Review of Diabolik Lovers II: More,Blood
Diabolik Lovers Season Two. Enough said. Okay, so maybe it got a bit better at the end. That said, there's still a lot of manhandling and treating the girl as food. I have to say the Murakami brothers are waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the Sakamaki brothers at respecting Yui, but for the most part, they still abuse her beyond what's in my comfort zone. I mean, the guys are hot, but please, can we have some sort of romantic storyline? They definitely incorporated more romance into this series since Yui is bounced between the Murakami brothers and the Sakamaki brothers, but every single time there's this reallyromantic scene where in any normal romance anime they'd kiss, they bite her and she's in pain. Like PLEASE.
The majority of the season is Yui getting accustomed to the Murakami brother and the Murakami's relations with the Sakamaki family. So there's a lot of back plot and the main plot of Yui being Eve and she needs to find an Adam doesn't really move until the very end of the series, making is seem like there's definitely going to be a third season. They threw in a bunch of plot at the end and the series itself ended as a cliffhanger, so I'm calling that third season.
As I said, the Murakami brothers are waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the Sakamaki brothers with the exception of Subaru (but in the anime he seems much like the other Sakamaki bros and this makes me sad because in the games he's the only one that seems normal). Ruki has some doubts about feeding off Yui, which makes me hope at least that he's humane in some sense. The brothers also have a better relation between them, eating together and hanging out together and what not. They just seem more human and enjoyable as characters rather than six individuals that just abuse the heroine for their own sake.
I just wish they'd put in more romance and less "you are livestock" and "you are the key to making my life better hahaha." I get that this is what the main plot is, but I wish they'd make the guys more like likable guys rather than jerks that are really really really hot. But I have to say it's an improvement on season one just because of the Murakami bros.