estacado06479 Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 ummm, i watched love hina a while back, i thought it was pretty good, until the extra episodes, with urashima's "sister" last week, i started reading the manga... if you have read it, or are interested, post away. personally, i get a little nervous with things that i wouldnt be comfortable explaining to my girlfriend why i'm watching it, and this is one of those times but i do like the idea of an expanded hina story, i wonder why they didnt include some of the plot points from teh manga in the anime, not the echi stuff, but the meat of the story Quote
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 I always perrfered the manga too the anime. Longer story. Plus you don't have to listen to that terriable annoying english dubb! <_ Quote
azrael Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Manga was much better than the anime. Until volume 12/13...it dragged then. But the manga for LH was much better. Quote
eriku Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 I started to read the manga, and thouroughly enjoyed what I read, but I decided I didn't want to make the financial commitment to the whole series. For $10 a pop I can think of a lot of other things that I'd rather spend the money on. Quote
Lindem Herz Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Go manga. The anime is good, but the manga is a LOT better. Although I tend to disregard the existence of Volume 14 (except for the last two chapters) and consider Volume 13 more as a Seta/Haruka side-story (after all, they are the Roy and Claudia of the LH universe. kinda.). And do yourself a favor and completely forget that there are OAVs out there. Love Hina Again is good ONLY for the opening/ending songs and character design (probably the weakest point of the tv series, at least when you talk about Motoko ) BTW, there IS a place in the net when you can find the ENTIRE manga scalations, and it's pretty easy to find it. That is, if you're not in a country where it has been licenced (Japan, China, Europe or USA, AFAIK)... Quote
Lynx7725 Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 To be honest, the Love Hina manga went on just a tad too long.. the storylines towards the end became a bit boring. Quote
Guppy Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 I LMAO at the anime, but yes, it did go for too long. By the time I saw the post series specials ie, the holiday and xmas special etc I wasn't laughing so much. Quote
Anubis Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 The anime was pretty good, but the manga expanded things much better, ended quite well. There were a lot of things I read in there that I now miss not having in the show. Where the Spring Special ended for instance, the manga kept going to show exactly how they got home. Good stuff. I enjoyed both, but the manga definately gets the nod. Quote
Dangard Ace Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Too bad TokyoPop's translation during the last few volumes....were not "100% authentic manga"! I still love the show but the manga has a better laid out story. Quote
MrDisco Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 i wish LH manga went longer. i simply love Ken's art and humour. here's to his upcoming 2 other manga series coming out from TP. Quote
Yohsho Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Love hina Manga > Anime Couldn't have said it better. IIRC Ken Akamatsu wanted to finish the story around vol 10? or so of the manga, but the publishers wanted more. So it went on. Quote
estacado06479 Posted September 23, 2003 Author Posted September 23, 2003 BTW, there IS a place in the net when you can find the ENTIRE manga scalations, and it's pretty easy to find it. That is, if you're not in a country where it has been licenced (Japan, China, Europe or USA, AFAIK)... im in the workforce, but i dont have alot of fundage, gotta save it for special projects oh and, this thread wasnt to decide between which, as some are thinking, it was to say, wtf to the amount of stuff in the manga that didnt make it into the anime, it would have been right next to la blue girl at suncoast... Quote
Abombz!! Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Plus you don't have to listen to that terriable annoying english dubb! You never have to listen to a dubb.... its your choice to listen to it or not, so stop complaining about it. As for the Manga... those who actually enjoy reading it... I would suggest picking up the bilingual Japanese manga. I'm not sure if it was ever finished (I heard something about the publisher dropping it because ppl were using it for the wrong reasons, go figure), but it was meant for students who were learning english... so the translation is extremely literal, unlike anything you will ever find in the US. Quote
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted September 24, 2003 Posted September 24, 2003 (edited) Plus you don't have to listen to that terriable annoying english dubb! You never have to listen to a dubb.... its your choice to listen to it or not, so stop complaining about it. Oh be queit! Edited September 24, 2003 by SkullLeaderVF-X Quote
HG Blows Posted September 24, 2003 Posted September 24, 2003 They should of just ended LHA like the manga. Can we get some damn closure in an anime for once? Quote
Lindem Herz Posted September 24, 2003 Posted September 24, 2003 If you ask me, there shouldn't have been a LHA in the first place. There was enough material there to make a second TV series season, and I know that me, and a couple of hundread other LH fans out there would have prefered the extended story (and more Naru, or Motoko, or whoever you want) than the prettier animation (well, except for the character designs , although I was watching it for the story rather than for the T&A). Man even if they used the same basis of LHA, Vol 9 to 12, there would have been even some more story to make a movie or a rightly done OVA from the last two volumes. Too bad they chose the quick buck. <_< Quote
mpchi Posted September 30, 2003 Posted September 30, 2003 Love Hina manga has hentai/ecchi stuff? Really? Can someone help clarify a bit since I don't know much about the Love Hina series? I always thought it was a popular love comedy, and thought of checking that out with my girlfriend someday to introduce her to more anime fun. But if it has explicit hentai stuff in it (someone even said its like La Blue Girl <_< ), I guess I'll have to pass. That really surprised me Quote
Dangard Ace Posted September 30, 2003 Posted September 30, 2003 NOT like LaBlue Girl. Every once in awhile you'll see some T&A but that's because the setting is at Hinata Inn, which is famous for it's hotsprings. That and the hotel manager(guy) has the hots for one of the girls and always somehow manages to catch her at an...inappropriate time. Quote
estacado06479 Posted October 1, 2003 Author Posted October 1, 2003 no, i said that if they put everything from the manga into the anime, it would be in the adult section because they are nekkid the the hotsprings instead of toweled, with their chooch and stuff out, y'know? so no, it isnt hentai, but it would be adult with all the manga content in there Quote
rnurmin Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 I'm just trying to understand the difference between the anime and the manga here. In the anime series, does LV end at the Love Hina again or there is more extra episodes after that? I dislike the Love Hina Again since the anime drawings become worse compare to the original anime. What's the difference in the manga story? How many pages does each book have? I might need to pick up some of them. Quote
Anubis Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 The manga goes past Love Hina Again all the way up to a couple of weddings. Quote
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