Love Hina (ラブ ひな, Rabu Hina) is a Japanese anime and manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. The manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for best sh?nen title in 2001 and the "Best Manga, USA Release" at the 2002 Anime Expo. The manga consists of 14 volumes. The anime is 25 episodes long and is supplemented with Christmas and Spring movies and the Love Hina Again OVA. There are also two Love Hina novelizations, both named Love Hina: The Novel and written by the series' anime screenwriters; volume 1 was written by Sh? Aikawa (會川 昇, Aikawa Sh?) under the pen name "Kur? Hazuki" (葉月 九ロウ, Hazuki Kur?) and volume 2 by Hiroyuki Kawasaki (川崎 ヒロユキ, Kawasaki Hiroyuki). Both novels have been released in the US by Tokyopop, the US publisher of the manga.   Wikipedia