YMMV / Demon Blade

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Michiko - Sweet little Daddy's Girl who's also a Violently Protective Girlfriend? Or disturbed yandere who's into Hot-Blooded guys due to a complex?
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Although Dibi didn't place in the popularity poll, he has had the honor of spawning the comic's very first meme. (See Memetic Mutation below)
  • Natsuki, who'd only made four appearances up to that point, all short and unimportant, made it into the top 3 on the first character popularity poll. A position Diablo himself couldn't make. I repeat, Natsuki was more popular than the main character during the first year.
  • Jack, who hasn't been mentioned since the 3rd chapter, is apparently up there with Carl and Michiko in terms of popularity.
• Breakout Character: Carl has proven popular enough to have a whole mini-arc focused on him in the form of a series of flashbacks to the Chaos War after his death.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Back when the comic was hosted on SmackJeeves, it had a fanart section. The only shipping fanart featured on said page was of Carl/Vlad.
• Genius Bonus: Diablo makes a pun about swordplay being his "forte" in an omake strip. The "forte" is the base of a blade in fencing terminology.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The omake strip parodying Sassy Gay Friend featured relatively subtle Product Placement. A few months later, the actual Sassy Gay Friend show would start advertising MiO at the end of each episode.
  • Dogma's first name is Isaac. Cut to 11 years after his first appearance, when The Binding of Isaac: Repentance introduces a major boss named... Dogma!
• Jerkass Woobie: Diablo's flashback to the night of his father's murder is quite the Tear Jerker.
• Memetic Mutation: A throwaway line from Dibi in a video announcing the dub became possibly the most quotable thing related to the comic. "My axe is huge", indeed.
• Moe: As small as the comic's fanbase is, most of them adore Michiko. The author himself says she's his favorite character because of her cuteness.

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