Love Hina, Volume 4: Love Hurts (Episodes 13-16)
The course of true love seldom runs smooth--especially at the Hinata Apartments. The residents of the building find they're broke and the bills are due, so they need to make some money in a hurry. The hapless Keitaro finds a job babysitting the thoroughly obnoxious adopted daughter of Noriyasu Seta, a dashing Indiana Jonesesque professor of archeology at Tokyo University. Naru nurtured a crush on Mr. Seta several years ago, when he was her tutor. Keitaro and the rest of the group assume Naru is still in love with him, despite her insistence that she isn't. The romantic misunderstandings reach an outrageous climax when the cast stages a slapstick adaptation of the classic Chinese novelThe Journey to the West, which brings down the house--and much of the theater--when they accidentally uncork a hidden hot spring. Rated 13 Up: Comic violence, risqué humor, brief nudity, tobacco use.--Charles Solomon