Aug 8, 2018
TLDR : Hero is worth a watch, 1000x better than the last 3 seasons, which i did not enjoy much. art is an upgrade in my eyes, but does remove some aspects of the anime, but nothing major. Nice looking 12 episode anime for action, lewd ecchi lovers!!
Seeing the fourth season of High School DxD Hero, I saw its modern new artstyle, which caught my eye, making me watch all of the three previous seasons of it. Forcing myself to watch the first three seasons was excruciatingly painful. The first two seasons were painfully annoying to watch and bear, as there was so much netorare,
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sexual undertones, outright underlying rape and dark scenes. Combine that with useless MC issei, you get a show where you see a useless kid get carried and watch him suffer and the girls around him to suffer in the darkest ways possible. Over the first two seasons, he barely progresses and gets any more powerful to do anything worth watching. He is actually useless whenever a real problem arises. It was painful to watch and I kept skipping every 5 seconds because it was too painful to see the characters I want to succeed and be useful, be absolutely useless.
However, Born and Hero (3rd and 4th season) changed this. First, in Hero, issei ACTUALLY does something. He ACTUALLY is powerful enough to beat up the bad guys, win over the girls and keep them and not be completely useless. There are times when he is so dense and dumb it is painful, but every anime has this, and can be looked over, PLUS, it is not as major as it was before. He makes up for it.
The show actually became... ENTERTAINING. Before, I would say the first seasons were barely entertaining, only in the Final 12th episode where issei can finally beat the shit out of the bad guy. The ecchi is good, and well placed on the most part. Before, in the first few episodes, the ecchi was terribly placed. Ex: Asia is dying and we are expecting a tear jerking scene, only to see her fucking boob hanging out for no good reason. It just has boobs in every scene for the sake of having boobs. It's not good ecchi, cause it just removes all the effectiveness of the plot. However, in hero, there is less random ecchi in fights, UNLESS iseei is going to power up by touching boobs or using this DRESS BREAK ability, where the ecchi is actually contributing to the plot and adding humor, not making boobs hanging out at terrible times just to have boobs in the scene.
Art... now this can be contriversal. Many people liked the first 3 seasons art, claiming it to be "mature" and "more detailed". I honestly think that in 2018, that artstyle would be outdated. There is hardly any anime today that looks that way anymore, it looks... "old". Personally, I don't really mind, but I can say that I am definitly a fan of the new art. Looks more easy on the eyes, the girls are more cute, but definitly less "mature". The ecchi and lewd scenes are still nice and boobs are still there and well drawn ;).
The animation... is well typical, nothing amazing but gets the job done, looks nice for action anime.
plot/characters... well this is contriversal. Honestly, if you are watching high school dxd, it prolly isnt for the plot but for the ecchiness. Nonetheless, Issei actually progresses as a character and so do the others. There is romantic relationship development in this season between issei and rias, which is nice, but only in the last episode sadly. but honestly, issei is the only annoying character out of them all, but not as annoying as last 3 seasons. He is bearable now.
There is actually a plot somehow. Honestly, if you don't look too deep into, as this is an ecchi anime, it is kind of cool and mostly just there for drama and fighting and action scenes. Kind of like naruto or one piece or shounen plots, just there to make fighting scenes and action and adding more girls to the never ending harem.
ty for reading :D
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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