"1: All-girls Dorm with Outdoor Bath: Hot Spring" is the 1st episode of the Love Hina anime series, adapting Chapters 1 - 3 of the Love Hina manga series.
Plot[]
Dreaming of entering Tokyo University and being reunited with his Promise Girl, Keitaro awakens in his room in his parent's house. While his mother confronts him on his abysmal test scores and voices her concern on his attempts at entering Tokyo University with such scores, Grandma Hina calls to invite him to Hinata House.
Later that day Hina announces to the current residents of Hinata House, her retirement from the position of manager to go on vacation. While Naru is concerned over who would take over the position of manager, Hina still leaves.
Later still, Keitaro attends Sasaki Seminar, where he ends up day dreaming again and unwittingly encounters Naru. Making his way to Hinata afterwards, he ends up recalling his last memories of his Promise Girl at the Yukemori Bridge and attempts to draw her face, only to lose the memory. While drawing, he catches sight of Shinobu Maehara crying nearby and draws a sketch of her smiling only to be seen and teased by the Hinata Elders. As his sketch book ends up being thrown near Shinobu, Keitaro apologizes and runs away, leaving behind his sketch book.
Entering the Hinata House, unable to find his grandmother, Keitaro tries out the hot spring baths only to be walked in on by Naru, who accuses him of being a trespassing pervert. Stealing Mitsune Konno's clothes basket and encountering Kaolla Su 's toy tanks while trying to escape, Keitaro is saved by the arrival of Haruka, who calms the girls but mistakenly identifies him as a Tokyo University student; making him a ideal candidate to serve as manager in Grandma Hina's absence.
Allowed to stay the night, Mitsune attempts to seduce him to get free rent. Depressed over the lie, and Mitsune's attempt to manipulate him, he consults with Haruka who encourages him to continue acting as manager while studying to pass the entrance exam to the university.
While cleaning the onsen, Naru confronts him after she remembered meeting him at Sasaki Seminar as an exam flunky. While Keitaro offers to leave, she declines his offer, saying that it would be better if he stayed as the dormitory manager, even helping him continue the lie of being a Tokyo University student so that the other girls wouldn't kick him out.
Differences in Adaptation[]
- Keitaro is 19 years old in the manga, while he is 20 years old in the anime.
- The anime adds a scene at the Prep School and a first meeting between Keitaro and Naru, also featuring the first appearance of Shirai and Haitani in the anime, while in the manga it instead occurs at the Hinata Dorm. Naru's encounter with Keitaro at the Prep School instead happens after their meeting at the dorm the manga.
- In the manga, Shinobu is already a resident at the Hinata Dorm, compared to the anime which she joins in the next episode.
- Motoko leaves for a 3-days training camp in the anime and only encounters Keitaro after she returns in Episode 3. She encounters Keitaro roughly the same time as the others in the manga.
- Keitaro takes off his glasses while bathing in the hot spring in the manga, compared to the anime where he doesn't in the anime.
- Naru doesn't put on her glasses to identify Keitaro in the anime.
- In the manga, Hina left for world traveling long before Keitaro arrives, while she only leaves shortly before he arrives in the anime.
- In the anime, Su brings out her miniature tanks to combat with Keitaro.
- In the manga, Naru realizes that Keitaro lied about being a Todai's student after overhearing him lamenting to himself of having to lie to the girls, while in the anime she realizes because she remembers their meeting at from Prep School earlier that morning.
- The confrontation between Naru and Keitaro takes place at the Hot Spring instead of Keitaro's room in the anime.
- In the manga, Naru wants Keitaro to stay at Hinata Dorm because she saw him cheering up Shinobu who had been feeling down lately. In the anime, she decides to allow him to continue staying the dorm after witnessing his sincerity in not wanting to lie to them and his determination to enter Todai.
- Keitaro's lie is exposed within the first chapter of the manga, while it happens in the 3rd and 4th episode of the anime.
- Keitaro and Naru take their first sticker photo together for the first time in the manga, this scene is cut in the anime due to different flow in the story.
- Keitaro receives a proper document regarding the ownership of Hinata Dorm from Haruka in the manga, this doesn't happen in the anime.
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