He discovers that his brother was murdered by a secretive organization called “Seven Moons”, and is suddenly sucked into a seedy underground rife with battles, honor challenges, and magic. It focuses on the life of the 12 year old catboy protagonist, who is looking into his brother’s mysterious death. It is the story of catboys and catgirls: except they lose their “neko” (cat) features upon losing their virginity (thus this manga has a strong reflection on sexuality in society as well). Loveless mostly has Yaoi subtexts (as in very few overtly yaoi scenes in it), and has a riveting and fascinating overlay.
It’s a light hearted read with the subtext of a really great love story underneath. But it has enough of a storyline to keep you riveted even through all of the silliness. It is VERY classically anime: Explosive nosebleeds, unexplainable random appearances of monsters, lots of hyper yelling, strange tangents, etc. Our protaganist is deeply hurt, but he is intrigued by the stranger… and that eventually leads to love. One day, Shuichi is working hard on some lyrics for a song and they blow into the path of a brooding, tall stranger – who immediately dismisses the lyrics that Shuichi has worked so hard on as utter garbage. It’s about an aspiring singer named Shuichi Shindou and his band Bad Luck, which he is trying to vault into fame. It’s spawned a pretty epic anime and even people who don’t habitually gay manga seem to really adore this series. It began in the mid 90s and continued until the early 2000s. Gravitation is certainly a staple of yaoi (male/male love) manga. Gay relationships have been part of manga for a long while, and I’ve we’ve put together the Top 10 Gay Manga. Alan Scott and Northstar weren’t the first.