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Loveless (TV)

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© YUN KOUGA • ICHIJINSHA / SEPTIMAL MOON.


[ adapted from Loveless (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Нелюбимый (Russian)
ラブレス (Japanese)
Themes: shounen-ai, yaoi
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Twelve-year old Aoyagi Ritsuka is left with his insane mother as his only family when his brother, Seimei, is killed suddenly. After moving to a new school, he meets Agatsuma Soubi, who claims to have known his brother. Ritsuka eventually discovers that Soubi and Seimei used to be a fighting pair, whereby Soubi was the "Fighter" and Seimei was the "Sacrifice". Now that Seimei is gone, Ritsuka has inherited Soubi, who will become his "Fighter". After learning that Seimei was killed by an organisation known as the "Seven Moons", Ritsuka decides to investigate into his brother's death, with the sometimes useless help of Soubi, along the way.
User Ratings: 1150 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 191 votes (sub:172, dub:14, Spa.sub:2, raw:2, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 246 votes (sub:223, dub:20, raw:2, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 241 votes (sub:218, dub:17, Spa.sub:3, raw:3)
 Good: 207 votes (sub:190, dub:11, Spa.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, Kor.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 114 votes (sub:109, dub:4, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 52 votes (sub:47, dub:4, raw:1)
 Not really good: 26 votes (sub:24, dub:2)
 Weak: 33 votes (sub:30, dub:3)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:11, dub:1)
 Awful: 12 votes (sub:11, ?:1)
 Worst ever: 16 votes (sub:12, dub:2, raw:1, Spa.sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2221 users, rank: #258
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.551 (Very good-.44), std. dev.: 2.1253, rank: #857
Weighted mean: 7.382 (Good+.38), rank: #961 (seen all: 7.64 / seen some: 5.88 / won't finish: 3.51)
Bayesian estimate: 7.383 (Good+.38), rank: #756
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2005-04-06
Opening Theme:
"Tsuki no Curse" by Okina Reika
Ending Theme:
"Michiyuki" by Kaori Hikita
"Michiyuki" by Kaori Hikita (eps 1-11)
#2: "Tsuki no Curse" by Okina Reika (ep 12)
Official website:
* LOVELESS * (Japanese)
Links: We have 7
Trivia: We have 1
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Related releases:
    Loveless (DVD) 2007-04-24 (from $23.77)
    Loveless (Sub.DVD 1) 2006-02-14 (from $12.99)
    Loveless - Soul of Chains description (Sub.DVD 2) 2006-03-28 (from $10.73)
    Loveless - Hope on the Run (Sub.DVD 3) 2006-04-25 (from $10.97)
    Loveless - Complete Slimpack (Sub.DVD 1-3) 2009-10-20 (from $13.60)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Yuu Kou

Series Composition: Yuji Kawahara

Screenplay: Yuji Kawahara

Music: Masanori Sasaji

Original Manga: Yun Kouga

Character Design: Kazunori Iwakura

Art director: Rie Ota

Chief Animation Director: Yumi Nakayama

Sound director:
Masafumi Mima
Yuuko Seki

Art Supervision: Shichiro Kobayashi

Editing: Masahiro Goto (Tabac)

Prop Design: Hideki Tachibana

Theme Song Arrangement:
Masayuki Sakamoto (ED)
Sousaku Sasaki (OP)
Takeo Kajiwara (OP)
Yuki Kajiura

Theme Song Composition: Yuki Kajiura (OP/ED)

Theme Song Lyrics: Yuki Kajiura

Theme Song Performance:
Kaori Hikita (ED)
Reika Okina (OP)

 

Junko Minagawa as Aoyagi Ritsuka

Katsuyuki Konishi as Agatsuma Soubi

Jun Fukuyama as Yayoi

Kana Ueda as Hawatari Yuiko

Ken Narita as Aoyagi Seimei

Akari Higuchi as female student (ep 8)

Ami Koshimizu as Ai

Asuka Tanii as female student (eps 1-2, 4)

Aya Hisakawa as Goddess

Emi Shinohara as Katsuko-sensei

Hiroki Takahashi as Kinka (ep 5)

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Youji

Ken Takeuchi as Kaidoh Kio

Kiyotaka Furushima as male student (ep 3)

Mamiko Noto as Shinonome Hitomi-sensei

Mayuko Takahashi as
committee chairman (ep 7)
friend (ep 8)
Natsumi

Mitsuki Saiga as Natsuo

Motoki Takagi as Midori

Rie Kugimiya as Sakagami Kouya

Rina Satou as Female student (eps 7-8)

Sanae Kobayashi as
female student (ep 1)
Nagisa-sensei

Satomi Arai as
female student (eps 1-2, 4)
Natsumi's Mother

Shintarou Oohata as teacher (ep 1)

Takehito Koyasu as Ritsu-sensei

Tamaki Nakanishi as female student (eps 1-2, 4)

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as
boy (ep 7)
male student (ep 3)
Natsumi's Father

Tsuguo Mogami as
male student (ep 3)
teacher (ep 1)

Wakana Yamazaki as Aoyagi Misaki

Yui Horie as Ginka

Yumi Kakazu as Nakano Yamato

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Backgrounds: Kobayashi Productions

Broadcaster: KIDS STATION (2008-04-11)

Post Production: Tokyo Genzosho

Production:
Bandai Visual
Frontier Works
MOVIC
Nanatsu no Tsuki
TV Asahi

Recording Studio: Aoi Studios

Sound Production: Techno Sound


English staff 

Art director: Dana Gill

Translation: Noriko Okabe

Executive producer: John Sirabella

DVD Author: Dave Beinlich

Editing: Naneen Paglieri

Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux

Translation Manager: Anna Yamamoto

English cast 
(none)
English companies 

Licensed by: Media Blasters

German cast 
German staff 
(none)

Konrad Bösherz as Aoyagi Ritsuka

Giuliana Jakobeit as Shinonome Hitomi

Robin Kahnmeyer as Aoyagi Seimei

Rubina Kuraoka as Hawatari Yuiko

Ariane Borbach as Dr. Katsuko

Karlo Hackenberger as Soubi Agatsuma

Maria Koschny as Ai

Ricardo Richter as Midori

Sabine Matzey as Misaki Aoyagi

German companies 

Distributor: Tokyopop Germany

 
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