To-Love-Ru: a game and pun that will never make it outside Japan
by JC Fletcher 
{ Dec 26th 2007 at 10:30AM }
To-Love-Ru is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the English words "trouble" (toraburu) and "love" (rabu). Unfortunately, the pun just doesn't fit native English phonology as well; to put a finer point on it, "tlovel" isn't all that funny or clever-sounding. Too bad. It's pretty neat that a pun on English words only works in another language's sound system, though, right?Anyway, To-Love-Ru is also a manga/anime property that is being made into a DS game by Marvelous Entertainment. The manga is about a high-school boy, Rito, who gets involved with some alien princess thing and hilarity and awkward social situations ensue -- your basic manga stuff. What is interesting to us is how Marvelous has chosen to undertake this adaptation: they're calling the DS To-Love-Ru game a "2D digital comic with 3D touch action." Minigames on the DS are no big deal, but we like seeing more publishers getting the idea that the best way to adapt comics to the DS is just to put them on there.
[Via Siliconera]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tyler @ Dec 26th 2007 12:05PM
Decent series. Lots of cute girls, lots of the same humor we all know about in typical Shojo fashion. Still no reason to bring it to the DS -.-
Fist of the North Star is different, it's been around forever. It's practically got the right to be on any console people will buy it on.