= LOVELESS =

Note from the author : This is one of my ultra-long posts.. so read if you've time only k? haha...

=P

I'm actually writing this post because its 12:13 AM in the morning, and I don't feel sleepy... so I feel like writing a bit to wring my time away, and give a myself a bit of excuse from studying Media Law...

Memories, the importance of it... I never had an exceptional memory, nor even a normal one since young...
Few people actually know this... but I have no recollection of anything I did before 5 years old...

A few vague shadows, I lost a large part of my life after an accident...

Haha. Sounds drama eh? My life is full of dramatic occurances... But my life before that only lies in photographs, in stories told to me by my parents, and of course, my brothers...

Nobody suspects (or suspected) a memory loss at that time coz being a well bred obedient kid, I just said yes to everything...

But whenever I try to remember, it only hits a few memories... such as a very very tall lego structure... and i think... some transformer toys...

I dunno what happened much in nursery or kindergarten... except that it was St. Matthew's Kindergarten of course...

haha... how I envy those that actually have good recollections of their childhood... wonder how its like...

Anywayz, the reason for this train of thought is thanks to a series of anime that I have completed watching. "Loveless".

Loveless

While its storyline is still not as strong as Gravitation, its still a touching show built in a fantasy world...

The story outline :
Main cast
- Aoyagi Ritzuka (21 years old)
- Agatsuma Soubi (16 years old)
- Hawatari Yuiko (16 years old)
- Yayoi-san (16 years old)

Actually there are two more, Hitome and Kadoi (also known as Kio), but the main story lies between these four characters, and the protaganists - Aoyagi Rizuka and Agatsuma Soubi...

The beginning of the show is very complex, and I was lost and kind of distracted, because it seems that Rizuka has a very complicated childhood and lost some kind of next-of-kin, and now comes along Soubi who claims that he "loves" him and he knows how his brother died...

Of course, Rizuka, who always loved his brother wanted to know exactly how he died, and decided to play this stranger's game... Soon, they were drawn into a world of magic and spell battles...
In this world, the way of magic is done in zodiac pairs... meaning, those that had the strongest connection to each other tend to find a magical bond that allows them to work magic and support each other in battle.

However, Soubi is Rizuka's brother's fighter! Why would he need Rizuka?
Apparantly, Soubi and his brother were the 2 top sorcerers in the magical realm. Like master and servant, Soubi served his brother unquestioningly, which was the characteristic of a fighter who lived to serve his 'sacrifice'.

After Rizuka's brother died, he needed a new sacrifice, and naturally, he would go to his brother who had the strongest bond...

Initially, he said "I love you", because he only needed it to link Rizuka to himself and chain his life to him. Such that when he would be dealt damage, instead of receiving it, Rizuka would.

Rizuka had no idea... Soubi wanted to be commanded again, just like his master did before... However, Rizuka didnt want it to be that way... He was the everything his brother was not...
He had compassion, he had forgiveness, the one difference that he had compared to his brother was a heart.
As was found out later in the series, Rizuka's brother and Soubi made such a good team because his brother was merciless and cold, while Soubi followed the instructions that were given to him to the letter.

For the first few parts, Rizuka only allowed Soubi to talk to him because he wanted to know how his brother died. However, it became evident that Soubi did not want to talk about it. By that time, Soubi began to appreciate how he was actually free and no longer like a zombie fighter... and he began to love Rizuka...

But a competition between two dark masters over how they can destroy Soubi and capture Rizuka threatened to destroy anything that could happen between them. Knowing that Rizuka will never survive a battle against their ultimate genetic team "Zero", he decided to go into battle, alone. Without a sacrifice, without a master...
His battle strength cut by 50%, his life cut by 50%, he only had a quarter of his power left... And he lost.

However, like all these love stories, Rizuka realized that he loved Soubi, and decided to tell him, and even in death-like situations, these statements seem to work miraculously and Soubi recovered.

Haha. So, what are the other 2 characters?
They're the ones that add life and flavour to the show. Yuiko (a girl) likes Rizuka, and has a big crush on him (because he's so cool). And Yayoi-san (a guy) likes Yuiko, and can't believe that a new kid can cause him to lose all hopes of becoming Yuiko's boyfriend...

The animation effects in the show is extremely beautiful, especially the spell-battles, and there are many touching scenes in the show that will warm hearts...

Quite recommended... I'd give it a 4.2 stars /5


oh yah.. the reason why Loveless initiated this train of thought is because Rizuka lost all his memories when he was 12 years old, so he keeps taking photographs and talks to a psychologist because he fears that he will lose them again...

- just like why I keep my blog...

Oooh.. and 1 more thing... The starting song is super nice... I couldn't get it out of my mind either... My next song on my blog will be Loveless - Tsuki no Curse.

hmm.. the songs that are on my blog are mostly low quality, as I don't want the songs to affect my bandwidth too much. And these really affets my japanese songs as most of the J-Rock songs are very VERY high fidelity music, and require much space... Compressing them can cause some strange effects...


Anywayz, I've finished watching all 12 episodes of Loveless already... fantastic =)


haha. Of course, if you noticed, like Gravitation, Earthian and Yami no Matsui, Loveless is a Shonen-ai. Meaning, a love story between 2 guys.


bleah. Don't blame me for not being mainstream... I think that Loveless would beat many anime's handsdown. And Gravitation has surpassed all.

wahaha... man. am I bias or wad...


*hugz*
*don't stress yourself out studying too much k? (haha.. even though I know you won't)*
*Love ya*