Review of Motto To LOVE Ru

A solid sequel season that focuses on its strengths, random comedy and pleasing art. This is the second season of To-Love-Ru, but its a lot more like the OVA series than the first season. Rather than each episode having a single story, each episode is composed of three smaller faster paced stories. This, as it did with the OVA, works out well because the actual plots were never that deep in the first place and barely had any significance, so even if they're rushed through it isn't an issue. The benefit of doing so is that it allows them to put in a lot more comedyand craziness, which is what actually makes the series enjoyable. I will also note though that in addition to the stories being better told due to better pacing, it also felt like the quality was better overall. The improved pacing also makes the slow and steady character development which like the first series is slow to the point of feeling nonexistant in each individual episode, feel much faster overall, though still slow but to a degree it didn't feel like much of an issue. Another thing to note, is that this is a sequel to the OVAs, which skipped over portions of the story. Hence, there are still a bunch of things that weren't explained or don't make sense, but for the most part the story isn't that important so it doesn't matter that much. The last ending was the only episode that had a drawn out story, but as a one off it worked pretty well and was a solid way to end things, even if it was kind of halfhearted with it.

The art and animation are excellent and a major step up above the first season. The art style was also more consistently solid and didn't have a bunch of random bad looking out of place designs. The soundtrack wasn't particularly memorable. The OP and ED were both solid in terms of audio and visuals.