#DIABOLIK LOVERS SUBARU AND YUI MANGA SERIES#

Even her attempted sacrifice is a futile endeavor, as it accomplishes nothing. On top of that, she ignores half of her possible ways out of her less-than-ideal situation: she fails to leave the Sakamaki house when Subaru gives her that option, and she blatantly refuses to use the knife he gives her on any of her tormentors. None of the brothers listen to her, none of them truly care about her, and none of the (admittedly few) attempts she makes to escape are worth anything. Nothing she does or says is worth anything to anyone.

#DIABOLIK LOVERS SUBARU AND YUI MANGA SERIES#

Each of the brothers has one main trait (relating to the Seven Deadly Sins, as I mentioned in a previous review), but thatвЂ™s about it Ayato is potentially the only character in this series that begins to grow a bit by the end, and at that point itвЂ™s too little too late.ДЄnd Yui has perhaps the least agency of any main character IвЂ™ve ever seen in an anime. Even the main characters get very little characterization. Likewise, several characters are introduced with only the basest of characterization: Karl Heinz, Beatrice, SubaruвЂ™s mother, and YuiвЂ™s father, none of whom get any characterization past brief scenes and what other characters say about them. Pointing out these unanswered questions illustrates the poor quality of the adaptation from one medium to the other.) Perhaps it is in the game (and I would hope so), but this is an anime review, not an otome game review. (Before I get a ton of comments explaining all of these answers, I would like to point out that none of this is explained in the anime. What happened to Shu and ReijiвЂ™s mother, Beatrice? What happened to SubaruвЂ™s mother? Why is Karl Heinz, the apparent head of the family, never around? What exactly is the purpose of the вЂњsacrificial brideвЂќ the brothers kept talking about? For example, why did YuiвЂ™s adoptive father send her to live with the Sakamaki brothers? Why do Ayato, Kanato, and Raito hate their mother Cordelia so much, to the extent that they actually killed her in the past? I understand that she was a strict mother, but that really isnвЂ™t any reason to kill her. Several potential plot points are introduced only to be discarded as unimportant, leaving many unanswered questions by the end of the series. I held out hope that events would actually be explained in a coherent manner for people who havenвЂ™t played the otome game. Heck, thatвЂ™s why IвЂ™ve continued reviewing it all the way through, despite the several times IвЂ™ve considered dropping it. Where to begin? I really wanted to enjoy Diabolik Lovers. This sort of leaves Diabolik Lovers on a pathetic note without any real closure.

Honestly, this doesnвЂ™t particularly add anything to the story, and seems like nothing more than a shout out to the fans of the game. After the end credits roll, we get a series of short monologues from the Sakamaki brothers that I assume are directly from the otome game. Do they care because they simply want Cordelia gone? Or do they actually care about Yui (even though they havenвЂ™t throughout the rest of the series)?ДЄs if the fifteen-minute run time wasnвЂ™t short enough, in this final episode the story is basically over halfway through the episode with the implication that Yui is now a vampire. This personality change doesnвЂ™t really make sense. But suddenly they seem to think itвЂ™s the most horrible thing that sheвЂ™s been possessed by Cordelia, and that Yui herself might disappear completely. None of them have seriously cares about her as anything other than a source of blood and entertainment up until this point, except perhaps Subaru to some extent and Ayato recently. This series is proof that visual novel adaptations can often fall short.ДЄs Yui lies dying, the Sakamaki brothers all go through a complete personality change and suddenly seem to care about their little house guestвЂ™s wellbeing. The final episode of Diabolik Lovers leaves much to be desired.

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