Love Hina

Japanese manga series

Key facts

Genre: Harem Romantic comedy Slice of life
Written by: Ken Akamatsu
Published by: Kodansha
English publisher: AUS : Madman Entertainment NA : Kodansha Comics Tokyopop (former) SG : Chuang Yi
Imprint: Shōnen Magazine Comics
Magazine: Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run: October 21, 1998 – October 31, 2001
Volumes: 14 ( List of volumes )
Directed by: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Produced by: Shinichi Ikeda Keisuke Iwata Yukinao Shimoji
Music by: Koichi Korenaga
Studio: Xebec

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Love Hina (Japanese: ラブひな, Hepburn: Rabu Hina) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 1998 to October 2001, with the chapters collected into 14 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells the story of Keitarō Urashima and his attempts to find the girl with whom he made a childhood promise to enter the University of Tokyo. The manga was licensed for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop, in Australia by Madman Entertainment, and in Singapore by Chuang Yi. Two novelizations of Love Hina, written by two anime series screenwriters, were also released in Japan by Kodansha. Both novels were later released in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop.