same time (making her something of a hidden character) and she has a fox-like expression as a result. She's a practical joker and troublemaker extraordinaire; her mission in life seems to be to ensure that things never get too dull nor those around her too complacent. She went to the same school as Naru, and along with Naru developed a crush on Seta. Since she knows so much of Naru's backstory, she can provide salient detials about it to Keitaro. Unfortunately, Kitsuni is something of a yellow journalist, and Keitaro all too often totally misinterprets what he is saying, or assumes the worst. She eventually takes over the Hinata Tea House when Haruka leaves. Mitsune Konno is probably what you'd have in mind when you think of the term "free spirit". If she does anything, there's only reason for it: because she wants to. Though she has a job as a freelance writer, Mitsune's generally considered the loafer of the bunch, having gone through the same school Naru currently attends and having little desire to go beyond that. She loves two things: drinking sake and having fun. Underneath the happy-go-lucky exterior, though, is a very sharp mind, which is why she has her nickname "Kitsune" (or "fox").  She's been known to swindle money from others, though her free-spending personality means she can't keep any cash for long. But she also has a heart of gold, and she's frequently helping people out. She also loves to meddle in matters of love, having gone through the trails and tribulations herself. She can see the potential between Keitaro and Naru, so she's especially paying attention to them.
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posted by: kimikimkim  Naru Narusegawa is a 17-year old student at Keitaro's cram school with an extremely fiery temper (in fact she's described as a "short cannon"). Naru is a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 304.Of all the girls in the Hinata House, Keitaro manages to annoy her the most, usually by accidentally grabbing her in unfortunate places or walking in on her while she is naked. Naru's appearance is based Beautiful Nerd archetype in dating sim games, with the twist she is actually very cantankerous. Despite her temper and frequent violence toward Keitaro, she develops strong feelings for him, though she has great difficulty in admitting her feelings even to herself. She is prone to extremely strong jealous reactions whenever Keitaro appears to be getting too close (physically or emotionally) to other girls. Despite the fact that she was only two years old at the time, she and Keitaro promised to go to Tokyo University together, though being two years old she didn't remember for quite a while (this is why Mutsumi made the same promise with her - see Mutsumi's entry). Naru is highly intelligent; at the start of the series, she is #1 in Japan on the practice entrance exams. Just a few years earlier, however, she was in almost exactly the same position Keitaro was in - horrible grades and no hope of getting into Tokyo U. She was able to overcome her problems by studying with a Tokyo University student, Noriyasu Seta, whom she developed a serious crush on. Naru had made a promise three times to get into Tokyo University. First with Keitaro, then with Mutsumi and finally with Seta when he was tutoring her.  She owns a Liddo-kun doll which a friend (Mutsumi Otohime) gave her when she was young. Narusegawa Naru is studying to get into Tokyo Daigaku (Tokyo University, aka Toudai) to fulfill a dream...and a promise. To get there, and to avoid the distraction of her parent being remarried, she moves to the hot springs resort-turned-girls dormitory Hinata-Sou.Very beautiful, incredibly smart, and wonderfully sweet, but terribly near-sighted and horrendously short-tempered, she soon encounters the new would-be manager Urashima Keitaro, but she protests the idea of having such a "pervert" being in close contact with her. Though she actually cares for Keitaro a lot, when she isn't sending him flying into stratosphere with her notorious running punches when he accidentally sees more of her than he should. She often wears thick glasses, sweaters, and braids when going to cram school to deter attention from guys. 
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posted by: kimikimkim  Keitaro Urashima is a 20 year-old student who at the start of Love Hina is trying to get into Tokyo University.After failing the entrance exams twice and becoming a second-year ronin, he is kicked out of home by his cheap parents. With no money and nowhere to stay, he decides to go to his grandmother's hotel, thinking he might be able to stay there. However, he finds out the hard way that his grandmother has turned the hotel into an all-girls dormitory. If I were Keitaro by that time, I would be dead on my tracks. Through a combination of bad luck and timing, he encounters Naru Narusegawa in the open-air hot springs bath and infuriates her. He then proceeds to land on the bad side of the other dorm residents, before Haruka arrives and metaphorically bails him out. Ultimately he does end up staying at the Hinata "All Girls Dormitory", though the reason and timing varies slightly between the anime and the manga. In the manga, Keitaro is granted the deed to the Hinata House itself by his grandmother; as he now owns the establishment, he becomes landlord by default. In the anime, he is granted only the landlord's title and duties. Despite looking like a weakling, he can actually take quite a bit of punishment and still get up from it, granted the nickname of "invincible body" which is just as well as he is always getting into situations where one of more of the girls get angry at him and hitting him. Usually this involves one of them being naked and him being responsible as the witness. Through the course of the story Keitaro starts doing quite well in his studies, passes the entrance exams for Tokyo University after another failure and develops friendships with all the girls in the house, but in particular with Naru and (later on) Mutsumi. Keitaro takes promises seriously, and it seems that he made a number of important ones during his childhood. First and foremost was his promise of 15 years ago (age 5) with a little girl he barely remembers that they would get into Tokyo University together one day. After taking up residence in the Hinata House, he quickly comes to suspect that Narusegawa Naru may have been the girl of his promises. He later experiences some doubts about this conclusion when he begins to learn more of Mutsumi Otohime's past and her connections with the Hinata House during their childhood, but later on the exact connection becomes clear and he finds out Naru was the one he made the promise to after all. Episode 20 of the TV anime series revealed the second promise Keitaro made, though the story is not told in the manga. His great-grandfather promised a doll he would fix her broken legs, in jest. After some time the doll, now called Moe, was possessed by a spirit and became selectively sentient. Finally, late in the manga and in the Love Hina Again OAV series, it is revealed that Keitaro made a promise with his adopted sister Kanako that they would one day run the Hinata Inn together. His surname Urashima is apparently derived from an old tale Urashimataro.  The hapless, somewhat bruised-and-battered main character of the story. Because of a promise he recalls making to a childhood sweetheart 15 years ago, Keitaro's been trying to get into Tokyo University (for the record, Tokyo University is the premier college in the country. It's very tough to get in, and you can only try once a year). But bad study habits and low self-esteem have contributed to two failed attempts. He jumps on the opportunity to get away from home and come back to the home of his youth: the Hinata Apartments. Thing was, he didn't realize that the place had turned into a girl's dormitory, and it takes a while for things to settle down, though they never completely settle down even as he moves into Room 204 (directly below Naru, who's in 304). Though Keitaro does sometimes have those male kinds of fantasies (he's surrounded by pretty girls, and there's a hole to Naru's room in the ceiling), his frequent episodes of pervertedness are typically accidental: usually the result of clumsiness or just bad timing. Overall, Keitaro's just trying to get things straight in his life. He's nice enough if you can just forgive his (usually accidental) slights, though he still has to get over his down-in-the-dumps attitude. He also has quite a talent for art. Jump To:
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PROFILEsex: Male location: classified home country: Pilipinas currently in: Canada Jed David is a former BS Business Economics student in UP Diliman. He's working in the office to save for tuition fee and an airplane ticket. He's studying in the University of Winnipeg as a Business Admin and Computer Science student. He's a freelance photographer, a freelance writer, solo webadmin, webdesigner and an active blogger. He's a member of the modding community. He likes fastfood. He sucks at Math and Physics. He's no literary writer. He likes playing basketball but usually ends up with a few broken bones. He's so lame he gets nosebleed on his first step on the stairs. He's such a loser... *negative remarks*. Overall, he's eccentric. Oh. And he's favorite Love Hina character is Shinobu -- they're both Scorpio.
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First off, Haruka Urashima is Keitaro's aunt. Haruka Urashima is a smoker and is almost always smoking. Haruka is also a drinker, and I'm talking about alcoholic drinks here. Haruka's favorite color is black. She helps Keitaro manage Hinata and provides sound advices. She is most commonly referred to as Keitaro's aunt; however there is evidence in both the manga and anime that she may be his cousin, instead. The confusion seems to arise from the Japanese language term Keitaro refers to her as "obasan", which can apparently mean either 'aunt' or 'old woman', depending on context.
