Say Ihttps://anilist.co/staff/119464/RyouHanada have a pretty good and original idea for a new series. What is it? Its a series about vampires. Specifically the romance between a vampire and a human. Thats never been done before right? ...Uh well you see But in addition to the trashy vampire and human romance theres laughable over the top vampire action. Like everybody knows the true and proper way of killing a vampire is bringing out the rocket launchers. Fuck that old nonsense what with the stakes and the holy water well modernize this shit. JUST SHOOT THE VAMPIRE RIGHT IN THE FUCKING FACE 440https://i.ur.com/f86HWzw.png You got your serieshttps://anilist.co/manga/86648/DevilsLine/. Devils Line Theres actually not a whole lot to say about this one if Im being honest. Its exactly what it is printed on the label of the tin. A male vampire saves a female human college student and then they forge a... a bond. 440https://i.ur.com/NaoSwIv.png ...To be honest maybe Im just kind of crazy but I just kept on continuing questioning why Tsukasa didnt initially find Anzai creepy at all. 440https://i.ur.com/E8QjquY.png 440https://i.ur.com/DrEdwPR.png Like he just keeps showing up at her window in the middle of the night and shes just... fine with that. Also... 440https://i.ur.com/IKwk8xh.png I couldnt help but feel bad for Tsukasas original friend in episode one who Almost predictably to me the romance between Anzai and Tsukasa was for sure the worst part of this show. Like I absolutely just cannot get behind using ...Really if you remove that more or less the only other thing thats driving them towards each other is... well lust. Which I guess is fine if what youre here to see is trashy vampire human romance. 440https://i.ur.com/9NR8Nqa.png Because rather weirdly while the government is apparently perfectly aware of vampires existing like almost the sole thing thats discussed about the government regulating vampires is... Vampires and humans having sex? 440https://i.ur.com/Cih34ht.png 440https://i.ur.com/Bw58we2.png Its apparently perfectly fine as long as theres a doctor overseeing it? I guess to assumingly stop the vampire if it goes out of control and fucking murders their mate during the process...? Like theres a goddamned secret police purposely for vampires and like a human group thats dedicated to bringing about their extermination but rather than focus on that yeah lets focus on Anzai trying to temper and control his vampireness and THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS FOR YOU AND TSUKASA TO GO INTO THIS BEDROOM WEVE WIRED. 440https://i.ur.com/d6BDrBc.png 440https://i.ur.com/zliXbWt.png 440https://i.ur.com/alnosyw.png This show honestly felt like it didnt know what it wanted to be. Trashy vampire/human romance or trashy over the top vampire action. Like my eyes would be glazing over as the show would be focusing on Tsukasa and Anzai but then all of a sudden like some random slasher would just show up and brutally kill a reporter with a knife. Immediately my attention would be dragged back to the show. 440https://i.ur.com/8LCy4Km.png 440https://i.ur.com/hof6HcI.png The idea of humans exposing vampires who are just trying to stay under the radar by like pelting them with or showing them bags of blood is neat. Some of the action scenes are actually kind of entertaining. Trashy but entertaining But when it comes down to it thats not the main focus of the show... This is the main focus of the show. Unfortunately. 440https://i.ur.com/2d4pUzC.png Devils Line is bad but beyond that its kind of fucking muddled. Could have been a full on trashy human vampire romance or it could have been this trashy over the top vampire action. It tries to be both and it fails. And on top of that because its about vampires and has gore its another piece of garbage lobbed into the horror genre. Unfortunate. 440https://i.ur.com/UPZ7sfq.png A 3.5 out of 10 or 35 out of 100. I could probably see a situation to recommend this one in. If you want to watch some trashy romance with a side of over the top action then... fine. Going into this it was already by default not my cup of tea. So I guess if you want to be technical it was better than I expected Though I was expecting nothing... To be fair though I did technically enjoy this a bit more than the other horror serieshttps://anilist.co/anime/100010/MAGICALGIRLSITE/ that was also airing in Spring 2018... 440https://i.ur.com/KwUiv43.png 440https://i.ur.com/so7KEFw.png