I disagree with your portrayal of Anna in the fourth paragraph(after Personal Opinion). Mitsuba was never portrayed as having an interest in Anna. He knew that Yuri had an interest in Anna and supported it, but Mitsuba’s entire focus throughout the series was to avenge his father and sister’s murder. If Anna exploits anything about him, it’s that fact and his own pride when she questions his testicular fortitude during the school bombing event.

As to whether Anna herself was tempting Yuri, I suppose that’s up to the reader to decide. She definitely continues to test Yuri throughout the manga. Rather than Yuri and Mitsuba, I think it’s more appropriate to compare Yuri and Moe’s relationship with Anna. That’s what the third and fourth volumes make clear, at any rate.

Yuri had no desire to live except with Anna. His flashbacks did indicate that he had lost touch with reality, but more precisely they were a representation of his guilt in letting his mother kill herself and lack of desire to live due to his past(they also serve as a reminder that he wanted to end it all as well but was too cowardly to do so). They were also consistent throughout the manga, and only occurred during bouts of separation with Anna.

While Anna did use his hopelessness to put him through a number of tests, she put him through them because she wanted to know if he was willing to be on a level with her. Calling them simple tests of loyalty ignores that. And this is where Yuri differs from Moe; Moe desired simply to keep Anna alive as an obligation(if we can trust the Pastor’s inference in v3[I think it was]), not to live by her, and it is implied that Anna may not have wished for this.

In the end I saw Anna as a woman who accepted the fact that she’s a psychopath who enjoys the danger of lawlessness and most of all killing, and wanted someone to enjoy it with. Moe did not provide this. No judgment was made as to the morality of this, although the good cop/bad cop side was definitely in disagreement.

If this comment contains too many spoilers or something like that and you decide to delete it, I wouldn’t mind discussing it over email(if there’s anyone left to do so–this review is a year old).

I write a bit about volumes 12 & 13, here: http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2009/10/09/reading-habits-september-2009/

the inside stories were very detailed that it impressed me to continue reading
really worth the time..

If you guys are looking for DDL, I just posted v02 on my site at http://goldlilys.110mb.com/past_manga/visible.php . Search for “half prince”