Diabolik Lovers Anime Review

Konnichiwa Minna-san! 

I have been super excited to review this anime for you all. Diabolik Lovers is an anime that has been based on a visual novel game, the anime consists of a girl called Yui who is surrounded by six vampire brothers, The Sakamaki brothers, that she has been forced to live with due to circumstances. There are 12 episodes in total.

Each one of the vampires have a very different personality which you can expect from a reverse harem anime, Despite the personality differences all of the boys have the same agenda which is to drink Yui's blood. The entire anime is very creepy and you find yourself really worrying for Yui because of the situations the brothers put her in, most of which have an air of sexual tension surrounding them despite the this not being an ecchi anime. 

The each one of the brothers have a back story which explains their personality. There is essentially not a lot of story involved in this anime, which is common for an otome anime. The base line of the anime is the brothers are basically on a feeding frenzy with this girl, who is just walking food to them, however a few of them are more attached to her than the others. 

If vampires, ultimate control and sadism are not your thing then I would definitely not recommend this anime as it would make you super uncomfortable. Each episode will introduce a brother and all his sadistic qualities, these episodes will also explain a little of each brother's story. The remaining episodes are based around why Yui ended up with the Sakamaki brothers and how parts of their family are involved in the mystery. 

Overall I found this anime to be quite interesting despite the sadism and verbal abuse which is thrown at the poor human girl. However I found myself annoyed more than once at her personality which isn't really submissive, more just weak and weak minded. A side from these points it filled my time and wasn't really too bad, some of the scenes are what you can expect from an otome anime of this type.

Story: 3/10 - There really isn't much story, and when there is an attempt at a story it is so messy and confusing. 

Character: 7/10 - Yui was a very irritating character, the brothers however were very interesting and fun with all their different personalities.

Art Style/Animation: 9/10 - I love the art style, it is very vampy and dark with lots of deep colours. A very big win for this type of anime, it really fit with the story.

Overall: 6/10 - I liked this anime for what it was, entertaining and fun but lacking in depth and story. It is very much like Orenchi no Furo Jijou in the that there is a lack of story but very in depth characters. 

This series is also available on Crunchyroll:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/