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Ai no Kusabi is the dark Yaoi classic. A novel than was made into one of the most provocative beautiful animes (japanese cartoon films) ever. It is dark and violent and has lots of M/M SM action and a homoerotic love story. To understand stories that have been insprirated by this anime you need a bit of background information. |
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 Mongrel and Blondie  Guy and Riki, mongrels.  Iason, a Blondie |
Background for Ai no Kusabi ( based on the anime and the translations thereof. ) The Ai No Kusabi universe is set in the unspecified distant future on a terraformed world called Amoi. Sometime in Amoi's early history, its government was overthrown by a powerful artificial intelligence known as Jupiter, which proceeded to order the society according to its own arcane ideas of stability and productivity. There was, not surprisingly, an early rebellion against this machine tyranny, but the uprising failed, with disastrous consequences for the rebels. With that failure, Jupiter's control over Amoi became absolute. Through the judicious application of genetic engineering, Jupiter created a population top-heavy with males and initiated a rigid caste system. Each caste was identified by hair color. The lighter the color, the higher the caste's social standing and political power. Movement between the various castes was almost nonexistent. At the top of the heap were the Blondies, genetic supermen who held administrative positions throughout Amoi, were endowed with superior intelligence, great beauty and strength. Blondies were Jupiter's darlings. In general, they exhibited almost as much emotion as one would expect from the AI itself and were unswervingly loyal to it. Although anatomically complete, they did not themselves indulge in interpersonal sexual relations. What release they did permit themselves was apparently restricted to voyeurism. Blondies could, and frequently did, keep stables of pets for that purpose. Pets – and the castrated males, Furniture, who were employed to guard and care for them – were drawn from the lower echelons of society, where there were otherwise few avenues for advancement. Pets were exceptionally young and beautiful. Pampered creatures, laws guarded their well-being and the length of their service. While the Blondies who owned them did not use them sexually (with a few notable exceptions), it's unclear whether non-Blondie owners were as restrained. Once a pet outgrew his attractiveness, he had no marketable skills and usually ended up as a whore. Furniture were not considered pretty enough to be pets, but were still decorative and reasonably bright. Although choosing to be castrated may be a drastic step to take for financial security, life in Ceres was grim enough to make it acceptable for many men. Finally, at the very bottom of Amoi's social order were the mongrels, outcast descendants of the failed uprising against Jupiter. Mongrels were nonpersons, despised and persecuted, unable to get jobs, unwelcome wherever they went. They survived mainly in the criminal underworld of Ceres, Tanagura's notorious slum. The implication is that they alone reproduced "naturally," although it was unclear, given their pariah status and the rarity of women, how they accomplished this. A shonen-ai, futuristic fantasy by Yoshihara, Rieko The anime is published by June. more extensive information about Ai no Kusabi at http://www.aestheticism.com http://ainokusabi.atspace.com/ |
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MAS-Zine issue #2 and #3 feature the Ai no Kusabi fanfiction novels Wasteland and its sequel Fortress by Becca Abbott |
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