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LINK TO YUN KOUGA’S 2015 LOVELESS DOUJIN, MEAT AND CABBAGE

this is a doujin that yun made in 2015. the scans that i have are from a chinese site, thus why they’re in chinese. as far as i can tell and what i have run through online translators, the basic story is this:

this is an alternate universe where no one has horrible home lives. soubi, kio, seimei, and ritsuka are all the same age and either in the later years of high school or the early years of college. on the relationship chart on the first page, soubi<–>ritsuka is unknown, as is soubi<–>seimei. ritsuka and seimei are described as ‘twins’ and seimei and kio are described as ‘tired of eachother’. kio has feelings for soubi, but soubi thinks of him as his best friend. kio and soubi are pretty inseparable. soubi seems slightly shy but opens to his regular self around kio. seimei is not evil in this universe, but instead is incredibly annoying and tends to pop up everywhere when no one expects it. everyone seems at least a little irritated by him in general. 

the story starts off with ritsuka descrbing that there’s someone he really, really likes. it becomes obvious that this person is soubi. soubi and ritsuka have never really talked. soubi is shy and talks with kio most of the time. ritsuka really likes him and listens in on a conversation and says that he feels that he can’t talk to soubi because all he talks about to kio is art, and he doesn’t understand art. he wishes they would talk about something he understood, like food. kio gives soubi a pair of earrings made out of meat and cabbage from some art thing that he went to and he and soubi discuss this. soubi is very excited.

seimei suddenly shows up and interrupts. kio becomes irritated. ritsuka gets annoyed. seimei drags ritsuka away and kio drags soubi away, but soubi and ritsuka both say ‘hey’ to each other as theyre being dragged away. the ending is more complex and the metaphors get lost in shitty online translation, so im not entirely sure how it ends. 

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a loveless set from twitter

the first one is actually a redraw, but i won’t subject anyone to it again sjkhdkj

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But it was his fault. It was his weakness, his ineptitude to rebel against commands heralded by another that caused Ritsuka to hurt, to feel the burn of hot tears upon his cheeks. He truly was a despicable kind of person, just as Seimei had berated him for. Soubi knew he had no right asking to be granted something like pardon, but the plea slipped from his lips as the coils of smoke from his cigarettes did and Ristuka he–he was just too kind.

And still, even with Ritsuka’s grace accorded, the Sentouki couldn’t bring himself to say much else. Pushing himself from his knees back to his feet where he just loomed on the spot, like a little child incapable of dictating his own actions, awaiting to be told what to do. 

In fact, he was exactly like a child, immature and sulking around over the situation.

It was quiet, a sad solemn quiet and it made the air too thick between them. Ritsuka wasn't getting much response from Soubi and it was really worrying him. He had no idea what the man was thinking, all he knew was that he was sad. Soubi stood up, and Ritsuka dropped his head to look at the ground. It was frustrating feeling so powerless.

The quiet remained, the only noise was the wind that blew through the trees. The silence was quick to bother Ritsuka, and he reached out, taking Soubi's hand in both of his.