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It's a pretty good anime, if you're into pedophilia!

Loveless is the story of a prepubescent boy who is being romantically groomed and pursued by an adult man. If that's your bag, then have a blast, because this is probably the biggest and most popular show that has been officially endorsed by NAMBLA. If you want cat boy yaoi without the unfortunate overtones of Loveless, then go play Lamento: Beyond the Void. If you want a yaoi without any of the creepy undertones, then you don't want yaoi.

With that said, it is a shame that the author of Loveless is probably one or two ... years away from being arrested for statutory rape, because everything else about the show is pretty okay. It's not great, mind you, but it's more than serviceable, especially considering that the hook for most people was "cat boys do gay stuff." This show could have potentially gone mainsteam if Ritsuka had been aged up a few years.

Well, I guess it's better than the manga.

Gravitation is a story about an audience surrogate for teenage girls who loves a tall, pretty bastard, because he loves him. He loves him, so he loves him. They're both attractive and audience surrogate won't stop saying he loves the pretty bastard, so they must be in love! Wacky things ensue à la Loony Tunes and homosexuality is treated like a kink, so teenage girls can get off on fetishizing a a perfectly normal sexual orientation.

If the above is your bag, then you'll love Gravitation. You'll also probably love just about every yaoi and shounen-ai anime or ... manga out there.

STORY

Shuichi wants to be a famous musician and he kinda just... does it. He also loves the famous novelist Erei Yuki and they just kinda... enter into a relationship without really knowing one another. They break up for no reason, then get back together for no reason; wash, rinse, repeat for thirteen episodes and 54 chapters. It's admittedly better in the beginning, of both the manga and anime, than the middle and end. The manga, in particular, showed real promise for the first several volumes, which is in part due to it interspersing its slapstick humour within the more grounded, focused story. It was still incredibly problematic, but you could almost forgive it for being a product of its time (1996) and country of origin (Japan, obviously).

ART

It stinks.

SOUND

Shuichi is a pop idol who can only sing two songs.

CHARACTER

Okay, so you have audience surrogate, pretty bastard, pretty nice guy, girl, and a whole host of other one note characters in the comic. In short, there aren't any especially interesting characters and no one is developed or undergoes any sort of progression.

ENJOYMENT

It's probably the best shounen-ai out there, but that's not saying a whole lot. I'm a bisexual dude, though, so I liked it somewhat for the gay. Even if none of the character's are actually gay and are just each-other-sexual.

OVERALL

You already know if this is your favorite anime.