The club members, particularly the leader Hiroshi, are obsessed with “beauty” as an objective, almost mathematical quality. Ugly things—including Kanon, the one girl who loves them unconditionally—must be executed. This mirrors the eugenic logic of historical fascism, where the “purification” of the state requires the elimination of the “degenerate.” The robot Litchi, ironically the most beautiful object they create (a sleek, art-deco machine), becomes the instrument of their judgment. The boys fail to realize that their utopia is a tautology: they seek to create beauty by destroying everything they deem ugly, leaving behind only an empty aesthetic devoid of life.
However, Furuya consistently undermines this machismo with the messiness of puberty. The boys’ voices crack, they obsess over masturbation, and their violent impulses are clearly sublimated sexual urges. When they finally capture girls, they have no idea what to do with them. Their terror of the female body (the vagina is referred to as a “wound” or a “void”) transforms into sadistic control. The club is not a revolutionary vanguard; it is a panic attack in uniform. The narrative suggests that adolescent masculinity, when left unsupervised and armed with ideology, naturally defaults to fascism as a defense against its own vulnerability. Litchi Hikari Club
The final chapters of Litchi Hikari Club are an orgy of graphic violence. Friends torture friends. The captured girls kill their captors with surgical precision. The beautiful Litchi self-destructs in a fiery blaze. The lone survivor, a boy named Zera, is last seen walking into the city—not redeemed, but empty. The club members, particularly the leader Hiroshi, are
Litchi, the robot, begins as a perfect tool—obedient, strong, and emotionless. But due to a programming glitch (it uses the visual cortex of a human boy, Tamiya, who loves Kanon), Litchi develops a primitive consciousness. It becomes obsessed with the kidnapped girl, Chika, and begins to act on desires the boys cannot admit. The boys fail to realize that their utopia