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To Love-Ru OVAs are just a whole lot better than the TV-series. At least from an ecchi enthusiast's point of view. Why so? I'm here to tell you.

First of all, there are many good insider jokes, since it is supposed, that you already know the characters and the main plot lines. Such humor wasn't quite yet awailable until the very latest of the TV episodes, as the characters were still pretty much unknown to the audience. So, even when the plot still contains random outcomes (always leading to ecchi scenes, though) for various random reasons, the scenario gained many new and fun details.

Secondly, the characters ... themselves have improven, gaining new experience. Rito grows temporary breasts and sees the world through the eyes of a dog, his younger sister gets a new face when she reveales the first signs of puberty (although she already acts more mature than the rest), Lala's cute, caring side is shown more closely through her change of personality and her sister twins were a great addition to the Devilukian saga. So now, after their debute, I can't wait for the next season season to come. And it is coming - Motto To Love-Ru!

The third point is, there is no needless censure, at least in the version I saw. The TV-series contained a great deal of "fog" and other unfitting things, like sunshine, used for that. This no kid's show anyway, whether it's censured or not, I'm pretty sure you agree to my point of view (only if you're not a kid yourself ;) ). And there were no more ugly aliens, which spoiled my fun before, only the cute ones were there, like Justin and Lala's dad (he's an awesome character, third place on my list after Lala and Yami, which is REALLY high ranked). These are the reasons why my enjoyment rose significantly.

So, if you've watched the first season of To Love-Ru, but haven't seen the OVAs yet, watch them at once! You will not be disappointed.

"Magical Kyouko-kun! Solves any problem by burning it..."

If you are aiming for an ecchi comedy with no logic or ideas in the background, where the storyline is based on cute girls getting nude and their clothes torn apart for random reasons, then this is the anime for you.

The main hero, a student named Yuuki Rito, tries to confess to a girl he likes, just when an alien princess with pink hair named Lala falls from the skies, causing him to fail once again in his intentions. Later on, he succeeds get the right words out of his mouth, but during that time Lala appears in front of him once more, and the ... avalanche of misunderstandings sets on it's way...

The episodes are not related to each other in any way, except for the most basic set-ups. An episode is born by an alien arriving from space, mostly to ask the hand of the alien princess Lala, or just by crazy fantasies of the main characters, continuing with the never-stopping fanservice. The endings lack conclusion and often are cut halfway through, with the next episode resuming from as if nothing had ever happened previously.

The art is nice, and new cute girls keep appearing, some of them alien, possessing different attributes, like jealousy, clumsiness and embarrassment - just enough to make the scenes perverted in each and every situation, just as though Lala's lack of common sense wasn't enough.

There were some humorous episodes I really enjoyed watching, but there were some totally lame ones too, those that exceeded the limit of randomness and craziness. My overall mark hangs on the seven, with the six not far below, mostly because I consider the OP to be a masterpiece.

With nearly 9 years of production time and a budget of 2.4 billion yen (over 20 million dollars), Steamboy is the most expensive Japanese animation ever to be made.

And oh boy you can see that. Large-scale views of London, with tons of people, details of the fictional machines, and, especially, the steam - everything is done perfectly, creating an amazing world that instantly swallows you in its depths of this future-in-the-past scenario.

The story of goes back to the 19th century England, when steam still was the main source of power. One day, a young child Ray Steam, working as a maintenance boy in a factory, ... receives a package with an ingenious device called "steamball", born in an experiment of his grandfather, Lloyd Steam, and his father, Edward Steam. Just after that, mysterious people appear at the front of his door, and they insist on handing them over the device. But Ray has inherited the inventor genes of his ancestors, and it is not an easy task for the villains to get him...

The character design is great, from the mad scientist family of Steams, desperate in their ways, but still kind to their offspring, down to the colorful and proud upper-class girl Scarlett, holding herself for extremely important, but still not egoistic in any way. I especially enjoyed seeing, how Scarlett's naively stark pride makes her fully forget her fear. There were moments, where I would have fainted, if I were her (I can't handle the heights, but there were more).

All in all, this is a professional artwork, which immediately became a must-see classic on my list. As expected after 9 years of production with a budget of over 20 million dollars. The only thing, that dragged my enjoyment down to 9 and the overall mark with it, are the pitch-dark action scenes, in which I hardly saw anything and could only hear something happening. But I guess this could have been caused by the poor quality of the transmission, the sound was very low too, so I had to max out the volume.

And don't turn it off right when the credits begin to show up. The background images represent an epilogue to the story, and each picture has much more in it, than it could seem at first. They masterfully fill in the lack of character development, which is a problem movies are usually doomed to suffer from, in comparison with anime series.

I like the guy. He is not chickening out the time he has to something to say. He has a goal, he goes for it. No 5 minutes of blushing combined with anos, etos and sonos, where in the end someone barges right in and spoils all the fun.

The other characters are not stupid either. And there are no stupid misunderstandings, led by "just happened to pass by and see the most embarrassing moment" kind of things, so this is no love comedy.

The art is a bit different from what I've seen recently, so it took me a while to get used to it. ... But no complains. And it seemed to me that it got better in the second episode.

The sound is nice and the music is not getting in the way as in some animes. Voices and characters match well.

OP and ED are lame though. Not worth watching every time, even when the songs are not that bad. However, what does "I love you forever with you" actually mean?

Just watched the second episode of the anime, and here is what I can say:

What I like best about this anime is it's originality. It is an interesting idea of using the plots of the worldwide known tales and fables, even though it could sound like a re-post, there are many parodies of such. But here it adds additional shine and depth to the personalities of different characters and makes it easier to follow. Thanks to this, they don't even need to use a whole episode to introduce each character - it's not hard to remember everyone of them - and the whole team acts ... together straight from the beginning, which doesn't happen often.

The eyesight-fearful "Hunter" is considered by me as a rather rare personality, and with his awesome, I could even say cute ending ~su, he truly is something worth of mentioning.

The second part of it's originality is difficult to get used to. The "storyteller" (those who have seen Railgun can say it's Kuroko, Misaka's roommate from the Railgun anime) tends to speak over the speeches of the main characters. I just can't get it over with, and so I watch the scene again, until I've heard both the storyteller and the characters talk (in my case I mean until I've read all the subtitles). And the main thing is, usually both of them are of none importance to me. While I've already noticed the things the storyteller explains, the main characters have a simple chat. So, don't get confused by overhearing something and move on. And remember the texts from Bakemonogatari, which are also not intended to be read properly.

What comes to the real plot, it has nothing special. A team of students with different specializations solving things, with a little love-comedy in it, a strong girl on the outside but soft in the inside an so on. And it doesn't seem it'll get better than that.

But due to the great characters, I think I'll watch on. And this is not a bad anime, no. But quite far from a masterpiece. For those who want masterpieces, watch Beck and Phantom first.