Talk:Yui Komori/@comment-50.156.66.183-20141006140602

[Spoiler Alert for the visual novel]

I like Yui's character. In the anime they make her seem like a typical heroine but in the visual novel she's mentally strong, intelligent, has strong instincts (if you make the M choices), and a sense of self-preservation. I get somewhat why she's disliked and seems too passive and submissive but Diabolik Lovers requires a lot of thinking an contemplation on your part. Yui and Cordelia are complete opposites in every way, down to the color of her hair and eyes and because Yui has her heart she will always be linked to her, this is seen in the S and M choices. After most S choices she wonders why she said or did that in the first place (You can definitely see this in Laito's route). If you chose an S option usually the love interest doesn't think much of it (and maybe they gain a bit of respect for you) but over time it will eventually lead to her death (or in Shuu's route something worse than death) in ending 3. When you chooses the M options they lose a bit of respect for you but in the long run the outcome is much better. Her intelligence is obviously seen in the beginning of Subaru's route in dark when a chess tournament took place and she had beat most of her opponents (aka the siblings) with the exception of Reiji and in Kanato's route she had nearly beaten him until he had thrown the match. I wanna talk about her character design a bit and most people see it as too girly (her room and stuff) but pink seems to be her theme color but there's a reason for this, pink is the color of femininity but also the color of vulnerability which makes sense as to why they would chose that color for her since she's surrounded by vampires she could never hope to match in terms of physical strength. Her first name is interchangeable in the game but her surname Komori isn't. The kanji in her name translates to little forest and is a common surname but if you just look at the pronunciation it sounds similar to the japanese word for bat. Bats symbolize intuition and you can definitely see the bat pattern in her eyes most visible in the anime. I don't really like using the term Mary-sue because I think it's a very lazy way to tell what is wrong with a character but in my opinion I don't think Yui is a Mary-sue.