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.
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.