Anime was a mistake me after watching this Were using that meme right at the door and keeping it there because this is some serious shit. Motto To LoveRu or To LoveRu Season 2 which is what it actually is is an abysmal excuse for an ecchi romantic comedy and it fails on almost every level. Basically every episode devolves into senseless 13year old puberty wish fulfillment and all the jokes are so obnoxiously juvenile or poorly timed that they fall flat. Character development doesnt happen often and when it does it never sticks because every single named character is a simple caricature of an alreadyestablished shonen/ecchi trope and they will never deviate from that. Every character is also incredibly annoying detrimental to the plot and unclear in motivation. Lala is an alien princess who likes Rito the main character and tinkers with machinery that always has a fatal flaw. 99 times out of 100 this flaw is used to exploit To LoveRus extensive female cast be it to put Rito into some lewd situation or to put any of the girls into some insane situation where they lose their clothes or get groped. Even then the plot never consistently relies on this mechanic only in the first season is it an incredibly reliable pattern. Instead each episode of Motto has 3 different stories that usually focus on different girls in the harem. I would describe the flaws with each girl but that would take far too long. Instead lets look at the things that they dont get wrong because those are much rarer. OP/ED are serviceable and I have no problems with them. The main character actually is written as a decent person and not a deplorable human like Heavens Lost Property or more recently Hajimete no Gal. Rito is a likeable young guy with a crush on a girl from school and a tendency to get into situations rife with misunderstandings but overall he does the right thing. The only problem is that everyone fails to learn that or understand that so hes basically the opposite of Keiichi from Oh My Goddess. In OMG Keiichi Morisato gets involved with plenty of misunderstandings between himself and the goddesses. However most of the characters learn and understand that Keiichi has no ill or lewd intent and would not act on any such urges so most of the misunderstandings are concluded before any conflict can arise. This is satisfying on multiple levels first any contrived conflict coming from something out of the characters control is mitigated and mostly resolved quickly. Second even if the conflict still arises the characters are able to react to it in a new or sensible way instead of screaming or violence EVERY SINGLE TIME. In contrast Yuuki Rito is the single most misunderstood and abused harem lead ever. Every single skirt flip wardrobe malfunction accidental teleportation bodyswitching accidental drugging rape attempt yes really is HIS FAULT. WITHOUT ANY DOUBTS. He is consistently on the receiving end of slapstick violence and high school girl screaming for all of the things he never does or in some instances is literally incapable of doing. If he wasnt such a great guy this would be FINE. But hes clearly purehearted and shy Well as purehearted as a teenager can get. People do not fully enjoy seeing good people get punished without retribution or reason behind it. Lets use an example to explain how this cycle works. In a similar vein to To LoveRu Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou is a harem focused around one guy and all the strange girls who fall in love with him and their daily life. In one chapter/episode one of the girls Miia is accosted and manipulated by a presumably male creeper into almostrape on a canoe but the main guy Kurusu arrives just in time to stop it in a both comedic and important manner. This actually involves some character development Kurusu has never gone to such extreme lengths for any of the girls like that before and it is even revealed later that he was trying to find Miia to give her a gift. Also notable is his treatment of the creeper offering to undress him so that they dont get sick from being wet. Conflict Tension Fear Comedic Action Catharsis Development. Not only does it help the viewer further understand the established characters involved but it provides a proper resolution to the conflict attempts a light comedic moment and its very wellpaced and introduced. To LoveRu does none of this. At the start of each segment a girl is chosen to star and she gets in some mess and Rito is involved/blamed. The situations are lined with depravity and perverted wish fulfillment from anything to an incestous relationship with a little sister having a girl almost coerce you into rape after you do a gentlemanly act for her licking a girl erotically while morphed into a dog accidental sexting with an uptight student body member and excessive amounts of unnecessary softcore tentacle hentai. A large majority of these events are treated as if the viewer should just sit back and enjoy the boobs which are pretty much always either HUGE or nonexistent while nothing substantial happens. And you know what that would be perfectly fine if This show didnt pretend to have a plot. Consistently it is referenced that some of the girls actually seriously view Rito as a romantic interest most notably Haruna Ritos crush and Lala. This is brought up as if its a problem? Though Rito at the beginning of To LoveRu was very clearly only interested in Haruna and its only randomly brought up in Motto and parts of the first season that hes interested in Lala though it feels pointless and out of left field especially considering how Ritos life became pure hell after he met her. But thats why this show makes me so angry. Its not advertised as pure softcore porn/ecchi. Its advertised to have story progression character development. And it has NONE OF THAT. It is as structurally sound as Kiss x Sis as substantial as a sheet of cardboard with fake boobs drawn on it. The plot is only occasionally used to bring DRAMA and TENSION that feels somehow even MORE contrived than the rest of the plot. Its painful to see such a decent base for a story be so wasted. Instead go watch/read Oh My Goddess or MonMusu. Maybe even Shuffle or Oshiete Galkochan if you really need the high school setting. They have actual character development welltimed humor and substantial plots. And hell you can even get some enjoyment out of the first season of To LoveRu. Its not an 8/10 but its so much better than Motto that its insane.