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4.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing like Love Hina!, January 12, 2006
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Ai Yori Aoshi, Vol. 5 (Paperback)
I'm tired of people comparing Ai yori Aoshi to Love Hina! Those two manga have barely anything in common!
Let me break it down like this, Ai yori aoshi is a romantic story, whereas Love hina is just plain perverted!
People like to say that Ai yori aoshi is like Love hina, but that's totally false! Ai yori aoshi is a nice, romantic, and heart warming story of two child hood friends that were aranged to be married, but their engagement was broken off. They reunite years later and end up falling in love, and the rest is all about them having to hide their love for each other until their engagement can be reinstated. (Well, there is a little more to the story than that, but if you dont already know that then you should be looking at volume 1.)
In Love hina, the main charecter, "Kei" is trying to get to Tokyo University because his old child hood sweetheart who was moving away told him to meet her there when he was old enough. Well, it turns out that he's not smart enough to get into Tokyo University, so he's been going to a prep school to get smarter. Long story short, he ends up going to his grandma's hotel, (which turns out to be a girls dorm) takes a bath, a girl walks in, and everyone thinks he's a pervert. He ends up getting the deed to the place from his grandma and becomes the land lord, all of the girls despretly try to get him to leave by over working him, and he eventually finds out that the girl he saw naked, "Naru" just might be his child hood sweetheart.
That doesn't sound very much like Ai yori aoshi to me...
Anyway... Besides just the story being different, the content is also very different! Love hina is full of inapropriate jokes and things like that. Kei continues to accidently see the girls naked, and all of the girls hate him for it! They see Kei as a pervert, and are never nice to him.
In Ai yori aoshi, the main charecter "Kaoru" has never really see any of the girls naked, and he is by no means a pervert.
Whoever says that Ai yori aoshi and Love hina are alike obviously hasn't read both books like I have, because they're totally different from each other!
To close, Ai yori aoshi is a romantic story, with maybe a few misplaced jokes and nudity. But Love hina on the other hand is just a stupid and inappropriate story, and I never found even one moment of it to be at all romantic.
Fyi: Ai yori aoshi, traslates to, "True blue love" and it can also be translated to, "Bluer than indigo"
To who it may concern, I'm not really a kid, I'm 19 years old.
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LOVE HOTEL ENCOUNTERS, January 23, 2005
This review is from: Ai Yori Aoshi, Vol. 5 (Paperback)
Kaoru and Tina end up going to the zoo on their own, but due to a violent rainstorm, they miss their train to get back home. To pass the time, they enter a place called Animour, thinking that its a karaoke and arcade. To their surprise, they find out that it's really a love hotel! What will Aoi think of Kaoru if she finds out they stayed overnight there? On top of this, the spoiled rich girl, Mayu, gets a job as a maid in Aoi's house to learn how to cook for her future husband, Kaoru!
As usual, Ai Yori Aoshi continues its charming tale of love with a lot of humor inflected into it. With the addition of Mayu into the Aoi household, this series is dangerously close to entering Love Hina harem comedy. It would be unfortunate if it continues down that road.
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