Love To-LIE-Angle
立花館To Lieあんぐる (Tachibanakan Triangle)
- Comedy
- Ecchi
- Girls Love
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 3 min per ep
- Aired
- Apr 4, 2018 to Jun 20, 2018
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
After six years in Tokyo, Hanabi Natsuno returns to her hometown with old memories rushing back as she gets ready to begin high school. Her new home is Tachibanakan, a dormitory for female students—and her first day there takes an unexpected turn when she literally runs into a stunning girl in the nude, leaving Hanabi instantly smitten. Not long after, she also reconnects with Konomi Fujiwara, a childhood friend she can barely remember.
As Hanabi meets the rest of Tachibanakan’s residents, she quickly becomes the focus of their attention. With the girls openly and not-so-openly vying for her affection, dorm life promises a lively, flirtatious start to the school year.
Otaku Consensus
Love To-LIE-Angle landed as a low-middling yuri-ecchi short: fans and reviewers credit Hisayoshi Hirasawa's brisk short-form direction, Yuzuko Hanai's appealing character designs, and the show's unusually upfront approach to lewd girl-girl flirtation. Its most consistent weakness is structural, not conceptual: three-minute episodes leave little room for romantic build, and the controversial or grating character dynamics make the fanservice feel like the main course rather than a reward. With a 5.64 MAL score and 52/100 AniList score, the verdict is clear: efficient and occasionally funny for ecchi-yuri completionists, disposable for viewers wanting emotional payoff.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Love To-LIE-Angle if you want yuri fanservice delivered as snack food: fast, shameless, and over before it can pretend to be prestige romance. It scratches a lighter, hornier version of the Sakura Trick itch, but without the patience for a full-length school romance; it is closer to an ecchi gag-strip adaptation than a slow-burn relationship story. The ideal viewer is someone who wants cute-girl chaos, nudity-forward comedy, and a complete watch that takes less time than two standard anime episodes. It is also useful as a 2018 snapshot of short-form yuri-adjacent TV anime: direct about desire, thin on development, and very aware that its audience came for flirtation, reactions, and escalating dorm-room absurdity.
Key Characters
- HHanabi Natsuno
Hanabi works best as a rapid-fire reaction engine, with her embarrassment and attraction giving the three-minute episode format its comic rhythm.
- KKonomi Fujiwara
Konomi gives the series a softer emotional counterweight to its raunchier sketch-comedy instincts, tying the triangle setup to remembered intimacy rather than pure impulse.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The defining formal choice is the short runtime: reviewers repeatedly frame it as a three-minute-per-episode series, making the full 12-episode run shorter than many anime films and under forty minutes in a single sitting.
- 2
Creators in Pack and Studio Lings produced the adaptation, placing it in the niche of late-2010s short-form TV anime rather than the production model of a full-length seasonal romcom.
- 3
Hisayoshi Hirasawa is credited as both chief director and sound director, an unusual concentration of control over both the timing of the visual gags and the audio-side delivery.
- 4
The series does not bury its intent in subtext: AniList tags it with Yuri at 93%, LGBTQ+ Themes at 79%, and Nudity at 75%, matching the web reception that consistently foregrounds its fanservice and sexual comedy.
- 5
Yuzuko Hanai's character designs are one of the few elements singled out positively in otherwise mixed reviews, with the cast's visual appeal often outlasting discussion of the writing.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Merryhachi is credited as the original creator, while the anime's series composition was handled by WORDS in STEREO.
- Fun fact 2
- The opening theme was performed by Erabareshi, a real idol group rather than an in-universe unit created only for the anime.
- Fun fact 3
- The show aired from April 4 to June 20, 2018, completing a standard spring-season broadcast despite its micro-episode format.
- Fun fact 4
- Its reception is notably consistent across major fan databases: MAL lists it at 5.64/10 from 29,502 votes, while AniList places it at 52/100 with 161 favourites.
- Fun fact 5
- Multiple reviews warn that the series is not child-friendly, specifically citing nudity, fanservice, and sexualized comedy as central viewing considerations.
Studios
- Creators in Pack
- Studio Lings
