| Hey everyone I stumbled upon Motto To Love Ru and really enjoyed it. I understand there are other seasons of this, TLR: Darkness being one. I'd like some advice on watching order. I know there are other seasons, what order do I watch them in? From what I can gather, Motto TLR is the second season, Darkness is the third..is that right? |
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Haemogoblin said: I stumbled upon Motto To Love Ru and really enjoyed it. I understand there are other seasons of this, TLR: Darkness being one. I'd like some advice on watching order. I know there are other seasons, what order do I watch them in? Whole watch order would be something like this: https://myanimelist.net/anime/3455/To_LOVE-Ru - (First season original) https://myanimelist.net/anime/5667/To_LOVE-Ru_OVA - (First season original OVAs) https://myanimelist.net/anime/9181/Motto_To_LOVE-Ru - (Second season original) https://myanimelist.net/anime/13851/To_LOVE-Ru_Darkness_OVA (First episode only - it was aired before the first season of Darkness aired and it's the main setup episode for the series) https://myanimelist.net/anime/13663/To_LOVE-Ru_Darkness (First season Darkness) https://myanimelist.net/anime/13851/To_LOVE-Ru_Darkness_OVA (now get to episodes 2 - 6) https://myanimelist.net/anime/28979/To_LOVE-Ru_Darkness_2nd (Darkness Second season) https://myanimelist.net/anime/31711/To_LOVE-Ru_Darkness_2nd_Specials (Darkness Second Season Conclusion Episodes) https://myanimelist.net/anime/31380/To_LOVE-Ru_Darkness_2nd_OVA (Darkness Second Season OVAs) https://myanimelist.net/anime/35000/To_LOVE-Ru__Multiplication_-_Mae_kara_Ushiro_kara (10 Year Anniversary OVA) The OVAs are pretty much mandatory watching in this series - not out of preference but because they're usually very often to what happens in the TV anime itself and the anime does assumed that you've watched them at times, i.e. the first season OVAs introducing very relevant characters before going into Motto, where it acts as if they had already been there for a bit, or airing the setup episode for the first season of Darkness within the OVA releases - so I strongly recommend against skipping any of them. Multiplication is the only one that's really negligible so it'd be exempt from the strong recommendation of "not skipping" if you so desire, albeit it's just a one episode ecchi gag bit and I still thought it was very nice so I'd rec it anyway :P Also, things like starting the first episode of the Darkness OVA and then finishing up the rest after you've watched the first season falls within legit airing order so this isn't some weird, bastardized watch order. The conclusion episodes aired after Darkness Second OVA started, but it's a direct continuation of the second season's main arc and a conclusion to it with pretty much no stop between the end of the last episode of Darkness 2 and the beginning of the Darkness 2 Specials, so I recommend going out of airing order for it and it alone. It really is a scenario of being a part of the Second Season rather than a detached OVA, more or less. Hope you love it, man! Haemogoblin said: From what I can gather, Motto TLR is the second season, Darkness is the third..is that right? Darkness kind of has a different enough approach to where I treat it as blurring the line between sequel series and spinoff, so I tend to make a distinction between Darkness and original, but saying First Season Darkness or Third Season doesn't really matter much, pretty sure people will know what you mean either way. |
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