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nimation of the very popular serialized comics by Ken Akamatsu, the winner of the Kodansha Comic Strips Award. Yoshiaki Iwasaki who directed this series is also directing Akamatsu's second creation "Rikujo Boeitai Mao chan".
  When Keitaro Urashima was little he made a promise with a girl to "go to the Tokyo University together with her". Now he can't even remember what she looked like but he is still cramming for the second year to get in (having failed the first year). Keitaro is not a very cool guy. He is not very good at his studies or sports and he has this one hobby of collecting pictures of himself from the "purikura" photo machines. No wonder girls are not attracted to him! One day he receives a "D" on his Tokyo University eligibility test at his prep school and is about to just runaway from home like he often does. Then a call comes from his Aunt Hina to come right away.
  When Keitaro reaches his aunt's hotel, he finds it has turned into a girls' dormitory, "Hinata-so". Keitaro does not realize what is going on and when he enters the dorm, they mistake him for a pervert, and there is a big commotion. With the help of his cousin Haruka, he somehow survives the mishap but for some reason they mistake him for a Tokyo University student. Suffering, Keitaro ends up being the caretaker of Hinata-so.
  At the Hinata-so, there is another person aiming for the Tokyo University, Naru Narusegawa. But the difference is that she has the top grades from the nation-wide trial tests. She covers for him when she realizes he is lying about being a Tokyo University

student. Actually it seems she also has someone with whom she made a promise to go to Tokyo University. Could the little girl Keitaro made a promise with be Narusegawa? Also living in Hinata-so are introverted Shinobu Maehara with perfect housekeeping skills, mysterious and energetic foreigner, Kaora Su, an expert swords woman Motoko Aoyama and Sake loving, gambling loving free part-timer Mitsune Konno, a whole cast of original and attractive women. What kind of days await Keitaro? And what will happen with the entrance exam for the Tokyo University and the "Girl of that promise"...?


Main Staff
Planning : Toshimichi Ohtsuki, Toru Sato
Original Story : Ken Akamatsu
(Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha Ltd.)
Chief Screenwriter : Kurou Hazuki
Character Design : Makoto Uno
Animation : XEBEC
Director : Yoshiaki Iwasaki
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