LOVELESS is the story of  12 year old amnesiac Ritsuka Aoyagi. The story begins with his first day at a new school after he is thrown out of his former school.  Two years before Ritsuka suddenly loses his memory and has an abrupt change in personality. He sees a therapist while he deals with his loss of memory and an abusive Bi-polar mother. His brother Semei is murdered leaving him to fend for himself.

After his first day of school he meets an "Adult" (people without their ears and tails) named Soubi outside of his school. He tells Ritsuka that he waited for him to come find him after Semei died and when he didn't he came to him. He claims that Semei gave him to Ritsuka.  Of course Ritsuka doesn't know what he's talking about, but asks Soubi to make memories (take pictures) with him anyway.

Ritsuka discovers that his brother and Soubi were a legendary fighting pair at a special school for kids with their abilities. When Semei (the sacrifice) died he left Soubi (his fighter) to his little brother. Ritsuka becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to his brother after learning all this believing that is why his brother died. He begs Soubi to tell him about what happened to his brother, but discovers that his brother ordered Soubi not to tell him. This becomes an obsticle in their relationship, along with other things Soubi is hiding.

Through the progression of this story they fight other pairs from the school, everyone referring to Ristuka as Loveless. They all seem disgusted that Soubi is now claiming to be Ritsuka's fighter, because they don't share the same name. This all leads up to a wide open ending, where Ritsuka asks Soubi if he would kill him if ordered by Semei, to which Soubi says he would die with Ritsuka if that ever happened.

The manga version of this story is 8 volumes and can be picked up at pretty much any local bookstore. It was done by the wonderful Yun Kouga. It was originally printed in Monthly Comic Zero Sum by Ichijinsha. The Anime version was done by  J.C.Staff and appear on Japanese television in 2002. Fun fact about this story is they author doesn't really intend for it to be Yaoi or Shouen-Ai. Its just meant to be a beautiful story.

I LOVE THIS ANIME AND MANGA. let me say it again I LOVE IT.  From the artwork to the music to the story.  Did I mention the CAT EARS?!?!?! *girly squeal*  Its definitely in my Top 10. You can just feel the sexual tension and emotion OOzing out of this manga and anime. It has a little bit of humor thrown in so you don't feel like killing yourself from being so sad. 

So if you dig Cat Ears, Sexual Tension and a good fantasy plot line go check out Loveless.

Sukisho/Sukisyo

High-school student Sora Hashiba has been hospitalized after falling from the fourth floor of the school building. On his first night back in the dormitory, he wakes to find a strange boy addressing him by the name "Yoru". The stranger identifies himself as "Ran" and says he's Sora's new roommate. The next day, Sora's childhood friend and dorm manager, Matsuri Honjou, informs Sora that the other boy, whom Matsuri identifies as Sunao Fujimori or "Nao-kun," is actually another childhood friend of Sora. Sora doesn't remember meeting Sunao before. In fact, Sora can't remember much of anything regarding his past, and the series follows his quest to regain his memory.

Sora soon learns why Sunao identified himself as "Ran" that first night: he and Sora have alternate personalities. Sora's is Yoru, a powerful protector and the lover of the more dependent, feminized Ran. The existence of these alternate personalities, and the relationship between them, has some mysterious connection with Sora's fall from the window and his forgotten past. The alternate personalities' passionate relationship is a far cry from the hostility and distrust between Sora and Sunao. Because Yoru and Ran possess them arbitrarily, Sora and Sunao frequently find themselves in embarrassing situations when they regain control of their minds.

Other comical situations arise from Matsuri's efforts to draw Sora and Sunao into his moneymaking schemes, known as the group "The Jack of All Trades" and from such minor characters as a bishōnen ghost and three younger boys who resemble the trio. No parents are ever mentioned, and the only authority figures are school nurse Kai Nanami and math teacher Shinichirou Minato, but it is known that Sora and Sunao are both orphans. Both have some connection with Sora and Sunao's dark past, which also involves one of the older students at the school, Kai Nagase, and a mysterious doctor named Aizawa.

This would’ve been great if Sora and Sunao would’ve just remained as their alternate personalities. The story was much more interesting with them around. Everything else was just crap! I really can’t say many good things about this one; it was just a really big dissappointment. The steamy scenes were quite nice to watch as well. Seme and uke galore!

Overall, I wouldn’t waste money on this piece of bologna. If you happen to see it online, go ahead, knock yourself out.

(PG-Rated Yaoi...IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?)

The story surrounds an aspiring singer, Shuichi Shindou, and his band, Bad Luck (formed with his best friend Hiroshi Nakano, who is on guitar). Shuichi wants to become Japan's next big star, and follow in the footsteps of the famous idol Ryuichi Sakuma, lead singer of the now-disbanded legendary group Nittle Grasper. One evening, Shuichi is looking over lyrics for a song he was writing when his paper is blown away by the wind and picked up by a tall, blond stranger. The man dismisses Shuichi's hard work as garbage, which hurts Shuichi deeply. Despite his anger, he is intrigued by the stranger. This will be their first encounter as Shuichi becomes fascinated by the stranger, who soon turns out to be the famous romance novelist, Eiri Yuki (real name: Uesugi). Both the manga and the anime follow this plot.

The manga is a quirky blend of over-the-top humor (Reiji's giant panda robot destroying parts of New York, Shuichi's explosive nosebleeds and ridiculous declarations of love, K's machine gun wake-up calls, Tohma's half-teasing come-ons, etc.) and gay love. The storyline is just serious enough to be compelling, but also contains elements of parody. The characters are often thrown into insane situations and in some scenes the art style is dramatically overdone for comedic effect, one of many of Murakami's well known traits and characteristics in her manga styles.
I’d have to say that I’m not into yaoi as much as I was back in the day. I’ve gone over to the dark side of shoujo/magical girl themes. However, I will review Gravitation because I liked it during this particular fangirl stage.

I never liked Shuichi’s character, he was always too whiney (reminds of most girls I know). Through the progression of the story, he grew on me because he matured. I love the way he was passionate about his music career.

Eiri Yuki, my god this man was funny! I love j0000. He was such an asshole yet, he was so cute with Shuichi. His personality was strikingly more impressive than most of the other characters on the show.

Another character similar to Shuichi would be the infamous, Ryuichi Sakuma! I highly recommend not putting these two in a room together. However, one of his interesting habits is talking to a pink stuffed rabbit named, Kumagoro. This pink animal has gained hearts of fangirls all over the world! I cannot go to a con without seeing 10s of dozens of girls carrying Kuma. Ryuichi can be classified as having dual personalities.

Claude “K” Winchester, the gun wielding manager of Bad Luck. Apparently, the Japanese thought that Americans carried machine guns around all day so, that’s how they based “K”’s character. Don’t get me wrong, he is a funny character, promoting the bad with his machine gun. I just wish the Japanese didn’t see as gun-wielding barbarians.

This series is a bit over the top in some episodes but, well worth the belly laughing. The romance is a bit cute and at times…kinky? Very fun loving, PG rated yaoi. I would recommend this to virgin, yaoi fangirls.

Do you love the whole rich spoiled seme and his oblivious clusmy uke boy love stories? with great connected side stories to help break the monotony of just one story line?  well if so then Junjo Romantica is most definitely for you!

Junjo Romantica is the story of a student named Misaki Takahashi. Misaki needs a tutor for his college entrance exams, so enter boy love novelist and best friend of his older brother, Akihiko Usami. Akihiko was secretly in love with Misaki's older brother and makes it rather obvious, due to one of the main characters in his popular boy novels being named after him. Akihiko isn't really impressed with Misaki until he realizes that he is going to college to honor his older brother sacrificing his own education to raise him after their parents died.

The two grow closer as Akihiko tutors Misaki. Misaki is totally in denile of his homosexuality and Akhiko takes great pleasure in teasing him. Their relationship evolves when Misaki's brother announces his engagement to a woman. Misaki cries over Akihiko unrequited love, while Akihiko confesses to Misaki that its him he loves not his older brother.

This series is the story of these two lovers and the people around them. It's a typical Seme and Uke relationship of the main characters with two side stories with the same themes but just enough difference to change it up. It also helps its cute, funny and full of YUMMY food.

The manga series was orginally an ongoing story written by Shungiku Nakamura  published in Asuka Ciel in 2002. The story was adapted into a manga series by the artist Kadokawa Shoten starting in 2003 and currently has 13 published volumes. The anime series was produced by Studio Deen, who is also involed in the production of Vampire Knight, Fruits Basket, Gravitation, and several other popular series. It premiered on japanese television in 2008 for two seasons and was liscenced in 2010 for North American distribution by Kadokawa Pictures USA. 

I love this series. Its got a great story line and doesn't leave you falling asleep or wanting to strangle the production team for screwing up your favorite boy love manga. The soundtrack isn't AMAZING, but at least its not HORRIBLE like some boy love series *COUGH* gravitation *COUGH* but hey you can't have everything.

It makes my inner fan girl squeal. It makes me laugh, cry, and wanna go jump someone all at the same time.  definitely a must read and a must watch.

So as it is the First day of 2011, Bhan-chan and I have decided that we are going to attempt themes for certain months.  (i.e. Genres, or maybe a month of Guilty Pleasure that kind of stuff.) 

The Theme for January is going to be Yaoi ( RELEASE THE RABID FAN GIRLS!)

Also, I have had several requests for Bhan or myself to do Naruto or Bleach. Honestly, at this point I am not comfortable writing about either one of them. Simply because I would like to wait and see where it goes. I am more of a Manga reader for these Series at this point.  I could change my mind later on and randomly surprise people.

We are also thinking up contests and such for our readers, we will let you guys know when we know.

Hopefully we will soon have a custom wondermus layout for our blog. *fingers crossed*

So to all our readers, HAPPY 2011! 

**If you have any suggestions or comments feel free to contact me at thedestinyporkbun@gmail.com.**