Yūki Rito

Rito Yuuki is the main male protagonist of To Love-Ru. He is a normal 16 year old student of Sainan High, has orange hair, and he has a big crush on Haruna Sairenji. He attempted numerous times to confess to her but has met with failure each time. Rito used to be on the soccer team in junior high and was quite good, but quit because he was constantly helping his father with his mangaka duties, thus did not want to leave his little sister Mikan Yuuki alone in the house. Mikan comments he is very good at the most "useless little things", like crane and festival games (e.g. hoops, catching fish, squirt guns). Along with the numerous useless little things Rito is good at, he is also an accomplished florist, gardener, and horticulturalist.

Rito's nature is borderline clumsy, where he always ends up ogling or groping the many girls in the series (though mostly unintentionally). He is generally kind and thoughtful and has a lot of respect for women, though mostly by intention, and not so much by success. Due to his shyness around girls, he is very clumsy around women and has great difficulty maintaining his composure around any sort of stimulating situation. Even without interference from Lala's inventions, Oshizu's psychic powers, or Celine jumping into his face, Rito is on his own clumsy enough to trip over absolutely nothing, and possesses an extraodinary skill in accidently reaching his hands or face into the breasts or panties of any girl within reach when he is falling.

It is only by accident that he encounters Lala, a troublesome character who at first pretends to show affectionate feelings for Rito at the beginning of the story. But despite his enduring feelings for Haruna, Rito shows signs of developing deeper affection towards Lala. As the story progresses, he starts to show affections for Lala, but is unsure if what he feels is actually love. This is shown again when he couldn't help but think about Lala, even though he was naked with Haruna. It is recently revealed that he is in love with Lala, but he is also in love with Haruna. In the end of the series, he confesses to Lala, but tells her he also loves another person (Haruna), yet she is happy on both parts. He is confused as polygamy is illegal in Japan, but Lala replied that once he is the king of the universe the laws of Earth no longer applies. Then, she forces him to go tell Haruna (strapping a jet pack to his back). Right before he was about to tell her, she moves out of the way, just like when he confessed to her very early in the series, leading him to state "I love you" to all of the female cast with the exception of Momo, Mikan, Golden Darkness, and Haruna herself.

Personality
Rito is humble, caring, a gentleman (in principle) and brave when push comes to shove. He's also very loyal, and willing to help out almost anyone when they need it. He's quite shy around women, often looking away when faced with erotic situations. He has also shown that he cares extremely for plants, which was shown in the series multiple times (i.e. when Rito was the only one whou would replace the water in the school's flowers and when Rito's character in the Trouble Quest was that of a florist). Rito was also willing to go to a dangerous planet just to get medicine that can cure his plant's deadly illness. Above all else, he is a very charismatic person, always trying to make people feel better and understanding others' points of view.

History
Before Rito met Lala, it was stated that Rito had difficulty talking to girls. His only friend was Saruyama. However, because of Lala's friendliness, and Rito's close relationship with Lala, all of Lala's girl friends became Rito's too, like Haruna Sairenji whom Rito could not even talk to prior to Lala's "descent".

As a child, Rito always helped with his father's manga then would take Mikan to a shrine nearby to play. One time, during his fifth grade, Rito climbed a tree to help a cat who was stuck. This is the time that Yui first met Rito (although it was a few years later during a deja vu that Yui remembered this event and Rito's being in it). The cat that Rito saved was the same cat that Yui was trying to save prior to Rito's coming to the shrine. However, Yui was not able to climb the tree and save the cat. She tried to ask some of the boys from her class to help her. However, since the boys hated Yui's leadership as the class representative, they ignored her and decided to play games instead. Because of that, Yui had the impression that all boys are bad. However, due to Rito's bravery, Yui's perception of boys changed, and she realized that not all boys are bad.

During Rito's eighth grade, Rito became classmates with Haruna Sairenji. It was stated that this was the last time that Haruna and Rito became classmates (prior to the start of the series). It was also during this time that Haruna began to like Rito. Haruna says that it was because of Rito's affection for the plants in the school (Rito would always refill the water in the flower vase while no one else cared) that Haruna began to notice him. Rito has also been in love with her when she was the only one who believes he wasn't the one responsible for damaging several plants in the school garden. He also displayed his strong determination during his eighth grade when his class was lagging behind the other classes during a school competition, where he never gave up, and ended up winning the trophy for his class.

Relationships with Other Characters
As the the main character in all three To Love-Ru series, he has relationships with several characters and he has his ups and downs with a lot of them. Most of whom are females who are in love with him, others, however have shown slight interest in him and it's unknown whether they have feelings for him too.

Lala Satalin Deviluke
Rito first met Lala in the first episode of the series when she teleported into his bathtub while running away from home. At first Rito wanted nothing to do with her, even saying that he didn't like her." But as the series progresses, he became very good friends with Lala, and even falling for her romantically. Rito even states that he feels uneasy when Lala is not around.

A lot of times, Rito is willing to risk his well-being for Lala. For example, when Black, a hit man, pointed a gun at Lala, Rito stood in front of Lala, and refused to move away.

At the end of the original series, Rito confesses his love to Lala, while also telling her that he loves Haruna as well. Lala is ecstatic about this, however, noting that once their marriage is official, Earth laws will no longer matter, and he will be free to marry both Lala and Haruna. Rito is shocked by this, stating that Lala is "too open minded (Chapter 162)."

In the spin-off To Love Ru Darkness, Rito still loves both Haruna and Lala. While his main objective is to confess his love to Haruna, he does show his love for Lala. In one event, after he found out how compassionate she is towards her sisters, he started feeling nervous, and she went to check his temperature. Being so close, Rito's heart raced, causing him to move back, and activating one of Lala's inventions, naturally leading to an ecchi moment between him and Lala (Chapter 10).

As the series progresses, Rito considers Lala and Momo's Harem idea; however, he quickly shakes it off. When Rito teleports to Lala's pocket dimension to comfort Nana, his face teleports in between Lala's breast, tripping them and causing Rito to fondle her breasts while her tail was in between them. Later, when Lala notices Nana's change of mood, she states that it's as expected from Rito, while blushing (Chapter 21).



Haruna Sairenji
Haruna has been the girl of Rito's affections since before the start of the series. In many ways, Haruna would have made the perfect girlfriend for Rito, as she is similarly shy and modest, understands and loves Rito's kind and gentle nature, is very patient and forgiving of Rito's perverted clumsiness, and has also harbored affectionate feelings for him. But because Rito was far too shy, incompetent and clumsy to successfully confess his love to her, he never found the romantic relationship that he long desired with her. Although Rito owes much to the bold and extroverted Lala for the friendship he now enjoys between himself, Lala and Haruna, he now has both Lala's growing place in his heart and Haruna's loyalty and friendship to Lala to add to his indecisiveness.

Yui Kotegawa
Being a strict, high-strung and no-nonsense girl with little tolerance for unacceptable behavior and an impression that boys are generally shameless, it is no surprise that she often has a negative impression towards Rito. In addition, she is often a target of Rito's perverted clumsiness, being caught in many provacative situations with him, much to her dismay. Although she will likely never stop believing that boys are always shameless, with Rito being no exception, overtime, she comes to accept that Rito is different from most boys. As she gradually understands and appreciates Rito's kindness and accepts that Rito is still shameless but not a bad person, Yui warms up to him and grows to like him.

While Rito does not have any romantic feelings for Yui, and thinks that she is always angry at him, any romance between them is generally seen from Yui's perspective. She has grown to understand Rito well enough that she trusts him not to take advantage of her. Her growing love for Rito surprises even herself. However, being inexperienced with boys and being a typical tsundere, she has difficulty opening up to Rito and often hides her shyness with agression and anger.

Ironically, despite outwardly hating sexual pleasures, she seems to desire doing such shameless things together with Rito, as seen when she imagines herself being married to him and being pregnant to his child, and when she offered herself to him in bed on the condition that he only does shameless things to her. Though Rito resisted the temptation, Yui came to love him even more for not taking advantage of her, but she was further perplexed with her actions and her own feelings.

In some ways, Rito is good for Yui. He is a kind person and a loyal friend and, despite repeatedly molesting them by accident, is respectful to women. Rito is the only boy Yui knows is far too kind and too cowardly to take advantage of her sexually. He is apparently the kind of boy who can make Yui open up to love. Yui's older brother, Yuu, can easily read her poorly hidden feelings, and is eager to see his sister become more open to romance through Rito.

Momo Velia Deviluke
Rito is not as romantically attracted and attached to Momo the way he is with her older sister, Lala, and he notes that Momo is more mischievous and cunning compared to Lala. Rito does grow to trust her and consider her a good and dependable friend.

Much like Lala, Momo has a strong attraction towards Rito, but more lustful than her innocent and childlike older sister. While she, at first, had a strong sexual attraction toward Rito, she grew to truly be in love with him.

By the start of To Love-Ru Darkness, she has become greatly attached to him and has fallen deeply in love with him. But she knows that if Rito had to choose to love one girl, it would likely not be her. Much of the plot of To Love-Ru Darkness revolves around her "Harem Plan", her plan to bring out the "carnivore" in Rito and make him open to the idea of falling in love with and marrying all of the girls who are in love with him, herself included.

Momo often sneaks into Rito's bed at night to sleep with him. Although Rito is not intentionally a pervert, his bad sleeping habits would cause him to fondle with Momo and play with her tail, which she greatly enjoys.

Mikan Yuuki
Mikan is Rito's younger sister. As children, Rito and Mikan were very close, and Mikan still called him "Onii-chan". Because their parents were not often at home, Rito looked after Mikan and they spent their time together all the time, walking and playing outside together. Unlike Rito, who has grown up to become very clumsy, awkward and anxious, especially around women, Mikan has become hard-working, confident, and good with housework, far surpassing her older brother's maturity and reliability. She stopped calling him "Onii-chan" and doesn't quite look up to him and respect him the way she had before.

Nevertheless, the two of them are still very close. Rito always considers Mikan as his one and only precious little sister. And Mikan is happy taking care of Rito at home. Until Lala's arrival, it was still only the two siblings together at home, and at one point, she felt a little lonely from not spending time with Rito lately. At first Mikan enjoyed seeing how Rito's love life with Lala and Haruna would play out, but later, she would occasionally wonder how she still fits into Rito's life.

She may not show it, but she really cares for Rito and misses his company to the point of perhaps having brother complex. She even asked Rito if he would marry her if they were not blood related. Her possible brother complex may be the reason why she doesn't call him "Onii-chan", less than a lack of respect and more of a sign her wish that their relationship was something other than that of brother and sister. In the manga she blushes when a character mentions her him, and whenever he worries about her, she outwardly brushes off his worries, but deep down, it makes her happy happy.

Golden Darkness (Yami)
She was initially hired to kill Rito by Lacospo (one of Lala's suiters), but after learning that Rito is not at all what Lacospo described him to be, she turned on him and spares Rito, but still claims that she will kill him eventually and will stay on earth until her mission complete (even though the job is technically over). Later she confirms to him that her mission is only an excuse to stay on Earth and warns him not to make her too angry. Yami hates it when Rito sees her naked, and she doesn't hesitate to use her powers to give him a powerful punch in the face, despite it not being his fault.

Yami appears to have love-hate feelings for Rito. She convinces him, and perhaps herself as well, that he is still her target. Like other female characters, his kindness slowly grows on her, like when she was feeling sick from over-using her powers and he carries her on his back to Mikado's clinic, and when he protected her from another assassin sent by Lacospo. She calls him an idiot for showing kindness to an enemy, but also makes it clear that she doesn't hate idiots, sometimes showing a sweet smile that is rare to her. She also notes that being around him makes her feel safe, a feeling she does not often experience in her unhappy life as assassin (and notes that it reminded her of her life with Tearju). Rito is the only person she has opened up to about her past.

In the begining, Rito always seemed afraid of Yami whenever she was around and even calls her "Golden Darkness", but as the series continues, Rito's fear of Yami seems to have lightened (although he still shows fear of her sometimes) and starts refering to her as "Yami" and would get mad for her sake and even worry about her well being, something she finds strange about him, despite him being her target.

Run Elise Jewelria
Run first fell in love with Rito when they accidently kissed each other (in her male form). Since then, she considered Lala her rival for Rito's heart and has tried many methods to get his attention that would lead to curtain misunderstandings (occasionally running towards him and landing in an awkward manner) which greatly annoys him.

In To-Love-ru Darkness, Run is now a famous idol. She has also greatly matured around Rito and becomes closer to him on their date. Because of this, Rito realised that he hardly knows anything about her. Rito is aware of Run's feelings towards him, but she is saddened with the fact that Rito would never see her as a real girl while sharing the same body with Ren. This was the case until Run and Ren reached "adulthood", causing them to split mind and body. Since then, Run is determined to try harder to gain Rito's affections.

Nana Aster Deviluke
Nana is one of the few girls who does not have romantic feelings for Rito. As a matter of fact, her view of him and his relationships with so many girls is quite negative. She thinks of him as a pervert and she is widely known for calling him a "beast". However, she doesn't genuinely hate him, but rather she can't seem to understand what's so special about him. She has, however, said that he can be very kind sometimes.

As the series progresses, she starts to develop feelings for him as well (but still dislikes him for being a pervert). One example of this is when she found out that her friend Mea was a transformation weapon like Yami and told her that their friendship was nothing but a lie, leaving Nana shocked and heartbroken. Rito offered advice and encouragement to help her out, and when that didn't work, he hugged her in his arms to console her, and it gave her the courage to confront and reconcile with Mea. Nana noted that being hugged by Rito felt good, and she subsequently snuck into his to sleep next to him (only to find Momo already sleeping next to him, much to her anger).

Kyouko Kirisaki
Their first introduction was when Run asked Rito to pretend to be her boyfriend and meet her friend kyouko, to which he agreed to. He found out that she is a human/alien hybrid who really can control flames. Kyouko told Run that she knew about half way through their time together that he was only pretending to be her boyfriend. Kyouko likes Rito's innocence, as when he saw her naked after a mishap, she finds him cute when he blushed.

She later visits Sainan High to give a lecture, but in truth, she intended to find out more about Rito for her friend Run. She asked Rito to be her tour guide, and later on she asked him out on a date, but she was only kidding and states that he is Run's "prince". Kyouko started developing feelings for Rito when he saved her from a swarm of fans, carrying her like a princess.

Mea Kurosaki
Mea is interested in Rito especially when Nana called him a beast. Mea seems to find pleasure in being licked, and has a deep desire to have Rito lick her body, which she playfully teases him about, by asking him to do it despite being around other people.

When Rito spoke to her and questioned if some things she learned from her Master Nemesis could be wrong, Mea punished him by controlling him with her psycho-dive ability, forcing him to lick and molest her body, and at the same time sharing the sensations with him, which she believes he finds very uncomfortable. However, she unintentionally shared with him her deeper feelings of being uneasy, lost and lonely, which she angrily continued to deny, still convincing herself that she is a weapon.

Rito wants Mea to embrace her humanity, which she refuses at first, but as the series progress she slowly comes to accept this. It's unknown what she feels now towards him, but she at least continues to feign sexual interest in him for fun.

Oshizu Murasame
Rito is one of her closest friends. She tries to get him and Haruna together. In To Love-Ru Darkness, she is seems to have some interest in Rito, noting the parts of his character that made Haruna and Lala fall for him, though it's unknown if she also has feelings for him. Her attempts to use her psychic powers, as well as her phychic panics, often causes trouble for him, including causing his latest love confession for Haruna to fail at the end of To Love-Ru.

Ryoko Mikado
Mikado-sensei works as a doctor at Rito's school. Rito and his friends would occasionaly ask for help from when dealing with something from other space. Rito and others have a good and trusting relationship with her and would come by her nurse's office at school to socialize or talk about important matters such as Golden Darkness, Tearju and the organization they were associated with, which Mikado is able to investigate through her former black market connections.

She is quite fond of him and is amused by his innocence. She can be quite mischievious with him, and likes to have fun with his shyness of women, such as asking him to take Yami's clothes off so she can treat her sickness, making him rub oil on her at the beach, and instructing Lala to add aphrodistic to her Valentine chocolate for Rito.

Tearju Lunatique
Tearju became Rito's home room teacher when she heard that Yami had been staying on Earth and was attending his school. Tearju seems to understand Rito's kind nature and trusts him completely, even pointing out it's like him to notice when something is troubling someone. Rito would like to see Tearju and Yami together and be happy like they used to be.

Nemesis
Nemesis is a sadistic and demanding girl who planned for Yami to return to being a cold hearted assassin again, starting with killing her target, Rito. Recently, that doesn't seem like the case anymore as she tries to become friends with Rito (in her own erotic way) after closely observing their lives. She says that he is fool for trusting people, but despite this, she is very (sexually) interested in him and finds his nervous expresion towards her arousing.

Because of Rito's ability to bring a transformation weapon (Yami and Mea) closer to humanity, rather than leaving him alone she wants him all to her self as her 'pet' boy toy, even making him do things like massaging her shoulders, commenting his technque on pleasuring women, and even snuck up on him in the bath. Wanting Rito all to herself as her servant, she essentially set herself up as an enemy to Momo's harem plan for Rito, telling her to give up on the plan.

Ren Elise Jewelria
Ren sees Rito as his rival for Lala's love, so he tries constanly to prove to her that he is more manly than Rito by challenging him to completely pointless challenges (which Rito doesn't seem to care and Lala isn't even aware of what he's doing). During one of their squabbles, Ren accidently kissed Rito, infuriating both boys, and causing Ren to hate Rito even more. Consequently, the kiss also caused his (yet-to-be-introduced) female alter ego to fall in love with Rito, which Ren also blames him for.

As of To Love-Ru Darkness, Ren seems to no longer make any effort to try and impress Lala, perhaps due to being featured less frequently in the story. It's unknown if he has accepted Rito as the one Lala loves or still tries off-scene to impress her. He does still care about Lala. Ren seems to have since matured from what he was before, and put most of his animosity towards Rito behind him. However, he still dislikes Rito's recent indecisive feelings towards Lala and other girls in his life. He reminds Rito how kind Lala truly is, and questions Rito if he is keeping her as insurance in case his love for Haruna doesn't work, something that bothered Rito.

Kenichi Saruyama
Kenichi Saruyama is Rito's perverted male friend. They have been friends for a long time. Saruyama is aware of Rito's crush on Haruna since before the start of the series, and he also understands Rito's incompetence around girls well enough that he wasn't at all surprised that Rito failed yet again to confess his love to Haruna. Saruyama has made some attempts to help Rito get together with Haruna.

Although they are friends, they both have certain dislikes towards each other. Rito doesn't like how other students see them grouped together when Saruyama starts acting and talking like a pervert. And Saruyama envies Rito for being close to Lala and many other girls, even though Rito already has feelings for Haruna.

Saruyama has a crush on a girl named Riko Yuusaki, who, unknown to him, is actually Rito, transformed into a girl by Lala's inventions. Saruyama is no less a pervert and a loser around "Riko" as he is any other time when he talks about girls, which disgusts Rito.

Risa Momioka
While various other girls consider Rito to be a pervert, Risa knows that he is an innocent boy to a fault and likes to tease him about sexual subjects. Risa likes to play with Rito's shyness around girls and occasionally gropes the breasts of other girls in front of him. In chapter 147 and episode 10 of To Love-Ru Motto, she takes a much closer and bolder approach in teasing him, but it is still not clear what her true feelings for him are.

Zastin Deviluke
In the beginning, Zastin thought Rito unworthy to marry Lala and become the next heir to the throne as king of Deviluke and Emperor of the galaxy, stating it's not a position for weaklings, and battles him so he would step down. However, after hearing Rito's speach about how marriage would only work if two love each other, he mistook this as a right that he is the only one suited for Lala and capable of understanding her feelings. Touched by this, he accepts Rito to marry her, which was not even Rito's original intention.

Afterwards, Zastin started showing respect to Rito and even calling him "Rito-Dono". Zastin would occasionally help Rito out when he is stuck in difficult situations involving something from outer space and would go to great lengths to protect him (even though he often fails in the process).

Rito thinks Zastin is a bit dull, such as when he proudly announcesabout his title as assistant chief of a manga artist to his enemy, often getting himself lost, being easily persuaded, and getting run over by moving trains and cars.

Gid Lucione Deviluke
He is Lala, Nana and Momo's father and the current king of the planet Deviluke and Emperor of the entire Galaxy who will take Rito under his wing as the next king when he marries Lala. He is practically Rito's future Father-in-Law.

In the manga, he is perverted and quite easygoing, and has no worries letting the puny earthling succeed his throne so that he may be a full time pervert. In the anime, he is much more critical and threatening.

Peke
Peke is Lala's costume robot and doesn't think highly of her choice of Rito as "Lala-sama's" fiance. Though Peke doesn't particularly hate or need to tolerate him, at first she finds him dull, dorky, unreliable and blunty saying so and ecourages Lala to think seriously about who she chooses to marry. As time passes, her view of Rito may have slighly changed. It is unknown how she thinks of Rito now. Peke at least stopped worrying about Lala marrying Rito and congratulated her when he confessed his love to her at the end of To Love-Ru.