To LOVE-Ru - 20 August 15
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「爆熱少女マジカルキョーコ炎」 (Bakunetsu Shoujo Majikaru Kyooko Fureimu)
“Bursting Fever Magical Kyoko Flame”
Episode at a Glance:
After learning that the afro inflicting General Mojack is attempting to take over the world, Kirisaki Kyoko takes it upon herself to stop him and changes into Magical Kyoko Flame. However, after doing so, she gets arrested for not abiding by fire laws and gets extorted for personal pleasure. While changing back to her normal clothes, the police chief discovers her true identity, so Kyoko agrees scorch him like he wants. On their way to somewhere more private, they run into Mojack taking public transit again, except this time he’s brought his mother along to yell at Magical Kyoko. Upon seeing the police chief’s blinding baldness though, Mojack gives him an afro and appears to have a change of heart after seeing how happy he made someone. Ikemen-senpai then comes running along with the homeless man he inadvertently peeped on earlier chasing after him, who turns out to be Mojack’s father. After explaining how he was discarded by the woman he tried running off with, Mojack’s father gets beaten by Mojack’s mother, but Mojack begs her to forgive him. His mother then reveals she had a thing for the guy at the pachinko parlor, who turns out to be Ikemen-senpai’s Aniki. Everyone then breaks out in a song and dance, but Mojack uses this opportunity to attack Kyoko again and the police chief arrives with a firetruck, causing all hell to break loose.
Back in the real world, Lala comments on how moving Magical Kyoko was this week, but Rito is bored to death.
Next Episode:
「結城亭血風録」 (Yuukitei Keppuuroku)
“Bloodshed Transcript of the Yuuki House”
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Impressions:
So in this week’s episode of To-LOVE… err… Magical Kyoko Flame, our heroine Kirisaki Kyoko saves the world from an afro villain, who plans to take over the world by being overly polite to people before transforming their hair into afros. Yes, you read that right. Anyway, this episode was far from being one of the best ones in this series, but it was a lot better than the stuff they’ve been showing recently. The reason being is that the entire episode of Magical Kyoko Flame was basically a parody on everything magical girl. Because of this, it was fairly entertaining and I actually found myself laughing at times, mainly due to its mockery of trademark magical girl aspects, such as transformations. In Kyoko’s case though, her transformation was basically finding a private spot to undress and change, which easily allowed her to be discovered by a stranger, forcing her to dart off into the closest public washroom. Naming the male character that the magical heroine adores Ikemen (i.e. good-looking guy) and making him perverted and questionably homosexual was also a nice humorous touch, as was making the police chief (i.e. the high school principal of To LOVE-Ru) a kinky masochist.
I’m not sure what to make of next week’s episode, other than the fact that it takes place at an alien hotel and Yami is gets violated like there’s no tomorrow. Yami is always entertaining to watch though, given how much she hates perverts, so hopefully it’ll turn out better than I’m expecting. Also, Oshizu makes an appearance again, which is a nice treat for Noto Mamiko fans if nothing else.
Cast:
- Magical Kyoko (Kirisaki Kyoko) (マジカル・キョーコ (霧崎 恭子)) / Chiba Chiemi (千葉 千恵巳)
- Yuuki Rito (結城 梨斗) / Watanabe Akeno (渡辺 明乃)
- Lala Satalin Deviluke (ララ・サタリン・デビルーク) / Tomatsu Haruka (戸松 遥)
- Police chief (署長) / Ogata Kenichi (緒方 賢一)
- Mojack (モジャック) / Miyake Kenta (三宅 健太)
- Ikemen-senpai (池面先輩) / Konno Jun (金野 潤)
- Mother (母ちゃん) / Uemura Noriko (上村 典子)
- Silone (シローネ) / Hino Miho (日野 未歩)
- Father (父ちゃん) / Nozawa Nachi (野沢 那智)
- Sushi restaurant owner (寿司屋の主人) / Sonobe Yoshinori (園部 好德)
- Old man (オヤジ) / Shinomiya Gou (四宮 豪)
- Reporter (リポーター) / Adachi Tomo (足立 友)
- Ikemen’s older brother (池面の兄貴) / Nakanishi Naoya (中西 尚也)
- Child (子供) / Sasaki Hinako (佐々木 日菜子)
- Bus announcer (バスのアナウンス) / Shimeno Junko (〆野 潤子)
- Long hair Rocker (長髪ロッカー) / Ousaka Chikara (逢坂 力)
- Passer by (通行人) / Azuma Masami (東 正実)
zamz at 8:45 pm on August 15th, 2008
wow
http://randomc.animeblogger.net:8000/image/To%20LOVE-Ru/To%20LOVE-Ru%20-%2020%20-%20Large%20Preview%2005.jpg
GStrike- at 8:57 pm on August 15th, 2008
http://randomc.animeblogger.net:8000/image/To%20LOVE-Ru/To%20LOVE-Ru%20-%2020%20-%20Large%2033.jpg
haha
MidnightTide at 8:57 pm on August 15th, 2008
sorry, but this series is getting worse - I did not like this episode at all (and there were the other failure episodes - the transgender aliens or the furry episode)
not really sure if I will keep on watching this one
Andy at 8:58 pm on August 15th, 2008
I’d love to violate Yami-chan… DAMN THOSE CHIBI-LIKE-CHARACTERS!!!! I WANNA DO THAT TO YAMI-CHAN!!!
Naruhodo at 9:15 pm on August 15th, 2008
This episode was OK… i guess. Honestly, I’m kinda hoping this show would start using a plot cuz it’s getting kinda boring… i AM anticipatingon seeing Oshizu, since I am somewhat of a Noto Mamiko fan~
tacdo at 9:20 pm on August 15th, 2008
This series started off well enough to keep me watching, but with an episode like that… makes you wonder if they’re running out of ideas.
tabs05 at 10:00 pm on August 15th, 2008
Is it me or are majority of the episodes in the series mostly originals.Except for the introductions of main characters and villains, I can’t remember most of these episodes ever happening in the manga.Although that’s a good thing to keep me interested to finish an episode it’s beginning to get boring.I don’t think they animated even 1/4 of the manga yet.
exia at 10:19 pm on August 15th, 2008
yeah get back with some more fanservice and non of this pointless side stuff.
nobody important at 10:36 pm on August 15th, 2008
I hope there is no second season ever.
Started out promising but has since degraded into a waste of hard disk space.
Shinn Agami at 10:36 pm on August 15th, 2008
http://randomc.animeblogger.net:8000/image/To%20LOVE-Ru/To%20LOVE-Ru%20-%2020%20-%20Large%2019.jpg
*gouges eyes*
cbs at 10:59 pm on August 15th, 2008
“it was a lot better than the stuff they’ve been showing recently…”
I agree on this, especially better than episode 18
Chimasternmay at 11:03 pm on August 15th, 2008
im watching this being a fan of the manga, but im not complaining cause i knew that there was no way for them to fit the manga in to 24-26 episode, so i already accepted the flaws, but seeing lala, and others talk and move about is fun so who cares, at the end of the day i can count on the manga to continue the story for me….. as for todays episode doesnt lala force rito to this in the manga several times
karry at 2:39 am on August 16th, 2008
Yet again, where are the pictures ?
Nodoka at 2:44 am on August 16th, 2008
A very strange episode xD
Next Episode Preview:
Why are little men touching Yami’s (Black Darkness) butt?
Lol.
mutio@gmx.net at 3:59 am on August 16th, 2008
In the 2nd last screen of the preview, I wonder how’ll Golden Darkness kill them (ah she’s so cute xD).
Raso at 5:35 am on August 16th, 2008
so the anime artists have just basicly thrown out the manga entirely except the character intro eps. I mean seriously why couldnt they put atleast some of the Manga chapters into anime form.
That being said this is probably the best and most fitting anime only ep so far since lala HAS to watch every ep of this anime and is very hard to pull away while watching it.
but still compared to the manga 75% of this anime is crap
I was really having high hopes for seeing certain manga chapters animated. If you havent read the manga before please do you will see how much funnier and how much better it is compared to the anime.
Chillpill at 7:37 am on August 16th, 2008
Hmmm, this ep wasn’t so bad, but it did give me an odd feeling while watching it. It felt like I was watching a totally different show. Even the intermssion was changed from Lala to a Kyouko lol. Next week’s ep looks ecchirific
Chillpill at 8:02 am on August 16th, 2008
Btw, did anyone notice that cat with Kyoko looks like those cats from Black cat? The ones that appear in the credits?
Fabienne from hell at 8:57 am on August 16th, 2008
I’m fu**** angry right now.
WTF should this mean.
That Episode was the worst and had no relation to TLR,ahhhhhhh
I skipped through this episode ,just a waste of time.
Stuff at 1:27 pm on August 16th, 2008
well I found this episode so random it was funny :p