That plushie is surprisingly uncute.
Part 1 summary:
Yui is absent from school due to illness, so one of the class committee members asks Rito to deliver some homework to Kotegawa's house. At the Kotegawa residence, Yui is being tended to by her brother Yu, who is using Yui's sickness as an excuse to play hookie. Rito arrives in front of the house and rings the doorbell, and to his surprise it's Yu who answers. Yu tells Rito to go to Yui's room directly, and Rito enters Yui's room just as Yui was washing herself and therefore most of her upper body is exposed. Rito gets a tub of water in the face for his transgression. Afterwards, Rito gives Yui her homework but then the two share a long awkward moment in the room. To start a conversation, Rito picks up a cat stuffed toy and asks if Yui likes cat. Yui becomes very nervous and tries to grab the stuffed toy, but she loses balance and falls out of her bed on to Rito. Rito catches Yui but his left hand end up groping Yui's breasts. Yu enters room to bring Yui some coffee, but he immediately exits after seeing what Yui and Rito are doing. Outside the room, Yu mutters that he is surprised with Yui's progress (in terms of her love life). Back inside the room, Rito is about to leave but Yui remarks that she doesn't seem to be feeling sick anymore. Before Rito can figure out what that really meant, Lala, Haruna, Oshizu, Yami, and Run enter the room to check on Yui. Run is somewhat suspicious of what Rito is doing in Yui's room, while Yui is handed taiyaki by Yami and a bag of strange alien medicine (from Mikado-sensei) by Oshizu.
Just giving Yui a little massage to relieve the discomfort. Nothing strange to see here.
Part 2 summary:
In the morning, Rito opens up his closet (the gateway to Lala's room) to tell Lala to get ready for school. However, he finds that Lala has already left and there is a pair of strange eyeglasses on the ground. Rito picks up the glasses and puts them on, but quickly finds out that he cannot take them off. He also finds out that theses glasses allows the wearer to see through people's clothing, and this goes on for the duration of the chapter. Rito first gets a peek at the underwear of Mikan, Risa, Mio, Haruna, and Run. He then accidentally adjust the settings and now everybody appears to be naked. After he adjusts the settings, Rito runs into Saki and her gang and has to run for his life. After escaping to the roof of the school, Rito finally finds some relief when Lala arrives. As Lala tries to take off the glasses, Run shows up and Rito gets a full glance of Run's naked body. However, Run sneezes and turns into Ren and falls over Rito, and Rito ends up looking up into Ren's crotch with the glasses still on.
I wonder if they'll actually show Ren's crotch in the uncensored version.
Riko looks like she's not enjoying this, but there she is strutting her stuff.
Part 3 summary:
At school both Rito and Lala notice that Saruyama seems to feeling a little down. They find out the Saruyama is actually enamored with Rito's girl form from a few chapters ago. After hearing this, Lala convinces Rito to become a girl once more to cheer up his friend. She uses a newer version of her sex-change invention (now in the form of a ray gun) to change Rito into Riko (the girl form) and sets her on a date with Saruyama and tells Saruyama that Riko is Rito's distant relative. On the date, Saruyama takes Riko to see a romantic movie and tries to hold Riko's hand, but Riko pulls her hand away as expected. After the movie the couple runs into Yui. Yui thinks Riko looks familiar and Saruyama explains that Riko is Rito's relative. On the mention of Rito, Yui gets embarrassed and leaves. Somewhere down the street, Mikan is enjoying some Taiyaki with Yami. The two of them spot Saruyama and Riko and Mikan instantly recognizes Riko as Rito. Without knowing the real situation, Mikan begins to think that Rito is developing a perverted habit of becoming a girl to date guys. Yami also seem to notice this. Riko and Saruyama are sitting on a bench. Saruyama is about to confess his love for Riko, but suddenly Riko transforms back into Rito as the effects of Lala's invention wears off. Thankfully Saruyama had his eyes closed the whole time, which enables Rito to make a clean getaway. However, before Rito gets a chance to take off the girl clothes he runs into Haruna. This causes a big misunderstanding and Haruna runs away.
Yeah you should be worried Mikan. If Rito stays a girl then your brother complex will be for naught.
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This season of To Love-Ru continues to stick with its "3 manga-based segments per episode" formula. Maybe Xebec has really heeded my calls and learned its lesson. The formula is not a bad thing since it makes the episodes at least watchable, but on the other hand it limits what I can say about the episode. Lol it seems now I'm wishing for a really bad episode so I'll have something to rant about. For now, it looks like Xebec is just picking chapters in random order, which is probably okay in the early stages. Once the series move on some actual developments (yes, as strange as it sounds To Love-Ru does have plot development, although very rare), Xebec will probably have to put some material in actual chronological order (according to the manga).
Anyways, this episode was not bad. It's better than the first but not as fun as the second. The middle segment with the see-through glasses was rather uninspired. One could argue that To Love-Ru is a bit of a generic fan service manga, but see through glasses are a cliche even for a fan service show. The other two segments weren't bad since Yui is always cute and Riko is always funny. I loved Mikan's expression when she saw Riko and Taruyama walking around together. Turning into a girl and going on a date with your best pal... I've always said that Rito is a true pervert, and looks like his perverseness isn't limited to just girls.
On a related note, I watched the uncensored version of episode 1. They really did show the naughty spots in the ATX version, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised since the new To Love-Ru manga also shows the naughty spots. Too bad the uncensored episode air one week after the censored broadcast, so I'm not going to wait for them.
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