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To Love Ru #3-4
To Love Ru Vol. 3-4
Where the Sun Don't Shine!
The summertime hijinks continue with a trip to the beach! Rito gets an eyeful of Lala and Haruna in their swimsuits and the boys try to sneak into the girls’ rooms. Meanwhile, Lala’s enthusiastic feelings for Rito brew a storm of uncertainty in his heart.
The summertime hijinks continue with a trip to the beach! Rito gets an eyeful of Lala and Haruna in their swimsuits and the boys try to sneak into the girls’ rooms. Meanwhile, Lala’s enthusiastic feelings for Rito brew a storm of uncertainty in his heart.
400 pages, Paperback
Published January 30, 2018
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Saki Hasemi
67 books14 followersHasemi Saki(長谷見 沙貴) is a Japanese manga artist and writer.
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July 25, 2019
This series mixes humor and fan service in a harem story. This edition has a little more fan service and a little less humor. Hopefully, future volumes will, at least, up the humor.
March 29, 2020
During the quasi-isolation imposed by the will of the angel of death Corona-chan, my mediocre work is still considered somehow "essential" (let's keep it a secret that I'm superfluous, lest I be fired soon!), and so I've had to come into the office for half-days just to sit around and pretend to be important to our law firm (for which I'm the lowest-ranking staff member). In this time, in a weak attempt to keep myself entertained, yet somehow unable to continue re-reading Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf for more than a dozen pages a day, I lapse into activity involving my most significant (and expensive) hobby: collecting anime figures. And so, one day, bored at work, I was on the website for HobbyLink Japan (whom I haven't used in years, and only used for tokusatsu toys before) where there was a sale, for which the MegaHouse "To Love-Ru Gals" figures for Yui and Mikan were far cheaper than I could find anywhere else. I have two Mikan figures already, both by Alter, a vastly superior manufacturer, and I have no Yui (indeed, no non-Mikan figures but for the absurd amount of Momos I have on preorder ["absurd" only in the sense that it's taken me so long to buy any figures of my favorite TLR girl, but at the same time I've prohibited myself in the past from buying any TLR figures because there are so damned many of them and it would be so easy to just melt all my collection in favor of a TLR-only shrine]), and I am terrible at saving money, so I bought both. As follows the "theme" of the MegaHouse "Gals" figures, of which I only otherwise own three Dragon Ball figures (Bulma in a bunnysuit and both Lunches), the boobs and butts of the characters are inflated a bit, beyond the limits of the source material, to make them just a bit more vulgar. Well, Yui is, with her balloon-y boobs, which I'm somewhat offended they look so much better than the Dragon Ball Gals Lunch boobs. You can also remove her skirt to display her with her pink panties showing, better linking to the embarrassed expression on her face. But the point of this paragraph is that the flatness of joshi chugakusei Mikan, seeking instead to eroticize her by having her fellate a popsicle. Now, this is all well and good, I guess (maybe not morally - I think I see black vans parked outside my house...), but the real point is that, pressed for space, I decided simply to pose this Mikan on the same "bed" that comes with the laying-down Alter Mikan. As such, the MegaHouse Mikan's legs are spread such that she's straddling the calves of the other Mikan, and either because I'm simply a pervert or otherwise the scenario is just perverted beyond my will, but it looks a hell of a lot more lewd than I intended. And so I'll keep them displayed this way.
I think the gimmick for To Love-Ru reviews, moving forward, might be to write a lot about things that have little to do with the actual content of the manga volumes....
Originally, I had plans to cite the pages for every instance in which Yabuki's drawings of butts or thighs or boobs were particularly interesting, but this thing doesn't have actual page numbers and I've lost my motivation. But I can't ignore the part where Rito keeps trying to apologize for touching Haruna's butt and his imagination leads to a "You have to take responsibility" scenario. Shit was too good. If I was two-dimensional myself, I'm sure I would have had a nosebleed worthy of the Turtle Hermit. (Just now I opened the book randomly and it coincidentally opened to the very page.)
It's maybe easy to forget the science-fiction elements at the heart of the story when you have stuff like the introduction of Tenjouin Saki, a rather standard "ojou-sama" character. She has the hair-drills and does the "ohohoho" laugh, and even holds her hand up to her face when she laughs! This is a strange quality to manga, the unabashed use of stock tropes, that I for some reason really respect. I wrote for the previous omnibus how I enjoyed the manner in which Hasemi contrives events to allow Yabuki a chance to better showcase his skills as an ecchi artist. Here, it's a bit simpler. It's a manga set in a private high school, and so we get more characters who fit the setting, just as would be seen in many other similar series. I think there's a bit of a cycle: when one first gets into manga like this, certain character tropes are novel to them; when one is more familiar with this sort of thing, the overabundance of unironic trope usage becomes grating; when one's power-level reaches the highest plateau, one begins to look forward to "generic" elements in manga, to see how well the writers handle them. I love closely following how easily fantasy manga devolve into battle manga, and so too do I love seeing these same character archetypes in school manga. I also just plainly love the ojou-sama "ohohoho" laugh. Probably the greatest thing Japan's ever come up with.
It's also not bad to see Saki dressed as a dominatrix, but whatever. And I need to hunt down the figure that exists of Haruna in the cat costume.
I had a plan to write more about the various characters, having failed to do so last time, but I'm planning on cutting myself short here as well, so I'll be brief, and hopefully I can get to this for a later omnibus. I like how Haruna's hair falls in her face in her standard character design. I really like how Yabuki draws Lala's thighs atop her stockings.
I think the gimmick for To Love-Ru reviews, moving forward, might be to write a lot about things that have little to do with the actual content of the manga volumes....
Originally, I had plans to cite the pages for every instance in which Yabuki's drawings of butts or thighs or boobs were particularly interesting, but this thing doesn't have actual page numbers and I've lost my motivation. But I can't ignore the part where Rito keeps trying to apologize for touching Haruna's butt and his imagination leads to a "You have to take responsibility" scenario. Shit was too good. If I was two-dimensional myself, I'm sure I would have had a nosebleed worthy of the Turtle Hermit. (Just now I opened the book randomly and it coincidentally opened to the very page.)
It's maybe easy to forget the science-fiction elements at the heart of the story when you have stuff like the introduction of Tenjouin Saki, a rather standard "ojou-sama" character. She has the hair-drills and does the "ohohoho" laugh, and even holds her hand up to her face when she laughs! This is a strange quality to manga, the unabashed use of stock tropes, that I for some reason really respect. I wrote for the previous omnibus how I enjoyed the manner in which Hasemi contrives events to allow Yabuki a chance to better showcase his skills as an ecchi artist. Here, it's a bit simpler. It's a manga set in a private high school, and so we get more characters who fit the setting, just as would be seen in many other similar series. I think there's a bit of a cycle: when one first gets into manga like this, certain character tropes are novel to them; when one is more familiar with this sort of thing, the overabundance of unironic trope usage becomes grating; when one's power-level reaches the highest plateau, one begins to look forward to "generic" elements in manga, to see how well the writers handle them. I love closely following how easily fantasy manga devolve into battle manga, and so too do I love seeing these same character archetypes in school manga. I also just plainly love the ojou-sama "ohohoho" laugh. Probably the greatest thing Japan's ever come up with.
It's also not bad to see Saki dressed as a dominatrix, but whatever. And I need to hunt down the figure that exists of Haruna in the cat costume.
I had a plan to write more about the various characters, having failed to do so last time, but I'm planning on cutting myself short here as well, so I'll be brief, and hopefully I can get to this for a later omnibus. I like how Haruna's hair falls in her face in her standard character design. I really like how Yabuki draws Lala's thighs atop her stockings.
March 2, 2022
My biggest complaint is the physical copy of this omnibus is super stiff. Like, the spine had creases before I'd opened the book for the first time, and no matter how careful I was, it creased even more as I read it. In terms of the manga itself, the story was fun and the characterisation strong. Although at the start it's said Mikan is elementary school age???? Weird.
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