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Yun Kouga's Loveless
Should I give Loveless another chance? I've fallen behind and been meaning to catch up on it, and I'd be happy to hear any impassioned defenses of the series. Yun Kouga's art is of course very attractive, but I didn't like the way the story shoehorned in the battle sequences... it took a good concept and, I thought, reduced it to the most basic level where you could, say, pad out an anime series by introducing opponent after opponent. As someone whose basic training is, admittedly, in shonen manga, I don't like fights which are just there to move the plot along... I like fights which are F*I*G*H*T*S. I've heard (from someone who would know) that Kouga has a definite end in mind for the series, which is good, but I got frustrated by the execution.

The best thing about it, from what I read, was the way it used the cat-ears thing to distinguish virgins from non-virgins... this reminded me of something I'd used to imagine when I was much younger, that people would have an aura revealing their sexual experience. Because of course, people who've had sex are essentially a different species from those who haven't, and this was a pretty brilliant way to show it... though I normally don't have much interest in the cat-ears.