
Keitaro Urashima is a 19-year-old boy who is aiming to enter the Tokyo University. He studies hard to fulfill the promise he made to a girl when he was a child: "We'll go to the Tokyo University together." One day, Keitaro comes to the "Hinata Ryokan" called by his grandmother, suddenly encounters a girl in the open-air bath. © Ken Akamatsu・Kodansha / Love Hina Onsen Kumiai・TV Tokyo

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Fifteen years ago, Keitaro Urashima met a girl and promised her to enter Tokyo University together. To keep this promise, he is now preparing for another entrance exam, although he has already failed twice. One day, he visits his grandmother's Japanese-style inn. But this inn has been changed to girls' dormitory "Hinata-sou".

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Shinobu Maehara is a junior high school girl. Her family is now getting ready to move out of the town, but she doesn't do her packing at all because she is unwilling to move. She runs away from home and is sitting on a bench, getting so depressed. She finds a sketchbook at her feet and sees her cute smiling face being drawn inside. To return this sketchbook, Shinobu visits Hinata-sou.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
On the way home from a cram school, Keitaro and his friends go up to town and pick up four high school girls. But one of them has a bamboo sward and she thoroughly beats them up. After having such a hard time, Keitaro returns Hinata-sou, gets into a laundry room and sees the girl with a bamboo sward, Motoko, there.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
It is revealed that Keitaro is not a Tokyo University student. He humbly begs their pardon. He is forgiven on conditions to be a good caretaker and to pass the exams for Tokyo University. But he is pushed around to do cooking, laundry, and house cleaning, so there is no time to study at all. One day, he asks Naru to teach him study.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
The day of the secondary exam for Tokyo University comes. Keitaro wants to pass the exams with Naru, while she ignores him and devotes herself to her wordbook. They are given a hearty send-off by friends in Hinata-sou, but accidents happens one after another, such as going the wrong way, losing an admission ticket for an examination. Can they ever reach to the site for the examination?

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Every one in Hinata-sou worries whereabouts of Keitaro and Naru. Keitaro and Naru are travelling in Kyoto to overcome their disappointment, after finding that they both have failed the exams. At Kyoto station, they meet Mutsumi, a girl who met them at the examination room and also fails the exams.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Naru and a boy lie on the beach and she asks if he loves her. Suddenly, when she sees his face, she comes to herself. He is totally a stranger. When she wakes up, everyone is watching TV. On TV, the boy who she has just dreamed of is shown. She is made to put on a goggle-type machine, which can visualize her mind. The machine's inventor, Kaora, says that the boy must be a prince of her dreams.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Some in Hinata-sou play Keitaro's old video game. Motoko is watching them playing excitedly. Kikuko tells her that Motoko is losing her sound mind because she lives with a boy. Motoko set in Zen meditation and thinks that she has to oust Keitaro from the dormitory.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
In one midnight, Keitaro wakes up because someone sleeps in his bed. He jumps out of the bed and see who she is. It is Kaora. They are misunderstood in the next morning. He explains to solve their misunderstanding.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
An idol contest of Hinata City is held sponsored by an association in the university where Kentaro goes. The winner of this contest is Naru. Keitaro worries that it may bother her study. While the campaign for hot springs in Hinata City, Naru is getting popular more and more. She appears on magazines and TV, and finally releases a new song.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Motoko is cool enough to kill cockroach by transmitting her Qi into it, but very weak at a turtle. When she sees even its "Egg", she screams. As she finds "Egg" being put on her undressed clothes, she will never wear them again. Mitsune makes fun of her and makes her wear those clothes. And "Egg" appears again. Motoko tries to strike it with her sword, but Egg stop her sword with bare hands.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
When Shinobu and her friends peep into Keitaro's room through a hole that Mitsune has made on the wall, he is about to kiss Naru. She punched him away, so his intention fails. But Shinobu gets curious how a kiss tastes like and asks Kaora and Motoko if they have experienced kisses before.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Because of unpaid fees spent for daily parties, all utilities are to be stopped. To avoid this situation, 10,000 yen per person have to be collected within three days. Keitaro starts working as an assistant of a cartoonist, but the work is so hard that he runs away. A fortune-teller comes up to him and says that all the unhappiness will be removed if he jumps into a pond in the east.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
While Mr. Seta goes out for excavation, Keitaro baby-sits Sara. She pretends to be well-behaved, but soon revealed her real character while teasing Keitaro. She goes out of Keitaro's room and is chased by tenants in Hinata-sou. She is cornered in front of "a never-opened room". Suddenly its door is opened and Mr. Seta comes out from the room.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Haruka takes tenants in Hinata-sou to Seaside Clubhouse Hinata. The benefit from the clubhouse will help the maintenance of Hinata-sou, so they decide to work here and earn the money by performing a play for visitors. They play Legend of Monkey King -- Journey to West, by casting Keitaro as Monk Xuan Zang and Naru as Monkey King. But they haven't yet made it up with each other.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
At Seaside Clubhouse Hinata, Motoko challenges Mr. Seta to a Kendo match. When Motoko goes out to seashore and start practicing, there comes a bird and brings a letter from the head quarter of Jinmei School, which is Motoko's Kendo school. It orders Motoko to defend the island from a vengeful ghost. Now is the time to prove her skill by expelling the ghost.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Finishing their summer-time job at the clubhouse, they go out to the Summer Festival. Keitaro wants to recover the relationship with Naru by solving her misunderstanding. Mitsune advises her to accept his apology and get along with him. Not only taking her advice as it is, but Naru bluntly replies that Mitsune is the one who loves Keitaro.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
The summer vacation is almost over, so everyone is now preparing for the new semester by having a party. During the party, Kaora has a return of her disease to become an adult. Adult Kaora acts violently and makes a huge mess. To ask help to stop her, Naru goes to call on Kaora's sister, Amara.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
When Keitaro, Naru and Mutsumi are studying together, Sara and Kaora suddenly appears from a closet. They say that they are exploring a labyrinthine closet. Keitaro and the other two are to go on an exploration with Kaora and Sara. On the way, Keitaro loses his companies and gets lost.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Keitaro was ranked "B" level in a practice test for acceptability of Tokyo University. To thank Naru for teaching him study, he asks her to go out for a dinner. She is delighted, but Mitsune advises her, "Beware. All men are wolves". After dinner, they take a walk in the park and Keitaro gets serious. He says that he has something to tell her and start walking towards the hotel area.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Naru's sister, Mei, visits Hinata-sou and asks Naru to come back home. Naru is unwilling to go back and Mei asks the reason. Naru won't say, but gets angry and goes back in her room. Mei realize the reason her sister doesn't go back is because she loves Keitaro. So she tries every possible means to make Keitaro fall in love with Mutsumi.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
As Mutsumi has promised with Keitaro to go and receive the result of the practice test together, she comes to Hinata-sou. Mutsumi's result is "A" level, but Keitaro's "E". And what is worse is that he has promised to show his score to his parents. He gets very depressed and returns to Hinata-sou, where Naru is waiting for him.

April 19, 2000 • 22m•U/A 16+
Keitaro is told that "his promised girl" is Mutsumi. Naru or Mutsumi---he cannot decide his mind. Shinobu talks to him on the phone and feels that he doesn't come back to Hinata-sou. She asks everyone to look for him. Shinobu asks Kaora to take Keitaro back, but fails. And she also goes to Naru's home and asks to take him back.

April 19, 2000 • 25m•U/A 16+
Motoko's older sister Tsuruko Aoyama comes to Tokyo. Her purpose was to bring Motoko back to her parents' home in Kyoto and have her take over their dojo. Motoko refuses this offer, so she makes Keitaro her fake fiance. However, this plan was a complete failure. Tsuruko breaks her beloved sword and she is excommunicated by Kaminari Ryu. Motoko has lost both her home and her confidence...