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.

Summary
A pretty, rich girl named Saki Tenjouin comes back to school and finds out that other 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 Rito Yuuki as a bait. Lala ends up telling Zastin about the letter, which he mistakes as an assassination attempt from Saki. Rito, still kidnapped by her, is warned by her that if Lala fails to show up in time, he will be forced to touch her 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 her invention 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, Rin Kujou 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 her invention from chasing Zastin), with Zastin runs into Saki causing a lewd position for her and Rito, she yells at Lala for what happened, her invention then rips off Saki's swimsuit exposing her naked body to everyone, causing her to run away, leaving Lala clueless to what's going on.

After school, Aya finds out that Lala might have a grave secret (unaware that it's the fact she's an alien) and reports to Saki, who plans on finding out what that secret is and exposing it as payback for humiliating her earlier. Saki and her bodyguards try to sneak in Yuuki's house to find out that secret, however, they trigger a trap that Zastin had put in before hand. Both Rin and Aya run away from the house as Saki falls into a trap door which oddly connects to Rito's room. Saki hides under the desk when she heard Lala about come to in, with a photo camera ready to find out what her secret is, but accidently presses a button (that was installed by Zastin) which ejects the whole room into the sky. Saki, who is terrorfied and confused, pops out and asks Lala what's happening. Zastin, Maul and Smutts each get on a ship to stop the capsule, however, Lala, who is tinkering with the controls, accidently shoots missiles at them and fly off even faster, which causes Saki to fall off the house. Lala jumps out and flies towards Saki to save her, who is deeply touch by it, but faints away. Saki then wakes up in the middle of the streets, surrounded by a crowd, and realizes that she is completely naked due to Lala's Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun have ripped off all of her clothes, causing Saki to hate Lala again. Elsewhere, Lala flies around the city, looking for where she dropped Saki.

Character Appearances

 * Rito Yuuki
 * Lala Satalin Deviluke
 * Peke
 * Saki Tenjouin (First appearence)
 * Rin Kujou (First appearence)
 * Ayako Fujisaki (First appearence)
 * Honekawa
 * Principal
 * Kenichi Saruyama
 * Haruna Sairenji
 * Zastin
 * Maul and Smutts

Inventions Used

 * Bow-Bow Doggie-Kun

Trivia

 * 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 Yuki's room.