[This is a review of my overall experience with Diabolik Lovers, including the first season and more, blood. filled with cursing and about an hour of dying inside while I wrote this at 4am]
I don't remember a single thing from this season or the first. Actually that's a lie, I remember my suffering and the inexcusable amount of skipping and fast-forwarding I had to do to not tear my hair out. I also had the displeasure of watching it dubbed because I needed background noise while working on a project. I decided to re-watch the dreadful first season and the second. The first season, I
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was numb to stupidity that continued to assault my ears and sometimes my eyes. I had already experienced the displeasure of listening to them insult some girl who was magical in terms of vampires and ruling and power who was also some dumb ass who did not run form sexual assault. I mean she tried to resist but like seriously she gives up pretty quickly. I honestly expected her to commit suicide by the end of the first season. Every single one of the guys has a problem. They ranged from "oh I have mommy issues, no like severe mommy issues", "I want to chain you in a room just to insult you and sexually terrorize you" and "fuck you, I hate you, wait I want to fuck you, wait I don't like you, hey your blood tastes great, hey I'll push you in a pool, wait I feel sorry, wait I don't LIkE yOU, hey you belong to me so give me your blood". The second season was jsut a blur, I was so traumatized form the first season that the fact that there even was a second one made me feel like there was a chance to you know, correCT THE DAMN PLOT THAT HAS NO MEANING. The second one was kind of bland and not exactly memorable, form what I remember she gets kidnapped, meets more troubled pubescent males with issues that harass her for her blood because she's like the Gucci of blood for vampires and can grant you "WEALTH AND POWER AND BRAGGING RIGHTS" that are somehow gained through 4 easy payments of Yui's entire blood and soul.
THE PLOT 2/10:
Where was it?! It was snatched by the ungodly need for sexual tension and harassment! Oh no, save it with like 4 more hot but damaged to the point of no return guys. So Yui is Eve but Yui also kinda maybe isn't Eve but wait she is fucking Eve. Is there even an explanation to why she's Eve or like how they knew besides oh look goody, another toy to play with by drinking its blood and doing the dirty with it 'till it dies and we get another one, oh no she's Eve so mother issues must emerge along with strange sexual fantasies become real and bipolar bitchy males, but because she's Eve we must harass her even more and basically kill her to become Adam. But wait! I have feelings for her. NO WAIT! I don't have feelings for her, I only like her because of [insert reason compiled with flashback Yui can't see that poorly explains their life story and problem]. Then Yui's like "oh no wait- eh?!!?!?!" and stays a fucking pansy, not running away but feeling sympathy/pity for them even though she didn't even see the somewhat poorly animated backstory. After an emotional scene, boom- Yui is being insulted and raped. Caressing thighs, just basically eating her neck, you know all the normal strangely sexual ways to drink blood.
In the second season, another family of blood suckers with existential problems that for some reason need Yui just up and kidnap her. Blah blah blah. First set of abusers come looking their little bitch to bite again, arguing fighting, Yui being a pushover, all compiled with "I want to be the ADAM TO YOUR EVE even though you'll most likely be dead, [some bad dehumanizing nickname for the pushover herself]!" and "But alas [degrading nickname] I cannot become Adam because of [insert bad reason that never stopped anyone], but because of that I shall still drink thy blood because it's not like you need blood to you know, live."
THE ART 3/10:
There isn't much to say, you've seen the cover of it. It's mediocre, not the best style but not terrible but it somewhat works for the terrible thing that is this anime. The animation however is all over the place, although I wasn't paying attention to it much when I powered through the entire franchise, it wouldn't have mattered if I stared that the screen while watching it. I had to imagine a good amount of it. It was like they were stick figure with limited ranges of motion so most of it was up to you and your depressed and harassed potentially intoxicated brain to fill in the gaps. It coulee passed as an amateur animatic. Would I call this studio animation? Not exactly. Was this the best part of the anime itself? Honestly it was except for those moments with too much detail into a drawing of Yui's thigh being molested.
THE SOUND 1/10:
It haunted me. The VAs for the sub were fine, I just felt bad for them having to voice this madness. All the noises, the stupid lines. Oh boy did I feel traumatized for the VAs, I hope they got paid a good amount for this torture. Given the fact that I watched this abomination dubbed, it was even more terrible. Considering that a lot of anime dubs aren't the best, they do still try to sync the lines to the lips no matter how absurd the content was. It was so much worse for me dubbed, I could hear how reluctant each voice actor was who had to read the translated lines and make the god awful sounds, I could hear their soul on the inside cracking and most of all, I heard everything in the language that I mainly speak so I was internalizing it way more than I wanted to. I give all the VAs of this props, the garbage was read out loud multiple times by professionals who could have been working on any other project.
The music, isn't very memorable. I remember it being okay with and eerie feeling. I skipped a lot of the openings and endings but they always gave me a dark rose covered in blood with way too many thorns killing a bee vibe. Or that could just be the entirety of the series in general.
CHARACTERS 1/10:
I tried to justify them so I could maybe give it a 2/10 but they were just so bad. Starting with the males, I thought they were all cookie cutter versions of every version of the stereotypical bad boy mixed with a lot of aristocrat. BOY WAS I WRONG. They were all messed up in the brain. CRAZY WITH MOMMY ISSUES is how I would describe each of them. I can't comment on the second family of vampire rejects because they weren't all that memorable to me a year ago. I wasn't paying attention to their life story since they were only featured in one season. I don't even remember their names, traits or even my favorite. But from what I know is that the Mukami family had a way better relationship with each other. Out of the main cast of vampire rejects on creepy mansion island, my favorite was without a doubt Subaru. Shuu was the demanding, lazy bitch. Reiji was rule-abiding and sadistic. Laito was perverted and sadistic mixed with too much aristocrat from anyone to handle. Kanato was crazy and so was his mommy bear. Ayato was bipolar and abusive. Subaru gave Yui a chance to escape, she denied it, Subaru gave her a knife to kill vampires, she doesn't use it, and a vampire with anger-management issues and serious negligence issues.
Yui doesn't deserve to be the heroine. She had absolutely no personality, no defining characteristics. She's just a blood bag with "feelings" and a desire to learn about everyone's past. She runs from the vampires themselves but won't escape the damn mansion. She doesn't want to be used but doesn't fucking kill them. She hates them but she won't fucking leave them. She might be more bipolar in an indecisive way than Ayato. Who is she? I have no idea. I don't know how she has such clear skin after being abused every fucking episode with blood an hickeys covering her. I really don't believe she's human and alive with the amount of blood being drained out of her and the fact that she doesn't have anemia or some kind of deficiency. She gives in so quickly after trying to run away, and keeps trying to talk to them and understand their twisted mindsets. She a blood bucket with everyone's saliva in her that is unskilled in everyday who is also a pushover with masochistic tendencies that she doesn't even know about.
ENJOYMENT 3/10:
It's a 3 not because it was entertaining. The idea of this monstrosity going through so many people and being created, adapted into an anime, voiced, dubbed, and given a second season was entertaining. I found it borderline hysterical that this piece of trash was given so much when it consisted of bad, abusive relationships with so many males and like 1 female and 3 moms who caused mommy issues in 6 man children with fangs. It garnered a good laugh out of me and my ex-friend when we weren't cringing over the implied rape in each episode of the terror that was Diabolik Lovers for its downright stupidity.
OVERALL 2/10:
It wasn't a pleasant experience watching this. It only gets a 2 because of the drinking game made for this anime and just how much effort went into this mess for a terrible product to come out of it and how it needed a sequel. I recommend you watch it if you want to die on the inside, get drunk after the first 2 episodes of watching this short anime while playing a drinking game, or just laugh at how bad everything is.
Jul 19, 2019
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[This is a review of my overall experience with Diabolik Lovers, including the first season and more, blood. filled with cursing and about an hour of dying inside while I wrote this at 4am]
I don't remember a single thing from this season or the first. Actually that's a lie, I remember my suffering and the inexcusable amount of skipping and fast-forwarding I had to do to not tear my hair out. I also had the displeasure of watching it dubbed because I needed background noise while working on a project. I decided to re-watch the dreadful first season and the second. The first season, I ... |
