I finally managed to dig up the sixth volume of Loveless with translations. It's awesome, especially Misaki's characterization, which only gets more and more wonderful as time goes on, and Soubi is Soubi and very cool.
Also, Loveless doubles as a way to use information to punish people for bothering me.
"What are you giggling about?"
"Oh, it's this manga about this cute little sixth grader. Lookit, he has kitty ears! See his mom is nuts because some trauma happened to him that caused him to lose his memories, so she says he's not her son and hates him for taking away her real son and is really abusive, so he's always covered in bandages. His dad ignored the whole thing and then left, and the only one who took care of him was his older bother, whose corpse was then found in his elementary school, by him, sitting in his seat, burned to death. At first his mom wasn't too abusive, just drawing blood when he let her hug him and trying to stab him with forks and stuff, but by the fifth volume she's trying to drown him, screaming at him to leave. And then..."
Also, Loveless doubles as a way to use information to punish people for bothering me.
"What are you giggling about?"
"Oh, it's this manga about this cute little sixth grader. Lookit, he has kitty ears! See his mom is nuts because some trauma happened to him that caused him to lose his memories, so she says he's not her son and hates him for taking away her real son and is really abusive, so he's always covered in bandages. His dad ignored the whole thing and then left, and the only one who took care of him was his older bother, whose corpse was then found in his elementary school, by him, sitting in his seat, burned to death. At first his mom wasn't too abusive, just drawing blood when he let her hug him and trying to stab him with forks and stuff, but by the fifth volume she's trying to drown him, screaming at him to leave. And then..."
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