History AudioPlay / DiabolikLovers

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Yui Komori is a positive-thinking girl who nevertheless is troubled by seeing spirits and experiencing poltergeist phenomena. She lives with her father, a priest, until he is called overseas due to work and she is not allowed to accompany him. Instead, she is given a certain address and instructed to go there, saying the people living there are "relatives". Yui follows her father's orders and arrives at a mysterious mansion as the address had suggested. As she discovers what's in the house, she meets the six Sakamaki brothers (Shu, Reiji, Ayato, Kanato, Laito and Subaru) who are actually vampires. In order to have some control, she requests to be able to choose who sucks her blood. As she she spends more time knowing them more, she discovers a shocking secret inside her body.

''Diabolik Lovers'' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Rejet. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs.

Games in the Series:
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~Haunted Dark Bridal~'': The first game of the series. It was released on October 11, 2012 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''. The second version of the game ported for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with additional content. It was released on December 19, 2013.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The fan disc for the first game featuring four new characters. It was released on October 24, 2013 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'': The second version of the game ported for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with additional content. It is slated for release sometime in 2015.
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A fan disc for MORE,BLOOD which featuring mini-games. Released on December 4th 2014 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The sequel of the first game. Released on February 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Includes an OriginalVideoAnimation episode.
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' also for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Release date TBA.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': Yet another installment of the series that adds a new vampire to the lineup.

A [[TwelveEpisodeAnime anime adaptation]] by {{Creator/ZEXCS}} aired as part of the Fall2013Anime season, with a second season based off of ''MORE, BLOOD'' following as part of the Fall2015Anime lineup. It is licensed by [[Creator/SentaiFilmworks Sentai Filmworks]] for English release in December 2014.

Has nothing to do whatsoever with ''{{ComicBook/Diabolik}}''.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even ''believe''.
* ACupAngst: Not exactly, but Ayato often makes fun of Yui’s lack of breasts.
* AdultsAreUseless: And bastards too.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Oh, yes!
* AssholeVictim: It's '''''really''''' difficult to feel sorry for the Sakamakis in the endings where one or more of them end up getting killed.
* AxCrazy: Pretty much all the Sakamakis but especially Kanato, oh Kanato…
* BeachEpisode: The Blood & Love Sweat CD.
* BerserkButton[=/=]DisproportionateRetribution: After Yui accidentally rips off the arm of Kanato’s teddy bear, he snaps.
* BigBad:
** Cordelia in general.
** [[spoiler: Reiji, in Shu’s route.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Sakamaki brothers act cold and look down upon humans because their parents and even the family servants raised them that way. Cordelia (Ayato, Kanato and Laito’s mother) pretty much [[spoiler:mentally scarred her children with her actions]], Karl is a ChivalrousPervert who has three wives [[spoiler:(one part of an AttemptedRape)]]. Subaru was scarred by his mom [[spoiler:RapeAsBackstory]] and Shu lost [[spoiler:his first and last friend]]. Reiji had to deal with [[spoiler:years of neglect and being completely ignored in favor of his elder brother, which had a lasting effect on his mentality]].
* {{Bishonen}}: The Sakamaki and Mukami siblings.
* BreakTheCutie[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: Again, the Sakamaki brothers (except Reiji):
** Ayato [[spoiler: was forced by Cordelia to be the best and be better than Beatrix’s children (Shu and Reiji). She forced him to study and instead of praising his efforts she would constantly berate him. Due to this he ended up believing that he must always be the best at everything, becoming a selfish jerkass.]]
** Kanato [[spoiler: was traumatized upon being forced by his mother to watch as she screwed with Ritcher. Also, due to his mother’s ParentalNeglect and her sexual antics, he acts childish, needy and AxCrazy.]]
** Laito, [[spoiler: often had sex with his own mom, who was into AnythingThatMoves. He grew up believing she loved him and got jealous of all the men she screwed. When Karl found out the relationship between Laito and Cordelia, he locked up Laito in the basement prison and when Cordelia came to see him, she has sex with Ritcher in front of him, traumatizing Laito and becoming a sexual deviant.]]
** Subaru, [[spoiler: revealed to be a ChildByRape. Karl took Subaru’s mother Christa, forced her to become his bride, raped her and made her have a child, Subaru. A mentally broken Christa often asked Subaru many times to kill her and even gave him a silver knife, which can kill vampires. Subaru, however, never could bring himself to kill his own mother and he had to watch her being frequently abused and raped by Karl. The trauma was bad enough, and he became violent as a result.]]
** Shu, [[spoiler: a ExtremeDoormat since childhood, one day befriended an human boy named Edgar. Both became best friends, but Reiji, who disapproved of his brother being friends with an human, burned the whole village Edgar lived in, leaving Shu traumatized and feeling useless upon not doing anything to save Edgar. The nail in the coffin was Reiji twisting his mind by constantly telling him that because of his failure, he is not apt to be the family head.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' tamer case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub: While the voice actors has no problems using strong profanity like the Spanish equivalent for "shit", on the other hand, and due to recent Mexican laws against the use of mysoginistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the word "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "somewhat" (emphasis on '''somewhat''', due of the [[LargeHam very hammier perfomance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) more tamer "little vixen", who is an euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of TooSoon as well, due of a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a video when Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and that without going into the point he "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]]
* BrokenBird[=/=]UsedToBeASweetKid: All of the boys, once their pasts are expanded.
* ChivalrousPervert[=/=]PervertDad: Karl. He even has three wives.
* ColorCodedCharacters:
** Sakamaki brothers: Ayato - Red, Kanato - Purple, Laito - Green, Shu - Yellow, Reiji - Blue, Subaru - Grey.
** Mukami brothers: Ruki - Black, Kou - Pink, Yuma - Orange, Azusa - Teal.
** Tsukinami brothers: Carla - Dark Red, Shin - Dark Blue.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ayato and Shu.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: 真夜中の饗宴(MIDNIGHT PLEASURE)[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az8DjIeB-Dw]], the opening theme of Haunted Dark Bridal and 極限（UNLIMITED）BLOOD [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX7pR9J0__U]], the opening theme of MORE,BLOOD, were sung by the voice actors for [[Creator/HikaruMidorikawa Ayato]], [[Creator/KosukeToriumi Shu]], and [[Creator/TakashiKondo Subaru]] respectively.
** 幻日理論-Parhelion Logic- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBimmZE-bSs]], the ending theme of Haunted Dark Bridal, was sung by Ayato's voice actor. 月蝕(Eclipse)[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg2kTa75TY0]], the ending theme of MORE,BLOOD, was sung by the voice actors for [[Creator/RyoheiKimura Kou]], [[Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki Yuma]], and [[Creator/DaisukeKishio Azusa]] respectively.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd54wrFbsUE Mr.SADISTIC NIGHT]], the anime's opening theme was sung by Ayato and Shu's respective voice actors.
* DownerEnding: A lot of the Bad Ends.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Most of the Good Ends (except for Kanato's). They're more of a BittersweetEnding.
* {{Fanservice}}[=/=]FanDisservice: Yes, it has both. It’s not contradictory.
* HemoErotic: Oh, so much!
* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler: The reason why Yui is protected by the vampire influence and Cordelia, at first is because she is protected by the rosary she always wears.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: The Sakamakis towards Karl. Justified, though. The Mukamis, however, are grateful for what Karl has done for them.
* IllGirl: in the ''Bloody Bouquet'' series, Yui is in danger of this after she gets pricked by a black rose's thorn. Additionally, this also makes her blood completely inedible to the vampires, and only an ActOfTrueLove can save her.
* InformedAbility: Played for laughs.
-->'''Shu''': "Because we’re vampires?"
-->'''Yui''': "Eh? Va-vampires?"
-->'''Ayato''': "Aaah. Did you have to spoil it that quickly?"
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ayato, Laito and Kanato.
* {{Jerkass}}: All of the Sakamakis, but mostly Ayato.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Reiji’s Normal End falls into this. [[spoiler:Cordelia is defeated and Yui is saved, but her personality changes as well and becomes an AlphaBitch, treating Reiji as her slave]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Cordelia and Ritcher. In the case of the Sakamakis, it will be something more like Love Makes You Jerkass and Blood-crazed.
* OedipusComplex: Kanato. His teddy bear [[spoiler:contains his mother's ashes]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can age as normal humans.
* ParentalAbandonment: Yui’s father abandons her at her own, forcing her to live with the Sakamakis. Also, Karl and Cordelia, towards Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood, naturally. Read Yui's Character entry as to why.
* TheQuietOne: Reiji and Shu.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Yui, to Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
* RelationshipUpgrade: The CD series ''Bloody Bouquet'' portrays each of the vampires on the day of their wedding with Yui.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Yui is revealed to be Cordelia’s vessel, whose heart was transplanted to Yui after Ayato killed Cordelia for good, thus the Sakamakis attraction towards her. Ayato, Kanato and Laito are especially attracted to her because they are Cordelia’s children.]]
** Dark Fate reveals that [[spoiler:Christa, Subaru's mother, is not only perfectly alive and well, but also willingly chose to be a part of Karlheinz's experiments, therefore her madness was ''not'' the result of rape, but because she realized that she was being used. Oh, and she's also [[BrotherSisterIncest Karlheinz's sister]].]]
* RomanticVampireBoy: The whole point of the series, and the numbers just keep increasing with each installment. Though you can make a case that the majority of them aren't all that ''romantic'", per se.
* RoyalBrat: The Sakamakis, in varying degrees.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:The triplets killed Cordelia. Reiji had Beatrix killed.]]
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Yui, of Cordelia. It becomes worse in Reiji’s route, after Cordelia possesses Yui.]]
* TangledFamilyTree: Shu and Reiji are the sons of [[GoOutWithASmile Beatrix]], an average vampire woman. Ayato, Kanato and Laito are the sons of [[AlphaBitch Cordelia]], a turned-vampire. Subaru is the son of [[BrokenBird Christa]], another average vampire woman. The reason of this? Papa Karl was such a ChivalrousPervert.
* TokenMiniMoe: Kanato, although he is OlderThanTheyLook.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Ayato likes takoyakis.
** Laito likes macarons.
** Reiji likes pasta and English tea.
** Shu likes meat.
** Kanato is very fond of sweets.
* UpToEleven: ''MORE,BLOOD''. The rating was changed from Cero C (15+) to Cero D (17+).
* VampiresAreRich: The Sakamaki siblings.
* VampiresAreSexGods
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Yuma turns out to be the first and only friend Shuu ever had.]]
* {{Yandere}}:
** Kanato, which is the reason he doesn't get a happy ending.
** Reiji verges on this in Shu’s route.
** [[spoiler:Yui becomes one in Shu's Brute Ending in MORE,BLOOD. She also becomes one in Ayato's and Kou's Manservant Ending in MORE,BLOOD and Kanato's Second Ending in Haunted Dark Bridal.]]

* TheCorruption: in the ''Bloody Bouquet'' series, Yui is in danger of this after she gets pricked by a black rose's thorn. Additionally, this also makes her blood completely inedible to the vampires, and only an ActOfTrueLove can save her.

** [[spoiler:Yui become one in Shu's Brute Ending in MORE,BLOOD. She also becomes one in Ayato's and Kou's Manservant Ending in MORE,BLOOD and Kanato's Second Ending in Haunted Dark Bridal.]]

* RomanticVampireBoy: The whole point of the series, and the numbers just keep increasing with each installment. Though you can make a case that the majority of then aren't all that ''romantic'", per se.

* RelationshipUpgrade: The CD series ''Bloody Bouquet'' portrays the vampires directly after their wedding wih Yui.

* IHateYouVampireDad: The Sakamakis towards Karl. Justified, though. The Mukamis however, are grateful for what Karl has done for them.

* AssholeVictim: It's '''Really''' difficult to feel sorry for the Sakamakis in the endings where one or more of them end up getting killed.

* ''Diabolik Lovers ~Haunted Dark Bridal~'': The first game of the series. It was released on October 11, 2012 for the PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''. The second version of the game ported for the PlayStationVita with additional content. It was released on December 19, 2013.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The fan disc for the first game featuring four new characters. It was released on October 24, 2013 for the PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'': The second version of the game ported for the PlayStationVita with additional content. It is slated for release sometime in 2015.
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A fan disc for MORE,BLOOD which featuring mini-games. Released on December 4th 2014 for the PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The sequel of the first game. Released on February 2015 for the PlayStationVita. Includes an OriginalVideoAnimation episode.
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' also for PlayStationVita. Release date TBA.

'''''Diabolik Lovers''''' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Rejet. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs.

A [[TwelveEpisodeAnime anime adaptation]] by {{Creator/ZEXCS}} aired as part of the Fall2013Anime season, with a second season following as part of the Fall2015Anime lineup. It is licensed by [[Creator/SentaiFilmworks Sentai Filmworks]] for English release in December 2014.

A [[TwelveEpisodeAnime anime adaptation]] by {{Creator/ZEXCS}} aired as part of the Fall2013Anime season. It is licensed by [[Creator/SentaiFilmworks Sentai Filmworks]] for English release in December 2014.

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* BigBad: Cordelia. [[spoiler: Reiji, in Shu’s route.]]

* BrokenBird / UsedToBeASweetKid: All of the boys, once their pasts are expanded.

* DisproportionateRetribution[=/=]BerserkButton: After Yui accidentally rips off the arm of Kanato’s teddy bear, he snaps.

* PervertDad[=/=]ChivalrousPervert: Karl. He even has three wives.

* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: The triplets killed Cordelia. Reiji had Beatrix killed.]]
* [[spoiler:SoulJar: Yui, of Cordelia. It becomes worse in Reiji’s route, after Cordelia possesses Yui.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ayato likes takoyakis, Laito likes macarons, Reiji likes pasta and English tea, Shu likes meat and Kanato is very fond of sweets.
* TraumaCongaLine[=/=]BreakTheCutie: Again, the Sakamaki brothers (except Reiji):
** Ayato [[spoiler: was forced by Cordelia to be the best and be better than Beatrix’s children (Shu and Reiji). She forced him to study and instead of praising his efforts she would constantly berate him. Due to this he ended up believing that he must always be the best at everything, becoming a selfish jerkass.]]
** Kanato [[spoiler: was traumatized upon being forced by his mother to watch as she screwed with Ritcher. Also, due to his mother’s ParentalNeglect and her sexual antics, he acts childish, needy and AxCrazy.]]
** Laito, [[spoiler: often had sex with his own mom, who was into AnythingThatMoves. He grew up believing she loved him and got jealous of all the men she screwed. When Karl found out the relationship between Laito and Cordelia, he locked up Laito in the basement prison and when Cordelia came to see him, she has sex with Ritcher in front of him, traumatizing Laito and becoming a sexual deviant.]]
** Subaru, [[spoiler: revealed to be a ChildByRape. Karl took Subaru’s mother Christa, forced her to become his bride, raped her and made her have a child, Subaru. A mentally broken Christa often asked Subaru many times to kill her and even gave him a silver knife, which can kill vampires. Subaru, however, never could bring himself to kill his own mother and he had to watch her being frequently abused and raped by Karl. The trauma was bad enough, and he became violent as a result.]]
** Shu, [[spoiler: a ExtremeDoormat since childhood, one day befriended an human boy named Edgar. Both became best friends, but Reiji, who disapproved of his brother being friends with an human, burned the whole village Edgar lived in, leaving Shu traumatized and feeling useless upon not doing anything to save Edgar. The nail in the coffin was Reiji twisting his mind by constantly telling him that because of his failure, he is not apt to be the family head.]]
* UpToEleven: ''MORE,BLOOD''. The rating was changed from Cero C (15+) to Cero D (17+)

* {{Yandere}}: Kanato, which is the reason he doesn't get a happy ending.