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| - Noted for its success amongst the populace, the manga series of Love Hina was adapted into a 24-episode television anime by Xebec; a division of Production I.G.. While having creative input from Ken Akamatsu, the series was directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki, written by Shō Aikawa and featured character designs by Makoto Uno. While the manga series continued production, the anime series first began airing on TV Tokyo from April 19th through to September 27th, 2000. Following the anime series, two OVAs (Love Hina X-mas Special: Silent Eve and Love Hina Spring Special: I Wish Your Dream) were produced, one of which included a bonus 25th episode created and released as a DVD bonus for the Xmas Eve OVA. An additional, final OVA series called Love Hina Again was released on DVD in Japan in 3 parts between January 26th, 2002 and March 27th, 2002 and was the final installment of the Love Hina anime. Like the manga, the anime series proved extremely popular around the world, both commercially and critically, with both anime and manga receiving numerous industry awards in Japan and North America, as well as praise from critics. The series was also one of the first anime to be produced entirely on computers, the art is crisp and clean and never suffers from the usual loss of quality that can affect traditionally-animated series during deadline crunches.
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