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.