Devils Line

Not too great but not too terrible. I enjoyed the quality of the animation the most and it was decent when it came to entertainment and action scenes. Must I mention that the level of gore is satisfying? Yes. However, the plot had plenty of gaps compared to the manga and it could have resulted in something really good otherwise The main character is your usual mysterious emo boy who hates himself and refuses to let anyone near him until he meets /the/ girl that changes him forever, who may be quite cringy at times during the serie. It was okayish. I'll give it a solid 6.

I ASSURE YOU IT IS WORTH YOUR TIME WATCHING. For me, even though the anime itself have some typical plotline to that of vampire-human love story, it was very well delivered in the anime. The very part that intrigued me and made me watched it til the end are how the very beings that are called the devil(vampire) are so humane that it makes all the human or society in this anime are the devil themselves. It was very realistic as it portrayed the reality of what will really happen if vampire do exist among us. Its very ironic but I guess its true. That is one part that I absolutely loved about this anime. The fluff-fluff romance part are also the important that gave essence to this story. Like how blindly trusting is not enough in relationships. Many of the human-vampire relationships failed in the anime even when before they swore to trust their partner whole-heartedly. Understanding and communicating are depicted by the main couple and I simply love this honest and straight-forward interaction without wishy-washy approach. All in all,I really enjoyed this anime and hope you guys will too.

The story, art, sound or characters were not what drew me to this anime. It was the fundamental idea around 'devils'. I have not watched anything that has attempted what Devil's Line has; the link between blood lust and sexual desire and how they proc each other. Some say that it has a twilight-ish feel to it but I disagree, yes there is some romance but in no way does it highlight how 'perfect' and 'beautiful' devils are. The story is a bit slow but the progression isn't too bad and I enjoyed the political side of it. It is a little bit gory which I also enjoyed. The art was nice, the shot angles and such worked quite well and the art of the devils themselves was reeeeeally cool. The main characters are both a bit... boring? But they do get a bit more interesting as time goes on and the character development can be seen quite well through this method. I personally enjoyed this so much, I went and bought the manga. I really do love this story. I recommend watching the first episode, if you don't like the feel, than I'd probably ditch it, it ain't for you. c:

Devils Line is an anime with good story progression. In my first impression, what i expect from the synopsis. Its gonna be a mediocre story, and character. But after seeing 4 episodes i can see the writer of this story has make the potential of the content out nicely. Nicely here is not nice for mediocre, but nice almost for very good one. As we always see, anime or show like this is gonna have an expected story progression with expected character. But the result i got from finishing the show has prove me wrong (even though not all of them are unexpected, but still the "mediocre" thing we expect its gonna be is balanced with the good story progression and unexpected character). At the end of the word, the show has give me enough enjoyment, which makes me kind of grateful for watching this anime because it gives me hope for anime, because lately instead of giving us a story we are not expected or at least a show that makes us say "its very good anime", they give us poor adaptation, mediocre story and character, and poorly progress of story content.

Devil's line was like a guilty pleasure for me. It wasn't bad, to be honest with you, but of course it wasn't good either. One thing I was to applaud it on is it following closely to the manga. I watched mainly because I really wanted to watch a vampire romance that wasn't somewhat similar to Twilight, the whole love triangle trope with no solid main couple romance development was getting boring. The main thing that I loved about this is that, I saw them actually have romance, though some would thing it was a quite fast pace way for them falling in love, but for me it was better from the usual slow snail pace and then at the end their wont even be a kiss scene and the series just ends like that. Character wise, I kinda had a feeling that the main girl wouldn't be this badass human, but she at least wasn't annoying, (well to me honestly) I would recommend this to someone who isn't expecting much and just wants to get away from the over used vampire tropes. It does hint it of course, but it doesn't throw it in your face like a pack of potatoes.

Ah, vampire story lines. I really love seeing what the next person's idea is going to be for this concept, and am usually disappointed to some extent. Devil's Line met my expectation for that, but also pleasantly surprised me in that the disappointing elements didn't ruin the show for me! I started Devil's Line with the manga when it was first released, and was initially extremely disappointed. The story was choppy, the plot pacing/ ordering was disorganized, and there are so many holes in the story that you can slap this tale on a sandwich and call it Swiss cheese. With that, I was more than rewarded by the direction of the anime. Starting with where these devils come from, Devil's Line is an anime based off of the manga written by Ryo Hanada. The manga started in March of 2013 and is still on-going, so if you want to figure out what's going, on, you can try there, though I doubt it will help. The anime premiered in April of this year and ended this past weekend, being directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto and released by Platinum Vision. To start with my general thoughts not related to the review in particular, I'm more than mildly surprised that Platinum Vision took this show on. Considering how new they are in the world of hot topic anime, and how well rounded their others have been, (including one other vampire title, "Servamp") I was taken aback by the studio's decision to pick up such a lopsided plot. IF YOU DON'T CARE WHY I LIKE/ DISLIKE THE SHOW, SKIP DOWN FOR THE FINAL RECOMMENDATION! Story: 9/10 - The story is really good. It's nothing we haven't seen before, but there's just the right of melodrama to make the tale what it is. I thoroughly enjoyed watching how it was going to go. There were moments that took me by surprise, and kept me wondering what was going to happen, which is something I can only give credit to the director for considering what a mess think the manga is. Art: 10/10 - I think the art in this show is beautiful: from the way the faces of the characters are drawn, to the bags under their eyes, to the way blood spatters when someone is shot. There was a lot of thought put into how each character should look, and why they look that way. On top of that, the animation had admirable qualities of it's own. I'll bring back the blood spatters for this point. It has been an extremely long time since I've seen blood depicted realistically the way it was in this show. That along with any face to face violence, the animation team (I feel) went out of their way to make the dramatic action scenes as realistic as contextually possible. Sound: 4/10 - I had a lot of trouble hearing certain parts. Or it sounded like the voice actors were too close to their mics in certain scenes. I wasn't a fan of how the sound went with what was happening in the show at all. I changed the servers I was watching the show on twice and had the same problem, so be prepared for that. It started happening to me around episode 5 or 6. Character: 6/10 - Lordie, they need some serious work and some better development pacing, but I actually really appreciated the characters and how different they all were from each other. Each character had a very distinct personality, even characters that didn't have major parts. With that, though, each character design was EXTREMELY underdeveloped and the only person we know more that a handful of info about, is Anzai. Be prepared for how frustrating that's going to be. Enjoyment: 8/10 - This show isn't hard to enjoy if you aren't picky about having your preferences met. If you are, I highly suggest not wasting your time. I mean that in the kindest sense. It's enjoyable and catches your attention, willing you to finish the story (regardless of how good you think it is). I find the reality of the romance, violence, personality differences, and animation to be endearing despite all of the large holes we're left with. OVERALL RATING: 7/10 RECOMMENDATION: Watch - All in all, this show was a good watch and if I was bored enough, I'd probably be willing to watch it again. I think it's a waste of your time if you're easily riled up by an incomplete story, but I think if you're looking for something to watch that has an overall good story concept and direction then Devil's Line isn't the worst thing you could put on your watch list! Until next time! Ciao =^-^= - Ama_

The story isn't original. I get it. You could compare this anime to a series like Tokyo Ghoul, Twilight, or pretty much anything that has the storyline of "teenage girl falls in love with a vampire" or "inhuman protagonist struggles to live with themselves". Devil's Line is basically a combination of the two. Despite it's lack of uniqueness, is it bad? In my opinion, no. I don't see much of a problem with the story. (I'll only touch upon surface level stuff.) Taira's a human girl who finds herself falling in love with a devil (or vampire) after discovering that one of her friends is a devil as well. This one incident has already drawn her into the world of devils. When she's rescued by Anzai, she becomes involved with the police (and her relationship with Anzai begins). Because of this, the story doesn't seem to be all over the place or anything like that. You can pretty much expect the future events in the series. My only issue is the ending. It was good but I would've been nice to see what happened to everyone else as well. Other than the times when the characters do something stupid, they're relatively good. Taira and Yuuki are likable characters. Despite this, there isn't much development. The male and female lead characters seem to have little to no change...separately. I feel like their relationship changed more than they did. (It was still nice to see them get closer to each other though.) Everyone else either wasn't very important or they got no development. The only exception to this would be Nanako. The sound is almost always good. I really like the opening and ending songs. "Eclipse" had good visuals but the ending song...the visuals look so awkward. The dramatic music was good as well. I wish the voices could've sounded better though. During some scenes, usually the ones when he's transformed into a devil, Anzai just makes some pretty weird sounds. They sound like gurgling... Anyway, the art is usually good. The bags under the eyes could look better. Also, I think they could've did better with the scenes where the devils are transformed. The animation looks weird sometimes, I admit that. For some people, it may be distracting. Story: 9 Art: 8 Sound: 8 Character: 8 Enjoyment: 9 (Things such as certain sounds and visuals were a bit off putting.) Overall, I don't think Devil's Line is as bad as it may seem. Even stories with a relatively unoriginal premise can be good in some ways. I give this anime an 8.

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 picked this show up just randomly browsing and I saw one of the posters/ads for it. Being a nerd of horror related things and having a lack of shows to watch at that given time, I figured I would give this show a try. The show was only 2 or 3 episodes in, and I'm a pretty impatient person, so I decided to look at the manga. The subject matter seemed interesting to me, so I figured it wouldn't hurt. This series definitely falls victim to the original content being sacked/cut out for time. If I remember correctly, episode 12 ends around chapter 40? Each chapter is approximately 30-40 pages. That's a lot of content to cover for 12 episodes. I hate to be that guy, but if you were/are hoping for stronger character development, read the manga. I binged all 59 available chapters that were currently out in about a week. I originally had the impression that Devil's Line was a Tokyo Ghoul copycat, but the story itself evolves into something completely different. It'd be a little rash to compare devils and ghouls, too. This isn't a manga review, so I'll be talking about the anime from here on out. The animation at times was weak and awkward. It was noticeably choppy more than once. The coloring of the characters and the background didn't mesh sometimes either. It looked like you were looking at two different scenes at once. The ending really upset me. I won't mention what actually happened in the manga, but even if you didn't read the original content; the ending was horseshit. It was terribly rushed and wasn't believable in the slightest. Given how timid and stubborn Anzai is, he would not have reacted the way he had, nor would he have easily let go how much he hates himself despite how persistent Tsukasa is. This is my own personal opinion, but I really disliked Kikuhara's voice. Not how I envisioned this originally well written psychopath's voice. Now for the positives, I did like the music/OST/opening. I thought the ending was kinda lame, but I didn't hate it. I'd include the characters here, but for me they just weren't fleshed out enough in the anime. Lee wasn't as good of a comic relief either. Ishimaru is also one of my favorite characters in the show/manga. He's written more as a complex guy as well as someone who I enjoy to see because of the fact I find him to be pretty well written. The anime made him seem one-dimensional and boring. I was really exited to see him, but I was only let down. Honestly, 6 is a generous rating.

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.

The manga is real good but watuhek is this adaptation man. they ruined it. it has potential and all yakno like the story is actually pretty interesting but the way this adaptation executed it is pretty badddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. I read the manga after watching this one because there is no way that this anime is this bad u kno? and i am right cuz i enjoyed reading the manga ngl it wasnt bad. they left out so much scenes on the anime and it is disappointing T_T they wasted the story. i hope there will be another adaptation of this someday THAT IS ACTUALLY good and can give this some justice. daz all ty ciao bella.

This is a great anime that does a wonderful job combining romance, action, and drama. It would have been even better stretched out into two seasons because the ending felt very rushed and there were multiple story lines that never got to fully develop. I think its a very unique take on vampires that kept me interested the entire time. The progression of the romantic relationship seemed a little too fast but, again, thats due to there only being one season. The emotions shown by the characters felt real and made sense. If you are a fan of sexual tension or forbidden love you should give this anime a try! The art style is great, the music is great. Overall its one of my favorite animes and actually got me to start reading manga because i couldnt get enough of it!

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.

[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.

This anime have a really good concept about being a vampire and their hardship of overcoming their "bloodlust" and certainly the main plot of this anime circles around that concept. For those who's looking for a real action type anime with some vampire vs human type of scenario this is not really a good anime for you but for those whose looking for more romantic focused anime between human and a effing horny vampire then this may be an anime for you. I give it a fair rating for that concept of bloodlust For Arts, I admit that I love the character design for the mah boi Horny Vampire MC he's really cool looking but the other characters not so much so they are really forgettable of course expect Lee. I really love his character but that's another story. The sound in the series is nothing much to catch my attention even the OP and ED. so nothing much to say. The characters here is so meh. I love the concept but how they execute it with these stupid characters ( The main boi and girl) really is just boring. Well there are good scenes but not all scenes are good specially in the first half of the anime. Seriously, falling in love in your first meeting? Girl, you must be horny af. There are some characters that i do really like but not these two stupid shit. Overall this anime is a decent watch if you have nothing to do with your life and want to try some vampire animes but still you might want to try it. 6/10 HOrny vampire in a nutshell

For me, personally, I don't think they really had a goal with this anime, there were just too many elements that they wanted to put in and it made the story just kind of convoluted and really scattered. I feel like this could have been done a bit better maybe by making it a 24 ep season where we could maybe see a bit more progression with the main character's romance while also working with the cloak and dagger aspects, to make it a bit more relatable to the audience. The animation really wasn't all that great, there were parts where you can tell where you put a lot more work and quality but it was never consistent throughout the series. Unfortunately, I was just really disappointed. :( Didn't want to be but I am.

With the fact that this has been made in 2018 around all the other newest and amazing anime series, this series lacks quite a lot. The characters have no background and you cannot connect with them at all. The plot is compressed in 12 episodes and doesn’t even have a real ending to it on the last episode. Nothing gets resolved and no answers are revealed. More questions are introduced and the plot thickens but then it just dies. End of story. The only reason why I liked to watch this to the end is because of the cute girl being with a “bad boy” who is “troubled” by his inner thoughts and self. The art is super bland where everything is stand still except for one character’s mouth movements. They go from one thing to another in less than a second and they start to introduce some sort of resolution to the main problem and then just cut it off like, “nope, I’m bored already, lets just let it die and see what happens next.” I hate it when anime ends with no resolution and where the protagonists are separated with no answers as to if they are ever back together or what happens to the bad guys. Just a waste of my time to be honest.

I have long time block with what should I watch I don't like anime where nothing happend in lovers way and cliche love stories and ends which we can expect.Than I watched Devilś Line and it was stunning.The story was interesting and. characters too.I wouldn't expect this good anime with very good makeout scenes. I have just my mounth opened and was excited.The male character is very good looking and female have sexy body.So if you don't like story you just can watch some details and then wait for some very interesting scene I advised you to watch it at evening ;) If you thinking about watching it.Give it try. you will not be disappointed.

A possibly enjoyable series that felt cut short. It seems like you are just getting into the meat of the plot in the last few episodes when suddenly it ends. Major plot points are not even remotely resolved, and some are only brought up in that last episode. Leaves the series feeling unsatisfying. This is not aided by the very generic relationship between the two main characters in this kind of dangerous relationship that otherwise could distract you from the world building. The after credits final scene is somewhat baffling, leaving you wondering what has happened in terms of plot. It seems clear this is certainly the end of the anime as they have changed several things from the manga, omitting scenes and even characters, that would otherwise be progressing the plot forward in this final episode.

It's been a while since I watched a Twilight-like anime before. This was vampire-romance junk food that I didn't even know I needed it. If you don't like Twilight, you're not gonna like this. If do you like Twilight you might like this. I won't lie, this isn't a good show. However if you want a quick, really cute romantic vampire show to watch, then look not further. I found the romantic moments to be funny, sort of sexy, and just kinda cute. I really like how inmate yet still naive the main couple could be. There are a couple of moments where I simple have no idea how we got to this point, but I accepted it cause again....the main couple is very cute.