To Love-Ru 20th Anniversary: A New Jump GIGA One-Shot
To Love-Ru turns 20, and Shueisha marked the milestone with a brand-new one-shot. The 25-page chapter leads Jump GIGA 2026 Summer, the seasonal magazine that shipped on August 17, 2026, and it reunites the original creative team — writer Saki Hasemi and artist Kentaro Yabuki. It is a one-off return, not a new serialization.
The To Love-Ru 20th anniversary one-shot is a self-contained celebration, printed in color at the front of the issue. For a franchise that spent a decade off the weekly schedule but never left collectors' shelves, a color chapter from the people who made it is the headline.
Here is what the one-shot actually is, how To Love-Ru got here across two magazines and twenty years, and where the series' deep bishoujo figure lineup fits for anyone building a shelf today.
The To Love-Ru 20th anniversary one-shot: what's confirmed
Only one thing has been announced — a single one-shot chapter. There is no new series, anime, or sequel attached to it. Treat everything below as the confirmed facts and nothing more.
| Detail | What's confirmed |
|---|---|
| What | To Love-Ru 20th anniversary one-shot (single chapter) |
| Length | 25 pages, leading the issue in color |
| Where | Jump GIGA 2026 Summer (Shueisha) |
| Release date | August 17, 2026 |
| Story | Saki Hasemi |
| Art | Kentaro Yabuki |
| Issue bonus | Newly drawn Yui Kotegawa acrylic stand + poster |
| Also in the issue | Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs 10th anniversary one-shot (17 pages) |
A 25-page color one-shot from the original team
The chapter runs 25 pages and opens the magazine as its lead color feature. That matters: color pages in a Jump seasonal issue are reserved for the titles the editors want to headline, and the anniversary story got the front slot.
Crucially, it is the original team, not a guest tribute. Saki Hasemi writes and Kentaro Yabuki draws, the same pairing that created the series in 2006. For long-time readers, that continuity is the point.
Inside Jump GIGA 2026 Summer
Jump GIGA is Shueisha's quarterly Weekly Shonen Jump companion, used for one-shots, spin-offs, and anniversary pieces rather than ongoing weekly serials. The Summer 2026 issue went on sale August 17, 2026.
Placing the one-shot here — rather than in Weekly Shonen Jump itself — signals a celebration, not a comeback. GIGA is where finished franchises come back for a single victory lap.
The Yui Kotegawa bonuses
The issue also carries physical extras aimed squarely at collectors. Reporting on the announcement notes a newly drawn Yui Kotegawa acrylic stand and a poster tied to the release, packaged with the magazine.
Magazine-exclusive acrylics and posters are the kind of low-cost, high-scarcity items that get hard to find once an issue sells through, so they are worth noting for anyone who collects To Love-Ru goods rather than just the manga.
20 years of To Love-Ru, briefly
To Love-Ru is a science-fiction romantic comedy about an ordinary high-schooler whose life is upended when an alien princess crash-lands into it. It ran across two distinct eras, and knowing the split explains why the figure lineup is so deep.
Weekly Shonen Jump, 2006-2009
The original To Love-Ru debuted in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 2006 and was collected in 18 volumes. It established the core cast and the harem-comedy formula that made the series a mainstream Jump title rather than a niche one.
That three-year weekly run is where most casual readers know the series from, and it is the run this 20th anniversary counts from.
To Love-Ru Darkness, 2010-2017
The sequel, To Love-Ru Darkness, launched in the monthly magazine Jump SQ. in 2010 and ended in March 2017, also running 18 volumes. Darkness leaned harder into the ensemble cast and is, for many collectors, the more figure-defining half of the franchise.
Between the two series, To Love-Ru accumulated 36 collected volumes over roughly a decade of publication — a long, character-dense catalog that figure makers have mined ever since.
Why a 25-page one-shot matters for collectors
A one-shot rarely moves the merchandise market by itself. What it does is put a dormant franchise back in front of readers and editors at once, and that attention is what future goods are built on.
The immediate collectible is the issue itself, plus its acrylic-stand and poster bonuses. The longer play is what a renewed spotlight tends to trigger: reprints, new prize-figure waves, and revived scale figures when a maker decides an anniversary is a good hook.
None of that downstream merchandise has been announced. The honest read for now is that the one-shot is the collectible, and anything beyond it is a possibility, not a plan.
The To Love-Ru figures collectors chase
To Love-Ru, and especially Darkness, became one of the most heavily figure-adapted bishoujo comedies in the hobby. Its heroines have anchored scale figures and prize figures for over a decade, which is why the franchise stays relevant on shelves even during publication gaps.
A bishoujo scale-figure staple
The anniversary itself leans on that reputation: the newly drawn Yui Kotegawa acrylic stand is a merchandise tie-in, not just a manga extra. Coverage of the announcement also points readers back toward the series' existing figures, including pieces of Darkness characters such as Kurosaki Mea.
If you are new to the franchise, the practical takeaway is that To Love-Ru figures are a deep back catalog, not a single current release — you are usually shopping a decade of scale and prize figures rather than one new drop.
How to tell what's worth chasing
Because so much of the lineup is secondary-market by now, the usual bishoujo-figure buying rules apply. Before you commit, it helps to know the vocabulary and the traps:
- Know the format. Premium scale figures and cheaper prize figures are built to different standards; read our prize figure vs. scale figure guide before you assume a price is fair.
- Check the scale. A 1/7 and a 1/4 of the same character are very different objects; our figure scale sizes explainer covers what the numbers mean.
- Watch for bootlegs. Popular bishoujo characters are heavily counterfeited; use our authentic vs. bootleg checklist on any too-cheap listing.
- Store them right. Older stock can yellow; our storage guide explains how to keep a shelf from turning.
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs shares the issue
To Love-Ru is not the only anniversary in Jump GIGA 2026 Summer. The same issue carries a 17-page one-shot of Tadahiro Miura's Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, marking that series' 10th anniversary.
Yuuna is another supernatural romantic comedy with its own figure following, so the Summer issue is effectively a double celebration for fans of the genre. If you are buying the magazine for the To Love-Ru chapter, you are getting a second anniversary one-shot in the same book.
To Love-Ru 20th anniversary FAQ
When does the To Love-Ru one-shot release?
Jump GIGA 2026 Summer, which contains the 25-page To Love-Ru 20th anniversary one-shot, shipped on August 17, 2026.
Is To Love-Ru getting a new series or anime?
No. As of the announcement, only a single one-shot chapter is confirmed. There is no new serialization, sequel, or anime attached to the 20th anniversary.
Who created To Love-Ru?
The series is written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. The same pair produced the original manga in 2006 and returned for this anniversary one-shot.
How many To Love-Ru volumes are there?
The original To Love-Ru ran 18 volumes (Weekly Shonen Jump, 2006-2009) and the sequel To Love-Ru Darkness ran a further 18 volumes (Jump SQ., 2010-2017), for 36 in total.
The bottom line
To Love-Ru's 20th anniversary is a compact but meaningful beat: the original team, a color one-shot, and a magazine loaded with collector extras. Here is what to hold onto:
- A 25-page To Love-Ru one-shot leads Jump GIGA 2026 Summer, released August 17, 2026.
- It is by the original team — story by Saki Hasemi, art by Kentaro Yabuki.
- Only the one-shot is confirmed; no new series or anime has been announced.
- The issue includes a newly drawn Yui Kotegawa acrylic stand and poster.
- The same issue carries a 17-page Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs 10th anniversary one-shot.
Akibato doesn't stock a dedicated To Love-Ru line, but if two decades of bishoujo history has you eyeing a scale or prize figure, our Figures collection is where the licensed scale and prize pieces live — and every order ships from Japan. New to buying from overseas? Start with our guide to preordering figures from Japan.