TO LOVE-RU DARKNESS

** Not exactly sure why MAL says there's 100 chapters when there's only 77 **

Story (7/10) - Following the events of To LOVE-Ru, we see Rito continue to struggle with his daily life involving all the women in his life.

Art (8/10) - They say all things age with time, this is true. It felt that the artistry in this story was slightly improved since the original. (Granted this was published over a year after TO LOVE-Ru ended)

Character (8/10) - This franchise is very in-depth with character development, and is a joy to connect and watch them grow.

Enjoyment (7/10) - Reading this was just as fun as reading the original, and also the excitement and finding out what happens next after the Anime finishes.

Overall (7.5/10) - This was a small step-up from the original. The one problem I had was the open-ending. I feel like none of the main plot problems were resloved, but I've heard that there may be a sequel, but we'll have to wait and see.

to love ru darkness is one of the most intresting mangas i have read.
it contains a bit of everything the storyline is the main thing, at times it can be funny just watching rito get into weird situations and momos desperate attempts of suducing him. you get really stuck into the manga when the storyline comes tense when some change of events happen and you get to see some change of heart with yami.

it gets updated every month and this should be their 10th issue this month.

To love ru is an outstanding series. After watching the anime I couldn't control myself what happens next. It was like I have to know, the end was little unsatisfying thou. I liked because why do u like an harem anime or manga? Well u know the answer. If u are watching anime and u want to continue from the last of to love ru darkness 2 u can continue with to love ru darkness manga chapter 55 i guess. Well the manga to lovf ru manga with the name of toraburu. Overall this is an terrific series and u should watch it or read it.

What?!? Plot in To-Love-Ru? You're kidding me right? Adding decent story to arguably one of the finest ecchi harem mangas written is like adding hot fudge to an ice-cream sundae or adding bacon to a cheeseburger. Yep, it sounds that good.

To-Love-Ru is back! After an ambiguous end to the original series due to outside circumstances, I find it commendable that both Yabuki-sensei and Hasemi-sensei have he balls to pick up this series where they literally dropped it off in the summer of 2009. Based on the three chapters currently out, I feel that Yabuki-sensei and Hasemi-sensei are pouring much more time and effort into this sequel. There are new characters, a new storyline, great art, and (I'm not kidding) potential PLOT!!!.

Before I begin, I realize that it is quite premature to write a review on a series with only three chapters published. Rather than reviewing the actual manga, consider this a review of the manga's potential, based on conjectures and projections from the three chapters published, the original series, and a little bit of optimism.

Story:
To-Love-Ru Darkness: 9/10
Original To-Love-Ru: 7/10
I begin with perhaps both the selling point of this new series as well as the most projection-based and questionable rating I will make in this review. I have absolutely no hard evidence that To-Love-Ru Darkness' story line is that good. All I know is that it seems to be much more existent than the storyline in the original work, which garners it a higher rating than the original. Based on foreshadowing made in the first three chapters, as well as the epicness of Yabuki-sensei's previous series Black Cat, I suspect there may be a fair bit more action, drama, and maybe even conspiracy theory than there was in the original To-Love-Ru. I also have the feeling that some of the orignal Black Cat cast might make an appearance here or there. At the first least I give the story a high-probability of being non-episodic. But even that is a huge step up from the original, plotless series, and I believe the inclusion of story could be the biggest change, the biggest improvement, and the biggest selling point of this new series.
Also, it seems like the main cast of the series has been swapped. We all know that La-La and Haruna both crush hard on Rito; now its time for some of the other characters to shine. It seems like the focus here is on this new girl named Mea, Momo, and Yami. Since Yami-chan has been a favorite character throughout the two Yabuki series she has appeared in, I find this fact a major plus. (In my loli-Yami-chan-loving heart, the story is 10+/10.)
One final thing about the story is that there seems to be a lot less comedy than there was in the orignal series. I don't find that a bad thing, which is why I overlooked it, but I am aware that this may actually turn off a lot of viewers, as the original series was mainly comedy.

Art:
To-Love-Ru Darkness: 10/10
Original To-Love-Ru: 9/10
Holy Shit Yabuki-sensei is a God. His skill at drawing has been improving steadily throughout both Black Cat and the original To-Love-Ru. Black Cat, being a tradition shounen-action manga, nurtured his ability to draw seamless and awesome action while To-Love-Ru gave him plenty of time to practice drawing naked bodies. Based on the conjectures I made about the story, I believe both skill sets will serve him well in this series. There hasn't been too much action to judge on, but the ecchi scenes were steamy. I mean...holy god...look at him squeeze those nipples...O.O. The ecchi and the ecchi humor has gone up a serious notch in my opinion, as there is less “KYAAH DON”T LOOK!” and more serious, serious seduction going on. On that note, Momo scares me shitless.

Characters
To-Love-Ru Darkness: 9/10
Original To-Love-Ru: 9/10
Once again, I don't have any foundation for this rating, which is why it received the same score as its predecessor. The same cast of colorful, some coercive, some kind, girls (I was tempted to use a different word to add to the alliteration) returns with their main and supporting roles switched. The older sister La-La has had her chance to shine; now its time for the voyeuristic, younger sister to take over and plot in the darkness. Although its not enough to warrant a bump in points, I feel that there is increased capacity for character development in To-Love-Ru Darkness than there was in the original series due to the (potential) presence of drama and plot.

Enjoyment
To-Love-Ru Darkness: 10/10
Original To-Love-Ru: 8/10
Being the evil bastard I am, I enjoy the darker, more dramatic storyline of To-Love-Ru Darkness more than the light-hearted episodic comedy of the original series. As mentioned before, the ecchi scenes and the ecchi jokes have been notched up a level, and I would consider it at the level of seinen, aimed at older males. These girls are seriously trying to seduce Rito's pants off, and some of their methods are crazy hot and aggressive. Finally, since its a Yami-centered series, the enjoyment on my part has been boosted up a level. Now if only Yui were be a main gal as well.

Overall Rating:
To-Love-Ru Darkness: 9.5/10 mean
Original To-Love-Ru: 8.25/10 mean
I feel like To-Love-Ru Darkness has serious potential to outshine the original series. As the name implies, Rito's days will be much darker and steamier time than were in the original series. A suitable analogy for the relationship between To-Love-Ru and To-Love-Ru Darkness would be that of the first few chapters of Mahou Sensei Negima with its latest epic chapters and arcs.

I welcome questions, comments, criticisms and compliments whether you found this review helpful or not.

Before I begin, I'd like to say this series is leaps and bounds ahead of the original to love-ru series. There's a PLOT, which is nice lol, and character development. Anyways, I liked it. So lets get into it.

Story: The story was orignially an 8, but I dropped it down to a 7, because the ending was so abrupt and it never gave us closure as to what Rito ended up doing...

Art: Great art. The artist is very talented at drawing the female body, it's quite impressive, and the ecchi shit is well done. I mean, it's a comedy ecchi. I'm happy it's done well lol.

Character: Characters aren't super deep, which i get in a comedy, but i would have liked there to have been a bit more development since the entire plot is surrounded around characters loving each other...

Overall, it's good! It definitely makes you want to keep reading, and there are some good arcs. Ecchi as hell. But hey, so was the first one. I like it!

After finishing To Love Ru, I jumped into Darkness.
First of all, the ecchi here is a lot heavier then in the classic To Love Ru not only because the nipples are drawn, but also due to the events that happen (like Rito kissing Lala's "lower lips" multiple times during the manga) and you know what, I like it. I always felt that it's better to have no censor than to have things like hair censoring nipples or convinently placed object in front of X part. Anyway, that's one thing I think Darkness did better.
Another thing was the story. The classic To Love Ru manga had little to no story (save for some chapters), but this one has a story from chapter one up to the end. Basically, we can divide the story into two parts, before Darkness transformation and after Darkness transformation.
Before the Darkness transformation, Momo decides to make Rito's harem, but there are many obstacles in her way, such as Yami having Rito as a target, Mea and Nemessis' plan to turn Yami into Darkness and also who whould take part in the harem. It doesn't take long for there to be some many candidates for the harem that one has to wonder of Rito will survive the honey moon.
After the Darkness transformation, it's time for everyone to change. Everyone begins to work, on their own way, towards the harem, though many don't even realise that. In the final chapters of the manga, Rito is troubled if he should or not accept his harem. Whle he does see it as the only solution for eveyone to be happy, he doesn't accept it at his core, so there are still more troubles to come.
Other than that, there's not much to say. The comedy if funny, the ecchi is good, the characters aren't anoying. Really, is there a reason to dislike this?
(spoiler, by the end of the manga, Rito and Haruna do confess to each other)

To love ru darkness is the greatest harem anime in my opinion. the lack of story, the character development moving about as fast as a snail thats being set on fire, the fact that most characters are just exaggerated anime stereotypes, and the fact the creators push to the brim in each chapter to see how much vagina they can show before a tail or a hand needs to be drawn for censorship are one the main reasons why I love this manga.

Story: 4

Don't get me wrong here im a HUGE fan of this manga, but we are not here for the story. in fact, what usually gets me excited for a next chapter is knowing what situations they could think of putting these characters in, because i've always been impressed by their sexual creativity haha

Art: 10

To me, To love ru darkness has the best art when it comes to ecchi- soft porn mangas, and it was one the reasons why I love this manga so.


Character: 5

I've seen better characters in my time, but using stereotypical archetypes really made it funny yet really predictable to the point where you would know what the characters would do/say before it happened.

enjoyment: 10

enough said, having a great time reading.

Overall: 9

funny, stupid, erotic, beautiful art, if your looking for some *material* or youre just feeling like an ecchi to read, this is your manga

After 10+ years the story we all known and love and have grew up reading is now officially (Or what we believe is a definite end) ended. Hard to imagine that all good things must come to an end sometimes, and this series was no exception. However this story has left people with some kind of confused or mixed feeling. Due to of course it's sudden and open-ended ending. Rather a bare-bone and unsatisfying conclusion if anything. Not a good way to end a popular and long run series as To-love Ru. Almost feels like we were given a huge middle finger.

As many may hope another sequel is to come in the nearby future, in hopes to fill the void that was left behind. Lets not forget what this series has brought us these couple of years. And here are its good points:

Art:
Lets just start of with this one for now and get more complex in a bit. The illustration on this was superb. Characters looked beautifully made, smooth, and well-presented. The scenery which were not the focus was made in great details. Everything was focused and rather consistent throughout the chapters. However one of the most key art of this story and that many have missed it's the nice little "easter eggs" the drawer left behind. Those small attention to details was fascinating, it really felt as the illustrator wanted to tease the readers even more than the focal ecchiness that was on the page. And I say well done!

Ecchiness:
Must I really elaborate?
The ecchiness here is what makes To-Love Ru, in fact it's better to say that without ecchi this series would be nothing but just a cheesy romcom, with little to no audience. And what I must say is that the ecchi in this story does not fail! It delivers something every chapter no matter how subtle it is. Not even DxD or HoTD nor Shinmai can hope to compete with TLRD when it comes to ecchi. (Not a biased statement either, honestly just do your research and you will see that this statement is rather true). This series is boderlined hentai at its finest. Pushing the ecchiness meter pass dangerous level and seeing how far it can go, all of that to arouse you for like 20 minutes.

The Girls:
Won't get much into this one, since this is pretty much a double-edge sword. But listen lets be honest... More tiddies more fun. And enough girl to go around. All of them are just simply amazing. But again will not go into much details because again this part is both a positive and a negative. (Biased opinion here: Yui Kotegawa, best girl).

The Ending Route:
Here is the last positive points of this series. And that is, it's potential outcome. Every chapter lead us closer and closer to a possibility what the ending would be. We were given 2 choices, either a one girl wins all ending or the Harem route ending. Now how is this positive you may ask? Simple it gave anticipation. The hopes of knowing which of the 2 possible route was to come. This ofc lead the readers to read, it glued you in, it draw you in, for what? For a conclusion that was left for anyone to guess. What a way to get everyone on the edge of their seat! And even if one girl won, who would be that lucky girl?? With so many the ending possibility was endless! And that was rather fun to guess around for awhile.

Now for the bad points:

The characters:
I told you this was the double edge sword and I will tell you why.
There was just too many with little to no appearance, little to no development. And those with development in their "love pursuit" revert back into background characters. And just too many were left abandoned. Rito's best friend, Zastin, Aya, Rin, Saki, Kyoukou, Risa, Mio, Lala, Yui, Run, Nana, Ghost girl. I mean that's alot. This part mainly only focused on Momo, Nemesis, Mea, Haruna, Yami.. With only Yami and Mea having any true development! And well Haruna too. I mean this part was more a Yami focused story, which they did, but felt so unfulfilling at the sametime.

Story:
What story?
Jokes aside, believe it or not this story had an actual plot... What happened to it? It got decimated.

Overall this series was enjoyable nonetheless. It teased us, treated us, made us laugh and made us hope. In all and all, all we can hope for now is for hopefully another possible sequel. I will conclude this review rather arubtly just like the author did with To-Love Ru.

(contains vague spoilers)

Okay where do I begin, my mind wants to say this first off. This manga had the worst type of harem ending open ended but imagine the worst open ended ending and multiple "bad" by 10. This manga has been a wonderful experience along with it being the continuation of To-love Ru this one offered the idea of a harem and I was really hoping to see the harem idea go through because the author really tried and made a great possible idea that would have left everyone happy other than harem hatters of course.

Liked because
-This manga had a idea implemented by the author to actually create a harem in which all the girls would be happy, Rito bobbed and weaved through all the harem confrontations always avoiding the idea which is typical as normal humans it doesn't sound "healthy" but in the end the only solution was the harem and everyone was very accepting of it, all the girls didnt care as long as they had a peace of Rito, but Rito denied it to the end.

Disliked because
-The freakin ending. GAWD I hate it so much I feel like it could have ended there or in 5 more chapters happily unlike any other harem manga but the dude had to continue and carry on the tradition of a harem cliche ending. This manga doesn't need story but if its gonna have try dont half ass it. apparently they will have 2 extra chapters that will finalize everything but no hope on that.
There will be no sequel because of the difference of ending from trouble and darkness. In darkness its a clear thanks for everything ending and trouble there wasn't anything like that.

I was hoping to see more of the Lulu's father and mother some action while carrying on the manga and the ecchi harem but instead I guess the author forgot about all that and ran out of ideas maybe even ran out of funding? regardless this manga had potential especially for a harem and like always it was discounted as views and readers not caring for it. I really hope that there is a new sequel but likely there won't be but hey hope right, hope that there will be a sequel with a proper ending, hope that if when the 2 chapters come out to finalize it it is a time skip with riot as a king and harem lives, or hope that I can get over a manga that I spent so much time reading that wasted away into not even a halfassed ending but a complete BS one. Good luck and dont get hung over the ending

welp i read this manga bcs i desperately want to know what continues after the anime and welp, i was hoping for more amazing "plot" but what i got was a bit unexpected..
since this series has not continued in a pretty long period, i was hoping for an ending at the end of the manga, what i got was a cliffhanger i guess.
welp the author himself said that it's not the ending of to love-ru , which make my heart at ease.

i really want to talk about all that have happened but since this is a review, i guess i cant. the series is amazing. i love every single bit of it and it easily be my favourite one , welp for now maybe.. idk what great series i will watch in the future but for now, this will be my favorite.
it was fun watching and reading this series but welp i guess i need to wait for the next chapter to appear. i hope theres one.
enough with the nonsense, i recommend you all to watch and read this series not only because of the "plot", but also the funny and interesting story.
all and all, it was all worth it in the end.