To-LOVE-Ru Darkness 2nd Episode 1: Unconsciously ～頭ふわふわ☆心どきどき～ - Bobble Reviews

What a nice, easygoing slice-of-life show. See the very second shot? Tasteful, foggy, happy bathing. And right after that? An eccentric family sitting down for breakfast. Is it a wonder why ToLOVEru or however you spell it cast such a spell over its millions of fannnnnnnnwwwwWHAT

I would have given you a clearer image of the girl who, because her monster tail is getting sucked by this loser boy, is squirming all around the bed provocatively in her panties, but, y'know.

To-LOVE-Ru sure faked me out!!! Right away I am reeling from the ridiculous blur they have to ladle onto their dim-witted ecchi antics like so much foggy gravy. Watch as Rito plunges head-first into this girl Lala's crotch! Or, wait, you can't! Buy the DVD and get the full experience!!!!! Buy all the nudes that ain't quite fit to print!!!!!!!!!!

She doesn't move. She doesn't jump out the way.
She lies there and squirms like the ecchi worm she is for several seconds, in the middle of the kitchen floor.
It's brilliant

If you can think of an anime harem trope, I bet you To-LOVE-Ru's got it — not so much in the "I want a robot maid catgirl with wings!" sense but in the "every time it looks like we're doing it, I want either the bratty tsundere who secretly pines for me or some kind of authority figure to fling the door open and see!". Maybe you find this kind of shamelessness funny. Or hot. Maybe this isn't for a big blue Bobble Bear to know.

They frowned and called this melty-faced thing a "trans weapon" and I don't know if that's a plot thing or just some weird politically-incorrect dig, but I thought I'd bring it up for posterity

Anyway, as you probably guessed, all the space monster girls and the one non-space non-monster human boring boring boy have gone to school. But not before taking their tiny lettuce monster girl to elementary! (At which the crowd goes "awwww," probably because they didn't come here for this warm-hearts crap and want some alien pussy action.)

You know what else the artist of the To-LOVE-Ru manga did? He made this cool-looking shonen action series called Black Cat. Now, if it's fun characters you want, without all that pesky crotch-in-face, that's your story. I mean, you got Sven and you got — wait, really? Could it be...that Eve from Black Cat is making some kind of appearance in To-LOVE-Ru? She's doing a chaste little cameo, right? That beautiful intelligent angelic prepubescent menace? Is that what's gonna happen!?

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO

At least it's not really Eve. It's Yami! This is Yami!! She's an established character who's exclusive to the To-LOVE-Ru franchise!!! She doesn't have transforming hair powers like that other underage girl!!!!!

I would like to stop reviewing this now.











But I can't! Beeble Bear absolutely refuses to review this. Let's get on with it. Eve beats our """hero""" Rito's face into a butt. It's fitting. It's a face as dumb as the name. I only bring it up because it is the height of male-provided fanservice in the show. As such, treat it as an oasis, a thing of beauty.

For those of you who are into dudes: don't say this anime never did anything for you.

You wanna know the plot of this series right now? The first layer of this main plot of this episode? It's like a parody of itself. It's the sort of self-referential low I didn't think a high-level harem like this would stoop to.

Is she supposed to be a villain, or only evil in the hot way?

So after that, we get a scene with Just Girls, which, surprise surprise, has no pervert prat-falling, but also features, surprise surprise, "covert" and "sneaky" shots of their panties whenever they look up or sit at a certain camera angle. As if to say to viewers, "We really care about you. So while these young ladies talk about their collective man, have a little snack. Gobble gobble gobble." I'm not sorry about any of that I just typed.

This is a drink from space. It's so small. Can you even see it?

"I wanna marry Dorito," says Indigo Hair.

"I wanna marry Guido too," says Pink Hair.

Oh, sorry, there's multiple pink hairs. Let's hear what the other one has to say.

"So I can marry him...and you can marry him...and we won't get into any disagreements regarding him whatsoever?"

mormonism . the final frontier .

That was an inspiring discussion. Oh, but just in case you got hungry during that talk and the little skirt snacks didn't satiate you, you get to vicariously consume whatever kinky pink lump this imagination sequence is supposed to be:

Indigo gets drunk off of space drink, but that was all according to plan, because if she gets drunk off space drink, falls into Frybo's arms, gets taken home, and drags him into another bout of sensual harem hijinks (and even the characters know she will), she's sure, I suppose, to move along The Harem Plan! Yeah no, they didn't really refresh viewers on why The Harem Plan would be strongly plot-relevant...except...that it's a harem, and who in the world wouldn't want that!? Freakin' A!

I was about to say how the principal who shows up while Rita's walking Indigo home looks kind of like the Pointy-Haired Boss from that comic strip, but uhhhmmm let's not give him that kind of dignity.

I shouldn't have to tell you why.

Are you ready to learn what this wadded ball of space Mickey D's drink contrivance leads to? Well, Rigby takes her home, and she's drunk, and she has a yet-unconfessed love for him, so she wants him to stay and nurse her. Well, he's coming down the hallway with this cup of water, because that's good to give people you're nursing. She's in her bedroom.

"Well gee," you, the writer of this scene, are now thinking, "we're just missing Element H, the part that makes this superepicmegaultrahot."

That's easy; you've already got water, let's make it spill all over her. Oh, but have her stand in clear view and the light of the window and undress for no good reason first. Let's say she's feeling "feverish." Put a dog in the room just so that Tenchi can get bit by it and spill that stuff. Yeeeah, that's good.

IT LOOKS SO STUPID, IT WAS ONLY ONE CUP'S WORTH OF WATER.

She's drunk, so like, she gets him on the bed, puts his arm in a leglock so he can't move, but it's cute because it's a big drunk-o accident and Rito's blushing, so he must like it, and then she's saying cute kitty stuff like "don't look" even though she's clearly stripping for him as we speak.

With crazy characters like this, who would have guessed? Profound!

But wait! There's still classic harem elements missing from this scene! We can't call To-LOVE-Ru the perfect Grade A harem show without them! Where's the "near-confession" scene we've no doubt seen time after time, where Indigo is drunk enough to speak from the heart for a few blessed moments before she gets sober RIGHT before the tantalizing climax!? And where's the authority figure catching them do such naughty things!?!?

CHECK. AND. CHECK.

Okay, but is Rito too dense to realize she loves him?

Perfect.

.....Check, please.