Anything of use that happens in episode 5 of the to love ru ova's is invalidated by the Motto To Love ru episodes that cover the same territory. The material is much better there.
As for episode 2, it's about Mikan, which should make it the best episode, but it's actually the worst because it mangled two very good manga chapters into a very bad episode. It takes two unrelated stories, the time Mikan goes to the park and the time Mikan gets a fever, and somehow smashes them together into one episode where she only goes to the park and never gets a fever. Then, after cutting so much important manga material, it goes and adds in its own filler arc about competing with Tenjouin Saki at the supermarket for blah blah blah. It's a total mess.
The ova is worse than useless. If it tempts people to skip the actual manga which was good and substitute in this awful episode all it does is ruin people's opinion of Mikan, the best girl in the series.
In ova 1 the long bath segment with Riko and Tenjoun Saki doesn't happen -- in the manga it's a mercifully short sequence -- but overall it's pretty close to right. Ova 6 is spot on. Ova 4 is the worst of the remaining ova's I haven't given up on. It gets so much wrong, especially involving scenes with Kyouko, but even minor things like how in the manga the bench Rito slept on was already outside of the room, while in the anime he incredulously drags it all the way out the doorway from the shared bedroom against everyone's objections. What is he an 18th century Victorian? Also, in the manga, no one cared about the casino girls and they were mentioned in passing, not given five minutes of wasted airtime. But I do admit seeing Kyouko's, Haruna's, and everyone else's outfits in moving color is worth the stupidity. Kinda.
I rewatched all of Motto To Love ru and it has no such problems. Yes, it gets details and the chronology wrong, but none of it distorts the flow of the plot or people's characterization. I was very impressed by its fast-paced delivery which allowed for the adaption of three chapters per episode. Even though that means only 36 chapters out of 162 were adapted, somehow it felt like Motto To Love ru covered everything important and was a complete story in and of itself. It had the smart plan of focusing on any Mikan or Yami chapter which are always more serious and interesting than the alternatives, so basically all of those chapters in the manga were correctly animated. Except of course for the two Mikan chapters butchered by the To Love ru ova. *sigh*
Obviously Motto To Love ru is amazing if I can marathon the whole series in one sitting. I have no complaints with it, and it proves why To Love ru is ranked #106 in my top anime rankings. My anger is wholly with these wretched ova's and the first season that aired before Motto To Love ru.
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