To LOVE-Ru

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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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

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Ooyoshi, Makoto Producer

Chino, Takatoshi Producer

Yonemasu, Hiroyuki Producer

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Apr 3, 2025

ggol

Recommended

Brief overview: a comedic harem anime with a massive amount of fan service

This review will be based on the whole series.
The final verdict will be an 8/10 for the whole series.

Story 7/10
It's hard to give this a rating as the story is mostly focuses on the characters, fan service and comedic element of it. One day a Alien girl called Lala accidentally crashed into Rito's house while he was having a bath. During that time Rito accidentally touches her breast which leads to a symbol of being the Lala's fiance. However, Rito doesn't have any love interest for Lala, but only for Haruna to undo ... this the only way is to touch her breast again to officially cancel the marriage between those two. After that there really isn't any story-focused element, but the characters are the main point of the story. There is some side story from time to time, but it doesn't really lead anywhere. SO LONG WORDS SHORT: It's basically a story that is mostly focused on fan-service and comedy.

Character 10/10
Ok, if you're here for the fan service then oh boy this anime offers an extensive amount of it. The first half-season the main character is set between Rito and Lala that mostly mocks around the place they are living in. There is some other characters that showed up from time to time to support the main character to keep the series fresh and ongoing. After the first half ended it is then focused on Rito and Momo and Lala became more of a support character. However, the story is still more of less the same that is mainly focused on comedy and fan services. Rito's accident happens almost like every time, and whenever he has an accident there will always be almost like a porn related fan service.

Animation 8/10
Generally, the animation is at a very good quality throughout its life-spam. At the start it does look standard for its time, but you can see it does hugely improved over time as the series goes on. Overall, the animation starts of adequate, but does improve as time goes on.

TLDR
If your here for the fan service then your at the right place. The story is light-hearted and comedic focused which makes the character very lively. However, some fans may have a disappointment with the characters as the series goes on because it transfer from Lala to Momo towards the end of the series. The animation is great, especially the fan service part the animators draw it with all there hearts and soul into it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Feb 11, 2025

darth_kaiser_x

Mixed Feelings

the good old ecchi from the 2000s, it had been a long time since I saw one so I remembered this one and the feeling I had is that the anime didn't age very well but it still has a good comedy 😂, Rito is the typical protagonist that makes you want to strangle him because he doesn't have attitude but Lala is too aggressive and carries the anime on her back, each one had their moment to shine but the one who really carries it is Lala, the story could have been divided into 2 seasons because I feel that at a certain point ... the story stagnates and becomes tiring to watch and only near the end does it get back into gear, the animation is the standard of the time nothing to declare, one thing that could have happened is the development of the harem but since there are still the OVAs and the following seasons we'll see what will happen

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 7, 2019

tony1982sc2

Not Recommended

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Classic ecchi, weak characters, no plot, no music no nothing, if you like grab boobs and so it's your show, if you want to watch a good anime, stay out of this one, only character that is okish is yami.

MC is horrendous, classic good guy who makes all the FC fall for him, totally really retarded.

The art is ok-ish, the only good thing of the anime probably and is not even that good.

FC are just stereotypes with no personality or developement.

If you like boobs and play with your wood this is your anime if you want something decent... just no. As ecchi is ok-ish, if ... you know what I mean.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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