Blog:Grust's Top 5 Reasons He Considers Diabolik Lovers A Guilty Pleasure

It's no secret that I like the Diabolik Lovers anime even though I fully agree it deserves to be called one of the worst anime of all time for reducing Yui in anime's answer to Meg Griffin. Now I said before in my final ten tips to defeat SJWs that I consider a guilty pleasure a phenomena that can't be full explained. For instance I like the Simpsons episode, The Boys of Bummer but for the life of me I don't have anything positive to say about it. However to challenge myself, I've decided to give my top 5 reasons I consider one of the worst anime of all time a guilty pleasure. Keep in mind I'm not defending this anime and I myself added it to this wiki. Okay then on to the countdown.

5. Beautiful Animation: When you look past Yui being tormented, you'll see the animation is very beautiful to look at. Yui is a beautiful girl and the Sakamakis and Mukumis are super handsome. And then there's the backgrounds. Even with a horrible script you can tell the animators gave it their all with this anime. In fact this shows how dedicated Japanese animators can be. This may be a really bad anime, but it's still beautiful to look at.

4. Laito Sakami: He's my favorite of the brothers (though I ship Yui with Ayato) for his fun loving albeit sadistic personality. The anime is very dark and basically a torture show but he brings a sort of light-hearted relief despite being the most sadistic. It's weird. In episode 4, he even teleports to Europe, steals her adopted father's phone and uses it just to scare and troll her. This guy just steals the show. He did however ruin a good Ayato/Yui moment though. Overall, if he was real, I'd definitely consider making him a gamer buddy.

3. Dedicated VAs: The script is at times so goddamn bad it gives me (gulp) Uwe Boll vibes, with lack of character development and moments in the series that get ignored or go nowhere. However even with such a horrendous script, the VAs are dedicated to make the characters believable. Kanato's Japanese VA makes him sound a creepy psychotic manchild, Yui feels threatened yet caring towards the vampires, I believe Laito is a pervert but fun loving, and Reji (the only Sakamaki brother I have any real hatred for) sounds like he's hoity toity. I really do give them credit. And even though I hate the English dub, I give them credit as well for creating believable characters.

2. What It Could Have Been: I read the manga, studied the lore, and watched some subbed gameplay footage on YouTube (none of the games ever had an official U.S. release) and I believe the real theme of Diabolik Lovers is "Love Redeems." As the games progress, Yui has an effect on the vampires making them nicer and of course she is extremely effective at redeeming the vampire she falls in love with. Because of that, I think the anime could have been better than what we got so I sort of create fanfiction in my brain to see how better it could have turned out. A part of me thinks the anime is an unseen route that's not seen in the games, though because of many scenes that were adapted from the manga, it's obvious it was just a cashgrab because the games and manga were well liked.

Honorable Mentions

 * Bile Fascination: When I hear about something terrible, a sick masochistic need to see it develops within me. I even want to play Ride to Hell: Retribution because of it.  Relax though I still have my limits and refuse to see the Garbage Pail Kids Movie or an SJW themed show or movie.


 * The Drinking Game: Let's be honest, it's the only real reason to watch it.

1. It Introduced Me to the Franchise: I enjoy the Diabolik Lovers franchise and this is what introduced me to it. When I heard how bad this show was, I gave it a look and then decided to look at the manga and any eng subbed footage of the games. Unlike the anime, the games and manga had real character development, Yui gets to be in a relationship, the vampires show redemption and by Vandead Carnival, have accepted her as part of the family. Yui herself is a much stronger character, and actually stands up for herself. While seeing all this character development made me admit the anime sucks in comparison, I still owe the anime for introducing to the franchise and I give that my pick for the biggest reason I consider it a guilty pleasure.

Do you have a guilty pleasure yourself? Let me know in the comments.