Trivia / To Love Ru

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• Acting for Two:
  • In the Japanese version:
    • Chiemi Chiba voices both Mio Sawada and Kyouko Kirisaki.
    • Hiroyuki Yoshino voices both Marron and Kenichi Saruyama.
    • Jun Konno voices Maul in addition to several minor characters.
    • Ryōka Yuzuki voices both Risa Momioka and Celine.
    • Sayuri Yahagi voices both Haruna Sairenji and Mami Nogiwa.
  • In the English version:
    • Allison Sumrall voices both Nana Astar Deviluke and Sayaka Arai.
    • John Swasey voices the principal and some one-off characters.
    • Marissa Lenti voices both Ryoko Mikado and Marron.
    • Mark X Laskowski voices Saibai Yuki, Lacopso as well as some background characters.
    • Olivia Swasey voices Ayako Fujisaki, while also voicing some minor characters.
• Creator Breakdown: The original series is speculated to have ended suddenly because of artist Kentaro Yabuki going through a divorce and custody battle at the time.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Rito Yuuki in Japanese is played by Akeno Watanabe, which is no surprise given she's usually typecast as boys. She voices Rito's gender-bent form Riko as well.
• Directed by Cast Member: In addition to directing the English dub, John Swasey played the principal.
• Late Export for You: The manga was not licensed in English until both series had ended in 2017, eleven years after the manga's premier and the better part of a decade after the anime was licensed. This is most likely because Viz Media shy away from sex-focused series, but Shuiesha (who partially own Viz) weren't willing to give the rights to their series to anyone else until finally going to Seven Seas Entertainment (who would start taking on such titles from then on).
• No Dub for You: From 2009 to 2016, Sentai Filmworks released the anime series on DVD sub-only. In 2019, they started re-releasing them with an English dub.
• No Export for You: The North America release of the anime skips all of the OVAs. Even the dubbed re-releases skip straight from the first series to Motto.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In Motto, Aki Toyosaki, already the voice of Momo, took over the role of Peke due to Satomi Arai's pregnancy.
  • For Darkness, Harumi Sakurai voiced Mikado due to Masako Jo's maternity leave.
  • By the time the Darkness OVA was released in 2016, Gid's voice actor on all of his previous appearances, Hidetoshi Nakamura, had suffered a fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage. As a result, he was voiced by Kengo Kawanishi.
  • In the English dub, Haruna Sairenji was voiced by Bryn Apprill until the first season of Darkness. For the second season of Darkness, the character was instead voiced by Monica Rial.
  • Tearju Lunatique is voiced by Katelyn Barr instead of Brina Palencia, her voice in Black Cat.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Around when the original manga ended, a post translating an interview with the series' writer and artist included speculation that Haruna was based on the artist's (now divorced) wife. Readers mistook the latter as being part of the translated interview, and so the series' English-language fandom widely treats it as fact (and that this somehow affected Haruna's appearances in the manga), despite no real evidence in its favor.
• Real-Life Relative: In the English version:
  • Ayako Fujisaki is voiced by Olivia Swasey, the daughter of John Swasey, who voices the Principal.
  • Natalie Rial voiced Momo Melia Deviluke and her older sister Monica Rial voiced Kyouko Kirisaki and Haruna Sairenji.
• Two Voices, One Character: In the international dubs where Rito's usual VA is a man, his "Riko" form has separate voice actors.
• You Sound Familiar: In the English version, Monica Rial voices Kyouko Kirisaki in the first two seasons, and would later voice Haruna Sairenji in the second season of Darkness.

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