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Shelf Life - Love to Love Ru

My expectations for To Love Ru were so low to begin with that it's hard to be disappointed.

After I wrote my review, To Love Ru became my go-to example for a mediocre show that you've wasted your life watching. Several forum goers said things like "Yeah, that show was lame… I watched all of it." Why bother finishing the series if it was so mediocre?

I have a sneaking suspicion that the staff didn't want to be working on To Love Ru. Sprinkled throughout the series are painstakingly well animated cut-away shots to space battle scenes. It's as if the storyboard artists and animators desperately wanted to work on a sci-fi show, but that just isn't what's hot right now on Japanese TV.

Maybe the manga-ka wanted to do a space series, too, but his editor forced him to set it in high school.

The entire second half of the series is similar to the second half of Kimagure Orange Road. In KOR, there's an odd "What If" episode, a Top Gun parody, and some other surreal shenanigans for what was a (slightly) more realistic show. To Love Ru was never realistic, but the Edo-era episode was a stretch. An entire episode is devoted to a magical girl show that Lala is watching. In one episode, Lala gets a fever that changes her personality each day, leading to a series of "What if"s. What if Lala was a tsundere? Etc

In one bizarrely Furry-content heavy episode, a minor character is almost coerced into marrying an alien cat lady. This time I know I'm not wrong about saying "Furry," because the cat lady had both a muzzle and humanoid breasts.

I'm not sure why anyone would voluntarily watch To Love Ru, except for Jason Thompson, who claims to love 90s love comedies

Jeez, your reviews are getting so grating. It's like your following a formula.

1. Describe something completely unrelated to the show.
2. Describe something similar that's in the anime.
3. Compare and contrast the 2.
4. Switch around when necessary and repeat.

It just seems lazy and unnecessary to me. Did anyone else get that feeling?

I want some love for Akage no Anne and Starship Troopers.

Secondly, the stuff she writes in the begining of the review is unnecessary. It's fine that Erin was really into horses and derbies, but we don't need to know that. Erin should save that stuff for a diary or journal, cause quite frankly, I don't care what she liked in the past. I don't know her in person, so why should I? She should write something more relevant. It's a review, not a compare and contrast.

As a reviewer she needs to point out what's good and/or bad about an anime, not say what she thinks of it. A good example would be Right Turn Only. Carlo says what's good or bad about a manga, then says a final verdict.

Erin should save that stuff for a diary or journal, cause quite frankly, I don't care what she liked in the past. I don't know her in person, so why should I? She should write something more relevant. It's a review, not a compare and contrast.

Jeez, your reviews are getting so grating. It's like your following a formula.

1. Describe something completely unrelated to the show.
2. Describe something similar that's in the anime.
3. Compare and contrast the 2.
4. Switch around when necessary and repeat.

Quote:

Why bother finishing the series if it was so mediocre?

Or you mean the "I was flipping channels/nothing else was on" sort of thing?

CCSYueh wrote:

Quote: Why bother finishing the series if it was so mediocre? Or you mean the "I was flipping channels/nothing else was on" sort of thing?

But that's the thing: there is a lot else on! If nothing else, you can re-watch older shows, something I did last fall and winter. Why waste your time?

I've been into sci-fi since the 1970's (arguably since the '60's since we had some really bizarre shows on when I was a small child--It's About Time about astronauts winding up with cavemen. The Munsters & the Addams Family. BAtman. Wild Wild West was way more interesting than the other westerns my folks watched.) Sci-fi DOES do stuff like this, doesn't it? Not just the humorous titles which ARE looking to poke fun at what's come before, but even Star Trek went to past eras, didn't it?

The series keeps cutting back to a half-completed bridge. The season arc takes place over the course of a year, and it's revealed that construction on the bridge will soon be complete. I was hoping someone would jump a car (or a motorcycle, I'm not picky) over the half-completed bridge, but (spoilers) it never happens! Instead the bridge is completed and the Traffic Safety division drives across it slowly and safely during the bridge opening ceremony.

(snip)

I can't condemn YUA that much. It's well animated. The episode where Natsumi likens her romantic interests to "cake" and "steak" made me laugh.

Is it weird that I would rather watch the original You're Under Arrest than Full Throttle just because the cels were hand painted? After 2000, all anime was digitally colored, but I know the original was hand painted on cels, because I still see the cels for sale at conventions. At least if I was watching a cel painted show, I would know the cel painters put some blood, sweat, and tears into their work.