I'm Reading Kino's Route And I'm Falling Love With Him. He Really Really Loves Yui. Such A Baby Boy 😭.

DIABOLIK LOVERS DAYLIGHT Analyzes [ Vol. 2 Sakamaki Shu ]

Original title: 自己満足

Source: Diabolik Lovers Daylight Vol. 2 Sakamaki Shuu

Seiyuu: Toriumi Kousuke

Analyze by: Admin Afra

Admin’s note: Sakamaki Shu is one of my favorite boys and also one of the most disappointing characters 😭. But I personally love this CD and how Shu receives karma for all the words and behavior he had with Yui and that he realizes that no matter how hard he tries to will not dear anyone to himself, Yui has entered Shu's heart without him realizing it, and Shu cannot live without her.

The story begins with Shu complaining about how long Yui has been asleep or in a coma. This is very funny for a boy who sleeps 90% of the time.

But as he said himself, he never thought he would put himself in trouble to take care of Yui, or at least that's what he thinks because the evidence shows otherwise from Shu here.

Shu's main trauma is losing his first and best friend, so it makes sense that it would be a nightmare for him to lose someone he loves. This is the most important reason why Shu tries not to get attached to anyone so that he doesn't get hurt if he loses them.

Shu and Yui's usual roles seem to have been replaced. Now that Yui is in a coma, Shu takes care of her and gives his blood to keep Yui alive.

But as Shu said, the days of living without Yui are driving him crazy. Shu does things that he would never normally do, so he feels crazy after what happened to Yui and what he did to her.

When the flashback ends, we see the usual story of Shu and Yui's relationship. Shu, who is sleeping as usual, and Yui, who tries to wake him up so that he can get to his daily work such as school and attend his classes, and Shu, as usual, finds Yui's efforts useless and annoying.

We can say that this is the normal state of their relationship. But in my opinion, there is something obvious here. Shu thinks that if Yui doesn't do her job properly, she will be blamed by Reiji, which is why she is worried.

Well, this guess can be true to some extent. But in my opinion, Yui just simply wants to be with Shu. In many CDs, Yui has already noticed the bad condition of her heart, and I suspect that it is the same in this one. Maybe she knows she doesn't have much time left and she just wants to spend the last moments of her life happily with the man she likes. But unfortunately Shu does not cooperate with Yui in this matter.

Honestly, it's always strange to me how he can be so tired despite his long sleep time. But Shu chooses this method only to spend his days. Even from his own point of view, he is alive but not living.

He has chosen a life without excitement and monotony so as not to get involved in trauma again, and this can be somewhat smart from Shu's point of view.

When Shu meets Yui again at night, something is very clear about Yui, and that is that Yui resents Shu's cold behavior towards her. Yui is not an expectant girl and does not expect much from her partner. All she wants is affection and love.

Maybe it's hard for Shu to understand this because he is a vampire and has an eternal love and he doesn't know how valuable this little time he spends with his favorite girl can be.

But when Shu told Yui, all I need is your blood, I'm sure Yui was hurt more. It may not be easy to understand that only her blood is important to the man she loves, especially since she doesn't have much time left to live.

Shu thinks it's nonsense, but all Yui wants from life with her partner is pure and simple love.

In the second part, it was really funny that Shu didn't even bother to sleep because he didn't want to be tired of being woken up again by Yui.

Unlike last time, Yui gave in to Shu more easily this time because he was not feeling well and Shu was surprised by this but ignored it as usual.

It really broke my heart when I found out that Yui had put her blazer on him so that he wouldn't catch a cold. I always knew that Yui is a kind girl, but I really wish that she would think a little more about herself, especially when she is not feeling well and is sick, because in any case, it is impossible for a vampire to catch a cold.

Undoubtedly, Yui knows this and even her purpose of doing this was not to try to warm Shu, but to show her love for Shu.

But I really wanted to bang my head against the wall when Shu took this issue and called it a nuisance again.

The thing that upset me the most was that when Yui was in the hospital and Shu hugged her, he noticed that she had lost weight and looked thinner, but still ignored it.

It was very sad when Yui asked him what her existence meant to Shu and Shu again disappointed her with his cold words. It is true that Shu is a bloodsucker and only the blood of humans is important to him, but here something is suspicious about Shu's words.

Shu claims that Yui's blood is the only thing that matters to him, but when he left the hospital, he muttered to himself, "You should never expect or wish for me."

Here we can understand that Shu really values ​​Yui.

But he doesn't expect Yui to feel this way. In a way, we can understand Shu's words that he expects Yui to ignore him. Because he ignored Yui all the time. He just simply doesn't want to become Yui's dependent, and the same goes for Yui. He doesn't want Yui to wish and hope for him because even Shu himself considers himself useless in this matter.

No matter how hard Shu tries to ignore Yui, he eventually realizes that she has a problem, and when he complains about Yui's distraction, she backs to sleep. He tries to take her to his room, but this time Yui's low weight attracts his attention.

But when Yui doesn't wake up, Shu realizes that this is really not normal anymore, and when Reiji explained to Shu about the abnormal condition of her heart, it was not really expected that Shu would not be surprised. In any case, he tried to ignore her all this time. Even he finds it funny how he realized this so late when he spends most of his time with Yui.

It is from this moment that the place of these two people changes and Shu cannot sleep without hoping that Yui's voice will wake him up.

Maybe this was something that was bothering him all the time. Worrying that this voice, which wakes him up every time and he calls her a nuisance, will stop one day. As he himself said, he cannot sleep when he knows that there is no one to wake him up. Shu has always longed to hear Yui's voice even without realizing it. Maybe he always denied it, but Yui had entered Shu's heart for a long time and Shu even dreamed of hearing her voice in his dreams. This is what Shu himself admitted.

Playing the violin for Yui because he knows she loves him, giving Yui his blood because it might keep her alive, and talking to Yui because he misses her are all things Shu does to take care of Yui.

As Shu himself admitted, their usual roles have changed and this is how Shu gets karma. He tries to wake up the one he loves but she still ignores him. Shu now realizes how much his behavior towards Yui has hurt her when someone keeps calling him but he still ignores her.

The fact that Shu missed the same behavior that he always found annoying from Yui shows that none of Yui's behavior was annoying to him, but even Shu was always waiting for them. Because Yui is the only one Shu has given his heart to.

When Shu tells Yui that he misses Yui being loud, we realize that Shu never hated being woken up by Yui. Maybe on the surface he was trying to show that he doesn't care about her, but in reality Shu was not honest with himself either. Even with this pretense, he tried to lie to himself because he thinks that not being dependent on others and having a monotonous life will not cause him to get hurt.

But the truth is that Shu is guilty of not taking advantage of the short time he had with Yui. He now realizes that Yui is not worth just because of her blood. He used to claim that he can survive without Yui, but now it turns out that this claim was just a lie so that he wouldn't try to depend on Yui.

Shu realized his lie to himself and tried to save the person he loves.

Bring back the person he cares about, even if it means staying awake for hours and not sleeping for several days in a row and just studying and researching. surprise The lazy boy who is always tired is ready to not sleep for a few days or even a few weeks to save his lover. A great sacrifice.

But when he knows that this work is useless, what is his reaction? Knowing that he won't be able to see Yui anymore makes Shu panic, so why doesn't he give Yui the last drop of his blood?

This is what Shu himself said. If all options are closed, be willing to let all your blood and being flow into your lover's body so that her heartbeat will never stop. When did you become such a gentleman Shu?

If Yui has entered his heart without Shu realizing it, Shu has no other choice. Playing the last violin piece and expressing his pure feelings to Yui is the last thing this boy can do.

In any case, he claimed that he can live without Yui, but now he accepts his lie and wants to join Yui.

Shu has experienced this trauma before with Edgar. But this time is different. Edgar's death made Shu depressed, but Yui's death makes Shu want to die too. This simply shows that Shu loves Yui even more than his own life, so that he is willing to donate his last drop of blood to Yui. Even if this does not bring Yui back to life, Shu will be sure that his existence and his blood will always be in Yui's body, at least Shu will hear the heartbeat of the girl he loves until the last moments of his life.

What does Yui mean to Shu? If you ask Shu this question again, he will say that Yui is the only girl that Shu doesn't want to lose. Before Yui, he didn't hope for anything and just passed the days. But after Yui came, he slept with the hope that someone would call him. Someone always looks at him and someone always loves him.

Yui simply made Shu no longer involved in a repetitive life and spend the nights hoping to see the day and hear Yui's voice and live again. All this is because he loves Yui more than anyone else.

When Yui regains consciousness, he tells her these words. He will never repeat the mistake of the past because he has already realized that he failed in his decision not to love others. Now that there is a dear person in his life, he will cherish her forever and dedicate his love to her, because without her he will neither be alive nor live.

Dazai and Odasaku have a fascinating connection I never noticed before, their views on killing for justice.

Dazai Osamu's entrance exam

He looked far off into the distance. “The phrase ‘seeking justice’ is a weapon. Once it hurts the weak, it can no longer be a force of good. This justice the Azure King sought was what killed Sasaki.”

The untold origins of the armed detective agency

“Justice,” said the hit man. “I can understand killing for money or because you hated someone, but they’re killing for justice. I don’t want to get involved with a group like that. After they’re done killing for their justice, they’ll only continue to kill. They’ll just stop caring who they’re killing.”

It's very interesting that two characters who both have no issue with killing people and have killed hundreds themselves see the incredible danger of "killing for justice"

Killing for greed, killing for revenge, killing for boredom... all of these are personal things, they stay focused on the person who's doing the killing, but if you kill because you think it's right, then you will seek out more people to kill unendingly "Their religion is heresy", "Their whole country is evil", "They don't respect my authority" and soon even people who have done nothing wrong are killed because "they could be a threat later"

The moment you justify killing, you can never stop, there will always be more criminals who deserve to die, and soon it won't matter if they deserved it or not.

I hate when you love a character who’s like a kid or a teenager and they so perfectly capture the flaws and struggles of being that age and not understanding everything fully yet or necessarily making the best choices especially when they’re in a very painful or complex situation and they feel so real and human because of it and then you go online and there’s someone who’s like “they’re DUMB and EVIL and SELFISH because of [important moment in their character arc when they messed up and learned from it or broke under pressure or didn’t have the courage to do an incredibly difficult thing or responded realistically to their truly horrifying circumstances]”

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Bsd skylines go so hard

Yui komori Eva

17 years old 21 years old

Human Vampire

sacrificial bride Queen of demons

(THE BOOK OF BILL SPOILERS!!)

Thinking about Bill’s appearance at the end of the book…

[ID: BIll when confronting the Axolotl. He is shown in white silhouette, hovering in space, hovering neutrally. Notably, he has a massive crack running through his body, splitting him into multiple pieces, some of which are coming apart. /end ID]

When confronting the Axolotl, Bill is broken. The Axolotl even notes this: "Shattered, broken, not yet dead."

(Which, side note, makes me think Bill might have been lying about having been "kicked out of Hell," if he didn't actually die in Stan's head.)

[ID: Three pictures of Bill in the Theraprism. The first one shows him holding his hand against the side of his head in a dazed expression, sitting in a chair in a white padded room between a wizard with a clock for a face and Saturn (taken directly from the painting Saturn Devouring His Son). The second is a camera recording of him wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in a cell, surrounded by arts and crafts tools, holding a pair of scissors, and beaming his thoughts frantically into a book. The third shows a mugshot of him staring blankly into the camera, his own name written on coded text below him. In all three images, he has a glowing scar where the cracks were, and is in one piece. /end ID]

When he's shown in the Theraprism, we see a glowing, static-y scar where the cracks were. The scar crosses his entire body (and even crosses to the other side of his eye without affecting it!), but he's actually whole, keeping himself together.

But then...

[ID: Two pictures of Bill from the last pages of the book. In the first one he is facing forward and holding up one finger, his eye reddened, his entire form glitching, and his crack is notably worse than prior, cracking through his eye, multiple smaller pieces drifting away. In the second one he is staring blankly at the viewer, his arms hanging limply, his eye wide and blank, the crack worse than the previous image, with more pieces floating away. /end ID]

In the last few pages, we see the scar is gone and the cracks are back, and even more of him is breaking away, including parts of his eye. It's especially bad in the last image, with even more pieces of him breaking away.

Also noteworthy is that the static texture behind him seems to be the same as the blood sample the US government took from him in the 1940s. He's bleeding.

We know from context that these images are meant to be taken somewhat chronologically. After dying (or nearly dying), Bill seeks out the Axolotl, who sends him to the Theraprism. While there, he writes the journal that he's beaming to us. The staff at the Theraprism catch onto this, and allow him to write out the last few pages, meaning those last few pages are chronologically the last of Bill we see.

This means that, after the events of the show, Bill was shattered... and then, upon entering the Theraprism, started to heal, his body coming together and scars forming... but at some point afterward, he started breaking apart again.

I'd made a post previously about Bill's development, how he views himself as a monster after the Euclidian Disaster, and how he continues to act monstrous afterward (and winds up agonizingly lonely as a result). I didn't really touch on this in the post, but I feel like after inadvertently destroying his home dimension...

Bill never left the denial phase of grief.

I could be wrong on this, but I get the feeling that part of his reason for acting monstrous toward just about everybody is because he sees himself as a monster, because "this is just how I am" is easier to accept than "I really really screwed up."

Bringing this back to his shattering... It's interesting to me that after entering the Theraprism, his body is scarring, which means it is healing. But then, at the end, as he's signing off the book, he's shattered again, and looking even worse than he did when talking to the Axolotl. When talking this over with a friend, they pointed out something that struck me:

Bill does not want to heal.

Healing means having to actually think through what happened. It means having to confront his past, confront destroying his home dimension, confront the harm he caused to others, confront the fact that he did not have to be this way.

And he refuses to do that.

He refuses to heal.

No joke you guys NEED to get more comfortable blocking people. No more insulting people in public over different blorbo opinions no more making 2k long posts on how whatever ship you don't like shouldn't exist we've grown past that shit. Consistent posts about shit that make you uncomfortable? Block. Rancid blorbo opinions? Block. Is mildly annoying in your replies? Block. Pisses you off for reasons so petty you could never admit it publicly? Block. YOUR mental health will improve from not being upset 24/7, THEIR mental health will not be at risk of you lashing out because you happened to catch their posts on a bad day, and EVERYONE ELSE will benefit from not seeing the most embarrassing arguments known to man on their dash. "Oooh but they didn't deserve it-" dude you're presumably running a personal blog as a hobby not a public service. Who fucking cares.

Dabi/Touya Todoroki Meta Posts

(All these posts are written by several different writers/bloggers, not by me…)

When did Endeavor give up on Touya?

Dabi’s Found Heart

Touya & Tenko’s tears

Touya’s scarred heart

The Todoroki Legacy

Touya’s self-suicide

Was it ooc for Touya to not care about Natsuo?

Touya in PL war arc

Touya VS Shoto parallel

Touya VS Hawks parallel

Touya VS Tenko parallel

Touya’s fears of feelings and connections

Touya’s quote on Hero society

Touya VS Shoto parallel - 2

Touya’s sad expression

Villains - The Origin

The reason behind Touya’s tears

The Todorokis & the Shimuras

Endeavor for Touya’s sake

Touya earned Enji’s respect & fear

Touya’s emotions

Touya: A deeply hurt child

Touya VS Shoto parallel - 3

Touya to Shoto: “A Half-Baked Puppet”

Touya’s cat behavior

Touya VS Hawks parallel - 2

Touya, Society & Empathy

Touya VS Joker parallel

Touya exposing Enji to the public VS real-life Asian culture

What type of murderer is Touya?

Touya, Tenko & Hawks parallel

Deku to Touya in PL war arc

Effects of Emotional abuse

Enji to Touya: What went wrong?

Is Touya really abusing Shoto?

The Todoroki Family discourse

Touya VS Bakugo parallel

Touya VS Deku parallel

Touya’s accidental death

No one should be called a ‘villain’ for the rest of their lives

Heroes: Their crimes & punishment

Touya Todoroki: A good & caring person?

What exactly is Dabi’s ideology/philosophy?

The Todoroki family was never okay from the very start

Touya & his 3 years of comatose

Deku to Touya in PL war arc - 2

Touya, Enji, Shoto & Bakugo: Their metabolism

Understanding Little Touya’s behavior

Touya & his hair in various colors: The symbolism

Touya is a POWERHOUSE

Meaning of Touya - Touya & Arrows

Meaning of Touya - Touya & Lanterns

Enji naming his 1st son 'Touya’ VS the symbolism behind his super moves

Shoto to Touya VS Enji to Touya - The parallel

Touya Todoroki - The Dancer in The Dark

A daily reminder of abuse and trauma ft. Touya & Tenko

Enji to Touya VS All Might to Deku - The parallel

“Being different is scary”

Shoto to Touya: Hot udon & family grief

Touya, Tenko & Toga - “The house that denied me”

Touya & his friendship

Dabi meta compilation by dreamersleeps

Touya’s trolley problem

Touya & his siblings

Touya VS Aoyama - A Disposable life

Touya’s tears - Now VS Then

“A hero to whom?”

Touya & The Todorokis - Lost in darkness & distance

Touya, Tenko & Toga - “What does it mean to save?”

Touya & Hawks - Actions VS Justification

Toga to Touya - “Maybe you’re just bad at judging others”

Touya VS Stain: Their body count

Touya and the age gap between his siblings

Touya becoming Dabi: Endeavor’s reality check

Touya VS Shoto parallel - 4 

Touya to Rei - A Complicated Love 

Dabi, Gojo & Eren - Fuckboys Or Not?  

The Todoroki bros & their soba noodles 

Dabi just won’t die 

Shoto’s “Touya-Nii” 

The Sacrificial Lamb: Analyzing Touya’s quirk reveal 

Dabi: On Twice’s Death 

Dabi VS JJK’s Maki Zenin 

Todoroki Family Abuse Analysis  

Dabi VS JJK’s Maki Zenin: Part-2  

Endeavor’s Behavior Towards Touya: Mental & Emotional Abuse 

Understanding little Touya Todoroki’s behavior 

Touya and Rei’s complex relationship    

Little Touya Todoroki’s Trauma 

Kid Touya’s age and it’s significance  

League of Villains: Redemption Discourse 

Touya VS Deku parallel - 2 

Rei and Touya: A mother and son 

Touya to Toga: “Let’s smile, Himiko Toga.” 

Touya and Toga: The Villain Siblings 

Touya to Endeavor: “You lit the fire in me, Dad” 

The Tragedy of Touya Todoroki: Being Lied to and Discarded vs Just being neglected  

Touya-Nii-San: MHA’s Fuji Shikimori 

Dabi/Touya Todoroki: A Virgin, The Purest  

The Tragedy of Touya Todoroki 

i just saw a new batch of characters for a mobile otome game and when we say “ayato is the blueprint” we mean it. the red hair + sharp green eyes + edgy look ayato introduced is so popular even years later, people still use him as the standard for ML’s in games. it’s just… such a good design and so recognizable too. i just love him so much and his influence is everywhere!! ayato is the IT boy.

// Sometimes I feel like Western fandom really underestimates Ayato, when his visuals were literally revolutionary.

I doubt he was the first character with those features, yet he was the trendsetter. A bunch of otoge boys are designed to resemble him, but with different eye or hair colors, and when people see them, they'll immediately think of Ayato.

Another thing to mention is that Ayato is visually perfect. He has the most desirable features, and I’ve even seen people getting insecure for not looking as pretty as him. Of course, they shouldn’t do that but that’s inevitable to happen when the character represents the ideal of beauty. Even his body is confirmed the ideal one.

Ayato has always been popular in terms of design but in recent years, his appearance and personality have made him HUGE. He’s so famous that people don’t even care about polls anymore, for the mere reason that whether he wins or not, he’s impact, visuals and sales remain unmatched.

Last but not least, I really advise people not to compare themselves to fictional characters. I know Ayato is gorgeous but his visuals are realistically impossible to achieve. Everyone is beautiful in their own way, after all.

Biology in Diabolik Lovers

Okay, so you know in the first season of the anime, towards the end, when Yui goes unconscious and Reiji flounces off to go make a potion? Rejet did the lovely thing of actually showing three of the pages of his book, as follows:

Now, most would pass these over as filler. I did, the first umpteen times I watched it. However, I’ve taken a 12U Biology and a 12U Chemistry class (this here sentence also acting as a disclaimer because I’m no expert), and recognized the molecule in the first picture to be an organic one, redrawn here, to be more clear:

At first, because of the double rings, I thought it might be a sugar, and found it hilarious. Rejet was just trying to seem smart, poor Reiji is being reduced to making sugar water.

But no.

I did some looking, and this is actually very, very similar to the structure of a nucleotide. To explain, our DNA is made up of sequences of four different bases: Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, and Thymine. The names aren’t really important here, but it is important to know that there’s two types: Purines, and Pyrimidines. Purines (Adenine and Guanine) have two rings, and Pyrimidines (Cytosine and Thymine) have only one. As such, Cytosine and Guanine will bond together in a DNA strand, where Thymine and Adenine will bond together.

Why is this important?

Looking at the structure, it’s just a neat little thing Rejet thought to include. Maybe they had a chemistry nerd on their team that wanted to have some fun and add some realism, except, one thing is weird and would never happen IRL.

These single bonded carbons. That’s really, really weird, and I consulted with my Biology teacher, who couldn’t make sense of it either. However… thinking back to the context of the issue, Why is Reiji making the potion?

He’s trying to force Cordelia out.

I hypothesize that those two separate rings are bonded together because Cordelia’s DNA has latched onto Yui’s. Those bonds, very, very breakable bonds, are desperately latching these two otherwise extraordinarily singular compounds together. And that’s really freaking neat. Furthermore, what does Kanato give Reiji to finish the potion? Cordelia’s ashes. Cordelia’s DNA. For it to latch back onto itself. For further hints, take a look at the second and third pictures.

The second (first in this repost) shows the inside of a cell going through mitosis, where cells split for growth, healing, etc. It’s showing DNA replication. In the final picture, it’s showing the DNA ‘ladder’, base pairs included and clearly marked (the little lines that look like rungs).

TL;DR: Rejet is smarter and more thorough than we give it credit for, and Reiji likes to fuck around with DNA.