EDIT: I'll be updating this post with the information you need, now that EX has finished. Don't ask for the summaries, use Google and don't be stupid.
To get right to it, you could say this season has been retconned, as it's now officially and alternate timeline that has been altered by Loki who came from the future in the canon (light novel) timeline. This happens in "High School DxD EX" which is a six-part mini-novel bundled with each volume of the BD's.
Tl;dr Loki in the future escapes prison with the help of invaders from another world called UL; short for Underworld Lifeforms. Loki places a curse on Asia in the future, roughly 30+ years from now, when Issei and the others have kids and are adults. Loki then proceeds to time travel, via the UL to alter timelines to make it so Chichigami does not appear, guaranteeing his victory in the past, so the future can be erased. As LN readers know, BorN was centered around Loki and him cursing Issei and Rias, and Chichigami was notably absent. This is due to BorN being one of the altered timelines, and the Loki we saw in that was the one who had came from the future. You could make an argument stating that the whole anime so far has been an alternate timeline, as there have been some deviations from the light novels here and there.
As I stated before, use your own wits to find a summary, seriously it's not hard. In the end, Loki is defeated and the timelines are corrected and all is returned to normal.
The other big thing that happens in EX is that some of Issei's children come from the future to help correct the timeline. There's stated to be over 20 of them (in 30~ years with over 10+ girls? Damn!) but only around 10 of them appear. They are as follows:
Ex Gremory: The main character of the story and the son of Issei and Rias. He wields an artificial version of the Boosted Gear and a crimson sword named Galatine III. It is implied he is trained by Kiba and Vali. Kurenai Himejima: The eldest of the siblings and the son of Issei and Akeno. He inherited the abilities of the Himejima bloodline and his grandfather. He's also the person who created the Artificial Boosted Gear for his brother Ex. Zen Quarta: Son of Issei and Xenovia. He wields the Durandal IV. Shirayuki: Daughter of Issei and Koneko. Senjutsu user. Kurobara: Daughter of Issei and Kuroka. Senjutsu user. Both her and Shirayuki were implied to be born on the same day... so make of that what you will. Airi Hyoudou: The second eldest of the siblings, and is the daughter of Issei and Asia. It's implied she is trained by Sairaorg, and thus has incredible strength and is also capable of using magic centered around nature. Ironically enough, she has the commanding personality. Shin Shidou: Son of Issei and Irina. He is an Angel with Dragon wings. Robertina Hyoudou: Daughter of Issei and Ravel. She respects her father the most of all the siblings. Helmwige: Daughter of Issei and Rossweisse. She is capable of using high-level sealing magic like her mother. Ernestine Galnstein Daughter of Issei and Elmenhilde. She makes a big entrance in the finale by bringing her father right to Loki.
And finally, the multitude of teases for a fourth season:
Right off the bat, it is mentioned that Rias' group has been running into more Khaos Brigade members in town lately, all being humans with Sacred Gears. This is referencing the Hero Faction who would be the main antagonists for the next two seasons, should they be announced.
Furthermore, the other big hints to more seasons lies within the children themselves. It was mentioned there was a fox tailed child (Issei and Kunou's) and a child who could use the Holy Sword Collbrane/Caliburn but chose to be a magician instead (Issei and Le Fay's). Kunou and Le Fay are characters who would appear in the next season of the show, and by mentioning them but not showing them is clearly a tease if nothing else. Finally, Ernestine's mother, Elmenhilde is a Vampire that does not appear until much father into the light novels. I'm talking 3+ seasons from now, so take what you will from that.
So. Does this mean season 4 is confirmed? NO. Does this mean it's possible? Yes, in fact it's almost likely given the sales and popularity.
So does that mean Loki and UL will be the next season? NO. The next season will adapt volumes 9 & 10 of the light novel, as confirmed by TNK in an interview in Dragon Magazine in the July 2015 issue, should it be confirmed. It's been stated that it will go back to the canon, as Ex has corrected any inconsistency created by BorN. Loki is done for good now, both in the anime and the light novels. It was heavily implied the UL and their leader Valvazoa may return in the light novels someday, perhaps as the final enemy?
Finally, so what the heck is canon and now and what isn't? BorN is technically both canon and retconned at the same time. It's an alternate timeline that has since been fixed. The next anime season would continue on as if nothing happens, because the past has been corrected already. EX is completely canon and happens in the main light novel timeline, sometime after volume 14. BorN is one of the timelines Loki altered that is fixed via time travel mumbo jumbo.
Wait whaaaaaaaaaaat?! So Issei's kids will change the course of the story we already know, so that it will match the one that the LN follow? or do i misunderstand something? And who does he have kids with?! :O
Not to be a downer or anything, but I don't really understand why this is being seen as clever. If anything this is just going to be a huge middle finger to anime only watchers. It seems like a troll that is highly unnecessary and stupid to me.
Also I really don't understand why Ishibumi keeps confirming everyone is going survive the series. Now we know Vali, Kiba, and Azazel are safe along with every single harem mate. Even if he wasn't planning on killing anyone on the good side, it just kills any tension knowing that for a fact. It seems like dumb writing to me, not smart.
Not gonna call this genius move or something but AT LEAST they actually had planned something in mind when they made those horrendous change and that's quite fine.
Dunno whether it's good or bad since I didn't watched it yet though.
Since when does Issei got kids? This can't be true that Asia got killed. She means a lot to Issei. I mean in the LN, Asia will marry Issei after he marries Rias.
Chaos-Zero said: Since when does Issei got kids? This can't be true that Asia got killed. She means a lot to Issei. I mean in the LN, Asia will marry Issei after he marries Rias.
The kids come from 30 years in the future of the true Timeline
I wonder if there is going to be any change of this being animated. I mean it really would be a dick move if they would suddenly continue from the novel route.
I watched the season again to see if i could find some possible hints or foreshadowing. But beside Loki's final quotes i got nothing (not to mention Fenrir still being nerfed and other stuff). This makes me almost 100 percent sure they didn't plan for this, atleast not in the first half of this season.
So he's gonna bang everyone except Ravel (sp?), Asia (cause she dead) and the valkyrie chick (completely forgot her name). So is this gonna be canon? (at least to the anime)
Reminds me of StB and the future arc confirming he gets with both chicks......
SovereignSky said: So he's gonna bang everyone except Ravel (sp?), Asia (cause she dead) and the valkyrie chick (completely forgot her name). So is this gonna be canon? (at least to the anime)
Reminds me of StB and the future arc confirming he gets with both chicks......
There are more kids that have not come over yet actually
But he does, Rias would always be his main girl. It's just that this show heavily supports polygamy. And author wants to give everyone their happy ending, babies ever after style.
Ophis said: This season has officially been retconned by the man himself. The BD's all come with a part of a one-shot called "High School DxD EX", and in this we see Issei's kids time travel to where this season ended.
Loki in the future took some life form from another dimension with him to the past and began to shuffle around events to his liking, which caused all the differences in this season, along with there being no Chichigami appearance. The main goal of EX is Issei's future kids coming back and correcting these changes and setting everything in the right order along with ensuring Loki is defeated (as his ending was extremely ambiguous in the anime).
Tl;dr this season is retconned by EX and also, season 4 was hinted with Rias wanting to talk to Azazel about there being a lot of Khaos Brigade members in the town lately with Sacred Gears. In other words...
the Hero Faction.
I don't give a single F about that. I see this like this:
- People are mad because born was trash as anime and total sh*t as adaptation! What we will do!?
- Ask author to reconnect this crap with LN story by writing some sidestory so we could throw source material out of window next time!
HDxD as anime is done. They changed too much for creating adaptations of next volumes so either they will go full fanservice way and ignore LN story completely or they create true 3rd season that will actually adapt something. Aaaand I don't think they would back to adapting 5, 6 and 7 vol so next season IF IT EVER HAPPEN* will be probably named High School DxD Capu 4!
*born sold just 5k BD (IMO 5x more that it deserve), and LN sales dropped to 30k... So I don;t think we will see another anime season. And I don't want it - until it will ADAPT story from 5 and 6th volume.
Ophis said: This season has officially been retconned by the man himself. The BD's all come with a part of a one-shot called "High School DxD EX", and in this we see Issei's kids time travel to where this season ended.
Loki in the future took some life form from another dimension with him to the past and began to shuffle around events to his liking, which caused all the differences in this season, along with there being no Chichigami appearance. The main goal of EX is Issei's future kids coming back and correcting these changes and setting everything in the right order along with ensuring Loki is defeated (as his ending was extremely ambiguous in the anime).
Tl;dr this season is retconned by EX and also, season 4 was hinted with Rias wanting to talk to Azazel about there being a lot of Khaos Brigade members in the town lately with Sacred Gears. In other words...
the Hero Faction.
I don't give a single F about that. I see this like this:
- People are mad because born was trash as anime and total sh*t as adaptation! What we will do!?
- Ask author to reconnect this crap with LN story by writing some sidestory so we could throw source material out of window next time!
HDxD as anime is done. They changed too much for creating adaptations of next volumes so either they will go full fanservice way and ignore LN story completely or they create true 3rd season that will actually adapt something. Aaaand I don't think they would back to adapting 5, 6 and 7 vol so next season IF IT EVER HAPPEN* will be probably named High School DxD Capau 4!
*born sold just 5k BD (IMO 5x more that it deserve), and LN sales dropped to 30k... So I don;t think we will see another anime season. And I don't want it - until it will ADAPT story from 5 and 6th volume.
You don't get it. They are writing the side story to make it so that season four can act as if season three happened just like in the novels. Use your brain please
Oh. fanboys... And why they MUST write something like this? You really think they will back to ADAPTING novels? LOL. It's just "don't be maaaad, pleaasseee! See, author wrote sidestory so this crap is cannon now".
DxD as anime is dead for me until they adapt material that they butchered in born. 25 eps with 5eps for volume so they could adapt 5, 6 and 7 and can progress with story would be ok with me.
HollowIchigo58 said: Hey is there a link for all this information?
Check out the DxD subreddit
So im really confused are they ramaking season 3?
Basically from what I got from the spoilers is that Issei's kids are going to put the timeline back to normal for season 4 if/when it happens. So basically if you don't have access to these stories that are coming with the bluray or don't read the Light Novels you're not going to know wtf is going on in season 4. Season 3 isn't being remade. It's just becoming a canon alternate universe. We won't be seeing the true season 3 ever. They're just going into season 4 as if everything before it was like the Light Novels. Hope that answers your question.
HollowIchigo58 said: Hey is there a link for all this information?
Check out the DxD subreddit
So im really confused are they ramaking season 3?
Basically from what I got from the spoilers is that Issei's kids are going to put the timeline back to normal for season 4 if/when it happens. So basically if you don't have access to these stories that are coming with the bluray or don't read the Light Novels you're not going to know wtf is going on in season 4. Season 3 isn't being remade. It's just becoming a canon alternate universe. We won't be seeing the true season 3 ever. They're just going into season 4 as if everything before it was like the Light Novels. Hope that answers your question.
LordAura said: Not to be a downer or anything, but I don't really understand why this is being seen as clever. If anything this is just going to be a huge middle finger to anime only watchers. It seems like a troll that is highly unnecessary and stupid to me.
Also I really don't understand why Ishibumi keeps confirming everyone is going survive the series. Now we know Vali, Kiba, and Azazel are safe along with every single harem mate. Even if he wasn't planning on killing anyone on the good side, it just kills any tension knowing that for a fact. It seems like dumb writing to me, not smart.
So wait, is the one-shot, Highschool DxD EX, coupled with the BorN BDs or will it be with the season 4 BDs? That is my only real question about all this.
Zlogan said: So wait, is the one-shot, Highschool DxD EX, coupled with the BorN BDs or will it be with the season 4 BDs? That is my only real question about all this.
Ophis said: Apparently there's a rumor going around that Ishibumi and the distributor of DxD's rights; Fujimishobo and Kadokawa have met with Toei (oh god) about something.
Not quite sold on this because Ishibumi's Twitter has mentioned nothing, and I'm pretty sure Toei would ruin DxD, but in case it is true, people are saying they may be trying to reboot DxD, like FMA Brotherhood and HxH 2011. Thoughts?
Holy shit, if Toei gets their grubby hands on this series it's fucking dead. Like no way in hell we will get a remotely decent adaptation.
Ophis said: Apparently there's a rumor going around that Ishibumi and the distributor of DxD's rights; Fujimishobo and Kadokawa have met with Toei (oh god) about something.
Not quite sold on this because Ishibumi's Twitter has mentioned nothing, and I'm pretty sure Toei would ruin DxD, but in case it is true, people are saying they may be trying to reboot DxD, like FMA Brotherhood and HxH 2011. Thoughts?
That sounds way too far-fetched. It has barely been 3 years since the first adaptation and there would be little to no benefits in rebooting it.
Also Toei wouldn't necessarily "ruin" DxD. If they're given a good budget then they'll do a decent work as they've shown they're capable of before.
That sounds way too far-fetched. It has barely been 3 years since the first adaptation and there would be little to no benefits in rebooting it.
Also Toei wouldn't necessarily "ruin" DxD. If they're given a good budget then they'll do a decent work as they've shown they're capable of before.
Toei only seems to ever put effort for movies/specials. Outside of that they haven't actually done a decent job since like Thriller Bark with One Piece. They have been outsourcing and cutting corners with all their shows for a while now. I wouldn't want Toei to touch Highschool DxD because of it's genre not so much because of the animation. They would censor the hell out if it so they can push it into a profitable time slot.
Not that I really believe that there is a snowball's chance in hell that Toei will ever pick up this series.