The BEST episodes of To LOVE-Ru
Every episode of To LOVE-Ru ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of To LOVE-Ru!
When an alien from the planet Deviluke runs away and goes into hiding on earth,she meets a human named Yuuki Rito. Watch as she wants to get married to him while he wants no part of it
#1 - Pollen Telepathy / A Girl's Feelings / Heart-Throbbing E-Mail
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/2010
Celine is drunk and spreads her pollen, making Saki and the others fall for Rito. Later, a misunderstanding by Momo sparks an interesting turn of events.
#2 - Queen of Romance?! / Let's Play a Game / That Sweet Feeling Tastes Like Chocolate
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2010
Rito avoids Lala while Saki daydreams of Zastin. Everyone prepares for Valentine’s Day, and Rito is the object of desire for many.
#3 - Lala
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/26/2008
Starting where the last episode left off, Rito is still trying to make it to the ship in time. With more challenges, he starts to lose hope and eventually goes into a dream of him, Haruna, and Lala. After awakening to Haruna and Lala yelling, he makes it to the ship. Then it cuts to a marriage where Lala says she can't marry him unless he wants to. Using her memory erasing tool, she then tries to start a new life on Earth, but ends up just transferring back into the school because her invention, like many others, is faulty, and a new adventure then begins.
#4 - A Frightening School Festival!
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/29/2008
After reflecting on her experiences on Earth, Yami reminds herself that she’s an assassin and decides to look for a job. At school, Yui tries to coordinate what her class is going to do for the culture festival and gives only two options, a calligraphy display or a region research exhibit, much to everyone’s disappointment. Saruyama takes the lead and the class chooses to take on an animal cafe for their project. The class prepares for Culture Day as Yami continues to look for work in assassination however, when she fails to find employment, she returns to the school in time to help with the animal cafe.
#5 - A Secret Between the Two of Us
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/4/2008
After thinking about what Lala's father said to him, and the challenge that lies ahead, he brainstorms ideas on how to become the number one man in the universe. He starts training and meets Haruna, walking her dog, Maron, during his first run. After explaining to Haruna that he must change, she decides to cheer him on, meeting everyday during his runs. His goal to change also affects Haruna, who eventually asks him on date to eat lunch together at the river bank. During that time, Haruna's dog chased a bird and eventually lands into the river. After Rito saves him, the two go to Haruna's house to clean Rito's wet clothes. While waiting for his clothes to dry (Rito ended up wearing a towel), the two talked about their middle school days. When Haruna was about to go to check if Rito's clothes were dry, she trips. They almost kiss, only to have Haruna's older sister walk in on them, and it turns into another awkward situation when Rito's towel falls off.
#6 - Hell's Hot Springs: Alien Girls and Colorful Exposed Bodies
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/8/2008
Lala is seen watching a commercial on tv about the Tsumata Misami Hot Springs. She then tells Rito that she wants her own hot spring. Rito finds Lala attempting to build something in their yard. Lala then asks Rito to go get her a drink, so Rito heads to the store where he is suddenly attacked by Yami-chan as a test. Rito tells her that Lala is back at home building something, in which after hearing this, Yami-chan leaves. When Rito returns, he finds that Lala constructed a large drill machine which she intends to use to dig underground and hopefully find a hot spring. Mio, Risa, Mikado-sensei, Yami-chan, Haruna-chan, and Saruyama are all invited to join Rito and Lala dig underground. As they travel, they find Tokugawa's hidden treasure and the entrance to Atlantis, which Lala blatantly passes by due to there being no presence of a hot spring nearby. They eventually come across what is called the Seven Colored Hot Springs due to the water appearing as seven different colors. All the girls enjoy using the big and spacious springs, while Saruyama and Rito are stuck using a very small and cramped one. Saruyama decides to get out of the small spring and mess with the girls in the other hot springs. Rito soon follows, and sees Saruyama chasing after Risa and Mio, which Rito then tells him to stop. They come across Mikado-sensei and Yami-chan, who then punches them both with her hair stating that she hates ecchi people. Lala then tells Haruna she needs to leave the spring to try and find a hot spring she can bring back to Rito's house. Rito then finds Haruna and they try to start a conversation with each other, which is then interrupted by Lala who tells them that they need to leave quickly because she accidentally hit an underground volcano. They come across a civilization of moles who seek to rule the Earth's surface, but the moles are then killed by the flowing magma, and everyone returns safely to the surface.
#7 - The Prefect of Spotless Integrity
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2008
A school student, Kotegawa Yui has had enough of the "ecchi" in the school, and tries to set the school some morals. Not only does she try to clean it up, but enforce some new school rules, and has a squad so to speak, to check on the students. Shortly later, Yui has started to realize that Rito is behind all the "ecchi" in school. So she gives him punishment so he wont be able to talk to any girls for 2 weeks (well after persuading the peverted principal of course). But Yui comes to see that Rito isn´t like that, and then removes his punishment. Yet things go badly wrong when Lala's machine pulls him to her.
#8 - The Golden Darkness
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/13/2008
An assassin known as 'Golden Darkness' comes to earth to attack Rito according to her client. Rito meets her in the streets and offers for a Takiyaki. She then starts attack Rito rapidly and Zastin comes to the rescue. Sadly, he fails to do so making Lala replace him in rescuing Rito.
#9 - For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Troubling Rampage / Loving Idol
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2010
Mikan and Rito’s parents are never home, so the approaching Christmas holiday doesn't excite them, but Lala still helps fulfill one of Mikan's wishes.
#10 - Beach Girls / Late Night Private Tutor / Master of Romance
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2010
Things go awry when the group visits Saki’s private beach. Lala helps Rito study for an upcoming math test.
#11 - Yami Yami Fashion / Wonderful Love / Twins Escape
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2010
Since Yami always wears the same clothing, Risa and Mio take her shopping. However, her new and improved wardrobe prevents her from using her weapons properly.
#12 - Yami's Clinic / Hostility / A Weird Haruna
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2010
Yami falls ill with a fever, and Rito rushes her to the hospital. As she recovers, Yami questions why Rito would help her.
#13 - Earth's Final Night
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/19/2008
After taking back his daughter, the King of Deviluke sends Zastin to deliver a message to Rito. Rito finds out that, the next day, he needs to board the Devilukian spaceship to prove he is really number one in the universe. He confesses his feelings to Haruna, and takes off the next day to board the spaceship, with the citizens of Japan, and Earth, cheering for him. Eventually, he comes across a dangerous plant that grows extremely fast. he manages to run away, but cannot do so forever and gets caught. However, a SUV comes and Kotegawa saves Rito, only to hit him again for a misunderstanding. Mikado drives the SUV towards the spaceship and the episode is left at a cliffhanger.
#14 - The Greatest Man in the Universe
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/27/2008
The day starts out like any other day for Rito, Lala right up in his face. This morning Zastin is at Rito's house to speak with him. He tells him that Lala's father is coming to see him to make sure that he is worthy of marrying Lala. Throughout the day Rito worries about what Lala's father looks like and can't get it out of his mind. Today at school all of the girls that have appeared throughout the other episodes seem to make his day "interesting." Rito gets called to the roof to speak with another girl that is introduce in this episode, but after he gets done talking to her he hears a mans voice. The woman was a test by Lala's father to see if Rito was worthy, but he fails. Rito, after seeing a little kid standing in front of him, doesn't believe that this is Lala's father. He soon shows why he is the ruler of the universe. Lala runs to the roof before anything can happen and saves Rito. After seeing his daughter protecting Rito and telling why she loves him, King Deviluke challenges Rito to become the number one man in the universe. Rito goes home and thinks this over and decides that he is going to do it.
#15 - A Frightening Field Day!
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/20/2008
A perverted day for Rito at a sports festival, he keeps on accidentally touching Haruna and he thinks she hates him. The contests dont make sense and the principal makes the girls do things just to please his sick desire. This day gets worse and worse for Rito.
#16 - All Men Should Be Like This!
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2008
A childhood friend of Lala, Ren Elsie Jewelria, arrives on Earth claiming he is manly enough to marry Lala. He constantly attempts to impress Lala by showing off his strength, speed, and looks, but all his efforts are in vain. After failing many times, Ren asks Rito how he is able to be manly enough for Lala. Ren watches a movie (Rocky VII) about how to be a man, and he works out non-stop in order to get Lala to love him. Eventually, Ren completes runs a 120 kilometer marathon and goes to Lala to hear her finally tell him how manly he is. However, at this time, he sneezes, causing him to turn into Run, a girl. Apparently, whenever Ren sneezes, his body and mind change genders into the innocent Run, and vice versa, due to his species carrying this inherent ability.
#17 - Run's Surprise Confession
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/18/2008
The episode begins as Rito and co. all go to a water park. Run believes it's her time to make a move and further her relationship with Rito. She attempts many times throughout the episode to obtain Rito's attention, such as she tries to lure him towards her with a fishing pole, sneaking up behind him as he's bringing back ice cream, using a vacuum to pull him away from a waterslide, and even by using fiber eating fish to eat away each of the girls bikini tops in order to scare them away from rito. All attempts fail however, sending Run into a state of depression. She encounters Montemitsu who then buys her food. Run then enounters rito's teacher, who she then requests from him to teach her the ways of becoming famous, for Run now decides she wants to become a famous idol. After rigorous training, Run decides it's too hard of a feat to accomplish. She then gets attacked by some people, which then Rito shows up to save her. Lala defeats the attackers using one of her inventions. The episode closes as everyone leaves the water park, and Run states that her fight for love has only begun.
#18 - A Broken Engagement!?
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2008
Rito discovers from Zastin, Lala's uncle and leader of her personal guard, that if he were to back out of his engagement with Lala, that he would be killed and Lala's father would destroy the Earth. Rito hypothetically asks him if it were somehow possible to back out of his engagement and not suffer the repercussions. Zastin tells him that he must feel up Lala's breasts once more within the first three days of his engagement in order to call it off. While he attempts many times to touch Lala's breasts, he does not make it in time, and thus is stuck with the engagement. The next day while at school, a new transfer student is announced to the class. Just as Rito is thinking that school is the only place that he can breathe anymore, Lala is brought into class and all of Rito's hopes of a quiet school life fall apart.
#19 - Continue
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2012
The story begins with Rito rudely awakened by each Deviluke alien. Rito explains his routine life and is most concerned with Momo due to her deceptive intents. As Rito arrives to school, he meets Haruna. Lala tries to encourage Rito to confess to her, but Rito pushes Lala to a corner and explains to her the situation is complicated as people are legally allowed to marry one person. Out from nowhere, Celine clings onto Rito. Momo and Nana surprise everyone that they have enrolled in their school. Now students, Momo winks at Rito, reminding him of the conversation last night in the bathtub. Momo overheard Rito's concern about marrying multiple girls and explained to Rito that many girls love him and marrying them all would make everyone happy. As the future king of Deviluke, he can have many concubines. Momo vows to create a harem for Rito. During class, Momo becomes popular among the boys while Nana greets a mysterious girl looking out the window. Nana impresses her with her ability to understand animals. The girl introduces herself as Mea. Later, Momo finds Yami at a bench. As Yami is an obstacle to her harem plan, Momo tries to secretly enlist Yami in her harem plan by convincing her to enroll. The conversation gets cut short when Rito runs in panic stating that the other boys suddenly went violent. The other boys arrive on the scene and attack Yami, forcing her to use her weapons. After Yami and Momo restrain the boys, Yami hears a mysterious voice reminding her that she's an assassin assigned to kill Rito.
#20 - Princess of the Jungle
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/11/2008
At school Zastin accidentally revealed the secret about Lala being an alien. Zastin also takes Lala, Rito and Haruna to space to be ambassadors of peace. They meet an alien who challenges them to a hunt. The winner wins the title of The number one hunter in the universe. They encounter dinosaurs, Amazons who wished to marry Rito and a giant gorilla "Ginga Kong" which Haruna tames. In the end Haruna wins the title as The Number One Hunter in the Universe
#21 - The Thing That Surfaces in the Darkness / Welcome to the Yuuki Household / Slumber Party
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2010
As Rito attempts to keep Haruna away from Lala’s gadgets, they accidentally activate one and are warped to another location -with no clothes!
#22 - Each Speculation
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2012
Rito wakes up and finds himself inside his bathroom with Mea. Mea tests Rito's beast-like moves and asks Rito if he experienced something similar. She reads Rito's memory about Momo and her harem plan. Yami cuts Mea off from reading Rito's memory and warns her to not bother Rito. Mea walks off and learns about the harem plan and how she and Momo are competing for Yami. Later, Nana introduces Mea to Lala and friends. Rito sees Mea and realizes her from the dream earlier. As Mea speaks obscenity to Rito, Momo considers adding Mea into her harem plan. Afterschool, Rito spots Yui and offers to walk home together since Mikan is cleaning up Saibai's atudio and Momo and Nana are with Lala at an important event. Yui is first skeptical but accepts. Momo secretly escapes from the event, a Magical Kyoko Costume Show, and observes Rito walking home with Yui. She finds this a perfect opportunity to advance her harem plan and devises a way to lure Rito and Yui into Rito's house. She first uses the princpal to chase them toward Rito's home and simulates rain to get both of them inside. Inside, Momo surrounds the home with a barrier and creates a romantic scenery by simulating rain and a blackout. Rito accidentally falls onto Yui, giving Momo signs that her romantic scenery is working. Her patience runs out when she finds Mikan and the others trying to get inside. Then, Mea shoots a laser beam and destroys the barrier, breaking Momo's scenery and exposing Rito and Yui to everyone. Lala tells Rito there was no rain today and Mikan sees Momo's tail, adding to her suspicions about Momo. Meanwhile, Mea tells master she was only messing with Momo's harem plan.
#23 - Once Again From Here / Bathroom War / Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the Sound of Love
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2010
When Lala and Rito are running late for school, they'll realize that using a teleportation device get to school faster can have some visible consequences.
#24 - Become Bigger / Wonderful Life / The Trance of Feelings
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2010
Haruna feels self-conscious about the size of her bust, and later finds a stray dog! Mikan and Yami switch bodies to experience each other’s abilities.
#25 - With Shyness
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/12/2008
Lala starts acting weird one morning, and is diagnosed with a fever that causes her to change personality every day. Rito has to deal with a new personality each day while waiting for her medicine to arrive, and has to thwart a plan to take over the world constructed by a harsh, dictator-like deviluke princess.