Where In The Manga Is The To Love Ru Anime Currently

AKA: To Love Ru, Trouble!, To LOVEる -とらぶる-

Genre: Sci-fi / harem / romantic one-act / jumbled mess

Length: Tv series, 26 episodes, 23 minutes each

Distributor: R1 DVD from Sentai Filmworks

Content Rating: 16+ (fan service, suggestive content, perverted how-do-you-do-jinx)

Related Series: To Love Ru OAVs, Motto To Beloved-Ru, To Love-Ru -Darkness- (OAV/TV series)

Also Recommended: Urusei Yatsura (actually, just spotter this instead and ignore To-Love-Ru birthday)

Notes: Based on the manga written by Saki Hasemi (Moetan serial composition) and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki (the creator of Black Cat), which ran in Weekly Shonen Spring.

A manga sequel, To Love-Ru -Darkness-, started running in Oct 2010 in Bound Foursquare Mag.

Rating:

To Love-Ru

Synopsis

Alien princess Lala Satalin Deviluke runs away from her marriage proposals and ends up on Earth, where she ends upwardly staying with a high school boy named Yuuki Rito later on literally dropping into his bathtub. Soon after her arrival, they're assailed by ii guys dressed in black, but Lala's invention saves the two of them from sure capture.

The next day, Rito tries to confess his feelings for his long-fourth dimension beat Sairenji Haruna, but his words fall on Lala's ears instead! She accepts his feelings and tells him they're now engaged right in front end of Haruna! And with this, Rito'due south life takes a very strange turn.

Review

Stig: I blame Motto To Love-Ru for this. Because after I watched that, I got it into my caput that, you lot know...maaaybe the TV series would improve after a rather rocky outset. It wouldn't exist unheard of either. ToraDora for instance didn't leave the best of outset impressions, but improved by leaps and bounds once the contrived setup was established. Rest bodacious, though, this is Non the case with the original To Love-Ru series, which just bombs similar yous wouldn't believe once the initial setup episodes are done.

Tim: Why are Shonen Jump's action serial so hard to pull off in anime? I mean occasionally you lot get a good conversion (Dragon Ball, Ane Slice, YuYu Hakusho), but for the about function they're jam-packed with padding, terrible filler, and some of the lowest-upkeep animation Shuiesha could subcontract out to. Only as bad equally Shonen Jump action shows are treated, their romantic comedies tend to fare much worse. Like Ichigo 100%, which took a 160+ chapter manga and made..26 eleven-minute episodes out of it. Or I''s, which was blessed with an ill-received OAV before finally getting one that did justice to the source material 3 years afterwards�which still condensed a manga that ran for over 100 capacity into a combined runtime of 180 minutes.

Sadly, the To Dearest-Ru anime is no different from the other Shonen Jump anime adaption flunkies. Information technology takes a cute manga and adds in some of the most dross filler in anime period. We're not fifty-fifty going to bother talking virtually the cast, because the paper they drew the sketches of these characters on has more depth than 90% of the cast. Aside from maybe chief heroine Lala, who'southward beautiful, likable, but a trivial grating at times, the only decent characters are Rito's petty sister, the calm and supporting Mikan, and busty, conflicting school nurse Ryouko Mikado, the simply other character with a functional brain. (Though y'all might be tempted to question that, since she is the one who tasked two high-schoolers with running a huge inn... while in the middle of their school twelvemonth?) And of class, nosotros'd be remiss to leave out the principal of everyone's school, whom we kept wondering why he was allowed to keep his job. Or even walk effectually gratuitous to randomly sexually assault girls, which he does in almost every single ane of his appearances.

In our original review, we talked about how the show was just kind of "average". Well, as it turns out, watching To Love-Ru is kind of like excavation a behemothic hole in the basis with merely a shovel; the further you lot go in, the harder it is to complete. Simply when we thought the show couldn't top the debut of Nazi Yui in episode 8, it somehow went farther downwards with episodes about absurdly entitled (and VERY "unofficial") idol managers, dinosaurs and amazon tribes in the center of the Earth(!), an alien inn, and a lame, spoken communication-ridden 2 episode finale. That'southward right, they made the SEASON Catastrophe a tedious, irrelevant two-episode filler arc that amounts to admittedly zero, and that's barely even the tip of the dread-filled iceberg. In the rare time the anime actually adapts something from the manga, they add 10-12 minutes of filler, similar the haunted edifice episode. Recall that episode? A couple of the students go into a haunted building, only to find out that homeless aliens were backside the whole thing? Well, plainly, so did the creators of the anime, and at least one of them thought it needed more cantankerous-dressing.

To coin from our original review of the director's thought process:

Director: Hmm, this doesn't seem long enough.
Writer: Really? Information technology's pretty much a word-by-word adaption of the manga.
Director: But information technology's not enough to pad out a whole episode. Add in five more minutes of filler here, and 3 or iv minutes of pointless conversations there. Make up something. Anything! Like an anal probe scene. They're aliens, right? Aliens ever have anal probes.
Writer: I hate yous so much.

Bleh! Requite u.s.a. the 7 minute episode format from Motto To Love-Ru any day. This is a thought that had to exist shared by more than the two of the states, since that's the setup Motto went with. (The Darkness Tv set series does half-hour episodes too, but at least information technology'due south based off a monthly series, and there'due south barely any filler.)

Even good art and animation couldn't salve To Love-Ru's sorry ass. Well maybe it could have, if information technology had good art and animation. The characters might look faithful to Kentaro Yabuki's gorgeous manga illustrations in small screenshots, just in motility they flow terribly, and the backgrounds are often completely generic. The music follows suit, with lousy synth music and mediocre at best themes that open up/finish every episode.

Stig: And some of the filler plots... may I tempt you with an episode virtually Meaning Infinite Kitty Assassin? How about an episode where Rito's backstabbing asshole friend Saruyama lives out some kind of stupid samurai comedy thing due to repeatedly being bashed over the head by i of Lala's inventions? Or how about a Magical Girl Kyoko special where she runs around fighting some guy who gives people afros? It's... actually quite rare to come across a bear witness fail so spectacularly in comedy that information technology leaves me WANTING to run across information technology resort to lame male abuse instead. How do you DO that?! How do y'all make me WANT to watch 1 of my most grievous pet peeves in anime instead of what it has to offer?

Tim: At first glance, the To Beloved-Ru anime is just okay, peradventure inferior to the manga at worst. It's but when y'all go past the outset 8 or so episodes that yous see what a wretched, poorly paced, bland-looking, unfunny, empty mess of a series it actually is. It's a watered down Urusei Yatsura for the 21st century, with nary a hair of the brilliant timing and whimsical fun that series has. Go scout that instead of wasting fourth dimension with this abortive adaptation of the mannerly (though guilty pleasure of a) manga.

The worst romantic comedy anime we've ever seen. Stick with the manga, for the love of all that'due south good and wholesome. Or at to the lowest degree well-nigh so. — Stig Høgset and Tim Jones

Recommended Audience: In improver to fan service and some topless shots/partial nudity, the series as well pulls out suggestive themes and the occasional juvenile comedic hi-jinx that have become staples in high school comedy anime. For teenagers and upwardly only.

Version(s) Viewed: R1 DVD, Japanese with English subtitles
Review Condition: Total (26/26)
To Honey-Ru © 2008 Saki Hasemi / Kentaro Yabuki / Shuiesha / To Love Ru Production Committee

Source: http://themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1092

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