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*ArmiesAreEvil: [[spoiler:In the MORE;BLOOD Visual Novel's flashbacks of the Mukami love interests, every single member of the unnamed country's military that appears is an AxCrazy SociopathicSoldier that kills compliant civilians [[WouldHurtAChild and children]] with glee, sometimes [[EvilIsPetty only for annoying them]]. In Kou's route, it's revealed that a officer [[HumanTraffickers sold him to the orphanage]], being responsible for the extreme abuse he would suffer there. (and even gloating about it.)]]
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* ''Diabolik Lovers ~Haunted Dark Bridal~'': The first game of the series. Released in October 2012 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''. UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released in December 2013.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The second main title; it features four new characters. Released in October 2013 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'': UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released in January 2015.
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A fandisc for ''MORE,BLOOD'' featuring mini-games. Released in December 2014 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The follow up to ''MORE,BLOOD'' which adds two additional characters. Released in February 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Includes an OriginalVideoAnimation episode.
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' similar in content to the prior fandisc. Released in Feburary 2016 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': A continuation of the story after ''DARK FATE'' that adds a new vampire to the lineup. Released Feburary 2017 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'': Collects ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' in one package; released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in March 2018 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in November 2019.
* ''Diabolik Lovers CHAOS LINEAGE'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series; also an alternate continuity from ''LOST EDEN''. Released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2019.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''. UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released in December 2013.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The second main title; it features four new characters. Released in October 2013 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'': UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released in January 2015.
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A fandisc for ''MORE,BLOOD'' featuring mini-games. Released in December 2014 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The follow up to ''MORE,BLOOD'' which adds two additional characters. Released in February 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Includes an OriginalVideoAnimation episode.
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' similar in content to the prior fandisc. Released in Feburary 2016 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': A continuation of the story after ''DARK FATE'' that adds a new vampire to the lineup. Released Feburary 2017 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'': Collects ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' in one package; released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in March 2018 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in November 2019.
* ''Diabolik Lovers CHAOS LINEAGE'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series; also an alternate continuity from ''LOST EDEN''. Released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2019.
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* ''Diabolik Lovers ~Haunted Dark Bridal~'': The first game of the series. Released in October 2012 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
Platform/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''.UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita Platform/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released in December 2013.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The second main title; it features four new characters. Released in October 2013 for theUsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
Platform/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'':UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita Platform/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released in January 2015.
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A fandisc for ''MORE,BLOOD'' featuring mini-games. Released in December 2014 for theUsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
Platform/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The follow up to ''MORE,BLOOD'' which adds two additional characters. Released in February 2015 for theUsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.Platform/PlayStationVita. Includes an OriginalVideoAnimation episode.
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' similar in content to the prior fandisc. Released in Feburary 2016 for theUsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
Platform/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': A continuation of the story after ''DARK FATE'' that adds a new vampire to the lineup. Released Feburary 2017 for theUsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
Platform/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'': Collects ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' in one package; released onUsefulNotes/PlayStation4 Platform/PlayStation4 in March 2018 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch in November 2019.
* ''Diabolik Lovers CHAOS LINEAGE'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series; also an alternate continuity from ''LOST EDEN''. Released for theUsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch in March 2019.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The second main title; it features four new characters. Released in October 2013 for the
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'':
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A fandisc for ''MORE,BLOOD'' featuring mini-games. Released in December 2014 for the
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The follow up to ''MORE,BLOOD'' which adds two additional characters. Released in February 2015 for the
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' similar in content to the prior fandisc. Released in Feburary 2016 for the
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': A continuation of the story after ''DARK FATE'' that adds a new vampire to the lineup. Released Feburary 2017 for the
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'': Collects ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' in one package; released on
* ''Diabolik Lovers CHAOS LINEAGE'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series; also an alternate continuity from ''LOST EDEN''. Released for the
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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.
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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, with them, she discovers a shocking secret inside her body.
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* AlternateTimeline: Every sequel [=VN=] is a partial alternate timeline to the [=VN=] that preceeds it, but they still have a linear progression. The franchise generally is not big into [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] shenanigans, but there is one exception. [[spoiler:The events of the ''Lost Eden'' and ''Chaos Lineage'' visual novels are mutually exclusive, and both of them introduce Kino.]]
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* AndIMustScream: Yui is fully aware of what is going on around her when [[spoiler:Cordelia takes over her body in the first [=VN=],]] but is unable to move or communicate. [[spoiler:She does a surprisingly good job of keeping her cool through this experience, possibly because Cordelia continues to interact with her.]]
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* ChessMotifs: Lots of them, in varying aspects of the series.
** [[SmartPeoplePlayChess All the smart boy love interests are skilled chess players]], and Karlheinz is a literal chessmaster with a streak of 183 wins against his buddy [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Socrates]]. The love interest with the most chess references is Reiji, whose ''Dark Fate'' route is just full of them.
** Chess imagery pops up briefly in the second season of the anime, and more extensively in the ''Chaos Lineage'' [=VN=], starting with its checkerboard and chess piece themed user interface.
** [[SmartPeoplePlayChess All the smart boy love interests are skilled chess players]], and Karlheinz is a literal chessmaster with a streak of 183 wins against his buddy [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Socrates]]. The love interest with the most chess references is Reiji, whose ''Dark Fate'' route is just full of them.
** Chess imagery pops up briefly in the second season of the anime, and more extensively in the ''Chaos Lineage'' [=VN=], starting with its checkerboard and chess piece themed user interface.
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* HouseSquatting: Turns up in the first [=VN=] courtesy of Shu, who has an abandoned house RunawayHideaway.
** ''Dark Fate'' uses this trope frequently. Yui and her love interest often need to lie low someplace where pursuers wouldn't expect to find them, [[spoiler:and since the main characters all decamp to the Demon World at the start of the story there's no one to stop them from just walking into the {{Big Fancy House}}s as they please. Kou and Yui push this really far by spending several days at Banmaden, the Founders' castle, while Carla and Shin are elsewhere.]] Predictably, it goes pear-shaped when the owners come home.
** ''Dark Fate'' uses this trope frequently. Yui and her love interest often need to lie low someplace where pursuers wouldn't expect to find them, [[spoiler:and since the main characters all decamp to the Demon World at the start of the story there's no one to stop them from just walking into the {{Big Fancy House}}s as they please. Kou and Yui push this really far by spending several days at Banmaden, the Founders' castle, while Carla and Shin are elsewhere.]] Predictably, it goes pear-shaped when the owners come home.
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* KinkyCuffs: There's very little reason for handcuffs to feature in this series other than kink, so when Ayato and Laito have pairs in their respective HDB routes you know that's precisely what they're for.
* KissOfTheVampire: Vampire bites always hurt, at least at first. If the vampire wants to be nice it may barely hurt at all, but the vampires are all bad boys, so it's nothing to count on. Yui seems to find the experience of having her blood sucked paralyzing, in part because it feels good, but also because she enjoys it more than she thinks she should.
* LapPillow: Being that it's a cute, intimate thing to do with a significant other, this is more common in the later [=VNs=] than the early ones, and particularly widely encountered in ''Dark Fate''.
** Shu is an outlier - he uses Yui as a pillow early and often, with the first example appearing in HDB.
* KissOfTheVampire: Vampire bites always hurt, at least at first. If the vampire wants to be nice it may barely hurt at all, but the vampires are all bad boys, so it's nothing to count on. Yui seems to find the experience of having her blood sucked paralyzing, in part because it feels good, but also because she enjoys it more than she thinks she should.
* LapPillow: Being that it's a cute, intimate thing to do with a significant other, this is more common in the later [=VNs=] than the early ones, and particularly widely encountered in ''Dark Fate''.
** Shu is an outlier - he uses Yui as a pillow early and often, with the first example appearing in HDB.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Every relationship in the series begins with the heroine being held captive by the love interest, but in most cases they are only interested in blood at first. Except for the Tsukinami brothers, since they are specifically instances of AbductionIsLove.
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* PowerIncontinence: One of the points of conflict in ''Lost Eden'' [[spoiler:is the struggle of the Sakamaki brothers to control the powers they inherit from Karlheinz. In the Sakamaki routes, odds are good that the love interest will lose control of his powers and wreck the Sakamaki manor.]]
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* TortureCellar: The Sakamaki manor has a torture chamber. And an [[LockedInTheDungeon underground dungeon]]. And a WaxMuseumMorgue. And these wretched vampire boys will use them to try to scare Yui out of her wits...but usually don't go any further than chaining her to the wall.
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* TrueLoveIsExceptional: None of the love interests go into the story ''expecting'' to fall in love with their prey, and many of them mention to the heroine that she's [[HasAType not the sort of girl they prefer]]. But it turns out that they all just wanted a [[NiceGuy nice girl]] all along.
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* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Karlheinz wants one of his sons to kill him and take his place [[spoiler:and the purpose of his machinations, at least in part, is ensure that the Sakamaki brothers are powerful enough and motivated enough to do the deed. The finale of the Sakamaki ''Dark Fate'' routes is a duel with Karlheinz (except for Laito, who refuses to participate,) and if Karlheinz loses, he passes his powers on to the victorious son whether he wants it or not.]]
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Sakamaki family is a disaster. Family patriarch Karlheinz, the impossibly powerful vampire king, married three women and has a long history of neglecting both them and their six sons. He seems to breed enmity wherever he goes.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Sakamaki family is a disaster. Family patriarch Karlheinz, the impossibly powerful vampire king, [[ExoticExtendedMarriage married three women women]] and has a long history of neglecting both them and their six sons. He seems to breed enmity wherever he goes.
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** Yui is identified as the "Chosen Eve," and if she forges a mutually loving relationship with one of the boys, he may become "Adam," advancing a mysterious plan that seems to function better the less she knows about it.
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** Yui is identified as the "Chosen Eve," and if she forges a mutually loving relationship with one of the boys, he may become "Adam," advancing a mysterious plan [[LockedOutOfTheLoop that seems to function better the less she knows about it.it]].
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* MischiefForPunishment: Love interests regularly accuse Yui of intentionally provoking them into tormenting her and/or feeding from her. Having Yui admit to doing so generally does not lead to a good ending, although there are some exceptions.
* MuggleInMageCustody: The heroine is at the mercy of her potential love interests and there is nothing she can do about it. She's been isolated from what little family she has and the vampires will catch her if she tries to escape. There is a lot of ambiguity regarding what kind of relationship she has with her vampire beau in the beginning - is she a meal on legs? A pet? A girlfriend? The goal of the vampires, at least at first, involves making her like them - but ultimately she changes them more than they change her.
* MuggleInMageCustody: The heroine is at the mercy of her potential love interests and there is nothing she can do about it. She's been isolated from what little family she has and the vampires will catch her if she tries to escape. There is a lot of ambiguity regarding what kind of relationship she has with her vampire beau in the beginning - is she a meal on legs? A pet? A girlfriend? The goal of the vampires, at least at first, involves making her like them - but ultimately she changes them more than they change her.
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* MischiefForPunishment: Love interests regularly accuse Yui of intentionally provoking them into tormenting her and/or feeding from her. her, claiming that she wants the attention and likes being manhandled. Having Yui admit to doing so generally does not lead to a good ending, although there are some exceptions.
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* MuggleInMageCustody: The heroine is at the mercy of her potential love interests and there is nothing she can do about it. She's been isolated from what little family she has and the vampires will catch her if she tries to escape. There is a lot of ambiguity regarding what kind of relationship she has with her vampire beau in the beginning - is she a meal on legs? [[HumanPet Apet? pet]]? A girlfriend? The goal of the vampires, at least at first, involves making her more like them - but ultimately she changes them more than they change her.
* MuggleInMageCustody: The heroine is at the mercy of her potential love interests and there is nothing she can do about it. She's been isolated from what little family she has and the vampires will catch her if she tries to escape. There is a lot of ambiguity regarding what kind of relationship she has with her vampire beau in the beginning - is she a meal on legs? [[HumanPet A
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: In their early appearances, love interests are unanimous in their opinions that the only good thing about Yui is her blood, and they seem to get off on telling her so.
* PowerDynamicsKink: Many of the [=VNs=] begin with the heroine choosing a love interest to have some sort of control over her, be it to guard her from rivals or simply picking one boy to avoid having them all gang up on her. The selected boy will consider this arrangement ownership over her, and is almost certain to dominate her and employ sexualized discipline on her based on this extremely flimsy pretext. The thing that prevents the this from being purely [[PropertyOfLove romanticized slavery]] is that as the characters get to know each other and the boys figure out how to not be jerks, the dynamic evolves into KinkyRolePlaying.
* TitleDrop: References to a dark fate awaiting the protagonists is common at the end of ''Dark Fate'' routes. It's the only [=VN=] in the series that really goes for this trope - well, certainly a lot of characters ask for "more blood," but that goes for all the games and not just ''More,Blood''.
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* VampiresAreRich: All the vampires, and indeed all the suitors, live in huge, beautifully appointed mansions and castles.
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* VampiresAreRich: All the vampires, and indeed all the suitors, live in huge, beautifully appointed mansions and castles.castles, and they all either aristocrats or attached to aristocratic households.
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]]; they mostly sleep in beds like anyone else. Except for Subaru, who does actually use a coffin as a bed because no one can bother him in there. Ayato puts this on its ear by sleeping in an IronMaiden (sans spikes) simply because he thinks that's cool.
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]]; they mostly sleep in beds like anyone else. Except for Subaru, who does actually use a coffin as a bed because no one can bother him in there. Ayato puts this on its ear by sleeping in an IronMaiden (sans spikes) simply because he thinks that's cool.
** Karlheinz had positive relationships in the past, but his powers and ambitions spoiled almost all of them. He was once friends with Giesbach, the king of the Founders, but his vast powers led to the Founder king's InferioritySuperiorityComplex that eventually drove him mad. Karlheinz snatched his younger brother's girl away from him and their relationship never recovered.
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** 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.]]
* YouTasteDelicious: The vampires love to tell Yui how delicious she is. They get a kick out of licking blood from any injuries she sustains (and she is conveniently accident-prone) or just licking ''her''; even her skin tastes good to them. The Tsukinami brothers make for an interesting inversion - she tastes of vampire, and they find repulsive. Thus, they constantly complain that her blood tastes foul instead.
** 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.]]
* YouTasteDelicious: The vampires love to tell Yui how delicious she is. They get a kick out of licking blood from any injuries she sustains (and she is conveniently accident-prone) or just licking ''her''; even her skin tastes good to them. The Tsukinami brothers make for an interesting inversion - she tastes of vampire, and they find repulsive. Thus, they constantly complain that her blood tastes foul instead.
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** Kanato, which Kanato can form a strong attachment to Yui, but love is so closely linked to death in his mind that in the reason first plotline even his good ending is unsettling. He does undergo some growth in ''More,Blood'' such that he doesn't get a happy ending.
isn't guaranteed to break Yui in the end, but it takes as long as ''Dark Fate'' for their relationship to seem anywhere near sustainable.
**Reiji verges Yui snaps in some bad endings - such as Kanato's Manservant Ending in ''Haunted Dark Bridal'', [[spoiler:where she takes on this in Shu’s route.
** [[spoiler:Yui becomes onetoo many Cordelia traits and does a bunch of killing.]] In ''More,Blood'', she takes pages from Kanato's playbook in Shu's Brute Ending in MORE,BLOOD. She also becomes one in and Ayato's and Kou's Manservant Ending in MORE,BLOOD and Kanato's Second Ending in Haunted Dark Bridal.[[spoiler:by disabling her love interest so he can never leave her.]]
** Reiji can engage in some yandere-like behavior in Shu’s routes in the first two [=VNs=], but he is {{driven by envy}} rather than romantic fixation.
* YouTasteDelicious: The vampires love to tell Yui how delicious she is. They get a kick out of licking blood from any injuries she sustains (and she is [[CuteClumsyGirl convenientlyaccident-prone) accident-prone]]) or just licking ''her''; even her skin tastes good to them. The Tsukinami brothers make for an interesting inversion - she tastes of vampire, and they find that repulsive. Thus, they constantly complain that her blood tastes foul instead.
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** [[spoiler:Yui becomes one
** Reiji can engage in some yandere-like behavior in Shu’s routes in the first two [=VNs=], but he is {{driven by envy}} rather than romantic fixation.
* YouTasteDelicious: The vampires love to tell Yui how delicious she is. They get a kick out of licking blood from any injuries she sustains (and she is [[CuteClumsyGirl conveniently
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* BeautifulDreamer: Every love interest gets a moment where Yui finds him napping and reflects on how gentle he looks, often with an option to do something affectionate and mildly inappropriate, like touch his hair or pinch his cheek. In these cases, he is ''absolutely'' feigning being asleep, and will turn the tables on her once she's close by.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Ayato gets to call out Karlheinz for his callousness as early as his ''More,Blood'' route, plus a few more times thereafter. When Laito gets his turn, it is the perfect repudiation - no anger, no insults...just {{armor piercing question}}s that not even a vampire god-king can face up to.
* {{Familiar}}: Vampires have magical personal servants which they use for information-gathering, sending correspondence, and small tasks around the house. Normally Yui can't see them, but if they appear to her they take the form of a bat. A notable exception is Kanato disguising a familiar as Teddie and making Yui carry it to school to keep tabs on her. Shin's familiars are also exceptions - they take the form of wolves and they are never subtle.
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: Appears in several ''Dark Fate'' routes, [[spoiler:although not even the people planning the party are aware that it is a set up for a massacre.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: At one point, Yui finds Subaru in the middle of a throng of WoodlandCreatures he befriended. Surprisingly, Reiji gets this treatment also, but he accomplishes it through a science project; plus he leaves Yui to deal with the animals he attracted.
* HandsOnApproach: There are a few instances of this, like Kou teaching Yui some of his dance choreography or Ayato walking her through basketball fundamentals. The love interest always get more up-close and personal than is really necessary - unless sexual tension is the entire point. Which it is.
* HollywoodAtheist: The love interests don't believe in God and many of them mock Yui for believing in religion. While it is typical of their jerk behavior, there is an implied justification that getting [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] by religion is some sort of vampire racial trait. For the most part the boys' behavior does not impact Yui's belief in God, although as the series progresses and the plot increasingly focuses on external threats, the topic of religion rarely comes up.
** Subaru has no patience for Yui hanging around the church she used to call home, and [[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive threatens to demolish the whole place]] unless she promises to do whatever he says. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold But he doesn't cash in that promise until after he reveals that he wants to help her]].
** Laito starts out actively trying to BreakTheBeliever, and possibly succeeds. His route has ReligiousHorror elements, but it shifts to favoring TransformationHorror as it goes on. [[spoiler:At the end of Laito's route, Yui's attention is taken up by her transformation into a vampire and how Cordelia is becoming her EnemyWithin, and she doesn't have time for abstract dilemmas.]]
** Subaru has no patience for Yui hanging around the church she used to call home, and [[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive threatens to demolish the whole place]] unless she promises to do whatever he says. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold But he doesn't cash in that promise until after he reveals that he wants to help her]].
** Laito starts out actively trying to BreakTheBeliever, and possibly succeeds. His route has ReligiousHorror elements, but it shifts to favoring TransformationHorror as it goes on. [[spoiler:At the end of Laito's route, Yui's attention is taken up by her transformation into a vampire and how Cordelia is becoming her EnemyWithin, and she doesn't have time for abstract dilemmas.]]
* HomeOfMonsters: Vampires come from an {{Uberwald}}-style parallel demon world, which has always been at least a minor setting in the [=VNs=]. The first trips are part of one-shot "Yui accompanies her love interest to a [[DancesAndBalls vampire ball]] at the Sakamakis' ancestral castle" scenarios. They get back and forth to the demon world through a PortalDoor in an underground waterway beneath their mansion. In the later [=VNs=], at least a third of any given route takes place in the demon world, and it is the primary setting of both of the fan discs.
* MischiefForPunishment: Love interests regularly accuse Yui of intentionally provoking them into tormenting her and/or feeding from her. Having Yui admit to doing so generally does not lead to a good ending, although there are some exceptions.
* PlayableEpilogue: The Heaven routes, which unlock after completing the good ending for a given character, have dialogue options although they don't count toward anything. These were added to the {{updated rerelease}}s of the first two [=VNs=], and they are a regular feature in the following two.
* SexChangesEverything: Some routes of the first [=VN=] draw attention to a plot point that Yui's blood will taste different after losing her virginity. PlayedForDrama in Ayato's route, [[spoiler:where Ayato is shocked to discover that Yui's blood tastes like Cordelia's after they have sex.]]
* SharingABody: [[spoiler:Cordelia's]] presence operates under these rules in the visual novel. Yui starts out too pure to be affected, but as she gets closer to the Sakamaki brothers, [[spoiler:Cordelia]] is able to influence her actions and she finds herself spontaneously saying and doing things that are out of character for her. [[spoiler:As Yui becomes more vampire-like, Cordelia [[TalkingInYourDreams appears in her dreams]] and eventually initiates [[TalkingToThemself mental conversations with her]] while she is awake.]] By this point, Yui is vulnerable to [[DemonicPossession losing control over her body]].
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* TangledFamilyTree: Most of the love interests are related, and it's not just the multiple wives and the many half brothers. The Mukamis are like adoptive brothers that the Sakamakis never knew they had, since Karlheinz took them in when they were children. Carla and Shin are cousins to Cordelia on her mother's side, making them second cousins to the triplets. Kino is Karlheinz's illegitimate child - or so he claims.
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* TangledFamilyTree: Most of the love interests are related, and it's not just the multiple wives and the many half brothers. The Mukamis are like adoptive brothers that the Sakamakis never knew they had, since Karlheinz took them in when they were children. Carla and Shin are cousins to Cordelia on her mother's side, making them second cousins to the triplets. Kino claims he is Karlheinz's illegitimate child - or so he claims.which also happens to be a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory.
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* ''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 was released 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. Released Feburary 2016.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': Yet another installment of the series that adds a new vampire to the lineup.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Chaos Lineage'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series, released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'': A rerelease of ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' for the Nintendo Switch.
* ''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 was released 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. Released Feburary 2016.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'': Yet another installment of the series that adds a new vampire to the lineup.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Chaos Lineage'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series, released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'': A rerelease of ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' for the Nintendo Switch.
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* ''Diabolik Lovers ~Haunted Dark Bridal~'': The first game of the series.It was released on Released in October 11, 2012 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''.The second version of the game ported for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port with additional content. It was released on in December 19, 2013.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': Thefan disc for the first game featuring second main title; it features four new characters. It was released on Released in 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 port with additional content. It was released sometime in January 2015.
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': Afan disc fandisc for MORE,BLOOD which ''MORE,BLOOD'' featuring mini-games. Released on in December 4th 2014 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': Thesequel of the first game. follow up to ''MORE,BLOOD'' which adds two additional characters. Released on in February 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Includes an OriginalVideoAnimation episode.
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE''also for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. similar in content to the prior fandisc. Released in Feburary 2016.
2016 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'':Yet another installment A continuation of the series story after ''DARK FATE'' that adds a new vampire to the lineup.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Chaos Lineage'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series, releasedlineup. Released Feburary 2017 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.
UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'':A rerelease of Collects ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' and ''MORE, BLOOD'' in one package; released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in March 2018 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in November 2019.
* ''Diabolik Lovers CHAOS LINEAGE'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series; also an alternate continuity from ''LOST EDEN''. Released for theNintendo Switch.
UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2019.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~Haunted Dark Bridal~'': The first game of the series.
** ''Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition''.
* ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~'': The
** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'':
** ''Diabolik Lovers VANDEAD CARNIVAL'': A
* ''Diabolik Lovers DARK FATE'': The
** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE''
* ''Diabolik Lovers LOST EDEN'':
* ''Diabolik Lovers Chaos Lineage'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series, released
* ''Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition'':
* ''Diabolik Lovers CHAOS LINEAGE'': Based off of the ''CHAOS LINEAGE'' CD series; also an alternate continuity from ''LOST EDEN''. Released for the
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* ''Diabolik Lovers YOUNG BLOOD:'' A three-issue mini series following the childhood of the Sakimaki triplets.
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* ''Diabolik Lovers YOUNG BLOOD:'' A three-issue mini series following the childhood of the Sakimaki Sakamaki triplets.
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* BiblicalMotifs: Widespread starting in ''More,Blood'' and continuing in the subsequent visual novels. Yui is identified as "the Chosen Eve," and if she forges a mutually loving relationship with one of the boys, he may become "Adam," advancing a mysterious plan that seems to function better the less she knows about it.
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* BrokenBird: All of the boys, once their pasts are expanded.
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* BreedingSlave: Horrifyingly, this is what [[spoiler:the Tsukinami brothers]] want Yui for. [[spoiler:Yui is the closest thing to a Founder woman left in the world, so whether she likes it or not, [[OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace she is their best chance to avoid dying out]]. Fortunately for her, the Tsukinami brothers have to invest a lot of time into getting her fit for baby-making, because she is extensively vampire-tainted.]] Enough time that they may develop feelings for her, and certainly enough for an established love interest to mount a rescue. In some ''Dark Fate'' routes they decide she is too much trouble and only [[IHaveYourWife use her as a bargaining chip]].
* BrokenBird:All of the boys, once The traumatized, cynical, and emotionally detached brigade includes Shu, Laito, Ruki, and Kou. Shu and Ruki are easy to spot based on aloofness. Laito and Kou are not aloof at all, and their pasts types of emotional detachment are expanded.more specialized.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ayato and Shu.
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* {{Elopement}}: In some endings, Yui and her love interest do this in order to be together. [[spoiler:It is a likely outcome for BlackSheep like Shu and Subaru. The Mukamis always elope, since a happily ever after with Yui requires them to betray their own goal.]]
** It also figures into Ruki's backstory. [[spoiler:His mother ran away with her secret lover, leaving him and his father on the worst day of their lives when the family lost their fortune.]]
** It also figures into Ruki's backstory. [[spoiler:His mother ran away with her secret lover, leaving him and his father on the worst day of their lives when the family lost their fortune.]]
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* {{Elopement}}: In some endings, Yui and her love interest do this in order to be together. [[spoiler:It is a likely outcome for BlackSheep like Shu and Subaru. The Mukamis always tend to elope, since a happily ever after with Yui requires them to betray their own goal.]]
**It also figures into Ruki's backstory. [[spoiler:His Ruki gets special mention on this trope. Not only is it part of his backstory - [[spoiler:his mother ran away abandoned him and fled with her secret lover, leaving him and his father on the worst day of their lives lover when the his family lost their fortune.fortune - but he himself goes on the run with Yui in multiple [=VNs=]. A good portion of his ''Dark Fate'' route is a FugitiveArc.]]
* EngagementChallenge: A variant on this underlies the plot of the initial [=VN=] and the first season of the anime: the member of the Sakamaki clan who successfully awakens sacrificial bride will become the next head of the family. Or put another way, [[spoiler:whoever turns Yui into a vampire (while falling in love in the process) will become strong enough to defeat the vampire king and take his place.]]
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* EngagementChallenge: A variant on this underlies the plot of the initial [=VN=] and the first season of the anime: the member of the Sakamaki clan who successfully awakens sacrificial bride will become the next head of the family. Or put another way, [[spoiler:whoever turns Yui into a vampire (while falling in love in the process) will become strong enough to defeat the vampire king and take his place.]]
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: The anime dialed up the drama of the car wreck at the beginning of ''More,Blood'' to the point that the vehicle goes airborne and explodes after colliding with a tree. There is no indication that the car wreck that dramatic in the the visual novel; the event is described only through sound effects, and none of the sounds are explosions.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: The anime dialed up the drama of the car wreck at the beginning of ''More,Blood'' to the point that the vehicle goes airborne and explodes after colliding with a tree. There is no indication that the car wreck is that dramatic in the the visual novel; the event is described only through sound effects, and none of the sounds are explosions.explosions.
* EvilDoppelganger: The premise of the ''Zero'' drama [=CD=] series. The heroine and her love interest find themselves trapped in a MenacingMuseum where a [[SpookyPainting mysterious portrait of the love interest comes to life]]. As such, it is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech very aware of how to push the boy's buttons]]. One of the more plot-driven drama series; unlike some that use a ClosedCircle setting, this one focuses on the protagonists figuring out how to escape.
* EvilDoppelganger: The premise of the ''Zero'' drama [=CD=] series. The heroine and her love interest find themselves trapped in a MenacingMuseum where a [[SpookyPainting mysterious portrait of the love interest comes to life]]. As such, it is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech very aware of how to push the boy's buttons]]. One of the more plot-driven drama series; unlike some that use a ClosedCircle setting, this one focuses on the protagonists figuring out how to escape.
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* GodWasMyCopilot: In the ''More,Blood'' [=VN=], [[spoiler:the substitute school nurse Reinhart is [[PaperThinDisguise obviously]] Karlheinz in disguise. The Mukami brothers are clearly aware of him, but the Sakamaki brothers are not. Yui, who is the main recipient of his interventions, has no idea and just thinks he is a very open-minded and supportive teacher.]]
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* {{Foil}}: Contrasting the Sakamaki brothers and the Mukami brothers is one of the main themes of the ''More,Blood'' visual novel, which uses a character from the other faction as the external antagonist in most of routes.
** Ayato and Ruki ({{pride}}ful BookDumb [[HotBlooded hot head]] vs. prideful [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]])
** Shu and Yuma ([[TheQuietOne low key]] [[LazyBum unmotivated]] BlueBlood vs. [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] [[CallToAgriculture industrious]] [[WorkingClassHero common man]]) [[spoiler:plus there is their shared history to explore]]
** Kanato and Azusa ([[PsychopathicManchild creepy deranged]] vs. [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold creepy affectionate]])
** Subaru and Kou ([[HairTriggerTemper volatile]] [[IneffectualLoner loner]] vs. volatile [[TheCharmer charmer]])
** Kou is also foil to Laito ([[LoveHungry clingy]] [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent normal]] vs. [[LoveHurts clingy]] DysfunctionJunction) but this one-way traffic. Laito is not involved in Kou's route, and only in comparison to Laito would Kou seem well-adjusted.
** As usual, Reiji is the exception to the trend. [[spoiler:His foil is Shu.]]
* GardenOfEden: ''Book of Genesis'' motifs are widespread starting in ''More,Blood'' and continuing in the subsequent visual novels.
** Yui is identified as the "Chosen Eve," and if she forges a mutually loving relationship with one of the boys, he may become "Adam," advancing a mysterious plan that seems to function better the less she knows about it.
** The seat of Karlheinz' power is an otherworldly castle called Eden.
** Vampires even have their own take on the Garden of Eden story: The difference is that Adam and Eve were vampires, and God's punishment against Eve was making her human.
* GodWasMyCopilot: In the ''More,Blood'' [=VN=], [[spoiler:the substitute school nurse Reinhart is [[PaperThinDisguise obviously]] Karlheinz in disguise. The Mukami brothers areclearly aware of him, him (or at least Ruki is,) but the Sakamaki brothers are not. Yui, who is the main recipient of his interventions, has no idea and just thinks he is a very open-minded and supportive teacher.]]]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: The series does not lean heavily on this trope despite the time manipulation going on in the background, but it does not completely avoid it either.
** Seen in some bad endings in the later visual novels. [[spoiler:In one of Shu's ''Dark Fate'' endings, Karlheinz rewinds time all the way back to the start of ''More,Blood'' but Yui keeps her memories.]]
** The ''More,More,Blood'' audio dramas revolve around a magical hourglass that rewinds time in short increments, and the user gets to decide who can remember the loop. These dramas aim to get back to the franchise's "do-S" roots, so the hourglass is absolutely used for PowerPerversionPotential.
** Ayato and Ruki ({{pride}}ful BookDumb [[HotBlooded hot head]] vs. prideful [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]])
** Shu and Yuma ([[TheQuietOne low key]] [[LazyBum unmotivated]] BlueBlood vs. [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] [[CallToAgriculture industrious]] [[WorkingClassHero common man]]) [[spoiler:plus there is their shared history to explore]]
** Kanato and Azusa ([[PsychopathicManchild creepy deranged]] vs. [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold creepy affectionate]])
** Subaru and Kou ([[HairTriggerTemper volatile]] [[IneffectualLoner loner]] vs. volatile [[TheCharmer charmer]])
** Kou is also foil to Laito ([[LoveHungry clingy]] [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent normal]] vs. [[LoveHurts clingy]] DysfunctionJunction) but this one-way traffic. Laito is not involved in Kou's route, and only in comparison to Laito would Kou seem well-adjusted.
** As usual, Reiji is the exception to the trend. [[spoiler:His foil is Shu.]]
* GardenOfEden: ''Book of Genesis'' motifs are widespread starting in ''More,Blood'' and continuing in the subsequent visual novels.
** Yui is identified as the "Chosen Eve," and if she forges a mutually loving relationship with one of the boys, he may become "Adam," advancing a mysterious plan that seems to function better the less she knows about it.
** The seat of Karlheinz' power is an otherworldly castle called Eden.
** Vampires even have their own take on the Garden of Eden story: The difference is that Adam and Eve were vampires, and God's punishment against Eve was making her human.
* GodWasMyCopilot: In the ''More,Blood'' [=VN=], [[spoiler:the substitute school nurse Reinhart is [[PaperThinDisguise obviously]] Karlheinz in disguise. The Mukami brothers are
* GroundhogDayLoop: The series does not lean heavily on this trope despite the time manipulation going on in the background, but it does not completely avoid it either.
** Seen in some bad endings in the later visual novels. [[spoiler:In one of Shu's ''Dark Fate'' endings, Karlheinz rewinds time all the way back to the start of ''More,Blood'' but Yui keeps her memories.]]
** The ''More,More,Blood'' audio dramas revolve around a magical hourglass that rewinds time in short increments, and the user gets to decide who can remember the loop. These dramas aim to get back to the franchise's "do-S" roots, so the hourglass is absolutely used for PowerPerversionPotential.
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* HemoErotic: The franchise mainstreams its erotic content by positioning it in this trope. SceneryCensor and SexyDiscretionShot are in full effect in the instances where characters intimate in more conventional ways, (especially in the [=VNs=],) but blood-sucking is inevitable, and indeed, [[{{Fanservice}} a key part of the appeal]]. Many of the scenes have the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from the back in one of his character [=CDs=], seemingly for no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires have an aversion to religious symbols and churches. It's not strong enough to protect Yui from any of the boys, but her religiosity, affinity for churches, and the rosary she carries will annoy them. [[spoiler:However, Yui's rosary wards her from vampire influence at first, and makes it difficult for Cordelia to possesses her.]] Interestingly, Shu is so unbothered by this that he sometimes sneaks into church because no one will trouble him there.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires have an aversion to religious symbols and churches. It's not strong enough to protect Yui from any of the boys, but her religiosity, affinity for churches, and the rosary she carries will annoy them. [[spoiler:However, Yui's rosary wards her from vampire influence at first, and makes it difficult for Cordelia to possesses her.]] Interestingly, Shu is so unbothered by this that he sometimes sneaks into church because no one will trouble him there.
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* HemoErotic: The franchise mainstreams its erotic content by positioning it in this trope. SceneryCensor and SexyDiscretionShot are in full effect in the instances where characters get intimate in more conventional ways, (especially in the [=VNs=],) but blood-sucking is inevitable, and indeed, [[{{Fanservice}} a key part of the appeal]]. Many of the scenes have the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from the back in one of his character [=CDs=], seemingly for no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires havean a mild aversion to religious symbols and churches. It's not strong enough to protect Yui from any of the boys, but her religiosity, affinity for churches, and the rosary she carries will annoy them. [[spoiler:However, Yui's rosary wards her from vampire influence at first, and makes it difficult for Cordelia to possesses her.]] Interestingly, Shu is so unbothered by this that he sometimes sneaks into church because no one will trouble him there.
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* MeaningfulName: "Sakamaki," which is usually parsed out as "reverse-winding" in English. There are many potential meanings for the elements of this name, but the most applicable one describes winding up clockwork, which is where the anime's clock imagery comes from. "Reverse-winding" is effectively "rewinding," which accounts for the clocks spinning backward in the ''More,Blood'' anime opening. [[spoiler:And of course, it's suggestive of the time manipulation that become more obvious as the series progresses.]]
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* MeaningfulName: "Sakamaki," which is usually parsed out as "reverse-winding" in English. There are many potential meanings for the elements of this name, but the most applicable one describes winding up clockwork, which is where the anime's clock imagery comes from. "Reverse-winding" is effectively "rewinding," which accounts for the clocks spinning backward in the ''More,Blood'' anime opening. [[spoiler:And And of course, it's suggestive of the time manipulation that become more obvious as the series progresses.]]
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Karlheinz used his family as guinea pigs to achieve his goal, and in many cases he succeeds.]] But even if the goal is the most noble thing in the world (and is it really?) there is no way it could justify all the suffering he turned a blind eye to. [[spoiler:He knew about all the pain his children were in and let it happen. And even Karlheinz, powerful though he is, does not have the nerve to tell Laito to his face that what he went though contributed to some kind of greater good.]]
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Karlheinz used secretly uses his [[GuineaPigFamily family as guinea pigs pigs]] to achieve his goal, and repeatedly alters the timeline in many cases he succeeds.pursuit of his desired outcome.]] But That's obviously unethical, but true love is an essential component of the plan, so surely it is all for the best! And yet, even if the goal is the most noble thing in the world (and is it really?) there is no way it could justify all the suffering he turned a blind eye to. [[spoiler:He knew about all the pain his children were in and let it happen.happen. His family's misery was all part of the plan. And even Karlheinz, powerful though he is, does not have the nerve to tell Laito to his face that what he went though contributed to some kind of greater good.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: After a decade-worth of [=VNs=], the franchise has built up a bunch of vampire lore.
** Vampires are a distinct species - the Sakamaki brothers were born as vampires to vampire parents (well, mostly vampire parents,) and they appear to age as well. Their physiology is rather fuzzy - they lack body heat and don't have a pulse, but they do bleed. They also blush (just ask Laito.)
** Vampires are a distinct species - the Sakamaki brothers were born as vampires to vampire parents (well, mostly vampire parents,) and they appear to age as well. Their physiology is rather fuzzy - they lack body heat and don't have a pulse, but they do bleed. They also blush (just ask Laito.)
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: After a decade-worth of [=VNs=], content, the franchise has built up a bunch of vampire lore.
** Vampires are a distinct species - the Sakamaki brothers were born as vampires to vampire parents (well, mostly vampireparents,) and parents.) They age, or at least [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty grow up]], but they appear to age as well. are immortal. Their physiology is rather fuzzy nearly impossible to sort out, since different installments do not agree on [[TechnicallyLivingVampire how alive they are]]. Some elements are consistent, though - they lack body heat and don't have a pulse, but are always cold to the touch, they do bleed. They bleed, and they also blush (just ask Laito.(Laito, Kanato, and Subaru blush a lot.)
** Vampires are a distinct species - the Sakamaki brothers were born as vampires to vampire parents (well, mostly vampire
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** They can turn humans into vampires, but it is a slow process that does not always succeed (unless Karlheinz is doing the turning, since he is practically godlike). Former human vampires are weaker than born (pureblood) vampires in basically every respect, but they are not nocturnal by default.
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** They can turn humans into vampires, but it is a slow process that does not always succeed (unless Karlheinz a very powerful vampire is doing the turning, since he is practically godlike).behind it). Former human vampires are weaker than born (pureblood) vampires in basically every respect, but they are not nocturnal by default.
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* RoyalBrat: The Sakamaki brothers are vampire princes in a sense, although no one actually refers to them as such.
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* RoyalBrat: The Sakamaki brothers are vampire princes in a sense, although sense (although no one actually calls them that) and they certainly all have troublesome personalities. There is only one love interest who explicitly refers to them himself as such.a prince: Kino.
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* AmnesiacLover: There are multiple takes on this trope in the ''Para-Selene'' drama [=CD=] series and ''Chaos Lineage'' titles.
** In ''Para-Selene'', the heroine loses her memories of her love interest due to an [[WeirdMoon unusual atmospheric phenomenon]] (the titular [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_dog paraselene]].) There are JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind elements as well, with the pair caught in a shifting illusion world made from her lost memories, which include {{call back}}s to significant events from the visual novels.
** The ''Chaos Lineage'' dramas are a RoleSwapAU, while the ''Chaos Lineage'' visual novel uses that [=AU=] as the set up for an OntologicalMystery where the main characters are subjected to [[FakeMemories memory manipulation]]. Yui is the first to regain her memories, so her love interest serves as the primary amnesiac.
** In ''Para-Selene'', the heroine loses her memories of her love interest due to an [[WeirdMoon unusual atmospheric phenomenon]] (the titular [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_dog paraselene]].) There are JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind elements as well, with the pair caught in a shifting illusion world made from her lost memories, which include {{call back}}s to significant events from the visual novels.
** The ''Chaos Lineage'' dramas are a RoleSwapAU, while the ''Chaos Lineage'' visual novel uses that [=AU=] as the set up for an OntologicalMystery where the main characters are subjected to [[FakeMemories memory manipulation]]. Yui is the first to regain her memories, so her love interest serves as the primary amnesiac.
* ChurchMilitant: The Church, which played a minor role in the first storyline before receding from the plot, [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack shows up again]] in ''Lost Eden'' trying to exterminate demonkind under the direction of Yui's adoptive father, Seiji Komori.]]
* DeepSleep: [[spoiler:Ayato and Reiji]] experience this in their respective ''More,Blood'' endings. In either case the chosen guy is unconscious for months, with Yui [[IWillWaitForYou watching over him]]. [[spoiler:Ayato's has elements of a VisionQuest and he is out for over a year, while Reiji's doubles as an AngstComa.]]
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The anime dialed up the drama of the car wreck at the beginning of ''More,Blood'' to the point that the vehicle goes airborne and explodes after colliding with a tree. There is no indication that the car wreck that dramatic in the the visual novel; the event is described only through sound effects, and none of the sounds are explosions.
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* IntimateHealing: Expect at least one incidence of WoundLicking per route (even with bites excluded.) It almost seems like a vampire cultural thing, which makes sense since their saliva apparently has healing properties. They ask - er, demand - that Yui licks their injuries too. It nearly always doubles as LecherousLicking.
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* IntimateHealing: Expect at least one incidence of FingerSuckHealing or WoundLicking per route (even with bites excluded.) It almost seems like a vampire cultural thing, which makes sense since thing; their saliva apparently has healing properties. first instinct when Yui injures herself is to lick her, regardless of whether he cuts her hand or twists her ankle. They ask - er, or rather, demand - that Yui licks their injuries too. It nearly always doubles as LecherousLicking.
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* {{Matricide}}: The Sakamaki brothers had killed their mothers. Ayato, Kanato, and Laito murdered their mother, Cordelia, in cold blood after the pain and suffering she put them through. Reiji sent a vampire hunter to kill his mother, Beatrix, after years of her neglecting him in favor of Shu. [[spoiler:In some endings, Subaru granted his mother Christa's wish to die after the suffering that his father put her through.]]
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* {{Lunacy}}: Vampires in this series are moon-powered, and they become more powerful and more inclined to predatory behavior as the moon waxes. Often PlayedForDrama in the early [=VN=] plots, where Yui is either not aware, or not sufficiently cautious around her love interest on a full moon night, and he [[TookALevelInJerkass pulls out the stops on the meanness]].
* {{Matricide}}: TheSakamaki brothers had killed their mothers. Ayato, majority of Karlheinz' wives are {{Posthumous Character}}s via this trope. [[spoiler:Ayato, Kanato, and Laito murdered their mother, all had a hand in killing Cordelia, in cold blood after although Ayato was the pain and suffering she put them through. instigator. Reiji sent hired a vampire hunter to kill his mother, Beatrix, after years of her neglecting him in favor of Shu. [[spoiler:In some endings, Subaru granted his mother Christa's wish to die after the suffering that his father put her through.Beatrix.]]
* {{Matricide}}: The
* NotAfraidToDie: Vampires tend to be casually fatalistic, and they often mention that among their kind, death is something to celebrate. The more frequently a character brings this up, the greater their existential ennui.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Yui’s father abandons her on her own, forcing her to live with the Sakamakis. Also, Karl and Cordelia, towards Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
* {{Patricide}}: Carla killed his father on the request of his already dead mother.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood is significant for a variety of reasons and has differing effects depending on the story.
%%* TheQuietOne: Reiji and Shu.
* {{Patricide}}: Carla killed his father on the request of his already dead mother.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood is significant for a variety of reasons and has differing effects depending on the story.
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* ParentalAbandonment: This is one element in the spectrum of parental failure in this series, best represented by Yui’s father abandons travelling abroad for work and leaving her on her own, forcing her to live behind. For most of the [=VNs=] and all of the anime, it is a mystery whether or not he is aware of, cares about, or was involved in Yui ending up with the Sakamakis. Also, Karl Sakamaki brothers.
** This also also applies to all four Mukami brothers since they are orphans. [[spoiler:Azusa andCordelia, towards Ayato, Kanato Kou's parents are unknown, Yuma's are dead, and Laito.
Ruki got one from each column.]]
* {{Patricide}}:Carla killed Much rarer than matricide, but one of the love interests has a father-killing FreudianExcuse. [[spoiler:It's Carla, whose murder of his father on the request of his already dead mother.
was [[SympatheticMurderer reluctant]], [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident obfuscated]], and doubles as [[TheKingslayer regicide]].]]
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood is significant for a variety of reasons and has differing effects depending on thestory.
%%* TheQuietOne: Reijistory.
** In the first visual novel, her blood is empowering [[spoiler:and several love interests grow powerful enough to kill Karlheinz after repeatedly feeding from her.]]
** In the ''More,Blood'' audio dramas the heroine's blood seems to be an intoxicant, but there is no resolution regarding exactly what is going on. This set of dramas is 70% kinky make-out [=ASMR=] after all.
** In the later [=VNs=] her blood is suggested to have a MoralityChain effect - but that could just as easily be her personality.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Tsukinami brothers have this dynamic - Shin is HotBlooded, [[MotorMouth likes to run his mouth]], andShu.[[PastimesProvePersonality considers violence a hobby]] ([[AllThereInTheManual it's even on his character bio]],) while Carla is [[TheChessmaster methodical, calculating]], and [[BewareTheQuietOnes taciturn]]. Curiously, their theme colors are flipped. Carla's is dark red and Shin's is dark blue.
** This also also applies to all four Mukami brothers since they are orphans. [[spoiler:Azusa and
* {{Patricide}}:
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood is significant for a variety of reasons and has differing effects depending on the
%%* TheQuietOne: Reiji
** In the first visual novel, her blood is empowering [[spoiler:and several love interests grow powerful enough to kill Karlheinz after repeatedly feeding from her.]]
** In the ''More,Blood'' audio dramas the heroine's blood seems to be an intoxicant, but there is no resolution regarding exactly what is going on. This set of dramas is 70% kinky make-out [=ASMR=] after all.
** In the later [=VNs=] her blood is suggested to have a MoralityChain effect - but that could just as easily be her personality.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Tsukinami brothers have this dynamic - Shin is HotBlooded, [[MotorMouth likes to run his mouth]], and
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* ShowerOfAwkward: This trope is obligatory in the visual novels. Occasionally Yui will walk in while her love interest is bathing, but the other way around is much, much more common.
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* ShowerOfAwkward: This trope is very widespread in the visual novels, and obligatory in the visual novels.the first two of them. Occasionally Yui will walk in while her love interest is bathing, but the other way around is much, much more common. The later [=VNs=] mainly reserve it for newly introduced characters.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A lunar eclipse features prominently in the plot of ''Dark Fate'' drama [=CD=] series and [=VN=]. Eclipses have strange effects on vampires, causing erratic behavior - this first shows up in the ''Versus II'' dramas, where the love interests all get quite maudlin. In ''Dark Fate'' proper, a lunar eclipse diminishes their powers and makes them vulnerable to attack, which the Tsukinami brothers use to their advantage.
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* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A lunar eclipse features prominently in the plot of ''Dark Fate''. Eclipses have strange effects on vampires and makes them vulnerable to attack, which the Tsukinami brothers use to their advantage.
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* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A lunar eclipse features prominently in TwoGuysAndAGirl: The ''Versus'' audio drama series are based around a pair of love interests competing over the plot of ''Dark Fate''. Eclipses FeaturelessProtagonist. It's evidently a winning idea, because four ''Versus'' series have strange effects on vampires and makes them vulnerable to attack, which been released over the Tsukinami brothers use to their advantage.years. The setup gives the boys a chance interact with one another in ways that the ensemble dynamic does not allow for, plus there is almost always a [[ThreeWaySex two-on-one]] KissOfTheVampire scene.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Yuma turns out to be the first and only friend Shu ever had.]]
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: [[spoiler:Yuma and Shu]] were friends when they were young, but tragic circumstances drove them apart. They grew into very different people in the intervening years, to the extent that when they meet again they don't recognize one another [[spoiler:which isn't surprising, since Shu thought Yuma turns out to be the first died, and only friend Shu ever had.]]Yuma's amnesia sticks.]] While they are ultimately glad to reconnect, they don't get particularly close.
* WeddingFinale: Good endings often conclude on Yui and her love interest's wedding day, though it is not universal.
* WeddingFinale: Good endings often conclude on Yui and her love interest's wedding day, though it is not universal.
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** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' also for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Release date TBA.
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** ''Diabolik Lovers LUNATIC PARADE'': A fandisc for ''DARK FATE'' also for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. Release date TBA.Released Feburary 2016.
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* AssholeVictim: It's '''''really''''' difficult to feel sorry for the Sakamakis in the endings where one or more of them end up getting killed.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Karl. He even has three wives.
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* AbortedArc: The second season of the anime adapts some elements of the third visual novel, ''Dark Fate'', including introducing Carla and Shin Tsukinami so the two existing vampire groups have a common foe to team up against. While the team-up does occur, the show ends on a cliffhanger right as the Tsukinamis move into action.
%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even ''believe''.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin are not vampires. They belong to the First Blood demon clan, a.k.a. the Founders - a proud and isolationist group who are the progenitors of not only the vampires, but several other demon clans, and possess the powers of all of them combined. That said, from the heroine's perspective, they drink blood, live at night, and are far too strong for a human girl to resist, so they are functionally the no different.
* AdultsAreUseless: Parents are neglectful, abusive, or incapable of standing up for their children, and authority figures like school faculty and church officials all prove to be complicit in Yui's fate. In the ''More,Blood'' visual novel there is one teacher that really does support her, [[spoiler:but to call him complicit is a gross understatement since he's actually Karlheinz in disguise.]]
%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even ''believe''.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin are not vampires. They belong to the First Blood demon clan, a.k.a. the Founders - a proud and isolationist group who are the progenitors of not only the vampires, but several other demon clans, and possess the powers of all of them combined. That said, from the heroine's perspective, they drink blood, live at night, and are far too strong for a human girl to resist, so they are functionally the no different.
* AdultsAreUseless: Parents are neglectful, abusive, or incapable of standing up for their children, and authority figures like school faculty and church officials all prove to be complicit in Yui's fate. In the ''More,Blood'' visual novel there is one teacher that really does support her, [[spoiler:but to call him complicit is a gross understatement since he's actually Karlheinz in disguise.]]
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* AbortedArc: The second season of the anime adapts some elements of the third visual novel, ''Dark Fate'', including introducing Carla and Shin Tsukinami so the two existing vampire groups have a common foe to team up against. While the team-up does occur, the show ends on a cliffhanger right as the Tsukinamis Tsukinami brothers move into action.
%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even ''believe''.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin are not vampires. They belong to the First Blood demon clan, a.k.a. the Founders - a proud and isolationist group who are the progenitors of not only the vampires, but several other demon clans, and possess the powers of all of them combined. That said, from the heroine's perspective, they drink blood, live at night, and are far too strong for a human girl to resist, so they are functionally the no different.
identical to vampires.
* AdultsAreUseless: Parents are neglectful, abusive, or incapable ofstanding up for protecting their children, and authority figures like school faculty and church officials all prove to be complicit in Yui's fate. In the ''More,Blood'' visual novel there is one teacher that really does support her, [[spoiler:but to call him complicit is a gross understatement since he's actually Karlheinz in disguise.]]
* AdultsAreUseless: Parents are neglectful, abusive, or incapable of
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%%* AxCrazy: Pretty much all the Sakamakis but especially Kanato, oh Kanato…
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* {{Bishonen}}: The Sakamakis, Mukamis, Tsukinamis, and Kino.
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* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Averted. While many of the female characters have sympathetic backstories, they have harmed others for their own benefits. Yui herself can also become just as bad as the boys in some endings if she's pushed too far.
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** The Mukami brothers owe Karlheinz a life-debt, and though they seldom talk about Karlheinz as if he was their father, they have a closer relationship with him than his blood-related sons.
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** The Mukami brothers owe Karlheinz a life-debt, and though they seldom only talk about Karlheinz as if he was their father, a father-figure in really sentimental moments, they have a closer relationship with him than his blood-related sons.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Yui, to Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
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* TookALevelInKindness: The boys still have their trademarked jerky attitudes in later visual novel installments, but ultimately they're much nicer to Yui as the series goes on.
* TokenMiniMoe: Kanato, although he is OlderThanTheyLook.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Ayato likes takoyakis.
** Laito likes macarons.
** Reiji likes pasta and English tea.
** Shu likes meat.
** Kanato only eats sweets.
* TokenMiniMoe: Kanato, although he is OlderThanTheyLook.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Ayato likes takoyakis.
** Laito likes macarons.
** Reiji likes pasta and English tea.
** Shu likes meat.
** Kanato only eats sweets.
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* TookALevelInKindness: The boys still have their trademarked jerky attitudes in later visual novel installments, but ultimately they're much nicer to Yui as TrademarkFavoriteFood: Many of the series goes on.
* TokenMiniMoe: Kanato, although he is OlderThanTheyLook.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
**characters' favorite foods are utilised in the plot in some way - Reiji's teatimes, Kanato's sweet tooth, and how Ayato likes takoyakis.
** Laito likes macarons.
** Reiji likes pasta and English tea.
** Shu likes meat.
** Kanato only eats sweets.is easily distracted by takoyaki are stand-out examples. Subaru represents an inversion in that his characterization is based on being so ambivalent to human food that he doesn't have a favorite dish.
* TokenMiniMoe: Kanato, although he is OlderThanTheyLook.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
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** Laito likes macarons.
** Reiji likes pasta and English tea.
** Shu likes meat.
** Kanato only eats sweets.
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%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even ''believe''.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin are actually not vampires as they're really creatures call First Bloods (or Founders).
%%* AdultsAreUseless: And bastards too.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Oh, yes!
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin are actually not vampires as they're really creatures call First Bloods (or Founders).
%%* AdultsAreUseless: And bastards too.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Oh, yes!
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* AbortedArc: The second season of the anime adapts some elements of the third visual novel, ''Dark Fate'', including introducing Carla and Shin Tsukinami so the two existing vampire groups have a common foe to team up against. While the team-up does occur, the show ends on a cliffhanger right as the Tsukinamis move into action.
%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even''believe''.
''believe''.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin areactually not vampires as they're really creatures call vampires. They belong to the First Bloods (or Founders).
%%*Blood demon clan, a.k.a. the Founders - a proud and isolationist group who are the progenitors of not only the vampires, but several other demon clans, and possess the powers of all of them combined. That said, from the heroine's perspective, they drink blood, live at night, and are far too strong for a human girl to resist, so they are functionally the no different.
* AdultsAreUseless:And bastards too.
%%*Parents are neglectful, abusive, or incapable of standing up for their children, and authority figures like school faculty and church officials all prove to be complicit in Yui's fate. In the ''More,Blood'' visual novel there is one teacher that really does support her, [[spoiler:but to call him complicit is a gross understatement since he's actually Karlheinz in disguise.]]
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:Oh, yes!Basically by default; since bad boys are the selling point, there are no {{Nice Guy}}s on offer.
%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Carla and Shin are
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* AdultsAreUseless:
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
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%%* BeachEpisode: The Blood & Love Sweat CD.
* BerserkButton: After Yui accidentally rips off the arm of Kanato’s teddy bear, he snaps.
* BiblicalMotifs: Yui is said to be Eve who needs to pick one of the boys as her Adam.
%%* 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]].
* BerserkButton: After Yui accidentally rips off the arm of Kanato’s teddy bear, he snaps.
* BiblicalMotifs: Yui is said to be Eve who needs to pick one of the boys as her Adam.
%%* 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]].
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* BerserkButton: Kanato is liable to blow up at any time over almost anything, but nothing provokes him as readily as a slight against his stuffed bear, Teddie. After Yui accidentally rips off Teddie's arm, he snaps. [[spoiler:To say nothing of Teddie's grandiose demise in the
* BiblicalMotifs: Yui is said to be Eve who needs to pick one of the boys as her Adam.
%%* BigBad:
%%** Cordelia in general.
%%** [[spoiler: Reiji, in Shu’s route.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Sakamaki brothers act cold
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* 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 really hard and instead of praising his efforts she would constantly berate him. She would sometimes physically abuse him as well for any perceived failure and throw him in a lake nearby, even though he could not swim, watching him struggle and beg her to save 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 very broad-minded. 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:an 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''' slight case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub. The voice actors have no problems using words derived from sex and excrement like the Spanish for "shit". However, due to recent Mexican laws against the use of mysoginistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the phrase "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "slightly" (emphasis on '''slightly''', due to the [[LargeHam very hammy perfomance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) tamer "little vixen", which is a euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of DistancedFromCurrentEvents as well, due to a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a music video where Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making it obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]] Meanwhile, this is averted like hell in the Brazilian Portuguese dub.
** 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 really hard and instead of praising his efforts she would constantly berate him. She would sometimes physically abuse him as well for any perceived failure and throw him in a lake nearby, even though he could not swim, watching him struggle and beg her to save 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 very broad-minded. 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:an 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''' slight case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub. The voice actors have no problems using words derived from sex and excrement like the Spanish for "shit". However, due to recent Mexican laws against the use of mysoginistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the phrase "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "slightly" (emphasis on '''slightly''', due to the [[LargeHam very hammy perfomance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) tamer "little vixen", which is a euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of DistancedFromCurrentEvents as well, due to a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a music video where Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making it obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]] Meanwhile, this is averted like hell in the Brazilian Portuguese dub.
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* BreakTheCutie:
** Again,BiblicalMotifs: Widespread starting in ''More,Blood'' and continuing in the subsequent visual novels. Yui is identified as "the Chosen Eve," and if she forges a mutually loving relationship with one of the boys, he may become "Adam," advancing a mysterious plan that seems to function better the less she knows about it.
* BigBad: Each story arc has its own [[ArcVillain conflict-driver]], but the character who is ultimately responsible for all of this madness [[spoiler:is Karlheinz, who foresaw it all and steers it to play out the way it does.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Sakamaki family is a disaster. Family patriarch Karlheinz, the impossibly powerful vampire king, married three women and has a long history of neglecting both them and their six sons. He seems to breed enmity wherever he goes.
** His first wife, Cordelia, was a [[EvilMatriarch real piece of work]] who took out her frustration over being ignored by her husband on Ayato, Kanato, and Laito, mentally scarring them so badly [[spoiler:that [[TheDogBitesBack they eventually murder her]].]]
** His second wife Beatrix overburdened Shu while neglecting Reiji, causing their CainAndAbel relationship [[spoiler:and inspiring Reiji to have her killed as well.]]
** His third wife, Christa, was so traumatized by the reality of her marriage that she went mad and unwittingly vents her misery on Subaru, which drives his rebellious behavior.
** His brother Richter conspires occasionally with him, but mostly against him. The brothers(except Reiji):
were close once, before Cordelia came between them. Now, there are no depths Richter won't stoop to if wins him Cordelia's affection.
* BreakTheCutie: The love interests were at some point sweet, adorable children who went through some sort of traumatic experience. Excluding Reiji, who was an adorable little schemer that ''caused'' traumatic experiences.
** Ayato [[spoiler:wasforced by Cordelia Cordelia's personal choice to be the best succeed Karlheinz, and be better than Beatrix’s children (Shu and Reiji). She forced him to study really hard and instead of praising his efforts she was convinced that if Ayato distinguished himself, Karlheinz would constantly berate him. favor her again. She singled Ayato out for unreasonably strict treatment, insisted that he only had value if he was superior to everyone else, and would sometimes physically abuse and humiliate him as well for any perceived failure and throw him in a lake nearby, even though he could not swim, watching him struggle and beg her to save him.failures. Due to this he ended up believing that he must always be the best at everything, becoming a selfish jerkass.]]
** Kanato [[spoiler:wastraumatized upon being forced practically invisible to Cordelia unless he was entertaining her by singing or making dolls, and over time his mother to watch as she screwed with Ritcher. Also, due to his mother’s ParentalNeglect and her sexual antics, loneliness morphed into rage that he takes out on everyone around him. He acts childish, needy and AxCrazy.]]
**Laito, [[spoiler: often Laito had sex it the worst of the triplets. [[spoiler:Cordelia sexually abused him, treating him like one of her many flings, but with his own mom, who was very broad-minded. He grew up believing she the added bonus that he loved him her unconditionally. He really did love her despite himself, and got jealous of all the men she screwed. When Karl found out the relationship between as a result came to believe that love is fundamentally a lie. The situation came to a disastrous end when Karlheinz intervened, with Laito taking most of the blame 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 cruelly ripping away any remaining pretense that Laito and becoming a sexual deviant.mattered to her at all.]]
**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 is prone to kill her rages [[spoiler:that are fueled by feelings of powerlessness and even gave self-loathing. He wants to help his mother, but his attempts make him a silver knife, which can kill vampires. Subaru, however, never could bring himself miserable. If she is not begging Subaru to kill his own mother and he had father, she is standing Subaru next to watch him as the cause of her being frequently abused and raped by Karl. The trauma was bad enough, and pain. It's become a self-fulfilling prophecy - [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he's been told he became violent as is a result.monster enough times that he believes it]].]]
**Shu, [[spoiler:an ExtremeDoormat since childhood, one day befriended an Shu felt stifled by the constraints of being firstborn even as a boy. [[spoiler:He made a habit of sneaking out of the castle, where he met Edgar, a human boy named Edgar. Both who became best friends, but his first and only friend. Reiji, who disapproved of his brother being friends fraternizing with an human, humans, decided to teach Shu a lesson and [[DisproportionateRetribution burned the whole Edgar's entire village Edgar lived in, to the ground]], leaving Shu traumatized and feeling useless upon not doing anything to save Edgar. powerless. The nail in the coffin was Reiji twisting his mind by constantly telling him that because of he brought it on himself through his failure, he is not apt to be weakness and impropriety.]]
** The Mukami brothers were also adorable kids with a partially shared tragic backstory. [[spoiler:Each coming from a different profoundly unfortunate circumstance reminiscent of something from a {{tear jerker}} Victorian novel, thefamily head.four of them met at an [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage that was a prison in all but name]]. They joined forces to escape, but were violently re-captured, and in that moment of despair are offered new lives as vampires.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' slight case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub. The voice actors have no problems using words derived from sex and excrement like the Spanish for "shit". However, due to recent Mexican laws against the use ofmysoginistic misogynistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the phrase "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "slightly" (emphasis on '''slightly''', due to the [[LargeHam very hammy perfomance performance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) tamer "little vixen", which is a euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of DistancedFromCurrentEvents as well, due to a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a music video where Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making it obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]] Meanwhile, this is averted like hell in the Brazilian Portuguese dub.
** Again,
* BigBad: Each story arc has its own [[ArcVillain conflict-driver]], but the character who is ultimately responsible for all of this madness [[spoiler:is Karlheinz, who foresaw it all and steers it to play out the way it does.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Sakamaki family is a disaster. Family patriarch Karlheinz, the impossibly powerful vampire king, married three women and has a long history of neglecting both them and their six sons. He seems to breed enmity wherever he goes.
** His first wife, Cordelia, was a [[EvilMatriarch real piece of work]] who took out her frustration over being ignored by her husband on Ayato, Kanato, and Laito, mentally scarring them so badly [[spoiler:that [[TheDogBitesBack they eventually murder her]].]]
** His second wife Beatrix overburdened Shu while neglecting Reiji, causing their CainAndAbel relationship [[spoiler:and inspiring Reiji to have her killed as well.]]
** His third wife, Christa, was so traumatized by the reality of her marriage that she went mad and unwittingly vents her misery on Subaru, which drives his rebellious behavior.
** His brother Richter conspires occasionally with him, but mostly against him. The brothers
* BreakTheCutie: The love interests were at some point sweet, adorable children who went through some sort of traumatic experience. Excluding Reiji, who was an adorable little schemer that ''caused'' traumatic experiences.
** Ayato [[spoiler:was
** Kanato [[spoiler:was
**
**
**
** The Mukami brothers were also adorable kids with a partially shared tragic backstory. [[spoiler:Each coming from a different profoundly unfortunate circumstance reminiscent of something from a {{tear jerker}} Victorian novel, the
* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' slight case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub. The voice actors have no problems using words derived from sex and excrement like the Spanish for "shit". However, due to recent Mexican laws against the use of
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* DaywalkingVampire: According to Reiji, daylight don't actually harmed real vampires in the series. The Mukami brothers shows that they are fine in the sunlight.
* 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.
* 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.
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* DaywalkingVampire: According to Reiji, daylight don't actually harmed real Sunlight is one of the many traditional vampire weaknesses that do not apply in ''Diabolik Lovers'' (along with stakes and for the most part crosses). Pureblood vampires in like the series. Sakamakis are nocturnal and draw power from the moon, but the sun doesn't hurt them. The Mukami brothers shows are even active during the day.
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Due to the in-universe {{Story Reset}}s, the conclusion of each of the routes is nullified and anyone who died snaps back to life in the next story arc none the wiser.]]
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Several cast members can sing well, so it is not surprising that theyare fine in get tapped to perform the sunlight.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune:
theme songs.
** 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 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.
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Due to the in-universe {{Story Reset}}s, the conclusion of each of the routes is nullified and anyone who died snaps back to life in the next story arc none the wiser.]]
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Several cast members can sing well, so it is not surprising that they
* 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
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%%* DownerEnding: A lot of the Bad Ends.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Most of the Good Ends (except for Kanato's). They're more of a BittersweetEnding.
* {{Elopement}}: In some endings, Yui and one of the boys do this in order to be together.
** [[spoiler:Ruki's mother did this to be with her secret lover in his past. Of course, that meant she left him and his father on the worst day of their lives when the family went broke.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Most of the Good Ends (except for Kanato's). They're more of a BittersweetEnding.
* {{Elopement}}: In some endings, Yui and one of the boys do this in order to be together.
** [[spoiler:Ruki's mother did this to be with her secret lover in his past. Of course, that meant she left him and his father on the worst day of their lives when the family went broke.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding:
* {{Elopement}}: In some endings, Yui and
**
* {{Epigraph}}: The first visual novel opens with an in-universe epigraph written by Richter of all people. After Cordelia chose Karlheinz over him, he spent centuries WalkingTheEarth, some of which went
* FamilyOfChoice: The Mukami brothers are not blood-related, but chose to become a family when they became vampires. Their interactions with each other are warmer and more lively than those of the Sakamaki brothers and it's clear that they care for one other a great deal.
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* HemoErotic: Oh, so much! Many of the scenes have the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from the back in one of his Character [=CDs=], seemingly for no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.
* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler: The reason why Yui is protected from 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.
* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler: The reason why Yui is protected from 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.
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* HemoErotic: Oh, so much! Many of GodWasMyCopilot: In the scenes have ''More,Blood'' [=VN=], [[spoiler:the substitute school nurse Reinhart is [[PaperThinDisguise obviously]] Karlheinz in disguise. The Mukami brothers are clearly aware of him, but the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from Sakamaki brothers are not. Yui, who is the back in one main recipient of his Character [=CDs=], seemingly for interventions, has no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.
* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler: The reason why Yui is protected from the vampire influenceidea and Cordelia, at first just thinks he is because she is protected by the rosary she always wears.a very open-minded and supportive teacher.]]
*IHateYouVampireDad: HatesTheirParent: The Sakamakis towards Karl. Justified, though. The Mukamis, however, main two recipients of this are Karlheinz and Cordelia.
** Karlheinz' natural born sons resent him, but his turned-vampire "sons" are tremendously grateful to him. From the perspective of the Sakamaki brothers, Karlheinz has never been there forwhat Karl has done them and merely lords over them from afar. Reiji flips this; he respects his father and hates his mother instead.
** The Mukami brothers owe Karlheinz a life-debt, and though they seldom talk about Karlheinz as if he was their father, they have a closer relationship with him than his blood-related sons.
** The triplets have very complicated feelings towards their mother. Ayato probably the least so - he hates her and doesn't regret acting against her. Laito is undoubtedly scarred forthem.life, but he is glad she's dead. Kanato probably loves her more now that she is dead.
* HemoErotic: The franchise mainstreams its erotic content by positioning it in this trope. SceneryCensor and SexyDiscretionShot are in full effect in the instances where characters intimate in more conventional ways, (especially in the [=VNs=],) but blood-sucking is inevitable, and indeed, [[{{Fanservice}} a key part of the appeal]]. Many of the scenes have the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from the back in one of his character [=CDs=], seemingly for no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires have an aversion to religious symbols and churches. It's not strong enough to protect Yui from any of the boys, but her religiosity, affinity for churches, and the rosary she carries will annoy them. [[spoiler:However, Yui's rosary wards her from vampire influence at first, and makes it difficult for Cordelia to possesses her.]] Interestingly, Shu is so unbothered by this that he sometimes sneaks into church because no one will trouble him there.
* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler: The reason why Yui is protected from the vampire influence
*
** Karlheinz' natural born sons resent him, but his turned-vampire "sons" are tremendously grateful to him. From the perspective of the Sakamaki brothers, Karlheinz has never been there for
** The Mukami brothers owe Karlheinz a life-debt, and though they seldom talk about Karlheinz as if he was their father, they have a closer relationship with him than his blood-related sons.
** The triplets have very complicated feelings towards their mother. Ayato probably the least so - he hates her and doesn't regret acting against her. Laito is undoubtedly scarred for
* HemoErotic: The franchise mainstreams its erotic content by positioning it in this trope. SceneryCensor and SexyDiscretionShot are in full effect in the instances where characters intimate in more conventional ways, (especially in the [=VNs=],) but blood-sucking is inevitable, and indeed, [[{{Fanservice}} a key part of the appeal]]. Many of the scenes have the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from the back in one of his character [=CDs=], seemingly for no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires have an aversion to religious symbols and churches. It's not strong enough to protect Yui from any of the boys, but her religiosity, affinity for churches, and the rosary she carries will annoy them. [[spoiler:However, Yui's rosary wards her from vampire influence at first, and makes it difficult for Cordelia to possesses her.]] Interestingly, Shu is so unbothered by this that he sometimes sneaks into church because no one will trouble him there.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Ayato, Laito and Kanato.
* {{Jerkass}}: All of the Sakamakis, but mostly Ayato.
* LighterAndSofter: After ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' the games and routes ease up on the love interests abusing Yui. The series has plenty of dark and cruel moments though.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Cordelia and Ritcher. In the case of the Sakamakis, it will be something more like Love Makes You Jerkass and Blood-crazed.
* {{Matricide}}: The Sakamaki brothers had killed their mothers. Ayato, Kanato, and Laito murdered their mother, Cordelia, in cold blood after the pain and suffering she put them through. Reiji sent a vampire hunter to kill his mother, Beatrix, after years of her neglecting him in favor of Shu. [[spoiler:In some endings, Subaru granted his mother Christa's wish to die after the suffering that his father put her through.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: The Mukami brothers ended up in their childhood. It's also where they met.
* 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.
* {{Patricide}}: Carla killed his father on the request of his already dead mother.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood, naturally. Read Yui's Character entry as to why.
* {{Jerkass}}: All of the Sakamakis, but mostly Ayato.
* LighterAndSofter: After ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' the games and routes ease up on the love interests abusing Yui. The series has plenty of dark and cruel moments though.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Cordelia and Ritcher. In the case of the Sakamakis, it will be something more like Love Makes You Jerkass and Blood-crazed.
* {{Matricide}}: The Sakamaki brothers had killed their mothers. Ayato, Kanato, and Laito murdered their mother, Cordelia, in cold blood after the pain and suffering she put them through. Reiji sent a vampire hunter to kill his mother, Beatrix, after years of her neglecting him in favor of Shu. [[spoiler:In some endings, Subaru granted his mother Christa's wish to die after the suffering that his father put her through.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: The Mukami brothers ended up in their childhood. It's also where they met.
* 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.
* {{Patricide}}: Carla killed his father on the request of his already dead mother.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood, naturally. Read Yui's Character entry as to why.
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* IntimateHealing: Expect at least one incidence of WoundLicking per route (even with bites excluded.) It almost seems like a vampire cultural thing, which makes sense since their saliva apparently has healing properties. They ask - er, demand - that Yui licks their injuries too. It nearly always doubles as LecherousLicking.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ayato, Laito andKanato.
Kanato seem to have internalized their mother's selfishness.
* {{Jerkass}}:All of Every love interest except for Azusa is demeaning, coercive, and delights in Yui's pain. Well, Azusa delights in Yui's pain too, but not in the Sakamakis, but mostly Ayato.
same way.
* LighterAndSofter:After ''Haunted Dark Bridal'' the games and routes ease up on The ''Diabolik Lovers'' franchise been around for long enough that all the love interests abusing Yui. interests' {{Freudian Excuse}}s have been explored and most have [[TookALevelInKindness a few levels in kindness]] under their belts. The boys that have been around since the beginning are quite sweet to Yui by ''Dark Fate'', but the series has plenty of dark and cruel moments though.
introduced a new boy or two at kindness level zero to maintain its "do-S" credibility.
* LoveMakesYouEvil:Cordelia Cordelia's unanswered love for Karlheinz underlies her abusive behavior towards her sons and Ritcher. In the case of the Sakamakis, it her dalliance with Richter - they are all tools she hopes to use to draw his attention.
** Richter has nothing if he doesn't have Cordelia, and he willbe something more like Love Makes You Jerkass and Blood-crazed.
''never'' truly have Cordelia. [[spoiler:The anime did him a favor by having him betray her - it is at least a way out of her clutches.]]
* {{Matricide}}: The Sakamaki brothers had killed their mothers. Ayato, Kanato, and Laito murdered their mother, Cordelia, in cold blood after the pain and suffering she put them through. Reiji sent a vampire hunter to kill his mother, Beatrix, after years of her neglecting him in favor of Shu. [[spoiler:In some endings, Subaru granted his mother Christa's wish to die after the suffering that his father put her through.]]
]]
* MeaningfulName: "Sakamaki," which is usually parsed out as "reverse-winding" in English. There are many potential meanings for the elements of this name, but the most applicable one describes winding up clockwork, which is where the anime's clock imagery comes from. "Reverse-winding" is effectively "rewinding," which accounts for the clocks spinning backward in the ''More,Blood'' anime opening. [[spoiler:And of course, it's suggestive of the time manipulation that become more obvious as the series progresses.]]
* MuggleInMageCustody: The heroine is at the mercy of her potential love interests and there is nothing she can do about it. She's been isolated from what little family she has and the vampires will catch her if she tries to escape. There is a lot of ambiguity regarding what kind of relationship she has with her vampire beau in the beginning - is she a meal on legs? A pet? A girlfriend? The goal of the vampires, at least at first, involves making her like them - but ultimately she changes them more than they change her.
* TheNoseKnows: Vampires and demons have a very keen sense of smell, which poses various problems for Yui. Above all is that she smells so delicious that they won't leave her alone. It also makes it very difficult for her to keep secrets from them. If they are feeling possessive and detect the scent of another man on her, expect big trouble ahead.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Karlheinz used his family as guinea pigs to achieve his goal, and in many cases he succeeds.]] But even if the goal is the most noble thing in the world (and is it really?) there is no way it could justify all the suffering he turned a blind eye to. [[spoiler:He knew about all the pain his children were in and let it happen. And even Karlheinz, powerful though he is, does not have the nerve to tell Laito to his face that what he went though contributed to some kind of greater good.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: The Mukami brothers ended up in their childhood. It's also where theymet.
met.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: After a decade-worth of [=VNs=], the franchise has built up a bunch of vampire lore.
** Vampires are a distinct species - the Sakamaki brothers were born as vampires to vampire parents (well, mostly vampire parents,) and they appear to age as well. Their physiology is rather fuzzy - they lack body heat and don't have a pulse, but they do bleed. They also blush (just ask Laito.)
** No one seems to mind the {{Masquerade}} much, possibly because the Sakamakis are so privileged that they can get away with it and it's no sweat to the Mukamis; if worse comes to worst they can go back to the vampire homeland in a parallel world. The Sakamaki brothers were raised there, pay visits there frequently, and it becomes a setting in later [=VNs=].
** All vampires have superhuman strength and speed and they heal very quickly. Sunlight is not a hazard for them, although they are nocturnal by nature. Stakes do not play a part in ''Diabolik Lovers'' vampire lore at all, and stabbing a vampire in the heart is not a sure way to kill one. Beheading specifically is, though. They have a minor weakness to religious symbols and a [[SilverHasMysticPowers major weakness to silver]]. An otherwise survivable injury delivered by a silver blade or bullet will eventually kill if it goes untreated.
** They canage as normal humans.
turn humans into vampires, but it is a slow process that does not always succeed (unless Karlheinz is doing the turning, since he is practically godlike). Former human vampires are weaker than born (pureblood) vampires in basically every respect, but they are not nocturnal by default.
* ParentalAbandonment: Yui’s father abandons herat on her own, forcing her to live with the Sakamakis. Also, Karl and Cordelia, towards Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
* {{Patricide}}: Carla killed his father on the request of his already deadmother.
mother.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’sblood, naturally. Read Yui's Character entry as to why.blood is significant for a variety of reasons and has differing effects depending on the story.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ayato, Laito and
* {{Jerkass}}:
* LighterAndSofter:
* LoveMakesYouEvil:
** Richter has nothing if he doesn't have Cordelia, and he will
* {{Matricide}}: The Sakamaki brothers had killed their mothers. Ayato, Kanato, and Laito murdered their mother, Cordelia, in cold blood after the pain and suffering she put them through. Reiji sent a vampire hunter to kill his mother, Beatrix, after years of her neglecting him in favor of Shu. [[spoiler:In some endings, Subaru granted his mother Christa's wish to die after the suffering that his father put her through.
* MeaningfulName: "Sakamaki," which is usually parsed out as "reverse-winding" in English. There are many potential meanings for the elements of this name, but the most applicable one describes winding up clockwork, which is where the anime's clock imagery comes from. "Reverse-winding" is effectively "rewinding," which accounts for the clocks spinning backward in the ''More,Blood'' anime opening. [[spoiler:And of course, it's suggestive of the time manipulation that become more obvious as the series progresses.]]
* MuggleInMageCustody: The heroine is at the mercy of her potential love interests and there is nothing she can do about it. She's been isolated from what little family she has and the vampires will catch her if she tries to escape. There is a lot of ambiguity regarding what kind of relationship she has with her vampire beau in the beginning - is she a meal on legs? A pet? A girlfriend? The goal of the vampires, at least at first, involves making her like them - but ultimately she changes them more than they change her.
* TheNoseKnows: Vampires and demons have a very keen sense of smell, which poses various problems for Yui. Above all is that she smells so delicious that they won't leave her alone. It also makes it very difficult for her to keep secrets from them. If they are feeling possessive and detect the scent of another man on her, expect big trouble ahead.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Karlheinz used his family as guinea pigs to achieve his goal, and in many cases he succeeds.]] But even if the goal is the most noble thing in the world (and is it really?) there is no way it could justify all the suffering he turned a blind eye to. [[spoiler:He knew about all the pain his children were in and let it happen. And even Karlheinz, powerful though he is, does not have the nerve to tell Laito to his face that what he went though contributed to some kind of greater good.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: The Mukami brothers ended up in their childhood. It's also where they
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: After a decade-worth of [=VNs=], the franchise has built up a bunch of vampire lore.
** Vampires are a distinct species - the Sakamaki brothers were born as vampires to vampire parents (well, mostly vampire parents,) and they appear to age as well. Their physiology is rather fuzzy - they lack body heat and don't have a pulse, but they do bleed. They also blush (just ask Laito.)
** No one seems to mind the {{Masquerade}} much, possibly because the Sakamakis are so privileged that they can get away with it and it's no sweat to the Mukamis; if worse comes to worst they can go back to the vampire homeland in a parallel world. The Sakamaki brothers were raised there, pay visits there frequently, and it becomes a setting in later [=VNs=].
** All vampires have superhuman strength and speed and they heal very quickly. Sunlight is not a hazard for them, although they are nocturnal by nature. Stakes do not play a part in ''Diabolik Lovers'' vampire lore at all, and stabbing a vampire in the heart is not a sure way to kill one. Beheading specifically is, though. They have a minor weakness to religious symbols and a [[SilverHasMysticPowers major weakness to silver]]. An otherwise survivable injury delivered by a silver blade or bullet will eventually kill if it goes untreated.
** They can
* ParentalAbandonment: Yui’s father abandons her
* {{Patricide}}: Carla killed his father on the request of his already dead
* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s
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%%* ReplacementGoldfish: Yui, to Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
* 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.]]
** [[spoiler:Reiji had Beatrix killed.]]
** [[spoiler:Carla killed his father in battle on the request of his beloved mother.]]
* 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.]]
** [[spoiler:Reiji had Beatrix killed.]]
** [[spoiler:Carla killed his father in battle on the request of his beloved mother.]]
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** [[spoiler:Yui is revealed to be Cordelia’s
** ''Dark Fate'' reveals that [[spoiler:Christa, Subaru's mother,
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* RomanticFalseLead: The role the Mukami brothers play in Karlheinz' plan is complicated and varies depending on the adaptation, but in the [=VNs=], this trope is the starting point. [[spoiler:Ruki actually suggested to Karlheinz to send the four of them to Yui and try to seduce her, just to force the Sakamakis grow closer to her so she will chose her Adam. In the Sakamaki ''More,Blood'' routes that is exactly how it goes down. But in the Mukami routes, they are trying break out of the false lead box to become Adam themselves. Karlheinz told them that they were qualified to do so. However there is no way to know if he really believed it, or it was a cruel MotivationalLie.]]
* RomanticVampireBoy: The whole point of the series, and the numbers just keep increasing with each installment.
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* SomethingAboutARose: Christa was known as the White Rose among the vampires due to her beauty.
** [[spoiler: It's implied that the same can be said about Yui since roses have always appeared around her.]]
* SonOfAWhore: The triplets, Ayato, Kanato, and Laito. Having their mother sleeping around with other men, including their uncle. [[spoiler:It also doesn't help that Cordelia often flirted with other men in front of her children.]]
** [[spoiler: It's implied that the same can be said about Yui since roses have always appeared around her.]]
* SonOfAWhore: The triplets, Ayato, Kanato, and Laito. Having their mother sleeping around with other men, including their uncle. [[spoiler:It also doesn't help that Cordelia often flirted with other men in front of her children.]]
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* ShowerOfAwkward: This trope is obligatory in the visual novels. Occasionally Yui will walk in while her love interest is bathing, but the other way around is much, much more common.
* SlowTransformation: A horror element found mainly in the first visual novel is that Yui is slowly turning into a vampire over the course of the story. Her strange new life with these dangerously alluring men is making her into a different person; even a different creature, who sees past the pain to the pleasure of being with her love interest, and starts to react to the world the way they do. The anime alludes to this with Yui's final line in the first season: "I'm thirsty."
** [[spoiler:Averted in later installments - Yui can only become a vampire in the first storyline. The sacrificial bride plot is dropped after the first VN in favor of the Adam and Eve plot for the rest of the series, and it requires Yui to be human. The visual novels set this up with Karlheinz rewinding time a bit and removing Cordelia from Yui's body at the beginning of ''More,Blood''. However, the anime cannot follow suit on this since Cordelia was [[BanishingRitual exorcised the old fashioned way]] in that continuity, and it simply never mentions Yui becoming a vampire in the second season.]]
* SomethingAboutARose: Christa was known as the White Rose among the vampires due to herbeauty.
** [[spoiler: It's implied thatbeauty. Subaru likens Yui to a white rose as well, but picks a different flower for her in the same can be said about Yui since roses have always appeared around her.]]
end - the night-blooming cereus, otherwise known as the Queen of the Night.
* SonOfAWhore: The triplets, Ayato, Kanato, and Laito. Having their mother sleeping around with other men, including their uncle. [[spoiler:It also doesn't help that Cordelia often flirted with other men in front of her children.]] ]]
* SlowTransformation: A horror element found mainly in the first visual novel is that Yui is slowly turning into a vampire over the course of the story. Her strange new life with these dangerously alluring men is making her into a different person; even a different creature, who sees past the pain to the pleasure of being with her love interest, and starts to react to the world the way they do. The anime alludes to this with Yui's final line in the first season: "I'm thirsty."
** [[spoiler:Averted in later installments - Yui can only become a vampire in the first storyline. The sacrificial bride plot is dropped after the first VN in favor of the Adam and Eve plot for the rest of the series, and it requires Yui to be human. The visual novels set this up with Karlheinz rewinding time a bit and removing Cordelia from Yui's body at the beginning of ''More,Blood''. However, the anime cannot follow suit on this since Cordelia was [[BanishingRitual exorcised the old fashioned way]] in that continuity, and it simply never mentions Yui becoming a vampire in the second season.]]
* SomethingAboutARose: Christa was known as the White Rose among the vampires due to her
** [[spoiler: It's implied that
* SonOfAWhore: The triplets, Ayato, Kanato, and Laito. Having their mother sleeping around with other men, including their uncle. [[spoiler:It also doesn't help that Cordelia often flirted with other men in front of her children.
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* TangledFamilyTree: Shu and Reiji are the sons of 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. The Mukamis were adopted by Karl when they were children, making them the adoptive bothers to the Sakamakis as well. Both Carla and Shin are cousins to Cordelia on her mother's side, making them second cousins to the triplets. Kino is an illegitimate child of Karl from another woman.
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* StoryReset: At the start of each sequel visual novel, Karlheinz appears in the prologue and makes cryptic comments alluding to rewinding time. He is so powerful that he keeps {{Soft Reboot}}ing reality so events can take a different course while retaining certain character development story beats. [[spoiler:''More,Blood'' is a sort of second beginning; it opens with Yui having lived with the Sakamakis for a month, but she did not pick one of them to feed from her like she did at the start of the first [=VN=]. As a result, she is not particularly close to any of them, stalling out Karlheinz's plans. So he adds extra variables - he clears Cordelia from the board and allows the Mukamis to position themselves as rivals to his sons to spur them into action.]]
* TangledFamilyTree:Shu Most of the love interests are related, and Reiji are it's not just the sons of Beatrix, an average vampire woman. Ayato, Kanato multiple wives 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. many half brothers. The Mukamis were adopted by Karl are like adoptive brothers that the Sakamakis never knew they had, since Karlheinz took them in when they were children, making them the adoptive bothers to the Sakamakis as well. Both children. Carla and Shin are cousins to Cordelia on her mother's side, making them second cousins to the triplets. Kino is an Karlheinz's illegitimate child of Karl from another woman.- or so he claims.
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** Kanato is very fond of sweets.
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%%* * TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A lunar eclipse features prominently in the plot of ''Dark Fate''. Eclipses have strange effects on vampires and makes them vulnerable to attack, which the Tsukinami brothers use to their advantage.
* VampiresAreRich:The Sakamaki siblings.All the vampires, and indeed all the suitors, live in huge, beautifully appointed mansions and castles.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Yuma turns out to be the first and only friend Shuu ever had.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Some of white hair and can be very cruel.
* {{Yandere}}:
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Some of white hair and can be very cruel.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Yuma turns out to be the first and only friend Shuu Shu ever had.]]
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* YouTasteDelicious: The vampires love to tell Yui how delicious she is. They get a kick out of licking blood from any injuries she sustains (and she is conveniently accident-prone) or just licking ''her''; even her skin tastes good to them. The Tsukinami brothers make for an interesting inversion - she tastes of vampire, and they find repulsive. Thus, they constantly complain that her blood tastes foul instead.
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* OedipusComplex: Kanato. His teddy bear [[spoiler:contains his mother's ashes]].
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** 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.]]
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** Laito, [[spoiler: often had sex with his own mom, who was into AnythingThatMoves.very broad-minded. 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.]]
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* 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]].
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An [[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.
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An [[TwelveEpisodeAnime anime adaptation]] by {{Creator/ZEXCS}} aired as part of premiered in the Fall2013Anime season, fall of 2013, with a second season based off of ''MORE, BLOOD'' following as part of in the Fall2015Anime lineup.fall of 2015. It is licensed by [[Creator/SentaiFilmworks Sentai Filmworks]] for English release in December 2014.
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* UpToEleven: ''MORE,BLOOD''. The rating was changed from Cero C (15+) to Cero D (17+).
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* SexyDiscretionShot: There are many chapters that cut out as Yui and her love interest get more intimate than blood drinking, [[DidTheyOrDidntThey leaving it up in the air if there was intercourse or not]]. The anthology manga, however, tends to be more explicit.
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''Diabolik Lovers'' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Creator/{{Rejet}} and distributed by Creator/{{Otomate}}. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs., to the point where it serves as Rejet's flagship franchise.
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''Diabolik Lovers'' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Creator/{{Rejet}} and distributed by Creator/{{Otomate}}. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs., Songs, to the point where it serves as Rejet's flagship franchise.
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As part of Rejet's Archive [=YouTube=] channel project in 2020, the entire first series of Otome [=CDs=] has been made available for free listening, but they were taken down with the first channel's termination in 2021.
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As part of Rejet's Archive [=YouTube=] channel project in 2020, the entire first series of Otome [=CDs=] has been was made available for free listening, but they were taken down with the first channel's termination in 2021.
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As part of Rejet's Archive [=YouTube=] channel project in 2020, the entire first series of Otome [=CDs=] has been made available for free listening.
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''Diabolik Lovers'' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Creator/{{Rejet}} and distributed by Creator/{{Otomate}}. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs.
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''Diabolik Lovers'' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Creator/{{Rejet}} and distributed by Creator/{{Otomate}}. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs.
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Comics in the series:
* ''Diabolik Lovers YOUNG BLOOD:'' A three-issue mini series following the childhood of the Sakimaki triplets.
* ''Diabolik Lovers YOUNG BLOOD:'' A three-issue mini series following the childhood of the Sakimaki triplets.
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* 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. The Mukamis were adopted by Karl when they were children, making them the adoptive bothers to the Sakamakis as well. Both Carla and Shin are cousins to Cordelia on her mother's side, making them second cousins to the triplets. Kino is an illegitimate child of Karl from another woman.
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* TangledFamilyTree: Shu and Reiji are the sons of [[GoOutWithASmile Beatrix]], 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. The Mukamis were adopted by Karl when they were children, making them the adoptive bothers to the Sakamakis as well. Both Carla and Shin are cousins to Cordelia on her mother's side, making them second cousins to the triplets. Kino is an illegitimate child of Karl from another woman.
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''Diabolik Lovers'' started out as a series of Drama [=CDs=] which were developed into a [[RomanceGame otome game]] developed by Creator/{{Rejet}} and distributed by Otomate.Creator/{{Otomate}}. It became a popular series and has spawned more games and Drama [=CDs=], an anime series, and Character Songs.
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* AdultsAreUseless: And bastards too.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Oh, yes!
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* AxCrazy: Pretty much all the Sakamakis but especially Kanato, oh Kanato…
* BeachEpisode: The Blood & Love Sweat CD.
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** Cordelia in general.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' tamer case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub: While the voice actors has no problems using words derived from sex and excrement like the Spanish 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", which is a euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of DistancedFromCurrentEvents 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's 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]] Meanwhile, this is averted like hell in the Brazilian Portuguese dub.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' tamer slight case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub: While the dub. The voice actors has have no problems using words derived from sex and excrement like the Spanish for "shit", on the other hand, and "shit". However, due to recent Mexican laws against the use of mysoginistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the word phrase "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "somewhat" "slightly" (emphasis on '''somewhat''', '''slightly''', due of to the [[LargeHam very hammier hammy perfomance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) more tamer "little vixen", which is a euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of DistancedFromCurrentEvents as well, due of to a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a music video when where Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and that's without going into the point he "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making it obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]] Meanwhile, this is averted like hell in the Brazilian Portuguese dub.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Yes, it has both. It’s not contradictory.
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