To LOVE-Ru

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Alternative Titles

English: To LOVE Ru

Synonyms: To Love You, ToLoveRu, ToLoveRu Trouble, To-Rabu-Ru, ToRaBuRu

Japanese: To LOVEる -とらぶる-

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2008 to Sep 26, 2008

Premiered: Spring 2008

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Geneon Universal Entertainment, TBS, Shueisha

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Xebec

Source: Manga

Genres: Sci-Fi, Harem, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, School, Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 7.06¹ (scored by 245,016 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #3392²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #251

Members: 490,517

Favorites: 3,874

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Synopsis

Timid 16-year-old Rito Yuuki has yet to profess his love to Haruna Sairenji—a classmate and object of his infatuation since junior high. Sadly, his situation becomes even more challenging when one night, a mysterious, stark-naked girl crash-lands right on top of a bathing Rito.

To add to the confusion, Rito discovers that the girl, Lala Satalin Deviluke, is the crown princess of an alien empire and has run away from her home. Despite her position as the heiress to the most dominant power in the entire galaxy, Lala is surprisingly more than willing to marry the decidedly average Rito in order to avoid an unwanted political marriage.

To LOVE-Ru depicts Rito's daily struggles with the bizarre chaos that begins upon the arrival of Lala. With an evergrowing legion of swooning beauties that continuously foil his attempted confessions to Haruna, To LOVE-Ru is a romantic comedy full of slapstick humor, sexy girls, and outlandishly lewd moments that defy the laws of physics.

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Background

To Love-Ru is licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks and distributed by Section23 Films. To Love-Ru has been adapted into five video games; two Nintendo DS visual novels, two Playstation Vita games, and a smartphone game.

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Adaptation:	To LOVE-Ru
Sequel:	To LOVE-Ru OVA

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Characters & Voice Actors

Deviluke, Lala Satalin

Main

Tomatsu, Haruka
Japanese

Yuuki, Rito

Main

Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Sairenji, Haruna

Main

Yahagi, Sayuri
Japanese

Konjiki no Yami

Supporting

Fukuen, Misato
Japanese

Kotegawa, Yui

Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori
Japanese

Yuuki, Mikan

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Elsie Jewelria, Run

Supporting

Ono, Fuyuka
Japanese

Momioka, Risa

Supporting

Yuzuki, Ryouka
Japanese

Zastin

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Deviluke, Gid Lucion

Supporting

Nakamura, Hidetoshi
Japanese

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Staff

Nakayama, Nobuhiro

Producer

Kato, Takao

Director, Storyboard

Mima, Masafumi

Sound Director

Shiraishi, Michita

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"forever we can make it!" by THYME

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Ending Theme

#1: "Lucky Tune (ラッキーチューン)" by Anna (BON-BON BLANCO) (eps 1-13, 26)
#2: "kiss no Yukue (kissの行方)" by Anna (eps 14-25)

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Reviews

Nov 8, 2008

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Hayamin (All reviews)

290 people found this review helpful

Story: Pretty much all filler. Each episode stands alone except the ending and they don't really play off of each other. The series strays way too far from the Manga and doesn't explore the main parts where you see many characters develop themselves. I understand that the Manga has stories that end in one chapter and expansion is necessary to make the Anime but they could've handled it better. A similar style to the beginning of Full Metal Panic Fumoffu would've been cool where there were two stories split between an episode. Since chapters for To-Love-Ru are short, that would've been a great direction for this show to take. However, this show's filler made me feel incredibly bored as most of the stories weren't even adapted from the Manga. They were original stories. Only some of the episodes were based off the Manga. The ending was disappointing but you can predict that it'll go nowhere anyway. A predictable "plot" and being composed of mostly ecchi scenes gets it a 5. I'll admit that a few of the episodes, maybe five of them, I really liked, thought they were well done, and made me laugh a bit.

Art: Better than I expected for a series like this. It was pretty consistent for each episode. Nothing looked too horrible to me.

Sound: Nothing in the bgm caught my attention and the opening was just okay. As for the voice acting, I didn't really have a problem with anyone. No one was extremely annoying to listen to. They did a pretty good job here.

Character: I did enjoy watching some of the characters but a lot of them seemed neglected and didn't get much screen time, which kind of disappointed me. I know they're side characters but if they're going to show up more than a few times, make them do more than "Oops, you can see my panties" or accidentally get naked. I suppose in the end, I shouldn't expect more than that in a series like this.

Enjoyment: I finished it. That's a sign that I didn't completely hate it. Most of the episodes made me want to punch my screen though. They were that awful and stupid. So be careful with it. It's supposed to be comedy as well but it didn't spark too much laughter from me. I wouldn't say that they're trying too hard or anything like that. It's just that most of the pervy jokes, accidents and misunderstandings are things we've seen before.

Overall: I wouldn't mind a second series since they have more material to pull from and I enjoyed the Manga. It would be great to see certain stories animated. I just did not like how this turned out because despite the Manga being mostly stand alone stories, the creators of this show felt the need to make their own plots for many episodes... Would I recommend this to anyone? Not really since I can basically describe this as generic. It's nothing outstanding and there's a lot of "typicalness" to it. If anything, for those new to Anime it might just be their first ecchi comedy because if you start watching Anime, you'll run into these somewhere along the line unless you're very selective and careful.

Thank you for reading my review. Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Hope this helped.

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Mar 7, 2010

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

anime_n00b (All reviews)

135 people found this review helpful

Well.. Where do I start.. Hmmmm

Well I watched this series due to a suggestion in the recommendations of Rosario + Vampire.. Although the shows are both somewhat similar.. I expected a bit more out of the series.

Let me start with this.. there are to me.. two seasons to this series basically..and the second series starts somewhere around episode 14.. but.. too be quite honest in my opinion.. Episodes 18-24 are basically OVAs that are stuffed in.. I mean.. There is the story of Kyoto the Fire Girl..a entire episode about a show Lala and Rito watch on television.. which had absolutely nothing to do with read more

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Nov 13, 2014

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Anthony_DiGrande (All reviews)

93 people found this review helpful

This is just mindless, fun entertainment.

Alright so the story of To Love Ru is about a boy name Yuuki Rito who gropes a pink-haired alien name Lala who is the princess of Deviluke. After trying to confess his feelings to a girl, Haruna Sairenji, he accidentally confesses to Lala and says to him "Lets get married". From there on Rito tries to get out of the relationship with Lala, but has other things in his way that actually makes him closer to her. The plot does get more of a serious tone towards the end of the anime, but overall it's just a fun anime.

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Sep 13, 2009

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

DrAlucard (All reviews)

82 people found this review helpful

To-Love-Ru was a huge disappointment for me. The series had so much potential, but in the end, turned out to be one big failure... It had no plot whatsoever, beside the first few episodes, which introduced the "story". No plot progression for characters as well, what they did was throw in a few new characters during the show and there it ended. They could use much more interesting turn of events and character progression it even hurts to think about it.

Another thing I have to point out - the humor in this series is simply NOT FUNNY... AT ALL. The only one who actually made read more

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