Anime · BS11
To Love Ru
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Akeno Watanabe
Rito Yuki (voice)
64 eps
Haruka Tomatsu
Lala Satalin Deviluke (voice)
64 eps
Misato Fukuen
Golden Darkness (voice)
64 eps
Sayuri Yahagi
Haruna Sairenji (voice)
64 eps
Kana Hanazawa
Mikan Yuuki (voice)
50 eps
Satomi Arai
Peke (voice)
50 eps
Takehito Koyasu
Zastin (voice)
50 eps
Fuyuka Ono
Ren / Run (voice)
50 eps
Mamiko Noto
Oshizu (voice)
50 eps
Mikako Takahashi
Akiho Sairenji (voice)
50 eps
Hidetoshi Nakamura
Gid Lucione Deviluke (voice)
50 eps
Harumi Sakurai
Ryōko Mikado (voice)
12 eps
Kanae Itou
Nana Astar Deviluke (voice)
64 eps
Aki Toyosaki
Momo Belia Deviluke (voice)
64 eps
Kaori Nazuka
Yui Kotegawa (voice)
64 eps
Chiemi Chiba
Kyōko Kirisaki (voice)
12 eps
Masako Jo
Ryōko Mikado (voice)
38 eps
Ayako Kawasumi
Saki Tenjōin (voice)
64 eps
Ryoka Yuzuki
Celine (voice)
64 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How To Love Ru actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
To Love Ru reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Humour.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Rito Yuuki is unlucky when it comes to love — no matter how hard he tries to confess to his crush, his efforts end in failure. After another day’s confession goes down the drain, Rito spends his night sulking in his bathtub. But when a naked girl with a pointed tail teleports into the tub with him, it seems like Rito’s luck is finally looking up! His fortune doesn’t last long when he finds himself accidentally engaged to the buxom beauty who is none other than the princess of the planet Deviluke!
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 64 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
200917 episodes
Best episode · S00E01 Rito, You Became a Girl!
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200826 episodes
6.4IMDbBest episode · S01E01 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Season 2 · Complete
Motto
201012 episodes
6.3IMDbThe interstellar insanity continues! Princess Lala has finally started to admit her true feelings for the young man she’s inexplicably engaged to. Unfortunately, her sometimes erratic technology added with the snags and snarls of intergalactic politics are still causing major problems. Love takes a quantum shift into the wrong gear and the star brakes are broken in the extra-special, extra-crazy extraterrestrial romance to end them all, Motto To Love Ru!
Best episode · S02E01 Once Again From Here / Bathroom War / Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the Sound of Love
Season 3 · Complete
Darkness
201212 episodes
6.5IMDbBest episode · S03E01 Continue
Season 4 · Complete
Darkness 2
201514 episodes
6.5IMDbBest episode · S04E01 Unconsciously ~Light Head, Pounding Heart~
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Rito tries to work up the courage to confess to his long time crush. The universe seems to be against him, dropping a naked runaway alien princess named Lala into his bathtub.
- Directed by Taketomo Ishikawa
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S00E01
Rito, You Became a Girl!
When Lala heard that all men are interested in boobs she started to make an invention that will make her boobs bigger. All of a sudden Rito flies out from a school window and crashes into the invention turning him into a girl.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E16
Multiplication ~From Front to Back~
S00E15
First Accident? ~First......~ / I Think ~One Step Back~
S00E14
Mother ~Supremely Beautiful Angel~ / Charm ~Great Mother~
S00E13
Ghost story ~Do You Like Scary Things?~ / Clinic ~Can’t Be Honest~
S04E13
Power and Power ~Protector and Protected~
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kentaro HattoriProducer
- Shinya ShinozakiProducer
- Kazumasa SanjoubaProducer
- Masanori GotoProducer
- Takatoshi ChinoProducer
- Gou TanakaProducer
Writing
- Akatsuki YamatoyaWriter
Direction
- Masaki UtsunomiyaDirector
- Taketomo IshikawaDirector
- Yukio KurodaDirector
- Atsushi OtsukiDirector
- Osamu SekitaDirector
- Tsuyoshi NagasawaDirector
Cinematography
- Kenji TakeharaDirector of Photography
Music
- Takeshi WatanabeOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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