
Though the sudden ending of To Love-Ru was not wholly surprising, the nature of the ending is surprising…
Fans expecting spoilers and an epic conclusion to almost 20 volumes worth of oppai manga from the ending scene, below, will be sorely disappointed:

Who is the target of Rito’s final confession?


“With that, it looks as though Rito’s Trouble-some days will continue…”

It seems a classic half-baked “To Be Continued… ?” ending devoid of any real conclusion is all the author could muster, perhaps unsurprising considering the endless repetition of falling bikini and tentacle raep scenes which has populated the title.
i've learned to never expect any half decent endings out of harems.
school days? ^^
Nice Boat ^^
^^
Love Hina had a great ending imo.
Kentiah: Are you kidding, he married that bitch Naru!
Urr....
Naru is cool though..
The TRUTH is:
- There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.
- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.
- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.
- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.
- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.
- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.
- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.
- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.
- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]
- I forgot to mention that following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.
- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.
This is why characters shouldn't be based on 3-dimensional whores...
And seriously? Cute and innocent Haruna was based off that witch? ...I'm hoping it was appearance alone or Shiho was really an expert at playing innocent.
It's no surprise that he was seduced...
Sorry I loled at rito when I saw SUKIDAAAAA!!!! in the first page shown..... and now I feel sad that it ended this way T.T
Shitty Ending is SHITTY. 'Nuff said.
True enough.
anon agree...
At least it's not endless like endless eight
Indeed ^^;
Endless Eight is already over. How long you will be bitching about it?
Who said that it's officially done? The story should be wrapped up in one volume of non-Shonen Jump chapters.
Ichigo 100%?
I's?
Love Hina?
I dunno man, just listing the more classic and well known stories, but there's always good endings in some manga...
yeah i liked how Love Hina ended
+1
+2
Love Hina was always centered around 1 girl with small additions of samurai girl, the princess girl, sister girl and some other " " girl characters, unlike to-love-ru where the protagonist loves 1 girl, then other girl comes wants to marry him, so basically wimpy japanesse can't handle good-sad endings where someone is left out (not talking about something like 666)
At the very least it didn't end like Shuffle! I'm not sure how much worse it could possibly be than that.
me too
Sorry dude, but Shuffle PWNS!!! When you don't like Asa-Sempai, that doesn't mean others will hate her too <_<
Shuffle is just mediocre, me thinks. Even though the anime is stronger in its end than the visual novel, it's also a bit weak at the same time, and for many people disappointing.
It's pretty rare that the protagonist won't end up with the 'usual' female lead character, though.
I didn't mind Asa winning; what I didn't like is how they turned Kaide into a psycho bitch. They should have chopped Rin's balls off imho
I's was too good
>I’s was too good
ha ha ha ha *dies laughing*
I''s was truly good.
I would not classify I's as a harem at all.
Also the anime ending for Ichigo 100% and love hina was terrible, as I remember it he didnt even pick a girl. I hate animes like that.
Wow, then either you have a terrible memory or you just haven't seen the ova a for love hina. Cause Keitaro and Naru get together at the end of it.
Love Hina - Keitaro marries Naru
Ichigo 100% - Junpei picks Tsukasa, and while I respect his decision and have much love for her I cannot begin to fathom how he could pass up on Satsuki the entire damn time. It was as if the only real choices were Tsukasa and Aya, and Satsuki was there to just be side entertainment.
Damn you Junpei! Damn you to hell!!
thank you for the Love Hina spoiler
I havent watched it yet :\
Don't worry. It's only in the manga they do that. The anime stops way before that.
You're being nice as ever Thanatos. >:3
You're being sexy as ever Chrouya. >:3
"thank you for the Love Hina spoiler
I havent watched it yet :\"
You're a bit behind the times if you haven't seen Love Hina. Like nearly 10 years.
Ichigo 100%!!! Now that's a beautiful ending.
I suspect those mangas had authors who had free reign on when to end their serialisation, actually.
"i’ve learned to never expect any half decent endings out of harems."
i’ve learned to never expect any half decent endings out of "Jump"- fixed.
The GREATEST EVER harem ending is on Tenchi Muyo GXP. It leaves you fully satisfied and defies all rules harem. The ending in the anime is totally amazing and it didn't do this kind of crap.
So true
What about School Days?
school days had an akward ending =p the author just kinda fucked it all up and decided to make everyone pissed off. i mean come on, murder randomly put into a harem? someone watched too many soap's that week.
Polygamy anyone?
Hear hear!
And nothing of value was lost.
this
sucks
bannana
dicks
Banana dicks ... my girlfriend never mine had flavour :(
There's a sex joke in there somewhere.
Try fapping and writing at the same time .. NOT EASY I TELLS YA!
that's one fag ending.
the author should get a life.
hah Candadians.
If that is the ending it comes to i'm going to crawl in a corner and cry.
Can't read Japanese...but whatever he said I already feel unsatisfied.
My only consolation is that shot of Yui in a bikini.
Damn you Rito. Damn you to hell!
Rito is the second luckiest bastard to have ever existed...
'Damn you Rito. Damn you to hell!' x 2
And who is the first luckiest bastard? If not's rito, who?
Kraft Lawrence..
T _ T....
Obviously.
Wrong!!
Touma is the luckiest bastard, he have 10.000 virgins misaka! the biggest harem ever.
Damn you, Rito! ROT IN HELL! x3
He needs to be School Days'd.
That would be a fitting end.
Not hell ..... SPAAAAAAAAAAAARTA!
More Sparta jokes please, as we haven't quite run this shitty meme to the ground yet and it's still new and fresh.
Making the main character choose is pretty much defeating the purpose of a harem in the first place. The only true ending to a harem anime/manga is choose them all.
I dunno, remember shuffle? Rin ended up choosing one and casting the others aside, which then said "we wont give up Rin!" and are still after him, I thought that was a pretty good ending for a Harem.
That happens actually at 90% of all harem stories. Girls never give up, even if the male main character did even marry.
this bastard Kaede gave up everything for him...fucking asshole...
Asa-sempai is definitely better than that Yandere. You never know when your head will start rolling on the floor with miss Kaede by your side ;p
well it would spice up living
But, if Rin chose Kaede that whole Kaede becoming independant thing would have been pointless
But not chooosing at all is a cowards way out.
well if you can read japanese (including some kanji, not just the basics) you can tell he does not make it clear who he is confessing to.(from what i can tell) So you have yui confused, run doesn't say anything, nana tries to answer him with"a..atashi...", mikan says (ara ara/ yara yara take your pick) cant make out exactly what momo says and yeah.... this ending sucks, I want a continuation.
Negima the other harem manga will prevail! Anon is sure of it!
oh you poor confused soul...
well he is raising an army
Can't compare Negima with ToLoveRu ... one has a story, the other doesn't.
So much wasted time....
GIVE ME BACK MY YOUTH, DAMNIT!
good grief..
thank god that finally ended. that mangaka should just stick with a black cat style series. i liked it better than this one
What the? I WANNA SEE MORE MOMO!!!!!!!
You and me both brother ;_;
same here..
We all do ;_;
Is Momo Lala's loliest sister..? (Haven't reached that part yet)
If so, SECONDED~
The beautiful yet mature(?)/sultry loli sister.. ~
>_>..
Loli enough = Fine enough :3
Now i wonder if your nickname is related to her..
Nope something completely different..
loliest sis' named nana
you mean Yami, right?
I hate these kind of endings.
HA! I did know it!
Grrr... just do an alternate ending for all the girls ~D~
Our only hope is to expect they adapt this into an eroge or visual novel game..
Well, at least it's noz HURRuna ending.
Posted this in the other thread, but here's the whole thing.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1808/1251284238447.jpg
BTW he confessed to Lala. Then he lmost confessed to Haruna but she run off.
meh as I thought.
To LOve Ru will get shitty ending
Most harems do.
And if they don't, they end like Ichigo100%: readers throwing fits because they hate the girl (why did he not choose Aya...)
If the mangaka really cares about the readers, he won't listen to them.
Most manga that get axed do.
Mx0, for example.
You make it sound as if have repetitive tentacle rape scenes is a bad thing!
No sweat, even Ranma suffered the same fate. In the end, none of the problems were even solved..
..well, as long as Yami, Mikan and Saki are reserved for me :3
Wait, what? You sure you read ALL of Ranma volumes?
In the end they went back to square one
"Square one" means Ranma and Akane squabble and are uncertain of each other's feelings.
The manga ended with them very, very aware of how much they love each other, and only postponed the wedding for a little while as they sort out their issues with everyone ELSE.
How's that going back to square one?
...and so it goes on endless. To Love-Ru copied KyoAni...
How so..? Oh yea, EE...
I'm afraid even EE had eventually an ending at some point...
To anyone disappoionted: you only have yourselves to blame.
Shot through the heart..
...and you're to blame...
You give love a bad name :(
Well done, gentlemen.
Yea...since we all know that ANY manga serialized in Jump that does not involved characters that look cool to 10 years old and mindlessly beating the hell out of each other will have VERY high chance of getting axed from the serialization at ANY given time.
To-Love-Ru has ended?
Noooooooooo ! My Life is over! I hoped it would survive me....
I was wondering how he was going to resolve his convoluted love triangle.
I guess he didn't have to.
It's not triangle...
he should add more points so that the shape would resemble a circle and then...
WORLD PEACE!
The more you add THE HEAVIER YOUR SIN IS
And that's why harem franchises only work the best in the form of Visual Novel Games..
SO in the end Rito is gay and he didnt pick any girl?
The should have just gone with a Riko ending...yuri FTW
Holy hell... Ok... No more fanservice. So that's that...
Oh yeah forgot to add. This is 2nd on the most fucked up abrupt ending of all time.
School Rumble comes first. No questions asked. Although this one was more interesting to me. To Love-Ru was just innuendos everywhere.
In the end Rito says: I am gay and i love Saruyama!
That would actually be a cool ending.
I second that and it will be a real ending xD for a Harem manga.
I would love an ending like that! It would be SO much more satisfying that this! Plus, it would explain why he never took even the SLIGHTEST advantage of his situation...
YAMI-CHAN FTW i hope they do decide to resurrect it ONE day
spin off?
"Yami the bounty hunter"
Mikan will be the lover of Yami and Kotegawa will be the sexy Archenemy.
Momo and Nana will be a lesbian couple and recurrent villains in the ero manga.
210% approved~
So this means there will be a second series?!
This does mean that right?!
There has to be a second series.
Perhaps in jump square or something!?
It cant end!!!
Not if you look the rating of it. If an Manga is at the end of interests, then I doubt, the mangaka will continue it.
I sense a sequel coming.
not too soon I hope.
I sense a BITCH SLAP & a FALCON PUNCH coming soon... to your face.
School Rumble, come back, everything is forgiven.
hope black cat 2 after this muhahahahahahaha
T_T ......
It's up to you! doujin artists of the world! Make us a half-decent ending for C77, even if it has to be a Harem one!
Although seriously, an unfinished ending is pretty much gold for fanfic writers to mess around with so I expect an upsurge within the week of the scanlation release.
Good thing I dropped this ages ago; I don't regret it.
Glad I never started it.
HA HA HA OH WOW
i see this and i just feel plain sad it wasn't a good story, because the art was really nice, and pleasing to the eye. but it kind of reminds me of Mazakasu Katsura who i think isn't doing anything anymore either
i dub the troll love-ru
Anyway, is everyone SILENTLY fapping on OP pic..?
No, it's getting quite loud.
So's the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
At least it wasn't a figment of Tommy Westphall's imagination...
Who the hell is Tommy Westphall?
Your mom?
Wasn't Tommy Westphall the autistic kid from the last episode of St. Elsewhere?
Well, that's what fanfics and doujins are for...
WIth all the anime and manga i have watched and read, only Shuffle had a ending. But they made sequeals for the game, which I have no clue what happenes in them, so even that may not be a complete ending, but with my experiance i've never seen a true ending.
Well, nowhere to go from here but the Tenchi Muyo route! Next stop, a confusing and disappointing continuation ten years from now.
Why what a freaking waste of time, yet another crappy ending.
RAGE!!!
There really was no point to the series continuing anyway. It was just a plotless wank magnet.
Can you really wank off to To Love Ru? Really?
Yup, really, and I wanked it to its creator's face... HARD!!!
Shit manga got a shit ending and nothing of value was lost.
hmm lets see
6 girls were added since i quit the manga
Just when I get to like Kotegawa & Momo, now I get a half-baked "Ending" ?
God, hoped Yabuki-sensei make a manga focused on Kotegawa X Rito.
Amen to that.
Hmmm...I'm just wondering if they should have ended it in a way that nods to School Days.
Yami just kills him (accidentally if you want), Lala makes a device to resurrect him and but in doing so makes clones enough for all the girls.
Harem problem solved.
Could a continuation be possible in the (distant) future?
All the Fucking idiots who actually read this shit manga got what you deserved.
HONESTLY, what kind of ending did you expect, Rito was one of many HORRIBLE shonen characters in a harem, he was unlikable, was a fucking idiot, and frankly speaking deserved to rot in hell.
FAIL MANGA WAS FAIL!
And what kind of garbage do you like persay?
please enlighten us oh wise one.
Im just worried about what is next, since latly the manga that comes out just doesnt apeal to me at all.
Actually I'm not anti-harem manga, It's just I don't know how anyone thought To-Love-Ru would end with idiot Rito actually picking a girl.
BTW if you must know some of my favorite harem manga are (Love Hina, Mahou Sensei Negima, Rosario + Vampire, and others I can't remember.)
other non-harem manga that I read are (FMA, Claymore, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Bleach, etc.)
So, what about you, What do you read?
Good thing you're referring to the manga version of Tsubasa and R+V. If those are the anime version, i would already argue...
WTF? Rosario Vambitch & Mahou Senshit Negima and you dare sound like you have taste? And I don't even count Bleh-ach...
Honestly? not alot anymore, Angel destiny was one of my favorites though.
And I just liked the tone behind to-luv-ru as not being to dramatic or depressing, i drop alot of manga if the lead starts becomming overly emotional, it bugs me.
Greatest harem manga is Ranma and the first I think. His alter ego was only match by his own ego
Hmmm...considering the feel of the series they should have gone with a deus ex machina.
Rito dies, Lala creates a device to revive him and in doing so creates multiple clones enough for all the girls to enjoy until they can put him back together.
Then again they did that with Maburaho so it's already been done.
finally ended... something nicer which ended prematurely should start eg double art, mxo, etc etc
meh, as expected. I didn't think that the mindless fanservice would last that long.
very likely that there will be a sequel as soon as the author comes up some idea again. Plus i believe he made such an ending so that there will be space for continuation.
maybe it might get picked up by other publisher who knows?
What a cop-out.
I had a feeling about this manga. I decided not to read it until it concluded becuase I'm sick of being dissapointed by crap endings.
I'm glad I waited
...
well, it's means the author might release their own doujins ...
and the other doujin will flourish too ...
needless to said if the author like to continue ...
it'll become the adventure one ...
see Train and Eve cameo in a few episode before ? OoO
well its like this because to love ru story doesnt have nice purpose story and just still in daily live love comedy harem story.
how about there are some aliens want to destroy earth and then rito and co do somemove to protect earth or they trvel to somewhere into endless galaxy like dragon ball.
add some bitter story with kill one of the girl, lose one girl not make world end right?
Ahhhh Whatever I say to love ru still end DAMMIIIIIITTTT
This manga needs more tentacle rape.
This manga need some raep raep raep raep raep raep raep raep raepx1000000000
it had an end -_- he was confessing to haruna halfway when someone took out her bikini and she ran off and it was replaced with the rest of them, he just confessed to lala saying he love her but he love haruna more -_-
anyway wonder how come both of them was not in that picture?lol thats why
and so please don;t jump to conclusions by a few pictures, read the whole chapter then you guys will understand, it sort of ended with him knowing who he will choose already
And they all lived Ecchiier ever after
Rumours that the divorce last year seems to affect the author's daily life and career a big deal.
If I had to draw that many tits and asses on a regular basis I would be stressed out too.
My god, I've lost respect for the series a while back, but this is a whole new low. And to think, I have a friend that argues the series was ever "good."
Harem series rarely have a decent ending at all.
People really need to learn to accept in these harem :\
especially the author
something like love hina's is not bad at all
and school days' arent too haha
Fuck harems in general.
Feel sorry for the author ! His ex-wife is a damn bitch !
i think a more ridiculous ending would've been suitable, considering how ridiculous it is when every single alien is a pervy tentacle monster.
I will miss To Love-Ru it was an good series for me. I enjoyed every charpter and waited each week MANNNN... I'm really sad now ...
I just wish Yabuki will continue doing an new series… Of course, with Mikan and Yami as spin-off main characters (the same way how he revived Eve and Kyoko from Black Cat in To Love-ru). ▬ω▬
P.S: We still have the OVAs (They further confirmed 3 of them before now officially cancel the manga);
P.S.S: Yabuki can continue releasing more To Love-Ru every month as it was originally.
Best ending would have been Lala's father nuking the entire planet and everyone on it, including his daughters.