Love Hina

*SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES*

:D

It's over. I am thrilled with the ending. It in a way felt a little abrupt, I mean, when I hit it I was expecting another chapter (also because there were a good bunch more pages left in the manga, that ended up being a lot of sketches and stuff and then the epilogue.) It's still a good ending though. It kinda makes me sad. The way it ends, you really want to see how Keitaro and Naru do at Tokyo U now that they're both finally there, together, as a couple. They're such a great pair, and there's just so much you could follow through with them. I really wish that it were a longer series. I love these characters too much :x

The epilogue was great. Seeing the group four years later was wonderful. Shinobu grew up to be so cute :3 and Keitaro became a Seta incarnate :D. I loved seeing that, he works so well as someone like Seta. I would've loved to have read more with him acting like Seta. The epilogue didn't add a lot to the story but it let you look at the characters years later (and it confirmed that Keitaro and Naru got married, yay :D) and it was a great closer to the series. I am very very pleased with how things turned out.

Best volumes in the series were 12 and 14. 12 because of the KICKASS last chapter, where Naru confesses her love with such emotion and then kisses Keitaro like there's no tomorrow. I had a smile plastered on my face that I could not get off. It was wonderful. The high point of the series. 14 worked as an excellent closer. It felt a little frustrating since it went back to Naru being unsure, but it made amends and it ended the story well. And with smiles :D the final chapter is lovely. It just makes you so happy for the characters. Go Keitaro and Naru!! >:3

Easily this is one of my better manga reads. I'd place it as tied being my second favourite manga (tied with NHK), just behind Ai-Ren. I wish it would continue.

It will though, in anime form! After I finish up Lucky Star and NHK I'm considering tackling Love Hina the anime. My only concern is that it's apparently quite a bit worse than the manga, and it apparently cuts a lot of content (with 24 eps covering 14 vols of manga, it'd have to.) Hopefully it won't be a massive let down. Looking forward to it just the same :D