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Love Hina #3
Love Hina Omnibus 3
DOUBLE BLIND
Keitaro made a promise to a girl when he was a child - that they would grow up and attend Todai University together. It looks a lot like Naru is that girl - doesn't it? All of a sudden, it looks like it might be Mutsumi, not Naru, that Keitaro made his promise to. What's a poor boy to do? Set up two dates at the same time! Then, just when Keitaro thinks he's in the clear, he decides to take the entrace exams for the third time. Only this time, Mutsumi joins him along with Naru! Can they get in? Find out in this hilarious third collection of Love Hina!
This omnibus edition contains volumes 7, 8, and 9 of Love Hina!
Includes special extras after the story!
Keitaro made a promise to a girl when he was a child - that they would grow up and attend Todai University together. It looks a lot like Naru is that girl - doesn't it? All of a sudden, it looks like it might be Mutsumi, not Naru, that Keitaro made his promise to. What's a poor boy to do? Set up two dates at the same time! Then, just when Keitaro thinks he's in the clear, he decides to take the entrace exams for the third time. Only this time, Mutsumi joins him along with Naru! Can they get in? Find out in this hilarious third collection of Love Hina!
This omnibus edition contains volumes 7, 8, and 9 of Love Hina!
Includes special extras after the story!
576 pages, Paperback
First published April 17, 2012
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Ken Akamatsu
641 books231 followersKen Akamatsu (赤松 健, Akamatsu Ken, July 5, 1968 -) is a Japanese mangaka from Tokyo.
In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野 亜和, MIZUNO Awa). Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated.
After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina. The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect. The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking.
He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. He is currently working on his latest manga series, Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, which is his longest running manga so far. Like Love Hina, has also been made into an anime series. A second independent retelling of Negima was made called Negima!?. Both series were produced by XEBEC (Negima!? was produced by SHAFT).
In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野 亜和, MIZUNO Awa). Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated.
After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina. The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect. The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking.
He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. He is currently working on his latest manga series, Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, which is his longest running manga so far. Like Love Hina, has also been made into an anime series. A second independent retelling of Negima was made called Negima!?. Both series were produced by XEBEC (Negima!? was produced by SHAFT).
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March 6, 2021
Love Hina Omnibus, Vol. 3 (My Kindle Review)
The next three volumes definitely pack a lot of story and excitement, especially the middle volume. We also get more about some of the characters and plenty of romantic tension. Especially, Naru’s unusual superhuman strength.
Vol. 7 - A somewhat solid Christmas Eve when Keitaro believes that Mutsumi is the girl he made a promise to years ago and it puts him in a weird situation with Naru, and it only gets weirder when Mutsumi loses her apartment in a fire and ends up living with them at the Hinata. With the holidays over, he decides to get his head in the game and dongle down on his studies - for a while. A surprise date with Mutsumi is almost ruined by an easily jealous Naru. The shocking revelation about the promise made from the past is really interesting, but it could cost Keitaro his entrance exam.
Vol. 8 - This volume is an adventurous surprise when Keitaro believes he failed his exam for a fourth time and decides to venture to the sea and lands on an island where he meets a lost girl who reminds him of someone. Shocked by what he did, the girls go the island, but in different groups, after they discover that he did pass the test to tell him the big news and bring him back. All together now, they get caught in a wild desert adventure and manage to find a way home, but Naru catches a bit of sickness while Keitaro wants to tell his feelings for her.
Vol. 9 - An ecstatic Keitaro is thrilled that he’s finally going to Tokyo U, but unsurprisingly he ends up in an accident that gives him a broken leg and unable to attend for three months. With Naru away at Kyoto for a few days, Motoko gets a surprise visit from her older sister Ane-Ue, who saves Keitaro from an accident right before, who’s come to bring her home to take over the family dojo. However, she feels inferior compared to her sister and tries to stop it by claiming Keitaro as her future husband as a act that quickly dissolves. Feeling disgraced, Motoko tries to turn into a simple girl, but finds it hard and Keitaro decides to help when Ane-Ue challenges her to a duel that will determine her fate and their sisterhood, but thankfully it works out in the end. It looks like Shinobu wants to go to Tokyo U and Keitaro become her tutor, and while it doesn’t go well at first, she manages to become more confident as her feelings for him start to become a reality. The group discovers that Seta and Keitaro’s Aunt Haruka were something of an item years ago and try to see if can make up, but we also see that Haruka’s just as rough as Naru. A (100%/Outstanding)
The next three volumes definitely pack a lot of story and excitement, especially the middle volume. We also get more about some of the characters and plenty of romantic tension. Especially, Naru’s unusual superhuman strength.
Vol. 7 - A somewhat solid Christmas Eve when Keitaro believes that Mutsumi is the girl he made a promise to years ago and it puts him in a weird situation with Naru, and it only gets weirder when Mutsumi loses her apartment in a fire and ends up living with them at the Hinata. With the holidays over, he decides to get his head in the game and dongle down on his studies - for a while. A surprise date with Mutsumi is almost ruined by an easily jealous Naru. The shocking revelation about the promise made from the past is really interesting, but it could cost Keitaro his entrance exam.
Vol. 8 - This volume is an adventurous surprise when Keitaro believes he failed his exam for a fourth time and decides to venture to the sea and lands on an island where he meets a lost girl who reminds him of someone. Shocked by what he did, the girls go the island, but in different groups, after they discover that he did pass the test to tell him the big news and bring him back. All together now, they get caught in a wild desert adventure and manage to find a way home, but Naru catches a bit of sickness while Keitaro wants to tell his feelings for her.
Vol. 9 - An ecstatic Keitaro is thrilled that he’s finally going to Tokyo U, but unsurprisingly he ends up in an accident that gives him a broken leg and unable to attend for three months. With Naru away at Kyoto for a few days, Motoko gets a surprise visit from her older sister Ane-Ue, who saves Keitaro from an accident right before, who’s come to bring her home to take over the family dojo. However, she feels inferior compared to her sister and tries to stop it by claiming Keitaro as her future husband as a act that quickly dissolves. Feeling disgraced, Motoko tries to turn into a simple girl, but finds it hard and Keitaro decides to help when Ane-Ue challenges her to a duel that will determine her fate and their sisterhood, but thankfully it works out in the end. It looks like Shinobu wants to go to Tokyo U and Keitaro become her tutor, and while it doesn’t go well at first, she manages to become more confident as her feelings for him start to become a reality. The group discovers that Seta and Keitaro’s Aunt Haruka were something of an item years ago and try to see if can make up, but we also see that Haruka’s just as rough as Naru. A (100%/Outstanding)
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February 27, 2024I've tried for several years to finish this volume, and I'm finally calling it. This series will likely get DNF status because it's the same old gag time after time. The exact. Same. Gag. I'll skim the last volume to see how it ends, but that's all I need to know.
July 19, 2020
This was so fun to read! I really enjoyed seeing everything go up and don and sideways. It was as crazy and hilarious as ever, and lots of things happened! Overall, this omnibus was incredibly enjoyable, and I am happy to have read it! 5 stars.
Reread July 18th, 2020
This was awesome! Lots of fun, with great character development, fun antics, goals fulfilled, and surprises revealed. I liked seeing Motoko, Shinobu, and Haruka getting fleshed out and developed. It was really nice. We also saw some development between our main couple, which was fun. All in all, perhaps my favorite omnibus of the series. Certainly of the first three.
Reread July 18th, 2020
This was awesome! Lots of fun, with great character development, fun antics, goals fulfilled, and surprises revealed. I liked seeing Motoko, Shinobu, and Haruka getting fleshed out and developed. It was really nice. We also saw some development between our main couple, which was fun. All in all, perhaps my favorite omnibus of the series. Certainly of the first three.
June 26, 2021
Still a fair few dodgy scenes, but the outrageous violence perpetrated upon the hapless hero gets funnier with repetition. This omnibus sees them all travel to Easter Island where as well as the usual hijinks they encounter a civilisation of giant turtles. The fantastical stuff is fun, the artists' prurient interest in underage girls not so much.
June 24, 2020
I really love this series
I love seeing all the antics. Such fun times. Makes me sad in a way, to think back, WAY back, to when I was in my late teens & early 20's, & think about all the exciting adventures my friends & I had. Art, rough, but good. Dialogue, good, but too many SFX. Characters, believable, relatable, & adorable. This has really been a fun time.
I love seeing all the antics. Such fun times. Makes me sad in a way, to think back, WAY back, to when I was in my late teens & early 20's, & think about all the exciting adventures my friends & I had. Art, rough, but good. Dialogue, good, but too many SFX. Characters, believable, relatable, & adorable. This has really been a fun time.
August 6, 2021
Silly fun, a good bit of humor and fan service as well. The trio finally makes it into Todai, and we learn that the promise made may not be quite what Keitaro thought, and we get a confession as well! I'm kinda hoping it takes a slightly more serious tone in the last bit, but it's still fun as is.
January 8, 2023
O volume 3 do Omnibus começa muito bem e continua desenvolvendo a história do mangá.
Curioso para ver o desenvolvimento a partir das revelações no volume 8.
Curioso para ver o desenvolvimento a partir das revelações no volume 8.
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