History VisualNovel / DiabolikLovers

* YourDaysAreNumbered: In ''Bloody Bouquet'', Yui is mysteriously given a bouquet of black roses that curse her, [[BlessedWithSuck spoiling her blood so that the vampires can't drink from her]] (which at this point, is just consensual intimate time), but poisoning her so that she will eventually die without intervention.

* 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 triples. Kino is an illegitimate child of Karl from another woman.

* 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 seconds to the triples. Kino is an illegitimate of Karl from another woman.

* 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.

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:The triplets killed Cordelia. Reiji had Beatrix killed.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: The Sakamaki and Mukami siblings.

%%* AbusiveParents: Oh, like you wouldn't even ''believe''.
%%* AdultsAreUseless: And bastards too.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Oh, yes!
%%* AssholeVictim: It's '''''really''''' difficult to feel sorry for the Sakamakis in the endings where one or more of them end up getting killed.
%%* AxCrazy: Pretty much all the Sakamakis but especially Kanato, oh Kanato…
%%* BeachEpisode: The Blood & Love Sweat CD.

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

%%* {{Bishonen}}: The Sakamaki and Mukami siblings.

%%** Again, the Sakamaki brothers (except Reiji):

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

%%* ChivalrousPervert: Karl. He even has three wives.

%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ayato and Shu.

%%* DownerEnding: A lot of the Bad Ends.
%%* EarnYourHappyEnding: Most of the Good Ends (except for Kanato's). They're more of a BittersweetEnding.
%%* {{Fanservice}}: Yes, it has both. It’s not contradictory.

%%* IHateYouVampireDad: The Sakamakis towards Karl. Justified, though. The Mukamis, however, are grateful for what Karl has done for them.
%%* InformedAbility: Played for laughs.
%%-->'''Shu''': "Because we’re vampires?"
%%-->'''Yui''': "Eh? Va-vampires?"
%%-->'''Ayato''': "Aaah. Did you have to spoil it that quickly?"
%%* ItsAllAboutMe: Ayato, Laito and Kanato.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: All of the Sakamakis, but mostly Ayato.

%%* LoveMakesYouEvil: Cordelia and Ritcher. In the case of the Sakamakis, it will be something more like Love Makes You Jerkass and Blood-crazed.
%%* OedipusComplex: Kanato. His teddy bear [[spoiler:contains his mother's ashes]].
%%* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can age as normal humans.
%%* ParentalAbandonment: Yui’s father abandons her at her own, forcing her to live with the Sakamakis. Also, Karl and Cordelia, towards Ayato, Kanato and Laito.
%%* ThePowerOfBlood: Yui’s blood, naturally. Read Yui's Character entry as to why.
%%* TheQuietOne: Reiji and Shu.
%%* ReplacementGoldfish: Yui, to Ayato, Kanato and Laito.

%%* RoyalBrat: The Sakamakis, in varying degrees.

%%* TokenMiniMoe: Kanato, although he is OlderThanTheyLook.
%%* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
%%** Ayato likes takoyakis.
%%** Laito likes macarons.
%%** Reiji likes pasta and English tea.
%%** Shu likes meat.
%%** Kanato is very fond of sweets.
%%* UpToEleven: ''MORE,BLOOD''. The rating was changed from Cero C (15+) to Cero D (17+).
%%* VampiresAreRich: The Sakamaki siblings.
%%* VampiresAreSexGods

%%* {{Yandere}}:
%%** Kanato, which is the reason he doesn't get a happy ending.
%%** Reiji verges on this in Shu’s route.
%%** [[spoiler:Yui becomes one in Shu's Brute Ending in MORE,BLOOD. She also becomes one in Ayato's and Kou's Manservant Ending in MORE,BLOOD and Kanato's Second Ending in Haunted Dark Bridal.]]

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

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* SomethingAboutARose: [[spoiler:Christa was known as the White Rose among the vampires due to her beauty.

* SomethingAboutaRose:

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

%%* BrokenBird[=/=]UsedToBeASweetKid: All of the boys, once their pasts are expanded.
%%* ChivalrousPervert[=/=]PervertDad: Karl. He even has three wives.

%%* {{Fanservice}}[=/=]FanDisservice: Yes, it has both. It’s not contradictory.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: In ''Bloody Bouquet'', Yui is mysteriously given a bouquet of black roses that curse her, [[CursedWithAwesome spoiling her blood so that the vampires can't drink from her]] (which at this point, is just consensual intimate time), but poisoning her so that she will eventually die without intervention.

* ''Diabolik Lovers ZERO'': A new installment to the franchise, but no announcements about it have been made yet.

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

** 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.]]

** Subaru, [[spoiler: revealed to be a ChildByRape. Karl took Subaru’s mother Christa, forced her to become his bride, raped her and made her have a child, Subaru. A mentally broken Christa often asked Subaru many times to kill her and even gave him a silver knife, which can kill vampires. Subaru, however, never could bring himself to kill his own mother and he had to watch her being frequently abused and raped by Karl. The trauma was bad enough, and he became violent as a result.]]
** Shu, [[spoiler: a ExtremeDoormat since childhood, one day befriended an human boy named Edgar. Both became best friends, but Reiji, who disapproved of his brother being friends with an human, burned the whole village Edgar lived in, leaving Shu traumatized and feeling useless upon not doing anything to save Edgar. The nail in the coffin was Reiji twisting his mind by constantly telling him that because of his failure, he is not apt to be the family head.]]

** 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]].]]

** [[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.]]

* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler: The reason why Yui is protected by the vampire influence and Cordelia, at first is because she is protected by the rosary she always wears.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' tamer case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub: While the voice actors has no problems using strong profanity like the Spanish equivalent for "shit", on the other hand, and due to recent Mexican laws against the use of mysoginistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the word "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "somewhat" (emphasis on '''somewhat''', due of the [[LargeHam very hammier perfomance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) more tamer "little vixen", who is an euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of TooSoon as well, due of a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a video when Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and that without going into the point he "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]] On the other hand, this is averted like hell in the Brazilian Spanish dub.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: A very, '''very''' tamer case of this happens in the Mexican Spanish dub: While the voice actors has no problems using strong profanity like the Spanish equivalent for "shit", on the other hand, and due to recent Mexican laws against the use of mysoginistic language in Mexican media (including dubs), Laito's use of the word "little bitch/bitch-chan" is toned down to the "somewhat" (emphasis on '''somewhat''', due of the [[LargeHam very hammier perfomance of his voice actor]] and the tone of his voice) more tamer "little vixen", who is an euphemism for "little whore" in Spanish.[[note]]This also a case of TooSoon as well, due of a recent legal case against a Mexican Banda singer named Gerardo Ortiz, who was arrested after doing a video when Ortiz is shown killing a woman, dumping her body in a car and [[KillItWithFire setting the car alight afterwards]], and that without going into the point he "borrowed" official police cars and police officers as extras for the video, making obvious why the Mexican voice cast cannot use the much stronger equivalents of "bitch" in Spanish.[[/note]]

** Ayato [[spoiler: was forced by Cordelia to be the best and be better than Beatrix’s children (Shu and Reiji). She forced him to study and instead of praising his efforts she would constantly berate him. Due to this he ended up believing that he must always be the best at everything, becoming a selfish jerkass.]]

* HemoErotic: Oh, so much! Many if the scenes have the boys feeding from Yui in sensual poses with noises to match. Case in point, Kou feeds from her from the basck in one of his Character [=CDs=], seemingly for no other reason than to have a little variety in his feeding.

** ''Diabolik Lovers ~MORE,BLOOD~ Limited V Edition'': The second version of the game ported for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with additional content. It is slated for release sometime in 2015.

* ''Diabolik Lovers ZERO'': A new installment t the franchise, but no announcements about it have been made yet.

%%** [[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.]]