Loveless Volume 4 - The Volume of the Absolute Toy Master III
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In this volume, we finally learn more about what makes the fighter/sacrifice duology tick, and Ritsuka finally gets a hint of what Soubi is expecting of him. We also get the first hints that the fate of Seimei may not have been as clear-cut as everyone believes.
The amount of time covered in this volume of the "Loveless" story is short - barely twenty-four hours - but the amount of territory it explores is massive. It is probably one of the more crucial volumes in the "Loveless" storyline, since it manages to cover such a lot of philosophical and metaphysical ground. We get a good look at some of the formerly shadowy figures in the background of the world of "Loveless" - in particular Nagisa-sensei and Ritsu-sensei, the two spell battle trainers - and Yun Kouga contines to make us question the nature of friendship and emnity through the behaviour of Yoji and Natsuo.
I find this volume is one I keep returning to, since it has so much deep information tied up in a small space of story. Yun Kouga handles the job of getting a lot of exposition into a small space of time brilliantly, with very few patches where the reader is being told something they already know.
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