Is this supposed to be good?

Is this supposed to be good?

Of course not.

It was cool when you were a perverted 13 year old who had yet to discover internet porn, but now that you have actual taste you can go ahead and forget it.

Love Hina is a classic. Naru was my first waifu.

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Pretty much . It's arguably one of the cornerstones of the modern harem genre, but it's not even worth watching/reading for historical context.

Hell no

I thought the shitty dating flash game was decent.

readings ok but all the scans are absolute garbage. anime's a lost cause

Pretty much.

It conditioned kissless virgins in their early childhood into becoming the basement dwellers who gobble up the generic harem romcoms that they are right now. It's a pioneer in its field.

Exactly this.

Where Tenchi is the pinnacle of early True Harem. Love Hina is the creator of modern harem. all the shitty tropes and cliches you hate in modern harem anime, starts here. A single winner, girls that aren't in the bowl at all but sort of still there, beta insert protagonist. Violent Tsundere that quickly flips to just loving the MC.

That sounds like a femdom fantasy for some reason

Same way I feel about evangelion

It surely popularized many of the tropes. But that doesn't mean that you need to watch it.
The manga itself was kinda okay back then.

Beating up these whores was fun

I thought this was Golden Boy and was about to nuke this thread. You got lucky, OP.

>he does it for free

Shinobu was best girl. Damn, even back there I knew that all the old hags were pig disgusting. If I were to go back and rewatch it, I would probably like the little brown girl more now that I have refined tastes, but back then I just found her annoying.

But no I don't think it was ever supposed to be good. I think it was the first shity harem show I ever watched, maybe first waifu

Lol

How upset are you?

I genuinely thought your comment was amusing

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While the series itself isn't any good it is interesting to see how it affected the development of romantic comedies in manga. Of particular note is the use of slapstick in a series that otherwise tries to present itself as fairly realistic. Slapstick had of course been present in other romantic comedies, but things like Urusei Yatsura (which Love Hina seems to have taken its sense of humor from) are overall much more cartoonish, meaning that when the male lead is slapped, beaten and electrocuted it seems less violent than it would in a more "down to Earth" series like Love Hina. This is also one of the big series that popularized the early-2000's trend of trying to throw in the slapstick while also having both people be "reasonable". This is where the repeated use of generic misunderstandings, notably the "kyaaa~ hentai" style accidental peeping, comes in. The logic is that the main character didn't actually do anything wrong, so you can still like him, but the women have "legitimate" reason to think he was doing something wrong, thus they are supposedly justified in beating him. To once again contrast this to Urusei Yatsura, this is a departure from earlier slapstick heavy series, where the random acts of cartoon violence were used to make both parties look unreasonable. Ataru would actually have committed whatever action he was being punished for, but the people attacking him were also overreacting. The end result of these slapstick moments is that the audience repeatedly sees Keitaro being assaulted by the rest of the cast over repetitive misunderstandings and begins to internalize the idea that Naru's first reaction to anything is violence. When she reacts in a violent manner it seems jarring, since the rest of the series is presented as basically being real life so having someone be threatened with a wooden sword seems like a real threat to his safety, not the ight scolding that Akamatsu wants it to be.

tl;dr: Slapstick doesn't work in Love Hina.

A good reply.
A few more paragraphs for better readability would have been nice, though.
But aside from that, it brings everything to point.

This is a very good post.

Honestly, Love Hina is pretty terrible, but in that terribleness, it's also extremely influential. That's the real problem. It popularized a bunch of bad tropes.

That’s not very nice; he was just trying to clean the hot spring.

It's a classic. Not sure if that means good or not.

Love Hina is only good if you watched it when it first aired and were a horny teenager.
I also remember that for some reason they aired this in spic Cartoon Network until it was taken out of the air after a couple of episodes.

The manga is a fun romp and the characters grow enough to keep it interesting. The anime is trash and refuses to let Naru develop past the violent tsundere phase.

It has a brown girl in it so It will definitely give me a boner. Too bad there are 4 white girls there to ruin it.

Well, it established the genre that bring us good stuff, like To Love Ru

Great post, especially comparing how Urusei Yatsura nails its humour compared to Love Hina because of how the parties responded to each-other.

it's clearly an otaku-targeted series. Surprised there's many itt claiming to have watched it "in early childhood" (lol?)

>Love Hina is harem
>Negima is harem turned battle shounen
>UQ is battle shounen turned harem

Where will he go from here?

A harem where everyone gets a harem that is part of everyone's other harem.
It's an interconnected harem.

Manga is great. Anime is mediocre. Shinobu is best girl

Debatable.
I just skimmed through the recent ova since I can't read sushi, and I had forgotten how bad everything that wasn't a fanservice shot was

I agree. Anime aside, I think the manga has really aged like fine wine. I haven't really thought about it before, but maybe like user said above (re slapstick), the slapstick works better in manga form.

what, does it really let you beat them?

So a battle shounen orgy?

To Love Ru is just as much shit.

Urusei Yatsura had an amazing director behind it. It also completely did away with the "will they or won't they" from other romance comedies and focused on hijinks and episodic comedy. The slap-stick also works much better because the universe is specifically built up to be cartoony and not realistic.

One good example that I love is Shinobu scratching ataru's face through the phone.

The manga was comfy, atmospheric but fun.
The anime was awkward shit.

it was a pretty funny show.
God laughs, some half decent plots, some tear jerkers, and lots of fairly average but always funny stuff.
Lots of fan service and bleeding noses.

I enjoy it as a typical underdog harem comedy, but would never recommend it to anyone unless I personally knew they were super in harem anime.

I would say it is good, but upon discussion of personal interests would probably recommend you something different of it given the opportunity.

> good stuff
> To Love Ru
Why don't you kill yourself, trash?

I love spot the newfag threads.

The manga was just silly fun.

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Dude, I thought people were aware of Ranma ages ago.

I never liked Tenchi. Love Hina is at least bearable.

Pleb

No to love it gave us PLOT.
Love Hina denied it.

TLR is following Teaching but without the harem becoming true.

The animu was mediocre but the manga was pretty neat.

Mutsumi and Motoko were best girls, and it's funny that Naru only loved Keitaro after he turned himself into a copy of her former crush.

Best Akamatsu girl coming through.

In its defense, the manga is about 20x better.

No, but the cancer that Rumiko Takahashi created with Toxic relationships really took off for some reason, that being, japs are fucked up

bulpcrap.

Naru is just a dumb cunt and an abuser bully.

what we need is a Bojack Horsemen style deconstruction of these shitty tropes and archetypes, no, tora Dora is not.