Sentai Filmworks has been dipping into their back catalog at random time to bring out dubs for series that didn’t have one before and they confirmed back in December 2018 that they were indeed going to do this with To Love Ru. With the first release coming out back in 2020, the distributor is gearing up for their next release with Motto To Love Ru, which iset for a February 16th, 2021 blu-ray release. It’ll feature the twelve-episode run uncensored and in bilingual form.
The show has John Swasey directing (David Wald directing the previous season) based on the scripts from Holly Segarra. The English cast includes:
- Ry McKeand as Rito
- Alexis Tipton as Lala
- Lindsay Sweeney as Ahiko
- Olivia Swasey as Aya
- Chris Hutchinson as Buwartz
- Kailin Coates as Celine
- Sara Gaston as Haruko
- Bryn Apprill as Haruna
- Jay Hickman as Honekawa
- David Wald as King Deviluke
- Monica Rial as Kyoko
- Marissa Lenti as Marron (F), Mikado
- Josh Morrison as Marron (M)
- Matthew Kuns as Matome, Ooyoshi
- Andrew Love as Maur
- Brittney Karbowski as Mikan
- Juliet Simmons as Mio
- Natalie Rial as Momo
- Allison Sumrall as Nana, Sayaka
- Melissa Molano as Oshizu
- Holly Segarra as Peke
- John Swasey as Principal
- Greg Ayres as Ren
- Avery Smithhart as Riko
- Chaney Moore as Rin
- Olivia Swasey as Ringo
- Meg McDonald as Risa
- Christina Kelly as Run
- Mark Laskowski as Saibai
- Maggie Flecknoe as Saki
- Greg Cote as Saruyama
- Katelyn Barr as Yami
- Amber Lee Connors as Yui
- Mike Haimoto as Yuu
- Scott Gibbs as Zastin
Additional supporting and incidental casting Andrew Love, Chaney Moore, Chris Hutchinson, George Peter, Jay Hickman, Joe Daniels, John Hallmark, John Swasey, Josh Morrison, Kailin Coates, Kyle Jones, Mai Le, Mark Laskowski, Matthew Kuns, Mike Haimoto, Monica Rial, Olivia Swasey, Patrick Marrero, Sara Gaston, Taylor Fono, and Teressa Zimmerman.
The show has been released several times over the years with DVD collections picked up in their early days and a Blu-ray set in 2014.
Check out our review of the manga from Seven Seas Entertainment and our review of the anime series.
Plot concept: Did Riko Yuki’s life go to hell in a handbasket when a naked alien princess from the planet Deviluke suddenly appeared in his bathtub and he found himself betrothed into the universe’s most dysfunctional romantic relationship? No, but only because he never got a damned handbasket. Even if the luscious Princess Lala is finally starting to admit her real feelings for her earthling scum significant other, there are so many other things constantly going wrong that Riko’s doing well just to survive. Whether it’s due to bounty hunters, a defective transporter, body switches, alien skunks, mighty morphing power bathrooms, a sleepover that goes horribly, horribly wrong, or, that worst galactic scourge of all, Valentine’s Day, each day seems determined to prove why you should never, ever, marry a monster from outer space in the continuing conjugal cataclysm that is MOTTO TO LOVE RU!
