Loveless

Loveless holds a near and dear place in my heart as the first anime I ever watched. It still holds up, but the anime doesn't do itself justice.

It's unfortunate that Loveless will never get a reboot or another 12 episodes to catch up with the ending of the Manga, as the anime only addressed Volumes 1 through 4.

It's an interesting take on the usually bland BL genre, and I find myself going back to it to rewatch it.

I can only assume this has so few reviews because people saw the concept for this show and thought "Oh dear God no!" to themselves.

After having watched this, I can say that they were probably right to do that...

This show features a romance between a young man in college and a middle schooler. I knew that going into this show (and the fact that the characters have cat ears until they lose their virginity) and it was still somehow worse than I expected.

I thought the plot of this show would be about that middle schoolers unreciprocated feelings for that college student, with that college student being unable to take himself away from that middle schooler due to seeing the middle schoolers late older brother in him. It was worse than that... I won't say anything more in order to avoid spoilers.

Perhaps some will find it beneficial to force themselves to endure the extremely disturbing plot elements of this show, but only if they can remain cognizant of just how messed up they are. That potential from the uniqueness of this shows plot is the only thing that caused me to give this show two stars instead of one. The idea of this show normalizing any of the many disturbing elements of its plot to any of its viewers horrifies me.

This is the first anime I've ever watched, if you don't count the countless Pokémon episodes that I caught on TV over a decade ago when I was trying to avoid homework after school, and I have to say: I'M IMPRESSED! :)

I absolutely adored the entire story, which I also found surprisingly deep. I mean, I didn't know *what* to expect, but I guess I was skewing towards something much more silly, and LOVELESS is anything *but* that. It's sad, but at the same time hilarious, almost poking fun at itself, but in a wonderfully *dark* way. The characters are all quite brilliant, the secondary ones so well-crafted that - in my opinion - they often steal the scene from Soubi and Ritsuka. My *only* problem is Soubi, who drove me half-crazy with his aggravating cageyness and with the way he kept going off on his own ... and then *getting hurt*, ahem ... and refusing even to let Ritsuka help him AFTERWARDS. Come on, dude: WTF?! But I sort of came to understand him a little more by the end, which is why I didn't end up dropping a star or two. I warmed up to him during the second-last episode, which almost had me rolling on the floor laughing FOR REALS.

I'd really like more episodes, though, because there are so many questions left unanswered. I want to know more about Seimei and any other Loveless and Ritsu and all the Zeros and what the fridge-tart happened at the end and ... BAH! I guess I should just read the manga, eh?

Anyway, this anime's cool, and it definitely has me wanting to check out some others.

This anime should continue with more episodes and it should have many more seasons.