Love Hina Again (2002) (V)

Director:

Yoshiaki Iwasaki

Writers:

Ken Akamatsu (manga)
Shô Aikawa (segment)
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Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Short

Plot:

Keitaro, Naru, and all their friends are back in an animated series based after both the specials. Keitaro's still trying to get Naru...

Plot Keywords:

Shampoo | Anime | Fan Service | Brother Sister Relationship | Stepsister

Cast

Yûji Ueda	...	Keitarou Urashima (voice)
Yui Horie	...	Naru Narusegawa (voice)
Satsuki Yukino	...	Mutsumi Otohime (voice)
Masayo Kurata	...	Shinobu Maehara (voice)
Junko Noda	...	Mitsune 'Kitsune' Konno (voice)
Yu Asakawa	...	Motoko Aoyama (voice)
Reiko Takagi	...	Kaolla Su (voice)
Yumiko Kobayashi	...	Sarah McDougal (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara	...	Haruka Urashima (voice)
Natsuko Kuwatani	...	Kanako Urashima (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steve Areno	...	Kentaro Sakata (voice: English version)
Steve Blum	...	Masayuki Haitani (voice: English version) (as David Lucas)
Mari Devon	...	Haruka Urashima (voice: English version) (as Jane Alan)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn	...	Naru Narusegawa (voice: English version) (as Annie Pastrano)
Melissa Fahn	...	Kanako Urashima (voice: English version) (as Tina Dixon)
Rebecca Forstadt	...	Mei Narusegawa (voice: English version)
Sandy Fox	...	Kuro / Student / Moe (voice: English version)
Barbara Goodson	...	Mitsune 'Kitsune' Konno (voice: English version)
Bridget Hoffman	...	Shinobu Maehara (voice: English version) (as Ellen Wilkinson)
Gene Holliday	...	Kimiaki Shirai (voice: English version)
Wendee Lee	...	Kaolla Su / Tama (voice: English version)
Julie Maddalena	...	Sarah MacDougal / Girl (voice: English version)
Mona Marshall	...	Motoko Aoyama (voice: English version)
Yasunori Matsumoto	...	Seta Noriyasu (voice)
Michio Miyashita	...	Kimiaki Shirai (voice)
Ryôtarô Okiayu	...	Kentarou Sakata (voice)
Derek Stephen Prince	...	Keitaro Urashima (voice: English version)
Yuri Shiratori	...	Mei Narusegawa (voice)
Julie Ann Taylor	...	Mutsumi Otohime (voice: English version)
Kirk Thornton	...	Noriyasu Seta / Teacher (voice: English version) (as Ron Allen)
Hiroyuki Yoshino	...	Masayuki Haitani (voice)

Directed by
Yoshiaki Iwasaki

Writing credits
Ken Akamatsu		(manga)
Shô Aikawa		segment "Kanako" (as Kurou Hazuki) and
Shô Aikawa		segment "Keitaro" (as Kurou Hazuki) and
Shô Aikawa		segment "Naru" (as Kurou Hazuki)

Produced by
Atsushi Moriyama	....	producer
Maki Terashima-Furuta	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Shinkichi Mitsumune

Art Direction by
Chitose Asakura
Hachidai Takayama

Art Department
Yoshiaki Iwasaki	....	storyboard artist
Meijyu Maeda	....	cover illustration

Sound Department
Wendee Lee	....	adr director

Animation Department
Shingo Adachi	....	animator
Shigemi Aoyagi	....	animator
Tadashi Fukuda	....	animator
Nobuyoshi Habara	....	animator
Takehiro Hamatsu	....	animator
Takashi Hirabayashi	....	animator
Takafumi Hoshikawa	....	animator
Haruko Iizuka	....	animator
Hiroshi Imano	....	animator
Michiru Ishihara	....	animator
Shinryô Ishikawa	....	animator
Hiroshi Itô	....	animator
Makoto Itô	....	animator
Shin'ichirô Kajiura	....	animator
Hatsue Kato	....	animator
Masayuki Katô	....	animator
Masakazu Kawazoe	....	animator
Won-hoe Kim	....	animator
Tetsuya Koshizaki	....	animator
Meijyu Maeda	....	animation director
Meijyu Maeda	....	character designer
Takashi Maruyama	....	animator
Hisao Matsumura	....	animator
Toshihiro Nakajima	....	animator
Hiroki Noguchi	....	animator
Kayo Nomichi	....	animator
Hiroyuki Notake	....	animator
Tadashi Sakazaki	....	animator
Takashi Sasaki	....	animator
Masahiro Satô	....	animator
Masahiro Sekiguchi	....	animator
Kaori Takahashi	....	animator
Akio Takami	....	animator
Seiki Tanaka	....	animator
Takenori Tsukuma	....	animator
Minoru Ueda	....	animator
Makoto Uno	....	animator
Tatsuya Urano	....	animator
Hideki Watanabe	....	animator
Tôru Watanabe	....	animator
Hiroshi Yamamoto	....	animator
Masahide Yanagisawa	....	animator
Tôru Yoshida	....	animator

Production Companies

• Production I.G.
• Xebec

Distributors

• Star Child Recording

Other Companies

• Production I.G.  animation supervision
• TV Tokyo  television airing
• Xebec  animation

Runtime:

Japan:30 min (3 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:15 | Australia:M | New Zealand:M | Germany:12 | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (video rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) (VHS/DVD rating)

Company:

Production I.G.

Trivia:

In the movie, the blade Motoko uses is not her usual polished steel Katana, but instead a very dark colored blade. Closer inspection of the sword's hilt reveals it is the Cursed Blade of Hina from the previously unreleased 25th Episode of the Love Hina TV series (this episode can now be found on the Love Hina Christmas Movie DVD). In Episode 25, it is revealed that her blade was broken in a duel with her older sister, but Keitaro gives her the cursed blade. Assumedly, Motoko kept the sword as her own since it appears in the movie.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Keitaro Urashima:I am Keitaro Urashima... an applicant to Tokyo-U. Studying away after three failures. Still believing the promise that a couple who love each other can find happiness once they make it in.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Anime Abandon: Tenchi Muyo in Love (#3.3)" (2013)

A very good sequel to an incredible tv-series...

Two years after the creation of Love-Hina (the first real anime I have ever seen) Love Hina comes to remind us of the best elements of Love Hina. Incredible animation, beautiful music, an interesting plot and of course a lot of laughs!

The story begins at Toudai, the famous university that Keitaro and Naru kept trying for them to be accepted as students. But on the first day Keitaro breaks his leg (with a little help of his friends...) causing him to loose 3 months. After a visit to his home, he decides to follow Seta in archeological site excavations, leaving Naru troubled about his actions. The reason is that (yes) nothing really happened between them all this time (in other words, they are still not a couple...). Things get really complicated when Keitaro's little sister comes in search of her brother. But she is not really his sister and her views of Keitaro are rather ...complicated. This, of course, makes life difficult in Hinata Inn, especially for Naru...

Love Hina is a very good continuation of Love Hina, even though Keitaro is not really the main character but the character that Naru and Kanako fight for (and yes, I know how this sounds...). It's theme is rather a bit more sexual than the original series and to be honest this was a bit of alienating for me in the first place, but I guess it won't bother most of the people. I strongly recommend the series for the funs of Love Hina! They will just love it!