you've summed up Loveless pretty well there; everybody is completely fucked up, and the shota is...plentiful. and canon. which is really, so much not an excuse, but in the same way that the mpreg leanings of KKM end up with me writing it, even though i don't like it normally, i have totally written shota for this fandom. It makes me feel dirty in a way that I don't like at all, but writing Soubi and Ritsuka in all their broken glory is not something I'm sure I can give up for that.

The manga is awesome, easily as good and probably better than the anime, and more enlightening, but you're out of luck if you're hoping for it to be less intense. Ritsuka's home abuse, and his incredibly questionable relationship with his brother get a lot more explicit attention.

I watched them all in a huge run too almost, because I couldn't stop, and now i pounce on the new scanlated chapters more rushedly than i ever did at the height of my Death Note obssession, cause I'm dying to know what happens. but oh god, is this a broken and fucked up fandom. Nothing good can ever come out of this combination of damages in the end.