High School DxD Hero

[Prologue]

I love High School DXD. It is easily one of my favorite anime franchises and has consistently been a good watch. Unfortunately, this is not the case for High School DXD Hero. After three years of waiting, I daresay that it would have been better for the series to have stayed dead. That's how bad it is.

["Too late. 3 years too late."]

First of all, let's discuss the smaller elephant in the room. This sequel took 3 years to be aired. I'm well aware of the complications that occurred during its production. Transferring a popular franchise to another studio must be a lot of work. Unfortunately, ... I, as a viewer, do not care WHY my long-awaited anime is trash. I only care that it IS trash. Oh yeah, did I tell mention that this season is TRASH?

[The bigger elephant]

The artstyle change was jarring to say the least. The fans all collectively prayed to Michael-sama asking that he forgive the studio. They probably thought: "Hey, maybe they softened up the coloring to make the animation more fluid or something." Nope. Not the case. I cannot get over how bad the art is this season. The models are off. The characters look ugly. Hell, sometimes it looks like they didn't even try.

Let's use a screenshot for reference. You, reader, go to 4:14 in Episode 8 and tell me what is wrong with that image. For those of you who are too lazy to do so, I'll tell you. Issei isn't even looking at the character who he's supposed to be looking at. In fact, he isn't looking at anything. This is absolutely pathetic- and no- it isn't a one-off occurrence. This type of shit happens all throughout this season. How does a show come out looking this rushed after 3 years of waiting?

[Why? Fucking why?]

Why did this season turn out so shitty? Why did it take three years? Why did the studio bother releasing this trash? Well, I can answer all of these questions as I have before. The anime community is shit. Everyone here is willing to accept whatever is put in front of them citing "exclusivity" as an excuse for their undying support. It's like paying to eat trash because food is scarce- but the food isn't scarce, you just couldn't be fucked to ask for it. Consumers should demand quality from the producers. Obviously, these studios only care about money- that's why this shoddily-assembled piece of filth was released. That's also why you NEED to demand more from studios. Shows that notoriously don't have a 2nd season will likely suffer the same fate as this show. As the studio executives hear fans desperately crying for ANYTHING to be released as a sequel, what are they to do but take those idiots up on the offer?

I can't stand that this show has a 7.49 rating. "Hey, boss, these idiots took the bait!". Yeah, this community did take the bait. Fuck it all, man.

Repost: OPPAI

Another HSDXD Sequel has ended last year ago and it seems that funaimation decide to put up another sequel l has taken 4 steps backward? Now, ok , this sequel has a different studio and it's under studio Passione, it may have a new character designer but the thing about this sequel was instead of moving forward with Issei's relationship with Rias, it rather took a couple of steps backward. Also the relationship of the guy's harem has taken a new twist were the harem itself no longer competes for the guys affection.The only thing that hasn't change was the guy's ... "OPPAI" rant, that was rather annoying that there isn't an episode where you won't hear the word "OPPAI" and what's worst was they even added child porn in it by doing a children's song about, you've guess it "OPPAI". The addition of a loli Ravel only adds to this anime's child porn shit, the story may have been different but then again, it was still the usual when we have Issei being this "OPPAI" Dragon was at first up against Cao cao and his posses and the later Sairaog who was just picking a fight and as usual it's up to Rias' posses to deal with them just like in season 1, in fact it was more like a repeat of season 1 which I have to say the season 3's story plot was much better than this sequel . On the fanservices, nothing has change there is the usual panty service , boob service , swimsuit service and the usual onsen service, so frankly this sequel was still the same shit but different illustration so here were my ratings:

Story- Poor 3: Basically the story plot was almost like that of one part from season 1 to one part of season 3, where this sequel has become bad to worse.

Art-Mediocre 5 : Cu'z despite of having a different illustrator, the usual fanservices where still there, and by this time one would have been watching the uncensored version, and at the same time hounds would be going bananas over it.

Sound- Very Good 8: That was for the opening theme where it really does fit one element of this story plot "SWITCH ON, SWIIITCH OOOOON!"

Character- Pathetic 1: Since Issei's relationship with Rias has taken a couple of steps backwards and he's no longer this harem king wanna be despite of those girls throwing themselves on him in their birthday suits.

Enjoyment-Dreadful 2: I feel like that I wanna go there in Japan look for the people who made this sequel and give them a BOOOSTOOOOO amount of whooping in their asses.

Overall-Pathetic 1: Well by the looks of it another sequel will be in the making when we see Azazel having a secret, that he doesn't tell Rias and her lackeys. So the question is "When?"

I normally hold back from writing reviews, because I dont want people to get affected by my subjective opinion but; FUCK ME.

Never in my life had I thought I would be that highly disappointed. As mentioned its my subjective opinion and I know a lot of people love the new animation and character design but seeing the "new" Asia nearly made me cry.

How could they ever possibly fuck up that hard. The artwork from the previous 3 season was beautiful and now I cant even watch the first few episode without hating myself and this world. I am deeply ashamed to be called a ... human; just like those fuckheads who ruined Akeno, Asia, Koneko; matter of fact they fucking ruined every single character.

I will torture myself through this season but I can guarantee I will not enjoy it. If u dont want to get eye cancer, I would recommend u never even bother to watch season 4. Thanks for reading!

"I watch it for the plot.", the common excuse given by dxd fans which actually holds true for the first 2.5 seasons. Yet hero seems adamant about falling short of expectations set by its predecessors.

*I AM NOW GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW SHITTY THE BREAST DESIGN IN THIS SEASON IS*
As i watched through this season of Dxd, it is obvious that the new director/art director is probably a virgin that have not seen boobs in real life. Note this has nothing to do with the new art style despite my preference for the older style. This is extremely noticeable when you compare Akeno from Born ... to Hero; for some reason, the team decided that her breast wasnt big enough and have to bring it to the point of those in hentai. The breast and physics animation is comparable to that of Shinmai Maou no Testament. If you have no qualms with how breast are shaped there, you'll have no issue with this season.
*I AM DONE TALKING ABOUT BREAST DESIGNS*
Art style has taken a new change which made me thought that the studio would be able to play this into their advantage and have more fluid animation/ jiggle scenes. I was wrong. Despite the soft designs and character marking, animation is comparable to that of season 1's choppy cuts. This new art style is a waste on this studio and its directors.

Story wise, dxd has been going downhill since season 3 whereby there have been wasted opportunity to create exciting conflicts between the protagonist and adversaries. For this season, there are 2 main arcs, Hero factions in kyoto and the Bael family arc. Both arc are extremely detached from one another whereby consequences from one seems to play little effect to everything outside the dxd universe. There will be several instances where you may question the rational behind the character's actions (ie issei firing a beam at Cao cao for the sake of "landing a hit") and be given no resolution. The main attraction of the action aspect of dxd was its "chess" game and how underdogs/weaker forces are able to turn the tide. This season follows the same generic yelling motion as end of "born" by having Issei asspull a win because they're the good guys. Issei has also grown more powerful that his allies including kiba which downplays all interesting strategy that season 1 had.
Issei has grown to be the protagonists that i really dislike in anime. The sort that always talks about perverted stuff but when put into the situation, rejects it for reasons(???). The character is shallow at best apart from his harem situation.

Perhaps dxd's lackluster-ed story in this season is the fault of its source material but with how things are turning out for this season, whatever comes next is probably not going to be worth looking out for.

So I know I ranked the anime the way I saw it and especially compared to the other seasons previous to this one. First of all I want to go on record that if the anime art had been the same throughout the scoring would have been very different. But as we had 3 seasons and some OVA's that I consider way better in art form thus this season ranks very mediocre for me.

Here are a few Examples of before and after pick
There is a scene where we pan across all the members of the occult club and honestly if you ... look at the faces everyone has the same eyes nose and mouth.. That said I did love the story line and found that it had it's same type of flow as in the first few seasons. The characters though lost a lot of appeal to me as they all seem to be the same facial expression wise.

New season

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I stand tall and say we all appreciate that we have a season 4 I would go as far as to say we are thrilled to have it. But could the new studio have not followed the art style that was already there with maybe a few tweaks here and there. Someone commented as well that if the art style had been like this since the start that no one would be complaining; and I say that is a very true statement but it's not. To switch the style so dramatically for the 4th season is a turn off for a lot of people even if this is more representative of the LN. I have not read the LN so the anime is my reference point; at that the first 3 seasons are my reference point, so this is a shock to my eyes. Could the new studio not just have done Ep zero in the old art style and recant what the LN intended?

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OMG this is not getting any better. The before pick

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Leviatan Desu

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The after pic

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Those are some major character changes. Granted I know we have a new studio but Holy Cow Batman.
The voice acting was spot on and as many have said the story follows the LN to a "T" . I have not read it so I will take other peoples word on that. There was so much change in the art style that we lost a lot of the characters essence I believe in this season.

I know I sound like a broken record by now but honestly the series was a disappointment to me. I would tell the people that run the show to go and search out yet another new studio that have very similar artist to the first few seasons and give them a whirl. The studio just does not cut it.

to start with this is my first review and sorry for my bad British writing.

Story: I waited for a long time to watch 4th season of this anime beacause I loved this anime but the new study failed so hard to keep it good like the old study that after seeing that Issei had a fricking oppai song ( that made me feel so much cringe and it was my top 1 of feeling cringes list), I thought okay I will give a chance and watch more maybye it will be still good but after seeing that he has alot of fricking fans ... and he named himself oppai dragon that I died of cringe,rated this anime with 1 point and left this anime, but a couple days later I again started to watch this season and gave another chance yet after a couple episodes he started to having even fricking president summoning power to touch her boobs and summon all of the fricking perverted energy that was op but made me again feel so much cringe so I gave this story 2/10 points.

Art: I prefere more of the older art than a new art beacause all of the characters looked sooo fricking good but now Rias is looking like she was a zombie or smth like that and had a fever of -30C, and collors were more better than now but it is still kinda good so I give 5/10 points.

Sounds: Sounds hasn't changed at all and I prefered alot, and all of those sounds are made on point so I give 9/10 points.

Characters: all of the characters I liked alot more the older ones than the new ones beacause Issei is now so fricking lame, Koneko that punched alot Issei was more funnier than now, Rias was so badass. But there is also Akeno and Asia they haven't chnged so I give 3/10 points .

Enjoyment: There was so much cringe that I didn't at all enjoyed even the slightest, characters from interesting and good started to be lame and at a point where I wanted to just stop watching and hang myself so I rated it 2/10 points.

Overall: 4/10 points

The animation of the last studio was better. The way the new studio definitely brought down the quality of this beautiful series which I used to enjoy for the plot and fan service.

the new animation has made this show not feel as dramatic and interesting as it used to. TBH I missed the oppai and art style which brought a lot of flavour to the show.

Honestly, this season is as if someone got some bleach and forced it down my throat after a good expensive meal.

The previous series of this show was much better, I recommend watching all those and stopping here.

DXD is one of those anime that despite the years always takes place in my "heart" and after watching this season, only one sentence comes to my mind: look how they massacred my boy. I cannot comment on how the last two seasons relate to the novel/manga, because I have not read this one, so I will skip the aspect of compliance with the original completely and just focus on my own feelings about the production itself. As this is the 4th season, I will skip the plot summary (not that there is anything to summarize). All you need to know:
Rias Gremory is a powerful ... descendant of a noble line of demons, a lady and a great love of the protagonist;
Issei Hyoudou possesses extraordinary powers, a pervert, a freak, but idolizes Rias;
Rias's team is almost all women who owe Issei something and try to pick him up in an intrusive way;

The first and second seasons were the quintessence of the genre for me. The best harem / ecchi / romance ever created, and I dare say that other creations of this type, created after the first seasons of DxD, were inspired by them. However, is it only me who has the impression that the next seasons are like from a different parade? Changing the look / animation to an incomparably worse one does not help to raise the note. Let's face it, the series owes its success to the characters of Rias, Akeno, and Issei himself, who have been so handicapped over the past 2 seasons that they are almost entirely different characters. Rias from a lady, with remarkable persuasion abilities, with a mature view of the world and people, has turned into a girl who is not quite emotionally clever and it is terrible. Akeno turned from an intriguing woman who could confuse your head to an annoying girl with a wanton. And the Emperor himself, with his idiotic nickname, became simply an idiot in the pure sense of the word.
There were a few pluses over these twelve episodes, such as mixing in different faiths (gods: 9-tailed, Indra, Greek pantheon), but that's about it. Unfortunately, these advantages seem to be a fate to me, because the last anime with this idea (gods of all faiths as anime characters), namely DanMachi, also wasted its potential after season 1 and even such an interesting world does not solve the plot's pointlessness.

If I were to evaluate this season as a separate creation (definitely a more objective approach), there aren't many positives anyway. The appearance is poor and it gets worse in the later episodes. The music is bland, there is not a single melody in the anime that is memorable. The plot is a conglomerate of some moderately related events. The characters simply lack the fifth stave. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a maximum of 3 - there are much better productions.
However, judging it with sentiment and undisguised sympathy for the heroes from before the "twist", I will put 4 on this scale - if you are wondering about the whole series, watch it, but if you are a random guest here, skip this season. I've been tired of the title from its premiere until now, and it's sad that I have wasted this time.

They somehow managed to upgrade animation, yet make all the faces look like some weird walt disney knock-offs, but worse even, is what they've done to the boobs! They were all evenly balanced, there was a scale for every preference, but nooooo, they had to size everything up times 10...
Also, Rias' mother is seen wearing a crucifix in episode 7 which apparently skipped their attention because I think the new animation team hasn't actually seen any of the prior seasons nor read any of the mangas, because it's supposed to harm her severely since she's a demon, yet it doesn't.. AAND THE BOOBS!
A 2 for ... the effort at best, and perhaps the ost

I was pretty hyped when it was announced that it'll be getting another season.

But, after seeing it. It was a complete DISASTER! The art style was okay, it's the quality is one of my issues. The storyline was HORRIBLE! The characters are CRAP, and the villains are TERRIBLE! JUST TERRIBLE! Hell, even the writing was also TERRIBLE!

The story was just AWFUL! The characters are treated like CRAP!

High School DxD: Hero was a complete waste of time! This anime is the WORST season of 2018 and a total piece of garbage! I cannot stand it!

High School DxD: Hero gets an "F". Final Rating: 2/10.