To Love-Ru: Collection 1

First, this is heavy into fan-service so it's probably not suitable for children.This is a comedy romance of the boy-stuck-in-the-middle type. It's also sci-fi as the female lead character is a princess from another planet. Regardless of the fan-service it is a GREAT story. It deserved a great dub, but so far it's only subtitled. I look forward to seeing this corrected...

This review was written almost two weeks before the release of the DVDs and the writer did not see the actual boxed product but had seen all the episodes.There has been another series "To Love-Ru" ('''') reminds me of: Shuffle: The Complete Series Box Set. It is worth checking out reviews on that one too while there are not enough on this one.Some facts: The whole anime series has 26 episodes plus 4 OVA episodes, so probably this is the first batch of two. (In this review, I'll refer to the whole series and won't limit myself to the first half.) Earlier I found disapproving mothers/fathers reviewing the series Please Twins!: Anime Legends Complete Collection for nudity. Those squeamish late-Victorians will surely be raving mad after seeing even the intro of this one, because "To Love-Ru"'s humour is strongly based on scenes where clothes fall off, are ripped open, or are shredded to pieces. Judging from this, the most probable target audience is young adolescents where this type of jokes sit well.The basic story line (with some spoiler!): boy (Rito Yuuki) is in love with his beautiful but shy classmate (Haruna Sairenji) but he is too shy to say so. The girl has the same problem. One evening, a (naked) runaway princess (Lala or Rara, '') appears in Rito's bathtub and soon believes that she became engaged to him according to the customs of her planet (Deviluke, BTW she has a cute black devil's tale). Rara is exuberant and full of energy. She stirs up life around Rito and puts the two of them into the centre of attention. After the first episode, there is very little and slow character development on Rito's, Haruna's and Lala's part and none whatsoever in any other character. If you skip a few episodes you do not lose too much. (The main reason why I watched all the episodes was that Shuffle started the same way but took a serious turn during episodes 16-19. But there's nothing of that kind here.) Check out Wikipedia for more details about the series.The genre: comedy anime, light love triangle, harem anime. Light entertainment.Evaluation: I cannot imagine that many people would like to see this series more than once. If they had prepared only half as many episodes with a little more focus, the product might have been more fun. But try to watch the first two episodes online and decide for yourself.Story: A little over average quality. Drawing: cute and cheeky.

I made the mistake of ordering this with out doing my homework first. This review is not on the show itself product, mainly the manner in which it was produced and released. This anime has not been dubbed in English. For some of you that may not be an issue and if so have at it, but for viewers who like myself can not stand subtitles, it ruins everything. I'm amazed that companies today still release shows half done like this. I'm sure the show is great but the localization is very poor. If you like subtitles, refer to the other reviews. However, if you want to enjoy your anime with English dubbing, you will need to look elswhere.I've received comments about how it is pointless to rate this down simply because of a lack of subs. This is wrong. This is Amazon.com and as such it is a review of a product and NOT a show. I feel this product is unsatisfactory as is due to the exclusion of a feature MANY other similar products contain and thus makes it useless to me and I know I'm not alone in this. There are several products listed as having no dubbeding on amazon that in fact do (see Popotan). To that effect this review is also a warning that this is not the case here. If you disagree with my rating down due to this then 1) fine, I respect your opinion and you should respect mine instead of blindly rating up you favorite shows and 2) I would expect you to disagree with everyone who gives it a 5 star review simply based on love of the show and not by rating the product as a whole. I don't seeing anyone doing that.

If you are a fan of the manga version, then this is a good DVD to buy. If you're just picking up on the story now, then it probably isn't a good investment. It would be hard to understand and most of the story is different/shortened to fit into 13 episodes. You can see how unpopular it is in America because there is no English Dub, it is in Japanese with English subtitles. Plus, there was next to no promotion for this collection so most people have little knowledge about its history and background.

Earlier than expected in delivery and just a great series in general

great if u like awkward comical

This anime has some funny moments, but it doesn't have enough of them to make this anime worth buying. This anime also doesn't have enough character development between the main character, Rito and Haruna the girl that he really loves. This anime needs more funny moments as well as less stupid moments, because it has too much of them. This anime also needs to have more scenes of Rito and the girl that he loves doing romanticthings to each other, this anime also should have more than one ending to sweeten the pie. This anime should also have a hentai version of itself which would be about Rito and all of the girls that he meets all have sex with each other.Anyway, this anime has it's funny moments but it's more stupid moments than funny ones. This anime also almost ends up trying to spread the same kind of humor that the Magical Play movie spreaded to it's viewers, that is a line that should never be crossed and this anime almost came close to that. Anyway, this anime is optional, it's not really worth checking out unless u want to see a really stupid, romantic comedy anime. 7.5/10

It's just a great & funny anime that has fanservice! What more could u ask for? Highly recommended

loved this series just wish it was in English diaglog