Love Hina

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine from October 21, 1998 to October 31, 2001, with the chapters collected into 14 tankobon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells the story of Keitaro Urashima and his attempts to find the girl with whom he made a childhood promise to enter Tokyo University. The manga was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop, in Australia by Madman Entertainment, in Poland by Waneko 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.