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Love Hina, Volume 2: Go West! (Episodes 5-8)

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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.

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.

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!

The second in the Love Hina series, this DVD continues the fun, though there are points where the humor goes overboard, i.e. the first episode contains a chase scene where Keitaro runs from a mini-van just before he takes his Tokyo U exam. The stories kept me entertained, and I giggled through each when I wasn't laughing outright. The only gripe I have is with the third episode on the disc. It left me wondering why it was done in the first place. Other than that, if you liked the first four episode, this disc won't be a disappointment.

I love this series. It reminds me of the Urusei Yatsura OVAs and the first season of Ranma 1/2. Episode 5 was the point I decided I just HAD to own this series. After that it just gets more bizarre and amusing as the series progresses. If you like slapstick romantic anime, then buy this series now.

The results of Naru and Keitaro's college entrance exams, a trip to Kyoto, Keitaro's female version, and a Role-Playing game-like episode!
Highly recommended if you enjoyed the first disc.

Keitaro goes on a vacation, Keitaro's first kiss, Keitaro's true feelings. Must everything be about Keitaro? Sure, he's now manager of the apartments, but he failed his latest entrance exams and seems to have gotten into even MORE trouble than before with Naru (all because they can't see).
Then there seems to be a wild adventure set in a video game world, in which only Motoko seems to be normal or maybe she is the only one who can't get into it?
Add the extras and you have a weird DVD. Love isn't just blind, it's totally twisted!

This DVD is as enjoyable as the first. Although, the English dub episodes are boring, I find the Japanese with English subtitles quite more enjoyable. I highly reccomend this DVD. Keitaro and Naru are going to take their college entrance exams again, but when they get there, a man at the front gate says they don't belong. Keitaro misunderstands him and thinks that he's already being turned down from Toudai. But the man tells him and Naru that they're at the wrong campus. While they are going through the line, the man at the register (or whatever)asks for Keitaro's exam card, and he doesn't have it. Then, he gets chased by a wreckless drive (whom we meet in volume 1, which was Naru's high school tutor), and he hands Keitaro his exam card. In the hallway, Keitaro accidentally bumps into a girl named Mutsumi Otohime, whom we think is dead, because her eyes look strange. And she has a turtle on her head. In episode 8, (which is really my favorite), it's like an RPG game. All the characters are dressed up, and the two tiny Mutsumis sing a cute, yet "addictive song" My only problem is the English dub. Keitaro's voice is done by the same voice actor who does Ken in Digimon, and Motoko's voice is done by the same voice actress that does Izzy in Digimon, and her name is Mona Marshall. The English dub voices are lacking what the Japanese voices have. Overall, this DVD is a great buy. I reccommend this!

Well it all starts out when Keitaro and Narusegawa fail the entrance exams, they end up both getting on the same train to Kyoto and both end up running into each other and are both responsable for breaking each others glasses

well they sit on the train (not knowing whom the the other is) and talk, they bascily like each other alot (of course if they realized who it was..)

when they arrive in Kyoto they actualy go sightseeing together, Keitaro goes to a sticker book and actualy gets his picture taken with her (first time he ever had a picture with a girl before)

they end up staying at the same inn and in the same room, of course right after the innkeeper tells them that they ahve to be in same room the optician hands them their glasses and they take a look at each other and well..

in the next episode we meet Otohime Mutsumi(part of the whole promise that Keitaro made 15 years ago, not told in the anime but told in the magna...) who inadvertantly creates a little trouble for Naru and Keitaro's "relationship" and ends up kissing both Naru *and* Keitaro

the next episode involves Sakata Kentaro who is a student at Naru's school, he ends up asking her out after doing a ton of "research"(stalking..) Keitaro doesn't enjoy this very much and Kentaro challenges himt o a VR game to win Naru's heart and wins....badly

the last episode is well..odd..forgot most of it so I wont elaborate

Go west was actually entertaining when they all were zapped into what looked like a superfamicon with sharp edges, it was funny to see them interact as video game characters, they could change from there regular form to chibi form,all except Motoko-chan,she was dressed just like Zena Warrior Princess..A little provacative for a 15 yr old but hey,look at what they wear to a nsync concert...lol

The story line is basically Naru has been kidnapped by 2 evil warlords(the 2 geeks)and its up to Keitaro to get her back..Super Mario anyone... but everyone know they are trapped in this silly dream,except Keitaro...Motoko_chan has a quiet conversation with her small self and realized that it was her dream all along...everyone was in the famous sand box calling her to come over to play and so she reversed her age and became 3or 4 again and went to play and everyone disapeared and she freaked out and was scared to be alone and ran back to the main front room and everyone was asleep laying on or around Keitaro and funny enough the game was over on the screen and it had 2 characters a knight like man,looking like Keitaro and a princess in bridal gown looking like Naru-senpai...