Best To LOVE-Ru chick/s?

Manaban said:
There's only one proper answer to this question, everything else is irrelevant :>




She's a fucking dork. She fucks up most things she does, her inner monologue in the manga tends to out her as kind of petty and grudge holding, but for fuck's sake, not a single girl in that series can even come close to matching her willpower or determination or ability to cope with setbacks, and on top of that she's so genuine whenever she does care about somebody, even if she only operates in the extremities of "I dislike this person,' "I do not care they exist" or "They're amazing and I want them in my life forever."

She has more going on for her than a lot of people give credit for. Will assert that until the day I die. She is absolutely insane and OTT, more than a little bitchy and petty, a bit too quick to form judgements on other people in most cases, a lot of her schemes result in her being made to look like an idiot in a rather Wile E. Coyote way, but she's also so fucking driven and willful, while being more than just a little sweet and caring to people that get on her good side.

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Also, don't mind me being a bit of a salty TLR elitist I guess, but I do kind of feel like it's just missing out on so much whenever people say "durr screentime and plot relevance" and assign value to girls according to those parameters with this series. One of the thing that makes TLR so exceptional to me is how awesome the cast is - even Yami the worst TLR girl is a huge leap above most of her contemporaries from other H&E series, and I don't even mean that as a dig towards other harem&ecchi series.

It's like people aren't look at each girl as individuals and what makes the characters good on their own merits, but instead as cogs to a machine. It's such a waste of an awesome cast of girls to whittle down their value to "durr the actual plot and not the ecchi plot." And, well, considering what this series seems to very much prioritize and can do so well at, it feels like such a waste to me.

Doesn't help that I always felt this was a series that lived and died on character interactions, and that any narrative it ever had always functioned to further character interactions and ecchi instead of being the be-all end-all of the series' identity.