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Mitsune Konno's nickmame, "Kitsune" means "fox" in Japanese. Her nickname reflects her cunning and mischievous personality.
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Mitsune speaks in the Osaka (a city south of Tokyo) dialect. Her personality reflects what the Japanese think of people from Osaka: carefree and pre-occupied with money.
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Keitaro Urashima's name is a reference to the title of the Japanese fairy tale, "Urashima Taro."
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Mutsumi Otohime's name is a reference to the Sea Princess (named Otohime) that Urashima Taro met in the story. Her pet turtle, Onsen Tamago (literally "hot spring egg") is also a Urashima Taro reference.
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Is one of the earliest anime titles to be entirely colored on computer. The animators still made their drawings by hand, but they are scanned and colored with computers.
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Onsen Tamago, the turtle, is named after a type of Japanese snack. It consists of eggs that were soft-boiled in a hot spring. The name literally translates to "hot springs eggs".
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In Episode 8, "The Legend of the Hot Springs Turtle", the twin Mutsumi fairies sing to summon a giant Tama-chan. This is a parody of a scene in Mothra, in which a pair of twin fairies sing a song to summon Mothra.
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The Hinata Apartments, and many of the locations shown in the series, are real places, reproduced quite accurately in the animation.
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Toudai is an abbreviation of "Tokyo Daigaku" (Tokyo University). It is one of six traditional colleges in Tokyo, and is considered the most prestigious school in all of Japan.
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When Motoko carves a wooden figure with her sword in episode 5, she says, "I have cut a worthless object." This is the catchphrase of Geomon Ishikawa from Rupan sansei.
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Both the opening theme song ("Sakura Saku" / "Cherry Blossoms Blooming") and the closing theme song ("Kimi Sae Ireba" / "If You Were Here") are performed by Megumi Hayashibara, who also plays Haruka Urashima in the series.
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In Episode 16, Naru switches roles with Keitaro during the Son Goku play, and dons a very skimpy costume. Her attire closely resembles the slave girl outfit Princess Leia wore in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, complete with the chains, collar, and leash.
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The character "Akamatsu" who appears in both the "Love Hina Christmas Movie" and the "Love Hina Spring Movie" is in fact Ken Akamatsu, author of the original manga, a fact that both he and some of the Hinata girls make reference to in the latter film.
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According to original manga creator Ken Akamatsu, he said that "Love Hina" was inspired by his experience of getting into college.
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According to author Ken Akamatsu, the four beast-gods of ancient Japanese myth appear in Love Hina in the form of the various pets: Genbu is Onsen Tamago, the hot springs turtle; Byakko is Kuro, Kanako's cat; Suzaku is Shippu, the mysterious bird owned by Tsuroko (Motoko's elder sister); and Seiryuu is the iguana owned by Ema Maeda (a manga-only character).
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There is a 25th episode to the series - the first episode made for a cancelled second season - which can be found on the North American release DVD of the "Love Hina Christmas Move".
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Much of the more risqué elements of the original manga (i.e., fan-service) were toned-down considerably for the TV series, with the exception of the unaired 25th episode.
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In one episode, Keitaro and the Hinata House girls perform a play based on the old legend Journey to the West. This legend inspired the Dragon Ball anime/manga series. Additionally, the voice actor for Goku in Dragon Ball, Masako Nozawa, is the voice of Granny Hina in the series.
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Motoko is based on elements from Rumiko Takahashi's series, "Inuyasha" (2000). Her sword attacks are inspired directly by those Inuyasha himself used, while her appearance was taken from Kikyo of that series.
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As with many animes based on a manga, "filler" episodes that weren't in the original manga were added in to make the series longer.
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In the early sketches for what would become the Love Hina manga/anime series, Naru was known as Midori, and lacked the "hair antenna" she would become well-known for.
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