To Love-Ru fans are getting a fresh reason to look back at the series, bro. Shueisha’s summer issue of Jump Giga has announced a new manga volume titled To Love-Ru Parade, set to ship on October 2.
This is not being positioned as a brand-new mainline sequel. Instead, the volume will gather previously uncollected side story chapters from both To Love-Ru and its sequel series To LOVEru DARKNESS. For longtime readers, that matters because side chapters can be weirdly easy to miss, especially when they were not included in earlier collected volumes.
The announcement also came with something extra: the same Jump Giga issue includes a new 25-page one-shot for To Love-Ru. That story is part of the manga’s 20th anniversary celebration, which makes this feel less like a random archive release and more like a proper anniversary clean-up for fans who have stuck with the franchise since the Weekly Shonen Jump days.
For quick context, Kentaro Yabuki and Saki Hasemi’s To Love-Ru first launched in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2006. Shueisha eventually published the original manga across 18 volumes. Its sequel, To LOVEru DARKNESS, started later in Jump SQ. in 2010 and wrapped up in March 2017, also ending with 18 volumes.
The franchise also went beyond manga. Both To Love-Ru and To LOVEru DARKNESS inspired television anime adaptations, with the wider anime side adding up to four TV anime series plus several OVAs. Sentai Filmworks has released all four TV anime adaptations in North America.
Why this matters for Malaysia and SEA readers — analysis: this kind of release is mainly interesting for completionists and fans who follow older Jump-era titles through manga volumes, anime adaptations, or collector circles. Since the source only mentions the October 2 shipping date and does not list any Malaysia or SEA-specific release details, don’t treat this as a confirmed local launch. The useful takeaway is simpler: if you have been tracking To Love-Ru as a franchise, To Love-Ru Parade is the upcoming volume to watch because it collects material that previously did not sit neatly inside the standard book lineup.
It is also a reminder that anniversary projects do not always need to be huge reboots or new anime seasons to be meaningful. Sometimes, giving fans a cleaner way to access scattered stories is already a solid move — especially for a title with nearly two decades of history behind it.