Devils Line
Devils' Line

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Story (7): It was a rather unique plot but also not something that has never been seen before (which is to be expected). Anyway it is about a human girl, Taira, that gets involved with 'devils' (which are low key modified vamps). It is mainly told by her pov and the pov of her half-devil love interest, Anzai. But it does jump pov a lot, thus touching on a bunch of different social and political views etc.

Art (7): It can definitely get wonky at times. My main issue with it would be that the anatomy really isn't consistent. Examples being big heads and super tiny ... hands a good portion of the time. Also the art def changed as the series went on, rather common, but there was one character who was supposed to be ugly but still looked rather normal but when her character arc came they like hit her with an ugly bomb to emphasize her issues. I didn't like the inconsistency with the art concerning her, it would've been fine to leave her design as before. Other than all that I actually enjoyed the art and appreciate that it isn't a common style.

Character (9): I will just simply state that there was a large cast, all of which had strengths and weaknesses. They were all fleshed out pretty good. And with the switching of pov you got to experience a lot of different social and moral beliefs between characters.

Enjoyment (8): I was able to binge it without stopping and can binge re-read it and still get a lot of entertainment from it.

Overall (8): It was rather good and def up there in my favorites but there were some plot holes or just things outright left unanswered, which is spoiler territory so I will leave it at that.

I remember watching the anime first of this on YouTube, when I was younger and falling in love. I rewatched it, but now reading the manga it’s a lot better than expected, I gave this story a 7/10 because of the use of unnecessary rape and how the story ended, I understand that blood lusting and vampires and raping humans can go hand and hand but in my opinion all rape is unnecessary unless education. Though the author didn’t seem like the type of person to add in rape just for climax and or to weirdly bring the main characters together like some, no a ... lot of stories do. The female
Lead’s personality sometimes bothered me, one minute she was acting as a useless princess waiting to be saved next she was putting herself in dangerous situations for no reason. Her attempts was there though. The male Lead’s personality I loved actually, tbh I’m a big fan of cold characters slowly opening up towards others.

The side characters besides the long white hair man didn’t really stand out, I didn’t really care much about them and found a lot of them annoying. The white hair character I don’t really love or hate, he had his best and annoying movements in the mange and anime. Overall if you enjoy a vampire love-story without a abusive relationship and characters that actually talk to one another, no sexual assault between love interest, and something you can easily get through I recommend this.

This manga is just one big mess. It has its moments where it's genuinely enjoyable, but those instances are heavily shadowed by several glaring problems.

Story: 5/10

I think there's something going on here? It seems to be about humans vs. rogue vampires, and using vampires against said rogue vampires. That's an okay basis I suppose. Then there is an organization that's pit to expose all vampires. That's a good idea as well, but it's not supported by a cast that can pull it off.

Art: 3/10

This one hurts. This manga has moments where it looks great, but most of the time the art is so terribly awkward ... and inconsistent it hurts to look at. You can tell that the artist is good at drawing one angle of face, and that's about it. The look of the vampires is intensely ugly, which wouldn't be so bad if ti was done consistently. It seems like every time a vampire shows their teeth, they grow more teeth and their jaws poke out of their faces further and further. It's terrifyingly bad.

Oh, and don't get me started on the tiny hands. It's like everyone was Deadpool and sliced off their hands routinely. It's that bad.

Characters: 4/10

The ideas for the characters themselves aren't too bad. A half vampire guy, and a normal girl who is falling for him. Good start, but you have to actually develop the characters for them to work. The guy keeps visiting this girl, and there is NO motivation. He himself is confused as to why he keeps visiting her. He's practically living at this girl's house, and none of them have any idea why.

At one point, the writer thought to add in a happy, comic relief character. Oh, let's just make them strangely happy and ditsy. Why? Who knows, that's just how they are.

Everyone just feels so two dimensional, I can't bring myself to care about the characters at all.

Enjoyment: 3/10

I'll be the first to admit I'm a sucker for vampire manga, but there's only so far down crap alley I can go. I like the bloody scenes, but it's simply ruined by bad art, I can't bring myself to enjoy it. I just keep cringing at how bad everything looks.

Overall: 4/10

To give it its credit, I did sit through 9 chapters of this slop. If you REALLY like vampire manga, you might get through it. Otherwise, there's no reason to enjoy this manga.