Although both later adjust to this and can often be seen in Earth dress.Īnother example is them always causing trouble with their alien gadgets. Lum spends most of her time flying around in a skimpy tiger-print bikini, and Lala starts off by wearing her strange Devilukean attire in public. They’re also outside the sphere of Earth’s fashion.
One immediate example is Lum’s super spicy cooking and Lala’s super spicy dark matter flavouring, having a penchant for extreme tastes that cause the boys much grief over the course of the story. The princesses are both out of touch with Earth’s standards and traditions, facing many instances where their own preferences cause trouble for the earthlings. Any other concerns about their livelihood are secondary to that. Lala shoots a thin beam out of her tail much like Lum often channels her electricity into a thin beam shot out of her fingers.īoth girls are of the mindset that they’ll do anything for the sake of their love. Lum and Lala both fly as one of their primary modes of movement. Lum and Lala both enrol in the same school in order to spend more time with their beloved. After Ataru accidentally racks up an intergalactic taxi fare more expensive than the entire world economy Lum was only willing to cover the cost if he agreed to let her stay, and Lala pitches something similar when Rito asks her to use an emergency warp to escape his raging classmates. It doesn’t take long for the self-proclaimed fiancee to bargain their way into living together with Ataru/Rito. In lieu of this, the Deviluke obviously incorporate ‘devil’ into their name and physical characteristics like the tail and devilish wings. Oni are a traditional kind of Japanese devil, with its horns and fangs being reflected in the Oniboshi character design framework. This rough nature can be seen as similar to the Oniboshi who are a war-mongering race of planet-conquerers.īeyond that, indeed the Deviluke are a reference to the Oniboshi on the whole. The Devilukeans are a rowdy race, with their king Gid being the main force behind quelling the intergalactic war that had been raging for centuries. Both narratives start with a similar initial premise, the protagonist Ataru/Rito having their confession stolen via Lum/Lala’s misunderstanding, with their subsequent relationships being betrothal rather than simple dating. In a nutshell, the stories of Urusei Yatsura and To Love-Ru are the troubled tales of the alien princesses Lum and Lala trying to win the affections of the human boy they’ve fallen in love with, despite how fervently said boy seems to reject them. To Love-Ru’s overall style of episodic slice-of-life antics and the weirdness that ensues from living with an alien/their strange alien technology is heavily paying homage to Urusei Yatsura which laid the original framework for this idea in the animanga scene.
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So to observe the interaction between these two series simultaneously deepened my appreciation of both.įor simplicity’s sake all screenshots will be in the order of Urusei Yatsura first, To Love-Ru second. The “oddball live-in alien fiancee” story beat makes for a very cozy narrative and setting, and I love how character dynamics progress at an organic pace – things like Mikan and Yami’s friendship developing believably, or the cast just coming to accept that once Celine’s enters the picture she is now their collective daughter. I may have reservations about the direction the series took in Darkness, but even still it has some of my most beloved slice of life elements and events in the medium. People love to hate on it because lol ecchi harem, but the To Love-Ru franchise is one of my long-time favourites. One thing that really stuck out to me through the experience was seeing how much of an inspiration Urusei Yatsura was for To Love-Ru. I hold Urusei Yatsura in increasingly higher esteem every time it crosses my mind. And while it was ultimately not something I would say I consider a ‘must-watch retro anime’ in the vein of other classics like Gunbuster, it was something that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was only just recently that I finished watching Urusei Yatsura after chipping away at it for about half a year (or at least it was recently when I started this draft back in January).
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