{"product_id":"love-hina-tv-series-dvd","title":"Love Hina ~TV Series~ DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeitaro Urashima made a promise when he was very young — to a girl whose name he can no longer remember — that they would both get into Tokyo University together and find happiness there\u003c\/strong\u003e. It has become the organizing principle of his life. The problem is that he has failed the entrance exam twice, has no real direction, and has just been evicted from his apartment. His solution is to take up his grandmother's offer of free lodging at her property — which turns out to be the Hinata Inn, an all-female dormitory whose residents are not informed of the new male manager's arrival and who express their objections physically. The residents include Naru Narusegawa, a brilliant and short-tempered ronin student also aiming for Tokyo U who immediately assumes the worst of Keitaro at every possible opportunity; Motoko Aoyama, a kendo practitioner from a sword-wielding clan who considers Keitaro a walking moral offense; Mitsune Konno, a former journalist who drinks too much and finds the situation endlessly entertaining; Shinobu Maehara, a gentle first-year student whose feelings for Keitaro are immediately obvious to everyone except Keitaro; and Kaolla Su, a hyperenergetic foreign princess who builds mecha in her spare time and has no concept of personal space. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Hina is a 24-episode romantic comedy series produced by Xebec and directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki, based on Ken Akamatsu's enormously popular manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. It aired on TV Tokyo from April to September 2000 and \u003cstrong\u003ebecame one of the defining harem romantic comedies of its era — commercially dominant in Japan,\u003c\/strong\u003e where the television DVDs sold over one million copies and set consecutive number-one chart positions, and enormously influential in North America where it arrived during the peak of the early 2000s anime boom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series was one of the first anime productions created entirely with digital ink and paint, giving it a clean, consistent visual quality throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMegumi Hayashibara performs both the opening theme \"Sakura Saku\" and the closing theme \"Kimi Sae Ireba.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased in North America by Bandai Entertainment across six DVD volumes from February to November 2002; later collected in the Love Hina Anime Legends Complete Collection (2006) and reissued by FUNimation (2009). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotable Staff \u0026amp; Voice Talent\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Yoshiaki Iwasaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginal Manga:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Akamatsu (serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries Composition:\u003c\/b\u003e Sho Aikawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharacter Design:\u003c\/b\u003e Makoto Uno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudio:\u003c\/b\u003e Xebec (Nadesico, Dual!, Sorcerer Hunters, Pilot Candidate)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e Shinkichi Mitsumune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpening Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Sakura Saku\" by Megumi Hayashibara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnding Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Kimi Sae Ireba\" by Megumi Hayashibara \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Cast:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Yuji Ueda as Keitaro Urashima (Rurouni Kenshin, Mahoromatic Something More Beautiful)\u003cbr\u003e• Yui Horie as Naru Narusegawa (Kurogane Communication, Love Hina Again)\u003cbr\u003e• Masayo Kurata as Motoko Aoyama (Steel Angel Kurumi)\u003cbr\u003e• Junko Noda as Shinobu Maehara\u003cbr\u003e• Yuu Asakawa as Kaolla Su\u003cbr\u003e• Reiko Takagi as Mutsumi Otohime\u003cbr\u003e• Yumiko Kobayashi as Kentaro Sakata (Pilot Candidate)\u003cbr\u003e• Megumi Hayashibara as Haruka Urashima (Slayers, Evangelion, Gestalt, Tenchi in Love) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish Dub Cast (Bandai Entertainment):\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Derek Stephen Prince as Keitaro Urashima (Ninja Cadets, Love Hina Again)\u003cbr\u003e• Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Naru Narusegawa (Rurouni Kenshin, Mahoromatic, Steel Angel Kurumi)\u003cbr\u003e• Bridget Hoffman as Shinobu Maehara (Mahoromatic, Nightwalker, Fushigi Yugi)\u003cbr\u003e• Barbara Goodson as Mitsune Konno (Love Hina Christmas Special, Tenchi Movie 2)\u003cbr\u003e• Wendee Lee as Haruka Urashima (El-Hazard, Tenchi Universe, Gestalt)\u003cbr\u003e• Sandy Fox as Kaolla Su (Ninja Cadets, Knights of Ramune, Steel Angel Kurumi)\u003cbr\u003e• Steve Blum as Seta (Cowboy Bebop, Mahoromatic, Love Hina Again) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDVD Features\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Bandai Entertainment Previews\u003cbr\u003e• Note: Series produced entirely with digital ink and paint — one of the first anime to do so \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpoken Languages:\u003c\/b\u003e English \u0026amp; Japanese Audio, English Subtitles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition Details\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Title:\u003c\/b\u003e ラブひな (Rabu Hina)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuntime:\u003c\/b\u003e ~600 Minutes (Complete TV Series, 24 Episodes)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Yoshiaki Iwasaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDVD Release Year:\u003c\/b\u003e 2002 (U.S. Release, individual volumes February–November 2002); Anime Legends Complete Collection 2006; FUNimation reissue 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginal Broadcast Date (Japan):\u003c\/b\u003e April 19 – September 27, 2000 (TV Tokyo)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bandai Entertainment (original); FUNimation Entertainment (2009 reissue)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRating:\u003c\/b\u003e 16+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegion:\u003c\/b\u003e Region 1 (U.S. \/ Canada)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenre:\u003c\/b\u003e Romantic Comedy, Harem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThemes:\u003c\/b\u003e Tokyo University Promise, All-Female Dormitory, Accidental Male Manager, Childhood Sweetheart Mystery, Early 2000s Anime Boom Defining Series \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia assumed VG+ unless otherwise noted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pre-Owned","offers":[{"title":"V1: Moving In... 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