I mean, Love Hina is absolutely responsible with solidifying all the worst tropes in harem and romance to this day after Tenchi/Ranma set them up. Its a cancer that will never leave us. Negima is at least much better about it and I'd say actually worth looking into.
Its basically his life's work, considering he has been working on it and its sequel since like 2003.
Also, be sure to make sure which version you are getting into. The manga, both animes and live action are all completely unique stories for some reason.
He was the copy though, that's what I said. All the worst parts of Love Hina were already in the previous harem series before it like Ranma (Naru is just a worse Akane somehow), but they were new and unique then. He just ran them into the ground by over use and exacerbating it until it was almost a caricature of itself.
Negima showed he was more than capable of doing better, but for some reason Love Hina is the series every hack writer chooses to copy instead.
Akamatsu-sensei famously had to write the first few volumes of Negima as haremshit before he could pull the rug out under his publisher and turn it into a shonen.
There's this one manga of his that I honestly really like the idea of, called A.I. Love You, which never got an anime adaptation--and now probably never will.
Probably also because it looks like an Oh My Goddess ripoff, coming out after that but before Love Hina.
I may have to start reading his work now.
I say that as someone who's only heard of Love Hina through others' hatred of it.
I mean, Love Hina is absolutely responsible with solidifying all the worst tropes in harem and romance to this day after Tenchi/Ranma set them up. Its a cancer that will never leave us. Negima is at least much better about it and I'd say actually worth looking into.
Oh, he did Negima? Been meaning to get into that. Neat.
Its basically his life's work, considering he has been working on it and its sequel since like 2003.
Also, be sure to make sure which version you are getting into. The manga, both animes and live action are all completely unique stories for some reason.
Characterizations don't become tropes until other people copy them. I'm not sure it's really fair to blame the source for it.
He was the copy though, that's what I said. All the worst parts of Love Hina were already in the previous harem series before it like Ranma (Naru is just a worse Akane somehow), but they were new and unique then. He just ran them into the ground by over use and exacerbating it until it was almost a caricature of itself.
Negima showed he was more than capable of doing better, but for some reason Love Hina is the series every hack writer chooses to copy instead.
Akamatsu-sensei famously had to write the first few volumes of Negima as haremshit before he could pull the rug out under his publisher and turn it into a shonen.
Love Hina was the first Manga I collected and I fucking loved it. 11/10 would recommend. His other works...meh.
There's this one manga of his that I honestly really like the idea of, called A.I. Love You, which never got an anime adaptation--and now probably never will.
Probably also because it looks like an Oh My Goddess ripoff, coming out after that but before Love Hina.