The Queen's Challenge

The Queen's Challenge (>くいーんの挑戦状,  Kuīn no Chōsenjō) is the fifth episode of To Love-Ru's anime adaptation of the same name, which aired on May 1, 2008.

Summary
A pretty, rich girl named Tenjōin Saki comes back to school and finds that all boys prefer Lala's beauty over her own. She gets really angry by this and tells her friends to give Lala a letter asking to challenge her in a beauty contest. To make sure she shows up, she kidnaps Yūki Rito as a bait. Lala ends up telling Zastin about the letter, which he mistakes as an assassination attempt from Saki. Rito is warned by Saki that, if Lala fails to show up in time, he will be forced to touch Saki's breasts in front of the entire school.

Plot
A limousine comes in front of the school Sainan High; to come out of it appears Saki Tenjouin, a popular, rich and beautiful student who is admired by everyone. On her way in, Saki notices Lala (who was trying to stop Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun, a dog-like robot created by her, from chasing Rito) and how much attention she's getting. Saki claims she is the number one in the whole school, but, as the day goes by, she feels that her place is being threatened as Lala keeps getting more attention from the boys by seeing her in gym clothes (or something ecchi), leaving Saki unnoticeable and believing that Lala is trying to provoke her.

Planning to prove who is better, Saki has her two classmates/bodyguards, Kujō Rin and Ayako "Aya" Fujisaki, to send a written message from her to Lala, challenging her for the title of "Miss Sainan" in a swimsuit contest. Outside the school, Saki already has the stage prepared for the contest and, while waiting for Lala, shows off her swimsuit to everyone. Elsewhere, Lala and Peke discuss the message she got with Zastin, who believes it might be an assassination attempt. He asks to see the message, only find it being chewed by Lala's invention from earlier, Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun.

Back at the contest, Saki becomes fustrated in waiting for Lala, believing that she forfeits and declares herself the winner, however, some of audience don't seem too happy about it (who she her bodyguards to beat up), so her victory won't be satisfied unless she actualy beats her. After hearing that Lala has a fiance, Saki comes up with a plan to draw her out. Saki has Aya to take Rito hostage by using a crane and takes him to her to touch her breasts and claiming him hers unless Lala shows up. Rito, however, is not ok with the idea, especialy with Haruna watching. Lala then actually shows up (trying to stop Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun from chasing Zastin), with Zastin running into Saki causing a lewd position for her and Rito. She yells at Lala for what happened, and her invention rips off Saki's swimsuit, exposing her naked body to everyone, causing her to run away (followed by Rin and Aya), leaving Lala clueless to what's going on.

After school, Aya finds out that Lala might have a serious secret (unaware that she's, in fact, an alien) and reports to Saki, who plans on finding out what the secret is and exposing it as payback for humiliating her earlier. At night, Saki and her bodyguards try to sneak in Yuuki's house to discover Lala's secret. However, they trigger a trap that Zastin had put in before hand. Both Rin and Aya flee the house, leaving Saki behind. Saki then tries to escape as well but falls into a trapdoor which is oddly connected to Rito's room. When Lala is about to enter the room, Saki hides under the desk with a camera ready to find out what her secret is, but she accidentally presses a button (which was also installed by Zastin) that ejects the whole room into the sky. Saki, terrified and confused, pops out and asks Lala what's going on. Zastin, Maul and Smutts each get on a ship to stop the capsule, but Lala, who is tinkering with the controls, accidentally shoots missiles at them and flies off even faster, which causes Saki to fall off the house. Lala jumps out and flies toward Saki to save her, who, despite being deeply touched by it, ends up fainting.

Waking up in the middle of a street, Saki, disoriented, wonders if everything was nothing but a dream. Upon regaining her senses and seeing that she is surrounded by a crowd of men, Saki realizes that she is completely naked, due to Lala's Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun having ripped off (again) all her clothes while she was unconscious. Embarrassed, Saki blames Lala for her public humiliation and begins to hate her again. Elsewhere, Lala is flying around the city, looking for where she dropped Saki.

Character Appearances

 * Yūki Rito
 * Lala Satalin Deviluke
 * Peke
 * Tenjōin Saki (First appearence)
 * Kujō Rin (First appearence)
 * Fujisaki Ayako (First appearence)
 * Honekawa
 * Principal
 * Saruyama Kenichi
 * Sairenji Haruna
 * Yūki Mikan
 * Zastin
 * Maul
 * Smutts

Inventions Used

 * Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun

Trivia

 * This episode marks the anime debut of the characters Tenjōin Saki, Kujō Rin, and Fujisaki Ayako.
 * There are two occasions in this episode in which Saki is publicly humiliated; both occasions involve her getting naked, in front of a crowd of men, after her clothes are ripped off by Lala's Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun, and she blaming Lala for her disgrace (even if she's not to blame).
 * This episode shows that Zastin has put several traps around and inside the Yuuki's house, although it is not explained how or when he installed them.
 * Before Zastin takes off on his ship to save Lala, the writting on his screen creates an acronym spelling the series name To Love-Ru.
 * This is also the first time in the series that Lala used her wings, to save Saki after falling out of Rito's room.