Kaolla Su is a 14-year old foreign transfer student in the
love hina series. She is also a boarder at the Hinata Inn, in room 301.
Kaolla Su is the princess of Molmol, a fictional island nation located near the International Date Line. The dot on her forehead seems to have something to do with the 3-eyed symbol of Molmol. Kaolla Su is often barefoot and dressed in nothing else except her heavily altered school uniform in almost every anime episode and manga chapter, or some otherwise scant costume. To top her personality, Kaolla Su is above all extremely hyperactive, usually hugging (or, in
Keitaro Urashima's case, kicking) someone, trying to eat something, especially bananas and/or Tama-chan, or inventing some potentially dangerous new device. She also has a tendency to snuggle against a person while she is sleeping and usually crushes them while doing it.
Molmol is a kingdom where the moon sometimes appears red. It also uses a western naming order, although the Hinata Inn residents never seem to pick this up: Kaolla Su is actually
Kaolla Su's family name.
Kaolla Su
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 the athletic Motoko seems to be able to tolerate and keep up with her. Kaolla Su like for Keitaro stems from the fact that he reminds her of the person she refers to as her older brother (actually her cousin, whom she grew up with). However, it can be inferred that she eventually comes to care about Keitaro as much as and perhaps even more than her older brother.
While she has stated that she likes everyone in the Hinata apartments (including Sarah, who was sent there for a short period of time), it is apparent that Kaolla shares a much deeper relationship with Sarah and
Motoko Aoyama as compared to the other residents. Her ambition is to return to her homeland to start a computing school and transform her country into a technological power that will rival, and eventually conquer, Japan.
As if her never ending energy, strange customs, and mechanical finesse were not strange enough, Su also possesses the ability to transform into a more adult version of herself on a single night every year, when the moon glows red. In the love hina anime Kaolla Su admitted to have fallen in love with Keitaro Urashima while she was in this form, despite her transformation just last a few seconds because there was no red moon. Though this is not explicitly stated in the
love hina manga, it is implied extremely heavily with the adult Kaolla Su even kissing Keitaro Urashima and proclaiming herself his girlfriend afterwards.
Kaolla Su's room in the Hinata Inn is a faithful recreation of Molmol's natural habitat, complete with banana trees, a waterfall, and a small lake, along with a high-tech laboratory. In the
love hina anime television series, Su is voiced by Reiko Takagi in Japanese and Wendee Lee in English.
