loveless

LOVELESS

Links
Loveless Official Website (Japanese only)

Yun Kouga's(the mangaka) Homepage (in Japanese)

A Loveless Website Search Guide (Japanese only)

General Info @Animenewsnetwork

Fate - A Loveless Fan Site (in both English & Japanese) - includes gallery, wallpaper & a whole lot of links

Loveless Fanlisting

Soubi Fanlisting

Start to watch 'Loveless'. In fact I watched episode #4 long time ago but it was so not my style I deleted it then. Just when did the old spark come back?? Well, the characters are pretty cute with cat ears & tails. All furry & puppy. Besides that, I have to say the story is a bit on the dark side. The relationships remind me very much of Tetsu & Hiro in 'Rika the breeder'. It wasn't sexually explicit in any sense but the old elements just seem to make a comeback. S&M, that fuzzy brotherly love left unexplained, and the unknown side of Seimei. And yes, Soubi. I can roughly equate soubi with rika, seimei with tetsu & rika with hiro.

Soubi
The character design for soubi, again, reminds me of jin in samurai champloo. Tall & lanky, sharp-chinned , with long hair and most importantly glasses! Which make a guy look 10x more deadly composed & mature. Soubi is a definitely a masochist who doesn't shy saying 'I love you' 1000 times as long as Ritsuka bothers to hear it. To be governed & fated to his master is his only & one wish. To be possessed, I think, is a proof of the value for existence for some people. In the last episode I watched)#8 trustless), Soubi disobeys Ritsuka again and during the fight, he is suddenly hit by a strong feeling of emptiness, or the feeling that his existence is no long meaningful without Ritsuka's commands. He fights alone, for no one. I was for that moment feeling sad for him. But at the same time, he appears stubborn & childish. He wants Ritsuka's love so much that he acts against his own desires. Why doesn't he just call Ritsuka. One more thing, Soubi's realtionship with the principle of that warcraft training school is another question mark. My guess is, they're another SxM pair.

Ritsuka & Seimei
Kawaii ne! A very popular kid it seems. Everybody around him, except his mother who's a bit psychotic to say the least, adores him. Soubi, his sensi, seimei & schoolmates. He's scarily moody at times. & I'm not sure how much weight this kid gives to seimei & to soubi. Sighs, again, it's just like Hiro, stuck between Rika & Tetsu. Although so far the Seimei is only introduced in flashbacks and in manga vol5, some descriptions were given from Ritsuka's standpoint and it's obvious their brotherly relationship is suspiciously questionable. And the seimei Ritsuka knows is different from what's remembered by the rest of the organisation. So what exactly is Seimei like? A mysterious character.

Well, I wonder who Ritsuka's true master is and if it's to be revealed (sure it will, what a cliff hanger & dead knot in the plot) in later publications, will it damage the relationship b/w Soubi & Ritsuka? And seems Seimei is one of the '7 moon' & he's killed by his own kind for an unforgivable crime he committed. What is this crime exactly?? The more I look at the whole thing, the more it reminds me of Rika the breeder in which Tetsu the older brother's raped by his own kind and later committed suicide. But it's also possible that Seimei isn't dead yet coz the body's burnt beyond recognition. chances he's still alive ~10%

This's not the usual type of anime I adore. But I had fun watching it. maybe coz of the amount of 'angst' in it? The art is above average.

So far 11 episodes aired in Japan. Wondering why there're only 8 out on BT. Problems with getting the raws?
oops, just chedk animenewsnetwork, episode 8 was aired on 25th May, so the translation teams on hot on heels. 3 more episodes scheduled for airing in June. Guess there'll be a break after episode 11?