Ai No Kusabi the Space Between 6: Metamorphose Paperback – August 4, 2009

The latest in the Ai No Kusabi series, and it still hasn't slowed down! It's invigorating and thrilling and will raise emotions in you and will have you wanting to ring necks and knock heads together. This story is interesting, dark, vivid, erotic, fun, twisted and pulls you in deeper and deeper into this world of Blondie and Mongrel. Even the OVA is amazing to watch and the books are amazing to read. I enjoy the character development, the insight into their minds and how they act in different situations. Kirie's escape and fugitive status is enjoyable as he gets what's coming to him; we see further into his delusion mind and can see what he's going through and his reasons for turning over Guy and everything he's done. I do enjoy Guy turning the tables and handing him over to Katze. Never liked Guy much anyway, and seeing Riki's 'pet' status sinking deeper into his soul is amazing because he keeps going back and he wants Iason's approval, he can't stay away no matter how much he hates him. The dynamic is great. The books are awesome and the OVA is awesome.

What can I say... The books although seemingly confusining to say the least are Truly works of Art! I only found out about these books through an other author Kira who writes Taming Riki books based off of these works. After reading her works I bought all of these books so far as well as the OVA dvd. The world of Riki is strange and very SCI-FI. You get to see how both sides live in this book and how robots view sex and how one very powerful one falls in love with a morgrel human who in turns falls as well. You get to see what lengths people will go throught to get what they want and the cost of it.

It's a yaoi classic; very original; the translated prose very rich (actually, a little bit florid but no worse than The Lord of the Rings); the plot and main characters engaging/involving; interspersed with hot, steamy, and/but not unnecessary (homo)sexual scenes that give the relationships in the story even more (emotional) impact. I love it. If one doesn't know how it ends, it's the kind of novel that will leave the reader restless and dying for the conclusion. But beware, it's only 1 volume out of 8.

Ai no Kusabi was the first yaoi animation that I watched. I loved it, the storyline was original and they did the best with the resources they had with the animation. When the theme was revived I was glad that someone started to write the story based on the tapes and the animation. I think this series is great, and the books are filling in the blank spaces that the animation left. We get to read more about Rikki when hi's leash is let loose, other characters that were in the background get more light and a few things are cleared up. A great series to read and collect when its complete.

Well shipped, good book

This is for now the latest novel in the series, but not the end. There will be at least one (or two?) more. I am really into serious, dark yaoi and this is by far the best I have ever read. This series has, beside hot scenes, a strong and interesting storyline and that is rare. This story delves deep in the world of master/pet relationships and is confusing and hot at the same time. Reading the novels adds so much more to the beautiful OVA, I really recommend it to everybody. By the way, the most pretty drawing can be found in this volume, Iason holding Riki and his chain, nice...

This series is such a classic. I remember going to boarders to get all of the books the day they came out. Sadly the books suffer from iffy translation and editing but in a way that also gives the books a bit of charm as well.