Arai Sayaka

Arai Sayaka, named Matsuo in the first season of To LOVE-Ru anime, is a minor character, the classmate of Yuuki Rito in both his first and second year. She is often seen hanging around with Shirayuri Koyomi. She and Koyomi are Sairenji Haruna's fellow members of the tennis club. It is strongly implied that Koyomi is in love with Sayaka.

In a special one-shot manga titled "Rito and Sayaka's After School" (リトと紗弥香の放課後, Rito to Sayaka no Hōkago) published in Shōnen Jump's April 27, 2019 issue, Sayaka plays a major role for the first time.

Appearance
Sayaka has short brown hair and black eyes in the original manga (possibly because Yabuki-sensei wasn't in-charge of the Full Color edition's coloring). In the To LOVE-Ru: Darkness "After School" one-shot, she has green hair and topaz eyes (this is likely her true official hair and eyes colors). She has green hair in the first season anime, and black hair in Motto To LOVE-Ru and To Love-Ru: Darkness). Her measurements are B75-W55-H80. She has huge breasts in the manga but seem smaller in the anime.

Personality
Sayaka shows more of her personality in the "After School" one-shot, as a very straight forward girl who asks Rito which girl he likes the most. Sayaka always wants to protect Koyomi, especially from Rito's falling skill.

She is a bit of a tomboy and always speak in casual/impolite Japanese form, which can be considered not lady-like in Japan.

Plot
Before the "After School" one-shot, Sayaka never involved in any major plot throughout the original manga and Darkness, but she's featured as one of the most outstanding minor characters in Sainan High. Most of her appearances are for fanservice sake.

Shirayuri Koyomi
Sayaka is often seen hanging with Koyomi. They're both a member of the Sainan High tennis club and they are best friends. The "After School" one-shot make clear Koyomi is attracted to her while Sayaka don't like when she become too close.

Yuuki Rito
Initially Sayaka believes that Rito is a dangerous guy who does indecent things to many girls and don't believe are accidental. This changed a little after their incident in the "After School" one-shot where she comment how he look kind handsome when is serious.

Ren Elsie Jewelria
Initially Sayaka show some attraction toward Ren because she find him handsome; she also forgives him easily when he accidentaly grope her boob. But in the "After School" one-shot, Sayaka says she is not interested in him anymore, annoyed by Ren's friendship with Matome Ageru.

Etymology

 * Arai means "fresh, new" (新) (ara) and "well, mine shaft, pit" (井) (i).
 * Sayaka means "gauze, gossamer" (纱) (sa), "all the more, increasingly" (弥) (ya) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka).

First Season

 * Matsuo means"pine tree, fir tree" (松) (matsu) and "tail, ridge" (尾) (o).

Trivia

 * Sayaka resembles Ai from . Some readers mistaken her as Ai making a cameo appearance in recent manga chapters. However, Sayaka appeared in the To LOVE-Ru series several years before Tawawa.