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.
