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This is literally the plot for the first six episodes in the series.Valentine’s Day may have long come and gone, BUT THE LOVING NEVER STOPS IN THE SAKAMAKI HOUSEHOLD.The triplets, named Ayato, Kanato and Laito, were born from Karlheinzs first wife, Cordelia. Yui Komori becomes the most recent bride, and the brothers all take turns torturing her and drinking her blood. What is the point of Diabolik lovers Diabolik Lovers is a 12 -episode series about a family of vampire half-brothers that are offered sacrificial brides.
Cordelia, now in control, starts off the episode by chatting it up with Richter.Summary. He tells her that a human life span is shorter and she will die before him, so when the time.To recap quickly, Yui has turned into Cordelia after touching the bloodstained dress that Richter has secretly kept stored somewhere in the house. Subaru quietly mentions that even if the lunar eclipse ends, he doubts his mother’s behavior will change for the better.Subaru proposes to Yui and gives her the silver knife. Subaru explains to her that the eclipse lasts a long time in the underworld and he still thinks there’s quite a while left before it will end.
So, in the flashbacks, we have several scenes where we see little kid Ayato and the rest of the siblings. Now that we have firmly established the HORRIFYING TRUE NATURE of their relationship, let’s move on.I’m a little bit confused on the timeline here now. We have now firmly established this fact.Right. In terms of the gameplay: The black choices lead up to a bad ending, the white choices lead up to.We also learn about their deep, dark past.Oh god! What wincestuous plot is this?! Although I might’ve guessed, considering the fact that Richter was supposedly the Sakamaki brothers’ uncle…Ok.
Given the current state of things, that body is Yui. So the plan was to remove her heart and implant it in another body. The show then cuts back to the flashback of Cordelia’s death, except now from Richter’s point of view.Ok.
It’s also led to some interest in getting back into BL, and I’m currently considering trying to watch and blog Junjou Romantica in the coming month or so.To me, all these are positive things, rather than a sort of “disenfranchisement” (e.g., no longer taking pleasure in watching Samurai Flamenco because the plots twists and such become stale and boring). Probably by the end of the series, I’ll be sufficiently used to the tropes used in these types of shows that I could probably go on to watch something similar without too much hassle. I also have found myself taking different parts of the premise (like facts about the timeline, character relationships, world consistency) quite a bit more seriously. As a result, my commentary has shifted more to cynical observations in an attempt to keep some of the humor in these posts alive (because the show is still is pretty crazy), while becoming a little bit more “matter-of-fact” in each episode’s synopsis. I no longer am filled with the same sense of revulsion during the scenes where Cordelia is essentially raped (although they still are not my thing), and consequently I’ve started seeing it less and less in that type of light.
Ideally, when getting into the otoge/BL fandom, you’d start off by playing entry-level visual novels. But I’ll probably get to that when I finally finish up the show.What a rapid acclimatisation you put yourself through in watching Diabolik Lovers. I also think that I’ve reached a point where I can say that Diabolik Lovers is not really that good no matter how you really look at it — from a literary perspective to an “otaku” one. Considering the progress I’ve made on this so far, I’d say watching and blogging about Diabolik Lovers has been a big success. In other words, to be a good cultural relativist (although not an ethical one).
Adaptations of hardcore titles like Diabolik Lovers are really counterproductive in getting viewers to understand what the appeal of otoge is. I think female otaku subculture has increasingly taken on elements of male otaku subculture in terms of how it fetishises its characters and how it has its own “database” of character tropes which are seen as unique to its form.But where male otaku subculture is at least partially understood by most veteran viewers of anime because it’s just so widely pervasive, female otaku subculture is still very niche, and quickly gaining a terrible reputation among mainstream viewers. Until you’re that immersed in the culture, it’s really difficult to see the appeal in the game.The poor reception of Diabolik Lovers is due in part to the anime being a visual novel adaptation (and we all know how VN adaptations are pretty bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of their standalone merit), and it’s also due to how the vast majority of anime viewers just aren’t into the otoge subculture. From my observation, fans of DL are people who have gotten too used to the sappy, cheesy otoges like Uta no Prince-sama and desire a bit more “thrill” in their stories, so to speak.
My impression is that for now it’s too fragmentary and disjointed (at least as we’ve defined it here) to draw empirical observations from, but hopefully you can help me come to a better understanding of this.Ultimately, I think it comes down to the first point, which goes something like this (in more standard reviewer logic):– The show is ultimately centered around having me emotionally invested (or at least, be able to tell that emotional investment is possible) in the characters in a romantic sense.– In order to do this, I need to have some idea that the characters are something more than just fetishized objects. Just what kind of critical framework are you working with when you make your judgments?Just an honest question, because I’m very interested in working out a consistent “otaku” framework that can stand up on its own alongside the classical literary framework. (Imagine watching, say, Imocho without any knowledge of the otaku subculture!) But I’m glad you’ve built up a tolerance for this sort of thing and I look forward to seeing where your next foray into Fujoshiland takes you!When you say that it fails in the “otaku” sense, are you trying to say that the appeal of the characters isn’t properly conveyed in this adaptation, because it’s rushed, poorly presented etc.? Bear in mind I haven’t actually seen the anime, but from your coverage it seems that all the characters play similar roles and have similar lines to each other, which fails to make them stand out as fetish objects (as opposed to the game, where each character’s subplot was fully fleshed out in their own route).I think it’s very difficult to critique from the “otaku” perspective when you don’t consider yourself otaku, and I’m curious to know how you came to your conclusions, since you’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t connect (viscerally, at least) to female otaku culture. And that’s likely to turn viewers off the genre entirely, rather than inviting them to question how those representations came to be.Basically, while I think you’re right in saying that Diabolik Lovers isn’t good no matter how you look at it, you really did jump into the deep end too early with it, and that tends to negatively cloud your judgment.
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