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[Gyvulys624 (#126241)]

 It's a sad thing

[LoStSouLs (#17272)]

No its mostly because there are better romance comedys out there. Love hina was okay for its time, but it had no storyline to it mostly. Every episode was just crazyness happening. The only good thing about the whole love hina experience to me was the christmas special oav and the special ep on the disc.

You want a romance show that you can trully interact with the characters. Watch the new series called Romeo x Juliet. You want an older series watch Ai yori Aioshi. You want one that is as comedy driven as love hina. watch kare kano aka his and hers circumstance, or world of narue.

[Veleon (#124559)]

To each his own. But most people are gonna tend to agree with Lost for the reasons he put. I really enjoyed Love Hina. Although, it was ther first romance anime I saw. When i first saw it, it was a story that really touched me. It was a story about how some loser, can land the girl of his dreams. But after watching other animes, most people tend to dislike the loveable losers. You'd have a hard time trying to find someone as pitiful as Keitarou. (No offence to anyone who took three years to get into college.) I prefer certain other animes because i can relate to the main character in those. For example Ai Yori Aoshi's Kaoru, is probably the best example of a male lead, who doesn't irritate people. He isn't an idoit, he isn't indecisive, he knows what he wants, and on top of that he is kindto eeryone around him. Heck, Kaoru was one of the only male leads i wasn't screaming "WTF ARE YOU DOING, AREN'T HER INTENTIONS KINDA OBVIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the tv screen.

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

Re: It's a sad thing

[Vortex (#130619)]

love hina was great what are you talking about? its a classic of classical anime.. its what got me into anime and still remains my fav... sadly... they never actually finished it... there was meant to be 5 more episodes

[Slayer (#119568)]

[Vortex (#130619)]

ive watched well the crappy anime aka pokemon/digimon

and some great anime
chobits, hack sign, excel saga, Ai Yori Aoshi, love hina, card captors and a fair few others

[Slayer (#119568)]

[Rosepetals (#42525)]

One thing I'm going to say about Love Hina is that it's a gateway series into anime for many people. That said it isn't a horrible series, but for me, I guess you guys know I didn't like the anime adaptation as much. Pretty much Ken and LoSt said everything in the earlier posts that I felt about the series.

Technically, this thread is old...but not so old it can't spurn some discussion.

I don't think the series vortex mentioned are necessarily bad. Those are a lot of popular "gateway" anime series. There are a lot of people who call excel saga great, and others who call it crap (I haven't seen excel saga, but I just had one of my good friends, who I had an 1 hr+ long conversation with a few days ago- had no idea he watched anime) who recommended the series to me.

Ai Yori Aoshi is good, Card Captor Sakura (not Cardcaptors, because the english version is botched) is good. But take into consideration these are all just opinions, and people have a different way of enjoying certain series than others do.

Some could argue the same thing for Tenchi Muyo, Chobits, Gundam Wing, etc. They were gateway series for a lot of people. Sailor Moon was my gateway series, and I still think it's fun. In terms of age, there are a lot better series out there than SM, but since it's among your first, sometimes you don't give it as much objective leverage (or maybe you do, depends on your own preferences).

[Cataphract (#94516)]

I think many of the gateway series are those popularized and dubbed in the US; I picked up anime at a very young age with Sailor Moon/DBZ/etc every day on Cartoon Network. The ones you mentioned Vortex all fall under that category to some extent.

When I first watched Love Hina, I thought the series was fantastic and didn't understand why so many people had gripes with it. I couldn't sit through it now for the life of me, save for the 3rd? episode if I recall correctly or the Christmas Special. Once you've expanded your anime horizons, Love Hina just loses its appeal, since it's the archetype for many modern harems which never really turn out that great. Those that do tend not to follow the Love Hina concept too directly.

As for Excel Saga, I've said it before, but it's entirely dependent on your humor. I must say, though, that my Physics professor is a native-born Japanese guy who lived there for the first 20 years of his life, and when I told him about Pedro (the immigrant Mexican worker to Japan with Spanish-accented Japanese) he was on the floor for a good minute.

Anyway, until I got a decent internet connection many years back and discovered fansubbed anime, my anime tastes were narrow/limited and I thought the gateway series were good. Once I got exposure to series like Escaflowne/Trigun, however, my perspective changed, and I think that's how many dedicated anime viewers feel as well.

[Vortex (#130619)]

I remember watching sailor moon for awhile and dbz.. but i never liked them.. SM had too much random stuff going on from the episodes i saw and DBZ was just constant fighting which was rather boring.

[chihuadog (#3254)]

Honestly there was no way I would sit through a single episode of love hina if i wasn't a fan of the manga. really, the anime doesn't do the manga any justice.. the anime is just "silly" for a lack of better words.. i mean WTF, it has all this crazyness that was never in the manga.. flying turtles??

DBZ is still the most overrated anime of all time though. Again,the manga was awesome and had some intensity/suspense to it, but the anime was just repeating/recycling the same frames for 10-20 episodes straight.. all these guys boasting about their power levels and dragging out their battle for episode after episode.. the anime was pure trash. the manga never recycled any pages nor drag out battles needlessly, so really.. who was the moron who overlooked the anime for DBZ?