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.
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.
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.
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.