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Laughed twice during To Love Ru. Once was a sneeze.
“Script was written in ketchup.”
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2008 · Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi
To Love Ru
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
Rito Yuuki is unlucky when it comes to love — no matter how hard he tries to confess to his crush, his efforts end in failure. After another day’s confession goes down the drain, Rito spends his night sulking in his bathtub. But when a naked girl with a pointed tail teleports into the tub with him, it seems like Rito’s luck is finally looking up! His fortune doesn’t last long when he finds himself accidentally engaged to the buxom beauty who is none other than the princess of the planet Deviluke!
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RELEASE DATE
2008
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GENRE
Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi
PLOT SUMMARY
Rito Yuuki is unlucky when it comes to love — no matter how hard he tries to confess to his crush, his efforts end in failure. After another day’s confession goes down the drain, Rito spends his night sulking in his bathtub. But when a naked girl with a pointed tail teleports into the tub with him, it seems like Rito’s luck is finally looking up! His fortune doesn’t last long when he finds himself accidentally engaged to the buxom beauty who is none other than the princess of the planet Deviluke!
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@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2026-01-22 11:00 UTC
To Love Ru put every joke in the trailer and then dared us to sit through the rest.
@TRAILER_TROLL2026-01-26 01:00 UTC
The science in To Love Ru has the same relationship to physics that I have to going to the gym: aspirational.
@AISLE_GHOUL2026-01-27 15:00 UTC
To Love Ru is what happens when a writers' room confuses "ambiguous" with "didn't finish the draft".
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Why is To Love Ru rated highly on Roasted Tomatoes?+
To Love Ru (2008) is praised with a low burn score on Roasted Tomatoes with a Burn Index of 18/100. Rito Yuuki is unlucky when it comes to love — no matter how hard he tries to confess to his crush, his efforts end in failure. After another day’s confession goes down the drain, Rito spends his night sulking in his bath…
What streaming era or audience vibe does To Love Ru fit best?+
To Love Ru works best as a modern catalog staple for animation fans. With a Burn Index of 18/100, pair it with viewers who can handle that heat level.
Is To Love Ru worth watching according to Roasted Tomatoes?+
To Love Ru scores 18/100 Burn — Roasted Tomatoes recommends it as a confident watch.
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r/movies · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 3.0k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in To Love Ru?
Director clearly thought To Love Ru was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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r/movies · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 4.9k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in To Love Ru?
Look, I wanted to love To Love Ru. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/flicks · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 3.6k points
The cinematography in To Love Ru is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Everyone praising the To Love Ru performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/movies · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 3.6k points
Unpopular opinion: To Love Ru is the most overrated film of the decade
Honestly, To Love Ru would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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