Regarding Character Surnames. Nationality and Racial Belonging
Why are the surnames "Sakamaki" and "Tsukinami" not used with the parents' names?
Sakamaki Kanato, Sakamaki Shu, Sakamaki Ayato... It sounds right, doesn't it? Sakamaki Richter, Sakamaki Cordelia, Sakamaki Christa... How awful, don't you think?
From anime, games, and other sources, we know that Karlheinz's six sons bear the surname Sakamaki. At the same time, it's said that this surname is only used in the human world and nowhere else. And also that the older brothers cannot bear it. How true is all of this?
Currently, the brothers live in the human world. Among their father's personas is that of the politician "Sakamaki Tougo" — this was mentioned even in the first game. That is, in the eyes of ordinary people, the six boys are the sons of this highly respected Sakamaki Tougo.
However, I have noticed multiple times that this surname is used in the Demon World as well, coming from the mouths of demons. For example, in the second game, Beatrix tells Shu that he is the "future head of the Sakamaki family" (MB Shu Ecstasy Epilogue), and in Dark Fate, one of the demons addresses Kanato as "Sakamaki Kanato" (DF Kanato Vampire End). And this action takes place in the Demon World.
The male vampire C calls Kanato "Sakamaki Kanato". The scene takes place in the Demon World. DF Kanato Vampire End.
And if we look at the fanbook for, say, the first game, in Cordelia's profile we see: "The first wife of the head of the Sakamaki family, Karlheinz." It turns out that not only the inhabitants of the human world know about this persona.So what's the deal?
Despite the fact that the surname Sakamaki is mentioned by demons as well, I have never noticed any of the secondary characters being called either "Sakamaki Richter" or "Tsukinami Gisbach." For now, we can assume that they are referred to as the "Sakamaki family" by the creators themselves for the convenient designation of belonging to one family — after all, we also have the Mukami and Tsukinami families. Speaking of Tsukinami:the combination of a purely Japanese surname and a purely English name also looks discordant — "Tsukinami Carla." But in the game, the brothers introduce themselves as returnees who left England, and this at least somewhat explains it.
But what about the Sakamakis? And why were the parents given European names, while the children were given Japanese ones? In Dark Fate,the creators corrected this flaw. It is hinted at in Shu's route and explained in detail in Yuma's route that vampires actually have true names¹. Thus, Shu's vampire name is Lilie: the German word for the lily flower. In Lost Eden, Kou's true name is revealed to be Emilio. Yuma, as we know, was formerly Edgar.
The surnames "Sakamaki" or "Tsukinami" are never used together with the names of any of the older generation: Karlheinz, Cordelia, Beatrix, Christa, Richter are not Sakamaki, and Gisbach, Krone, Mene, Fersen are not Tsukinami.
Whereas the names of the main characters are listed in the fanbooks as 'Reiji Sakamaki', 'Yuma Mukami', 'Carla Tsukinami', the secondary characters are listed simply as 'Karlheinz', 'Cordelia', 'Beatrix', 'Christa', 'Richter'.
MEANING OF THE SURNAMES
•｢逆巻｣ = [sakamaki] = "Sakamaki"
｢逆巻く｣= [sakamaku] means "to surge/roll against the current (of waves)". It's essentially a hint that the family is going "against something". There is also another interpretation I noticed a long time ago but initially didn't include in the article. ｢逆｣ can be translated as "reverse, against", and one of the meanings of ｢巻｣ is "to wind (a clock)".
This alludes to how Karlheinz turned back time again and again, winding his clock of time. However: 1. This only started from the second game, but already in the first game our boys were "Sakamaki"; 2. Still, a complete phrase is a complete phrase. Although the creators could well have noticed a specific play on words within the surname, which they might have used while developing the scenario for More,Blood.
The Sakamaki family crest features the ｢祝福の剣｣ = "Sword of Blessing" (CD drama Sadistic Song vol.5 + annotation). It was passed down through generations in their family, and only those born from the power of the Eden's World Tree and who obtained that power could touch it. The crest depicts a vampire with "wings spread wide," which "protect" the sword. A "ribbon" wrapping around it can also be seen.
The Sakamaki family crest is not the same as the vampire clan's crest: the vampire crest was shown to us in the manga YB vol.6.
The Sakamaki family crest and the Vampire clan crest.
The Sakamaki motto: 'Seeking eternity' = ｢永遠を求めよ｣ (PV House of Vampire).
• ｢無神｣ = [mukami] = "Mukami"
Literally 'godless'. It fully corresponds to the worldview and fate of the brothers.
On the Mukami crest, one can see a large sword in the center and four smaller rapiers/sabers on either side of it.
The Mukami motto: 'The Honorable Sword will never break' = ｢誉れ高き剣は折れぬ｣ (PV House of Vampire).
• ｢月浪｣ = [tsukinami] = "Tsukinami"
｢月｣ as "moon, month" and ｢浪｣ as "large wave" or a part of words meaning "to wander." Considering that the progenitors present themselves in the human world both as Tsukinami and as returnees from England, their surname can be interpreted as "those who wander under the moon," "moon wanderers" (or "moon wave").
The Tsukinami crest depicts a wolf inside a crescent moon.
The Tsukinami motto: 'I can dominate the moon' = ｢我ら月を司る｣ (PV House of Vampire).
• ｢小森｣ = [komori] = "Komori"
You can choose any name for the heroine in the game;by default, she is 'Komori Yui'. The girl has an interesting surname: the kanji ｢小｣ (the syllable 'ko') gives words and phrases the meaning of "small" and "modest," and ｢森｣, that is [mori], means "forest" or "temple grove."
At the same time, there are several other words in the Japanese language that sound similar but have completely different meanings. Therefore, if you don't know the spelling of Yui's surname, it can lead to some amusing wordplay. For example, [kōmori], with a long first syllable, is the word ｢蝙蝠｣ = "bat (of the order Chiroptera)". [komori] also sounds like ｢子守｣ = "childcare," "nanny". There is also the word ｢お籠り｣ = [o-komori] = "a night spent in prayer at a temple." Considering Yui's story, this becomes very interesting and doesn't seem like a coincidence.
• Kino
Kino had several coats of arms. The last one depicts a heart split into two halves, wrapped in a stem with thorns.
Kino's motto: 'Death knows everything' = ｢死こそ、知る｣ (PV House of Vampire).
He does not belong to the Sakamaki family, and this surname is never used with his name.
On the official website's character list², he is the only one listed without a surname.
NATIONALITY AND RACE OF THE CHARACTERS
Sakamaki, Tsukinami, Kino, and other demons The Sakamaki brothers, Tsukinami brothers, and Kino have no nationality — they are demons, not humans, and were born as demons. Each character belongs to their own demonic clan/race.
· Thus, Karlheinz, Richter, and Christa are vampires.
· Therefore, all six Sakamaki brothers (Shu, Reiji, Ayato, Kanato, Laito, Subaru) are also vampires (members of the bat clan).
· Cordelia always considered herself a half-vampire and the daughter of the Demon King Burai, who by race is a Bibora (snake clan). However, it turned out she had no relation to the vampire clan: her mother was a Progenitor — this is the First Blood clan (more details in the article "Titles and Race of Cordelia, Her Father and Mother. Titles of Karlheinz"³).
· The Tsukinami brothers (Carla and Shin), as well as their parents and relatives: Gisbach (father), Krone (mother), Mene (Cordelia's mother), Fersen (uncle) are also Progenitors. However, in Shin's route in the game Lost Eden, the purity of the younger Tsukinami's blood was questioned: there was a possibility that he was half-Wolf (wolf clan), but this turned out not to be the case (in reality, Shin is a pureblood Progenitor).
· Yui's child with Shin (Adam) was born a Progenitor (DF Ruki Brute End).
· Theoretically, the child of Yui (Eve) and the one who became Adam should be born as a member of a new race (more details in the article "On Karlheinz's Plan 'Project Eden's Apple' / 'Project Adam's Apple"⁴).
· Kino considers himself a vampire, but in reality, it's difficult to explain what kind of creature he is: according to church officials, he was, like a Ghoul, created from the miasma of Rotigenberg from a physical particle of Karlheinz, but unlike them, he possesses immense power even for a standard vampire (though he is definitely not a vampire).
· Other members of the Vampire race also include: Beatrix, Walter.
· From the Bibora race (snake clan): Zweig, Burai.
· From the Wolf race: Ebert, Gottfried.
· From the First Blood race: Pestie.
· From the Ghouls (including turned ones): Yuri, Leona, Lux, Ruki's father.
Mukami and other humans
Those characters who are human or were human before being turned have their own nationality.
· Yui, according to Shu's mention, is "Asian": ｢東洋人｣ = "Easterner" (DL Shu Ending 01). Kou called her ｢日本人｣ = "Japanese" (MB Kou Maniac Prologue).
· Her father, Seiji, judging by his name, should be Japanese.
· Azusa once wandered with gypsies, but it was not stated that he is of Romani nationality himself.
· When Ruki in Lost Eden returned to his city to find out more about Trismegistus (Karlheinz's persona), he went to a ｢ルーマニアの図書館｣ = "Romanian library". In theory, he was born and raised in Romania. And if the other Mukami lived in the same city, then they should also be from Romania. Edgar (Yuma) grew up in a village, but it's unlikely he could have escaped to another country after the fire. The fact that Azusa lived with gypsies for a time also reinforces the impression that the events take place in Romania: "gypsies" most likely refer to the Roma people. Incidentally: back in the first game, Seiji mentioned his return to Eastern Europe in the general prologue of the game, and in the ending DL Shu Ending 01, Shu spoke of escaping with Yui to ｢トランシルヴァニア｣ = Transylvania, the once sacred lands of vampires.
· However, there is a catch here: even if Ruki, his parents, Kou (aka Emilio), his mother Leona, Yuma (aka Edgar), his parents, the neighbor Alan, Azusa with Justin, Melissa, and Christina — even if all of them lived in Romania, it is not a fact that they are Romanian by nationality: they could very well be immigrants.
· The Mukami brothers are currently "half-vampires" — turned vampires. Leona, Ruki's father, Lux are turned ghouls.
· The Tsukinami brothers, upon entering Ryotei Academy in Dark Fate, introduced themselves as "returnees from England." However, in reality, they are neither Japanese nor English, as they are not human.
СТРУКТУРА СТАТЬИ1. Об употреблении фамилий с именами второстепенных героев. 2. Значение фамилий. 3. Национальность и расовая принадлежнос..
All articles provided via links will eventually be translated into English and posted on this account. In the meantime, I recommend checking them out using your browser's built-in translator.
Fun fact: Yui is canonically Japanese, not European. Shu referred to her as ｢東洋人｣ (Tōyōjin) – a term for "an Easterner" (DL Shu Ending 01). Kou also called her "a Japanese" (MB Kou Maniac Prologue).
But demons are NOT Japanese. The only thing we know is that the Mukami are European, but they were originally humans. The Sakamaki are born demons; they do not have a nationality.
It’s especially amusing to look at Reiji’s page on the English wiki: his father’s ethnicity is listed as "demon," while his mother has no ethnicity field at all — yet Reiji is, of course, labeled as Japanese. Why?
We know that demons also possess demonic names. Shu’s is Lilie ｢リーリエ｣ (NOT “Ririe” as misspelled on the English wiki!). Doesn’t sound very Japanese, does it?
These clarifying details were taken from the Russian Diabolik Lovers Wiki, which I highly recommend for people interested in the canon.
Diabolik Lovers — японская визуальная новелла, разработанная компанией Rejet. Игра была выпущена 11 октября 2012 года для платформыPlayStati
Why did Cordelia NOT 'have sex with Richter in front of Kanato and Laito'?
Part Two: LAITO
Part One: Kanato is still being edited
According to the myths, Kanato wasn't the only one who witnessed his mother's "intimate relationship" with her "lover" - Laito supposedly saw a lot of things, too. But no matter what the fandom makes up for drama's sake, it's really not that bad: the youngest triplet was just unlucky enough to witness Cordelia giving Richter her blood. It happened in the DL Laito Maniac Prologue.
Sometime in the past, Karlheinz ordered his son imprisoned in a dungeon - for what exactly, by the way, is not explained here or in the game.
The scene begins with Richter's poems, which serve as an epigraph.
After that, Laito is shown on a black background — he is talking to the butler:
一出せ! ボクを......ここから出せ!!
Laito: Let me out! Let me out... From here!!!
無理です、坊ちゃま。旦那様にきっく言いつけられております。
Butler: That's impossible, young master. Our esteemed lord has strictly ordered it.
申し訳ございませんが、しばらくはそこで。
Butler: I apologize, you will have to stay here for a while.
ボクをここに縛り付けて、なんの意味があるって言うんだ!
Laito: Tell me, what's the point of restraining me here?
— — 失礼いたします。
Butler: — Please excuse me, now me out.
ハッ、ハハハハ。もうろくジジィ め。ここでボクに反省でもしろと? 馬鹿馬鹿しい!
Laito: Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You marazm old man. You want me to do some self-analysis here? What a stupid thing!
あの外道。人間とのなれ合いが過ぎて、ついに脳まで腐れ果てやがったな!
Laito: There is heresy. You've been consorting out with people to such an extent that your brains are completely rotten!
Then suddenly, against a black background, we see Cordelia:
ーーあら？
Cordelia: Oh?
The background of the dungeon appears. Laito rejoices (but not for long):
......!? 助けに来てくれたの?
Laito: ...?! Come to save me?
あら、ウフフ。ごめんね、ライト。それは違うのよ。
Cordelia: Oh, haha. I'm sorry, Laito, but it's not like that.
え？
Laito: Eh?
— — なぜお前がここに?
Richter: — Why are you here?
っ......それは、ボクの台詞だよ。
Laito: tsk... I'm the one who has to ask [literally: "that's my line"].
はいはい、そこ。ケンカしないで。それより、リヒター......早く来て。
Cordelia: Okay, okay, that's enough. Don't "quarrel." Much more important, Richter... Come quickly.
っ!?
Laito: ?!
Laito's sprite disappears - Richter's sprite appears in its place:
しかし...…
Richter: But cos...
その気がないなら、アタシ、もう行きます。
Cordelia: Since you're not in the mood, I'm leaving.
っ! お、お待ち下さい!
Richter: tsk! P-please wait!
あら。ウフフ......アタシにそんなに行って欲しくないの?
Cordelia: Oh. Ah-ha-ha... you don't want me to leave so badly?
当たり前です。私は......貴女のためなら...…
Richter: Of course. I'm... for your sake...
分かっているわ。さあ、早く。待ち焦がれてアタシ......熱いわ...…
Cordelia: I know. Come on, hurry up. The anticipation is making me... "burn"(literally "hot")... *rustling*
コーデリア......愛しています。
Richter: Cordelia... love you.
ウフフ。リヒター......アタシもよ?
Cordelia: Ah ha ha, Richter... Me too.
っ......!?
Laito: tsk?!…
っ......コーデリア...…
Richter: tsk... Cordelia...
ん っ......ん ......ね、ライト。貴方はいい子ですもの。
Cordelia: M-m... listen, Laito. You're a good boy.
And again, instead of Richter, next to Cordelia, we see a sprite Laito:
......!!
Laito: ...!!!
ね、ライト?
Cordelia: Yes, Laito?
...…
Laito: ...
Cordelia's sprite disappears, the background of the dungeon is replaced with black - Laito begins to smile and think:
......うん。そうさ。ボクは......ボクは......イイ子なんだから。
Laito: ...Yeah. That's right. I... I... am a "good" boy.
-— — それにボクは、こういうの......むしろ興奮しちゃうほうだしね。
Laito: — That's why something like that... rather unconsciously exciting.
This is where the flashback ends.
All the fans then decided — and still believe — that Cordelia decided to have sex with Richter in front of her son — and forced the boy, as a "good boy," to watch the copulation. I would agree with this point of view — if our heroes were not vampires, but ordinary people, and if the story was not based on the fetish of drinking blood. Since the process of absorbing blood is eroticized according to the canon, then only he could be implied in this scene.
We hear the rustle of clothes — this sound always accompanies the blood-drinking scenes when the boys expose the neck, back and other parts of the heroine's body, into which they are going to dig their fangs.
That is, the rustle cannot be considered proof that Cordelia took off her dress or Richter lifted her skirts — for that very specific purpose.
Also, Cordelia utters a line that many took as a desire to have sex soon:
｢待ち焦がれてアタシ...... 熱いわ......｣:
• ｢待ち焦がれて <= 待ち焦がれる｣ — 'to be impatient for, to wait (anxiously) for, to eagerly look forward to, to long for'
• ｢アタシ｣ — «me»
｢熱い｣ = «hot»
• ｢熱い｣ — "hot," "ardent, passionate; in love."
But according to the canon, the body can burn from the expectation of blood drinking. There are many examples of this.
In the Short Story 'Fairytale' from Kanato Character Book, Kanato says:
もう温度は失われてしまった血だけど、どんなお菓子よりも癖になるほどの美味しさは変わらない。
"Her blood had already lost its temperature, but her deliciousness had not changed, the dependence on which was greater than on any candy."
According to the context, Yui's blood turned cold. And it's much more pleasant for a vampire to drink hot. Subaru told us about this in MB Subaru Ecstasy 07:
お前は血を飲まないから知らないだろうが……
Subaru: You don't know because you don't drink blood.…
熱で火照った人間の血は熱くてうまいんだ。お前今、風呂上りで火照ってんだろ。
Subaru: The blood of a human bursting with heat is hot and delicious. And now you're burning up after taking a bath.
In this case, Yui got hot with the help of a bath. But there were other ways mentioned in the canon. For example, with the help of fangs, the body begins to burn from the bite.
MB Ruki Dark 03:
(……ルキくんが私の血を吸う時って……)
Yui: (... When Ruki-kun drinks my blood...)
(こんな……身体が熱くなるような変な気持ちになったりするのかな……)
Yui: (I wonder if he also gets a strange feeling, as if his body is... starting to burn)
MB Ruki Ecstasy 04:
血を… …んっ……吸われると……
Yui: With drinking... m... blood…
身体から……力が奪われていくみたいで……なのに、熱くなって……
Yui: It seems like a body... loses strength... But it's getting hot…
In CL Laito Story 07, the triplets used fire to "prepare" Yui's blood.
However, body temperature does not rise only after a bite. The mere anticipation of it, the expectation of blood-drinking, according to the characters' remarks, contributes to the "hot":
MB Subaru Ecstasy 07:
違う。オレに触れられている部分からたしかに 熱を感じてるはずだ。
Subaru: No. You must be feeling the heat right where I'm touching.
ユイ……。お前自身も求めてるんだよ。
Subaru: Yui... you're asking for it.
オレのキバをな……んっ。
Subaru: My fangs... m...
Everywhere ｢熱｣ in the context of the state of the body during blood-drinking.
It turns out that the fact that Yui feels the heat even before the fangs sink, betrays her desire to feel them in herself. And in the flashback with Cordelia and Richter, everything is similar: her body "burns with expectation" — it allegedly asks, craves a bite.
In MB Kou Heaven 03, Yui admitted that her body was getting hotter from the desire to drink her blood, and directly asked Kou to do it.
(ん…..身体が熱くなってくる……血を……吸って欲しい……! )
Yui: (Mmm... My body's heating up... It wants... for blood to be drunk!...)
Laito said the same thing in his very first CD drama ドS吸血CD Vol.4 逆巻ライト:
[17:44] "As I slowly run my tongue over it, I can definitely tell that right underneath it, your blood starts to bubble and flow to the surface, slowly heating up in those spots... whispering to me, begging me to flow into my body sooner rather than later."
[18:07] "Your blood is so hot, huh? It must be so happy, because it will turn into energy circulating through my veins? It's worth getting close to you, and your blood starts begging to drink it."
[18:58] "But no matter how scared you are, it's worth remembering the pleasure of me eating you... as your body slowly starts to hot up, right? The pleasure of me dominating you, desiring you..."
From the anticipation of the moment when the fangs sink into the heroine's body, it heats up = burns. But did Cordelia herself "burn" = desire the fangs in this way?
And now let's remember: in the first game, Cordelia asked little Kanato to sing, because his singing made her "body start to burn" (DL Kanato Ecstasy Prologue). Many still claim with full confidence that the first wife was sexually aroused by her son's voice. But it's not about "sexual arousal": she simply prepared her cold blood for blood drinking, made it hot in this way. Cordelia, unlike Yui, is also a demon — we realized from the anime that vampires have icy skin.
(It seems that the touches or fangs of the men who drank her could hardly kindle a "flame" in her and make her blood boil, since they had to resort to such sophisticated methods).
DL Sequel Kanato
Similarly, in DL Laito Maniac Epilogue, Cordelia responds to Laito's words by asking him to "give her some warmth":
DL Laito Maniac Epilogue:
今日のアタシはとっても寒がりなの……アナタの温もりが欲しいわ。
Cordelia: Today, I am terribly cold... and I want your warmth.
Of course, by analogy with all the examples discussed above, it's clear that the conversation is about blood-drinking, which Cordelia also used to control Laito. But why was she so cold?
Abnormal cold was often felt by other DL characters — Kanato and Shu. The cold is a consequence of their loneliness and despair.
DL Kanato Maniac 07:
こんなんじゃ、全然足りない。 ……だから、僕は……雨が降るたびに、 寒くて寒くて……っ。
Kanato: This isn't enough... That's why... whenever it rains, I get so cold, so, so cold...!
僕の寒さも……孤独も、 絶望も……っ、こんなんじゃ、 癒やせないんです……！
Kanato: My coldness... my loneliness, my despair...! This isn't enough to heal them...!
（……孤独と、絶望……？）
Yui: (...Loneliness and despair?...)
Kanato feels this eerie cold during the rain — it was on a rainy night that he burned his mother's corpse (DL Kanato Ecstasy Epilogue), hoping to make her exclusively his. Now, looking at Teddy, which holds her ashes, he understands that he only received "remains," which are "not enough" for him.
This is the answer to the question of why Cordelia asked Kanato to sing to her and felt terribly cold: it wasn't about sexual arousal at all; she felt the same coldness from her own despair and loneliness.
We've established that the body of a victim or a demon can literally burn from a bite or the anticipation of bloodsucking.
Now we need to understand what excites Laito, what arouses him: is it when he watches someone else drink from or have sex with his victim?
In his own route, there's a scene where he precisely recreates something he once saw in the dungeon — DL Laito Ecstasy 09. In this scene, Yui finds herself in a torture chamber, where she meets Ayato. He tries to advise her to "do it" and not to "remain faithful" to Laito.
DL Laito Ecstasy 09:
間いたんだよ。オマエがそろそろ覚醒するって話をよ。だからさ、ちょっとばかし、味見ってやつ ?
Ayato: I heard... that you're about to awaken. So, I thought, why not a little taste test?
味見……!?
Yui: A taste test...!?
半分人間で半分ヴァンパイア。そいつの味はとんなもんかねえってさ。
Ayato: Half human and half vampire. I wonder what that taste is like.
ーーヤらせろよ。
Ayato: Let me do it.
そういうわけには......いかないよ。
Yui: No... absolutely not.
んだよ、操たててんのかあ? クックック。だとすればアイツには意味ない行為だぜ?
Ayato: What, are you preserving your chastity/fidelity? Heh-heh-heh. If it's for him [Laito], isn't that a meaningless act?
アイツはな、女がヒドくされればされるほどコウフンする真性の変態だぜえ?
Ayato: Didn't you know? The more harshly a woman is treated, the more that genuine pervert gets off on it?
っ...…
Yui: ...
本当は興味あるんだろ?アイツしか知らないなんてちょっと損してるて思わねえ?
Ayato: You're really curious, aren't you? Don't you think you're missing out a bit by only having known him?
Ayato: What do the fangs of other guys feel like...? Heh-heh-heh, isn't that the kind of thing a human would want to experience/taste?
And by "this," only bloodsucking is implied, while "fidelity" specifically refers to the fact that Yui had not yielded to another guy's fangs.
Ayato only wishes to drink Yui's blood. He has no intention of having sex with her.
But then Laito himself appears in the torture chamber — it's interesting and important what question he asks his brother and how.
さあ、ね。ていうかさ、アヤトくん、この子に何する気だったんだよ。ことと次第によっては...…
Laito: Who knows. Anyway, Ayato-kun, what were you planning to do to this girl? Depending on the circumstances...
嬲り殺しにするよ？
Laito: I might torture you to death.
When Laito delivers his first line, his sprite shows no smile, and his eyes are narrowed. For the second line, his expression becomes aggressive. Furthermore, the word "what", which is usually written with the kanji ｢何｣ or hiragana ｢なに｣, is here highlighted in katakana — as ｢ナニ｣. The emphasis is on it — Laito is concerned with "what exactly" Ayato intended to do to his victim. If his brother was planning to do something with her that Laito wouldn't approve of, he might even "torture him to death."
Ultimately, the young man gets a "brilliant" idea: Laito suggests that Ayato drink Yui's blood, while he himself intends to observe the event. Ayato accepts the offer.
In the process, Yui notes that her body, once again, "is burning, blazing." And Laito observes that she is clearly enjoying someone else's fangs. He also calls the girl the same name Ayato used for his mother: ｢アバズレ｣ = "whore," "slut."
滅多にない味がするぜえ？ん……んん……っ……
Ayato: This taste is quite rare, isn't it? Mmm... m-mm...
(ライトくんが見てる前で……こんな。でも……でも……身体が……熱くなってくる……逆らえない）
Yui: (Laito-kun is watching... how can this be. But... but... my body... is starting to burn... I can't resist)
あぁっ……！！
Yui: A-ah!!!...
ああ、ビッチちゃん、気持ちがいいんだね…… ボク以外の男にキバを立てられて、よがるなんて……
Laito: Ah, Bitch-chan, you're enjoying this, aren't you?... Being bitten by a man other than me and moaning...
キミは本当に、アバズレだな。
Laito: You truly are a slut.
Here, we need to follow Laito's logic.
It turns out he can offer his victim's blood to another man. He will watch as this other man drinks from her. This will arouse him.
But if this other man does "something" inappropriate with the girl, Laito will kill him. In anger. And here, "something" implies sex.
Let's return to the dungeon episode with Cordelia and Richter. Laito, watching them, was also smiling and getting aroused. That is, he behaved exactly the same way he does now, observing Ayato drinking Yui's blood. If Richter had had sex with his "beloved" in front of him in the dungeon then, the young man would not have been aroused — he would have been just as enraged, ready to torture his uncle to death.
In short, in DL Laito Ecstasy 09, Laito is currently recreating what he saw in the past — in the flashback from DL Laito Maniac Prologue. Only now, Yui is in Cordelia's place (who, by the way, smells like Cordelia and tastes like Cordelia), and Ayato is in Richter's place. Everything proves that no sex between his mother and uncle happened in front of him in the past either. Cordelia simply made Laito watch another man drink her blood. And not without reason.
However, Laito is not only recreating a scene from the past now — he wants to do something to Yui in the present that he couldn't do to Cordelia back then. To punish the one who erred. Therefore, he will project his unrealized desire:
— — ビッチちゃん。これが終わったらお仕置きだよ、たっぷりね。だから......我慢しなよ。
Laito: Bitch-chan, when this is over, you'll be punished, thoroughly. So... be patient.
And we will conclude the topic by examining the pages from the DL Sequel Laito manga. They illustrate that very scene in the dungeon. Let's analyze each frame and every quote.
First frame: A bewildered Laito behind bars.
Second frame: Laito behind bars, Richter's hands on Cordelia's half-exposed back. And two lines of dialogue.
......いいのですか？
...Is this okay/normal?
— most likely, this line belongs to Richter: it wasn't in the game.
ええ だから......早く来て。
Yes, so... come quickly.
— and this phrase should belong to Cordelia: the second part of the line is also in the game.
3, 4. Third frame: Cordelia's neck is exposed, straps are down, her dress is held at her chest. Richter's face is near her neck, behind her hair. Fourth frame: Laito's astonished face.
.…..ね、ライト。貴方はいい子ですもの。
Listen, Laito. You're a good boy, aren't you?
— Cordelia's line is almost identical to the game's — except for "m-m" at the beginning.
そこで見ていてくれるわよね？
Then/therefore you'll watch, won't you?
— but this phrase was not spoken in the game: apparently, they decided to add it to the manga to further prove the point: Cordelia aims for her son to watch what's happening.
5, 6. Fifth frame: Laito in the dungeon, Cordelia's and Richter's shadows on the floor.
Sixth frame: Another shot of Cordelia — flushed, Richter's face still buried in her hair.
......うん。そうさ。ボクは
...Yeah. That's right. I'm...
......ボクは......イイ子なんだから。
I'm... a "good" boy, after all.
— completely matches the game version: this is one line from the game, broken into two parts in the manga.
7. Moving to the next page: Now Laito has a pleased expression.
こういうの
This kind of thing
むしろ興奮しちゃうほうだしね
rather excites me unconsciously
— a slightly shortened line from the game.
That's all. Besides the lines of dialogue, which for the most part repeat phrases from the game (which we have already analyzed), we need to pay attention to the visual sequence.
First: the way Richter buries himself in Cordelia's hair in two frames exactly replicates the position of Yui and Ayato in the CG from DL Laito Ecstasy 09. That very scene analyzed above, where Laito recreates his memories.
Ayato is definitely drinking Yui's blood at this moment — we understand this from the dialogue and sounds. However, there is no blood on the girl's neck, no bite marks, and Ayato's face is buried in her hair. It's not strange that Richter's face, while drinking Cordelia's blood, is similarly buried in her hair, and there are no bite marks or blood on her neck either.
Second: in the manga, the boys sometimes undressed Yui down to her underwear to drink from her neck. It's logical that Cordelia would also lower her dress straps for the same purpose.
How is this episode described in the fanbook for the first game?
"The main character is confused by the consciousness of Cordelia — Laito's mother — awakening within her. Laito offers her to Ayato, allowing him to drink her blood. Being drunk from by Ayato in front of Laito, she is bewildered by the pleasure she feels. Cordelia, Laito's actions... — many things trouble the heroine's heart."
After all that has been presented, we can draw an unambiguous conclusion:
Cordelia deliberately allowed Richter to drink her blood in front of Laito — nothing more.
Everything attests to this:
• the message of the phrase "the body burns with anticipation";
• Laito's logic when recreating an analogous scene with Ayato and Yui;
• Laito's willingness to share the girl's blood with another man, but his readiness to kill if someone were to have sex with her;
• the position of the figures in the manga;
• the correspondence of the figures' positions in the manga and the game's CG, where only bloodsucking definitely occurred.
There is no other possible interpretation of this scene. The conclusion in this case is unequivocal.
What we have just analyzed is not a theory; it is a fact. The one and only possible one. If any reviewers on their YouTube channels claim otherwise, they are incorrect. I have thoroughly explained the meaning embedded in these scenes, how they are revealed and presented. Any other interpretation, a.k.a. "Cordelia had sex with Richter/her lovers in front of Kanato/Laito," is fundamentally wrong.
The entire original article:
Более десяти лет прошло с выхода первой игры. Они продолжали верить в глупейшую ересь, будто Корделия занималась с Рихтером сексом на гла..
Part One: Kanato is still undergoing editing, but the section on Laito is completely finished.
A reminder that discussion is welcome in the comments, but please keep it within the bounds of polite dialogue. Thank you everyone.
If you're reading this in English, there's a 90% chance you first learned the word Kaitou from Kaito himself—and only slowly come to realize just how many corners of Japanese pop-culture it's really bled into, from Tezuka to Tuxedo Mask to Princess Peach. There's thieves, there's thieves with style, and then there's phantom thieves. A law unto themselves in their own worlds and ours, a breed of gentlemen who can magically stay gentlemen while doing the most ungentlemanly things known to society.
You'd need a book—probably a whole shelf—to properly explore all the ancestors of this proud archetype, never mind all the twists and turns it's taken in modern times. But we're a bunch of poors in money and time, so let's settle for just one tonight.
Fun fact, there's a doctor in Japan who runs a full-time clinic, lectures for one of the top med schools, and still finds room to blog about his fifty-odd niche interests. With him lighting the way, we tracked down this: the oldest book Japan's National Library has ever picked the word Kaitou out of.
Not a gentleman sort of book, you'd assume—and be absolutely right. Dated 1908 (just a little after Leblanc's Lupin, just a little before his first Japanese translation), Eishirō Suzuki's Strange Worlds is a loud, proud freakshow, trotting out ghost story after tall tale after Believe-It-Or-Not article about some wackos in America marrying in a lion cage. Our story of interest comes about halfway in: six pages and change, unmistakably headed 怪盗.
What lies within? A tragically forgotten ancestor to this great and greatly profitable archetype? Or a dead-end that happens to share the name and damn little else? Or, despite all odds, a combination of both?
Why don't you see for yourself?
Pull up a seat, grab a drink, and enjoy our exhaustive translation of history's first...
Phantom Thief
In the days of Jōkyō,¹ near Shitaya's Ikenohata-town, a pawn-shop called Yamaguchi Place² stood rich beyond imagining. Its master, with eleven vaults to his name, was a long and proud worshiper at the Benzaiten³ shrine on Shinobazu Pond. Now, it happened that this man heard the Shogun’s offices had recently surveyed the pond for land-filling, and grew troubled.
One evening, having closed early and settling the day's accounts, the boy tending the shop heard a tap at the front door, and opened to look. Lo and behold—there was a magnificent palanquin, inlaid four-square with silver, bound on every side by tens of fine, sentinel-eyed Samurai. Shocked, the boy ran to his master telling all. The master, no less shocked, came out with warm greetings, asking the company into his home.
Then from the palanquin emerged a most exquisite woman, so noble and divine of bearing that she might have been taken for a celestial maiden, with face sweeter than any peach or plum, and dress of the richest twill brocade. With hardly a sound this beauty sat, drew open her vermilion lips, and bade all listen—
“To begin, my being is not of flesh, but an envoy of Her Lady Benzaiten, in whom thou hast believed all thy life. The Shogun's men mean to bury Shinobazu Pond, and Her Ladyship suffers no small distress hearing this, for Her own power may well draw sanctuary from any ladle's-worth of water, but Her kith and kin—some hundreds upon thousands of scales—must wilt and suffer without mires to call home.
“Deep ran Benzaiten's pity, and with it a divine will to bring salvation of some, of any kind. Mercifully, thy garden declares a most generous pond, and in behalf of those kith and kin I call upon thee to guarantee it as their new sanctum. If thy faith in Benzaiten be strong and true, take not these words in vain. Know only that Her Ladyship wills a night of storm and squall, fast approaching, to lay Her kin. Come that day, thou shouldst make fast the doors of thy home, withdraw to thine own room, and put no eye at door-slit, nor foot outside to enquire. Heed this, and Benzaiten will grow thy riches ten-fold in reward. Such is my message, in sum.”
Hearing this, the man grew ecstatic—rapturous, even. He spared nothing treating his guest, servants and all, to the very end of their departure.
In less than a fortnight came a dawn with greying skies, and by afternoon rain was falling, the wind slowly rising. On this day the man chose to fast, thinking it the day Benzaiten would descend, and so admonished his family and cohorts, warning them to keep the doors firmly shut and let no-one out after dark.
As the night crept toward second-watch,⁴ the wind grew wilder and wilder, until all the trees and bamboo in the garden could be heard thrashing, and all the water in the pond roiling. Now every breath was held, every head bowed, every heart thundering, thinking it time for She to come. Gradually the rain stopped and the wind ebbed, and the master, unable to wait for dawn, immediately threw open the door, eyes cast on the garden and its pond. There, he saw fish darting—more than the prior day—and thought, Benzaiten, your fellows are sown. Then, thinking of the promised reward, he rushed to check his stores. But as he swept up and down the row of vaults behind his shop, what did he find? Every lock undone, and every door open! Now uneasy, he entered, and found nothing left! Not the pawn-goods, nor the furniture, nor the thousand-ryō boxes. Floor to ceiling, everything was nigh-bare. He stood alone, dumbfounded and gaping.
Now, it happened that a shrine sat in the mountains on Kōshū-Kaidō Road, and before this shrine came men in packs, reeking of banditry, laying down their fresh and ill-gotten gains, eager for a proper portioning.
Onto this the shrine opened its doors, and who should be shocked to see the bandits' chief! No older than twenty-eight years she stood, with beauty to shame the sky and stars. A beauty that laughed aloud and said—
“My, what lovely work, boys!”
It was this very enchantress who had gulled the shop-master by claiming to be a goddess's envoy—and then, catching the slightest storm, sent all these men to his shop in dead of night. Some had hitched ropes to trees and bamboo all around his garden, and whipped them to bluff the sounds of a roaring wind, while others had beaten at the pond to affect waves. Under such clamor they had cunningly hidden any sounds of vault doors opening, of wares being moved.
A most unusual—most phantasmic—thief, no?
—Eishirō Suzuki, Strange Worlds: Tall Tales and Oddities (1908).
¹ Approx. 1684–1688 CE.
² No relation to Kappei. That we know of.
³ Wealth goddess strongly associated with rivers and lakes. One of Japan's Seven Lucky Gods.
⁴ Approx. 9—11pm. Adapted from Old China's gēng-diǎn system, each "watch" marking one-fifth of the time between sunset and dawn.
Animation Director : 村中博美 Hiromi Muranaka / 須藤昌朋 Masatomo Sudo
The episode (chapter) that changed Detective Conan forever. Gosho had always wanted Kaito Kid to confront Conan, and perhaps only once, but he became popular too quickly, much like when Rei Furuya was first introduced. It’s funny that he appeared so 'early' on, especially after bringing Heiji in as the main rival of the series, because it's in fact Conan/Shinichi and Kaito who will take the concept of 'pushing each other to greater heights' to perfection.
Color Design : 平山礼子 Reiko Hirayama
Another funny thing in the episode is that Hiromi Muranaka is credited alongside with Masatomo Sudo as Animation Director, and it's crazy how Muranaka is the only AD who comes the closest to Sudo's style in the anime, no matter the 'era'. So, in terms of corrections, and given that it’s a pretty important episode, there wasn’t any too "sudden" change in style.
An edit about a Cordelia Sakamaki route (sorry if is bad quality)
The otome games is known that the villainess haven't route.
It's impossible that Rejet make a Cordelia route
I would like a route where it's explored more lore and for first time to Mc/Yui a development where didn't exist in the original game with the vampires being the victim (friendship or romantic with a good developement)
All the DIABOLIK LOVERS boys now have official Twitter accounts!
This was launched since today’s Rejet new titles announcement show. All 13 characters, including the new character Kino, now have Twitters for a limited time period.
For the fun of it, I’ve also translated whatever tweets there have been (as of 6 Feb, 8PM JST). I think Kanato’s ones are the most hilarious so far xD
To follow all their individual accounts, here:
Sakamaki Ayato: HERE
Sakamaki Kanato: HERE
Sakamaki Laito: HERE
Sakamaki Shu: HERE
Sakamaki Reiji: HERE
Sakamaki Subaru: HERE
Makuami Ruki: HERE
Makuami Kou: HERE
Makuami Yuma: HERE
Makuami Azusa: HERE
Tsukinami Carla: HERE
Tsukinami Shin: HERE
Kino: HERE
I will also add more DiaLovers news to my blog later~^^
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