Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26240736-20160207200304/@comment-35192112-20170210205941

I've talked to a few people who hate this anime, and something I keep hearing is how disgusting it is in regards to the amount of abuse Yui takes, and yet the show acts like we're supposed to like these guys. They think it extra disgusting that with all the abuse she takes, in the games, she falls in love with them. The people I talk to constantly mention rape, and I can see where they get all of this, they're all very valid concerns if you're someone who can't separate fiction from reality.

For me, as someone who was first introduced to the anime, then sidelined a friend playing the games, I can say that I dislike how squished together the anime was. I enjoy a lot of otome-based anime, such as Uta No Prince-Sama and Kamigami No Asobi, and something that I feel they do right is spend time focusing on each individual guy with the girl.

In Kamigami, they give each boy one episode to form a special bond with Yui Kusanagi, the girl, and in one episode, two of the boys even fight over her. Kamigami plays everyone as friends aside from near the end where things start getting intense.

Uta No Prince-Sama does something similar. There's an episode or two for each boy, but they also show the strong competition between each suitor for Nanami's attention and affection, contrasting Kamigami, and by the end of Uta No Prince-Sama, everyone is friends.

Diabolik Lovers, however, does neither of these, and instead chooses to be indecisive and mesh everyone together as one conflicting story. It tears away from the game while simultaneously trying to play all the aspects of the game at once. I particularly hate the More Blood season because it completely strays from the game and ruins the plot entirely.

And I'm going to include this because it makes me so angry seeing people whine and moan about this:

Yui is actually incredibly smart, behaving the way she does. If you want a stronger protagonist like Yui Kusanagi, who will backtalk the boys if they try to behave aggressively, that's great, but that's an entirely different situation.These are not typical guys that you can fight back against, or run away from. They are VAMPIRES. They're super fast and super strong, and fighting back WILL get her killed.

Tobiuhz mentions that she never tries to run away. I'd like to correct this, firstly, by pointing out that she did try, in the very first episode, and the doors were locked before she even reached them, and she was promptly cornered. No matter where she tried to run, there was another vampire just around the corner, and when she finally found a room to hide in, they surrounded her the instant she turned her back.Running is not possible. Not to mention, her own "father" sold her to them, so trying to run home will send her right back to the Sakamakis. If she tries to hide in town, they'll find her in no time.

When Raito was going to "rape Yui", as Tobiuhz says, Yui said she wouldn't give in, but she also didn't struggle because that's what Raito wanted her to do. He's a sadist. If you struggle before a sadist, it will encourage him because that's fun for him. If you don't struggle, it'll discourage him because he'll find that to be absolutely no fun, and he'll give up on trying to play with you like a toy.

The reason Yui sits there and lets them drink her blood is, again, they're extremely powerful. If she tries to pull free, there's a high chance their fangs will rip her throat open, intentionally or otherwise. If that doesn't happen, or she manages to survive that, the Sakamaki will just get pissed off and beat her for it, and then she'd be in even more pain than she would be if she just let them bite her.

In the games, if you make Yui fight back or struggle, or act like Yui Kusanagi or Misaki Ayuzawa, you'll get a BAD ending, and Yui will get KILLED. If you have her comply to most (though not all) of their demands and abuse, you get the guys to open up their true feelings, and they lighten up as the two bond, and then you get a good ending.

As I have discussed with a friend of mine before, Yui is not only very wise to not fight back, but behaving this way is also very manipulative. She knows how to read the boys, and by refusing to react to Raito's threats, she's manipulating him into becoming disinterested in her. Raito likes it when girls struggle, and they all love to chase their prey. Yui running would just excite (and anger) them more than sitting and taking it would, and this reduces the amount of pain she has to go through significantly, and also (as we see in the games especially) makes them feel bad for hurting her.