Anime at Large: Love Hina… Captured!

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Love Hina is another Anime that I’ve been looking for for years. It’s one of my first Anime series I was serious about that wasn’t on Toonami, meaning more DVDs to buy with building my collection of Gundam Wing DVDs.

However, I’ve never brought the individual DVDs of the series, instead brought the Love Hina Spring and Christmas specials, and the Love Hina Again OVA. Love Hina is also the first Anime series that I’ve watched fansubbed. After finishing Gundam Wing, this would have been the next series to collect, but eventually, they were to be out of print.

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There was the Love Hina box set-that included the specials and OVA that I already have. The only option left was to find the single volumes else where-for more than they were worth at retail stores. That changed when FUNimation got the distribution rights to Love Hina.

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After years of searching, I have finally completed my Love Hina collection with the recent addition of the Complete Collection set! It also brings sense to my Anime at Large posts, searching for titles that I loved, but have somehow forgotten. That brings the totally collection of complete Anime series on DVD to 13.

The story of Love Hina is one of my favorites when it comes to a loner living in a house with more than one of the opposite sex. (In before Moe Anime a few years later.) The main character Keitaro is seen at a younger age playing with a girl who would eventually move away from the neighborhood.

Before moving, the girl promises that the both of them should attend Tokyo University. Fast forward to his teenage years, Keitaro prepares to enter Tokyo University-meeting a girl who looks a lot like his childhood friend by the name of Naru Narusegawa.

In addition to Tenchi Universe and Tenchi in Tokyo in my collection, Love Hina proudly sits in my DVD case. It feels very rewarding to finish collecting a series, all thanks to a very good used bookstore suggested by a few people in the area… that I’d like to keep to myself, for now. [/greedy]

On a side note: since it’s a store where everything is not wrapped in plastic… it was a bit funny to see the cashier open the DVD case (Mild NSFW Warning).