# To LOVE-Ru (2008)

> An unlucky high school boy is accidentally engaged to the princess of an alien planet and drawn into a crowded harem of devoted women.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/31974

## Facts

- Seasons: 4
- Episodes: 64
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, science fiction
- Network: TBS, TOKYO MX, BS11
- Cast: Akeno Watanabe, Haruka Tomatsu, Misato Fukuen, Sayuri Yahagi, Kana Hanazawa, Satomi Arai, Takehito Koyasu, Fuyuka Ono
- TMDB rating: 6.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216222/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: breezy, playful, lighthearted, comedic

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed overall, with the first season rated lowest and later seasons rated progressively higher for the playful harem comedy.

## Synopsis

To Love Ru (2008-2015) is a Japanese animated harem romantic comedy series created as a shounen anime and produced by XEBEC with TBS as a broadcaster. Rito Yuuki, a hapless high school student whose confessions always fail, is voiced by Akeno Watanabe, and his life is upended when the alien princess Lala Satalin Deviluke, voiced by Haruka Tomatsu, is accidentally engaged to him. Golden Darkness, voiced by Misato Fukuen, and Haruna Sairenji, voiced by Sayuri Yahagi, add to the crowded household of pursuers and rivals. The engine of each episode is simple: Rito tries to win a romance, misunderstandings pile up, and alien gadgets from Deviluke backfire in a school and home setting. The show runs four seasons across sixty-four episodes, following a continuing thread of escalating romantic entanglements. It is set in a contemporary Japanese high school town with an invented sci-fi overlay. Its tone is breezy, lighthearted and fan-service driven, with a warm comedic heart. Fans of Love Hina, Mahoromatic and Ah! My Goddess will find resonance in its blend of romance, alien whimsy and ensemble comedy.

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