Do this long enough and the monster might eventually get foot fungus.
Summary:
Rito and friends (pretty much everyone except Saruyama) all receive strange invitations and are sucked into a virtual reality role-playing game. Rito and friends have no choice but to participate as the only way to leave the game is to beat it. Rito ends up with Mikan, Haruna, and Yui, and all are assigned different classes at the start. Since Rito is assigned the class of florist, he has to rely on the girls to defeat the monsters. As Rito's group make their way through the forest, two masked being are watching their progress through a crystal ball.
Random fan service screen #1.
Random fan service screen #2.
Rito's group eventually come upon a town and they check into an inn run by Mikado-sensei. Being the gentleman that he is, Rito let the girls have the room while he sleeps in the hallway. During the night, Rito is woken up by Magical Girl Kyouko, who explains that she is the final boss of the game. The goal of the game is to defeat Kyouko and save the princess played by Lala, but Kyouko is willing to let everyone else go if Rito becomes her boyfriend. Rito refuses, and in response Kyouko causes a big explosion at the inn and then teleports Rito's group to her castle.
At this rate Rito is going to be killed by his teammates.
Yami is as awesome as ever, or maybe even more awesome than ever with the playboy bunny outfit.
Looks like Lala has decent tastes in girls given Kyouko's hotness.
Inside the castle, Rito's group is confronted by several strong monsters, but Yami (dressed as a bunny girl) comes along to save the day. Rito's group also has a brief run-in with Saki's group + Run, but Rito's group move on after Saki's group all have wardrobe malfunctions. Rito and friends eventually arrive at the final room where Lala is sleeping in a bed and Kyouko is sitting in her throne. Kyouko reiterates her offer to Rito but then wonders if Rito has someone other than Lala in his mind. Rito eventually gives a crummy speech about how "it's possible that he likes Lala" just as Lala awakened. While Rito and Lala have their little moment, Kyouko gets bored and decides to surround everyone in a ring of fire. Yami tries to attack with her blades but her slices with no effect on Kyouko. Suddenly, the two mysterious persons watching the progress appear and tells Rito to use his watering can. Rito lifts his watering can and miraculously the watering can performs a special attack that defeats Kyouko.
An example of
"Strike me down and I'll become more powerful than you can ever imagine."
After the battle, the two mysterious figures reveal themselves to be Lala's twin little sisters Momo and Nana. Momo and Nana had devised this game to test Lala's friends, in particular Rito. Momo is somewhat charmed by Rito, but Nana isn't so sure. The Deviluke twins decide it's time to send everyone back to the real world, but Nana realizes that she had lost the main controller. Suddenly, a giant Kyouko appears with the controller in her hand and the whole virtual world starts to disintegrate (due to a runaway bug in the program). To defeat the out of control Kyouko, Momo summons Celine and Nana summons a giant Maron, and the Devilukean princesses are able to defeat Kyouko and return everyone to the real world. Unfortunately for Rito, Momo and Nana will be staying at his house from now on.
Great, more alien freeloaders.
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Spanning six chapters, the Trouble Quest mini-arc was the longest mini-arc of the To-Love-Ru manga, and it mainly served to introduce Lala's little sisters Momo and Nana and also get a half-hearted confession out of Rito about "possibly liking Lala". Despite the manga version being six chapters long, XEBEC compressed everything into one episode and also exercised a bit of their "creativeness" by playing around with the ordering of some events and adding in even more fan service. The result was a pretty mediocre episode, even by To-Love-Ru standards. It was better than the hilariously horrible episode known as OVA 3, but it definitely wasn't as good as the manga. It's been a while since I've read To-Love-Ru, so maybe I'm looking into the past with rosy-colored glasses, but I still think that if XEBEC would have just followed the manga then this episode would have been better. There is a reason why nearly all of the anime original episodes sucked. I also thought the extra fan service was unnecessary, but maybe my tolerances for this kind of stuff is going down. Even Queen's Blade is reigning it in these days lol.
So there are still two more OVAs left. I wonder what they'll be about? Once Again, I hope it'll be manga chapter adaptations.
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