Jed David is a former BS Business Economics student in UP Diliman.
He's a freelance photographer, a freelance writer, solo webadmin, webdesigner and an active blogger.
He's currently working three part time jobs and having second thoughts of going to college.
He's a member of the modding community. He's an avid gamer and he wishes to have a PS3, XBOX 360 and a Wii this year.
He revels in scrapbooking. 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.
.want to leave a message for the boarders or the landlord?
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.
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Naru Narusegawa (Narusegawa Naru) is a 17-year old student at Keitaro's cram school with an
extremely fiery temper (which is described as "one fuse short of a cannon", according to the official website).
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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Mitsune Konno (Konno Mitsune), 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 she 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.
Mitsune resides in Room 205.
In the Japanese version, Mitsune speaks with a Kansai accent (because she’s from Osaka),
an accent which she passed on to Kaolla when she taught her Japanese.
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Shinobu Maehara (Maehara Shinobu) 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 is also great in drawing
sketches.
Shinobu moves into the Hinata Apartments after her parents divorce.
Part of the reason is her great fear of uncomfortable or embarrassing situations, which e
merges 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 freindships. She's the friendliest of
the residents, with no angst against anyone and with no one disliking her. 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. She currently resides in Room 201.
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Motoko Aoyama (Aoyama Motoko) 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. 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.
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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).
As you can guess from her complexion, she's not from around here. Her home country is somewhere
called Molmol, and all everyone else really knows is that she came to Japan to get away from her siblings.
But you can get a clue about where she comes from by checking out her room (Room 301). It's a
jungle in there!
Kaolla Su is extremely energetic. 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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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.
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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.
Jed David is a former BS Business Economics student in UP Diliman.
He's a freelance photographer, a freelance writer, solo webadmin, webdesigner and an active blogger.
He's currently working three part time jobs and having second thoughts of going to college.
He's a member of the modding community. He's an avid gamer and he wishes to have a PS3, XBOX 360 and a Wii this year.
He revels in scrapbooking. 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.
