(L) BEATLESS (novel)

[Cosmic Eagle]

Author: Satoshi Hase (長谷 敏司)
US License: J-Novel Club

Spoiler for synopsis:

100 years from now. A world where much of society's activities has been left to the androids called hIE. Hyper-advanced AI, surpassing humanity's intellect have appeared and begun creating artifacts, "Red Boxes," far beyond human artifice. Lacia, a girl bearing a black coffin-like device; she's a "Red Box" created by one of these hyper-AI. She encounters 17 year-old Endo Arato. With the human-like product of humanity's rampant advancement before his eyes, Arato is forced through his confusion and suspicion to make one decision: To trust or not. Boy meets girl of a "human" and "object." The meaning of her's and humanity's existence is called into question. And so, the 17 year old's decision is...

BEATLESS novel thread


Official wiki pertaining to BEATLESS and its future sequels/ spinoffs: https://www63.atwiki.jp/analoghack/

[Cosmic Eagle]

This should also prevent any spoilers in the anime thread

[maton456full]

Is has a translation but only chapter 1 and part of the 2.

[G0rd0]

i heard this has a bitter sweet end is it true if so ill drop the anime

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by ReneMika

i heard this has a bitter sweet end is it true if so ill drop the anime

That's right. Lacia and her sisters do not survive and Higgins chooses to self terminate.

[vietthai96]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

That's right. Lacia and her sisters do not survive and Higgins chooses to self terminate.

I expected this but it still heart-breaking thing, why they always take that kind of ending ending???????

[Shinji103]

Originally Posted by vietthai96

I expected this but it still heart-breaking thing, why they always take that kind of ending ending???????

*sigh* This exactly. It would be nice if they give us an actually happy ending in this kind of series once in a while.

I might stick around for the anime because I was looking forward to it, but my hype has dropped drastically, and the chances they’ll give us a happy ending in the anime are near-zero.

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

That's right. Lacia and her sisters do not survive and Higgins chooses to self terminate.

All of them, even red one?

[vietthai96]

I think Japanese love harem and heart-breaking ending, they always make a series that build-up romance from zero and in the end shattering it -_-

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

All of them, even red one?

Yeah... She's destroyed fighting PMC forces. But her remnants are remade into white, mass produced forms by the antibody network for guarding Higgins. Some of those do survive after helping Arato and co escape Higgins' facility. Oh right, Saturnus also survives

Originally Posted by Shinji103

*sigh* This exactly. It would be nice if they give us an actually happy ending in this kind of series once in a while.

I might stick around for the anime because I was looking forward to it, but my hype has dropped drastically, and the chances they’ll give us a happy ending in the anime are near-zero.

I don't think a happy ending where everyone survives would have worked narrative-wise TBH.....It was through Lacia's sacrifice that the Higgins AI was convinced to trust humanity. As long as the relationship between both species remained immature there was no way such a thing could have properly happened. Also it serves to highlight how Lacia and Arato have essentially become a composite entity by the end where they can trust each other even in such suicidal circumstances. It actually reminds me a bit of Chohei Kambayashi's writing style in his Yukikaze books.....Heck, BEATLESS can in a sense be described as shounen-ified Yukikaze.

Originally Posted by vietthai96

I think Japanese love harem and heart-breaking ending, they always make a series that build-up romance from zero and in the end shattering it -_-

This isn't a harem BTW. Far from it

[LeftSeven]

so, this is another GC with same bitter sweet yet slightly different ending.

[vietthai96]

i don't need everyone live, but atleast give the main heroine a chance to live -_-

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by LeftSeven

so, this is another GC with same bitter sweet yet slightly different ending.

It isn't. So many people say this is like Guilty Crown but other than the female lead dying and the art being Redjuice that's about the only similarities.


BEATLESS is hard sci-fi (with your standard anime tropes) about AI and their relationship with humans as well as how our world will be like in the next century after we have possibly entered the technological singularity. It is closer to the likes of Mardock and Yukikaze even if aimed at less hardcore audiences

Guilty Crown on the other hand is purely an action story with sci-fi-ish themes but it does not really go in depth into any of those themes. It is ultimately closer to action drama than hard sci-fi.

[LeftSeven]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

It isn't. So many people say this is like Guilty Crown but other than the female lead dying and the art being Redjuice that's about the only similarities.


BEATLESS is hard sci-fi (with your standard anime tropes) about AI and their relationship with humans as well as how our world will be like in the next century after we have possibly entered the technological singularity. It is closer to the likes of Mardock and Yukikaze even if aimed at less hardcore audiences

Guilty Crown on the other hand is purely an action story with sci-fi-ish themes but it does not really go in depth into any of those themes. It is ultimately closer to action drama than hard sci-fi.

yeah, i got captivated when i saw redjuice did it's art.
yukikaze? you mean a movie where an AI is equipped inside an aircraft.
after watched first episode, i thought it's just some simple robot-human conflict,
seems interesting, but so shame nobody translate it, just wathing anime is not enough.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by LeftSeven

yeah, i got captivated when i saw redjuice did it's art.
yukikaze? you mean a movie where an AI is equipped inside an aircraft.
after watched first episode, i thought it's just some simple robot-human conflict,
seems interesting, but so shame nobody translate it, just wathing anime is not enough.

That's right...That Yukikaze (the first two books are TL-ed BTW. Very good TLs too. The translation work is one of the best for JP novels I have seen)

[G0rd0]

This is gonna have 24 episodes so they are going to anime the whole series

[AB079]

^I think the same but what I'm interested is on the reaction of the viewers if they reach the end of the novel.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by AB079

^I think the same but what I'm interested is on the reaction of the viewers if they reach the end of the novel.

To Lacia's complete awesomeness starting from ch 10 onwards?

[bakato]

24 episodes for a single volume?

[RegulusNemea]

where did Type-004 Methode formally appeared in the novel?