A classic hallmark of anime – the accidental engagement to the sexy alien girl and the boy who is trying to get out of it – now dirtying up the English language.
What They Say:
To Love Ru Complete Collection contains To Love Ru (Season 1) episodes 1-26 of the anime directed by Takao Kato, and Motto To Love Ru (Season 2) episodes 1-12, To Love Ru: Darkness (Season 3) episodes 1-12, and To Love Ru: Darkness 2 (Season 4) episodes 1-14 directed by Atsushi Ootsuki.
Statistically, bathrooms are the room where accidents are most likely to occur, but even so, who could ever anticipate the odds of an alien princess splashing down from space while you’re in the bathtub? Yet, as astronomically small as the chances are, that’s exactly where Rito Yuki is, rub-a-dub-dubbing and thinking of the girl he secretly adores, when the alignment of the planets, a slight misunderstanding of intergalactic etiquette, and an unfortunate placement of hands all combine to change the course of interstellar history! Because now Rito is married to the very sexy but also devil-tailed Princess Lala of Planet Deviluke, and rival suitors, rogue assassins, and Lala’s even more devilish royal father are only the first of the many titanic trials this literally star-crossed young couple will have to face in this astounding multi-series complete collection of To Love Ru!
The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release is simple and straightforward as we get the original Japanese language track in stereo encoded using the DTS-HD MA lossless codec along with the recently created English language dub done in the same. The series has a good mix of dialogue, wacky dialogue, and action pieces to it that keeps it lively and flowing. The nature of the show is one that fits your standard romantic comedy with slice-of-absurd life bits while also handling the action material across the forward soundstage. It moves well through all of this in both tracks as we get a good range of material which does some decent placement at times and certainly with plenty of faster pieces as they move across the screen. The big action pieces aren’t exactly huge in a way and they lack a lot of punch but they fit for this kind of show. Dialogue is clean and clear throughout and we didn’t have any problems with dropouts or distortions during regular playback.
Video:
Originally beginning airing in 2008, the transfer for four-season TV series is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 in 1080p using the AVC codec. The series is spread across multiple discs with a as seen from the recent standalone season releases so there’s a standard layout and design here with plenty of room to work with. Considering the varied releases over the years, with some single-disc editions at the start when they were monolingual, these continue to look quite good. The transfer here is pretty strong with bright and vibrant colors that maintain a solid feel throughout outside of a few minor areas. The main offender, and it’s a weak offender overall considering the amount of content here, is that some of the darker green school interior pieces look like they have a bit more noise to them and that’s mostly relegated to the first season. Once you get past that, colors generally look good and solid though and the flow of animation definitely looks strong. There are a lot of moments where there’s a distinct vibrancy to things, and the flesh tones are well-highlighted, that in the end make this all quite appealing.
Packaging:
The packaging design for this set brings us a very thicc boi when it comes to the case as it’s holding nine Blu-ray discs overall. They’re all on hinges except for the last one and it all holds together well with nothing broken instead and a good sense of weight to the set. The front cover artwork gives us a good visual with two of our leads with little on but still tasteful as they show a lot of skin. It’s got a wispy and kind of light effect about it all and the color design, both in the background and in the character artwork, pushes it in a very good way. The logo is kept along the bottom with the familiar font while a small strip along the top highlights the nine-disc count and the sixty-four episodes within – as well as that it’s the bilingual edition. The back cover goes traditional with a mix of pinks and blues spread across it as we get a few shots just below the logos for all four seasons. The premise is as basic as you’d expect for what it’s covering while the remainder is a busy section breaking out the production information, technical information, and the few extras. And lots of copyrights. No show-related inserts are included nor is there a reversible cover.
Extras:
The only extras included in this release are the clean versions of the opening and closing sequences for each season.
Based on the manga by Saki Hasemi, To Love Ru is a twenty-six-episode series that brings an exhibitionist type of alien princess to Earth. The manga series finished its run in 2009, but that was a fair bit after the anime had finished ending so there are going to be differences in the show when it comes to the end. To Love Ru owes a lot to the past with shows and manga that have come before it and I’ll admit that each time I see it the whole thing just clicks for me more and more. It’s just so delightful to embrace what makes it what it is and that’s rare for shows like this. There’s certainly a mild Urusei Yatsura vibe going on here which is very appealing but it’s also because To Love Ru has fun with its sexuality, nudity, and simple romantic comedy elements.
With this edition providing a dub a lot of the heavy lifting isn’t going to be on the male characters. The lead and what few other guys are in here aren’t going to have to do a lot beyond the usual ridiculous panicking that frustrates me so. Ry McKeand does what he can with Rito but there’s only so much for Rito to really do here. Thankfully, the show shines thanks to Alexis Tipton as Lala. She has kind of a basic mode to play for a lot of it but there are so many scenes where it ramps up in either the silly or the sensual that she gets to just run hard with both and nails the personality perfectly – if not even better in some areas thanks to how English works. She also gets to play off Bryn Apprill as Haruna and that means the two of them have a lot of on-screen back and forth and attempts at overacting each other to deal with how scenes escalate. Haruna’s a favorite of mine and remains my top here, especially with Bryn voicing her, but Alexis really gives the character a run for the money with how she brings Lala to life.
The cast for this series does expand quickly so we get to meet a number of others. Katelyn Barr puts in a delightful deadpan style Golden Darkness for most of the scenes that really captures the original intent well. And just having Amber Lee Connors in a dub is enjoyable but playing Yui and all the craziness that comes with that.it’s such a traditional style character that has some amusing quirks to her that Connors gets to sink her teeth into her more as more of her past and situation is revealed. There’s also a good bit of setup for things to come with some of the characters introduced here, such as Risa and Mio as well as the Run and Ren side of things. Ren gets Greg Ayres into the game nicely here and it’s just a delight to get to hear him in a role like this since I don’t get to check out too many dubs often.
To Love Ru revolves around the pairing of a young woman named Lala and a young man named Rito. It’s not exactly the most normal relationship as Lala is a princess from the planet Deviluke who has essentially run away from home and landed herself on Earth, where she actually ends up naked right from the start inside of Rito’s bathtub. Rito’s a fairly normal high school kid who is good at sports, has a bit of a green thumb, and seems to have decent grades. He’s your basic nice guy that has hit a serious rough patch at school though. Ever since he met a girl named Haruna in school a couple of years prior, he’s been madly in love with her. That love took an awkward turn this year though when the garden she tends at school got ruined and he got blamed when he came across it and was discovered that way. Haruna hasn’t held it against him but almost everyone else has given him dirty looks ever since.
His interest in Haruna is certainly more complex now that Lala has landed and decided that she’s going to live with him for a while and revealed her true nature to Rito’s sister Mikan. The parents are out of the picture so it’s easy to deal with there. Rito’s not going to let Lala stop him from getting closer to Haruna though so he sets things up to confess to her his true feelings. It’s that point that sets the real stage for the series as his confession of love is intercepted by Lala who takes it very literally as a marriage proposal. So much so that they’re essentially engaged. Haruna witnesses all of it and is decidedly confused, but she also gets the picture that the confession was meant for her, so she gets to slowly explore her own feelings for him as time goes on even as Lala gets closer to Rito.
The basics of the show are certainly familiar with the alien princess setting herself up on Earth to marry a high school student. Her problems with fitting in are large ones to be tackled repeatedly, from social issues to her choice of clothing. Lala does end up going to the school that Rito and Haruna go to which adds even more of a wrinkle to events since all the other students quickly become aware of the relationship between her and Rito. The school comedy is fairly straightforward with the science fiction angle applied to it, such as the school nurse being part of the Deviluke empire who is helping to keep an eye on things. There’s also the captain of the ship that was in pursuit of Lala, a man named Zastin, who takes easily to Earth life and serves as her guardian there. He’s pretty chummy with Mikan as he explains the reality of the situation to her so she’s fully in the loop.
Like most comedy series, as it progresses it adds more characters. The class rep in Yui has a good episode where she gets more involved in things and there are other characters that filter in. Where the show takes a less-than-welcome turn is when some of the aliens arrive on the scene. One episode has a fish-like creature that’s come to Earth to take Lala for his own but does it in an almost classic creature double feature kind of method. The aliens don’t seem to gel with the show as well as it’s done in other shows as everything works better when it’s kept to humanoid characters. When the humanoid aliens show up, including Lala’s father, the flow works and the comedy doesn’t go poorly. A lot of this is a situational comedy to be sure, but the characters are all quite likable and the comedy works well because of it, especially since it plays the raunchy side reasonably well.
The design for the show with its animation is another angle that helps this rise above being just a mediocre comedy-romance. A lot of it rides on the girls and they manage to pull it off really well. Lala herself is essentially the lead for it and her personality shines through in her design, with bright colors, very outgoing and vibrant, with a fair bit of skin showing that pushes her free spirit nature. For Haruna, she has a bit more of the classic beauty to her with the shorter haircut, a more reserved demeanor, and a more Japanese approach to relationships as she’s spending more of her time watching events rather than directly interacting in it and trying to get what she wants herself. The other characters make out well overall, though many don’t stand out hugely. Rito has a good look but like most male leads of a comedy-romance like this he has a bit of that beaten-down nature to him. He’s not a wimp character, but he’s more reserved and not all that interested in being the center of attention.
As it progresses, most of the episodes deal with fun things, such as the cat-woman one where Saruyama works hard to find a girlfriend to get out of that sticky situation. There’s a school festival episode that involves the class making an animal cafe that serves okonomiyaki that involves all sorts of sexy costumes and the importance of working together for things. Predictable but the point of To Love Ru is about the fanservice and silliness. This is also very apparent in the big fanservice episodes with the time at the pool and the search for a close hot spring. The pool has lots of swimsuits and scantily clad moments where it really does seem like the world revolves around Rito as all these women are drawn to him. The hot spring episode is very cute as it has Lala digging deep into the Earth with everyone in tow to discover the best hot spring they can, all while passing by numerous amazing treasures. Both go for the skin in a blatant and fun way, and it’s because they do it in that way that you can laugh and enjoy it for what it is, nipples and all.
One of the best episodes that’s not pure fanservice related involves Lala coming down with an alien flu that alters her personality on a daily basis. The first part is priceless as she becomes completely shy and opposite of herself and Rito finds that surprisingly enticing. A few other changes are thrown into the mix but the best is when she becomes completely supportive of Rito becoming the greatest ever and helping him to conquer Earth so he can begin that journey. With a full on military getup on her, she designs a cadre of androids to do the job. The best is when all of Rito’s friends decide to throw in with Lala on this for their own sweet holdings when the conquering is all said and done with.
Like any show of this nature, it does have to spend at least the last one or two episodes dealing with something bigger than the usual silliness and fun. For To Love Ru, it’s the return of Lala’s father as he’s come to conquer the world in an open and outright fashion. But he does make it something that Earthlings can fight back with and he assigns Rito to the job of challenging. The challenge is simple in that when they start the game he has to make it to where Lala’s father is within a certain period of time. With all the stops pulled out by him, Rito has quite the challenge ahead of him with the fate of the world at stake. It’s the expected big kind of plot you’d expect for the end of the show but they do it well enough so that it’s fun and we see the growth and changes of the core characters that has come from the show so far.
After having a lot of fun with the first twenty-six episode run of To Love Ru in all its fanservice glory, a follow-up single season of twelve episodes takes all of that and just runs with it. With the first series that we had, it was a lot of fun and while at times it felt like the two seasons might be a bit much overall, it continually left me laughing and enjoying the situation that everyone had gotten themselves into. It populated itself with basic characters and connections that wouldn’t surprise anyone who’s watched such shows over the years, but it executed it well and it was one of those times when everything just clicked right for me. It delivered laughs, fun characters, and plenty of sexiness that almost makes you cringe but doesn’t quite go that far. And this series is essentially more of the same, but one that you can experience anew with the English providing a new slant on it for viewers with how they interpret the characters.
As we said the last time, this is a show where the women get to really dominate as the couple of male characters are almost background at times. Ry McKeand does what he can with Rito but there’s only so much for Rito to really do here like before, but I really do enjoy the way he tries to handle the women in his life and just how crazy it gets. As before, Alexis Tipton as Lala is definitely the highlight here and she makes the character work really well as it again ramps up in either the silly or the sensual based on the situations. She also gets to play off Bryn Apprill as Haruna and that means the two of them have a lot of on-screen back and forth and attempts at overacting each other to deal with how scenes escalate. Haruna’s a favorite of mine and remains my top here, especially with Bryn voicing her, but Alexis really gives the character a run for the money with how she brings Lala to life. This season gets to play with Yami a bit more, who had more of a role in the back half of the previous season. Katelyn Barr delivers the deadpan just right and so many of her scenes left me grinning with how it unfolds and the delivery of lines.
With episodes broken down into three parts each, it lets it do a lot of short-run comedy in a very engaging way without having any of it overstay its welcome. One of the bigger problems for a lot of comedy series is that they get an overall gag for an episode and the run it into the ground over the course of that episode, or focus on the cliches repeatedly during it where the characters don’t really change. Here, the characters aren’t changing but they adjust who is involved on a regular basis so that it’s just not a constant. And doing three short tales in the episodes helps to make that flow a lot better, even with Rito as the main character getting into a whole lot of trouble. His life as a young man with girls who really do know how to mess with him is priceless. He’s practically got the keys to many kingdoms but the girls keep it just out of reach or he’s not entirely into them and focusing on others. But these near-successes on a regular basis don’t hurt the show in the long run which is a saving and surprising grace.
Much of this season is pretty much as you’d expect since all the heavy lifting was done in the previous seasons. Because of that, they just go for the fun with the silly stories that involve a lot of fanservice, from pool scenes to compromising situations that get Rito involved with the girls. Often you get the sisters getting involved, mostly just Momo though, and there’s some cute tail stroking that comes into play. The same can be said of Yami as she continues to try and get to know what it’s like to live a normal life on Earth while still in the background keeping to her main reason for being there of, well, killing Rito. There are some fun bits with Yami that help to soften her a bit here as the two spend time together and as Mikan gets to befriend her a lot. Yami also ends up going through a bit of body switching in an episode that has several of them doing that but she also later gets her whole personality softened to the point where she offers herself up to Rito. It’s cute how the two play together though it’s never a relationship that you really want to see come to fruition.
While this kind of material does dominate the series and it’s incredibly fun, it also does start to work the relationship quandary more towards the end and culminates in a final episode that dedicates it all with the phrase “I Love You” in a good way. With this season focusing on the way Rito gets to understand that Haruna has feelings for him, it comes in interesting ways, including some time spent as a dog and getting to live with her a bit which includes a whole lot of licking. I really like the whole Rito and Haruna relationship angle and seeing it unfold here is wonderful. His relationship with Lala never quite clicked as well as this, but you can see how he’s the type that cares for both to different levels and a lot of it with Haruna is that he’s been into her for a while and hopes to seal the deal. Seeing them work through this in the final episode is great since it finally gives us a call back to his potentially being the King of the Universe and what he can do because of it, but also because it goes the angle that I honestly wish more series would of the harem nature in that when you all do get along, there are options.
With this season, Lala and Haruna are pushed more to the background here, along with a few other characters, as the focus turns more towards Yami and Momo with a dose of a new character named Mea. Unfortunately, this season comes across as pretty incomplete in a way because of the main arc with Mea that develops, but honestly, I can’t really find fault with it because so much of it is just so much fun. While it’s annoying, it’s not the end of the world because the fun is in watching the regular ongoings in Rito’s life and the women around him.
With this edition providing a dub a lot of the heavy lifting isn’t going to be on the male characters once again. The lead and what few other guys are in here aren’t going to have to do a lot beyond the usual ridiculous panicking that frustrates me so. Ry McKeand does what he can with Rito but there’s only so much for Rito to really do here. We’ve praised the cast a good bit before as you get someone like Alexis Tipton as Lala where she shines and Bryn Apprill as Haruna where the two of them have a lot of on-screen back and forth and attempts at overacting each other to deal with how scenes escalate. This season, we’re introduced to Imma Nasse as Mea and she does a really great job of capturing the character in her own way while bringing some elements of the Japanese performance here. And she spends time with Yami and Momo a lot, which means Katelynn Barr and Natalie Rial step up to the forefront a bit more as well and the three together definitely hit a sweet spot.
While Lala and Haruna are more background here, Momo certainly steps up to the plate. Her main goal here this season, light as it is, involves her Project Harem plan. She’s intent on getting Rito to accept the idea that as the next king of Deviluke that having a harem, concubines, or whatever name he wants to apply to it will be perfectly fine and acceptable. And it will solve all of the issues that he has in that there are several women that are in love with him and want to be with him. So she’s going to make him understand the kind of closeness that others want by getting closer to him herself so that he can realize it. That means she’s doing her best to really seduce him, which isn’t easy since Mikan is on the case and he is regularly surrounded by others. But she gets a lot of opportunities and uses each and every one of them.
What adds a little more to all of this is that she really loves him and is looking to make it happen. It’s not a crush or something that’s just a whim, you really do get into her head at times, and towards the end, to see that she really cares for him while also having a deep craving to be loved herself. It’s a very natural thing and quite understandable for the age and with the connection with her sister. While Momo has some awkward elements to her at times, there’s a lot to like with the way she goes about it while struggling with how far she’s going. She has such lusty dreams of Rito and puts herself into a position to be utterly used by him, but she also knows that she’s completely safe with him which makes it easier to do. At the same time, when he actually does touch her – not in a sexual way at that – she recoils because she realizes what being intimate could really mean and be about. There’s a good story to be had with her across this that you can easily root for her.
While this dominates, we get another main storyline across this as well. This comes in the form of a new student named Mea that has arrived. She ends up befriending Nana, who is having her own struggles in being Momo’s sister since people tend to ignore her compared to the way Momo stands out. So when Mea makes friends, it’s an easy in for Mea into Rito’s group, which is part of her larger goal. We get the clues early on that she’s working for some other entity that’s intent on getting Yami back into her proper role of being the Darkness again so that she can battle her as there’s an old grudge between them that’s slowly revealed. The focus on Yami in the role she’s taken on since deferring her assassination contract on Rito is interesting because we do see how she’s finally figuring out who she is rather than who she was made to be. Yami’s a hard character to get into since she has such a facade over her, but her arc that’s mixed into the season gives her a chance to be humanized more and to have some really touching moments with Rito when the two are bonded together for a day as she reveals more of her past that helps to explain a lot of things about her. She hasn’t been a favorite of mine since her introduction but she definitely is a lot more interesting this time around.
While all of this plays out, we get plenty of silliness as well which obviously makes the whole thing a good deal of fun. One episode has Rito being gender-swapped for awhile and there are all kinds of hilarity with that, especially when he finally takes a little bit of time to explore his body. We get another story that spends some time focusing on Ren and her alien nature with the way she flips genders and ends up going through a strange maturation process as well. Mikan has some great material as we get a bit more of her relationship with others as well as the growing depth between her and her brother. Thankfully Celine gets little time but we get a good episode focusing on Kotegawa as well as Momo tries to prod her into revealing herself to Rito to further Project Harem. We also get another new character in this season with Tearju, a woman who had cared for Yami when she was young and instrumental in how Yami had changed. This is a lot of setup for future material but there’s some hilarious fanservice involved when she takes on a teaching position, having been friends with Mikado, and she and Rito end up with some heavy naked time. With socks.
Fanservice is nothing new with a series of this nature, though To Love Ru Darkness really ups in terms of quality as it has a high level of it here with designs, fluidity of animation and detail. Where it does stand out even more though compared to other fanservice shows is that it provides copious amounts of nudity throughout it, not just winks and nods with smoke and mirrors. It goes all out in being a very sexual show where the breasts are bared, the poses are overt and there’s plenty of hands-on material. It, of course, doesn’t go all the way because it can’t, but they come close. Hell, there’s a dream sequence with Rito force-feeding Momo an ice cream stick that provides pretty much everything you need. It’s very easy to feel guilty about watching all of this, particularly when you factor in the high school ages, but at the same time you have to admire the beauty of the animation and designs and just how much they put into it. I’m probably destined for a special kind of hell for enjoying this. But enjoy it I did.
The manga series that this adaptation is based on is the second one that was started and it has seventeen volumes since beginning in 2010 and wrapping up in 2017, offering up plenty of material to work with overall. This season brings back most of the main staff with Atsushi Ootsuki writing and directing it once again at Xebec. Having enjoyed the previous seasons of the show, I only dabbled lightly with the simulcast because of the blurring done to deal with the softcore porn that we get here. As much as I watch the show for the fanservice, I also like the story and character elements so it’s not something that knocks it out of the running for me to watch from time to time. Even with the heavy light and steam aspects used to protect the innocent.
Naturally, Rito’s life has not eased at all since we last saw him. With his house having more people there over time, he’s coping as best as he can, but you still get characters like Momo waking up in his bed where he gropes their tails in his sleep. Groping is one thing, but it’s amusing to see him licking her tail and the reactions it causes. It’s familiar to be sure with the other seasons, but it reminds that the show is staying true to what it’s been. Rito’s life is populated with a lot of cute girls and we get a good re-introduction to them as it moves along here and they get their school day going along. It’s over-populated of course, and you hope they get a discount on the color pink. But there’s a pleasant lightness to everything that brings us back into things, though Rito’s running into Yami as Golden Darkness is never a good thing for his health. And for good reason, considering how badly his accidental groping tends to go. With all of this being part of Momo’s “harem plan,” you do have to feel a little sympathy for Rito. A lot of it is just going to be jealous though.
Momo’s plan is one that she starts putting out there publicly a bit more as the interactions go on, though she says it just to some of the other girls like Sairenji as something that’s normal out in space where making only one person happy isn’t the norm, but rather being able to make lots of people happy. That has Sairenji questioning herself if she’s just focusing too much on her own happiness and not that of all of them. The idea of not having to compete quite so much is intoxicating for her, though some of that comes from the drink of alien nature that Momo has. With Sairenji being a favorite of mine, I like that she gets some good attention here with Rito taking her home from school since she’s pretty drunk. It naturally turns pretty sexual when he gets her back to her house and she’s even more eager to be all over him, which is made worse by the way he tries his best to be respectful and get out of the situation as it seems to keep drawing him in all the more.
And honestly, this kind of material is what largely dominates the season. The cast has grown a fair bit and that means they’re able to shift things around a bit. Lala is actually a very minor character here overall and I don’t mind all that much since the other characters have some decent fun. The push that comes along the way here is an interesting one that would actually solve a lot of problems in a lot of series as some of the girls talk about how groups/polyamory is considered a lot more normal out in space among a range of cultures. That doesn’t fly for some of the younger women in this group since they’re looking for that special one person and believe that it’s Rito, but considering how they all live together for the most part and are terribly playful in very sexual ways individually, there’s something that could be workable there. This doesn’t truly progress anywhere in this season of the show but it’s a subplot that’s brought out several times with varying reactions to it that makes it a curious approach. I’d actually really love to see a series tackle this in a big way as it would be the kind of different that we need in storytelling.
The big arc for this set doesn’t hit until the last four episodes or so, though it’s set up a bit earlier with some regular nods to it at times throughout. With Mea being in service to Nemesis and Nemesis wanting to unlock Darkness so she can cause widespread war across the galaxy, there’s a lot of watching and nudging going on throughout the run. So when it does hit that Darkness is unlocked and goes all-powerful destructo mode, it’s not a surprise and out of the blue. I like Nemesis well enough but she’s never given enough time to really feel grounded enough as an opponent since she’s mostly a puppet master. The background bit with Nemesis and Mea is interesting as it plays out because there’s a good dynamic between them, and you’re partially waiting for Mea to just shake her off and take control of her own destiny. When it comes to the final battle, well, it’s spread over a few episodes and goes about how you’d expect.
Which, with this series, is pretty freakin’ erotic. While I’ve enjoyed past seasons of the show and know what to expect from it with its fanservice, this season feels like it’s moved over to softcore porn. And I’m fine with that because we need variety in what we get. But man, the things these characters get into is just crazy. With the tail ends serving as genital substitutions that let the animators make it just as richly designed as the real thing, there are a lot of highly erotic sequences that just work beautifully because of the attention to detail, quality of animation, and colorwork. There are a couple of minor white light moments, mostly related to younger characters, but beyond that, it’s pretty freakin’ blatant. Tops are torn or moved constantly, Rito ends up as a mouse within Darkness’ top at one point, and there are so many instances of crotch grabs and more that it’s just over the top in a way that makes it even more delightful and enjoyable to watch. It’s simply wacky how far they go and I love it because of that.
In Summary:
One of the best things Sentai did was going back after all the various DVD and Blu-ray releases we had and dubbing this property for all four seasons and getting it back out there. There’s definitely a market for this kind of material and I always dislike that it gets viewed by many as a second-class, if that, kind of thing. It’s silly and fun in all the right and weird ways and getting the dub actors to be able to do something so goofy is a lot of fun to take in. Bringing all of this together in one solid collection for those that just want to own it all and put the discs in rotation are given exactly what they need here. It’s a solid brick of nine discs with almost 1,600 minutes of pervy goodness in high definition here. There’s so much fun, sexiness, silliness, and pervy moments alongside highly erotic material that it delivers exactly what I wanted. Yeah, it may not be high storytelling, but one must consume variety and appreciate many different things. And there’s a whole lot to consume and appreciate here. I wish we had a series like this every season as opposed to every year or two.
Features:
Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0 Language, English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Language, English Subtitles, Clean Opening, Clean Closing
Content Grade: B+
Audio Grade: A-
Video Grade: A-
Packaging Grade: B+
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: B-
Released By: Sentai Filmworks
Release Date: April 11th, 2023
MSRP: $129.98
Running Time: 1600 Minutes
Video Encoding: 1080p AVC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen
Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
