To-LOVE-Ru Episode 3: After a storm comes a calm ～ともだち～ - Bobble Reviews

We begin this episode on the day after the events of the previous night...

For one pointless moment! We now return to the previous night.

Mea the Living Trans(formation) Weapon wasn't absent from school with a cold...she was absent from school with a vengeance. And now she can't be friends with twin-tailed pink-haired Nana anymore because she was just pretending. Oh noooooooo. Plus, weapons and humans just DON'T get along, a point we've seen time and time again in such anime as Bleach and Soul Eater.

You'd think she'd be my favorite character. She's the darker, more mature version of that one girl I hate the very existence of, like the Yami Yugi to the Yugi. So the Yami Yami, then.

Mea runs away emotionlessly...and Nana runs away with great sadness! Who can console her now? It is now that Rito, our resident harem chief, shows his one power: playing therapist in tense situations. Although 99% of tense situations involving Rito are of the falls-on-you grabs-chest variety, which, in my book, effectively cancels out any psych credentials.

...the audience laments.

He bumps into some other pink-haired lass on his way to Twin Pinks. I only point this out because she had a towel on when this happened, 'cause she was leaving the shower, the shower in her own huge alien room, the shower in the place she probably owns.

Which is why you get to order her to get dressed on your own timetables, yeah.

Anyway, he walks through a portal to a flowery wonderland! Why? Why are you so upset, Nana? Let Rito listen to your gripes without tripping into your chest in a rare rare rare rare rare moment of restraint.

*oops* *falls like dead tree* *is on top of her* *so sorry so sorry* *licks tail* *uwehhh!*

Next scene: basically the caption above, except without Rito, except the girls are talking about Rito.

This show passes the Bechdel Test, just barely sliding by on its stupid, sparkling, soapy rump.

Across town or something, the unimportant bad guys from last episode are at it again! You'd think that with Mea taking this "living weapon" role so seriously, her enemies would actually be threats worthy of her angst.

They can talk the talk, but...

SEE? THIS WASN'T EVEN SECONDS, THIS WAS FULL MINUTES AFTERWARD.
Their failure cannot be overstated.

Nana screams "be my friend again but don't pretend let's for real this time!" and Mea screams "uh, NO!!!!!!!!!!!DX" and slices her a lot! That sends Nana into an illusory dreamzone where she's attacked by a sexual beast! Sounds like what she experiences every day, to be honest! With the person she loves for no apparent reason, no less! But b-but b-ut-but-but...it's so much worse. It's...b-blobs...!

Because Rito is oh-so-gentle with his molestation!

But Nanana Najahkoop breaks through the wall!!!!!!! She hugs her!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then Mea talks about just how darling this little town is! A happy, sappy ending for us all! Up to and including the scene at the end where Lala graphically orgasms all over Rito's sleeping chest.

I choose to believe that the "even so" is "even if Rito lives here."
No. Get out of this hellhole. It's not worth it.