Love Hina Characters
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* Keitarō Urashima: Keitarō Urashima is a 20-year-old cram school student at the start of Love Hina, who is trying to get into Tokyo University, usually called by its abbreviation, 'Tōdai'. Keitarō fails the entry exam to Tōdai three times before he is accepted, is awkward around girls and has a disastrously-timed clumsiness that usually earns him the wrath of one or more residents of Hinata Inn. Despite his flaws, he is a well-meaning and friendly person, traits which eventually wins all of the dormitory inhabitants' hearts. Keitarō is also known to be very logical and gives great advice that most of the people at the apartment lack. Despite this, he is also known to make some of the most irrational decisions out of all of them.
* Naru Narusegawa: Naru Narusegawa is a 17-year-old student at Keitarō's cram school with an extremely fiery temper (which is described as "one fuse short of a cannon", by the official website). She will often violently hit someone (mainly Keitarō) for many irrational reasons and misconceptions. Such reasons often revolve around the false idea of Keitarō being perverted or a more deeper root of jealousy. Despite that – or rather, in ignorance of it – she is quite popular with everyone, including the manga series' fans (though your mileage may vary, depending on the person asked). At the beginning of Love Hina, she is a high school student who is also studying to enter Tōkyo University, and was the number one candidate in the nation for acceptance. This studying however has dominated much of her high school life. It also supposedly damaged her eyesight. This causes her to rely on "coke bottle glasses," which she avoids having to wear when she can.
* Mutsumi Otohime: Mutsumi Otohime is a gentle, frail, clumsy and soft-spoken 21-year-old girl who lives in Okinawa. Mutsumi is prone to catatonic fainting spells that makes her appear as though she has died. She is also described by other characters as being both "sisterly" and a "ditz." Keitarō Urashima and Naru Narusegawa meet her while taking some time off for a brief vacation after flunking their entrance exams (in the anime, Keitarō has a brief and near-fatal encounter with her on his way to the entrance exam). Like Keitarō and Naru, Mutsumi had just flunked her entrance exam for Tōdai, and was also taking a trip to get a hold of herself again. She bears an unusual resemblance to Keitarō in that she shares similar hobbies, is clumsy and is also a third-year ronin. By this token, she often cluelessly acts to bring out Naru's romantic jealousy over Keitarō. She gave Keitarō and Naru the flying turtle Tama-chan as a gift.
* Shinobu Maehara: Shinobu Maehara is a shy schoolgirl of 14 who, after a bad start in which Keitarō lied about being in Tōkyo University and his subsequent failed attempts to make it up to her, develops quite a crush on Keitarō (or Sempai – a Japanese term for senior – as she calls him). Unlike most of the other residents of Hinata Inn, Shinobu is not prone to fits of violence against Keitarō, rather she cries, unintentionally making Keitarō feel guilty. She also takes care of most of the cooking and clothes-washing at Hinata Inn.
* Motoko Aoyama: Motoko Aoyama is a 15-year-old high school girl who is very formal and into kendo, to the point that her room resembles that of a samurai's (complete with a suit of armor). She claims lineage to a school of demonslaying swordsmen and also displays a prodigal competence with her katana. She can often wreak great damage to boulders or other objects using nothing more than her wooden practice sword (and even decks Keitarō and two of his friends with an umbrella). Motoko is very terrified of her sister, Tsuruko, whose skill far exceeds her own, and has a phobia of turtles that is left unexplained for the majority of the series. In one of the later episodes, it is suggested that her fear of turtles was due to being attacked by a demon in the form of a monstrous turtle while assisting her older sister in combat as a child. She disapproves of Keitarō early on, on the basis of him being a lech and a weakling, but later develops a grudging respect and eventually a hidden affection for him (much to her chagrin). She is at first uncomfortable with her femininity, partially because her sister left her sword for a husband, but later becomes more open due to Keitaro's influence. Whatever her feelings for Keitarō happen to be at a given time, she still frequently threatens or attacks him with her sword.
* Kaolla Su: Kaolla Su is a 14-year-old foreign transfer student, and – as it turns out at the end of the series – a princess of the fictional Pacific island realm of Molmol. She is very playful, unattentive, and shows absolutely no signs of maturing. She is a genius technician, capable of whipping up the most outrageous devices in a jiffy – including various robot versions of Tama-chan called 'Mecha-Tamago' and a vast array of weapons. During certain times – red moon phenomena – she turns into a more adult version of herself. She can usually be found with Sara, the only person in a fifty-mile radius as hyperactive as she is.
* Mitsune Konno: Mitsune Konno, mostly called by her nickname Kitsune (which means "fox" in Japanese), is a 19-year-old freelance writer (and is conspicuous in her lack of writing) who is frequently drunk, teasing Keitarō, or both. She is a school friend of Naru, and while jealous of her success with boys, she nevertheless tries her best (or worst) to make Keitarō and Naru tie the knot. In order to maintain her finances, she often bets on horse races. Resides at Hinata House.
* Haruka Urashima: Keitarō's aunt. 30, helps Keitarō manage Hinata Sō and provides sound advice. She is most commonly referred to as Keitarō's aunt; however, there are hints in both the manga and anime that she may be his cousin instead. The confusion seems to arise from the Japanese language term he uses. Keitaro refers to her as "obasan", which can mean 'aunt' when the 'a' is not stressed and 'grandmother' when it is. In either event, Haruka always pummels him for calling her "obasan", since she is insecure about her age and "obasan" is a term used for someone noticeably older than the speaker.
* Noriyasu Seta: Seta is professor of archaeology at Tokyo University and a globe-trotting adventurer, a parody of Indiana Jones. Like Keitarō, he was a third-year ronin. He's clumsy (especially with women), a terrible driver, and an exceptionally skilled martial artist, all partly due to his complete lack of self-preservation. He hires Keitarō as his assistant and has romantic entanglements with both Haruka and Sara's late mother, a difficulty which is only exacerbated by his adventurous nature. He is the object of Naru's crush and an early motivation for her studying to enter Tōkyo University. Keitarō later develops a strong resemblance to Seta, partially due to Keitarō's rising interest in archaeology but also because he shares a personality similar to Seta's.
* Sara McDougal: Sara McDougal. 10, is Seta's adopted American daughter – her mother was a close friend of Seta and Haruka – and initially delights in making Keitarō'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. Usually seen with Su, who she emulates, even down to the hair.
* Kanako Urashima: Kanako Urashima. 17, is Keitarō's adopted younger sister who appears in "Love Hina Again". She travelled with her grandmother for some years, and returned to Japan to fullfill her promise to her adopted brother (with whom she is in love), and to change the girls dormitory back into an inn. She is very adept at bondage and disguising – except when it comes to imitating Naru's smile – and has an intense dislike for sweets. In addition, she also bears something of a resemblance to Motoko, as they have a similar hair color, eye color, measurements, the two can jump outstanding distances, and they both can generate "ki." She has a talking black cat named Kuro who can fly with his oversized ears.
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