These TLR posts are getting later and later with every episode. I don’t know if it’s because of my laziness or if it’s because I’m caring less and less about the series… maybe it’s both. Anyways, with only five episodes left, I figured I’d just finish up blogging the series (I hate leaving things unfinished).
Summary
Lala gets inspired by a television program about hot springs and decides that she wants a hot springs for herself. Lala eventually decides to build a vehicle that would allow her to dig into the Earth’s core and locate her very own hot springs. A few other people, including Haruna, Yami, Mikado, Saruyama and those two other girls (their names aren’t really important), show up as well to find the hot springs.
After digging around aimlessly and passing up lost treasures, the crew finally find an area with many different colored hot springs. Due to the open and free environment, Rito and Saruyama get confined to a tiny hole in the ground hot spring for the sake of the other girls’ privacy. However, this doesn’t hold the two for long as they escape to explore the other hot springs.
After a bunch of events, Lala continues to drill and accidentally causes an underground volcanic eruption. Said eruption causes the gang to flee and even wipes out an entire underground nation of mole people (who were apparently planning to take over the surface world… go figure). The episode ends with sort of a cliffhanger as to what had happened, but due to the nature of these episodes and seeing the preview for the next, I doubt we get to see (nor do I really care) what happens in the end.
Impressions
For a “hot springs” episode, this one was really boring. The fanservice wasn’t anything special either. In every harem/love comedy anime you’d probably get at most one or two hot springs episodes and you’d make it the best damn hot springs episodes you can (tons of fanservice and hilarious moments). However, TLR just ruined it and wasted their token hot springs episode.
Despite having Yami and Mikado at the hot springs, I’m surprised they left out some of the other characters. At least have Saki (who showed up for like a minute or two of the entire episode) in the damn hot springs as well. I wanted my Yui fanservice dammit.
Next episode, to much of my surprise, seems to include Magical Kyoko (the same Kyoko from Black Cat with a different setting). I’m wondering if this will be a side story in Kyoko’s “world” or not since she’s considered to be a fictional character in the TLR reality and the next episode looks like it has either the principal or someone who looks very much like him. But, since there’s no signs of any of the other characters, I doubt this will include any of them as a major part of the episode. Seeing as how many of the other episodes sucked anyway, I doubt it’ll matter much.
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11 Comments
I really can’t believe people can watch this. How banal.
@Skool: You know how many ep’s I’ve seen? 1.
It’s Skoll
As in, the Norse god-wolf that swallows the sun in Ragnarok. Sometimes confused/used interchangeably with his father, Fenrir.
You have more stupid-fortitude than me. I couldn’t get past the opening scene of the first episode. A drink to your honor.
God the ending was stupid. “That day, nothing eventful happened on earth either”. That’s just a complete cop-out on an already faltering epsisode.
I kinda liked what I saw in the first ep, the fanservice was kinda intresting, but as I continued to watch I grew more and more tired of it.
The result? I stopped watching. I have to give you a excellent thumbs up for being able to continue to watch this show.
I hope you’ll find something that enables you to watch this to the very end.
I won’t stop waching when there are only 5 episodes left.
Most of the episodes were really hard to watch,because of an unsubstantial and incoherently plot.
Xebec failed at the anime conversion of TLR.
There was enough potential for an interesting anime show ,good characters,good voices and a nice story from the manga ;(
@skoll: Some people may find this series to be “entertaining” at least. I personally watched the show because I was a fan of the manga. However, I’m sure you can understand how disappointed I am, as well as other fans may be, with the series.
@Omisyth: Yeah, that ending was really dumb. The only other time they ended the episode with a cliffhanger (more like edge-of-tablehanger) was the episode with the god-awful CG space monsters.
@manga: I’m sure a lot of people had the same results as you did. If you’re not a fan of the manga or simply haven’t read much of it, I’d bet the anime alone would give you a bad impression of TLR itself.
@Fabienne: Neither will I. I’m probably curious as to how they would end it or to see if they’ll actually produce a decent episode for once.
It’s better than Kanokon in terms of fanservice and some parts are kinda funny. But watching Kanokon, To Love-Ru and Rosario no Vampire in one sequence just made it to much.
I’ll try and get some time spent on other shows, like Macross Frontier and then when that is finished I might give To Love Ru another go.
As always, the manga is way better than the anime if I have understood everything correct. Might take a peak at that as well sometime.
! Warning !
You mustn’t watch Episode 20
believe me it is the worst episode of TLR
@Fabienne: Too late!
I really liked TLR in its first….oh 13 episodes or such….but it just KILLED me in ep 15 where they announced how Lala was an alien (which I thought was terrible to do) and even worse their response to it. As this author commented on that blog, they basically went “oh, okay.” but believe it or not I still have faith in this show despite that it has been relatively disappointing in its latest episodes. I still like animes like this one however and if you have any to recommend then thank you, yet im not sure of that possibility lol cause last comment is from 2008 August but if you do that’s much appreciated.