The feelings of anger and jealousy surrounding Riki's status as Iason's pet continues to fester, both amongst the Blondies and their pet. Riki is feeling more and more isolated, as he suffers from a serious stabbing and remains confined. Will Iason be able to keep hold of his beloved Riki, or will Blondie's society tear them apart? And what about Guy?
Overall 9 Story 10 Animation 8 Sound 9 Character 10 Enjoyment 10 I have just a few seconds ago finished watching Ai no Kusabi, but I think I will remain breathless for quite a while. I was expecting a not too heavy yaoi story involving hot boys in chains, but I got so much more.
Is he willing to walk The feelings of anger and jealousy surrounding Riki's status as Iason's pet continues to fester, both amongst the Blondies and their pet. Riki is feeling more and more isolated, as he suffers from a serious stabbing and remains confined. Will Iason be able to keep hold of his beloved Riki, or will Blondie's society tear them apart?
And what about Guy? Is he willing to walk away? Iason Mink proves himself a master of the ever-rebellious Riki, changing circumstances and his secret dealings in the underworld.
However, the sense that he has gripped a tiger by the tail and created an untenable situation for himself by taking in a slumdog mongrel as a pet grows ever stronger with each passing installment. Yoshihara has presented Mink as the epitome of all Blondies, untouched by either troubling emotion or the difficulties he engenders for himself with his unorthodo Iason Mink proves himself a master of the ever-rebellious Riki, changing circumstances and his secret dealings in the underworld.
However, the sense that he has gripped a tiger by the tail and created an untenable situation for himself by taking in a slumdog mongrel as a pet grows ever stronger with each passing installment. Yoshihara has presented Mink as the epitome of all Blondies, untouched by either troubling emotion or the difficulties he engenders for himself with his unorthodox behavior and decisions. I myself am becoming more and more annoyed by this impervious figure of ice. I long for him to be toppled from his pedestal, humiliated and destroyed by his own obsessions. That, after all, is usually what happens to people who allow their obsessions to take hold of them.
That day seems far off, at this point. Iason Mink, like the rest of his kind, isn’t human; he’s merely an android with a fleshy human brain. While he longs with savage desperation to know something of the ecstasy that he inflicts on his poor pet, the true sensations that Riki experiences are forever beyond him simply because of his very nature. Yoshihara has managed the spectacular feat of making me loathe this creature and pity him at the same time. Japanese author and a key creator of the homoerotic subgenre known in Japan as shōnen ai 'boys' love'. Yoshihara spent the first three years of her career writing straightforward homoerotic romance, before stumbling into sf, seemingly by accident, with the success of her signature work Ai no Kusabi (December 1986-October 1987 Shōsetsu June; 1990; trans as The Space Between 2007-2008 see Checkli Japanese author and a key creator of the homoerotic subgenre known in Japan as shōnen ai 'boys' love'.
Yoshihara spent the first three years of her career writing straightforward homoerotic romance, before stumbling into sf, seemingly by accident, with the success of her signature work Ai no Kusabi (December 1986-October 1987 Shōsetsu June; 1990; trans as The Space Between 2007-2008 see Checklist for details). Originally published in book form as a single hardback novel, it was later reissued as a six-part series, from which the English translation was made. Yoshihara's work is strongly redolent of the sexually-charged mysteries of Ranpo Edogawa, and shares many overt themes with the controversial sf of Shōzō Numa. However, it reached an entirely different audience, one largely unaware of these precursors.
The world of Ai no Kusabi is divided by decree into classes defined by Genetic Engineering as signalled by the hair colour of the blond rulers and their black-haired subjects. The Blondies are forbidden from sexual intercourse, but often keep members of the dark-haired underclass for use as 'pets' and 'furniture'. In an attempt to curtail Overpopulation, no more than 10% of births may be female, effectively rendering the milieu as an all-male environment, as opposed to the female Keep of Yoshihara's contemporary Yumi Matsuo.
In a sense, Yoshihara's work is an extreme comment on Women in SF, by excluding them almost entirely from a narrative of intense homoerotic relationships and macho vendettas. In depicting abusive relationships between men, in a world from which women are removed or somehow distanced, she tapped into an unexpectedly large subsection of female fandom. Ai no Kusabi found a passionate readership in Japan, sufficient to secure a Seiun Award for its illustrator Katsumi Michihara, although not for its author.
The series has twice been adapted into anime, as a two-part video in 1992 and on DVD in 2012; there have also been CD dramas in the style of Radio plays, as well as a Manga edition. Long before its licensed translation in the twenty-first century, it gained a similarly passionate fan following at the periphery of US anime fandom, often among viewers who were forced to guess at the Japanese plot. In its romanticizing of both abstinence and abuse, it can be seen as a forerunner of certain subsets of twenty-first century fantasy, particularly the depiction of Vampires typified by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Ai no Kusabi was the subject of a prolonged fan translation project, the results of which are often at odds with the output of the legal English-language publication. This is a feature of the sheer fanaticism of Fandom, but also of the many difficulties facing a translator of its complex, multi-layered situations. Even the title encompasses a multiplicity of meanings, with 'The Space Between' in Japanese also a pun on 'Bonds of Love', 'Wedge of Interval' and numerous other possible readings.
Moreover, some of Yoshihara's editions offer a decorative English-language subtitle on the Japanese cover, even though her English-language title is often an inexact or counter-intuitive rendering of the actual Japanese. Such fogging of meaning is commonplace in modern Japanese sf, but plays havoc with encyclopedia listings ( Hisashi Kuroma). Although hardly one of the Mainstream Writers of SF, Yoshihara shares many of their concerns, being primarily an author in one genre (her mundane homosexual romances are largely unlisted here), who only occasionally dabbles in Fantastika. Several of her other books touch on otherworldly themes.
Kage no Kan 'House of Shadows' (1994) eroticizes the relationship between Lucifer and his sworn enemy, the archangel Michael. Although not listed as a sequel per se, the following year's Satan no Fūin 'Seal of Satan' (1995), shares an illustrator, as well as an apparent continuation of the story as Lucifer lives out his exile on Earth ( Gods and Demons).
Released January 18, 2012 – April 18, 2012 Runtime 60 minutes Episodes 4 Ai no Kusabi ( 間の楔) is a written. Originally serialized in the magazine between December 1986 and October 1987, the story was collected into a hardbound novel that was released in Japan in 1990. This futuristic tale is set in a world where the Elites are assigned various social classes based on their hair color in the city of Tanagura. Iason Mink, a high-class 'Blondie', runs into Riki, a black-haired 'Mongrel', and makes him his 'Pet', which Riki resents being.
As Riki learns of the dangers Iason faces by keeping him, he finds himself developing feelings for his master. Focusing on the relationship between Iason and Riki, Ai no Kusabi also explores issues of. The novel was partially adapted into a two-episode (OVA) by (AIC), with the first episode released in August 1992 and the second in May 1994. In November 1993, an entitled Erogenous Dark was released focusing on a time period left unexplored in the original novels. A new twelve-episode OVA adaptation, also from AIC, was scheduled to begin releasing in Japan in the spring of 2010, but was cancelled for financial reasons. The project was picked up again and was released on January 18, 2012.
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