8.) Keitaro Urashima made a promise to his childhood sweetheart that he would get into Tokyo University. Well, he's failed three times and the girl of his past has been replaced with six girls in his present. Keitaro has taken the entrance exam yet again and having fallen asleep halfway through, he fears the worst. Consumed with embarrassment and shame, he flees on a journey of introspection and redemption. It's up to the crew at Hinata House to track him down and bring him back to face reality. Time is running out and Naru falls ill at a critical moment. Why is it so important to Naru that she find him?
9.) Keitaro has finally passed the Tokyo University entrance exam but all is not happily ever after. He finally confesses his love to Naru but her reaction is not what he expected and the rest of the crew lend him their support. However, the greatest help of all may come from an unlikely source: his rival, Seta, who announces his intention to marry Haruka. This causes Naru and Keitaro to take a long look at their relationship and decide that it is time to take a big step in a new direction.
10.) Naru and Keitaro take their first steps in the high-tension game of love when a power outage puts Hinata House in the dark. As old memories come to light, Naru realizes that she may be the girl from Keitaro's past after all. However, Keitaro must choose between his blossoming relationship with Naru and his desire study abroad with Seta.
11.) A young girl arrives at Hinata house. Her name is Kanako, and not only is she a master of disguise, but she claims to be Keitaro's younger sister and the new manager of Hinata, to boot! When this usurper announces plans to change the dorm into an inn with the girls as her employees, it's all-out war. After all that madness, Kanako reveals that she is in fact not Keitaro's sister, but his common-law wife! Naru counters with the announcement that she is the young girl with whom Keitaro made a different pact years ago. Just as things are about to get really ugly, who should arrive but our returning hero, Keitaro.
12.) Hinata House isn't the only thing that's changed over the months, as Keitaro seems like a new man, and theories about a blonde-haired American girl named 'Julie' abound. When Keitaro laughingly informs the girls that 'Julie' was a gorilla, Naru and Kanako resume their competition for Keitaro's attention. It's going to be an uphill battle for Kanako, since Keitaro has no memory of his promise to run Hinata House as an inn with her. Desperate to win Keitaro, Kanako tricks him into making a promise to go to Tokyo U. with her, in a cursed room of Hinata, no less. What ensues is a wild ride of deception and seduction, complete with marauding monkeys, a railway chase, and a battle royal with the police, all culminating with an epic climax on the rugged cliffs of Northern Japan!
13.) Naru and Keitaro have been acting lovey-dovey since they returned from their little trip and it's driving everybody crazy! But before the issue can be resolved, Keitaro's grandmother announces that she will hand over the Hinata House to him on the condition that he marries one of the girls. It's all out war when the girls attack Keitaro in order to claim him for themselves!
14.) After 2 years of beating around the bush, Naru finally declares her true feelings for Keitaro but her big announcement may be too little too late. Grandma Hina has returned to Japan and like it or not, Naru and Keitaro learn about their forgotten past and discover once and for all who his long lost love really was. Credits
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