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
• Subtitles: English
• 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: March 2, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001DCY50
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,458 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Love Hina, Volume 2: Go West! (Episodes 5-8)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

After Keitaro and Naru fail the entrance exam for prestigious Tokyo University--she for the first time, he for the third--they set off independently for Kyoto to think about life. They meet on the train after breaking their glasses, fail to recognize each other, and become fast friends--until an optometrist resets their lenses. The recognition scene feels improbable, even by cartoon standards, but their new friendship suggests future complications for this popular romantic comedy. The stand-out episode on the collection is the very funny "Kendo Girl": man-hating martial artist Motoko dreams herself into an old video game that spoofs Sailor Moon, El Hazard, and other anime series. The Dragon Palace and giant turtle are references to the Japanese folk tale "Urashima Taro," which plays off Keitaro's last name, Urashima--jokes American viewers may not catch. Rated 13 Up: Comic violence, risqué humor, tobacco use. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great followup to the first disc, April 25, 2002

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Steven Myers (SF Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Hina, Volume 2: Go West! (Episodes 5-8) (DVD)

This is the second disc (of 6) of Love Hina, containing episodes 5 through 8. While the essence of the show is the overused wimpy guy surrounded by girls premise, Love Hina is both odd enough and good enough that you need to start with disc 1, rather than jumping in midstream.

The first two episodes, in combination, are the best: after failing their entrance exams, Naru and Keitaro try to escape each other, while everyone else starts chasing them. These episodes also introduce Mutsumi Otohime, who obviously is destined to intrude on Naru and Keitaro's slowly budding romance. The third episode is easily the weakest of the four, but not bad by any means, while the fourth is an entertaining spoof of role-playing games. The real charm of Love Hina is the contrast between its heart, with the growing relationship between Naru and Keitaro, and its wackiness (in which Naru frequently punches Keitaro into the sky or he finds himself tied up by the other girls with his thoughts broadcast on TV). When the balance between heart and wackiness is just right, as it is in the second and fourth episodes, the show is absolutely hilarious.

This disc corrects most of the problems of the first disc, such as the low audio level of the English dub. This has been fixed, although the secondary subtitle track (translating signs) is not timed properly, so that the subtitles appear sometimes minutes after the signs are gone from the screen. The fake-sounding accents in the dub are toned-down quite a bit.

In sum, if you liked disc 1, there's no reason you wouldn't like disc 2 just as much.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Anime, Bad dub, September 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Hina, Volume 2: Go West! (Episodes 5-8) (DVD)

Love Hina is one of the most popular romanic comedy anime availible. It really pains me to have such a great show be slaped together by a company whos out just for profit. The terible english dub is one proof, and to add to that the subtitles are small and in a font that's hard to read, which make me think they are forcing me to watch it in english. But the only way to watch this is in Japanese, so I bear with the subtittles. This is one of the animes that I wish would be done over again with a better dub and bigger subbtitles in a easy to read font.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let the Mutsumi goodness commence!, January 4, 2003

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Aozame (In the Trees) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Hina, Volume 2: Go West! (Episodes 5-8) (DVD)

Mutsumi Otohime is my favorite Love Hina character. Scratch that, she's my favorite anime character of all. Thus, I enjoyed episodes 5, 6, and 8 where she appeared.

Basically, the first two episodes are more or less telling one story, about Keitaro and Naru's "sad vacation" to Kyoto. they run into each other on the way, but having lost their glasses neither recognizes the other. This makes for some humorous situations. They also meet Mutsumi, who acts eerily like Keitaro and is also anemic, so she faints often. Naru's reign of terror against Keitaro continues (And on an entertaining note, Shinobu actually hits Kaolla with an appliance ^_^)

The final episode on the disc is one of my favorites. It's basically a parody of (among other things) Mothra movies and role-playing games. Mutsumi appears in this episode as two tiny copies of herself, and sings an addictive song garaunteed to be stuck in your head for a week at least (The extras contain the lyrics and a longer version of the song, though I found the full version online. It rocks!).

If you liked the first volume, you'll like this too. If you like Mutsumi, you'll love this!