Lala Satalin Deviluke (Japanese: ララ・サタリン・デビルーク, Hepburn: Rara Satarin Debirūku) is a fictional character of the manga series To Love Ru, created by Saki Hasemi and Kentaro Yabuki. In the series, Lala is an alien princess from the planet Deviluke who, to avoid marrying one of her marriage candidates, decides to run away from home to Earth, where she pretends to be in love with the human boy Rito Yuki to prevent marriage, but falls in love with him after misinterpreting a statement made by Rito to another girl. In the anime adaptation, Lala is voiced by Haruka Tomatsu in Japanese, and by Alexis Tipton in the English version. Regarded as one of the most popular characters in To Love Ru, Lala has received mostly positive critical reception. Reviewers have complimented the character's personality and physical attractiveness, although her diminishing role in To Love Ru Darkness has been criticized.
Characterization
Design Lala is a highly attractive teenage girl with a curvaceous figure, long pink hair, and emerald green eyes. Her most distinguishing feature is her tail, which is long, thin, and ends with a heart-shaped tip; it extends down from the base of her back. Another feature is that she is almost always seen wearing a hair clip with thick black swirls circling once then pointing downward; this is her robot companion Peke, who actually forms the clothes Lala usually wears. At the beginning of the series, she is almost always seen in her costume robot Peke's "Dress Form", in what can only be described as an "enlarged version of Peke herself". Wanting to fit in more with the people of earth, she has Peke dress her in various earth clothing styles; she has also bought herself a large number of earth clothes to wear when Peke is out of energy. Lala is often idolized by other girls on school for her beautiful figure and one of the biggest busts on school. She is considered so attractive that is seen as a perfect beautie, which even make relatively normal-sized girls to feel inferior. Ironically, she is mostly oblivious to her appearance. According to her friend Risa Momioka, Lala's measurements are B89-W57-H87.
Personality Lala is shown as a girl the same age as the other characters, but with a rather childish personality: she is impulsive and acts instinctively, without thinking about the possible consequences. However, Lala also has a positive side: her extroversion allows her to socialize easily and, together with her beauty, helps to make her very popular in school. She is very caring and generous and seems to have a need to make everyone she cares about happy, even those with whom she has no real relationship, all while showing an amazing level of compassion that goes beyond simply charity or help. She is also very naive about terrestrial culture and often makes highly dangerous mistakes by accident or serious communication failure. Over time, on the other hand, can be witness an evolution of Lala's character, due to the proximity to her fiancé Rito Yuki and his friends, which leads to a maturation, mainly from the sentimental point of view. Since her first appearance, Lala has presented herself as a carefree girl and without any modesty: she does not disdain being naked in public or at home, nor appearing in front of Rito wearing little or nothing at all (typically, after a bath or upon awakening). Moreover, several times, as if it were a common thing, Lala asks Rito to bathe together, for the simple reason that on her planet Deviluke, she has always been bathed by maids, which is the reason why Lala has no notion of modesty.
Powers and abilities Being a member of the Devilukian and Charmian alien races, Lala has superhuman strength, power and speed. She is also known in Deviluke for her genius-level intellect (to the point of being considered one of the most intelligent people in her galaxy), and has made inventions of all kinds. Lala's physical strength is pure brute force to the point where a punch can cause a shock wave and create a small crater in a wall without physical contact with it. She has also been shown to withstand heavy physical attacks (usually without being hurt); this is also important internally, as she can eat spicy food. One trait Lala inherited from her mother, Sephie Michaela Deviluke, is an enhanced metabolism; thanks to it, Lala can not gain weight. Like all citizens from Deviluke, Lala has a distinctive tail with a shape of a spade on the end that can shoot a destructive beam. Oddly, her tail is very sensitive, causing her friends to nickname it her "weakness" (since the tail of all female Devilukeans is more sensitive than that of a male), despite being able to shake someone with her tail by mustering enough strength. Despite her childlike personality, Lala's intellect is perhaps one of her most remarkable abilities, being capable to create extraordinary inventions as well redesign other material objects; her planet even wanted to use it for weapons research and engineering. Lala usually creates a multitude of inventions throughout the whole series, most of them being seemingly childish and toy-like, with some of them having no original purpose aside from having fun. A running gag in the plot is that her inventions usually do not work as well as Lala and the others had hoped, often resulting in perverted accidents. So far, Lala's greatest creation is Peke.
Appearances
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