History Characters / LoveHina

* HonoraryAunt: Towards her younger cousin Keitaro. Although, due to adoption, she actually is his aunt as well as his cousin.

* RejectedMarriageProposal: When Seta turns thirty, he asks Haruka to marry him as he had promised. Haruka violently turns him down with a MegatonPunch because it doesn't feel right to her to say yes when her one competition, Sarah's mother, is long dead. [[spoiler:She does come around and marries Seta in the final volumes.]]

* LoveInformant: He tries to confess Naru's crush on Seta in her stead, despite Naru being over Seta for the most part because of Keitaro. It doesn't work because Seta pulls a LoveYouAndEverybody.

* LoveYouAndEverybody: Keitaro is shocked when Su easily says she likes him, especially because no girl had done that for him before, only for Naru to tell him Su likes everyone the same.

* LoveYouAndEverybody: After Naru's crush for him is exposed by Keitaro, Seta says he likes her too... and he also likes Keitaro and everyone in Hinata Inn.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Subverted; she is very attractive, tall, raven-haired, and on the surface she seems very aloof and serious. However, it turns out that she's not as put together as she looks, having a HairTriggerTemper and quite a few insecurities that she struggles with.

* BlackSwordsAreBetter: The Hina Blade, a black [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]] that Keitaro gives to Motoko as a replacement blade for her Shisui katana that her older sister broke. This was actually a [[EvilWeapon cursed sword that makes the wielder go insane]], but Motoko seals the evil in the sword so she can use it without being possessed.

* BreakTheHaughty: Motoko insults, attacks and looks down on Keitaro from the moment she meets him. After she's humiliatingly defeated by Tsuruko and she keeps feeling at being feminine, Motoko breaks down crying in front of Keitaro as she admits her current state is far more pathetic than he has ever been.

* DoesNotLikeMen: She despises the male gender because she thinks AllMenArePerverts and blames them for her older sister quitting the dojo to get married. This until she starts falling for Keitaro.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Has a posse of girls that fawn over her in the anime.

* SeriesMascot: Due to its popularity, serves as the unofficial animal mascot of the ''Love Hina'' series alongside Liddo-kun.

* AmusingInjuries: Every time he's beaten up, often from receiving Naru's MegatonPunch, his injuries are PlayedForLaughs because [[IronButtMonkey other character know it's nearly impossible to kill him and he can heal from potentially fatal wounds in seconds]].
* ApologizesALot: Goes hand in hand with AccidentalPervert.
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Seta hires him to be his assistant, but Keitaro thinks he's more of a babysitter after seeing how often Seta leaves his adopted daughter Sarah with him. With Sarah being such a violent BrattyHalfPint, looking after her brings a lot of pain for Keitaro.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: He can pull this off once against Motoko.

* MatchmakerCrush: For a short time, she tries to push Keitaro and Mutsumi together because all signals to Mutsumi being Keitaro's promise girl [[spoiler:but she really isn't]]. All her matchmaker attempts backfire because Keitaro only wants Naru and Mutsumi wants Naru to get together with Keitaro too.

* FemininityFailure: She's forced to try becoming more feminine after Keitaro (more or less accidentally) defeats her in a duel. She's too violent to be good at it, though. In the manga, after being defeated by her sister, she tries to embrace more feminine roles but drives everyone crazy with her zeal, and eventually breaks down.

* AmbiguousGender: Keitaro refers to it as a boy, Naru and Shinobu refer to it as a girl, Mutsumi (the resident turtle expert) never specifies.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Tama does this to stop Motoko's blade once, which makes her go into shock.

* AnimalMotifs: She's constantly jumping around, hanging from a high place or another person, and loves bananas, very much like a monkey.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Particularly to Naru. Mutsumi repeatedly outdoes Naru in various tasks not intentionally or meanly, she just does.

* EmbarrassingTattoo: A variation. She has a panda-shaped birthmark on her [[IntimateMarks left buttock]]. She's embarrassed to have it and Keitaro used it as blackmail to have her quit trying to cause trouble for him.

* IntimateMarks: Again, her birthmark on her butt.
* TheMillstone: Particularly early on, when she deliberately sets out to get Keitaro fired from his job assisting Seta.

* {{Tomboy}}: Rambunctious, prefers overalls and roughhousing, always looking to make mischief... she'd practically be a clone of the stereotypical pre-teen boy, except for actually being female.
* TomboyishBaseballCap: She sometimes wears one as part of her stereotypical tomboy image.

* UnluckyEverydude: A RareFemaleExample. Low self-esteem, bad grades, wears glasses, small breasts, klutzy? All check.
* YouthfulFreckles: She has freckles on her face. In her case, she's the unpopular teen girl with no self-confidence.

%%zce* AmusingInjuries: Every time he's beaten up, it's portrayed as this. Along with ImmortalLifeIsCheap.

* MadeOfIron: and how. He falls from high places; he is punched by Naru; he is kicked by Su; he gets hit by Motoko's sword techniques and by hard-hitting things and even drowned in the middle of pacific ocean! He survived all of this with only minor injuries.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: He and Naru are very attracted to each other from early on, but his AccidentalPervert moments, {{Moment Killer}}s from other characters and Naru's diehard {{Tsundere}}ness keep them from making any real progress and becoming a couple until the final volumes of the manga. In the final chapter, TheyDo and get married.

%%* AnimalMotifs: She's very much like a monkey.

* GenkiGirl: Juuuust a little bit. When she latches onto Keitaro in the second volume of the manga, the other girls note that Motoko's the only one with the stamina to keep up with her for very long.

* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: She's almost always wearing her SailorFuku, even though we rarely see her at school.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bananas.

* AccidentalPervert: Mutsumi accidentally causes many scenes heavy on HomoeroticSubtext with Naru in many scenes, apparently without even realizing it. At one point, Kanako uses her as Keitaro's substitute and she ends up in suggestive situations with the girls of Hinata House in the same way Keitaro does all the time.

* BookSmart: PlayedWith. When she starts studying together with Keitaro and Naru, Mutsumi gets a better score at the practice tests than Naru who ranked first at the national mock exam. Keitaro and Naru wonder how Mutsumi could fail the University of Tokyo's entrance exam thrice if she's that good at studying. Well, turns out that when she took the test in the previous years, she either passed out halfway through or ''forgot to write her name''.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: To the max. Mutsumi has feelings for Keitaro, but she never tries to pursue him because all she wants is for him and Naru to be happy together. [[spoiler:Turns out she has been doing this since 15 years ago. Mutsumi knew Keitaro and Naru liked each other since back when they were toddlers, so she pushed them into making the promise to go to the University of Tokyo and get married when they became adults.]]

* NiceGirl: She is the one and ONLY one of the Hinata girls that has ''never'' beaten Keitaro up, and just laughs off his {{Accidental Pervert}}edness.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Watermelons. Coincidentally, they're good for anemia, what with their concentration of lycopene.

* TheAce: He was a tutor, an expert archaeologist, able to raise a kid by himself, a fighter capable of keeping up with Motoko barehanded... there's only one thing he can't do well: [[DrivesLikeCrazy drive]].

* BadassBookworm: Skilled enough at martial arts to fight toe-to-toe with Motoko WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS and he even defeated her in their first duel.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: He never merely parks, instead emerges bloody, battered, and ''oblivious'' from the twisted wreckage of his van.

* IronButtmonkey: His car crashes are practically legendary, with numerous rolls down stairs and across parks, and they frequently leave him with massive amounts of bleeding. He'll walk out oblivious to any damage. Not to mention, the only one who can take a MegatonPunch better is Keitaro.

* LovedINotHonorMore: A good part of Haruka's [[{{Tsundere}} conflicted feelings]] for him resulted from Seta having been the sort of boyfriend who would often run off in one of his expeditions while leaving her behind to look after his fossil collection.

* FriendlessBackground: It's very implied that Kanako has never been close to anyone other than Keitaro, as she herself says Naru is the one person other than her brother who has been so nice to her. She even pretends to have conversations with her pet cat using {{Ventriloquism}} because she has no one else to really talk to.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she's an antagonist to all the girls at Hinata Inn, Kanako shares a deep admiration for her foster brother Keitaro.

* MetaGuy: One major reason she didn't make friends easily. She has her harsh but rather [[GenreBlindness genre-blind]] opinions on Keitaro's bizarre relationships with girls, made calculated [[AccidentalPervert awkward moments]] to entice him, and had a complete dislike of Naru's [[{{Tsundere}} hot-and-cold personality]].

* {{Sarashi}}: Whenever she has to disguise herself as male or just as someone less endowed, this is her preferred method.

* {{Ventriloquism}}: She can use this to pretend that her cat can talk.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Rather perceptive and good at reading people.

* RetiredBadass: It's mentioned that Haruko used to be Seta's companion in his expeditions and once fought a secret organization with him. Now, she runs a teahouse near Hinata Inn.

* {{Ronin}}: Like Keitaro, she failed her entrance exams two years straight, though not due to poor academics, but due to mishaps (such as failing to write her name) and her condition (fainted just before the exams started).[[spoiler:She ultimately passes at the same time as Keitaro and Naru, and breaks the news to both of them in Paraklese.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Uses tropical clothes exposing her belly. Justified since she lives in the hot Pararakelso Island.

** Once ridiculed Keitaro's hopes of getting with his promise girl on the basis that he's a spineless dork. Keitaro retaliated by saying that Naru could never get with her promise guy because she's violent. Instead of realizing how mean she was being, Naru just bursts into tears, making Keitaro feel guilty for something ''she'' started.

* SempaiKohai: She frequently calls Keitaro and Naru sempai.

* BuxomIsBetter: Even the girls are impressed by her bust size.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiHorie (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (English), Gaby Ugarte (Latin American Spanish), Noemí Bayarri (European Spanish)

A newcomer to the Hinata House and, like Keitaro, is a 20-year-old {{Ronin}}, though her failures stem less from being an academic underachiever than from her clumsiness and tendency to faint at the most inappropriate times.

* SignificantWhiteHairDarkSkin: Kaolla is the only foreigner in the Hinata House, with her brown skin and platinum blonde hair giving her a unique look among the otherwise Japanese cast. Later on, she's revealed to be a princess of her home country.

* AnimalMotifs: She's very much like a monkey.

* CoolPet: Shiro, an albino alligator.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: She's dark-skinned and blonde-haired.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Like Kaolla, she's dark-skinned and blonde-haired.

* MistakenForSuicidal: When she's traveling on the same cruise as Keitaro and Naru, they see Mutsumi carries a will on her bag and catch her when she apparently jumps overboard. Mutsumi then explains that she's an ill girl which is why she randomly faints very often and she carries a will with her just in case that she drops dead one day.

* TurtlePower: Able to fly, capable of reaching a top speed of 60kph, Tama can also write, practise mathematics, is skilled in self defense and can communicate with other humans either through repeated motions or through Turtlese.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Subverted; she has the looks and the traditional mindset of a ''yamato nadeshiko'', but she's too brash and immature to fit the trope in terms of personality.

* MistakenForSuicidal: When she's traveling on the same cruise as Keitaro and Naru, they see Mutsumi carries a will on her bag and catch her when she apparently jumps overboard. Mutsumi then explains that she's an IllGirl which is why she randomly faints very often and she carries a will with her just in case that she drops dead one day.

* LivesInAVan: Even though he's an archeologist and Tokyo U graduate, Seta doesn't have a good salary and has to live in a van with his adopted daughter. After returning to Japan, he camps out in the campus of the University of Tokyo.

* SuperGullible: He's willing to believe whatever people tell him, such as buying Kitsune's lie about Naru going off a trip overseas to cope with failing the entrance exam for University of Tokyo. Sarah even tells Kitsune to not take advance of her dad's gullibility.

* HotTeacher: He works as a teacher at University of Tokyo and was Naru's tutor back in middle school. His good looks get him the affections of many women, including Naru, Kitsune and Haruka.

* JuniorCounterpart: He becomes one to Seta after he finally makes it into University of Tokyo and decides to become an AdventurerArchaeologist just like Seta. Keitaro even changes his glasses for ones that look exactly like Seta's. By the time of the DistantFinale, his personality and behavior have become a perfect copy of Seta's.

* GenerationXerox: Her rough treatment of her childhood friend Seta is mirrored by Naru towards her cousin Keitaro.

* CryCute: Several times:
** Broke down in tears twice in Chapter 17 after failing her very first entrance exams.
** Thrice during the Paraklese Island arc: while wondering if she failed the second time around, again [[spoiler:(this time in joy) when she learns she (and Keitaro as well as Mutsumi) did pass]], and then she fully breaks down crying [[spoiler:while blaming herself and her sudden diarrhea for missing the last plane to Tokyo on the deadline of submitting her and Keitaro's proof of passing the exams (and [[CharacterDevelopment she cries for Keitaro instead of for herself]]). Although it turns out they've crossed the International Date Line and thus had an extra day left]].

* CryCute: Twice. After Tsuruko curbstomps her and breaks her katana, deeming her too weak to carry on their school's legacy; and after Keitaro tries to comfort her. In the manga, it comes in response to Keitaro's request for her to act more feminine. She keeps failing in her attempts and finally breaks down in tears. Realizing that he's made Motoko absolutely miserable in a gender stereotype that isn't hers, Keitaro calls off the request and asks her to be herself.

* CryCute: [[spoiler:Cries while accepting Seta's marriage proposal.]]

* AbsurdPhobia: She has an incomprehensible fear of turtles -- made all the more jarring by the fact that the House ''does'' have a pet turtle. [[InterspeciesRomance And said turtle has a crush on her]]. Supplementary materials reveal that she developed her fear of turtles from [[PrimalScene accidentally walking in on her sister and brother-in-law in an intimate decision]], since "turtle head" is Japanese slang for "penis", but even with that explanation it's kind of a stretch.

A 15-year-old kendo practitioner and member of a family with their own style of kendo. Probably the least stable of the dorm residents, as she has severe insecurities about men, her own sense of femininity, her family, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and turtles]].

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She is very attractive, tall, raven-haired, and very aloof and serious.

Here are the characters of the crazy romantic comedy ''Manga/LoveHina''. Have fun!

* AmusingInjuries: Every time he's beaten up, it's portrayed as this. Along with ImmortalLifeIsCheap.

* AbsurdPhobia: She has an incomprehensible fear of turtles -- made all the more jarring by the fact that the House ''does'' have a pet turtle. [[InterspeciesRomance And said turtle has a crush on her]].