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charbios: Kanako Urashima
Monday, October 24, 2005

Kanako Urashima is Keitaro's adopted younger sister. She lived in the United States for some years, and returned to Japan only to find Keitaro had just left for the U.S. himself. She assumes control of the Hinata House and immediately changes it from an all-girls dormitory back into a hotel. The residents are given the option of leaving, or 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. However in the end, 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).

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.