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* TheScrappy: The Principal is [[{{Gonk}} ugly, fat]] and a pervert whose only role was simply getting beat up by the female characters whenever he dashed half-naked towards them. While this character should provide what amounted to ComicRelief, the interruptions that occurred as a result of him became increasingly annoying, frustrating and unnecessary, especially when certain scenes that were meant to build drama and tension were instantly cut away by him, often resulting in MoodWhiplash.

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* TheScrappy: The Principal is [[{{Gonk}} ugly, fat]] and a pervert whose only role was simply getting beat up by the female characters whenever he dashed half-naked towards them. While this character should provide what amounted was supposed to ComicRelief, be a PluckyComicRelief, the interruptions that occurred as a result of him became increasingly annoying, frustrating and unnecessary, especially when certain scenes that were meant to build drama and tension were instantly cut away by him, often resulting in MoodWhiplash.
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hentai and porn are not fair terms for this series.


** ''Darkness'' itself. Is it a perfectly good sequel and the vastly increased fanservice a good thing because [[JustHereForGodzilla it's what most people were here for anyway]]? Or is it a horrid sequel because of the change in main characters, the near-pornographic fanservice, and largely doing away with what made the original series fun and charming and worth watching/reading for besides the fanservice?

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** ''Darkness'' itself. Is it a perfectly good sequel and the vastly increased fanservice a good thing because [[JustHereForGodzilla it's what most people were here for anyway]]? Or is it a horrid sequel because of the change in main characters, the near-pornographic excessively sexually suggestive fanservice, and largely doing away with what made the original series fun and charming and worth watching/reading for besides the fanservice?



** Some fans of the original series pretend that ''Darkness'' doesn't exist, due to largely doing away with the fun, wacky storylines of the original in favor of more erotic stories that result in more fanservice, cranking up the fanservice to blatantly sexual levels to the point where it might as well just be hentai, [[DemotedToExtra demoting several former main characters to extra]] including Lala who was the defacto leading lady of the original series, promoting Momo, a rather BaseBreakingCharacter, to be the new female lead, Rito being little more than a cataylst for lewd things happening, the explanation for all of Rito's AccidentalPervert moments, and the retconning of the original series ending [[spoiler:where he confessed to Lala that he loved her and told her that he loved Haruna as well, to him saying that only Haruna is his "favorite" in ''Darkness'']].

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** Some fans of the original series pretend that ''Darkness'' doesn't exist, due to largely doing away with the fun, wacky storylines of the original in favor of more erotic stories that result in more fanservice, cranking up the fanservice to blatantly sexual levels to the point where it might as well just not be hentai, suitable for the same age group as the original series, [[DemotedToExtra demoting several former main characters to extra]] including Lala who was the defacto leading lady of the original series, promoting Momo, a rather BaseBreakingCharacter, to be the new female lead, Rito being little more than a cataylst for lewd things happening, the explanation for all of Rito's AccidentalPervert moments, and the retconning of the original series ending [[spoiler:where he confessed to Lala that he loved her and told her that he loved Haruna as well, to him saying that only Haruna is his "favorite" in ''Darkness'']].
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* EvilIsSexy: Nemesis in ''Darkness'' - a cute, dark-skinned GoingCommando girl who knows of her VoluntaryShapeshifting PowerPerversionPotential. To top it off, she's even more ''lustful'' than Momo!
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** In ''Darkness'', Rito makes the decision to allow Nemesis to live within him in order for the latter to restore her power after losing a fight against Gid. There's moments here-and-there where it looks like Rito is now able to use supernatural powers thanks to Nemesis, which possibly hints at Rito finally getting a [[TookALevelInBadass power-up]]. Unfortunately, Rito and Nemesis split apart before the series ever truly goes any further with this, and there's no signs afterwards that Nemesis' power stuck with him.

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** In ''Darkness'', Rito makes the decision to allow Nemesis to live within him in order for the latter to restore her power after losing a fight against Gid. There's moments here-and-there where it looks like Rito is now able to use supernatural powers thanks to Nemesis, which possibly hints at Rito finally getting receiving a [[TookALevelInBadass power-up]]. Unfortunately, Rito and Nemesis split apart before the series ever truly goes any further with this, and there's no signs afterwards that Nemesis' power stuck with him.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The "Trouble Quest" plotline in the original series had a lot of wasted potential. Rito and his harem are trapped in a video game designed by Lala, with Lala herself being held hostage by the game's BigBad. The game itself is a very blatant ShoutOut to ''Franchise/DragonQuest'', and none of the girls play video games, [[IKnowMortalKombat making Rito the only person in the group who knows how turn-based battles work and knows what to expect from such a game]]. This could have been Rito's chance to finally shine, as the arc seems perfectly tailored to let Rito take the lead for a change and not have to cower behind his girlfriends due to being a weak human, and him saving Lala in contrast to how she usually saves him could have provided some poignant development to their relationship. Rito taking a stand and being a hero could have also helped all of the girls see him in a different light. Instead, Rito gets saddled with a [[LuckBasedMission randomly-selected]] [[JokeCharacter joke class]] while the girls all get strong classes that are actually useful, leaving Rito to once again be useless in combat and having to hide behind the girls. Making things worse, the group later runs into Yami, who hasn't been bothering with the whole "turn-based combat" thing and has been using her natural shapeshifting abilities to fight instead of the abilities the game gave her, letting her kill everything she encounters in one hit, and revealing that they never had to play by the game's rules to begin with, making Rito's knowledge of video games retroactively worthless.

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The "Trouble Quest" plotline in the original series had a lot of wasted potential. Rito and his harem are trapped in a video game designed by Lala, with Lala herself being held hostage by the game's BigBad. The game itself is a very blatant ShoutOut to ''Franchise/DragonQuest'', and none of the girls play video games, [[IKnowMortalKombat making Rito the only person in the group who knows how turn-based battles work and knows what to expect from such a game]]. This could have been Rito's chance to finally shine, as the arc seems perfectly tailored to let Rito take the lead for a change and not have to cower behind his girlfriends due to being a weak human, and him saving Lala in contrast to how she usually saves him could have provided some poignant development to their relationship. Rito taking a stand and being a hero could have also helped all of the girls see him in a different light. Instead, Rito gets saddled with a [[LuckBasedMission randomly-selected]] [[JokeCharacter joke class]] while the girls all get strong classes that are actually useful, leaving Rito to once again be useless in combat and having to hide behind the girls. Making things worse, the group later runs into Yami, who hasn't been bothering with the whole "turn-based combat" thing and has been using her natural shapeshifting abilities to fight instead of the abilities the game gave her, letting her kill everything she encounters in one hit, and revealing that they never had to play by the game's rules to begin with, making Rito's knowledge of video games retroactively worthless.worthless.
** In ''Darkness'', Rito makes the decision to allow Nemesis to live within him in order for the latter to restore her power after losing a fight against Gid. There's moments here-and-there where it looks like Rito is now able to use supernatural powers thanks to Nemesis, which possibly hints at Rito finally getting a [[TookALevelInBadass power-up]]. Unfortunately, Rito and Nemesis split apart before the series ever truly goes any further with this, and there's no signs afterwards that Nemesis' power stuck with him.
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** [[spoiler:Haruna confessing to Rito, and Rito's reaction to it]] at the end of the original {{Manga}}: a decent twist that added a lot of conflict in the story or utterly wasted because [[spoiler:if Rito picks her, he'd be settling for the most "normal" and "boring" of the harem]]?

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** [[spoiler:Haruna confessing to Rito, and Rito's reaction to it]] at the end of the original {{Manga}}: a decent twist that added a lot of conflict in the story or utterly wasted because [[spoiler:if Rito picks her, he'd be settling for the most "normal" and "boring" of the harem]]?harem?]]



** The ending of ''Darkness'': [[spoiler:Rito chose nobody, despite his claims that Haruna is his favorite, thus leaving the series with NoEnding]]. Did ''Darkness'' do a good job at keeping the playing field open and provide more opportunities to flesh out the cast for future installments or did it squander opportunities to [[spoiler:finish the Harem Plan and make Rito the harem king he was meant to be]]? Was this a good or bad decision at all? Unfortunately, with the writer/artist duo breaking up post-''Darkness'', this means everyone across the board are left wondering what to make of the ending.

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** The ending of ''Darkness'': [[spoiler:Rito chose nobody, despite his claims that Haruna is his favorite, thus leaving the series with NoEnding]].NoEnding and no changes being made to the [[StatusQuoIsGod situation]] despite Rito confessing being his primary goal since the beginning of the series]]. Did ''Darkness'' do a good job at keeping the playing field open and provide more opportunities to flesh out the cast for future installments or did it squander opportunities to [[spoiler:finish the Harem Plan and make Rito the harem king he was meant to be]]? Was this a good or bad decision at all? Unfortunately, with the writer/artist duo breaking up post-''Darkness'', this means everyone across the board are left wondering what to make of the ending.
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** There is a chance that a ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' fan may also be a fan of ''To Love-Ru'' ([[VitriolicBestBuds even though the respective fandoms are used to some gibes between each other]]).

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** There is a chance that a ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' fan may also be a fan of ''To Love-Ru'' ([[VitriolicBestBuds even though the respective fandoms are used to some gibes between each other]]).
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** Momo Belia Deviluke's "Harem Plan" in ''Darkness'' paints her in two separate lights: does she genuinely want all of the girls who love Rito to be happy or is this grand scheme of hers a way to justify going after Rito herself without feeling any guilt or remorse?

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** Momo Belia Deviluke's "Harem Plan" in ''Darkness'' paints her in two separate lights: does she genuinely want all of the girls who love Rito to be happy or is this grand scheme of hers a way to justify going after Rito herself without feeling any guilt or remorse?remorse? The manga itself tends to flip-flop between the two more often than a high-rate metronome.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The NotHerself chapter in the original {{Manga}} where Haruna acted like an evil sadist was pretty funny, until the woman whom she was based on, Yabuki's ex-wife, rather than being a sweet GirlNextDoor type was actually a hateful, sadistic woman on top of being a philanderer, thief, kidnapper and extortionist. Whether series writer Hasemi Saki was trying to tell Yabuki something or not through the story's script is unknown[[note]]It's suggested by the time Yabuki knew about it, Yui was [[AscendedExtra written in more and more subsequent chapters]], while Haruna was [[DemotedToExtra written out]]. Undoubtedly, this led to Yui's EnsembleDarkhorse status[[/note]].


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* HarsherInHindsight: The NotHerself chapter in the original {{Manga}} where Haruna acted like an evil sadist was pretty funny, until the woman whom she was based on, Yabuki's ex-wife, rather than being a sweet GirlNextDoor type was actually a hateful, sadistic woman on top of being a philanderer, thief, kidnapper and extortionist. Whether series writer Hasemi Saki was trying to tell Yabuki something or not through the story's script is unknown[[note]]It's suggested by the time Yabuki knew about it, Yui was [[AscendedExtra written in more and more subsequent chapters]], while Haruna was [[DemotedToExtra written out]]. Undoubtedly, this led to Yui's EnsembleDarkhorse status[[/note]].
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** Yami: no different than a happy little girl who lived with [[HotScientist Tearju Lunatique]], her "mother". Unfortunately, when Tearju planned to run away with her, the "Eden" organization attempted to assassinate Tearju, forcing her to escape. Yami is left behind and lied about Tearju abandoning her as Eden starts training her into a LivingWeapon. Following the organization's collapse, Yami has lived alone in the universe before coming to Earth. [[spoiler:However, Eden has a programming block in Yami called "Darkness" mode that will activate when she comes to accept the mere possibility of being able to live peacefully, thus ensuring she turns into a weapon of mass destruction, all so the universe will never achieve true peace]].

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** Yami: no different than a happy little girl who lived with [[HotScientist Tearju Lunatique]], Lunatique, her "mother". Unfortunately, when Tearju planned to run away with her, the "Eden" organization attempted to assassinate Tearju, forcing her to escape. Yami is left behind and lied about Tearju abandoning her as Eden starts training her into a LivingWeapon. Following the organization's collapse, Yami has lived alone in the universe before coming to Earth. [[spoiler:However, Eden has a programming block in Yami called "Darkness" mode that will activate when she comes to accept the mere possibility of being able to live peacefully, thus ensuring she turns into a weapon of mass destruction, all so the universe will never achieve true peace]].
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* IdiotPlot: All over the place in the original {{Manga}}; for example, does Lala's latest invention kickstart the plot of a new chapter? If yes, does it make Rito more of an AccidentalPervert? If yes, then he's guaranteed to physically suffer despite it not being his fault.
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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.


* GrowingTheBeard: ''Darkness'' was seen by many not only for a jump in visual quality compared to the original series, it also brought about major CharacterDevelopment for the side-characters surrounding Rito, with criticisms usually leveled at [[OutOfFocus Lala and Haruna getting pushed to the side]] and [[FlatCharacter Rito existing in the sequel just to end up in]] even ''crazier'' {{Ecchi}} situations notched UptoEleven. The appearance of Nemesis to serve as a counterpart to Momo made things slightly more interesting, including [[spoiler:Nemesis temporarily SharingABody with Rito]]. On the other hand, ''Darkness'' has its fair share of detractors as well, see BrokenBase and FanonDiscontinuity above.

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* GrowingTheBeard: ''Darkness'' was seen by many not only for a jump in visual quality compared to the original series, it also brought about major CharacterDevelopment for the side-characters surrounding Rito, with criticisms usually leveled at [[OutOfFocus Lala and Haruna getting pushed to the side]] and [[FlatCharacter Rito existing in the sequel just to end up in]] even ''crazier'' {{Ecchi}} situations notched UptoEleven.up to eleven. The appearance of Nemesis to serve as a counterpart to Momo made things slightly more interesting, including [[spoiler:Nemesis temporarily SharingABody with Rito]]. On the other hand, ''Darkness'' has its fair share of detractors as well, see BrokenBase and FanonDiscontinuity above.

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Where is the Aesop? Those sound like they are talking about Unfortunate Implications instead, but now Unfortunate Implications require a citation, so we can't use those entries for that either.


* AccidentalAesop:
** The first OriginalVideoAnimation, where Rito Yuuki [[GenderBender turns into a girl]] and his life suddenly becomes much more difficult. This is later balanced out with an ImagineSpot where, as a girl, Rito's life is made much easier since his AccidentalPervert moments [[DoubleStandard are dismissed on account of gender]].
** In Chapter 144 of the {{Manga}}, a perverted spirit takes over Zastin's body and tries to undress every female he sees. He reveals the reason he's gone rampant is because he was rejected by 500 different girls during his life, and agrees to leave if he can touch even one girl's breasts. [[CuteGhostGirl Oshizu Murasame]] agrees, but just before the spirit touches her, she pulls the spirit out of Zastin's body and burns him away with her [[HitodamaLight spirit flame]]. The spirit's final words? "I knew it! Women are liars!" Considering illustrator Kentaro Yabuki's [[HarsherInHindsight then-current situation with his ex-wife]]... (although even Oshizu admits she did "something horrible" afterwards)

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Using the "Wasted" tropes to talk about how a completely different direction would be better than the one the work uses is seen as complaining by the rules of this site. You can only use this to talk about plotlines that are present, but are underdeveloped. And To-Love-Ru was very clear from day one that it was a Slice-of-Life/Ecchi hybrid series.


* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: If the series was to ever push the story-telling further than just the [[HaremGenre harem]] shenanigans surrounding Rito, the potential was there to become a full-blown action series where Rito worked himself up to become the next ruler of the universe. The beginning of the story had the perfect premise to be a good action/romance series, with Rito fending off Lala's dangerous would-be suitors to protect her, protect his friends, and protect the Earth, while slowly growing more powerful and slowly falling in love with Lala. Alas, the premise of Rito having to fight off Lala's suitors and other invaders was eventually dropped, and the series settled into being a romantic comedy with ''lots'' of fanservice. The sequel series ''Darkness'' seemed like it would be more [[ActionizedSequel action-packed]] at first, but it does away with this pretense fairly quickly, and instead just ramped up the already high amount of fanservice to absurd levels, with the only "action" anyone seeing being the sexual kind.
** The "Trouble Quest" plotline in the original series had a lot of wasted potential. Rito and his harem are trapped in a video game designed by Lala, with Lala herself being held hostage by the game's BigBad. The game itself is a very blatant ShoutOut to ''Franchise/DragonQuest'', and none of the girls play video games, [[IKnowMortalKombat making Rito the only person in the group who knows how turn-based battles work and knows what to expect from such a game]]. This could have been Rito's chance to finally shine, as the arc seems perfectly tailored to let Rito take the lead for a change and not have to cower behind his girlfriends due to being a weak human, and him saving Lala in contrast to how she usually saves him could have provided some poignant development to their relationship. Rito taking a stand and being a hero could have also helped all of the girls see him in a different light. Instead, Rito gets saddled with a [[LuckBasedMission randomly-selected]] [[JokeCharacter joke class]] while the girls all get strong classes that are actually useful, leaving Rito to once again be useless in combat and having to hide behind the girls. Making things worse, the group later runs into Yami, who hasn't been bothering with the whole "turn-based combat" thing and has been using her natural shapeshifting abilities to fight instead of the abilities the game gave her, letting her kill everything she encounters in one hit, and revealing that they never had to play by the game's rules to begin with, making Rito's knowledge of video games retroactively worthless.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: If the series was to ever push the story-telling further than just the [[HaremGenre harem]] shenanigans surrounding Rito, the potential was there to become a full-blown action series where Rito worked himself up to become the next ruler of the universe. The beginning of the story had the perfect premise to be a good action/romance series, with Rito fending off Lala's dangerous would-be suitors to protect her, protect his friends, and protect the Earth, while slowly growing more powerful and slowly falling in love with Lala. Alas, the premise of Rito having to fight off Lala's suitors and other invaders was eventually dropped, and the series settled into being a romantic comedy with ''lots'' of fanservice. The sequel series ''Darkness'' seemed like it would be more [[ActionizedSequel action-packed]] at first, but it does away with this pretense fairly quickly, and instead just ramped up the already high amount of fanservice to absurd levels, with the only "action" anyone seeing being the sexual kind.
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The "Trouble Quest" plotline in the original series had a lot of wasted potential. Rito and his harem are trapped in a video game designed by Lala, with Lala herself being held hostage by the game's BigBad. The game itself is a very blatant ShoutOut to ''Franchise/DragonQuest'', and none of the girls play video games, [[IKnowMortalKombat making Rito the only person in the group who knows how turn-based battles work and knows what to expect from such a game]]. This could have been Rito's chance to finally shine, as the arc seems perfectly tailored to let Rito take the lead for a change and not have to cower behind his girlfriends due to being a weak human, and him saving Lala in contrast to how she usually saves him could have provided some poignant development to their relationship. Rito taking a stand and being a hero could have also helped all of the girls see him in a different light. Instead, Rito gets saddled with a [[LuckBasedMission randomly-selected]] [[JokeCharacter joke class]] while the girls all get strong classes that are actually useful, leaving Rito to once again be useless in combat and having to hide behind the girls. Making things worse, the group later runs into Yami, who hasn't been bothering with the whole "turn-based combat" thing and has been using her natural shapeshifting abilities to fight instead of the abilities the game gave her, letting her kill everything she encounters in one hit, and revealing that they never had to play by the game's rules to begin with, making Rito's knowledge of video games retroactively worthless.
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Misuse. Does not mention audience avoiding work.


* EndingAversion: The conclusion of ''To Love-Ru Darkness'' was lambasted for feeling inconclusive - [[spoiler:Rito doesn't choose an official partner, leaving the girls still vying for his affections; furthermore, he's {{oblivious|ToLove}} about the feelings of other girls such as Yui, Rin Kujou and Kyouko Kirisaki. On top of that, Rito rejects the idea of a harem, claiming [[AmericansHateTingle Haruna]] as his favorite all along]].
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** "[[http://i.imgur.com/hAcz8.jpg To Love-Ru is super interesting]]."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Although it actually comes from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', the screenshot (or at least the line of dialogue) will inevitably find its way into just about every ''To Love-Ru'' discussion.[[/labelnote]]

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** "[[http://i.imgur.com/hAcz8.jpg To Love-Ru is super interesting]]."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Although it actually comes from "[[labelnote:Explanation]]From an episode of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', the screenshot (or at least the line of dialogue) will inevitably find its way into just about every ''To Love-Ru'' discussion.[[/labelnote]]
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* AlternateSelfShipping: The fandom loves the idea of an ''actual'' OppositeSexClone ''conveniently'' given a place in the male protagonist's {{Harem|Genre}}, due to his [[spoiler:AttractiveBentGender as a result of a TransformationRay]], though such a clone doesn't exist in canon.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: With the amount of sexual content in ''To Love-Ru Darkness'', one would think the manga would have made a move to a {{seinen}} magazine at the time. It actually changed to monthly {{shonen}} magazine, Jump Square. It was even reviewed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to see if it violated Bill 156's restrictions on material that could be sold to minors, but they ultimate decided it did not.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: With the amount of sexual content in ''To Love-Ru Darkness'', one would think the manga would have made a move to a {{seinen}} magazine at the time. It actually changed to monthly {{shonen}} magazine, magazine Jump Square. It was even reviewed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to see if it violated Bill 156's restrictions on material that could be sold to minors, but they ultimate ultimately decided it did not.
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* EndingAversion: The conclusion of ''To Love-Ru Darkness'' got backlash for feeling inconclusive - [[spoiler:Rito doesn't choose an official partner, leaving the girls still vying for his affections; furthermore, he's {{oblivious|ToLove}} about the feelings of other girls such as Yui, Rin Kujou and Kyouko Kirisaki. On top of that, Rito rejects the idea of a harem, claiming [[AmericansHateTingle Haruna]] as his favorite all along]].

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* EndingAversion: The conclusion of ''To Love-Ru Darkness'' got backlash was lambasted for feeling inconclusive - [[spoiler:Rito doesn't choose an official partner, leaving the girls still vying for his affections; furthermore, he's {{oblivious|ToLove}} about the feelings of other girls such as Yui, Rin Kujou and Kyouko Kirisaki. On top of that, Rito rejects the idea of a harem, claiming [[AmericansHateTingle Haruna]] as his favorite all along]].

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* FanonDiscontinuity: The first AnimatedAdaptation is generally ignored by fans because it is an AdaptationDistillation without following the {{Manga}}. The "real" adaption starts with ''Motto To Love-Ru''.

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The first AnimatedAdaptation is generally ignored by fans because it is an AdaptationDistillation without following the {{Manga}}. The "real" adaption starts with ''Motto To Love-Ru''.

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