Nov 24, 2014
Issei is a regular high school student. He attends classes, hangs out with friends, and obsesses over girls. In fact his obsession of more of a sick perversion. What he doesn’t realize is that there is a war brewing. A war between Heaven and Hell and before he knows it, Issei gets caught up in the middle of it. When a near-death experience causes him to end up on the side of the Devils, Issei must now adjust to his new life while at the same time trying to please his busty and beautiful Devil Mistress.
With taglines such as “Punctuated With Boobs” & “Fueled
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by the Fires of Perversion!”, it shouldn’t come to anyone’s surprise that Highschool DxD is a very Mature rated anime. The Anime is full of fan service – with every female character ending up naked at one point or another throughout the series – and it has a lot of American Pie style perverse humor with the main character, Issei, talking about “whacking it” or calling breasts “fun pillows” and the like. However this only serves as the show’s main source of humor. Past the nudity, there is a legitimate storyline that is surprisingly deep and well written.
The overall storyline is as follows: High school student Issei is attacked by a Fallen Angel and nearly killed. He is rescued by an upper classmate, the beautiful red-headed Rias. It is revealed that Rias is a member of the Gremory family – a family of Elite, Pure-Blooded Devils. Rias saves Issei’s life by turning him into a Devil like herself. The rest of the Anime revolves around Issei getting used to his new life as a Devil as well as trying to prove himself worthy to Rias.
The one thing that really stood out for me with this anime was the characters. I honestly expected many of the characters to fall into the cliches that I’ve seen with other ecchi (sexual) anime but luckily that was not the case. I did not expect Issei to become a genuinely loving, protective, and compassionate individual. Even though there are moments where he is distracted by breasts, he never lets that get in his way as he fights for the safety of those he cares about.
On the same token, the story isn’t some played out love-drama where several female characters are all fighting for Issei’s affection. There are only two women in the series who are interested in Issei but they do not let their feelings get in the way of their lives. They do not obsess about him nor fight one another for Issei’s affection. It is a nice change of pace from those other anime where we suffer through nine beautiful women who are all falling over one another for one boys attention.
The storyline itself is split into two distinct arcs. The first arc revolves around Issei’s membership into the Devils and the trials he must go through to help those he cares about. The second arc surrounds Rias and her ties with another Devil family. Both of these arcs last between 3-4 episodes. The episodes in between act as both filler and character development – none of which drag the series down or bore the audience. These episodes help build the characters’ relationships with one another while at the same time providing Issei some time to train and grow as a devil.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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