(L) High School DxD - Anime (First Season) General Discussion

[Guido]

Initially, I was indecisive whether or not to pick this show for the season, because I made my mind at selecting only four shows to watch in this winter's anime season. Nevertheless, I ended watching it as well due to after a week of inactivity in the internet.

Yuki Kaji is rising into the anime community fandom having a substantial schedule with last year's Ao no Exorcist, the ongoing Guilty Crown, and this recently started anime.

I will comment that the theme of an unfortunate boy getting killed, and later revived by a supernatural master whom always is revealed to be a girl reignites my love for previous shows like Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka? and the Princess Ressurrection OVAs.

To spice things up High School DxD offers a lot of ecchiness fan-service substantially, though those are better appreciated if you watch the Director's Cut and will be more appreciated when the Blu-Ray version of the episodes come out.

The summary runs down the following:

Spoiler:

1. Issei's a highly horny but healthy, high-school sophomore boy
2. Issei's got asked by a cute girl from another school to be his boyfriend and to get out for a date.
3. Issei and Yuuma have their first date together and made a happy experience out of it.
4. For a twisted tale of fate, Yuuma thanks Issei for the wonderful date and asks him to die for her sake as her wish.
5. Yuuma changes to Fallen Angel form, but Issei's able to get a good glimpse of her treasures (Nosebleeds) before she gets to impale him in the gut.
6. Issei regrets at not fondling her breasts for his dying wish, although he managed to date her and possibly kiss her.
7. Issei invests his last moments thinking about Rias, and how he's so drawn to her crimson red hair.
8. Issei wakes up next morning at home alive and in one piece, but his body starts to feel weird because he notices how all his five senses are extremely enhanced and heightened.
9. Issei gets the unexpected visit of a male fallen angel, whom starts to hunt him down much to the former's mind confusion.
10. Issei gets impaled again, and as he's dying he still thinks of Rias in both her looks and her breasts to fondle.
11. Issei wakes up safe and sound again at home the morning after the next one, but notices he's naked. Moreover, when he takes off the bed sheets he finds Rias asleep and totally naked. (Massive nosebleed outpour)
12. Rias wakes up and plafully greets her new slave, Issei, declaring she's a demon from the Gremory family, and from now on he'll live for her sake as she's become his master.

[Sai Feng]

Hmmm....





Nice sound effects for the jiggles

[Malkuth]

Originally Posted by Guido

The summary runs down the following:

Spoiler:

1. Issei's a highly horny but healthy, high-school sophomore boy
2. Issei's got asked by a cute girl from another school to be his boyfriend and to get out for a date.
3. Issei and Yuuma have their first date together and made a happy experience out of it.
4. For a twisted tale of fate, Yuuma thanks Issei for the wonderful date and asks him to die for her sake as her wish.
5. Yuuma changes to Fallen Angel form, but Issei's able to get a good glimpse of her treasures (Nosebleeds) before she gets to impale him in the gut.
6. Issei regrets at not fondling her breasts for his dying wish, although he managed to date her and possibly kiss her.
7. Issei invests his last moments thinking about Rias, and how he's so drawn to her crimson red hair.
8. Issei wakes up next morning at home alive and in one piece, but his body starts to feel weird because he notices how all his five senses are extremely enhanced and heightened.
9. Issei gets the unexpected visit of a male fallen angel, whom starts to hunt him down much to the former's mind confusion.
10. Issei gets impaled again, and as he's dying he still thinks of Rias in both her looks and her breasts to fondle.
11. Issei wakes up safe and sound again at home the morning after the next one, but notices he's naked. Moreover, when he takes off the bed sheets he finds Rias asleep and totally naked. (Massive nosebleed outpour)
12. Rias wakes up and plafully greets her new slave, Issei, declaring she's a demon from the Gremory family, and from now on he'll live for her sake as she's become his master.

The summary is similar to Horizon from last season: "Stuff happen, but I am a horny joke of a protagonist... sooooo boobs and asses..." and here is the difference, since one gropes them every single episode, while the other never did so in the first one, at least

[Nvis]

Seeing all the attention, I smell a 2nd(and possible 3rd+) season.

[mangatron]

"Smell"? I can "see" a 2nd season, considering the pacing so far

We've only had one thing happened to the protag, and that was his circumstance that led to his (supposedly) first conversation with Rias. We've yet to have the character specific episodes, the swimsuit episode, the hot spring episode, the rated r-18 episode, the....er I mean...

There's also those BDVD specials too, so perhaps the pacing was slowed to accomodate additional seasons if this first one takes off in sales, so yeah, more boobies Akeno isn't a bad thing to me

Originally Posted by Malkuth

The summary is similar to Horizon from last season: "Stuff happen, but I am a horny joke of a protagonist... sooooo boobs and asses..." and here is the difference, since one gropes them every single episode, while the other never did so in the first one, at least

Well..... at least Issei slept in the same bed as naked-Rias

Toori only slept in the same shop as Horizon. So, add to the fact Toori only touched boobies that were covered, eh I'd rather sleep in the same bed as my naked waifu than touch a random girls rack and get a retaliatory strike to my body. Well...... not that I wouldn't want that to happen to me....

[Nvis]

^
Your avatar............................................ ...........................I liked the Akeno one you had before the anime.

My sense of smell far exceeds anything seen.

[Guido]

Originally Posted by Malkuth

The summary is similar to Horizon from last season: "Stuff happen, but I am a horny joke of a protagonist... sooooo boobs and asses..." and here is the difference, since one gropes them every single episode, while the other never did so in the first one, at least

Thank you very much, I only thought of two dimensions, but you added three into the mix.

Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka and Kaibutsu Oujo came into my mind, and you placed a good example with Horizon.

Hmph, even citing Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou as another example comes into mind, given that the red-haired girl in that last show mentioned went around some few episodes naked.

[mangatron]

Originally Posted by Nvis

^
Your avatar............................................ ...........................I liked the Akeno one you had before the anime.

Yeah, I really felt so bad kicking Akeno from my avatar slot.... If only she stripped!

My sense of smell far exceeds anything seen.

So... In other words, you can smell what can't be seen.

Dog/wolf? *runs*

Originally Posted by Guido

Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka and Kaibutsu Oujo came into my mind, and you placed a good example with Horizon.

I'd like to throw in a chunk of Lim Dal Young's manwha to this mix *cough*

Hmph, even citing Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou as another example comes into mind, given that the red-haired girl in that last show mentioned went around some few episodes naked.

Well, Keena (from DaiMaou) goes around naked due to her mysterious (YES mysterious, to this day I have no idea how she does it lol) ability to invisify herself but not her clothes. I still don't know where she hides her wand *ahem cough*

Man, is there a flu going around?

[Yui Is My Wife]

That is without a doubt THE most totally-righteous alarm-clock in recent anime.

I would happily pay a small fortune to have one!!

[tsunade666]

I also agree. Where the heck could I buy that clock.

[zzhk]

Originally Posted by Guido

The summary runs down the following:

Spoiler:

1. Issei's a highly horny but healthy, high-school sophomore boy
2. Issei's got asked by a cute girl from another school to be his boyfriend and to get out for a date.
3. Issei and Yuuma have their first date together and made a happy experience out of it.
4. For a twisted tale of fate, Yuuma thanks Issei for the wonderful date and asks him to die for her sake as her wish.
5. Yuuma changes to Fallen Angel form, but Issei's able to get a good glimpse of her treasures (Nosebleeds) before she gets to impale him in the gut.
6. Issei regrets at not fondling her breasts for his dying wish, although he managed to date her and possibly kiss her.
7. Issei invests his last moments thinking about Rias, and how he's so drawn to her crimson red hair.
8. Issei wakes up next morning at home alive and in one piece, but his body starts to feel weird because he notices how all his five senses are extremely enhanced and heightened.
9. Issei gets the unexpected visit of a male fallen angel, whom starts to hunt him down much to the former's mind confusion.
10. Issei gets impaled again, and as he's dying he still thinks of Rias in both her looks and her breasts to fondle.
11. Issei wakes up safe and sound again at home the morning after the next one, but notices he's naked. Moreover, when he takes off the bed sheets he finds Rias asleep and totally naked. (Massive nosebleed outpour)
12. Rias wakes up and plafully greets her new slave, Issei, declaring she's a demon from the Gremory family, and from now on he'll live for her sake as she's become his master.

Great observations!
Though I would add one more detail:
7.5. Issei's intense dying desires activate the magic circle he received earlier from a flyer (not a random occurrence) which summons Rias Gremory.

Originally Posted by Nvis

Seeing all the attention, I smell a 2nd(and possible 3rd+) season.

Considering the source light novels have 10 volumes, with one more this month, they could easily do 4 or 5 seasons.

Originally Posted by mangatron

Well, Keena (from DaiMaou) goes around naked due to her mysterious (YES mysterious, to this day I have no idea how she does it lol) ability to invisify herself but not her clothes. I still don't know where she hides her wand *ahem cough*

Man, is there a flu going around?

Well, Rias isn't actually going around naked.
Ignoring possibilities of intimate healing, do people really need to justify a preference for sleeping nude?

Originally Posted by Malkuth

The summary is similar to Horizon from last season: "Stuff happen, but I am a horny joke of a protagonist... sooooo boobs and asses..." and here is the difference, since one gropes them every single episode, while the other never did so in the first one, at least

Actually, Toori fondles the teacher's chest in the 1st episode although it was censored.

I don't really see the comparison with Horizon though, other than some viewers dismissing it as a fanservice show simply due to the busty character designs.
There's no massive detailed sci-fi setting, huge cast or diving into action before proper introductions.
High School DxD is a far more accessible and straightforward story about a normal high school boy whose life suddenly changes forever and sets off on a shounen path of getting strong and achieving his dream of harem king.

Originally Posted by Guido

Thank you very much, I only thought of two dimensions, but you added three into the mix.

Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka and Kaibutsu Oujo came into my mind, and you placed a good example with Horizon.

Hmph, even citing Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou as another example comes into mind, given that the red-haired girl in that last show mentioned went around some few episodes naked.

Kore wa Zombie is actually a good comparison because Issei's heightened senses are most obvious in the dark and he suffers under bright daylight (though not to the same extent as Ayumu).

[Shimapan]

Originally Posted by Yui Is My Wife

That is without a doubt THE most totally-righteous alarm-clock in recent anime.

I would happily pay a small fortune to have one!!

Yes, interesting alarm clock... but I'm sure that pretty soon, there'll be an iPhone app that does the same XD

Originally Posted by mangatron

And to celebrate this new barely censored ep, I release my first avatar for use to the first person that claims this: (my previous avatar is still unavailable)

On second thought, no one use this. Akeno-chan deserves my avatar space only. No one use it, okay! OR else..... I'll throw a cookie at you

Nice bounce, but fully clothed, and I already got a bra bounce. Also, they're bouncing too hectically there...
But I'm sure there's still plenty of opportunity for bounce with less clothes

[Malkuth]

KoreZon, Monogatari, Kaibutsu Oujo, and Shana indeed have like DxD a protagonist that can not die, and is subject to abuse from his harem. At least, in the first two those harems are composed of interesting characters, instead of just two pairs of censored assets. If one removes the undying protagonist the same troupe is present in most recent harem anime.

@zzhk: Originally, I mentioned Horizon because its and DxD's protagonists share the uncanny ability to form a harem, despite being useless jerks that talk way too much. As for Horizon's rich setting, it would have been nice if it did not take 6 hours to stitch cool, yet random ideas together through boring monologues and an army of fanboys posting explanation after explanation. Simply put, DxD through action, dialogue, and gainaxing presented a more coherent and equally rich setting within 20 minutes. Having cool ideas, rich settings, large casts, etc. is not enough, you also need the ability to narrate them in a coherent manner. As for being Horizon being inaccessible, its sales show the opposite. Like typical shounen, no one cares about settings, storytelling, etc. they just want nonsensical action, chicks, and a protagonist of their caliber

Originally Posted by mangatron

Well..... at least Issei slept in the same bed as naked-Rias

And that's all; only slept in the same bed, like a baby with its mom

[mangatron]

Originally Posted by Shimapan

Nice bounce, but fully clothed, and I already got a bra bounce. Also, they're bouncing too hectically there...
But I'm sure there's still plenty of opportunity for bounce with less clothes

So she has to show some skin, eh? This is what's driving me insane, when am I going to see her strip? Is it going to be another episode 05 thing? If she doesn't bare some skin next ep, I'm..... going to assault Koneko *hides*

Originally Posted by Malkuth

And that's all; only slept in the same bed, like a baby with its mom

Who knows, maybe he has bad sleeping habits, you know, it's not so difficult to bump into a booby or two

I for one am not a person who sleeps face down

[DragoZERO]

Them some nice breasts. I don't get why they show bare breasts and not her ass, but whatever. At least we don't have horrible censoring.

Anyway, the story was entertaining and quite funny. I didn't see the innocent girl to be an evil whatever she is. Reminds me of another series that did it wonderfully at the end of the series.

[Tempest35]

Grr, if I was Issei, I'd want to see 'Yuuma-chan' again just so I could repay the favor of being 'unexpectedly penetrated'...

[Malkuth]

Originally Posted by DragoZERO

I didn't see the innocent girl to be an evil whatever she is. Reminds me of another series that did it wonderfully at the end of the series.

Eh!? Seriously, you're the No.3 virgin joke in high school, and a beautiful random girl confesses her love out of the blue, and you expect her not to be a succubus or Yuno

[Znail]

Originally Posted by mangatron

Who knows, maybe he has bad sleeping habits, you know, it's not so difficult to bump into a booby or two

I for one am not a person who sleeps face down

Not him, but...

Spoiler for Rias sleeping habits:

...likes to hug something in her sleep.

She also had a reason to sleep with him this time and it would have been pointless without her snuggling close.

[DragoZERO]

Originally Posted by Malkuth

Eh!? Seriously, you're the No.3 virgin joke in high school, and a beautiful random girl confesses her love out of the blue, and you expect her not to be a succubus or Yuno

I didn't think she was evil. I figured she was in league with the red-head or something. In my defense, the bouncing breasts restricts my mental capability.

[Malkuth]

Originally Posted by DragoZERO

I didn't think she was evil. I figured she was in league with the red-head or something. In my defense, the bouncing breasts restricts my mental capability.

That's why lolicons are so clever