To Love Ru

The joke however is actively acknowledged in the story and is actually weaponized as a sort of plot point which really Nemesis made clear in earlier chapters.

It's certainly the same joke, but it's not told in the same way.

Go Yami.

This month's chapter is either going to lead to more plot advancement or go nowhere.

I'm going to presume the latter.

…Yeah, probably nowhere. >.>

Though it's kinda ironic that Rito is slowly starting to not completely rule out the harem plan while Momo is starting to have some doubts about it.

Those vagina shots are getting increasingly conspicuous.

I find it rather odd that Momo's basically shooting herself in the foot by not telling Rito she loves him. If he ends up doing the harem without her, then she won't be included.

To be honest I'm not sure how the way she keeps throwing herself at him buck naked doesn't count as a "confession" of sorts.

The momo and lala have a No Nudity Taboo and Rito gets that even if he disagrees with it.

edited 7th Nov '16 3:35:43 AM by Memers

I believe that was actually explained as not being a Deviluke thing, but rather simply getting used to it from being waited on hand and foot while in the bath.

It simply comes off as a Deviluke thing because we've only met the royals.

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edited 7th Nov '16 3:36:47 AM by burnpsy

Nana is the only one without it, which is more of a A-Cup Angst thing than anything.

I'm sorry but there is a very clear difference between Lala wandering around with her boobs out and what Momo got up to in the bathroom this chapter.

So long as we don't get a monogamous Momo/Rito ending I don't really care how the harem plan turns out.

Momo/Rito would probably be one of the better endings, they have quite the chemistry together. I think only Yui/Rito have more chemistry together.

Rito is dense. It's one of the traits of his that comes up so little we forget about it (like how he's actually rather athletic, but we don't get to see that much due to everyone else having super strength).

Remember, he still hasn't put 2 and 2 together on anyone aside from Lala, Run and Yami, and they had to say it outright. He hasn't pieced together Haruna (who nearly confessed to him, along with saying other things that should have made it clear while drunk), Risa (who nearly had sex with him twice), Yui (who welcomed advances from Rito as long as it was to her alone), etc.

edited 7th Nov '16 6:01:05 AM by burnpsy

I don't think Momo and Rito have any real chemistry together. She just molests him and he puts up with it.

Also, that would be sibling NTR which is a dick move to Lala.

Well that's the problem wih Rito: he doesn't really have chemistry with anyone outside of his CIS-related accidents and his standard nice-guy traits - that's the problem with having so many love interests at once.

...Oh right, he does. With his little sister.

edited 7th Nov '16 5:25:06 AM by Lyendith

oh well that makes everything okay then

But no. If that's what he actually wants, then that's what he should do. Hurting someone because you fall in love with someone else doesn't mean you're mean and selfish to the person you hurt. Saying it is is saying she's entitled to him, which she isn't.

I'm going to be honest: The whole Momo monogamy discussion is kinda moot because the series has firmly established that it's either Haruna-only or a harem. Lala is the only other option that was seriously considered and it was swapped out for the harem at her own behest.

So I would basically call bullshit if any ending other than the above two or No Ending were to happen.

I wouldn't mind a monogamous ending if the only believable option for such wasn't Haruna, and Haruna wasn't such a repugnant character.

And yeah, Rito's character development and his relationships with the girls have suffered too much because the authors have spent too long doing nothing but making him stumble on them and fondle them, which has wasted incredibly large amounts of pages that might have far better used on actually giving them human interaction.

Welp, Rito is now officially a part of his own harem. Just when I thought this series had already tried everything in the pervert playbook. The VMC guys are creepy, but nothing new there.

And we can't not have a shapeshifting troll girl as the principal of a school full of non-humans, now can we.

"I'll be the Student Council President!" would wield a lot more weight if the Student Council had ever been of, well, any relevance at all in this series.

Yeah, that hasn't been mentioned in this series at all, so I'm wondering exactly what she plans to do with that.

Granted, we've seen the morals committee, which anime and manga always seem to bill as being of equal importance, and they've accomplished nothing at all.

I think the plot decisions of this series is made on the basis of a few simple questions:

1. Can a certain idea be used for fanservice?
   • If yes, use it.
   • If no, go to the second question.
2. Is it really certain it can't be used for fanservice?
   • If no, use it.
   • If yes, you're not trying hard enough. Try harder and go to 1.

I guessed a missed a chapter or two? I don't think I remember much of anything after Nemesis making Rito molest whatsername, the flirty classmate, but apparently Nemesis is gone from his body again and Yami used darkness on her own? I probably read a chapter after the Risa? Momioka? one but I can't remember what happened.

I've said it before but if this really is leading to a monogamous Momo ending that would be awful. The setup for the harem at this point revolves mostly around sex, which I find disappointing, but at least it's better than a girl specifically trying to make a lot of girls fall in love with someone and then breaking their hearts.

Also, what's with this viewing Haruna as the sole main girl thing? Does Lala not count anymore? If anything she should be considered the main girl since she was the driving force of the first half of the series.

edited 5th Dec '16 9:40:44 AM by Arha

Well, that mention of Haruna was from Momo's viewpoint. Maybe it shouldn't be taken as an absolute narrative truth (since Haruna's been horibly Out of Focus for a long while now) and more like Momo's take on the situation.

Anyway, sort of yeah, even when Haruna's doing nothing and picking no flags, Rito's so stagnant and stubbornly resistant to change (it's taken him hundreds of chapters and dozens of sexual and romantical situations of all varieties but actual coitus to start making the smallest baby steps on deciding for anything at all) she still should be considered the 'main girl' in his mind. Which is no praise of the narrative or the characters, mind, but a statement of a perceived fact, IMHO.

That's the annoying thing about Haruna. Much like most harem male leads are grating and unbelievable because there's no good reason for droves of women to fall for them beyond 'being nice guys', Haruna's pretty much nothing going to make her so allegedly special and desirable (which the narrative seems to take as a fait accompli for her) beyond being a stereotypical next door nice girl.