Hitoshi Kobe doesn't do well in school. He's no good at sports. Girls don't even talk to him except to make fun of him. The one thing he is good at is computers. He's designed artificial intelligence programs and Number 30 is his favorite. Hitoshi promises Thirty that if she ever becomes a real girl, he'll be her boyfriend. One dark and stormy night, his house is struck by lightning and Thirty emerges from the computer screen ...

Hitoshi Kobe
A teenage computer genius, he's your typical nerd ... and has no luck with the ladies, to boot.

Thirty
The 30th A.I. program created by Hitoshi, she surprises her creator by coming to life.

Kimika Asoo
The most smartest, most gorgeous girl in school, she's the idol of Hitoshi's entire class. She uses Hitoshi's crush on her to play a mean trick on him.

Born in 1968, Ken Akamatsu suffered a fate similar to his Love Hina character Keitaro by being thrust into Ronin-hood straight out of high school. Eventually, he made it into Chuo University where he majored in literature and got involved with a multitude of creative groups. It was while still in college that he began publishing in Shonen Magazine and was nominated for several awards. He chose manga as a profession when he won the Judges' Choice award at the 50th Annual Shonen Magazine Awards. His first serial comic was Ai Ga Tomaranai! - which we are publishing as A.I. Love You, incidentally - in 1994, which ran until 1997. In 1998, he began Love Hina, which became an animated show in 2000.

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