
To Love-Ru is celebrating not only over 12 million copies sold, but also practically unheard of sales for its notorious “Venus” artbook, which has managed 120,000 copies on its own.

Venus, aside from enjoying 120,000 sales and no less than 6 reprintings, also supplies more than a little support for the theory that Kentaro Yabuki or his assistants were responsible for at least some of the famed coloured and nude filtered versions which keep surfacing:
















The artbook is still available thanks to all the reprints.
It makes me proud to own one :)
Same here, though I was proud to own it even before this was posted on sancon :P
So true. But the higher the sales go the prouder I get for buying it from the first batch.
Same here xD
It make me stand tall!!
Don't you mean it makes "mine" stand tall?
Eh? How could he know about yours? :o)
Best ecchi series ever! Gongrats To Love-Ru!
*Congrats
My bad.
oh god Hayabusa, why? D:
moron, why pay if you can read it for FREEEEE.....!!!!
If buying and supporting your favorite artist's book is being a moron then its the end of this world
We buy it because we are not gay idiots like you.
me too!
You are the true fans of pervert
NO WORRIES! I PROUD TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!
I have a copy as well! ^^
lest sex babe
link to artbook not working.
Just be a porn, already.
ecchi is hotter then hentai though
I'd still like if, when it ends, it'd finally become this epic hentai where he finally scores all of them, individually and finally all at once and possibly in certain groups to have some yuri involved.
This if any ecchi series deserves that kind of an ending...
Just make it all yuri.
Well, Princess Lover! kind of had that, where a season of 12 episodes of ecchi was followed by a hentai OVA... :3 hehe (unfortunately they weren't exactly connected story-wise)
@04:27 - this doesn't look like it is trying to be the kind of manga that has an end in store, it'll just end when popularity dies...
but if this was actually a good, well thought out manga with a foreseeable end coming, it'd be great if all the ecchi and teasing lead up to a glorious sex scene, yeah..
They did that with Green Green and the hentai OVA was connected to the anime.
@7:19
I don't think they were connected production-wise, either. Seriously, you look at the Princess Lover! series, and then the OVA, and the animation quality just tanks. Hell, if I am to assume the original game is anything like most hentai, I'd dare say the OVA was just a more direct adaptation of it (what with Teppei being mostly faceless, and Sylvia being reduced to a one-dimensional man-pleaser once she's in the sac).
I like hentai better, but ecchi is not bad either.
yeah, that's true- ecchi is usually much hotter than hentai... and I think it's because the scenarios in hentai are always the same...
"it's is not porn, it is art!"
What kind of asshole downvotes this comment? Sexuality and depictions of the female body makes for the greatest of art! All you hentai lovers must be the kind that are "even rape is ok" losers.
Odd thing if you showed this to the average person on the street they'd call it soft core porn.
Yabuki Kentaro: Hey, look at this!
Passerby: WTF?! Why are you showing me such shameless and perverted depiction?!
Yabuki Kentaro: No, no! Look! There is a water drop!
Passerby: Oh! Is that so? OK then, have a good day!
Lemongrab you are not a god!
No... this manga? They'd call it total child porn, lol.
Because that's EXACTLY what it is and precisely the point I came here to make. This crap is straight up child porn. Most of these girls depicted look WAY too young, like middle school age.
Not too surprising given the perverse definition of "obscene" in Japan. Seriously!? You have to blur a grown woman's genitalia, but throw it in a cartoon and make the girls very questionably too young, and you're good to go? This crap is sickening. :(
why downvoted? it's true! honestly, if you walk down your street and show this artbook to people and ask them what they think it is at first glace, what do you honestly think they will say it is?
17:18 It depends. In Japan they will be "meh". Isn't this like a common thing.
If they just "make it porn" they will have to bury the volumes in the adult section or ban sales in Tokyo. Sales would tank simply because of a lack of access.
Wait, does it have to be hentai to have sex in it, really? Is Mad Bull 34 considered to be hentai? Because it has a lot of sex scenes.
lol... mad bull isnt designed to be fap material
It has naked women and sex, it can be fap material just as much as 5 second nude scenes in action movies can be. But that's not the point - if that has sex it's not considered hentai but if this had sex then it would be hentai?
Make special uncensored editions of tankobons, 3 times more expensive, but without leaves, hair, tails and teardrops, and hide it there. There will surely demand on those.
is it not enough that To Love-ru has more erotic doujinshi than almost every other franchise out there? Seriously, it may not be from Yabuki himself, but if you wanna see some nice hardcore Lala fuckage (or whoever your preferred girl is), there's hardly a shortage of quality material.
I haven't chcked To Love-Ru's, but in my experience most doujinshi hentai based on anime series are full of rape and gangbangs. Is that how TLR's is?
SO what is this about, anyway? I see Sankaku talking about this all the time.
A totally generic male protagonist is constantly being attacked by a group of horny girls, including his sister, with the idea of copulation... But he's not ready to have his cherry popped so the girls never manage to get his milk. Rinse and repeat, include some genderbender, age transformations and evil powers also wanting his milk and you have To Love-Ru.
Reverse the genders and equality facepalming ensures.
Sigh... another mental image I did not want to have. Thanks, anon.
Cherry milk... yum...
so crap basically
No, not a crap at all.
It is a manga that promote healthy mental imagination, guide towards better social communication, raising self esteem and proven to be a great cure for daily life stress especially for the one that not have access to regular "loving"..
generic crap at that.
lol @ healthy
Only a girl or a homo would refer to that stuff as "milk". Then again, maybe it bothers me because I'm a fan of big, delicious, milfy and milky oppai, not milkless teens.
There are a lot of hentai calling a man sperm as milk..
For instance, the faceless protagonist will say to the girl "you give me your milk(boob milk) while I'll give mine in exchange(penis milk)" during the blowjob and nipple sucking.
For me its is OK to call it a milk when talking to a woman, but never, ever to a man cause it will sound like homo.
Cutest and best looking anime girls who get naked quite often ;)
It's all about Yabuki Kentaro's work and imagination. At least he draws superbly.