Love Hina (Japanese: ラブ ひな, Hepburn: Rabu Hina) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 1998 to October 2001, with the chapters collected into 14 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells the story of Keitarō Urashima and his attempts to find the girl with whom he made a childhood promise to enter the University of Tokyo. The manga was licensed for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop, in Australia by Madman Entertainment, and in Singapore by Chuang Yi. Two novelizations of Love Hina, written by two anime series screenwriters, were also released in Japan by Kodansha. Both novels were later released in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop.
浦島景太郎は幼い頃に女の子と交わした約束を果たそうと、東京大学の入学を目指す19歳。しかし、彼はすでに2浪の身。家を追い出され、祖母が経営する東京近郊の温泉旅館を頼るのだが、そこは彼の知る昔の姿とはまるで違っていた。唐突に「女子寮」の管理人となってしまった景太郎は、ドタバタに翻弄されながらも、東大入学、そして「約束」に近づこうと奮戦していく。
