Product Details

• Actors: Yu Asakawa, Megumi Hayashibara, Yui Horie, Yumiko Kobayashi, Masayo Kurata
• Directors: Wendee Lee, Masakazu Hashida, Kiyotaka Isako, Yoshiaki Iwasaki, Toshinori Narita
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006JMPV
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,576 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Love Hina, Volume 5: Summer by the Sea (Episodes 17-20)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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The plot of this popular slapstick romance veers into the supernatural as the summer ends. The gang from the Hinata Apartments prepares to leave the seashore and resume their studies when Naru is possessed by the ghost of a woman who drowned years earlier. Motoko uses her training in martial arts and Shinto exorcism to defeat the spirit. Kaolla Su, who has the unnerving habit of metamorphosing into an older version of herself, is joined by her brother, who looks like a handsomer version of Keitaro. The resemblance between everyone's favorite loser and Crown Prince Lamba Lu produces foreseeable complications. The disc concludes on an wistful note, when the characters stumble into an unused part of the building and find Moé, a century-old automaton. She mistakes Keitaro for his great-grandfather, suggesting an ill-starred romance decades earlier. (Rated 13 and older: comic violence, risqué humor, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mutsumi goodness returns..., January 3, 2003

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Aozame (In the Trees) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Hina, Volume 5: Summer by the Sea (Episodes 17-20) (DVD)

(There's a reason I call myself Mutsumi Otaku, you know)
Mutsumi appears for real this time in the last two episodes on the disc, so I am very fond of this. Mutsumi is my favorite character, and the more I see of her the better!

The first episode involves Naru getting possessed by an evil spirit and Motoko learning her school's ultimate technique. The episode after that has everyone going to a yukata festival. Haruka and Seta seem to know each other quite well (in the manga, the two were once dating, but the anime is unclear on this) and Shirai seems to be a little too interested in Haruka. Naru goes to the festival with a clueless Seta (The guy makes ME look socially adept sometimes), and Keitaro ends up taking Shinobu (who looks even cuter than usual in her yukata) to the festival, which makes Naru angry.

In the next episode, everyone has gone back to the Hinata Apartments, and Kaolla's brother Lamba Lu shows up to marry Kaolla! She is less than willing to do this, and the residents end up finding and bringing Amalla Su to the Apartments. Amalla's apartment and Mutsumi's were connected, so Naru finds Mutsumi when she finds Amalla and Mutsumi tags along back to the Apartments. There is much bizarreness, and all the girls end up dressed in the wedding dresses of Kaolla's country (including Mutsumi, who looks really good like that). The last episode involves a doll named Moe who has come to life after being in the possession of the Urashima family since Keitaro's great-grandfather bought her. (Incidentally, Haruka is Keitaro's cousin, not his aunt. The word for aunt in the Japanese version can also mean "old woman" which is how Keitaro uses it.) Keitaro, Mutsumi, and eventually Naru can all hear Moe speaking to them, even though no one else can (Sara theorizes that only those who have failed their exams can hear the doll).

In short, this one is very good. If Mutsumi were in it even more it would be even better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Spoiler simple review, February 9, 2003

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Amused - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Hina, Volume 5: Summer by the Sea (Episodes 17-20) (DVD)

Are you into cute dramas that moves you and makes you laugh? Then Love Hina is IT. This is truly one of the most popular anime hits in America because it delivers these themes exceptionally well. It's a very cute story, has great laughs, good character development, and by the end you'll fall in love with all the characters. Definitely a must watch for those that are into this genre.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE IT!, December 29, 2002

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hotarutomoe (Monroe, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Hina, Volume 5: Summer by the Sea (Episodes 17-20) (DVD)

This was one of the best dvds so far. I enjoyed every minute of it. I am glad that I will be able to see all 25 of the Love Hina episodes, plus the Christmas Movie, and other movies. I hope you buy this dvd, because I know I love it!