May 2, 2020
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
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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.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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