Devils Line

Those blood-sucking, pig-eyed assholes who think they are better than humans despite them themselves at least moderately resembling humans as well. This in terms of outlook if not by moral values and social norms: what is and what is not the "right" thing to do. But enough about our politicians. Devils Line is a show about vampires and it sucks ass harder than any of its characters suck blood.

The story is just really great. Kaneki Ken's long lost vampire brother wants to drink human blood, but not because he is a pervert or hungry, but because if he does not, he turns into a monster ... and will kill everyone and anyone surrounding him. Such a real hero this guy. With his moral values he is the real friend of humanity. Unfortunately, all humans are pretty much arseholes who be like "oh no, your literally evils for succkins blood." except this one girl who be like "vampire prejudices are racistic and this guy dindu nuffin, btw, I also want to bang him.". At first, I thought this was weird behavior because the dude is a rapist, stalker and murderer, but then it came clear that she is in fact acting like any internet-leftist would. With this mentality, our main dude is also the r e a l victim here. Amazing recapturing of the mindset, I guess? Then these two go on an epic journey. By epic journey, I mean 12 long episodes where absolutely nothing happens.

From its core, Twilight the Animation.. oh sorry, I mean Devils Line, is some sort of 50 Shades of My Vampire Fetishes seinen anime which mainly looks like the combination of multicultural propaganda and Hollywood blockbuster action.... So basically, normal Hollywood blockbuster action. The drama writing on the other hand is so b class it's pointless to even criticize it because it is so obviously bad.

The art is just cool. I really like how that random hoe who does not have a personality had different colored hair than the other hoe who does not have a personality. Their voice actresses are also not the one and same person which makes telling them apart even easier. Thanks for that. The opening on the other hand is a masterpiece... at fooling people into thinking this show might actually not be utter garbage, which it is.

This show is not even ironically fun. It's so bad it's sad. Every vampire romance cliche and trope in one shell spiced with extra sharp edges. On top of that, it takes itself way too seriously for a show which so heavily relies on the given edge. If this show accomplished anything, it is how impressively bad and unenjoyable it is.

This is a preliminary review, watched only 5 episodes.
But I doubt it will get any better.

The worst part of this anime is its characters. The main girl has no personality to speak of. Only thing we know about her is that she is a college student, her eyes get wide every-time she sees the main vampire guy. She is basically a collection of generic responses that you would expect from the least developed girl in a badly written Dating Sim. Even those responses have been muted so much and have no real emotion behind them. I have never seen such a weak-willed character with absolute ... absence of agency. She is like an empty shell designed to stumble along wherever the plot takes her.

The main vampire is the generic dangerous vampire with a bleeding heart. He has an intense, raging, vampire hard-on for the main girl. His character is just a mish-mash of every conceivable trope that you can find in a "Vampire Love interest". He is an overprotective, aggressive, over-bearing, rapey, creepy, stalker (but we are supposed to consider him mysterious, tortured and kind).

Their relationship being the main focus is atrocious and is one red flag after the other. Their first encounter was somewhat rapey that made the girl "smitten". Then the vampire repeatedly shows up at girl's apartment balcony, watches her in her sleep, follows her on her way home, shows up at her college etc. The girl is completely Ok with this because those vampiric dark-circled eyes make her wet, I guess. All actions or sexual advances, by the vampire, towards the girl are neither resisted nor encouraged by the girl in any way. Her only response is staying still with her eyes widened. This makes the supposed "Romantic" scenes too uncomfortable.

You don't feel invested in characters at all, so whenever the plot kicks in you don't even care anymore.

The art, animation and sound are Ok but barely. The action scenes are lackluster and poorly directed.

This is a bad Twilight rip-off with some Tokyo Ghoul like elements. It did have some potential, though. But extremely poor execution. If main characters and their relationship were better written then it could have been a decent dark romance. But what a waste of opportunity! considering we rarely, if ever, get to see a good anime romance with mature themes.


This anime has no redeeming quality whatsoever. Don't waste your time on it.

I’m just going to throw this out here. How many people actually enjoy series about humans and vampires these days? It felt like I haven’t in ages. Devil’s Line adheres to a exploration about the nature of humans and vampires in a modern world society. We got humans and vampires (otherwise, known as “devils”) living in our everyday neighborhood. Coming into this show, Devil’s Line felt like a copy-paste that I’ve seen in many vampire theme shows before. It isn’t anything special.

There’s a joke out these days that falls in the line of “still a better love story that Twilight”. Devil’s Line does have vampires ... and some romance elements after all. However, the show itself gives a more mature feeling that is beyond just teenage romance. What Devil’s Line fails to do is make a story that stands out on its own. The story connects a vampire named Anzai together with a college student named Tsukasa Taira. She is saved by this mysterious character after being attacked by a vampire. It also turns out that Anzai is a vampire himself and has to control his bloodlust. The catch is that the show tests his nature as a vampire while also being hunted down by a vampire extermination organization known as the CCC. Sound familiar?

Now the show itself does take itself quite seriously. I say this because there’s hardly any jokes and most of that similar content relies on dark humor even when there’s room to throw in those moments. In essence, you should expect a mature anime that deals with interspecies romance. The main characters, Anzai and Tsukasa are not much alike beyond just their origins. From the start, I can say easily that Anzai is a brooding man without much words. On the other hand, Tsukasa is a type of girl who is very open to others and isn’t afraid to speak her mind. However, she is still very shy and not capable of dealing with dangers on her own most of the time. Anzai has to play the role of a protector in the series. It also puts Tsukasa in danger whenever the two are together because of his own bloodlust. The series adds tension and psychology nearly every episode as we see how he struggles to control his urges. I think on most part, it’s a repetitive gimmick that most vampire series relies on these days. Series such as Vampire Knight and Tokyo Ghoul has done that before. Even real life popular drama TV has done so in the past such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Vampire Diaries. They all carry the burden of a character having to deal with their inhuman nature. Devil’s Line isn’t too different as the show tests the water between Anzai and Tsukasa’s relationship. Unfortunately, it fell flat because of how dry and empty it is. There’s no doubt they have chemistry but their relationship feels unreal and I find it hard to root for them as a couple. The two are hardly compatible either because of their circumstances. It’s a forbidden romance not meant to be.

As a story about two different races, you can definitely expect conflicts to erupt in their society. There are several episodes that involves Anzai being targeted in assassination-style operations. It seems members of the CCC aren’t afraid to take any risks to kill vampires such as the case of sniper Zero Seven (Nanako Tenjo). As a main protagonist, you can definitely expect Anzai to be protected by plot armor. He’s not going to drop like a fly even despite fighting against the odds. Anzai is definitely not “OP” though as he struggles to survive but to me, the show doesn’t make his survivalist role any unique. The plot is stale as we don’t learn too much about his character. There’s definitely some background storytelling in the series for the main characters but none of them felt compelling. Tsukasa is also too human for a character that goes under little changes throughout the series. The only other character that may arouse curiosity would be Kohannes Kleeman, a mysterious white hair man. He appears in the show in later episodes and makes the audience wonder what his real intentions are. Unlike Anzai, he is quite blunt and behaves carefree around others. I’d say that he is perhaps too honest to point where it’s hard to tell whether he is telling the truth or lying. To me, Kleeman is an antithesis of Anzai. He is difficult to manipulate and always seems to be in control of himself. His behavior brings in a lighter side of the show although I really can't find that appealing. The show is still very moody and pushes the idea of a dark modern fantasy at every chance it gets.

Platinum Vision is a rather obscure studio that I don’t think many fans are familiar with. Their previous work actually includes another vampire series called Servamp although that is far more lighthearted than this anime. Unfortunately, the overall animation quality is mediocre at best. This is my honest impression as the character designs looks generic to the core without any special features about them. The setting takes place in a modern city that you can find in just about any similar shows. Oh but you’re wondering, what about the vampires? Do they look convincing? On the surface, the answer is yes but that doesn’t make them stand out much. The characteristics of these vampires includes fangs and their bloodlust nature that feels like if you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it all. There’s also a lot of fan service that teases the relationship between Anzai and Tsukasa. Some episodes really flirts with the idea of whether they will or will not have sex. Thus, expect a lot of kissing and it leaves some to the imagination. There’s not much censoring in terms of the graphic violence although isn’t never really ventures into the gore territory.

To carry a show like this, you would definitely need some acceptable characters. Anzai and Tsukasa’s voices are a total contrast of each other. Anzai sounds like one with little emotion while Tsukasa’s voice sounds alive. On some instances, I wonder just how much the creator wanted us to accept them. In the meantime, the OST is mostly eerie with a melancholic quiet tune during some of the more emotional scenes. The theme songs are what people would easily designate as edgy. I don’t like using that word around much but it is what it is.

After watching Devil’s Line, I felt like walking out of a theater realizing I could have done something else better with my money. I can literally go around online and find another show under the “vampire” tag. To me, Devil’s Line took the risk of trying to revitalizing the horror genre of interspecies relationship. What ends up happening is a show with few surprising twists but instead loses to underwhelming horror formulas. Maybe someday, we’ll get a memorable horror series of where we can look back and say “that’s pretty cool!’

! I have not read the manga and am judging the anime only !

!! Contains spoilers !!

From what I read before, this anime sounded fairly promising for the vampire genre. "It’s not your typical Twilight story", they said. That’s right. It’s worse than that.

The first 15 minutes were decent, the art isn’t my favourite but it’s not something that ticks me off much. Then we have a few characters, one that we thought would be the main, then gets arrested 5 minutes later. And the best part: your local vampire cop sexually assaulting Tsukasa; the mc who, of course, falls in love with him and ... has wet dreams each night. Just wonderful. And this while Tsukasa is “afraid of men” (I understand why after episode 2). Guess she just has a thing for half vampires.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind cliché love stories, but uh, not this way. And let’s not forget that our vampire cop is also a stalker and probably watches our round-eyed mc sleep, just like his cousin Edward.

Don't spend your time watching this if you want something of decent quality. I have a hard time dropping a series I already started with so I'll suffer some more in your place.

Yes, only 4 episodes are out, but it was enough for me to figure out what it's made of. (1 episode was more than enough though, the rest of 3 was torture I had to go through in order to write this review)
This is a blatant Twilight ripoff with some obvious Tokyo Ghoul ' borrowed ' elements and on the top of that has an awful borderline attack on titan opening that doesn't even suit what it's trying to sell. Do I need to say more? Perhaps a bit, in order to strengthen the conviction that this title is yet another waste of time ... that you cannot recover

The premise sums up the concept of this schlock, a concept that has been done to death before and that was never fantastic to begin with.
Vampire/ Devil or whatever the MC identifies as falls for bland walking plot device that is the female MC and he's facing struggles to maintain his humanity blah blah blah and we're supposed to rot for their awkward relationship , because it's so authentic and totally not forced for the sake of fitting the shoujo quota, truly mature, innovative and not some cookie cutter romance! 3/10

The art is fairly well done, but who could care about it when anything else is plainly rubbish. 6/10

Believe it or not, even in the sound department I have managed to loathe it, especially those nauseating sound effects like moans , groans , sobs that reminded me of a tortoise mating with a croc shoe (you could Google that to have an exact idea about what I'm referring to)
As I've mentioned above, the opening is an uninspired borderline attack on titan attempt and doesn't even fit the thematic of the show, the choreography of the visuals makes no sense whatsoever.
Not that the voice acting would be the major flaw of this title, but the way the lines are delivered falls flat and makes the wannabe emotional moments embarrassing to witness.

Characters...exactly what I was talking about above , bland, generic, cannot sympathize with them , obnoxious and awkward to watch. 3/10

As for the enjoyment, there wasn't any , not even a second , I'd rather stub my toe in the furniture every ten minutes than watch 20 minutes of this atrocity per week.
There are a lot of bad shows out there , but this one tops them all through the fact that I cannot see a single positive in it, not even if I turn my brain off while watching , it's cringe worthy in every single way and deserves to be the punching bag of the season.

Yo, Anzai! Four simple words: rub it out, man.

Since the dawn of humankind, men have been dealing with unyielding pent-up sexual energy, matched only by those squeaking dolphins who use eels as fleshlights (look it up people!). To prevent oneself from looking like a crazed, sex-driven “vampire.” It is necessary to use thy hand to complete thy deed; thus, returning oneself to a state of poise, and level-headedness.

That may sound a bit convoluted for an edgy, vampire love story resembling that which shall not be named *cough* Twighlight *cough*, but think about it: they spent twelve episodes with Anzai ... avoiding or having limited/monitored contact with Taira, just because the dude couldn’t control himself. Not exactly original when it comes to the vampire medium, but they did manage to throw in a handful of interesting nuances to captivate the viewer’s attention. Whether or not those ideas worked, is another story altogether.

Taking inspiration from today’s outrage culture, Devil’s Line injects an aggressive, militant public, who despises the presence of vampires in their society. They shout, they scream, and they annoy a hell of a lot of people. But it does provide an accurate representation of how people would react, when “threatened” by a superior being. That being said, what Devil’s Line fails to do, is hone in on this aspect from the viewpoint of one of the victims. Anzai’s dad killed 10 innocent people when he entered his state of vampire-rage; however, we are only given a perspective of how he was provoked into this egregious act, by humans that killed his girlfriend. Why not show the families that were affected by his “blind” atrocities, highlighting the odious nature of provoked vampires. The way it is presented, more or less, makes an unequivocal assumption that all humans are vicious creatures, and vampires are ethical, pacifists, who only attack because of their predisposition for consuming blood.

The paucity of character development is a severe hindrance in this series. With the exception of Anzai, everyone adheres to a formulaic routine, evaporating much of the intrigue from the viewer’s perspective. Anzai, however, displays a certain level of growth, especially when he shows affection towards Taira, forcing him to restrain himself from the fear of losing control. The scene in the bedroom, when they are being monitored from the outside, exemplifies Anzai’s internal struggle with himself, and how he must always maintain his concentration to inhibit his vampiric tendencies. In addition, the scene where Taira force feeds Anzai with her own blood, demonstrates the dissociation Anzai feels when his vampiric-self seethes to the surface. This sort of hints at the rage-blinders we all experience when our emotions assume the driver seat, and rationality gets thrown out of the window. The anime, in my estimation, would have had better success if Taira’s emotions were investigated with equal exploration. It is understood that she is devoted to Anzai, but she seems too careless with her own personal safety around him. Her love for him is unquestioned, but one has to wonder if someone in her position would really act this faithful when her arm is nearly bitten off.

All things considered, it’s not a particularly bad series, it just fails to capitalize on its own conceptual themes. Oddly enough, the series emulates Taira and Anzai’s relationship: a gentle foreplay of emotions, but nothing substantial ever happens.

TL; DR. This anime is what the love child of Tokyo Ghoul and Twilight would look like. It copies world-building and moral dilemmas of the former but keeps them generalized and bland. Likewise, a good chunk of the couple drama is lifted straight-up from a generic vampire romance book. Mix that with inferior storytelling and overly detailed explanations and you will get this well-lit dumpster fire of the show. Either you break psychologically by watching how scrambled and inconsistent everything is or you accept the ride and start howling into the pillow while trying not to smother yourself out of self-hate. This hits that sweet ... love-to-hate spot perfectly for me. <3 Enjoyment – 4

Summary. It pretty common story. A smart girl meets a handsome, gloomy boy and falls in love with him on the spot. Boy saves a girl, so she double likes him. The boy starts liking her back and shows her a more devilish, uncontrollable side of him. The girl still wants to be with him, so he double likes her. They grace us all with the sweetest of anime hugs. But their happiness is cut short by the terroristic organization that tries to manipulate the public into killing/segregating all the devils. So said girl gets dragged into a series of unfortunate events to save all innocent devils in the land of the rising sun, all while trying to support her boyfriend and safely date him.

In anime where people LOVE to explain things in excruciating detail (like 99,9% of the time), it's a strain on any brain to process that information overload. There are tides of unimportant information. Presently, I still had a very little idea what was happening a good chunk of the anime's running time, especially in the later episodes. The story feels too convoluted and every character's attempt at explanation made things even worse.

However, what made me really enraged was the treatment of anime's main female lead. Tsukasa didn’t deserve this personality overhaul. She started as a rational, intelligent and independent woman, but ended race as a helpless, supportive observer. She is described as Ph.D. material but never has any meaningful contribution to planning or offering a fresh look at things. Sadly, from lines such as „silence doesn’t mean consent“ and being a metaphor for female sexual awakening, writers reduced her to a common insecure and over-dependent girlfriend that foolishly runs into the arms of a boyfriend seized by bloodlust.

Dub voice acting was really...educational. Usually, I don’t pay attention if the performance isn’t amazing. But, boy do I now know how to spot a botched job. There isn’t any effort at acting, just people reading in the microphone. My theory is that those voice actors just wanted for a workday to end, so they could go home and contemplate career decisions they made.

So, how could I enjoy this? Well, by turning my brain off and doing some light multitasking in the background. The most embarrassing moments made me laugh like a hyena to the point of having my lungs hurt. I also argued with the screen and had some beer, too.

Disclaimer; I haven't watched more than first few initial episodes at the time this is written in and it will not resemble a review. MAL doesn't have "opinion" tab and the forum is full of people lashing at each other so this is the only way to convey my "feelings". It will also be spoiler-free as I won't mention any specific events from the anime. I might end up using word "shallow" a lot.
Very short TL;DR at the bottom, I do suggest to read it all if you wonder whether this show is worth your time.



I pulled this show and wanted to watch ... it because of the theme. I love more adult-oriented shows with dark theme and proper romance, I also like vampire-ish themed shows. Another thing the show has going for itself are the voice actors and actresses, bunch of very good names.

The show is bad though and it isn't my opinion as I'd call it a statement/fact and I am going to vindicate what I just wrote.

1. The supernatural(setting) and first episodes. The show throws you into a world with fictional elements as a main theme without explaining anything. This can in theory work if it's written/used well, the elements are explained as time passes (or not at all in some cases) to not dump everything on reader/viewer (and to keep the show/reading material mysterious) but it doesn't work here because they throw you into a world, hint at supernatural as "urban legends, stories ..." in conversations and then have those elements take literally 98% of the screen-time. You are blind and confused which completely destroys any bond you may be trying to build with the show (characters/story/lore/trivia). The writing is very very shallow, there is nothing to it, it is extremely rushed to a point where it starts making no sense which in connection to what I just wrote just...

The characters - Weird. Hell I'd even like the weird if they weren't just empty shells (no personalities, no explanation, no build up, no background fuuu). You aren't properly even introduced to them and that doesn't change as the episodes go on, you are basically as blind in episode 6 as you were before you even started watching. You get nothing and are supposed to care (and the shows acts like you care from the episode 1) just like with the theme/setting.

2. Drama, romance and musical background. While the show does qualify as both drama and romance both aspects are completely hideous.

Drama - the "dramatic" scenes are escalated from nothingness (and from the get-go) and you as a viewer are supposed to care but you rationally can't. You don't know what is happening, why is it happening, you don't know the characters that are taking part. As explained in first part, you know nothing about the world or anything else actually so how are you supposed to care about dramatic scenes? Rushed is too simple of a word n so is shallow.

Romance - The show contains romance straight out from the beginning. There is no build up, you don't know the characters (and they don't know each other either btw) but are thrown into "romantic" situations which come out of nowhere without any sign or buildup. To make it even worse (and this applies to the drama part as well) the music (except op which is nice) completely ruins any and all scenes (as if they weren't ruined enough already). I have no idea whether the person picking the music and putting it in is a genius or an intern. To elaborate on that, the music and it's timing is horrible but on the other hand it completely fits the shallow writing and badly put together scenes.

Comedy - The show isn't labelled as comedy (although it seems to be one big joke) there is a comedy. There are "funny" situations to lighten the "mood" but I don't get why they are there, this show isn't supposed to be rom-com with questionable humor. I will say though, that I did actually smile during those but that's only because Yoshitsugu's dry laugh makes me smile under any circumstances.

VA - God bless the voice actors. The only good part of this but not even their hard work can redeem what this show is doing.

To give you a TLDR; The writing and composition are shallow and straight out horrible in all of their aspects which kills everything else. You are thrown into a world with characters and themes but the show fails to explain and establish a(ny kind of) connection.

Despite all I just wrote I am not saying that people can't or shouldn't like it. Everyone is different and people like many things (good or bad, regardless of the quality) but that doesn't change quality of this show (or the things) but I feel like people take show rating here as an expression of their enjoyment which they shouldn't (as according to tool-tips it in no case should reflect that).

Some people also compared this to twilight which is fair compaction actually. Speaking strictly about the movies, the quality of writing and composition is very similar (in a bad way). As I am writing this the "average" rating is 6.5, which according to MAL is between fine and good. This show is nor fine nor good, the only things I'd consider even average is the art and voice acting rest is bad/LQ.

I haven't touched everything that can be said which may change if I turn this into full review. This was supposed to be very short to just give people heads-up (and to vent my thoughts), looking at it, it already is longer than expected.

EDIT; This review has the show rated as 3(poor) while my personal rating has it rated as 4(bad), that is due to the difference in tool-tips. Also, if you aren't interested in the theme/VA or are looking for exceptional art you should personally count my ratings as 1 lover (dreadful/very bad).

Devils Line was an anime that didn't live up to it's full potential.It had it's moments,but overall,it was an anime that i didn't enjoy.

Story -5/10-
The storyline of Devils line was rushed.As simple as that.It needed more time,more episodes,more screentime and development for some characters.It's storyline,themes and overall vibe were very similar to those of tokyo ghoul,so if the storyline wasn't so incredibly rushed,this anime could have been something much more enjoyable.To put it simply,this anime is basically a worse and more rushed version of tokyo ghoul,but instead of ghouls,we have vampires.Something else that bothered me was the fact that this anime has basically no ending,and ... i'm not kidding.When i reached the end of the very last episode,If i hadn't seen that there are no more episodes left,i wouldn't have known that what i had just watched was the ending of this anime.Devils line had some good moments,but due to the fact that it was so rushed,these moments didn't have as much depth as they should have had.

Art -6/10- Sound -6/10
Both the art and the sound were mediocre.They weren't bad,but they certainly weren't good either.I really liked the ending song tho.

Characters -4/10-
I didn't like the characters of devils line.The main protagonist,anzai,was nothing special.He had some good moments but overall, he was boring and not interesting.The protagonist's lover,tsukasa,is probably one of the worst female characters i have ever seen.That girl had no personality.It felt like she fell in love with anzai not because she wanted to,but because the storyline forced her to.Let me say that i hated how the romance between anzai and tsukasa was handled.There was no chemistry between the two of them.It felt like their relationship happened because the storyline required it,not because they actually fell in love with each other.Their romantic relationship was a big part of this anime but unfortunately,it was handled very poorly.The rest of the characters were not particularly interesting as well.

Overall -4/10-
I honestly wouldn't recommend this anime to you.The storyline was extremely rushed,and the romantic relationship between the protagonist and tsukasa felt very forced.

Man-eating monsters live as human disguised in our society. Sound's familiar? With famous anime like tokyo ghoul or good anime like parasite, here we have one of the weaker genre representatives. While the anime mentioned above focus on our society, the human reaction or what makes a human itself, we're following a couple in love that doesn't know what to do in their strange situation and get in trouble with the police and a terror organisation. But let me start at the beginning:

Story 5/10
Tsukasa Taira, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that blend in among ... the human population. Yuuki Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who utilizes his devil-born gifts as a member of a shadowy police task force specializing in devil-related crime in Tokyo. As Anzai continues to keep guard over Tsukasa, the two are quickly confronted with unacceptance and terroristic activities by the society.
The story is pretty weak, as it doesn't really know where to go and what to focus on. Romance? Politics? Action? Police? It seems it wants to do all these things at the same time, but isn't able to give us a good feeling about any of these points. On the other hand, the series isn't afraid to shift it's situation drastically. From a normal live to police work and later about terrorism, the series follows all these themes and situations at the same time. It has no problems actually switching it's set to a point it get's unpredictable. And it even likes to play around, both with the characters and the in world logic.

Characters: 4/10
Anzai is a 21 year old hybrid male meaning he is half devil half human. He works for the police force under F-Squad in Division 5. He struggles containing his rage and blood-lust as both cause him to transform into an uncontrollable demon.
Taira is a 22 year old female human. She studies hard in school and lives an ordinary life that was all changed one night when she falls in love with a certain police vampire.
Johannes Kleemann, he grew up at the same place as Anzai, is also a demon but he can control his wish for blood.
Besides them, most of the side characters are forgettable, unnecessary and don't improve the story in any notable way. You shouldn't expect character development or surprising choices watching anime either. The surprisingly well done main cast almost saves this part of the show.

Art/Sound/Voiceactors: 5/10
The art style in Devils Line isn’t too far out of the ordinary. Characters have soft faces and the colours mix in well with each other. The anime splits it’s time being indoors and outdoors and priority at night when outside. It’s rather dark which adds to the theme of vampires, devils, and darkness. This also allows emphasis when a brighter colour appears on screen. The biggest example of this is when we see blood. Blood is prominent throughout the series and when it is shown on screen it is usually the focal point. The choice of having dark background and bright blood throughout the show makes for great continuity.
Expressions are shown well of major characters, but a lot of the devils have the same expression or idle faces. The same toothy smile is used in just about every devil other than Anzai. One thing I was looking for that I was pleased to not see is that there is different blood patterns used in different episodes. For example, minor spoilers, when Taira gets a cut on her face halfway through the story she bleeds a certain way. When the cut is reopened and her face bleeds a different time, the blood doesn’t flow the exact same way, nor do we see a repeated shot.
The music chosen for Devils Line is very fitting and compliments the aura of the show well. The opening theme is ‘Eclipse’ by Souta Yanagawa commonly known as Shouta Aoi. The ending theme is ‘Sotto Tokete Yuku You ni’ by Mamoru Miyano, a very well known name. Both are well known for their works in the past and another job well done is presented here.
Interesting enough, for an anime that wasn’t considered ridiculously popular, Devils Line has some well known voice actors. The voice of Anzai is done by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. Notable works he has done are ‘Sora’ from No Game No Life and ‘Kirito’ from Sword Art Online. Taira is voiced by Yui Ishikawa. Notable works she has done are ‘Mikasa Ackerman’ from Attack on Titan or ‘Violet Evergarden’ from the very popular Violet Evergarden.

Overall: 4/10
Weak plot and characters with no growth make this anime already pretty bad. It has some good points speaking for it like the music or voice actors, but finally fails at the most important parts. If you want to watch a story about monsters in human form, you should watch tokyo ghoul or parasite. For a vampire story, you should try out shiki, which is far better thought out and developed than Devils Line.

So I finished this, apparently multiple people really love this. Both episode 1, and episode 2, made me want to drop with a 4/10. I thought about a 6/10 but I was so confused (writing bad, not because complex) and had so many issues. This anime does have 8/10 potential, but fails to me.
So I might be a little off on this but Episodes:
1-2 Sexual Assault and Rape, easy 4/10 and drop worthy, also triggered sexual trauma.
3-7 kind of felt 6/10 but repetitively had problems (my favorite character introduced at some point)
8 favorite episode, not path I was expecting/hoping for, but very hot
9-12 just keeps ... stacking my problems I've had the entire time and not making any sense
I hate to say it, but I think the female MC is my spirit animal

Art 8/10
it was mostly nice and fitting for the show

Animation 8/10
was mostly fluid and fitting for the show

Characters 7/10
Diverse and some are slightly interesting

Romance debatable 3/10 to 9/10
it was very off-putting for me, but I also understand it and honestly... I really liked episode 8

Plot 5/10
Nothing special, we got devils, people that that hate devils, people that work with devils, irrational hate et cetera. Things that didn't make sense and had issues with just got worse and doesn't make any sense.

Ending 6/10

I recommend this to anyone that loves forbidden love, vampires/devils, romance, police operations
I DO NOT recommend this to anyone who cannot/doesn't want sexual assault, rape, questionable founded relationships, a story with many blatant flaws, irrational bigotry

I hope this helped I tried my best not to spoil anything. I feel a little bad as I've arguably graded worse higher, but I can't bring myself to give above a 4/10 (bad)

Horny version of Tokyo Ghoul and not in a good way. The show is flat out trashy so if you enjoy stuff like that you might get a kick out of this show but it wasn't for me.

The story is about vampires that are mixed into human society and the authorities and third parties revolving around dealing with them. They act completely indistinguishable to humans until they witness blood and in which case they turn into these bloodlusty monsters. And I mean lust in the literal sense. They obviously get violent but they also get aroused by blood. This leads the series to have a ... lot of sexual assault in it.

And on that note I have to mention the main character Tsukasa who is probably my main complaint about the show besides the undertones. She gets into these awful situations constantly (violence and rape) but somehow is always okay with all of it. The show never mentions her having any mental issues but I cannot fathom a normal human being reacting to the things she has experiences the way she does.

A lot of the times the show just feels like a rape fantasy by the author. Ironically apparently it was fairly popular among the female audience, shipping the two main characters frequently. Different strokes and all that I guess. I just feel that all the horrible deeds were the main focus of the writing which really made the characters feel like they were AI or something. Just constant reactions that make no sense.

Outside of the main duo, there were some okay characters but another big issue was that the designs are way too samey. A big portion of the cast are police officers or spies among them and they wear the same uniforms and because they mostly lack any detailed designs, the cast became a mess to follow, especially later when they kept adding more characters. I was struggling to tell who the talk was about occasionally.

On a more positive note about characters, the show has a pretty crazy line up of many talented voice actors which surprised me considering the trashy material they were working with. Now despite having all this talent, their sound department didn't always deliver. When the characters started getting loud, there was audible clipping in the recordings and this happened several times and not just in one episode. Not sure how they missed all of this in the production.

The world building itself is alright. I did find myself somewhat interest about the history of the vampires, their behavior and conflict with humans and adapting to a social life. But sadly with the show's runtime of only 12 episodes, we could barely just scratch the surface and with all the negative stuff in mind I am not interested in reading the manga so this is it for me.

Frankly speaking, it was rather bad of a series I could have decided to watch.

This will sure to be a good and through spoiler to people, those who didn't watch might need to rethink about reading this review.

At first, I thought it was going to be more action than romance and drama. But right the first episode, and I bet it went the same for all people, I realized this was a through and through josei series. Handsome guy, short fused, cares about someone he didn't know, then afraid of hurting her so went on pushing her away, thinking it was for her own ... sake, got told that he needed to control himself, rather than pushing her away. After going through some more danger, they finally confess to each other and start being a couple. But then, some bad guy just have to mess it up for them and they have to find a way to deal with it as the climax.

That was basically what the series was about. I didn't know this title, both in Manga and Anime and only decided to watch it since I didn't know what to watch at the time. It was bad, but rather decent.

Sure, plot line was predictable. Vampire guy and human girl romance? Oh? Where have I heard of that idea before? Right. Almost everywhere. To top it off, it was so predictable, I was even able to predict a lot of it, just going by meta thinking instead of plot clues despite it involved investigation by police and what not. Still though, it targeted a genre which was so familiar and well liked, speaking objectively, I can see that it can't be going anywhere too bad.
Despite all that, as someone who was familiar with works dedicated to female audiences/users of the culture, I have to say, this was as bad as it can get around the problems.

First off, after heading down the road of predictable plot line, which you see like, everywhere, character building was awful. Well, it was awful overall, saved for one character, main protagonist love interest, Anzai Yuuki. He was actually complex by standard.

Starting off, he actually looked like he was a bad guy, following the two who seemed like main characters like a stalker but was in fact a police officer who went to arrest a serial killer and rapist. +
Is basically strong enough to apprehend a vampire. Oh, so that means he's going to be stronger than most bad guy. +
For personality, he was cold as snow, easily push protagonist away from danger like nothing. But then, that snow quickly melted as he took her home. Ok? He's a good guy, just not the friendly kind. ++
He then almost "raped" protagonist at her door but controlled himself. Yeah.... Hot and actually able to control himself. +++
As he pulled himself back by sedative, he shows that he was desperate. Now he's attracted to protagonist and have to resort to foreign elements to control himself. Well, that's cute. +
Then he admit it himself that he is a vampire. A HALF vampire, to be exact. So? You are going to give him 3 more points just by that setting? +++
After that, he was so concerned over the girl that he had to go back to see her so very often. Now, how are you going to top it with building one hell of a hunk in one episode? +++++

Just like that, Anzai got himself 16 pluses in just episode 1. Wow. Now that's a guy I want to fall in love with and date him. Yay! - is what I pretty much expect all female audiences (physical sex may vary) to think, say, scream or fangirling about him. That is not talking about his design. I myself can't quite score him on that, so he actually have more score than I can measure.

Compared to that, protagonist was a college student, fairly cute, have rather nice personality, can easily accept everything, never felt in love before and is innocent but able to take the initiative.
Uhm? Why so much of a blank sheet? Well, not my problem I guess. It's a series directed at women after all.

Then, the rest of the cast was even worse. All of them were simple. Their reasons for actions are staple as well.

Well seen plot and staple character? Let's say, art and animation was good then, since character design... was... good...... Ok? I needed like 15 minutes to get used to 2D hand drawn art style. That's even longer than Seikai Suru Kado and Ajin. Enough to say I guess.

Sound? What about sound?
Well, not that good but it was good. Especially, the vampires who lost their control sounded scary. Just like a bunch of zom...b..i...e...s? Ok, am I just watching to find faults now? That's not even with sound, it was in story, damn it.

And don't even get me started on that ending where the protagonist could have done something, more like almost everything to help at the very end. Yet she only saw what was in front of her and started doing shits the long way around. It's fine, I'm not triggered by that inaction.

TLDR: I tried to find a way to raise the score I can give to this series but I can't, despite thought it could have been good. Thought so to even watch all 12 episode. Only thing is, I couldn't do it.

[Context] I saw the anime before reading the manga.

Watched all 12 eps & the OVA in one sitting, thoroughly roasting it the whole way through. I consider it a drinking game anime, ESPECIALLY if you've read the manga first.

The anime has little world building leaving characters underdeveloped and lacking motive for their interactions. Most plot points don't have consequences as context is missing along with half of the manga's story, which is not an exaggeration. The anime ends with plot from volume 8 of the manga, ignoring the next 6 volumes. You don't see acts 2 and 3 or even learn about the primary ... antagonist. Continuity takes a big hit for this. The romance scenes are awkward, the same song is used in every moment of tension, some scenes look like they were animated at 5-8 frames per second and are generally flat unless there's a filter effect, and the ending is very sour. Oh yeah, and the OVA does nothing to rectify the plot.

If you wanna enjoy the story, or you tend to fall for harlequin romances, read the manga. Watching the anime back shocked me as to how much was cut to make 12 episodes. Easily could have had 30 episodes if fully fleshed out, which was probably the problem to begin with.

Personally I've bought the physical manga and have enjoyed re-reading it. Thank you Ryo Hanada for the endearing story and warm characters.

1/10 if ONLY for the fact that there's a line in the op song that goes "in darkness...it's darker than black" and I laughed my ass off as soon as I saw it.

When people say this is essentially Twilight The Anime they aren't lying. Creepy relationship dynamic shown as sweet? Check. Guy is emo about 'being a monster' but keeps seeing girl anyways? Check. Is overall poorly done even without the creep factor accounted for? Check.

Feels like someone just has a hardcore lust for vampires and decided to make a super edgy romance, as if it hasn't been done and made fun of over and ... over.

I kept watching just to see how laughably bad it'd get but by episode 5 I was just very bored and very uncomfortable.

The pacing and timing of things is just. Atrocious. There would just be awkward pauses between characters when it felt like the scene should have cut and some scenes just. Didn't even make sense? It was pretty ridiculous.

I say if you want a laugh watch the op to have a good idea of what it's like but skip the show 100%. Way too weirdly horny, badly paced, and a lot of talk of and on screen assault.

TLDR: Devils line is a messy and poorly thought out series that makes no serious attempt at a high quality work. It's both confusing and flat out disappointing as you traverse through randomly put together fight scenes and the sad excuse for a plot direction. Avoid this watch, unless you're looking for a series that makes vampires fight and do vampire-ing stuff (or you want another drop on your list).

Scores~ Story [2] Art [5] Sound [4] Character [2] Enjoyment [1] Overall [2.8]

Story [2]
The best way to describe the story in devil's line is a confusion. The studio makes no attempt to explain the reasoning behind ... everything and chucks random characters together, with some context, and makes them do things. The overall plot itself, it's pointless and has no meaningful direction to follow or to look forward to. It does make a semi-serious attempt to develop a somewhat interesting romance, but any curiosity of this is whipped away as you're confused by what the heck is happening in the series.
A sad excuse for a plot.

Art [5]
The only "strength" of this series. The studio has made a genuine attempt to Instill some identity into their characters and makes it bearable on the eyes (and soul). Nothing of great note can be said here. It's mediocre and won't knock your socks off anytime soon. Art in which its sole purpose is to do its job and adapt.

Sound [4]
Simply O.K
The sound is fine, it doesn't hitch in any major way. However, the voice acting does tend to get boring and doesn't scream "I have character" in any major way. Apart from it's under average OP and ending songs, the sound is slightly disappointing in Devil's line.

Character [2]
Devil's line's characters are bland, generic and sad to say the least. The studio makes no attempt to make the characters amount to anything other than hollow. The generic vampires. The generic MC woman. Everything just feels the same and/or predictable as random events move by. The studio makes no attempt at making Devil's line's characters amount to anything but a chore to bear your eyes into. While they're not horrible, they certainly are dreadful to every letter.

Enjoyment [1]
I am not enjoying this series whatsoever. This anime ruins any prospect of attempting a fun vampire series and replaces it with a collection and hollow characters doing randomly generated stuff together. While it keeps it somewhat entertaining through its overly sexual(ish) fight scenes, the sheer amount of trash you have to avoid to get to it is simply discouraging and becomes a massive chore to go through.

Overall [2.8]
Although it is a somewhat mediocre production, Devil's line squanders any prospect of a mediocre concept. It's generic characters and confusing plot leave it as a massive disappointment of a series in which the studio has made nonchalant attempt to make things interesting or watchable.

Simply a poor quality watch and should be another anime on your drop list, should you take up this poor series. *sigh*

There's more depth to the taste of raw spaghetti than these characters.

The main heroine is a blank canvas the average teenage girl can insert themselves into. She goes to university and knows how to cook. Wow.

Serious lines that made me laugh out loud because of how poorly written they are were not an uncommon occurrence. The actions the characters took were either completely predictable and formulaic, or made absolutely no sense from a logical standpoint. Also, cheese. A lot of cheese.

You'll watch the same scene with the hero and the heroine play out over and over again with barely and progress in their relationship.

The Japanese ... voice acting was surprisingly much, much worse than the English one, with the English one not standing out positively either. Thus I watched the show dubbed. The male MC sounds like what 12-year-old me would want my voice to sound like if I was a vampire.

The animation and colors did sometimes look pretty good, but the bad moments vastly overshadowed the good ones.

The story was mostly predictable, but there were a few twists here and there that caught me as a surprise. It wishes it was deeper than it actually is with its message about racial issues, but all it comes off as is pseudo-intellectual. A few anime have filled out the same template a lot better. Tokyo Ghoul and Darker than Black come to mind. The main MC reminds me of Kyoukai no Kanata's Akihito, but a lot worse.

It's a missed opportunity for another good vampire show that we've been oh so dearly missing in anime. It's in many ways the Japanese Twilight, so if you like Twilight-esque shows you will probably enjoy Devils' Line too.

Angsty vampire stories about them being angsty and self-loathing of their nature and being in love with a human are nothing new for me to see within media, even in some instances within anime. This recent example of the premise involves said vampire being a member of a secret police division tasked with halting vampiric threats and preventing their existence from becoming publicly known, and finding himself become drawn to a young woman in college who encounters him apprehending a close friend of hers who she wasn't aware of being a vampire. The anime mainly involves the two attempt to start up a relationship complicated ... by Anzai's loathing of his vampiric nature, and complicated by anti-vampire terrorist groups attempting to wipe his kind out.

The major shortcoming to Devils Line would involve the execution of its storytelling. It's largely pretty clumsy in the handling of elements to its story with many of the characters too immersed into the archetypes they personify and there isn't much dimension to them to a large degree as a result. Anzai largely angsts about his vampiric nature and continually has internal conflicts on whether or not he wants to be with Taira. Taira is largely defined by her persistence at trying to get Anzai to not be overly protective of her and being sympathetic toward vampires as she learns more about them. Maybe the only character I gave some hoot about was the other major vampire of the story, Johannes Kleeman, who seemed content with his vampiric nature as such to have control over his bloodlust, knowledge on their capabilities, and still be rather sensible in his interactions with other characters. Other characters are largely unremarkable, mostly settling into whatever archetypes and roles they have within the anime.

The plot's no different in this regard in regards of awkwardness. Devils' Line tries painting the vampire phoenomena as a rather grey area since they are attempting to overcome their bloodlust to attempt coexisting with humans. But while a decent amount of fleshing out is provided to those supporting of coexistence, the same isn't given to those opposed to them because of the anime's rather shallow characterization, thus making the conflict feel more black-and-white as a result. Adding to the plot's issues, events in the series breeze by at a pretty brisk pace and give the audience little breathing room to take in things with major plot developments. This likely has to do with this adaptation trying to cram 40 chapters of manga material into a 12-episode anime and ending inconclusively due to the manga still ongoing during the time of its airing.

The presentation also has its fair share of awkwardness to it as well. Visuals are largely pretty subpar with generic looking character designs, a city landscape that's been done plenty of times for anime trying to be suspenseful, and nothing too engaging for animation despite the title's presence of vampires in it. In terms of music, I have to wonder what the creators of this series were thinking with the choices for it as the light, slow scores clash badly with the dark and serious aesthetic Devils' Line was trying to push for with its focus on vampires in modern Japanese society.

In short, Devils' Line is a rather shoddy and clumsily executed anime due to its brisk pacing, shallow characters, and sloppy handling of the title's story. I'd be hard pressed to give this more than a single watch.

It's really hard for me to drop anime series, so I've watched my fair share of utter crap on my own will, which makes me feel stupid when I start ranting to myself about how bad a series is, because "if you don't like it you can just stop watching", right? The thing is that by watching shitty stuff you can find a lot of hidden comedy gems, this type of show that is so terrible it ends up being funny as fuck. This, my peers, is one of those.

Story: 2
The story is a mess. At this point (ep 7) there's little to no explanation ... of the main issues of the series and they just keep adding plot twists and useless information that goes nowhere. Is like they tried to focus in so many things and just developed one (kind of). Hell, I guess the manga is long as fuck, but they're definitely not solving all of the anime questions in the 5 episodes the series has left, and if they do, then the story rating can drop to 1 instead of 2.

Art:3
Honestly I'm giving it a 3 because the main guy has a spot on top of his lip and it looks cute, but the art is bleh, animation even more bleh.

Sound:7
Surrounding all the mountain of crap that this anime is, there's an incredible voice cast, how this shit managed to get the likes of Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Mamoru Miyano, Aoi Shouta, Takahiro Sakurai, Miyuki sawashiro, ETC beats me, but the only thing that can be praised in this series is the voice acting, and even so, the lines are so terrible that sometimes the great voice acting falls flat. As for background sound there's nothing special about it.

Characters:1
So this is the story of a vampire and a girl who fall in love somehow without really having that much contact wow. Good guy hot demon with a mysterious aura and a tragic past, tries his best to fight his bloodlust (and let's say bloodlust because they took it quite literal) while defending the love of his life, while our useless and cute but not hot main girl sacrifices herself in every little ocation to protect the good guy hot demon who really needs no help whatsoever, thus, making the situation worse.
Is like every single character in the series is just a copy paste of templates someone posted somewhere.

Enjoyment:3
I give a 3 in enjoyment because to be honest with you all the terrible clichè drama is just so entertaning to watch. This series is so bad that is funny and f you're anything like me it'll definitely get some good laughs out of you. Believe me, I'm watching the whole thing.

Overall: 2
Because voice actors and a mole.

This series should be called flat lined instead of devil's line.

Literally one of the worst anime series that I've watched in the past two or three years. I had an anime binge around mid- to late-2020, to try and get back into it, right? Yeah, this show actually killed it. Over the course of around two weeks, I forced myself through about four episodes before giving up. After giving up, it practically vanished from my head for so long that I am just now posting my thoughts on it (~05/2021). It encompasses basically every bad trait about modern anime that you care to name, from a generic, shitty soundtrack to the atrocious art style and ... animation. The plot is effectively Neo-Twilight; need I say any more?