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Rito Yuuki is a [[Ordinary High School Student|hapless high school teenager]] who's hopelessly in love with the shy, gentle Haruna Sairenji, but just can't work up the nerve to confess his feelings. One night while taking a bath, however, a gorgeous (and naked!) alien princess named Lala Satalin Deviluke crash-lands into his bathtub, and things just spiral out of control from there...
Written by Hasemi Saki and illustrated by Kentarou Yabuki of ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' fame, '''''To
Unfortunately, due to Yabuki's messy divorce and subsequent gain of custody of his three year-old daughter (see [[Creator Breakdown]] below), the manga was officially and [[Cut Short|very abruptly]]
A [[Spin-Off]]/sequel manga titled ''To
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* [[Above the Influence]] - While painful for him, Rito will often resist the advances the many girls push on him.
* [[Accidental Marriage]] - Apparently ''groping an alien princess' breasts'' is grounds for [[Disproportionate Retribution|engagement]]! ''Really''! In the manga, it's more of his speech about freedom of choice that causes her to fall in love with him (also giving Lala a good excuse to not go home), and she decides he's the only wedding candidate worthy of her. No matter what the cause, Rito's now engaged to the princess of the galaxy.
* [[Accidental Kiss]] - Rito and Ren
* [[Accidental Pervert]] - Poor, poor Rito... [[Cursed with Awesome|or not.]]
** [[Lampshaded]]: in one arc of the manga, when the lights go out, resident [[Tsundere]] Yui Kotegawa immediately thinks he's going to fall on top of her.
** Hell, let's just say that somehow, Rito's face becomes a magnet for the female body, especially [[Marshmallow Hell|breasts]] or crotch.
** There was a [[Double Subversion]] of this: in the fifth OVA, Rito and Lala greet Haruna and Oshizu and he trips on a can, heading straight for Haruna. The usual? No; she actually dodges. From his angle on the ground, he sees up all three girls' skirts. Seriously, he can't help it anymore.
*** Surprisingly, he manages to subvert this for the first few times in the manga.
** Lampshaded again in the pilot chapter of ''Darkness'':
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'''Momo:''' As usual, he has a [[The Klutz|god-like skill]] at falling... }}
** It bears stating that they say this in response to Rito falling down the stairs, faceplanting into Yui's crotch, and ''getting her panties stuck in his teeth.''
** Lampshaded yet again in chapter 9 of ''Darkness'':
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'''Momo:''' It must be what people call fate. }}
** Hell, in ''Darkness'', Rito has attempted to save a girl from [[Naughty Tentacles]] only to get tangled up in them himself, resulting in an impromptu make-out session. ''Twice.''
** He bumps into Yami -- both of them just walking -- and they wind up on the floor with her straddling his face.
{{quote|'''Yami''': How did we get into this position from the way we bumped into each other...? It seems the laws of physics don't apply to you anymore.}}
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]] - Devilukean tails are actually (very dark) red. The anime always shows them as pitch black, instead.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]] - ''Motto'', as part of the improvements, sometimes added scenes, usually only very small, that generally added connectivity or depth. For example, in Risa's [[Day in The Limelight]] Episode, the manga ends with Rito receiving Risa's text. In ''Motto'', there is a following scene where Risa stares at her phone longingly, implying she was serious about her offer.
* [[All There in the Manual]] - ''Motto To LOVE-Ru''; while it doesn't expect you to know certain things, doesn't exactly explain them either. For example,
* [[Art Evolution]] - There's a noticeably different art style between the first season, the OVA and ''Motto To LOVE-Ru''. The OVA enlarges nearly everyone's eyes and headed into [[Uncanny Valley]] in the process, while the ''Motto'' has a new directing staff. The characters don't look bad, but they do look quite different from the original manga now.
* [[Artificial Riverbank]] - Where Rito takes Lala in an early effort to break up with her. It doesn't work.
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* [[Awesome Yet Impractical]] - Yami's barehanded fighting is quite flashy, as demonstrated when they go to Planet Mistletoe.
* [[Badass Normal]] - Rito Yuuki, [[Action Survivor]] [[Ordinary High School Student]] [[Unlucky Everydude]] from a series full of [[Megaton Punch]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up]], also [[Grievous Harm with a Body|living human weapon]]. Guaranteed [[Joker Immunity|to survive]] any [[Accidental Pervert|any accident]] because he's <s>[[Made of Iron]]</s> [[Nigh Invulnerable|composed of lead-level bones, fast-healing muscles and superelastic skin compiled with fireproof hair]] being merely human.
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] - And thank goodness; considering just how ''often'' the manga's frames are placed at crotch level (even for Mikan and Yami) during [[Furo Scene
* [[Beach Episode]] - Chapter 66 and 113 of the manga.
** Chapter 113 is adapted into the third OVA, and is so overloaded with [[Fan Service]] it seemingly forgets to have a plot or dialog and just features the girls posing in swimsuits to ambient music for several minutes at a time. And then there's the comparison of tanlines near the end...
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** Lala goes from a bratty princess who only pretended to like Rito to stay away from her suitors to a kind, unselfish and mature(ish) young woman very much in love with Rito ''and'' her best-friend/love-rival, and willing to risk her life to protect ''both'' of them.
** Haruna goes from painfully shy and self-conscious to... less shy and self-conscious.
** Yui drastically mellows out over to course of the series, going from "how indecent" to joking and laughing about Rito's [[Accidental Pervert]] moments.
*** Darkness showed how far this went by having Yui and Rito get trapped in "the rain", ending up in Rito's house due to {{spoiler|Momo's trickery}} and use of a shield that projected the rain. Then Yui basically {{spoiler|offers herself to Rito after one of his [[Accidental Pervert]] moments}}, and Rito appears to almost {{spoiler|ACCEPT this offer without any sort of "freak out" in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]}}.
** Golden Darkness arguably received the most character development when it comes to direction, outranking Rito/Yui. She went from cold-blooded assassin to {{spoiler|nearly being killed by an assassin because [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Mikan was in the way and she refused to harm her, smiling constantly around Rito and Mikan, and even being nicer to Rito}}.
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* [[Chick Magnet]] - Rito, obviously. Curiously, it seems Mikan's the [[Gender Flip|genderflipped]] version, constantly asked out by boys her age, but always rejecting them.
** Seems to run in the family, what with a [[Hot Shounen Mom]] and all. Besides, [[Justified Trope|she's so cute]].
** Rito's status is also [[Lampshade Hanging|
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]/[[Out of Focus]] - Ren hits this ''so'' hard. Sure, we know where he is, but he doesn't appear all that often. Or at all in the last 50 odd chapters. In ''Motto'' he made two appearances over all.
** Amusingly, this is a case of a character being made [[Out of Focus]] in favor of ''himself,'' sort of. Ren and his rivalry for Lala's affections were eventually phased out, and while the humorously embarrassing situations involving him randomly physically and mentally changing into the much more fanservice-bait girl Run became less and less common, Run herself began to appear more and more often on her own with no mention or Ren. Which leads to the odd conclusion [[Fridge Horror|that maybe Run just stopped changing back into Ren, and nobody cared/noticed...]]
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** What is interesting is that Run and Yui only display one characteristic; Run is clingy, but doesn't really get jealous, while Yui gets jealous but can hardly be called clingy.
** Rito showed signs of this, particularly early on. He hated it when Ren or other guys got close to Haruna and, to a much lesser extent, Lala.
* [[Comic Book Time]] - [[Lampshaded]]
* [[Compulsory School Age]] - Played straight with Oshizu, but subverted with Nana and Momo. Despite looking around Mikan's age, there's no mention of them going to school. While it isn't outright stated, it's subtly shown they mainly hang out at the Yuuki residence all day.
** Also, Yami, who spends all day hanging around Rito's school reading books.
** Both changed in ''Darkness''.
*** Justified. All three want to go to school of their own will, and are in no way being forced.
* [[Conspicuous CG]] - The octopus/squid/shrimp/lamprey ingredients in Lala's [[Hammerspace|ingredients box]].
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* [[Culture Clash]] - There is a very subtle one between Devilukes and Humans, particularly Lala; she doesn't use honorifics, has [[Shameless Fanservice Girl|no nudity taboo]] which she claims is due to her upbringing, doesn't mind the idea of Rito having multiple lovers as its considered normal for royalty to have a harem, her people are essentially conquerors and she herself doesn't mind fighting either. Momo and Nana are generally better at fitting in, so its hard to say what are typical behaviours for a member of the Deviluke race and what are just Lala's quirks.
* [[Cute Bruiser]] - Given that Yami is, for all intents and purposes, the [[Expy|exact same person]] as [[Black Cat (manga)|Eve]], it should come as no surprise she's tiny, adorable and can kick your ass.
* [[Cut Short]] - See [[Creator Breakdown]] above, but actually a variation: unlike most [[Cut Short
** It was [[Uncanceled]] in the form of ''Darkness'' after the [[Manipulative Bastard]] was taken out of the way.
* [[Defying the Censors]] - "Darkness" seems to be doing this in response of the outrage of [[Moral Guardians]] towards fanservice. Both a higher density and more risque fanservice are prominent in the sequel series and there are no signs of it letting up.
* [[Demoted to Extra]] - Going to watch the anime? Hope Mikan isn't your favorite character, or you'll be disappointed at how she makes very few appearances after the first 3 episodes or so. Particularly [[Egregious]] since most other characters get [[Ascended Extra|the opposite treatment]] if anything.
** Thankfully for Mikan fans, the [[OVA
** Several members of the harem have had drastically less screen time as of ''Darkness'', while the [[Lolicon|lolis]] have received much more focus.
* [[Double Standard]] - Yami makes her hatred of "ecchi" people clear by hitting or slashing at men or boys (especially Rito) who ''accidentally'' get a look under her skirt or touch her breasts - or even just look at her with too much admiration. But when a girl fondles her while another flips up her skirt to check out her panties, she merely asks them - rather weakly - to please stop.
** Her early appearances implied she was developing a crush on ''Lala'', not Rito, and she certainly seems rather fond of Mikan. Maybe not so much a double standard as one more hint that [[Les Yay|Yami just likes girls]].
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** One notable instance in the manga is when Rito was dreaming about Haruna, which lead to an [[Almost Kiss]] between Rito and Lala because she was in his bed again.
** The most memorable instance in the anime is actually an induced hallucination, featuring Rito, Haruna, ''and'' Lala.
* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]{{context}}<!-- At least tell us which girl(s). -->
* [[Executive Meddling]] - The end result of the [[Creator Breakdown]], although quite justified in this instance. Yabuki's ex-wife claimed ownership of the characters (especially the one that was an [[Write Who You Know|Avatar]] of her), as well as the fact that Yabuki suddenly found himself a single father... so the publishers had to force them to kill the original manga ''very'' quickly. Fortunately, this did help lead to the rise of ''[[Mayoi Neko Overrun]]'', a project Yabuki worked on as a form of relaxation while they tried to resolve the rights to the characters. He later conclusively solved the rights problem, almost the second he did they restarted the manga as ''Darkness''.
** The fact that there was anything to resolve seems rather bizarre, given that a character being based on you doesn't give you any claim to that character. So his ex-wife's claims by all rights should've been literally laughed out of court.
* [[Expy]]:
** Yami '''is''' Eve from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]''
** The manga throws in "Magical Flame Kyoko", who is TLR's version of Kyoko Kirisaki, including a bounty hunter named "Kuro" (Black), none other than the [[Expy]] of Train Heartnet, the protagonist of ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]''.
** There's also Kurosaki Mea, a.k.a. [[Darker
* [[Eyecatch]] - Each of which is loaded with [[Fan Service]].
* [[Fan Service]] - ...where do we START?!
** How about with the anime's? Nothing but fanservice shots, including one of the credits listed on the tan line of boobs.
** Summed up pretty nicely in the 'follow-up' chapter released after series cancellation, which features Rito thinking back on everything that's happened since Lala came into his life... ''and it's nothing but six solid pages of fanservice shots from across the series''. In color!
** The first chapter follow-up series, ''Darkness'', manages to somehow increase the amount of Fanservice, edging dangerously close to [[Hentai]] at points. The fact that it blatantly averts [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] probably has something to do with this.
* [[Fantastic Arousal]] - The Deviluke race has their tails, which are dark red in colour and are tipped with semi-individual shapes, which seem to be particularly sensitive. As Nana explains, while it affects both female and male members of her race, men are generally less affected. However, she also notes that it varies from person to person and that Lala, Nana and Momo are particularly sensitive.
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** While Rito has never been stuck as Riko for very long, after the first time it's happened quite a lot more than any similar oddities Lala's inventions caused.
* [[First-Name Basis]] - Lala refers to everyone by their first name. This [[Fridge Brilliance|makes perfect sense]] considering she is a foreigner (alien), and won't understand this aspect of Japanese culture. Similarly, everyone is on first name basis with her. Surprisingly, this includes Rito, who is the only one to call her without honorifics, implying closeness. The rest use -san or -chii.
** Played with with Haruna and Rito, who are on [[Last-Name Basis]]. However, at least in Rito's head, it's "Haruna-chan" and not "Sairenji", which is what he actually calls her out loud.
*** Similarly, in ''Darkness'', Haruna once calls him "Rito-san" when she was thinking about him alone, but uses "Yuuki-kun" when they next meet face to face.
** Rito is also on first name basis with Nana and Momo, though Momo adds the -san [[Japanese Honorifics|honorific]].
** Mikan and Rito too; it's especially noteworthy because whenever Mikan is being particularly [[Big Brother Attraction|bro-con-y]] she switches to "Onii-chan".
** And finally Rito and Run, with Run adding -kun.
* [[Foot Focus]] - The manga seems to sneak in frequent closeups of the female characters' bare feet.
* [[Foreshadowing]] - The [[
** Rito's new favourite brand: KING! Hmmm... trying to tell us something, Yabuki-sensei?
*** It's been pretty much a [[Foregone Conclusion]] for years that Rito will eventually marry Lala and become the new Deviluke king. The only question still up in the air is whether she's the ''only'' one he'll marry. Certainly not if [[Harem Seeker|Momo]] has anything to say about it.
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* [[Fun Size]] - Lala's father, Gid Lucione Deviluke, despite being the most powerful being in the galaxy (capable of singlehandedly destroying planets), looks like a four-year-old boy.
** Justified because he used a lot of his power ten years prior to the series to end galactic war. His current form is his [[Sleep Mode Size]].
** As of ''Darkness'' Chapter 59, he's back to adult size.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]] - "'''T'''echnology of '''O'''ver '''L'''evel '''O'''peration for '''V'''ery heavy command to '''E'''lectronic control unit" in episode 5 of the anime. The "ru" was there as well, but was listed as standing for "Ru...ru?!.ru.ru.'Run!'" in Japanese, which has the [[Don't Explain the Joke|implication that even the maker of the control unit didn't know what to do with that extra "ru".]]
* [[Gainaxing]] - The anime manages to focus on Lala's bouncing boobs even when she's completely covered in shadows. That, my friends, is ''talent''.
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** Then, purely by accident, Rito ''himself'' becomes a girl. After this, Lala makes a [[Transformation Ray]] so she can do this to him whenever she wants (as of current in the manga, she's used it ''four'' times).
* [[Genre Savvy]] - Yui seems to be genre savvy, at least in regards to Rito's [[Accidental Pervert|little moments]].
** Saki develops some of this. When Mea enlists Oshizu to help get Rin together with Rito, Saki says:
{{quote|You entrust this to a troublesome monster like her, and it's obvious that her [[Psychokinesis]] will run amok and you'll end up stripped naked and yelling "Kya----"!!!}}
*** Sure enough, Maron scares Oshizu and Saki gets flung through the air onto Rito's face. Kyaaaa!
* [[The Glomp]] - How Lala generally greets Rito, or anyone she regards as a friend, for that matter. Run has done it a few times to Rito, too.
** How Risa and Mio generally greet Yami, much to the poor little one's confusion.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: ''To-Love-Ru Darkness'' may as well be subtitled "How can Yabuki sneak glimpses of the girls' vaginas past the censorship laws this month?" Quite possibly the most clever bit so far is when a panty-less Yami-chan is falling towards Rito's head. Rito's eyes look like they're just drawn with pupils, but zoom in some and you can see that the outline of them is actually... well.
* [[Gilligan Cut]] - Risa invites/guilt trips Rito into going into her house for some coffee after he spent an entire day with her, largely against his will. He tries to decline and pull away from her, sort of mumbling/muttering, then cue next scene where they're both inside her house.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] - Yami is scary when she is under the effects of a [[Love Potion]] type device.
* [[Girl Posse]] - Rin and Aya are Saki's mascots
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Nana and Momo
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* [[Harem Anime]]
* [[Heavy Sleeper]] - All these girls sneaking into Rito's bed while he's asleep -- and he doesn't wake up fully even when one of them pinches his face.
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* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] - Magical Girl Kyoko from the [[Show Within a Show]] acts like one. Her motto is "Whatever the problem is, I'll solve it by burning it," and she means it, too. When General Mojack is giving people afros, how does she solve it? By lighting their hair on fire.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]] - [[Phrase Catcher|As expected of Motemitsu-senpai!]] He'll be instantly and permanently rejected by any girl he approaches!
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* [[Hot Mom]] - Rito's mom Ringo. At least we know where Mikan gets her looks from.
** And [[Bishounen|Rito]] for that matter.
** Lala's mom is
** Subverted with Yui's mom. In Yui's teenage years her mother is pretty normal looks-wise, but when Yui was little she was much hotter.
** Tearju Lunatique fits, being Yami's "mother".
** Haruna's mom is finally shown in Darkness Chapter 54. [http://www.mangahere.co/manga/to_love_ru_darkness/c054/6.html This woman's elder daughter is already in college.] ('''Dad''' doesn't look particularly fortyish, either.)
* [[Human Aliens]] - All the important ones.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]] - Lala admonishes her sisters for running away from home. Rito immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the hypocrisy. The same scene repeats itself, pretty much verbatim, when Saki runs away from home and goes to Rito and Lala for help.
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* [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] - Invoked by [[Fun Size|Gid]] when he threatens to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy Earth]].
* [[Instant Cosplay Surprise]] - One time when Peke gets confused and dizzy it ends up flying from person to person, changing their outfits into something much more fanservicey.
** A separate time, when {{spoiler|Rito becomes Peke}} he loses control and transforms half the class's gym clothes into extremely
* [[Interspecies Romance]] - Rito and Lala. Rito and any of the aliens, for that matter.
* [[In Vino Veritas]] - The second half of the fifth OVA. To summerise {{spoiler|Nana and Momo release a pollen to test Rito. All the girls but Lala begin acting drunk, including Haruna zigzaging between sweet and violent, angry at Rito for not choosing yet, Yui declaring Rito can only do [[Ecchi]] things with her, and Mikan almost confessing her love. Strangely, Rito is unaffected.}}
* [[Is That Cute Kid Yours?]] - Celine is occasionally mistaken as Rito's daughter. An old woman can be forgiven for the mistake, as she looks about 2 and he's 17, so it's biologically possible. [[Hot Mom|Ringo]], on the other hand, should know better.
** A bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] leads to conclusion that she
*** Well, Celine did call him Mama when she was born
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] - When Lala finds out that Haruna and Rito both have secret crushes on each other, she decides it's her duty to get them together so they will be happy. Of course that doesn't change her plans for her and Rito to ''also'' be together...
* [[I Was Just Joking]] - As part of her charater development, Yui occasionally jokes about Rito's [[Accidental Pervert|little moments]] instead of snapping at him as she usually does. Its only when she is in a really good mood though.
** Subverted in a chapter of ''Darkness'', when she waves off as a joke her implication that {{spoiler|she would be willing to sleep with him if he only did it with her}}
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]] - Old Honegawa-sensei after he gets sprayed by an alien youth-skunk.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] - Peke can be rather mean to Rito, although most likely [[Viewer Gender Confusion|she]] only picks at him because she wants the best for Lala and doesn't like Rito's indecisive nature.
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** May have shades of [[Alien Lunch]] - many of Lala's failures in cooking are due to using Dark Matter, which is apparently Lala's favourite seasoning.
* [[Limp and Livid]]
* [[Love Potion]] - The chocolates from chapter 40, but of the aphrodisiac variety.
** {{spoiler|Celine's pollen is slightly more traditional, making anyone who comes into contact with it fall madly in love with Rito, and ''only'' him. It only lasts for about 30 minutes, though.}}
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* [[Magnetic Girlfriend]] - Lala; after she sets her sights on Rito, it sets off a chain reaction that sees the latter unwittingly gathering a [[Harem]].
** ''Literally'' in the manga (and the OVA), when a device made by Lala accidentally {{spoiler|"glues" Rito's hand to her tail with [[Hand Wave|a super-powerful magnet]]}}.
* [[Marshmallow Dream]]: A variation. When Mikan crawls into Rito's bed to catch one of the other girls in the act of crawling into his bed while he's sleeping, he grabs her butt in his sleep and his mumblings hint that he is acting like he's grabbed the 'marshmallow'. When she pinches his cheek to have him release her, his response is to claim that the 'marshmallow bit him'.
* [[Marshmallow Hell]] - Taken to new heights: after one of Lala's machines accidentally shrinks Rito to about 5 inches tall, she hides him by carrying him around in her cleavage all day. Naturally, she's not wearing a bra (she never does); he nearly gets suffocated and/or squashed multiple times.
* [[Mars Needs Women]]
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** This trope is very much a [[Running Gag]] in both the manga and the anime versions of the series.
* [[Nice Hat]] - Lala's hat in her standard costume. ''IT HAS WINGS''! They apparently allow her to fly (note the hat is not held in place in any manner). The manga explains they're anti-gravity wings when they sprout out the back of her bikini in the obligitory [[Beach Episode]].
* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] - In the anime. Just listen to [[Alpha Bitch|Saki Tenjouin]].
* [[No Ending]] - Initially, Rito was never given an official relationship with anyone. Hopefully, ''Darkness'' will resolve this.
* [[Not Blood Siblings]] - Jokingly [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] by Mikan to [[Squick]] out Rito.
** Though, her reaction to being told she enjoys her brother's company starts making her motive for the above invocation ''somewhat [[Brother-Sister Incest|suspicious]]''...
* [[The Not-Secret]] - The schoolwide reveal of Lala being an alien only results in "Oh, that explains the tail". Man, people are just ''way'' too easy-going about extraterrestrials in TLR...
** The usual reaction to new girls is "Oh, are you an alien too?"
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* [[Ordinary High School Student]] - Rito spends quite a bit of time angsting about this in episode 4.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]] - Oshizu, {{spoiler|although she does receive an artificial body.}}
* [[Out-Gambitted]] - Mikan thought she was defeating Momo's intent to slip into the bath with Rito. She forgot that Momo wants [[Brother-Sister Incest|''Mikan'' to become part of Rito's harem, too]]. Momo seemed quite ''excited'' that Mikan was bathing with her brother....
* [[Panty Shot]] - Primary method of [[Fan Service]].
** In the anime's first season broadcast, at least, panty shots only show up with tennis skirts for some reason (one assumes because they're [[Truth in Television|nigh unavoidable with tennis skirts in real life]]).
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* [[Plant Aliens]] - {{spoiler|Rito's giant plant, Celine, turns into one of these.}}
* [[Playboy Bunny]] - At the start of the [[RPG Episode|"Trouble Quest" arc]], the Guild assigning "adventurers" their [[Character Class]] had a staff of Bunnies -- well, actually, multiple copies of one Bunny (there was also a Bunny on the sign outside the door). Then, when Yami shows up, she's been dressed as a Bunny as part of her character class. Yami, who '''hates''' anything [[Ecchi]]...
** When Rito first suggested Lala should dress to blend in with Earth people, she had Peke transform, of course -- and kept copying inappropriate outfits: a
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]] - Rito's reaction to Lala anytime she shows up in the nude, which is most of the time when they're at home.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]] - A lot of Lala's inventions have this to some degree or another. The teleporter that doesn't take clothes and a device that can control people's bodies immediately come to mind. This is just the tip of the iceberg though...no, ''really''.
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** Some Yui chapters deals with just about the same amount of shipping... and then there's Momo...
** Chapter 14 of ''Darkness'' is a huge [[Ship Tease]] between Rito and Yami.
** Chapter 36.5 of ''Darkness'' has a line of narration on the last page that calls Celine Rito and Mikan's '''daughter''' -- while Rito and Mikan [[It Makes Sense in Context|sleep together again]] ... and he's having the [[Marshmallow Dream]] again, as well. Unlike the previous Marshmallow Dream occurrence, Mikan is asleep, too -- and appears to enjoy whatever '''she's''' dreaming while he unconsciously feels her up.
* [[Shirtless Scene]] - Yui's brother's very first appearance was one.
** Rito has had a few in his time, as well.
** Zastin when he is possessed.
** An episode in second season also showed naked Zastin, with just [[Scenery Censor]] for the bare minimum.
* [[Shout-Out]] - Besides the [[Expy]] deal, there's a brief [[Shout-Out]] to the ''[[Halo]]'' games in episode 4, with one image showing Rito standing in the sunset of a cratered wasteland holding a gun very similar to the assault rifle from the first game, and another depicting a space battle in the shadow of a gas giant with part of a Halo-like structure and the Covenant capital city.
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** Let's not forget those ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] either, such as Lala changing into several different costumes from that series.
*** There's even a ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' reference ''in the first chapter''.
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** Yabuki's previous series, ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'', has a tendency to do this. Aside from Yami's conveniently named spaceship "Lunatique" (after "Tearju Lunatique"), the blink-and-you'll-miss-it [[Homage]] in chapter 134, wherein Lala plays a target shooting game...dressed as Train, right down to the Hades gun and XIII tattoo. With [[Expy|Yami in Eve's clothing]], of course.
*** And of course, when Train, in his Chronos, pre-Saya persona, actually appears.
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** Rito towards Haruna in the beginning, at least a little. Enough that Saruyama teased Rito about it. He very quickly stops as he gets closer to her naturally.
* [[Tenchi Solution]] - In the abrupt manga finale, Lala not only doesn't mind the possibility of both her and Haruna marrying Rito but is actively enthusiastic about it. Later, he accidentally says "I love you" to several of the other girls (even though it was meant for Haruna), Lala doesn't mind sharing him with them, too. It's implied that, by Deviluke law, he can practice polygamy when he becomes king after officially marrying Lala. Hooray for the harem?
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** The [[Tenchi Solution]] has actually been foreshadowed as early as of chapter 16, in which Rito, Lala and Haruna top a dare coming in first place. Rumor has it that the couple making it through the dare usually ends as a romantic couple.
** As of 'Darkness' Momo is VERY aware of this trope regarding Rito and the girls. Her dream is to actually achieve this result with her taking an active approach.
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* [[The Tease]] - Risa, so very ''very'' much.
** Momo's no slouch, either.
* [[Token
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]] - Sorta. See Episode 6 of the anime. Saruyama enjoys being "dissected" by Lala, and the principal asks for "more...more" after being tied up.
** Also, when Haruna got sprayed with a personality-change drug, she made some nasty remarks about Saruyama ... and it ''turned him on''.
* [[Transformation Sequence]] - Lala's clothing bot Peke does this for her quite often, but it's thankfully skipped after the first few episodes.
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***** Though it's justified as more convenient, and that Lala is strongly attached emotionally to Peke (and vice versa)
* [[Unknown Rival]] - Ren/Run. Saki, too, with her unrecognized "rivalry" against Lala for being the "queen of student body."
* [[Unmoving
* [[Unwanted Harem]]
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]] - Lala's tail. A bit of a subversion, as everyone notices, but just thinks it's an accessory of some kind when they first meet her.
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* [[Welcome to Corneria]] - Parodied in chapter 93 of the manga.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]] - Mikan, the most emotionally mature and level-headed member of the cast (though with this cast, that's not necessarily saying much, she ''is'' quite mature). Also the youngest.
* [[X Meets Y]]: The Show is [[UFO Princess Valkyrie]] Meets [[Urusei Yatsura]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Colorful Hair]] - Lala, among others of the cast.
** Noteable in that only aliens have impossible hair while humans are shown with realistic hair colours.
** Rito's (and his mother's, probably) red hair is unusual in Japan, except if he's descended from [[wikipedia:Red hair|Scotland]], and even there, red hair is damn rare (about 13 percent). But yes, it was [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Realistic]]
** [[Informed Attribute|Haruna's hair]] [[Hair Color Dissonance|is apparently black]], though in most materials and colour pages, it's violet. Presumably, this also applies to Akiho, her [[Cool Big Sis]].
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] - Lala's a nice Grade A example.
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]] - Semi-invoked with Momo, who looks like she's fighting off the urge to play with herself every time Rito gets into an ecchi situation.
** She more or less gets away with this on-screen in one of extra chapters. How, you may ask? She's thinking about Rito [[Fantastic Arousal|while rubbing her tail]]. Despite not technically being masturbation, it gets the point across well enough, especially when Nana walks in on her.
* [[Adored by the Network|Adored by the Publisher]] - It's almost unprecedented. ''[[To
* [[Almost Kiss]] - Rito and Yui, who is wearing nothing but a shirt.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]] - [[Captain Obvious|Traditionally]].
** [[If It's You It's Okay|Kotegawa]] [[Character Development|accepts this.]]
* [[Anchored Ship]] - Rito refuses to move forward with Lala until his feelings for Haruna are resolved. Presumably, this involves a confession.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Lala made '''another''' wacky invention. This one duplicates things -- or Rito. It's built into a robot cat she named "Nyan Nyan Copy-kun." That's right; she created a Copy Cat.
* [[Breakout Character]] - Yami, though one can argue Momo's getting just as much the protagonist spotlight.
* [[Call Back]] - One of the side chapters is about Haruna being turned into a cat and Rito petting and bathing her. The entire thing is a role reversed call back to a chapter in the original To Love Ru where Rito is turned into a dog and Haruna does the same. To drive the point home, Rito even remembers that time while bathing Haruna, not knowing it was her.
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* [[Celibate Hero]]/[[Chivalrous Pervert]] - Apparently Rito has upgraded himself to these.
** He also against molestation of all forms, [[Played for Laughs]]. Then again, see [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], there's additional [[Double Entendre|images]] [[Pensieve Flashback|that we never saw before]].
* [[Crapsack World]] - Run and Ren's home planet Memorze has been revealed to be this. It's a planet where there are two suns, locking the planet in eternal day time. 80% of the planet is dry desert and the rest is also inhospitable, so much so that the dual-gender bodies
* [[Darker and Edgier]] - ''Faintly'', in the sense that there is now an actual ongoing conflict revolving around [[Dark and Troubled Past|Yami's backstory]] in addition to the harem antics.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] - Aside from the harem building, the other major driver of the story is Yami finally thawing from light ship teasing to fully accepting both Rito and her life on Earth.
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* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]] - Nana seems to be about to ask this of Rito, though its more a case of [[Did You Just Have Sex?|Were You Just About To Have Sex?]]
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]] - There are some serious rape undertones when Mea straddles a sleeping Rito and gives this comment:
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* [[Expy]]:
** Mea Kurosaki a.k.a. [[Darker
** Remember when Kyouko Kirisaki
* [[Fetish]] - ''Darkness'' has shown us that some of the girls are developing these, particularly Mea who has shown great interest in licking, while Haruna is developing a fascination with bathing.
* [[Genre Shift]] - The manga started out as a fairly standard harem where the only girls who actually had a chance of winning were Lala and Haruna. By the time of Chapter 14 in Darkness, it's combined multiple aspects of ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' (whereas it only had a few callbacks and Yami herself in the original series) and morphed into a modern ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', complete with a [[Tenchi Solution]] in the works (or at least with Momo actively scheming to make sure it's in the works).
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - All kinds, every where.
* [[Harem Seeker]] - An interesting inversion: Momo, one of the girls in Rito's [[Harem]], wants to create the harem for him, with her in it, and pretty much every other female he has ever met.
* [[Headbutt Thermometer]] - used by Rito to check Mikan's temperature in 8.5
* [[Hotter and Sexier]] - Think the original was overloaded with [[Fan Service]]? Sorry, but Yabuki thinks otherwise.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]] - Topic in English~A Flowery Description About Said Topic in Japanese~
** The exception here is the first four chapters, which simply say the same thing twice, but with the same structure. The prologue chapter is an odd one out, using the title "Prologue
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]/[[Single-Target Sexuality]] - Momo, Mea, Lala and Haruna all mention how cute female Rito is. Momo and Mea even go as far as groping and licking
* [[Imagine Spot]] - Momo has one of the heavily censored kind when she thinks of Rito. And multiple somewhat less censored ones of how she hopes things will turn out during Rito's time alone with various individual harem-candidates. The actual events are invariably tamer than what Momo is hoping for (though still very much NSFW thanks to his [[Accidental Pervert]] nature).
* [[Innocent Innuendo]] - Yuuki Rito is a beast.
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* [[Not Himself]]: Rito in an extra chapter. Thanks to one of Momo's plants, he becomes a pervert and abuses Lala's inventions. He even agrees to the Harem Plan under its affects.
* [[Pensieve Flashback]] - Mea induces something like it in chapter 3. May or may not have been influenced by the dream like state Rito was in at the time. Something was added on that we didn't see before though.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: It was stated from the beginning that Lala's father, King Gid, could be this. In Chapters 60 and 61, he fights {{spoiler|Nemesis, who was created to be a weapon}}. Taking on everything thrown at him, he never quite looks '''bored''', but he never looks at all '''worried''', either. {{spoiler|Nemesis}} later admits to a bit of embarrassment about {{spoiler|how [[Curb Stomp Battle|one-sidedly he defeated her]]}}.
* [[Porn with Plot]]: ''Barely'' short of actual sex (Momo's fantasies REALLY push the envelope), the Fanservice in the sequel is so intense that in Taiwan it is outright slapped with an R18 sticker and sold in such sections.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Sci Fi)]] - The rapist in question was being mind-controlled into doing it so she's not to blame. The one controlling her on the other hand... {{spoiler|Fortunately, Momo was on hand to beat the perpetrator within an inch of her life, before turning her over to Zastin to be imprisoned.}}
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** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because if she does it right, Rito becomes the emperor of the known universe and all conflict is averted. If she fails, competition between haremettes could literally tear the universe's political stability apart with succession crises and such. Oh, and she's horny.
*** On the other hand, her plan succeeding could create its own succession crisis, given that it could easily result in ''dozens'' of half-siblings with a claim to the throne.
*** Depends. If the succession continues to be through Lala, then only the children '''she''' bears would be claimants.
* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: [[Invoked Trope]] by Momo, switching a tracksuit for Yui (at Rito's house) for only one long-sleeved shirt.
* [[Shipper on Deck]] - Momo's trying to create a harem for Rito, after all. She appears to be considering each and every female except Peke and his Mom as a love interest.
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** Yuu wants Rito/Yui, although he is sympathetic to Rito's trouble-filled life.
** Saruyama has often helped to encourage the Rito/Haruna ship.
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Lala's mother, Sephie Michaela<ref>This name is either a '''weird''' coincidence or a Shout Out to the ''[[1632]]'' series, in which '''Michael''' Stearns' daughter Sepharad is nicknamed "'''Sephie'''." If it '''is''' a coincidence, "Sephie" was probably derived from "seraph," and "Michaela," of course, from the archangel.</ref> Deviluke, is supposedly the most beautiful person in the universe. She's not of the Deviluke people by birth, but is the last of the [[Meaningful Name|Charmians]], whose beauty causes uncontrollable infatuation in the opposite sex. This isn't just her saying it; it's apparently a matter of well-known record. According to Peke, the Great Galactic War Lala's father put an end to began as [[Trojan War|a quarrel over another Charmian]]. Queen Sephie has to wear a veil whenever she's around males of whatever species, [[Power Limiter|to tone it down]]. As Nana realizes, the stage is set for one of Rito's [[Accidental Pervert|little moments]]....
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Super-Powered Ecchi Side]]: {{spoiler|When the "Darkness" Nemesis talked about [http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/ToLoveRuDarkness40/375110-20.html/ takes over Yami's mind], her costume turns [[Stripperific]] and she now '''enjoys''' Rito accidentally giving her a wedgie. '''And''' she explicitly says she '''loves''' him ... and is going to kill him as an act of love}}.
* [[Too Hot for TV]]: Still managed to get adapted into a ''TV series'', despite the [[Hotter and Sexier]] elements.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Umbrella of Togetherness]]: On the cover of Volume 3. Amusingly, the other name is scribbled out leaving only Rito's name legible.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Yami's big pleased smile is unexpected but definitely not unwelcome.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why'd It Have To Be Dogs]]: Oshizu really does not like dogs, although they usually seem to like her.
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