By itself, a fun harem that brags itself for far too long. The story drags on for far too long despite the romance question being obviously solved. In particular near the middle, most chapters are fillers to sell more copies rather than develop the story. This drag means the story is best read a couple chapters at a time rather than binged. Development picks up again in the final third.
Character development is strong. Keitaro begins the story as a complete loser, a pitiable existence of a human being. Throughout the story, he becomes a fantastic character to be looked up to. He also does this while remaining the same clumsy and happy guy at his core. Other characters also go their own arcs that leave them better people than before.
Despite being nominally harem, its really a romcom. By the first quarter its already clear who's going to win and true harem hijinks don't begin until the reader knows who will win. This allows each character to develop themselves as more than harem candidates for Keitaro and instead be independent characters in their own right. When they lose the harem battle, the reader knows these characters have lives they can keep living.
The manga's is timeless, barring its text. Each page is a wall of text that makes reading through good chapters great and bad chapters a drag. Each chapter has two or three chapters worth of text. Otherwise, the artwork holds up surprisingly well, even if clearly aged. The story itself remains fresh and exciting seeing Love Hina became a classic.
Its best to read and study Love Hina simultaneously. The story by itself is fine, but the influence this manga had on the harem genre is unmistakable. The amount of works that are derivatives of this format leave Love Hina as a classic to be studied, to see where this harem came from. Its not the best harem, even from this time period, but its good this model was selected as the one by future author rather than other harem formats.
7/10.