To LOVE-Ru Darkness (manga)

To LOVE-Ru Darkness is the sequel to the first manga series in the To LOVE-Ru franchise. It was serialized between October 4 2010 and March 4 2017 in the monthly manga magazine "Jump Square" and the chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes.

To LOVE-Ru Darkness is notably more mature than To LOVE-Ru; it retains its usual perverted comedy, but with more focus on its plot and more serious story and character development, and now provides much more graphic fanservice, which occasionally borders on hentai.

After the end, two bonus chapters (Bangaihen 23 and Bangaihen 24) were released in May and June 2017 issues of Jump Square. On November 4, 2017 Jump SQ released another Special Bangaihen with 8 page length. Successively a full-color one-shot was published in Jump Square on May 2, 2019 to celebrate Kentaro Yabuki' 20th anniversary as artist. More recently in 2023, in occasion of the To Love-Ru 15th Anniversary Finale, it published another one-shot on Jump web site.

Plot
Rito remains unsuccessful and indecisive with his love for his crush, Haruna, and the alien princess, Lala. Meanwhile, Lala's little sister, Momo, also falls in love with Rito, and works on building a harem for him, in the hopes of giving herself a part of Rito's love life to include herself in. And so she enrolls in his school to secretly support all of Rito's love interests, and even attempts to find more, including recently enrolled alien assassin Konjiki no Yami (Golden Darkness), aka Yami. But another student, Kurosaki Mea, reveals herself to be Yami's little sister, and intends for Yami to return to being an assassin.

Characters

 * Yuuki Rito
 * Momo Belia Deviluke
 * Nana Astar Deviluke
 * Lala Satalin Deviluke
 * Sairenji Haruna
 * Kurosaki Mea
 * Yami
 * Nemesis
 * Yuuki Mikan
 * Kotegawa Yui
 * Celine

Volume 1 (Chapters 0-4)

 * Chapter 0: Prologue ~ Prologue and Activation
 * Chapter 1: Continue
 * Chapter 2: Doubt and Dish
 * Chapter 3: Each Speculation
 * Chapter 4: Exciting Squall

Volume 2 (Chapters 5-8)

 * Chapter 5: Uneasiness ~Peace And Anxiety~
 * Chapter 6: True Smile ~The Past, Friend, Smile And~
 * Chapter 7: Worry ~Those Feelings... Blind~
 * Chapter 8: A Man? Woman? ~The Changing Ones~
 * Bangaihen 1: Pollen Plan ~Dangerous Little Sister Situation~

Volume 3 (Chapters 9-12)

 * Chapter 9: Metamorphose ~Time For A Change~
 * Chapter 10: Sisters ~The Invention Of Happiness: Lala~
 * Chapter 11: True Self ~True Face In Darkness~
 * Chapter 12: Bad Mood ~Bonds Of Happiness~
 * Bangaihen 2: First Love ~First Love Before You Know It~

Volume 4 (Chapters 13-16)

 * Chapter 13: Adhesion ~Can't Part? Can't Let Go?~
 * Chapter 14: Past ~Memories Leading To Tomorrow~
 * Chapter 15: Refrain ~Warmth~
 * Chapter 16: The Right Thing ~What is a Way of Life?~
 * Bangaihen 3: Body Touch? ~Nyanderful Life~
 * Bangaihen 4: Room ~A Maiden's Heart~

Volume 5 (Chapters 17-20)

 * Chapter 17: Trigger ~Intensification of Love~
 * Chapter 18: Exchange ~Me and I~
 * Chapter 19: Nostalgia ~Back Then, At That Place~
 * Chapter 20: Uneasy ~Hearts bewilderment~
 * Bangaihen 5: Flower ~Budding Feelings~
 * Bangaihen 6: The Changing Heart ~Honest Feelings~

Volume 6 (Chapters 21-24)

 * Chapter 21: Rain ~Again, Just Like Until Now~
 * Chapter 22: After a Storm Comes a Calm ~Friend~
 * Chapter 23: Summer Festival ~The Beginning of The Festival~
 * Chapter 24: The Door of Fate ~And From Now On~
 * Bangaihen 7: Anxious (1) ~Is This Alright~
 * Bangaihen 8: Anxious (2) ~Distressed Maiden and Big Brother~

Volume 7 (Chapter 25-28)

 * Chapter 25: New Move ~Birds of a Feather~
 * Chapter 26: Uncounsciously Head Hazy? Heart Pounding~
 * Chapter 27: Adventure ~Rito Mouse's Adventure~
 * Bangaihen 9: Girl of Blaze Magical Kyoko ~Flame~
 * Chapter 28: Infiltration ~Kyouko! In Trouble!?~
 * Bangaihen 10: It Feels ~Teacher Who Endures~

Volume 8 (Chapters 29-32)

 * Chapter 29: Manservant ~Competition~
 * Chapter 30: Resistance ~Even Thought I Understand~
 * Chapter 31: Cleaning ~Magnificently and Beautiful~
 * Chapter 32: Danger ~Danger~
 * Bangaihen 11: Adhesion ~But No Ill Intent~
 * Bangaihen 12: Mobile Phone ~Heart Pounding? Voice~

Volume 9 (Chapters 33-36)

 * Chapter 33: Appreciation ~Progressing Feelings~
 * Chapter 34: When Talking ~Sisters' Love Circumstances~
 * Chapter 35: Kiss ~What Lies Beyond a Kiss~
 * Chapter 36: Real Intention ~Trouble Girls~
 * Bangaihen 13: Suddenly ~Imagination and Reality~
 * Bangaihen 14: Ghost Story ~Heart-pounding ~Voice~
 * 4-Koma

Volume 10 (Chapters 37-40)

 * Chapter 37: True Character ~Identity Revealed~
 * Chapter 38: Clinic ~Can't Become Honest~
 * Chapter 39: The Begining of Darkness ~That Time~
 * Chapter 40: Release of Darkness ~Release~
 * Bangaihen 15: Moonlight ~Moonlit Angel~
 * Bangaihen 16: Photography ~Take that awesome picture!~

Volume 11 (Chapters 41-44)

 * Chapter 41: Prediction is Impossible ~Out of Control Darkness~
 * Chapter 42: Escape ~What you Believe~
 * Chapter 43: Whose Thing is a Flance? ~Lala VS Yami~
 * Chapter 44: Power and Power ~Protector and Protected~
 * Bangaihen 17: Technique ~Door of A Maiden~
 * Bangaihen 18: Holiday ~Cooking Flexion?~

Volume 12 (Chapters 45-48)

 * Chapter 45: Sister ~The Two Weapons~
 * Chapter 46: The End of Darkness ~I Hate Ecchi~
 * Chapter 47: Bright Future ~Thank You~
 * Chapter 48: Re-starting ~Harem Plan~
 * Bangaihen 19: Adhesion Panic ~I Knew It... She's Angry?~
 * Bangaihen 20: Bath ~Good Bath... I Guess?~

Volume 13 (Chapters 49-53)

 * Chapter 49: Mother ~An Angel Too Beautiful~
 * Chapter 50: Charm ~Great Mother~
 * Chapter 51: Smile Baby ~Baby Panic~
 * Chapter 52: Mission Date ~Slapstick Date~
 * Chapter 53: Puberty ~I'll Try To Be Honest~

Volume 14 (Chapters 54-57)

 * Chapter 54: First accident? ~First Time...~
 * Chapter 55: Worry ~A Step Forward~
 * Chapter 56: Delight ~Growth of Body and Heart~
 * Chapter 57: Principal ~Not a Good Day~
 * Bangaihen 21: Washed ~Bonds of Battlefield~
 * Bangaihen 22: Natural Face ~Time of Rest~

Volume 15 (Chapters 58-62)

 * Chapter 58: Story after school ~Hidden Feelings~
 * Chapter 59: Enjoy myself ~Dark Matter~
 * Chapter 60: Power and power ~Fleeting Battle~
 * Chapter 61: Taken ~Nemesis~
 * Chapter 62: The fresh world ~Everywhere together♪~

Volume 16 (Chapters 63-67)

 * Chapter 63: All right ~All that ends well......~
 * Chapter 64: Morals ~ Who is the one disrupting the morals!
 * Chapter 65: New plan ~Counseling~
 * Chapter 66: Inspection ~Let's Examine~
 * Chapter 67: Real feelings ~Battle With True Feelings~

Volume 17 (Chapters 68-72)

 * Chapter 68: Idol ~An idol only for you~
 * Chapter 69: One night ~Let’s sleep over!~
 * Chapter 70: Request ~Target~
 * Chapter 71: The reason that I fight ~The Reason to Protect~
 * Chapter 72: Black and darkness ~Conveyed Feelings~

Volume 18 (Chapters 73-77)

 * Chapter 73: Delusion ~What Do I Do?~
 * Chapter 74: After a long time ~Nemesis's Ambition~
 * Chapter 75: Sudden Confession ~Important Words~
 * Chapter 76: How will you do? ~Decision!?~
 * Chapter 77: Let's Meet Again Sometime ~I'm Looking Forward to Our Future~

Extra Chapters

 * Bangaihen 23: Multiplication ~From the Front and From Behind~
 * Bangaihen 24: Multiplication ~From the Front and From Behind~ Part 2
 * A Special Bangaihen~
 * Rito and Sayaka's After School
 * Extra Arc
 * To Love-Ru: Mikan & Maruru

Gallery
For chapter covers, see Manga Covers.

Reprint
The series was republished in a 9-volume edition (Jump Remix) between 2017 and 2019. A third reprint in a 10-volume bunkoban edition was published between October 16 2020 and February 18 2021. Bunko edition include 3 extra pages for every volume.

Criticisms
In April 2012, a To LOVER-ru Darkness volume was reviewed by the Tokyo government after receiving a complaint about frontal and lower body nudity. The volume was suspected to contain material that broke revision 156 of the Tokyo Ordinance on the Development of Healthy Youths. The conclusion was that the volume did not break the law, however the governing council did acknowledge the existence of the nudity mentioned beforehand. No other volume of To Love Ru: Darkness has been reviewed by the council since then.