This is a list of main characters in Love Hina Love Hina manga, volume 1 (North America English version) Love Hina (ラブひな Rabu Hina) is a popular manga (and anime) series by author Ken Akamatsu. ...

(Where ages are quoted these are the ages at the time the character appears in the story - the story moves through a year fairly quickly so ages change quite fast)

Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name.

Keitaro Urashima

Japanese Seiyuu: Yuji Ueda
English Voice Actor: Derek Stephen Prince For the article about the company named Seiyu, see Seiyu Group. ... Yuji Ueda (うえだ ゆうじ, Ueda Yūji, birth:上田 祐司) is a popular seiyū in Japan. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Derek Steven Prince is an English language voice actor who is most famous for his various roles in Digimon. ...

Keitaro Urashima (浦島 景太郎 Urashima Keitarō) is a 20 year-old student, at the start of Love Hina, who is trying to get into Tokyo University. The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyos Hongo Campus. ...

After failing the entrance exams twice and becoming a third-year ronin, he is kicked out of home by his parents, and goes to his grandmother's hotel, thinking he might be able to stay there. Graves of 47 Ronin at Sengakuji A ronin (Japanese: 浪人 rōnin: literally, wave man - one who is tossed about, like a wave in the sea) was a masterless samurai during the feudal period of Japan that lasted from 1185 to 1868. ...

However, he finds out the hard way that his grandmother has turned the hotel into an all-girls dormitory. Through a combination of bad luck and timing, he encounters Naru Narusegawa in the open-air hot springs bath and infuriates her. He then proceeds to land on the bad side of the other dorm residents, before Haruka arrives and metaphorically bails him out. Ultimately he does end up staying at the Hinata House (Hinata Sō), though the reason and timing varies slightly between the anime and the manga. In the manga, Keitaro is granted the deed to the Hinata House itself by his grandmother; as he now owns the establishment, he becomes landlord by default. In the anime, he is granted only the landlord's title and duties. A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) // Anime (アニメ) is a style of animation originating in Japan. ... A page from the Marmalade Boy manga, volume 1 (Japanese version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ...

Despite looking like a weakling, he can actually take quite a bit of punishment and still get up from it, granted the nickname of "invincible body" which is just as well as he is always getting into situations where one of more of the girls get angry at him and hitting him. Usually this involves one of them being naked and him being responsible for it or watching them.

Through the course of the story Keitaro starts doing quite well in his studies, passes the entrance exams for Tokyo University after another failure and develops friendships with all the girls in the house, but in particular with Naru and (later on) Mutsumi.

Keitaro takes promises seriously, and it seems that he made a number of important ones during his childhood. First and foremost was his promise of 15 years ago (age 5) with a little girl he barely remembers that they would get into Tokyo University together one day. After taking up residence in the Hinata House, he quickly comes to suspect that Narusegawa Naru may have been the girl of his promises. He later experiences some doubts about this conclusion when he begins to learn more of Mutsumi Otohime's past and her connections with the Hinata House during their childhood, but later on the exact connection becomes clear and he finds out Naru was the one he made the promise to after all.

Episode 20 of the TV anime series revealed the second promise Keitaro made, though the story is not told in the manga. His great-grandfather promised a doll he would fix her broken legs, in jest. After some time the doll, now called Moe, was possessed by a spirit and became selectively sentient. A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) // Anime (アニメ) is a style of animation originating in Japan. ...

Finally, late in the manga and in the Love Hina Again OAV series, it is revealed that Keitaro made a promise with his adopted sister Kanako that they would one day run the Hinata Inn together. Love Hina Again (ラブひな Again) is a three episode OVA that takes place after Love Hina: Spring Special, and thus expands the Love Hina anime story. ... A human ovum An ovum (loosely, egg or egg cell) is a female sex cell or gamete. ...

His surname Urashima is apparently derived from an old tale Urashimataro. Urashima Tarō (浦島太郎 Urashima Tarō) is a Japanese fairy tale about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded (or cursed, depending on ones interpretation) with a visit to the Ryūgū-jō, the Dragon Palace. ...

Naru Narusegawa

Japanese Seiyuu: Yui Horie
English Voice Actor: Dorothy Melendrez Yui Horie (堀江 由衣 Horie Yui) is a popular singer and voice actress (seiyū) in Japan. ...

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Naru Narusegawa (成瀬川なる Narusegawa Naru) is a 17-year old student at Keitaro's cram school with an extremely fiery temper (which is described as "one fuse short of a cannon", according to the official website). Naru is a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 304. Cram schools (also known as crammers) are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities. ...

Of all the girls in the Hinata House, Keitaro manages to annoy her the most, usually by accidentally grabbing her in unfortunate places or walking in on her while she is naked. Naru's appearance is based Beautiful Nerd archetype in dating sim games, with the twist she is actually very cantankerous. Dating simulations are a genre of computer and video games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. ...

Despite her temper and frequent violence toward Keitaro, she develops strong feelings for him, though she has great difficulty in admitting her feelings even to herself. She is prone to extremely strong jealous reactions whenever Keitaro appears to be getting too close (physically or emotionally) to other girls.

Despite the fact that she was only two years old at the time, she and Keitaro promised to go to Tokyo University together, though being two years old she didn't remember for quite a while (this is why Mutsumi made the same promise with her - see Mutsumi's entry).

Naru is highly intelligent; at the start of the series, she is #1 in Japan on the practice entrance exams. Just a few years earlier, however, she was in almost exactly the same position Keitaro was in - horrible grades and no hope of getting into Tokyo U. She was able to overcome her problems by studying with a Tokyo University student, Noriyasu Seta, whom she developed a serious crush on.

Naru had made a promise three times to get into Tokyo University. First with Keitaro, then with Mutsumi and finally with Seta when he was tutoring her.

She owns a Liddo-kun doll which a friend (Mutsumi Otohime) gave her when she was young. Liddo-kuns Big Adventure (リッドくんの大冒険, Riddo-kun no daibōken) is a sub-anime of the anime series Love Hina. ...

Mutsumi Otohime

Japanese Seiyuu: Satsuki Yukino
English Voice Actor: Jean Howard Satsuki Yukino (雪野 五月 Yukino Satsuki, previously written 雪乃五月) is a popular voice actress (seiyū) in Japan. ...

Mutsumi Otohime (乙姫 むつみ Otohime Mutsumi) is a very gentle, very frail, clumsy and soft-spoken 21 year old girl who lives in Okinawa. Keitaro and Naru meet her while taking some time off for a brief vacation after flunking their entrance exams. (In the anime, Keitaro has a brief and near-fatal encounter with her on his way to the entrance exam.) Like Keitaro and Naru, Mutsumi had just flunked her entrance exam for Tokyo U, and was also taking a trip to get a hold of herself again. And like Keitaro, she too is a third year Ronin. This article is about the prefecture. ...

The young Mutsumi played matchmaker to Naru and Keitaro after it became clear that Naru wanted to go to Tokyo University with Keitaro. She deliberately lost a game of Janken (rock-paper-scissors) which was to decide who out of Naru and Mutsumi would become Keitaro's wife. She then made a promise with Naru that both she and Naru would later go to Tokyo University, so that Naru would remember the promise (she was too young to be able to remember when Keitaro made the promise). Janken (Ja. ...

Despite being clumsy in small things and anemic, Mutsumi generally has good luck when it comes to life-changing matters and always seems to come out all right, even if she gets a few bruises along the way. Even more than Keitaro, Mutsumi has the tendency to fall down, run into things, and generally get into injurous situations while recovering quite quickly. She also frequently has near-death experiences. Her outlook on life is somewhat disconnected with reality, a point reinforced by her worldly goods consisting of watermelons, her test study techniques consisting of random chance guessing, and her almost unrealistically optimistic outlook on life. As something of a counterbalance to her inability to do things anyone could do, she has a number of unusual qualities. She can speak "turtlese" (though she claims she can't), and her guessing method for test taking, involving the sides of a pencil, actually got her through the Tokyo U entrance exams. However, in the anime, she is contrastingly portrayed as being extremely intelligent, scoring full marks in the practice exams - yet she still fails to get into Tokyo University due to things such as forgetting to write her name on the test paper. Ascent in the Empyrean (Hieronymous Bosch) A near-death experience (NDE) is the perception reported by a person who nearly died or who was clinically dead and revived. ...

Her surname, Otohime, comes from the legend of Urashima Taro, where Otohime is the beautiful daughter of the Sea King and the eventual wife of Urashima. Otohime first appears in the legend as a beautiful five colored sea turtle, providing the basis for Mutsumi's association with supernatural turtles. Her character design was supposedly modelled on Aeris of Final Fantasy fame. Urashima Tarō (浦島太郎) is a Japanese fairy tale about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded with a visit to the Ryūgū-jō, the Dragon Palace. ... Aerith Gainsborough (Japanese: エアリス・ゲインズブール, Earisu Geinzubūru) (formerly Aeris Gainsborough and originally Aerith Gainsbourg), is a fictional character from the role playing game Final Fantasy VII, and is the main female playable character. ... FUCK OFF!!! Final Fantasy VII is dying faggot, DIE WITH IT!!! I thought I told you guys to BAN me so I can move to the next computer. ...

The portrayal of the Naru/Keitaro/Mutsumi relationship is somewhat different and more bluntly depicted in the anime.

She gave Narusegawa her Liddo-kun doll when she left Hinata when she was young. Liddo-kuns Big Adventure (リッドくんの大冒険, Riddo-kun no daibōken) is a sub-anime of the anime series Love Hina. ...

Shinobu Maehara

Japanese Seiyuu: Kurata Masayo
English Voice Actor: Ellen Arden Masayo Kurata (倉田 雅世 Kurata Masayo, born May 21, 1969) is a seiyū who is best known for her voice role as Shinobu Maehara in Love Hina. ...

Shinobu Maehara (前原 しのぶ Maehara Shinobu) is a 13-year old schoolgirl who, after a bad start in which Keitaro lied about being in Tokyo University and his subsequent failed attempts to make it up to her, develops quite a crush on Keitaro (or Senpai - a Japanese term for senior - as she calls him). Shinobu is also a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 201. Senpai ) is a Japanese term (sometimes an honorific) for a person in a club or other organization, including a school or college, who is a senior, in other words a member of a year above. ...

In the anime, she is first introduced as a grieving girl who has run away from home due to domestic turmoil, however, in the manga she is already at the Hinata House when Keitaro arrives.

She is quite skilled in both cooking and housechores -- her family once owned a restaurant in town prior to their divorce (the divorce does not actually occur in the manga, merely a feud). Quiet and shy, she is overly caring of other's feelings, although this subsequently contributes to her own emotional frailty. Towards the end of both the manga and the anime, it becomes unclear whether she wishes for Keitaro to be with Naru or herself. By the time Keitaro and Naru get married, Shinobu is depicted as having gained great confidence in herself.

Shinobu's best friend is Kaolla, who seems to consider her more than just friends.

One reason Shinobu has a crush on Keitaro is they actually have somewhat similar personalities, particularly in the manga where she bears the brunt of much embarrassing humor.

Motoko Aoyama

Japanese Seiyuu: Yuu Asakawa
English Voice Actor: Mona Marshall Yu Asakawa (浅川 悠 Asakawa Yū, born March 20, 1975) is a popular voice actress (seiyū) in Japan. ... Mona Marshall is a voice actor. ...

Motoko Aoyama (青山 素子 Aoyama Motoko) is a 15-year old school girl who is extremely serious, athletic and into Kendo. Motoko is also a boarder at the Hinata Sou, in Room 302. Kendo Kendo (剣道 Kendō, 劍道) , which is the modern martial art of Japanese fencing, developed from traditional techniques of Japanese swordsmanship known as kenjutsu. ...

She has difficulty dealing with other people, especially males; she finds men to be a distraction that keep her from being able to concentrate fully on her studies and kendo practice. She also dislikes men because her sister left the dojo to marry. Her relationship with Keitaro initially resembles Naru's relationship with him; he all too often finds himself on the receiving end of various attacks as a result of his frequent mishaps. She eventually mellows out as she becomes used to him and eventually finds herself developing feelings for him, along with a habit of writing trashy romance tales involving the two of them. In fact, she is the first of the girls (aside from Naru and Mutsumi) to confess her feelings to Keitaro. In the anime, however, Motoko has no such feelings for Keitaro.

As time passes, she fails the Tokyo University entrance exam herself and becomes a ronin as Keitaro had been. The irony of her situation and its similarities to his was not lost on her. She eventually passes the test, and becomes a law student at Todai.

Motoko has an older sister, Tsuruko, who gave up the life of the sword to marry. Tsuruko is far stronger at kendo than Motoko, and Motoko both greatly admires and fears her. However, Tsuruko believes that Motoko has more potential than herself, and that Motoko lost her drive to improve when Tsuruko married. Motoko is also the next in line to inherit the dojo the Aoyama family has in Kyoto as she is not married. It's interesting to note that Tsuruko is actually Motoko's biological sister. Motoko and Su are the only characters in the series who are actually blood-related to their siblings. Tsuruko is also more beautiful than the already attractive Motoko, with Tsuruko being thought of as a "classical beauty" by the Hinata Sou residents.

Motoko is probably one of the most fully developed characters in either the anime or manga; the calm, almost serene Motoko who appears at the end of volume 14 of the manga release is quite a different person than the hostile, repressed individual Keitaro encountered at the start of the series.

Kaolla Su

Japanese Seiyuu: Reiko Takagi
English Voice Actor: Wendee Lee Takagi Reiko (高木 礼子) is a seiyuu who voiced Kaolla Su in Love Hina and was born on November 26, 1973 in Osaka. ... Wendee Lee in one of the anime conventions Wendee Lee is an American voice actress. ...

Kaolla Su (カオラ ・スゥ Kaora Sū) is a 13-year old foreign transfer student. Kaolla is also a boarder at the Hinata Apartments, in Room 301.

It is not clear exactly where she is from in the anime, though in the manga she is from the fictional kingdom of Molmol (supposedly located near the International Date Line) and is the princess of the said country. Both the anime and manga depict her as having a somewhat Middle Eastern influence, and both specify that she is not Indian. The dot on her forehead seems to have something to do with the 3-eyed symbol of Molmol, though it resembles a bindi dot. She is a very hyperactive girl who is usually either kicking someone, trying to eat something, especially bananas (and Tamago), or inventing some potentially dangerous new device. Her most perpetual project is a series of increasingly powerful versions of Mecha Tama-Chans, her personal line of robotic combat turtles. The International Date Line around 180° The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, which offsets the hours that are added or subtracted as one travels east or west through successive time zones. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

A mad scientist to the core, many of Kaolla's inventions contain something that serves as a self destruct device. They LAUGHED at my theories at the institute! Fools! Ill destroy them all! Caucasian, male, aging, crooked teeth, messy hair, lab coat, spectacles/goggles, dramatic posing — one popular stereotype of mad scientist. ... A self-destruct is a mechanism which causes a device to destroy itself under a predefined set of circumstances. ...

Molmol itself has a few properties that can be gathered from indirect evidence. It is a kingdom where the sun sometimes appears red. It also uses a western naming order, although the Hinata house residents never seem to pick this up: Su is Kaolla Su's last name.

Kaolla likes all the other residents in the Hinata Apartments and gets along well with them, though they have difficulty keeping up with her hyperactive tendencies (only Motoko seems able to tolerate it). As for liking Keitaro, it is because he reminds her of her older brother. She has an older sister, too; Amalla Su, who only appears in the anime.

Kaolla's best friend is Shinobu. Kaolla seems to have developed some affections toward Shinobu, though Shinobu does not realise this.

Her ambition is to return to her homeland and found a computing school and transform her country into a technological power that will rival Japan.

Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno

Japanese Seiyuu: Junko Noda
English Voice Actor: Barbara Goodson Junko Noda (野田 順子 Noda Junko, born June 29, 1971) is a female seiyū born in Osaka, Japan. ... Barbara Goodson is an experienced English voice actress known for her rather extensive dubbing of various anime. ...

Mitsune Konno (紺野 みつね Konno Mitsune), a.k.a. Kitsune, which means "fox", is a 19-year old freelance writer (and is conspicuous in her lack of writing) who is frequently drunk, teasing Keitaro, or both. Mitsune is also a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 205. Statue of kitsune at Inari shrine adjacent to Todaiji Buddhist temple Nara, Japan. ...

Her nickname comes from a combination of her first and last names, and the fact that she never fully opens both eyes at the same time (except during the Winter special, making her something of a hidden character). She has a fox-like expression as a result. She's a practical joker and troublemaker extraordinaire; her mission in life seems to be to ensure that things never get too dull nor those around her too complacent. Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters who are never seen or heard by the audience, but only described by other characters. ...

She is Naru's best friend, went to the same school as Naru, and along with Naru developed a crush on Seta. Since she knows so much of Naru's backstory, she can provide salient details about it to Keitaro. Unfortunately, Kitsune is something of a yellow journalist, and Keitaro all too often totally misinterprets what she is saying, or assumes the worst.

She eventually takes over the Hinata Tea House when Haruka leaves.

Haruka Urashima

Japanese Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara
English Voice Actor: Jane Alan Megumi Hayashibara Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ Hayashibara Megumi) is a very popular idol singer and voice actress (seiyū) in Japan, though she began her voice acting career while training for her original career option as a registered nurse. ...

Haruka Urashima (浦島 はるか Urashima Haruka) is Keitaro's aunt. She helps Keitaro manage Hinata and provides sound advice. She is most commonly referred to as Keitaro's aunt; however there is evidence in both the manga and anime that she may be his cousin, instead. The confusion seems to arise from the Japanese language term Keitaro refers to her as "obasan", which can apparently mean either 'aunt' or 'old woman', depending on context.

Haruka manages the Hinata Tea House at the bottom of the hill upon which the Hinata House sits. She's 29 years old, unmarried, with no children (according to Ken Akamatsu's manga notes in Love Hina volume one, an early character design had her as a single mother), and seems to play the role of peacemaker for the residents of the Hinata House.

Haruka had some sort of relationship with Seta in the past, though the details of their association are never made clear. It is clear that they were in love and something or someone came between them. Ultimately, with the help of Keitaro and Naru, they overcome their past differences, and theirs is the first wedding of the manga series. After their marriage, Haruka leaves the Hinata Tea House in Kitsune's care and stays with Seta and Sara to begin a new life.

Noriyasu Seta

Japanese Seiyuu: Yasunori Matsumoto
English Voice Actor: Kirk Thornton Yasunori Matsumoto (松本 保典 Matsumoto Yasunori, born February 7, 1960) is a veteran seiyū who was born in Chiba. ...

Noriyasu Seta (瀬田 記康 Seta Noriyasu) is a Tokyo University graduate and professor there who specialises in archaeology, appearing to be a parody of Indiana Jones. Like Keitaro, he was a third-year Ronin. He's clumsy (especially with women), a terrible driver, and an exceptionally skilled martial artist, all partly due to his complete lack of self-preservation. Invariably and ironically, Keitaro comes to mimic him in many aspects by the end of volume 14. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing archaeologist with an overdeveloped ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). ...

Seta spends a good deal of his time traveling the world on one expedition or another. His goal seems to be to find evidence of an ancient turtle civilization that once flourished in Japan. During the course of his excavations near the Hinata Beach Tea House in the anime, he uncovered an ancient stage where, he theorized, the ancient inhabitants once performed plays devoted to the gods. After the destruction of the Hinata Beach Tea House during the Urashima family traditional play production, Seta offered to let them use the ancient stage for their play in exchange for a role in the play (Journey to the West.) What was intended to be a mock battle became fiercely real, unfortunately, and the stage was ruined. A hot water geyser surfaced from under the stage, forming a very large new hot springs bath. Haruka was able to recover the costs of rebuilding the Tea House by charging admission to the bath. The four heros of the story, left to right: Sun Wukong, Xuanzang, Zhu Wuneng, and Sha Wujing. ... Clepsydra Geyser in Yellowstone A geyser is a type of hot spring that erupts periodically, ejecting a column of hot water and steam into the air. ...

Seta is also something of an adventurer, and possesses a van that shares his indestructible nature, and apparently has a submarine mode. In the past, Haruka had a major crush on him, though he seemed oblivious. They went on many expeditions together, which are alluded to often in the manga. Along with them on the expeditions was Sara's mother, an American, who later died. Her last request was that Seta marry Haruka. This wish was granted, and Haruka and Seta married at the ruins of Todai, capital of the Turtle civilization.

Seta is Sarah's guardian, and she refers to him as "papa."

Sarah McDougall

Japanese Seiyuu: Yumiko Kobayashi
English Voice Actor: Julie Maddalena Yumiko Kobayashi (小林 由美子 Kobayashi Yumiko, born June 18, 1979) is a seiyū who was born in Chiba. ...

Sarah McDougall (サラ・マクドゥガル Sara Makudugaru) is Seta's adopted daughter, and initially delights in making Keitaro's life miserable. However, like most of the girls in the story, she eventually warms to him, even if she still calls him a dork.

Sarah is left for a time in the care of the Hinata House residents by Seta, as he feels that travelling the world with him on expeditions would be too disruptive to her childhood. There, she develops a close friendship with Kaolla Su. Sarah eventually does return to travelling with him after his marriage to Haruka.

She possesses no unusual talents or skills, though she is adept at bashing Keitaro on the head with priceless artifacts. She also has a panda shaped birthmark on her butt, which she avoids showing at all costs.

Kanako Urashima

Japanese Seiyuu: Natsuko Kuwatani
English Voice Actor: Melissa Charles aka Melissa Fahn Natsuko Kuwatani (桑谷 夏子 Kuwatani Natsuko, born August 8, 1978) is a seiyū who was born in Tokyo. ... Melissa Fahn is a voice actor known primarily for her work in anime dubs and other mainstream cartoons. ...

Kanako Urashima (浦島 可奈子 Urashima Kanako) is Keitaro's adopted younger sister. She travelled with her grandmother for some years, and returned to Japan to fullfill her promise to her brother, and to change the girls dormitory back into a inn. She assumes control of the Hinata House and immediately changes it to her desire. The residents are given the option of leaving, or of staying and working for her.

Kanako never came to see Keitaro as a brother after her adoption; she has loved him since they were children. When they promised to run a hotel together when they grew up, she always assumed it would be as husband and wife.

She recognizes that all of the girls in the Hinata House have some sort of affection for her brother after she tests them in a variety of ways. She tries to drive them away by being as mean and cruel as she could to them, in much the same way that they themselves had once attempted to drive Keitaro away. At first it seemed to be working as one by one everyone but Naru left the Hinata, but the others ultimately returned.

Kanako is a master of disguise and is able to impersonate anyone, which she uses to try to get control over the Hinata house. She also has feelings for Keitaro, reacting in much the same way as Naru does when she sees him kissing someone else (in this case 'Keitaro' was Mutsumi in one of Kanako's disguises, but it was real enough for Kanako).

She first appears in book 11 in the manga, and in the Love Hina Again anime OVA. Love Hina Again (ラブひな Again) is a three episode OVA that takes place after Love Hina: Spring Special, and thus expands the Love Hina anime story. ... A human ovum An ovum (loosely, egg or egg cell) is a female sex cell or gamete. ...

There are slight differences in timing of events between the anime and manga, and some anime-only characters were added by the manga author, so the two adaptations are generally reconcilable with each other. Naru's stepsister, for example, appears in the anime, but never in the manga except in its epilogue, however, she is referenced to earlier in the manga.

Her English voice actress, Melissa Charles (aka Melissa Fahn) is also known for Ed from Cowboy Bebop and Gaz from Invader Zim (Kanako is noticed, by some, as sounding more like Gaz than Ed) Melissa Fahn is a voice actor known primarily for her work in anime dubs and other mainstream cartoons. ... Cowboy Bebop (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ, but most often written in English, even in Japan) is an anime series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe that initially ran starting in 1998. ... This article concerns Gaz, the character from Invader Zim. ... The main character, Zim, and his robot Gir. ...