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11	[[caption-width-right:299:He's not as lucky as it seems.[[note]]Left to right: top row: Motoko, Su; second row: Shinobu, Narusegawa and Kitsune; and Keitaro at the bottom. Not shown: Mutsumi, Haruka, Seta and Sarah.[[/note]]]]
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13	->''"Let go of me! What if your low grades are contagious?!"''
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15	''Love Hina'' is a romantic comedy manga created by Creator/KenAkamatsu, and widely regarded as a classic in the HaremGenre. The manga was originally published from October 1998 to October 2001 in ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Weekly Shonen Magazine]]'', with an anime adaptation airing in 2000 from April to September.
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17	Keitaro Urashima is a clumsy loser with a big dream: to attend the prestigious University of Tokyo. Fifteen years ago he made a ChildhoodMarriagePromise to a little girl that they would be reunited on the campus of Tokyo U and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, Keitaro has failed the annual entrance exams three times, and is now considered a "{{ronin}}": a deadbeat trapped in academic limbo between high school and university.
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19	When his parents refuse to support him through another year of studying, his grandmother Hina offers him lodgings as the landlord of the hot springs resort she owns. However, when Keitaro arrives at Hinata House he discovers Hina has left on a world tour and converted the building from a resort to an all-girls dormitory. Residents Naru Narusegawa, Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno, Motoko Aoyama, Shinobu Maehara, and Kaolla Su take extreme umbrage at the presence of a "perverted boy" in their midst, let alone someone as pathetic as Keitaro.
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21	Through the course of the fourteen-volume manga (and the anime, which spans 25 episodes, two movies, and a three-episode miniseries), Keitaro wins over the girls of Hinata House, [[CharacterDevelopment builds up his self-confidence, earns a career]], [[FirstGirlWins and finds both love and his promise girl]]... just not all at the same time, and not without [[EarnYourHappyEnding suffering a lot of pain]].
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23	While considered an archetypal example of the HaremGenre (and a classic of said genre), ''Love Hina'' is a comedy with a dramatic thread running through it. The story has a strong ensemble cast that brings together a wide variety of characters and character types into what can arguably be called a family. As one of the first anime to be produced entirely on computers (as opposed to the celluoid method), the art is crisp and clean, and it never suffers from the usual loss of quality that can affect traditionally-animated series during deadline crunches. It was also the first anime series whose {{fansub}} was distributed digitally. Although Keitaro is subjected to a large amount of cartoonishly slapstick violence at times, ''Love Hina'' is a love story--and the story of his growth into an adult.
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25	Compare this series with ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku''. Contrast with ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' (by the [[Creator/KenAkamatsu same author]], and implied to be in the same universe).
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28	!!''Love Hina'' provides examples of:
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30	* AbandonedArea: The forbidden annex was once a hot springs resort. Due to its immense power, the Urashima family sealed it off. It gets reopened by Keitaro in his efforts to profess his love for Naru.
31	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Motoko and Tsuruko just love slicing rocks in half. ''[[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter With wooden swords]]''. Tsuruko is introduced ''slicing a moving truck in half'' just as it was about to run over Keitaro. And the driver (who was drunk off his ass) survives! She also managed to slice a log and have it turn into a mecha figurine upon hitting the ground again in episode 6, although she feels a little ashamed having to do this for money.
32	* AccidentalPervert: Keitaro. [[OverusedRunningGag Countless times]]. Inverted in one instance where Naru walks in on Keitaro changing, [[UnprovokedPervertPayback promptly screams that he's a pervert and punches him]]. She sheepishly explains it as a reflex action when he asks why he's the one to be punished.
33	* TheAce: Seta seems like an average archaeologist until Motoko challenges him to a fight during the play. He dodges or parries all of her attacks, to the point where Haruka believed them to just be using some kind of special effects. Special mention to his insane driving skills. His van seems to take a lot of damage, but it always somehow drives away, even if the vehicle is turned on its side.
34	* AdaptationExpansion:
35	** Siblings and parents only mentioned in the manga show up in the anime; Shinobu's Dad, Suu's brother and sister, and Naru's little sister.
36	** The anime also either adds detail to, or sometimes outright changes, the supporting cast's backstories – leading to exploration of themes such as childhood and growing up, memory, selflessness, love and dreams in a more in-depth manner than simply sticking to the primary plot's story would allow.
37	** Unfortunately, this is slightly undermined by the fact that because the second series was cancelled, the primary plot of the anime ends about two-thirds of the way through the manga's story.
38	%%* AdventurerArchaeologist: Seta, and later Keitaro.
39	* AlliterativeName: A weird example with Naru, whose surname is Narusegawa.
40	* AllMenArePerverts: All the girls except [[GoodIsNotDumb Mutsumi]] (and [[ShrinkingViolet Shinobu]], to an extent) seem to believe in this trope – [[CharacterDevelopment at first, at least]] – and use it to justify their abuse of Keitaro ([[{{Tsundere}} Naru]] and [[DoesNotLikeMen Motoko]] deserve particular mention). {{Averted\|Trope}}, most of the time anyway.
41	* AlmostKiss: Happens to Keitaro and Naru a lot. Mutsumi doesn't seem to have that problem however, as she kisses both of them on separate occasions.
42	%%* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Motoko.
43	%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Seta to Motoko (and Haruka to an extent), also Tsuruko to Motoko.
44	* AmusingInjuries:
45	** Happens to Keitaro OnceAnEpisode, but everyone in the anime series and manga get at least one of these.
46	** In volume 9, Keitaro gets [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giant onion dropped on him]],[[note]](that was in fact the ornament that rests atop the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Budokan Nippon Budokan.]] Even Mutsumi had a HeroicBSOD!)[[/note]] breaking his leg for a week. Su asks him:
47	--> '''Su''': [[LampshadeHanging Can't ya just make it go away with a band-aid like ya usually do?]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall Like in one frame?]]
48	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:
49	** Motoko has one during her second duel with her sister in the manga.
50	** Keitaro gives his to Naru when he's in the hospital and she has to leave because she's visiting after hours, as he thought that would be his last chance to do so.
51	** Naru gives hers to Keitaro at the conclusion of the nationwide chase mini-arc; having reached the northernmost tip of Hokkaido, she has nowhere left to run but the sea, and with Keitaro closing in, she jumps. He follows and manages to catch her before she lands in the sea, prompting her to finally open up.
52	* AnimalsHateHim:
53	** Ken Akamatsu seems to get a kick out of this – if one character is particularly depressed and runs away, they're likely to end up getting bitten in the hand by a dog when they try to pet it. This gag is used TWICE in volume 9.
54	** On the way to the Tokyo U entrance ceremony, Keitaro is suddenly attacked by a pack of wild dogs and then a murder of crows for no particular reason (that is, other than making him a CosmicPlaything).
55	* AnimeThemeSong: One of the most frenetic in all of anime. Sung by Haruka's voice actress, Music/MegumiHayashibara.
56	* ArrangedMarriage: Motoko is "threatened" with this to Keitaro should she lose to her sister in a fight in episode 25. [[ClingyJealousGirl Naru]] isn't too happy to hear about that.
57	* AuthorAvatar: Ken Akamatsu makes two appearances in the anime, not to mention that he looks suspiciously similar to a certain protagonist of the series.
58	* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: After Keitaro informs Seta about Naru's crush on him, Seta tells Naru that he likes her too, making her blush... But then, he also says it to Keitaro, then Kitsune, then just about every other main character trapped in the cave.
59	* BarbieDollAnatomy: All the girls in the numerous {{Furo Scene}}s.
60	* BarehandedBladeBlock: Keitaro to Motoko, and later, Tama the turtle. Yes, seriously. At both points, Motoko thinks she's hit rock bottom.
61	* BeachEpisode: Episode 16-18 spends time away from the inn.
62	* BeautifulAllAlong: Subverted and Inverted – Naru deliberately "[[ClarkKenting geeks up]]" her looks to keep from being bothered by guys.
63	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Keitaro dreams about going into the University of Tokyo and fulfill a ChildhoodMarriagePromise, but he gets more than what he bargains for due to his repeated blunders.
64	* BedmateReveal: Keitaro and [[spoiler:Mutsumi]]. But as usual for [[AccidentalPervert Keitaro]], it's NotWhatItLooksLike, not that that saves him from a completely unfair KangarooCourt trial and beating, with implied accusations of rape.
65	* BestedAtBowling: While Keitaro losing to longtime/hardcore bowler Naru (she even has a monogrammed glove) is not presented as something shameful to contemplate, the fact that first-timer [[TheDitz Mutsumi]] manages a perfect game (rolling the ball two-handed the entire time) is traumatizing to both of them.
66	* BetweenMyLegs: In several episodes of the anime, for example, at the end of episode 21.
67	* BigBad: Kanako Urashima in ''Love Hina Again'' and it’s corresponding manga chapters. She is Keitaro's sister [[BrotherSisterIncest who wants to take him away]] [[{{Yandere}} from the other girls]], and becomes [[LoveInterest Naru]]'s love rival as she [[TyrantTakesTheHelm usurps control of the Hinata Inn to punish them]]. [[spoiler:Kanako does make a HeelFaceTurn and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Keitaro go]] in the end.]] The series otherwise [[NoAntagonist lacks a Big Bad]] aside from a few [[MonsterOfTheWeek one-shot threats]].
68	* BigDamnHeroes: Seta has a few moments like this… though with a comedic twist.
69	** Keitaro has a few straight instances of this, like in the anime when he dives out of a zeppelin to rescue a falling Naru.
70	** Hilariously averted in one episode when Su has Kentaro suited up in some PowerArmor to retrieve Keitaro, only to have him pass out from the sheer exhaustion of walking with that thing on.
71	* BigEater: Su has a prodigious appetite for a girl her size, and her first impulse on hearing a word she doesn't know is to ask [[IsItSomethingYouEat if it's tasty/edible]].
72	* BigOlEyebrows: A minor case, but Mutsumi's eyebrows are much more prominent than anyone else's. Strangely, this makes her ''cuter''. Kitsune's eyebrows are noticeably thicker than the rest of the main cast as well. A case of AuthorAppeal, too, as Akamatsu admitted he likes designing cute girls with these.
73	* BigRedButton: Su adds a self-destruct button to her machines, just for the hell of it.
74	--> "Every evil invention must come with a self-destruct button!"
75	* BigSecret: Multiple times, usually hilariously smashed somehow. First with Keitaro accidentally convincing the girls he's a Todai student rather than a prospective applicant (that doesn't last long and ends Keitaro getting punched). Later, Naru tries to convince herself and everyone else that she [[BlatantLies totally doesn't like Keitaro]] (she eventually admits the truth, which ends Keitaro getting punched). Kanako trying to hide the fact that she and Keitaro are NotBloodSiblings (he'd already figured it out, but it ends in him getting punched). The biggest secret, though, is what Old Lady Hinata knows about Keitaro's [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise "promise girl"]] (amazingly, this revelation does ''not'' end with Keitaro getting punched).
76	* BlindIdiotTranslation:
77	** The Latin American Spanish dub, ''big time'': In addition of the acting being infamously awful, the translation is equally bad. This is especially egregious, considering the series was dubbed from the English dub by proxy, but besides carrying the same flaws from the English dub, it also does it's own ones:
78	** In episode 16, the phrase used in the English dub "The scene now changes to the home of the Village Elder"[[note]]In Spanish "La escena ahora cambia al hogar del anciano del pueblo"[[/note]], was translated as ''The scene now changes to the home of '''Elder'''"[[note]]La escena cambia a la villa donde vive '''elder'''[[/note]], being "elder" translated as a proper character, rather than being a descriptive term.
79	** In episode 17, when Keitaro says in the English dub "Then how do you explain that ghost in the shipwreck?!"[[note]]¡¿Entonces como explicas ese fantasma en el barco naufragado!?[[/note]] was translated as "Then tell me what kind of thing was in '''shipwreck'''[[note]]Entonces dime que era la cosa esa en '''shipwreck'''[[/note]], leaving "shipwreck" untranslated from English as the name of the ship, rather than a term for a ship that sinks.
80	* BlindWithoutEm: Keitaro and Naru can't see well without their glasses. There's a whole episode centered on them losing their glasses and hanging out together around Kyoto without recognizing each other until they get their glasses back.
81	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Mutsumi's non-sequiters, puns, and general daffiness are patterned after the idiot side of the routine, with Keitaro or Naru reacting like the straight man. (Though Keitaro is usually the one that ends up getting hit)
82	* BookEnds: Kicks off with a klutzy Keitaro arriving at the inn, and HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler:Finishes up with a klutzy new girl arriving at the inn, and HilarityEnsues.]]
83	* BoundAndGagged:[[spoiler: Kanako]]'s specialty, she ties up every character at one point or another.
84	* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Most of the series involves Keitaro and Naru growing closer, then something happening or one of them (usually Keitaro) doing something stupid to drive them apart until they get closer again.
85	* BreastPlate: Motoko's outfit for the video game dream world in the anime.
86	* BrokeEpisode: Anime only. Episode 14. Due to their excessive expenses/partying, the inn has to find 67,000 yen to pay the utility bills or else they get shut down.
87	* BrokenAesop:
88	** The idea is that ''everything'' is possible if you try your hardest, even getting into Japan's top university and charming a really hot girl, even though you're a total loser. However, while Keitaro does start off as a really pathetic individual, it does not take long before he turns out to not only be [[BeautifulAllAlong handsome]] but also a gifted archeologist and martial artist. You'd ''expect'' someone who is not really cool or talented to captivate through {{determinat\|or}}ion and charm. While Keitaro is very determined, his defeatist, whiny and relatively immature personality, as well as his tremendous clumsiness deeply annoy the girls... It's only when he drops his usual act that the females show ''any attraction'' for him, often pointing out that he is very handsome when he is not being annoying. Ultimately, instead of ''Manga/LoveHina'' being about an underdog accomplishing goals far beyond his reach through {{determinat\|or}}ion and ThePowerOfLove, it's actually about someone who had everything he needed to succeed from the start but never had the proper motivation to unlock his potential until he met the girl.
89	** Alternatively the Aesop could be "if someone berates, insults, hits, and abuses you, keep attempting to date that person. You'll find true love in the end."
90	* BrotherSisterIncest: [[NotBloodSiblings Adopted sister]], actually and it's entirely from her end. Keitaro is ''not'' interested.
91	* BustContrastDuo: Mutsumi shows up halfway through the series as an [[RomanticRunnerUp alternative love interest]], being a ditzy, watermelon-loving, [[DelicateAndSickly sickly]], all-around nice girl to contrast Naru, the violent {{tsundere}} female lead. Although Naru's chest is prominent, Mutsumi's boob size is considerably bigger, having the most prominent bust of all the female characters in the series.
92	* CallingYourAttacks: Motoko's God Cry School of Kendo.
93	* CanNotSpitItOut: You could practically make a drinking game out of the number of times Keitaro tries (and fails) to confess his feelings for Naru in the manga. And when he finally gets around to it, he passes the trope right over to Naru, who arguably has an even harder time with it. Particularly since ''he'' always knew how he felt, whereas ''she'' tries to vehemently deny her own feelings. Which causes a lot of problems because several girls who like Keitaro call her out on it (mainly Kitsune), and wonder why she won't let them near him (due to her tendency to [[MegatonPunch knock him into the air when he's with another girl]]) but at the same time invokes this trope. Reaches its most logical extreme in physical circumstances when [[spoiler:half the Japanese media is chasing after her due to [[ItMakesSenseInContext thinking she's a terrorist]].]]
94	* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: Motoko Aoyama does not part with her {{Wooden Katana\|sAreEvenBetter}} [[ICallItVera Shisui]] even during the many {{Hot Springs\|Episode}} and {{Public Bathhouse Scene}}s in the story. It comes in handy at least once when she had to fight off a {{Demonic Possess\|ion}}ed Naru.
95	* CantHoldHerLiquor: Shinobu. Justified considering that she's thirteen at that point.
96	* CatchPhrase:
97	** Mutsumi: 'Oh my!'
98	** Motoko: 'Don't worry, I used the flat of my blade' (only in the anime).
99	* CelebrityIsOverrated: Naru becomes a singer in episode 11, but quickly learns to despise it, even going so far as to jump into the hot tub that Keitaro is using in order to hide from her manager. Seeing as her manager was JerkAss Kentaro that would explain why she was having problems.
100	* CensorSteam: Opaque enough for the audience, but apparently not enough to spare Keitaro's hide. On a related note, we have, at one point, Censor Suu. This sort involves hanging one strategically-folded Kaolla Su around Motoko's neck, and letting her run around the screen for a few panels before and after to justify her presence.
101	* CharacterDevelopment: Keitaro, Naru, Shinobu and Motoko in the manga. In the anime... [[AdaptationDistillation not so much]], which is a common complaint about it.
102	* CherryBlossoms: The opening credits show the Hinata Inn amidst a grand flurry of cherry blossoms. And the opening theme is "''Sakura Saku''" ("the cherry blossoms will bloom"), no less.
103	* TheChewToy: Seriously, how much can the universe involuntarily conspire against Keitaro? Highlight to the Tokyo U entrance ceremony chapter.
104	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: The premise is about Keitaro trying to find his forgotten childhood friend so he can marry her as they promised when they were little. Clues indicate the girl could be Naru or Mutsumi. [[spoiler:Both girls had a crush on Keitaro when they were children. Mutsumi gave up to let Naru have Keitaro and arranged them to make the promise.]]
105	* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: The whole plot starts because of one. When he was five years old, Keitaro made a promise to a girl that they would go to the University of Tokyo together and live HappilyEverAfter. Even though he can't remember the face or name of the girl, Keitaro ends up a {{Ronin}} because he wants to find that girl at the university.
106	* ChocolateOfRomance: All of the girls give chocolates to Keitaro in the ValentinesDayEpisode since they all have feelings for him, in different ways and magnitudes.
107	* ClingyJealousGirl:
108	** Naru doesn't like it when Keitaro is with other women, even if ''they'' came onto ''him''.
109	** Kanako acts this way as well, and tries to drive the girls out.
110	* ClothingDamage: Almost exclusively to females, though it does happen to Keitaro once or twice. Naturally, he's thoroughly pummelled for [[DoubleStandard "flashing" the girls]].
111	%%* CloudCuckoolander: Mutsumi. In the nicest possible way.
112	* ColorFailure: Happens to Keitaro once after taking an exam.
113	* ComedicSociopathy: Mutsumi is the only girl to not ''intentionally'' cause pain to Keitaro (all the pain she caused him was unintentional); the rest all did at some point.
114	%%* CompetenceZone
115	* CoolCar: Seta's van. Never runs out of gas (unless the plot requires), never breaks down (despite crashing it into every available surface), and will always hold as many people as it needs to. Overlaps with TheAllegedCar.
116	* CostumeExaggeration: Motoko's breakdown after a fight with her sister persuades her to become the inn's housekeeper, wearing a [[{{Meido}} full maid outfit]] in [[HugeSchoolgirl her size]] (which she swiped from Kitsune's wardrobe).
117	* CrashIntoHello: Mutsumi gets this from Keitaro in both the manga and anime, albeit two different scenarios.
118	* CreatorCameo: Ken Akamatsu appeared as himself in the anime's 14th episode, as well as the Winter and Spring specials.
119	* CrossPoppingVeins: Several characters display these, but mostly Naru.
120	* CuteAndPsycho:
121	** Motoko's older sister Tsuruko is usually calm and graceful, but when Motoko makes the mistake of... erm... being creative with the truth in front of her, out comes her AxCrazy side (complete with daemon eyes). Because of this and her MasterSwordsman skills, Motoko goes back and forth between [[{{Oneesama}} admiring her]] and being scared shitless of her.
122	** Kanako is also introduced this way, what with the misery she actively puts the girls through because of their mistreatment of Keitaro.
123	%%* CuteClumsyGirl: Mutsumi.
124	* CuteMute: Subverted: Nyamo doesn't speak Japanese, so she mostly opts to stay quiet.
125	* DatePeepers: Naru in episode 21 while Keitaro is on a date with Mutsumi. Kitsune and [[spoiler:Mei, Naru's little stepsister]] also spy on them on their own.
126	* DeathGlare:
127	** Kanako gives a particularly vicious one to Naru after running out from shampooing Keitaro's hair and learning that he didn't remember his promise to her.
128	** The girls as a group do this a few times as well, especially when Keitaro, or even a random train employee, gets in their way of carrying out whatever slipshod plan they've hatched.
129	* DeepImmersionGaming: Anime only. Episode 8. It turns out to have been a dream, although it does help break Motoko out of her mold a little when she sees the other characters having fun and inviting her to join them.
130	* DefeatMeansFriendship:
131	** Sort of happens when Motoko loses to Keitaro the first time. She realizes that he's worthy of at least a tiny amount of respect and starts to warm up to him.
132	** In the anime, it happens to Kentaro after he "loses" to Keitaro in one episode at trying to win Naru's heart. He even helps them out, such as flying Naru to the island Keitaro went to in the Spring episode. He does drive his car towards Keitaro in one episode, but it's largely by accident, due to Tama flying at him and distracting/freaking him out.
133	* DefrostingIceQueen: Motoko and Kanako (though she still doesn't take it well that her brother wound up with her rival).
134	* DeliberatelyBadExample(s): Shirai and Haitani, who really are perverts and whose lecherous behavior is ''exactly'' what it looks like.
135	* DeusAngstMachina: It takes one ''of epic proportions'' in order to [[spoiler:bypass Keitaro's [[HollywoodHealing amazing healing abilities]] and force him home during the first term of university.]] Somewhat averted when he [[spoiler:re-breaks the same leg right in the next chapter due to Kitsune tickling him.]]
136	* TheDiaperChange: At one point in the manga, Mutsumi appears to have lost her memory and begins acting like she did as a child. Keitaro and Naru play along to help her revert back to a more adult state, which leads to Mutsumi forcefully diapering Naru.
137	* DinnerBathOrSexOffer: When Mutsumi gets a crack on the head and her personality reverts to being five years old, she offers a choice that implies sex while "playing house" with Keitaro, making him and Naru wonder whether she's screwing with them or not.
138	* DisproportionateRetribution: As noted various times, the girls tend to humiliate or [[PervertRevengeMode beat up]] Keitaro simply because [[AccidentalPervert he arrives at the wrong time]] when they are changing or [[ShowerOfAwkward bathing]]. Its even more absurd when one also remembers that they themselves are perfectly all right with it if it's with themselves. Furthermore, the girls frequently "punish" Keitaro for their own mistakes, such as walking in on him naked. One chapter has them worrying about his marks, so they try to cheer him up by letting him bathe with them. When he tearfully thanks them and mentions his score (which is quite high - their concern had made him worry he'd done a terrible job), they attack him, even though ''they'd assumed he'd failed, and none of them had bothered to ask him how he did''.
139	* DistractedByTheSexy:
140	** Happens often to Keitaro, especially from Mutsumi who's too innocent to pay attention to this.
141	** In the manga, when Kitsune, Motoko, and Mutsumi are trying to get a ride to the airport, Kitsune lifts up Motoko's shirt to entice travellers... and promptly causes a 20-car pileup.
142	** A scene in the manga has Keitaro distracted from a PantyShot of a random girl before take a train... and get an headbutt on the close door
143	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Haruka's voice actress Creator/MegumiHayashibara sang the opening and ending themes to the TV series.
144	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: If anything turns you off of this series, it will be this. Had any of the genders been reversed... they'd ''quickly'' be arrested. The anime has it somewhat less frequently, but gets correspondingly more violent when it does happen. Kanako does call them on it very late in the manga, subjecting the worst offenders to almost a volume's worth of ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine.
145	** Motoko even beats up Haitani and Shirai for ''talking'' to the girls while they're on the beach.
146	** Averted when Motoko gets a stern warning from the police for hitting a man who supposedly groped her.
147	** There's a joke amongst the fandom that Keitaro should have studied Law instead of Geology at Tokyo U; that way, he could get payback by filing excessive force lawsuits against the girls, and win really big.
148	* DrivenToSuicide:
149	** PlayedForLaughs with Motoko; whenever things go ''really'' bad for her, she suddenly and over-dramatically threatens to commit seppuku, JidaiGeki style.
150	** Defied in the manga. The girls like to assume an unlikely worst-case scenario of Keitaro killing himself if hit with extremely bad news or misfortune. So they try to keep him away from the problem or just be exceptionally nice to him for a change. He picks up on it quickly, but assumes a ''different'' worst-case scenario than the girls did.
151	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Seta always crashes his van instead of parking it. Later, Keitaro does the same (since the former taught the latter how to drive!)
152	* DroppedGlasses: Happens quite often in the series with fumbling for his glasses getting Keitaro another MegatonPunch in one episode, and in another leading to both he and Naru (both BlindWithoutEm) having a great time on a date, without realizing they were with each other.
153	* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: When [[spoiler:Naru]] wields the Cursed Sword of Hina. She comes completely unhinged.
154	* DynamicEntry: Su LOVES to do this to Keitaro. She provide the trope pic that is particularly noteworthy because she runs across a rooftop to deliver one through an open window...and somehow lands with her legs wrapped around his head.
155	* EarnYourHappyEnding: At the end Keitaro gets everything he dreamed of and then some more, but before that he goes through a SHITLOAD of pain, both literally and metaphorically.
156	* {{Ecchi}}: The manga is full of it, but the anime cuts most of the {{fanservice}} for the main run of the series. The DVD-only Episode 25, the Christmas and spring specials, and the Love Hina Again {{OVA}}s have a lot more {{fanservice}}, much closer to the manga.
157	* EffortlessAmazonianLift: Amalla Su easily runs carrying Keitaro in her arms.
158	* ElegantGothicLolita: Kanako. Plus everyone else (except Keitaro) on the cover of volume 11, in which Kanako arrives.
159	* EvilFeelsGood: The Urashima family's evil heirloom katana (see SealedEvilInACan, below).
160	* EyesAlwaysShut: Kitsune. Sometimes both eyes, other times just one of them. Very rarely she opens both eyes at the same time.
161	* TheFaceless:
162	** Kitsune, "HiddenEyes" version.
163	** Grandma Hinata, at least in the manga.
164	* FailedAuditionPlot: An ongoing subplot of this series follows Keitaro and his many failed attempts at getting into Tokyo U.
165	* {{Fainting}}: Done by Mutsumi on occasion.
166	* FairytaleWeddingDress: [[spoiler:Naru's dress when she and Keitaro marry in the {{Manga}}. His aunt also wears a fancy wedding dress in the penultimate volume.]]
167	* FanserviceExtra: A scene in the manga has Keitaro distracted from a PantyShot of a random girl before take a train...and get an headbutt on the close door!
168	* FantasticFightingStyle: Motoko belongs to a clan of swordsmen from Kyoto that specialize in KiManipulation to fight supernatural threats.
169	* FeelingYourHeartbeat: In the opening chapters, not long after Keitaro meets the girls, Kitsune quickly picks up on his naivety with women and [[TheTease makes a show of trying to hit on him]] when they're alone. This ends with her taking his hand and putting it right on her breast, saying her heart is racing because of him. Of course, Naru and the other girls barge in just afterward, and Kitsune immediately changes gears, accusing Keitaro of being a pervert and feeling her up.
170	* FestivalEpisode: Episode 18 has the main cast going to a festival.
171	* FirstGirlWins: Played with. [[spoiler:Naru is the first girl we the audience meet, but Mutsumi was the first girl Keitaro met chronologically. Ultimately it ends up being Naru.]]
172	* FirstKiss: Played with. Keitaro and Naru ''both'' had theirs with [[spoiler:Mutsumi]]. Shinobu makes it ''very'' clear she wants Keitaro to be hers; [[spoiler:it ends up being Su.]] Motoko gets hers [[spoiler:when she's assaulted by Su's automatic kissing machine.]] In the anime, Episode 13 focuses on this, with primary emphasis on Shinobu, although other characters talk about theirs or get involved.
173	* FluffyFashionFeathers: [[spoiler:In the manga, Naru's [[PimpedOutDress wedding dress]]]] has feathers on the sleeves.
174	* ForegoneConclusion: Despite all of the noteworthy action between Keitaro and Mutsumi, it's ridiculously evident that Naru will end up with him. By the final three volumes, there's literally no hope for the other girls.
175	* ForgettableCharacter: Nobody ever remembers [[ThoseTwoGuys Haitani and Shirai]]… not even Keitaro.
176	* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Probably the poster child for this trope.
177	* FormulaWithATwist: Before ''Love Hina'', most HaremGenre stories involved the protagonist gaining the adoration of his various {{Love Interest}}s to start the "harem". Instead, Keitaro winds up gaining the ire of the majority of the girls due to being an AccidentalPervert. Thus at first, he must live with girls who aren't afraid to attack him for any perceived slight. Likewise it throws a mystery about if Naru is the girl Keitaro promised to share his dream of getting into Tokyo U with.
178	* TheFourGods: The pets in the series resemble the Four Gods; Team Pet Tama the turtle (Genbu), Tsuruko's Shippu the crane (Suzaku), Kanako's cat Kuro (Byakko), and in the epilogue Ema has Leon the chameleon (Seiryu). The final page of the manga shows the four of them on the roof.
179	* FourthWallObserver: Kentaro Sakata's comments to the audience about the anime, its plot, and his role therein.
180	--> "Well. I suppose that's all the screen time I'm getting this time."
181	* FreakyFridayFlip: The Living Souls Exchange skill of the Shinmei-ryu. This sword-based spiritual technique is intended to temporarily transfer the soul of a possessed person and the intruding spirit into a willing host's body in order to be exorcised in cases where their original body is too physically weak to endure the procedure. In the second TieInNovel, Motoko tried to perform the technique in front of her sister Tsuruko, but she ended up switching bodies with [[spoiler:Kitsune]] of all people by mistake, kickstarting the plot of that side-story.
182	* FromRoommatesToRomance: The premise of the series is Keitaro moving into an all-girls dormitory as its manager. All the female residents become attracted to Keitaro after living with him for some time, with the UnresolvedSexualTension being particularly strong with the female lead Naru. [[spoiler:Keitaro marries Naru at the end of the manga.]]
183	* FunbagAirbag: Already in the first chapter. While run from Naru, Keitaro crash in Kitsune's boobs.
184	* FuroScene: The Hinata House has a hot springs bath, resulting in a lot of Japanese bath scenes throughout the series.
185	* GadgeteerGenius: Su can build just about anything the particular episode needs, whether it's a giant mechanical turtle, an automatic kissing machine, or a mind-reading device.
186	* GardenGarment: In the desert island arc, Naru, Shinobu and Nyamo are wearing bikinis made of leaves.
187	* GeniusDitz: Mutsumi. Both Naru and Keitaro are shocked that she gets perfect scores and wonder how she failed the exam as many times as he did. [[spoiler:She either forgot to write her own name, or got lost on the way to the examination place.]]
188	%%* GenkiGirl: Kaolla Su.
189	* GenreShift: The series became prone to Road Trip arcs as the series lingered and most of the romantic misunderstandings had been resolved. These were apparently brief but enjoyed changes of pace for the author, as the later series ''Negima'''s framework allows them to be used more extensively. It also picked up more fantasy elements, when at the beginning it seemed to be set in an entirely mundane setting.
190	* GivingUpTheGhost: Happens fairly often with Mutsumi, and sometimes with Keitaro.
191	* GodivaHair: Naru and Mutsumi (when they let it loose), Motoko [[spoiler:until her ImportantHaircut in Volume 13]], and [[spoiler:Shinobu in the DistantFinale]].
192	* GreekChorus: The Three Old Men Around Town in the anime, who may be ghosts. Funnily enough, in the episode where Motoko dreams that she and the girls are in an RPG, they are [=NPCs=], whose speech consists of only [[WelcomeToCorneria the same phrase over and over]] (which Su points out to Motoko when she reacts in confusion).
193	* GreenRooming: Motoko (along with her "groupies") is introduced in the first minutes of the first episode, but she immediately leaves on a training excursion, thus freeing up screen time for introductions of the other characters before she gets her turn to take center stage in the third episode.
194	* HadakaApron: Keitaro fantasizes about seeing this. Shinobu fantasizes about doing this (specifically becoming grown up enough to do so).
195	%%* HairAntennae: Naru and Mutsumi.
196	* HairTriggerTemper: Naru and Motoko, nearly always as a result of Keitaro's NotWhatItLooksLike incidents.
197	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Kitsune can hold enough liquor to turn a normal human's liver into foie gras. Not that she can't get smashed, though.
198	* HarshWordImpact: Very heavy use of this in the manga, especially metaphorical knives.
199	* HealthyCountryAir: This is a plot point in the backstory. [[spoiler:Naru]] had asthma as a child and had been sent to the Hinata Inn for this reason. This is how she originally met and fell in love with [[spoiler:Keitaro.]]
200	* HeroicBSOD:
201	** In the anime, Motoko has one in an episode where she believes that due to not wearing her traditional battle dress, she can't use her special attacks. At least until Keitaro snaps her out of it, and tells her that the clothing didn't matter, and that she was still the same person no matter what she wore.
202	** Mutsumi gets her own HeroicBSOD in Volume 9, When Keitaro gets a "giant onion" dropped on him and it snaps his leg.
203	* HilarityEnsues: The wholes series can be summed up as… A man becomes the landlord of an all girls dorm, Hilarity Ensues.
204	* HimeCut:
205	** Both of the Aoyama sisters have the long hair, sidetails and even bangs and the associated character traits.
206	** Motoko's hairstyle fits her traditional upbringing and samurai-like personality.
207	** For Tsuruko, this is one of the signifiers that she's proper Japanese lady.
208	* HitchhikersLeg: When Kitsune, Motoko, and Mutsumi are trying to get a ride to the airport, Kitsune lifts up Motoko's shirt to entice travellers... and promptly causes a 20-car pileup.
209	* HotSpringsEpisode: Pretty much the entire series, considering the Hinata House is built over an old onsen, except for the previously mentioned [[BeachEpisode beach episodes]].
210	* HumanHammerThrow: Naru grabs Keitaro by the arm, swings him around a couple of times and throws him into the sky as he suffers from OcularGushers. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZr52-x9p4w#t=4m44s here]].
211	* IdenticalGrandson: Keitaro looks suspiciously like his great-grandfather Keisuke in episode 20.
212	* IdolSinger: Anime only. Three of them! No shock considering their voice actresses had all dabbled in that field at some point.
213	* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: {{Discussed\|Trope}} by Keitaro in the first TieInNovel.
214	-->"Naru," I countered, "a man being smothered by giant breasts is liable to agree to any crazy scheme!"
215	* IHaveThisFriend: Said word-for-word by [[spoiler:Naru]] to Mutsumi.
216	* ImagineSpot: Keitaro has tons of these. They sometimes blur the line between imagination and reality.
217	%%* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Motoko and Tsuruko.
218	%%* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Motoko]] in Volume 13 of the manga.
219	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Motoko defeats her sister with [[spoiler:the mechanical pencil that Keitaro used every time he took the Todai entrance exams.]]
220	* IncrediblyLamePun: Sure, it only works when we're not using the Tokyo U expression from the translations, but the abbreviation from the Japanese original, but it's still pointed out (and {{lampshaded\|trope}} when Naru reacts with "that's not funny!").
221	---> '''Mutsumi''': Hey, Naru, look at this! The capital of the Molmol Kingdom is called ''[[ShoutOut Todai]]''! If you and Keitaro went there, then you'd have ''gone to Todai together''!
222	* IndirectKiss: Shinobu freaks out about this more than most.
223	* InnocentInnuendo: ''Mutsumi'', all the damn time.
224	* InterruptedIntimacy: In one of the last volumes, Keitaro and Naru try going to a {{Love Hotel\|s}}. After turning off the lights, they're interrupted by Nyamo and her giant turtle that somehow sneaked into the couple's bed.
225	* InvisibleParents: Keitaro's parents are never seen, although he does mention them early on, and his mom can be heard in the first episode of the anime. Also played straight with Su, Kitsune, and Motoko, although the other girls (Sarah, Naru, Shinobu) avert this trope.
226	* IntimateLotionApplication: In volume 10, Mutsumi is sunbathing at the beach and asks Keitaro to rub suntan lotion on her back. Naru gets jealous when she sees it, assuming Mutsumi is flirting with him, so she asks him to do the same on her back. Keitaro manages to keep his nerve, but suddenly a sea cucumber crawls into her thigh, and she thinks it's his hand so she ends up [[UnprovokedPervertPayback pummeling him before he can explain]].
227	* IsThatCuteKidYours: Happens when Sarah is first introduced.
228	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When it's played for comedy, the person (usually Keitaro) is certain that the beloved (Naru) would be happy with someone else, and doesn't waste a moment to let her get a word in edgewise.
229	** Kindhearted Mutsumi manages to be this ''and'' VictoriousChildhoodFriend at the same time for the same boy.
230	** Naru tries to do this to Keitaro with Mutsumi in the manga, although it's touched on a little in the anime as well.
231	** Virtually all of the girls towards the end of the manga do this towards Keitaro, so he can get together with Naru. [[spoiler:Even if Kanako is the only one to visibly begrudge her decision.]]
232	* {{Joshikousei}}: Suu, and later Shinobu. Naru and Motoko were also in high school at the start of the story; we even get to see Naru attending her high school graduation.
233	* KafkaKomedy: Probably the premier example in manga and anime. Keitaro's horrible luck, especially with the AccidentalPervert moments.
234	* KiManipulation: Motoko practices a swordstyle that uses ki to create RazorWing.
235	* KidSamurai: Motoko, the 15-year-old samurai girl.
236	* LargeHam: Suu. Motoko in the anime. Seta has shades of this in the manga. Kitsune tries but is usually too drunk to pull it off.
237	* LaserGuidedKarma:
238	** Happens to Motoko who, through most of the first half of the series, constantly ridiculed Keitaro's repeated blunders in getting accepted into the University of Tokyo. By the second half, however, she finds out firsthand that it's not as easy as it looks.
239	** Naru also finds herself on the receiving end of this in the third quarter of the series when having to deal with Keitaro's sister and is subjected to the torture she put Keitaro through in the first half (specifically trying to drive him out by overworking him when the girls initially didn't like him). Naru even wails out an apology for doing so (and rightly so; she did it out of anger for an out-of-context comment from Keitaro). Worth pointing out that Kanako succeeds in driving all the girls but Naru out using this method (though [[{{Snapback}} everybody returns just a few pages later]]).
240	** MisplacedRetribution: That being said, however, while the other girls deserved some punishment for the way they behaved, Shinobu, who had been nothing but kind to Keitaro since she met him, was subjected to the same treatment as the others despite having done nothing to deserve it.
241	* LastConfessionWins: Naru ends up being the last of the girls to confess her love for Keitaro [[spoiler: and ultimately marries him.]]
242	* LatexPerfection: Kanako, complete with ''rearranging her skeleton''.
243	* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: {{Subverted\|Trope}} when [[spoiler:Naru and Keitaro finally get together; the other girls catch up with them as they're kissing and get so upset over it they start to chase them.]]
244	%%* LoveLetterLunacy: Downplayed.
245	* MarilynManeuver: Sometimes to [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Naru]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Mutsumi]].
246	* MartialArtsForMundanePurposes: There's episode where Mokoto and Kaolla are using Mokoto's sword skills to make statues out of logs so people will pay for the "show". Mokoto lampshades this by noting how the sacred art that was passed to her by her family has been reduced to cheap entertainment.
247	* MasterOfDisguise:
248	** Kanako, to the point where she can dislocate her skeleton to change her body shape. Defied by Keitaro; he can see through them easily.
249	** Shinobu in the manga was able to tell that "Naru" was "not herself" when smiling, even though [[OnlySixFaces the smile was visually perfect]].
250	* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Shortly after Kitsune allows Keitaro to grope her in exchange for a month's rent, Naru catches him in his boxers with a box of tissues next to him. Not too difficult to guess what he was about to do.
251	* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: Motoko does this in an early chapter in order to train. Keitaro also does this later in the manga, although [[ButtMonkey he gets hit by a falling log]].
252	* MegatonPunch: Naru Punch! Taken to extremes in the anime. Keitaro receives several per episode, and a lot of times it seems any answer he gives Naru results in one of these. Fortunately he's [[IronButtMonkey pretty durable]].
253	* MetalMuncher: One episode features a robot turtle that [[MiracleGroMonster grows]] bigger the more metal it eats.
254	* ModestyTowel: In the manga, characters are normally naked when in the {{Hot Springs\|Episode}}, while in the anime, they are often wrapped in towels.
255	* MomentKiller: If you try to make a drinking game out of it, you'll probably be dead before the end.
256	* MyFistForgivesYou: Explicitly done by Naru over the diary incident, but also by implication several other times.
257	* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours:
258	** Motoko attempts to invoke this against her sister twice. She fails.
259	** Also Seta to Keitaro, and conversely, Haruka to Seta.
260	* NakedFirstImpression: Keitaro's first meeting with Naru in the first episode happens during a mix up in {{Hot Springs\|Episode}}. They both have a NakedFreakOut and Keitaro bolts out of the bath, bumping with the rest of the girls while trying to cover himself with a ModestyTowel along the way, [[WardrobeMalfunction which happens to fall]] right in front of Shinobu. Naru is later particularly pissed he exposed himself to the young Shinobu, but Shinobu says it's ok [[TeenyWeenie since it was so small she barely saw anything]].
261	* NerdGlasses: Keitaro and Naru both have them, although Naru only wears hers when studying. Invoked by Shinobu as part of her attempt to become more like Naru. Motoko also attempts this with fake glasses (expressly to follow in Naru's footsteps) when studying to enter Tokyo U.
262	* NighInvulnerable: The only explanation for Keitaro's survival past the first chapter, considering how much the girls attack him. The girls eventually become aware of how odd this is, and start {{lampshad\|eHanging}}ing it – constantly pointing out his seeming immortality.
263	** At one point, they're chasing an airplane as it's on the runway (long story) and they tell Keitaro "Jump! Don't worry, you're immortal!" Then another time he is hit by a car and gets up with nothing worse than a minor head wound, and all the strangers run away screaming "Monster!"
264	*** Referenced and actually played for drama during the climax of Volume 13 as a manic Naru accidentally launched herself off a cliff (she wasn't DrivenToSuicide, she was trying to escape northwards to avoid confessing her feelings to Keitaro and there was no more Japan to run to) and Keitaro jumped after her to save her...
265	--->'''Keitaro:''' Promise me you'll never do anything like this again. I'd survive, but I doubt you would.
266	** {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in Volume 9 of the manga when part of the Budokan falls on Keitaro. [[spoiler:He breaks a leg.]]
267	** In fact, the number of times Keitaro gets hit over the course of the fourteen volumes (equal to three years in-story) is 430 times. Naru hit him the most at 172 times.
268	* NobodyPoops:
269	** Averted, as Keitaro once walked in on Naru in the bathroom. Needless to say it was not pretty for him.
270	** And let's not forget Naru suffering from diarrhea, as noted in the PottyEmergency below.
271	* NotBloodSiblings: Keitaro and Kanako (she's adopted). Unusually for this trope, Keitaro refuses to think of Kanako as anything other than his little sister (the same can't be said for her, though).
272	* NotWhatItLooksLike: About every few characters, Keitaro has an [[AccidentalPervert accident]] with a naked girl, usually involving a SuggestiveCollision, just as someone walks in on them and misunderstands the situation.
273	* OcularGushers: There are scenes with characters almost literally crying rivers, usually Keitaro.
274	* OldFashionedRowBoatDate: Keitaro and Mutsumi ended up in one (supposedly), and it was ''definitely'' perceived that way by Naru, who snatched a boat of her own, and turned the whole thing into a hilarious row boat chase instead.
275	* OneCastMemberPerCover: The New Edition has seven volumes with each featuring one girl from Keitaro's UnwantedHarem on the cover, except for the sixth volume where Sarah is with Mutsumi on the cover.
276	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Keitaro has a series of calamities at the University of Tokyo entrance ceremony that culminate with him being crushed by an onion dome, Mutsumi's permanent smile is wiped away and she actually goes into a HeroicBSOD.
277	* PaperFanOfDoom: Naru sometimes pulls out a paper fan to give a DopeSlap.
278	* ParentalAbandonment:
279	** In both the manga and anime, Shinobu is shown to have an extremely poor relationship with her parents. It's touched on more in the anime, where an entire episode is dedicated to it.
280	** Motoko seems to have shades of this as well.
281	** Keitaro himself is only at Hinata House because his parents were sick and tired of dealing with his failure and kicked him out.
282	* ThePeepingTom: A bored Kitsune, Shinobu, and Su in episode 13 drill three holes into Naru's room to spy on Keitaro trying to kiss a sleeping Naru, but he stops himself. Naru, apparently awake the whole time, responds with a [[MegaTonPunch punch]] to him, and then pokes her finger into each hole to punish the three girls for spying on her
283	* PhenotypeStereotype: Sarah, an American girl, is blonde with blue eyes.
284	* PoorCommunicationKills: A lot of the incidents in the series could have been avoided had the characters actually bothered to speak up and listen to each other more. But then it would not have been as funny.
285	* POVBoyPosterGirl: Keitaro and Naru respectively. In a lot of media, Naru is portrayed as the most prominent girl, either shown as the biggest character on the cover, or in the middle if the girls are all lined up.
286	* PottyEmergency: Naru had diarrhea on the trip to the desert but was unable to use the bathroom because Keitaro wanted to confess his love to her. Talk about bad timing.
287	* PowerPerversionPotential:
288	** An occasion has Keitaro and Kitsune sneak in the Naru room to discover her real feeling and use invisible tutes created by Su. The power potential is invoked by Keitaro and realized when Naru enter in the room and start to strip.
289	** Su later develops X-ray goggles that let her see through Kanako's disguises... and her clothes... ''and'' the clothes of whoever else's in her field of view.
290	* PracticeKiss: In one chapter, Shinobu is wondering about kissing and Su constructs a kissing robot for practice... which then went crazy and kissed Motoko.
291	* PrecociousCrush:
292	** Shinobu for Keitaro. At the beginning of story, Shinobu is 12 about to turn 13, Keitaro is 7 years older. [[spoiler:She never quite gets over it.]]
293	** Naru to Seta when he was her tutor. Even after he was out of her life for over two years, she was very much not over him; she immediately regressed to a squeeing junior high student upon seeing him again.
294	* PuppyDogEyes: Shinobu. Naru when she was younger.
295	* RedIsHeroic: Discussed about ''Literature/{{Journey to the West}}''.
296	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: You'd think with her incredible knack for gadgets and electronics that Suu could be making a fortune... unless... [[FridgeBrilliance so THAT'S how she gets all those]] [[TrademarkFavoriteFood bananas!]]
297	* RelationshipUpgrade: Takes a long time to happen, but it finally does between Keitaro and Naru.
298	* ResetButton: How many times has the inn been destroyed? Subverted in the anime where they go broke due to the amount of times they had to get the inn fixed.
299	* RobotGirl: The anime introduces Moe-chan, a French-made bisque automaton with the appearance of a little girl.
300	* {{Ronin}}:
301	** Keitaro and Mutsumi fail the entrace exam for the Tokyo University, thrice. Naru also fails the exam on her first try.
302	** It's used in a tongue-in-cheek manner when Motoko gets in the same situation during the timeskip:
303	--> '''Kitsune:''' ''(giggling)'' Imagine what Keitaro will think when he hears the samurai became a ronin...\
304	''(cue Motoko threatening to commit seppuku with a knife and Naru trying to stop her)''
305	* RPGEpisode: Episode 8 follows Motoko's dream of being stuck in a RPG game-like reality while everyone else at Hinata Inn is actually playing a RPG.
306	* RunningGag:
307	** When the AmusingInjuries go to the ''extreme'' (the first time being when he is thrown off of a terrifying and rocky cliff, only half played for comedy), GenreSavvy characters start remarking that Keitaro is [[{{Immortality}} immortal]]. After this turning point, the joke is used here and there throughout the rest of the series, usually in an offhand way.
308	** Su wants to eat Tama. Aside from the AccidentalPervert and subsequent beatings, this is probably the second most frequently used gag in the series.
309	* SacredFirstKiss: No surprise that Shinobu takes this seriously. More surprising that Motoko does.
310	* {{Samurai}}: Present-day Motoko, plus her sister Tsuruko.
311	** '''[[NinjaMaid Samurai Maid]]''': When Motoko is defeated by her sister and left with her sword and her honor broken, she decides to "live as a normal woman". What does she do? Snatch a spare maid outfit from Kitsune's closet, do the chores around the inn and give the other residents [[TrainingFromHell her own brand of discipline!]]
312	* SandBridgeAtLowTide: In the FestivalEpisode, Sarah and Su strand themselves on an island, where they are soon joined by a "shipwrecked" Kitsune. After a night of worrying how to get themselves rescued, help comes to them across a bridge of sand revealed by the tide.
313	** The same happened in the BeachEpisode, but to Naru, Keitaro, and Sarah. They spend the day on the island, until nightfall, when the tide lowers and they're able to walk across and make their way home.
314	* SceneryCensor: Usually played fairly subtly, but it's all over the place in the manga.
315	* SdrawkcabAlias: Of the syllabic variant. When Naru and Kanako are competing against each other in a fighting game at an arcade, Naru's character name is Luna, Kanako's Konaka (who's also totally a CaptainErsatz of [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ibuki]]).
316	* SealedEvilInACan:
317	** The Urashima family owns an heirloom katana that happens to be the vessel for a powerful demon that nearly obliterated all of Kyoto. The seal isn't particularly strong – simply drawing the sword will unleash the demon, allowing it to possess the wielder.
318	** The Youto Hina appears again in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' In Setsuna flashbacks recognizing it at Tsukuyomi's hands, Tsuruko says this. "This is the magic sword passed down in the East. Youto ‘Hina’. Today, this was lent to us by the East as a lesson." East or Kanto is where Hinata is at.
319	* SelfServingMemory: The first half of Episode 4, with Keitaro writing in his diary.
320	* {{Seppuku}}: At one point Motoko offers to help with the ritualized suicides of the {{Ronin}} who have not managed to get into the University of Tokyo. And after a failed attempt at femininity, she misinterprets one of Keitaro's comments as suggesting that she kill herself, and she asks Su to be her second. Thankfully she soon reverts to her normal self. [[SuicideAsComedy Something that makes]] [[GallowsHumor this dramatic scene hilarious]] is that Motoko is holding a sharpened knife near her abdomen: a "proper" woman would commit suicide by cutting open her jugular, as stated in the paragraphs above... so if she actually went through with it, [[FemininityFailure she would've failed at femininity]] ''[[FemininityFailure again]]''.
321	* SexySantaDress: The cover of the 4th volume of the manga, and the anime Christmas movie had the girls wear these.
322	* ShaggyDogStory: Anime only. The episode about the stolen rent money.
323	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: The "He Is not My Boyfriend" variant, a Naru speciality.
324	** She gets called on this trope by several characters when they wonder why Naru keeps saying that but then gets mad at him if any other girl tries to romance him. Shinobu and (especially) Kanako call her out on this.
325	* ShipperOnDeck:
326	** Tsuruko ships Keitaro/Motoko. Understandable, as [[spoiler:Motoko initially introduces Keitaro as her fiance in an attempt to avoid having to move back home]].
327	** Keitaro tries to do this with Naru and Seta. Fortunately for him, Seta doesn't see her that way, and instead [[EveryoneCanSeeIt points out the obvious.]] Then either Keitaro or Naru [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend will try to deny it.]]
328	** For all her forcing herself on him (drunk or otherwise, but mainly drunk), Kitsune honestly and openly ships Keitaro/Naru.
329	** Naru herself tries to do this towards Keitaro and Mutsumi in the manga, while her sister tries it in the anime. The scene where Naru is dressed up like a nerd while Mutsumi is wearing a pretty dress is the same in both versions, although Naru does this herself in the manga, while her sister does it in the anime.
330	** Hell, Mutsumi's been shipping Naru/Keitaro since childhood!
331	* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/LoveHina Has its page]].
332	* ShrinkingViolet: Shinobu. She grows out of it by the end[[spoiler:, and God help you if you cross her then.]]
333	* SnowMeansLove: The Christmas special, in which Naru and Keitaro spend a good deal of time wandering around feeling lonely. As well, it is snowing when Naru finds Keitaro after he ran off in an early episode of the series.
334	* StarvingStudent: A recurring subplot is Keitaro looking for a job to pay for his studies. Made worse in that he routinely loses money to the {{Pretty Freeloader}}s' hijinks (once Kitsune even gets him fired from a restaurant because she didn't want to pay the bill, and Keitaro, who was working as a waiter, didn't even have time to dig himself out of it).
335	* SpoiledBrat: Most of the Hina Apartment tenants fit into this sometimes. Naru and Motoko constantly throw temper tantrums and physically assault Keitaro if he so much as gives them constructive criticism (Naru even hit Keitaro for treating her to a meal at a Beef Bowl, instead of a fancy restaurant), Mitsune shamelessly helps herself to his checkbook to go joyriding and Su will blow him up with atomic weapons just for fun.
336	* StealthClothes: Keitaro wears the bandana-tied-under-the-nose getup when trying to move out of Hinata House without anyone noticing. It fails, but not in the common way (he is spotted, but he escapes and isn't recognized until Naru finds the report card he left behind).
337	* StoppedReadingTooSoon: In ''Love Hina Christmas Special: Silent Eve'', Su and Sara find Naru's letter to Keitaro and only bother to read one word in the middle of the page (love) before jumping to conclusions, setting off the whole miscommunication plot.
338	* StrippingSnag: In the final chapter Naru ends up getting stripped by [[AccidentalPervert Keitaro]] when he accidentally steps on the train of her wedding dress. None of the onlookers (barring newcomer [[LastEpisodeNewCharacter Ema]]) are shocked by this.
339	* SuicideAsComedy: Motoko invokes this trope sometimes in both the anime and the manga.
340	* SupportingHarem: Out of all the female characters, only Naru ever had any chance with Keitaro. Mutsumi was the only somewhat believable competition as a potential promise girl and even then, Keitaro made his choice pretty early on.
341	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "I... I don't want to explore every centimeter of my sister's glistening naked body!" [[SarcasmMode Sure you don't.]]
342	* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: The 10th volume was essentially about Kanako repeatedly subjecting the girls (even [[MisplacedRetribution Shinobu]]) to this for constantly abusing Keitaro.
343	* TeamPet: Tama, the flying Onsen Turtle that Mutsumi gives Keitaro. It becomes a pet to Hinata Inn as a whole.
344	* TenderTears: The ShrinkingViolet Shinobu tears up when she's upset or embarrassed.
345	* ThanksForTheMammary: Keitaro and his breast-and-booty-attracting hands. Not that he actively seeks them out. Either way, he gets the crap beaten out of him for his troubles.
346	* ThemeMusicAbandonment: Koichi Korenaga and Masaki Iwamoto's themes from the ''Love Hina'' TV series, as well as the Winter and Spring specials, weren't integrated into Shinkichi Mitsumune's score for ''Love Hina Again''.
347	* ThoseTwoGuys: Haitani and Shirai (Keitaro's {{Ronin}} friends). The trope is {{Lampshaded}} when neither Keitaro nor Naru (who both went to cram school with them) can remember their names after Volume 3.
348	* TookALevelInBadass: During his absence in Volume 10, Keitaro trained martial arts with Seta.
349	* TouchTheIntangible: The "Zanmaken" and "Zanmaken: Ni no Tachi" sword techniques can cut spirits and [[AntiMagic magic]].
350	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Su [[BigEater loves food in general]], but especially bananas. And Mutsumi loves watermelons (which may be a reference to her being the most buxom woman in the cast).
351	* TrainStationGoodbye: Done in an airport between Naru and Keitaro, when he was about to leave for USA with Seta. It's one of the most emotionally powerful moments in the series.
352	* TropeTrigger: Keitaro's {{accidental perver\|t}}sions always trigger a MegatonPunch.
353	* {{Tsundere}}: Naru and Motoko make up opposite sides of this coin. Motoko, with her aggressive attitude (particularly around men) embodies the tsuntsun, while the somewhat more soft-spoken Naru (who usually only goes ballistic around Keitaro) embodies the deredere.
354	* ATwinkleInTheSky: Keitaro when punched by Naru. Technically only in the anime, though he still flies absurd distances in the manga.
355	* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: [[spoiler:At end of the series before the epilogue, Keitaro shows Naru the TimeCapsule they and Mutsumi buried in the old sandbox, and one of the items inside is a sheet of paper with a drawing of an umbrella with Naru and Keitaro's names under it, with Mutsumi's name over to a smiling face next to it.]]
356	* UnknowinglyInLove: Subverted in a subplot. Motoko experiences strange feelings whenever she's around Keitaro, and is told by others that those feelings must be love. HilarityEnsues, until TheReveal that she was ''actually'' sick, and the feelings she was having were symptoms of the illness.
357	* UnresolvedSexualTension: By the truckload, though that's hardly unusual [[UnwantedHarem for the genre]].
358	* UnwantedHarem: By a third of the way through the series, Keitaro literally has beautiful girls throwing themselves at him. Problem is he's already made up his mind.
359	* WaterfallShower:
360	** During the trip Sara and Naru take one only to have Keitaro fall in on them.
361	** Later, lost on a desert island, upon finding an Oasis Naru takes one while making a Leaf Bikini.
362	* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Suu]], in an unusually literal sense.
363	* WebGames: A Flash game called "Love Hina Sim Date" was created by English speaking fans over on Newgrounds. It contained decent gameplay, but also [[ClusterFBomb a lot of out-of-character swearing]] and a few typos.
364	* WeddingFinale: The last two chapters of ''Manga/LoveHina'' covered Keitaro and Naru finally getting married, seen from the perspective of LastEpisodeNewCharacter Ema. [[spoiler: And since it's ''Love Hina'', there was one last moment of accidental perversion as they were leaving for their honeymoon.]]
365	* WeddingsInJapan: Keitaro and Naru's, and Haruka and Seta's, both Western-style.
366	* WeReallyDoCare: Keitaro and Naru go off on their own vacations separately but wind up together anyway. Everyone else in the house believes they're going to commit suicide together, and rush out to stop them. [[spoiler:They really weren't, obviously.]]
367	** Happens again in Volume 8, when Keitaro becomes so despondent after believing he failed the Tokyo U entrance exam ''again'' that he fled the country. Naru leaves to bring him back the second she finds out. The others leave a few days later when neither of them return.
368	* [[WhatTheHellHero What the Hell, Tsundere?]]: Kanako really reams Naru out for her treatment of Keitaro.
369	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Motoko and turtles. Tsuruko attempts to explain the reasons to Keitaro. He mutters that it ''still'' doesn't make any sense.
370	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Keitaro and Naru of course. No surprise considering this is a rom-com, especially since one half of the couple suffers from CannotSpitItOut for most of the series. Very late in the story, [[RelationshipUpgrade they resolve their differences]] and [[WeddingFinale at the end of the story, they get married]].
371	* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Nobody believes it when Keitaro actually ''succeeds'' at anything.
372	* WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter: Motoko and her ever-present bokken regularly accomplish feats that defy the laws of physics and nature.
373	* TheWorfEffect: Motoko is said to be an excellent swordswoman, but she loses to both her older sister and Seta, and even Keitaro sometimes. Her sword even got blocked barehanded by a turtle.
374	* WouldntHitAGirl: Keitaro almost gave Sarah a spanking in the manga when he was getting sick of her antics, claiming she "had it coming" – too bad he tried to do it IN PUBLIC and all Sarah had to do was scream loud enough to make him chicken out.
375	** WouldHitAGirl, though, when it comes to Kanako, because she's his sister, [[spoiler:adopted or not]].
376	-->'''Kanako:''' Why do only I have to get this treatment?! This isn't fair!
377	* YamatoNadeshiko: Motoko has the classic appearance but is too brash and aggressive to truly fit. Her older sister, Tsuruko, looks the part, is far calmer and more elegant, stopped actively practicing kendo to become a housewife, but is '''''not''''' someone to take lightly.
378	%%* {{Yandere}}: Kanako.
379	* YankTheDogsChain: Chapter 102 subverted the {{Tsundere}} dishing out a MegatonPunch, with Kanako countering it and [[LaserGuidedKarma dishing it back to Naru]]. Keitaro ended up [[ThrowTheDogABone coming out unscathed]]… but guess who had to pay for the resulting collateral damage?
380	* YouKnowWhatYouDid: The problem is that Keitaro ''doesn't'' always know. Sometimes he didn't even do anything.
381	%%* YouMustBeCold: Variant in the manga, with two females.
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