I laughed a fair bit at the first joke. Rito’s dreams of Haruna suddenly turned into Haruna holding out 2 balloons(?) to Rito. Of course Rito ends up waking up pressing to Lala’s breast instead.

Zastins horrifies Rito with stories about what he needs to do as King of Deviluke in the future. Basically… War and intergalaxy domination. Of course Rito has no idea how to fight at all.

At the same time, we see how Lala loves earth food. Especially since it’s warm. Zastin seems to have never tasted food as tasty as earth food either. Lala proceeds to try to cook up something. Her very first try cooking. Nearly kills Rito.

RIto then decides that this is the best chance to avoid being the King of Deviluke. Demand that his wife must know how to cook. This saddens Lala greatly, and she ends up transportting herself away, not turning up for school the next morning either.

But did anybody believe Lala will be gone for good? She pops back up in the middle of lessons, dragging Rito away. She announces that she has gone round gathering all the neccessary ingridients and trained her cooking.

Haruna who is looking for the 2 of them, ends up entering the classroom just as a live octopus emerges from Lala’s fridge. Octopus? Tentacles? Girls? You get the idea. Add in one more squid for even more fun.  Even Zastin who appears and tries to help, has his hands full with a lobster that appears.

Thoughts

This episode was full of cliches in the first half. But the second half sure was a weird way to introduce tentacles. The manga itself had such a great plot, and they don’t even bother following it. Heck, they didn’t even show how this tentacle mess ended. Slightly funnier than ep 03, but whole series is a general let down so far. You know… even the CG animated Octopus looks better than the normal stuff that is served up.

Rito warns Lala not to be too conspicious in school, after the principal agrees to accept her after finding her cute. With weird sense of art, abnormal strength, and plain clinging on to Rito, of course lala remains conspicious. She’s an alien at heart after all. Rito’s final stab of horror is to hear Haruna mention how he and Lala look good together.

A day out is suggested by Mikan, seeing how depressed Rito is. Lala can’t walk around dressed weird though, and it takes many iterations before her dress bot can figure out what’s considered “earth clothing”. All these changes zaps energy out of it though, and before long, Lala nearly finds herself naked in the middle of the street.

They end up meeting Haruna at the clothing shop, and  at Lala’s suggestion, they all visit the aquarium together. Haruna’s moment of confession is totally ruined by Lala though. How? When Lala decides that the fishes need more energy, she feeds them energy pills. When the fishes jump out of the water, she decides that the best way to save them is to flood the entire place with her elephant gun invention. Think you can get the idea.

Thought

Last shot of Lala swimming naked in the aquarium.

I didn’t laught through the whole episode. I worry about this adaptation of the manga. There could have been a million and one place where jokes could have been inserted, but weren’t. Chapter 4-9 were entirely skipped, with this episode’s material taken from Chapter 10. You don’t get any awkard moments involving Rito and other girls. (okie. so there was one scene of him crashing into the girl’s changing room, as well as falling onto Haruna’s skirt at the end) Disappointing. Even love hina was so much more familiar.

I wonder how the plot will go. Introduce all the characters in a rush, before Lala’s other suitors are introduced? I hope that come soon. Rito’s first “competitor” invovled some interesting moments for Haruna

More wow factor, more humour, less rushing needed. Thanks.

Rito wakes up the next day to find Lala naked in his bed. Of course Lala finds nothing wrong with that, especially since a couple who is engaged should sleep together. Rito insists that Lala should get dressed, and getting engaged is something that Lala had decided on her own. Zastin arrived to inform Rito that the moment he had grabbed lala’s breast the day before, he had started the engagement process. Rito wouldn’t want earth to be attacked should he back out of the engagement would he.

In school, of course Haruna is ignoring Rito.

Rito ends up facing the wrath of all the boys in school, from jealousy, after Lala appears in schools and mentions about being together with Rito. In a bid to escape, Rito asks Lala to use her warp ring. What he doesn’t know, is that the ring only warps living things, and not their clothes. They end up falling out from the lockers in the dressing room together, just as Haruna is changing.

Rito finds out from Zastin that the only way to break the engagement is to grab Lala’s breast again within 2 days. Fate is such that he fails to succeed again. Finally, Rito settles down Lala to a heart to heart talk, where Lala reveals how she is touched by how Rito is willing to believe her and protect her. Back at home, people are all trying to marry her, and just pour her with gifts. Before Rito could add anything more, time’s up to break off the engagement.

No way to escape from Lala anymore. Rito thinks that at least Lala will not be appearing in school, only for Lala to appear as a transfer student. Nightmare!

Thoughts

Hmm… Zastin was a much funnier character in the manga, although just as stupid. By now, there should have been more fanservice shots of Haruna already. Where are they!! such a waste.

Seems like part of the original plot will be skipped/combined. It’s not too badly done so far. I guess if you just sit back and relax, the jokes are actually quite funny, even if they are very cliche. Now that LALA is in school, things should be more fun.

I think lala looks much better in her school uniform. And her costume changing scene just doesn’t seem to fit into the whole flow, even if it is fanservice-y

Favorite character design being Haruna. hoho.

The anime starts off with a space chase, reminiscence of star wars, with the one being chased escaping to hyperspace at the last minute. The story then jumps to Rito, who as a high school boy, is in love with Haruna. This ever since Haruna was the only person to believe in Rito in middle school, where everybody suspected him of digging up the school garden. Time after time, Rito has tried to confess though, never succeeding. The final try being interrupted by a falling spaceship.

The problem is Rito is very very shy with girls. VERY SHY. So imagine him turning all red, when Lala pops up in his bathtub. Lala explains that she’s an alien. Best proof is a tail. She goes round with a “clothes robot” named peke, who is in charge of transforming into her dress. Lala is the one running away, and warped into the bathtup using one of her “devices”

Lala’s pursuers do catch up with her though. Surprisingly, Rito gets the courage to drag Lala out of his room, onto rooftops and away!! before being cornered. Of course Lala has some tricks up her sleeve. Namely, her inventions. This time round, being a large vacuum. Perfect device, except she doesn’t know how to switch it on.

Next day, Haruna says hi to Rito, wanting to ask about what happened the night before. Rito takes the opportunity to confess. He does it with his eyes closed, without realising that Lala had appeared infront of him. Well… Lala was thinking the same thing about loving Rito… so hey! why not get married!!

Thoughts

I really loved the character designs in the manga. The introductory episode has stucked closed to the manga, animating the first chapter only. Of course, there are some things you can never see in the manga, like peke transforming into Lala’s clothing. (I sure don’t recall her moaning haha)

The animation seemed a little poor. In fact, seemed on par with Love Hina, and love hina was produced eons ago. Am I asking too much? haha. Lala is voiced by Haruka Tomatsu, who does sound suitably cute. I am looking forward for more though. Entertaining anime to relax you for 20 min. heh.

Check out the op and ed here