Yah ... and then there's Highschool DXD.
The sheer epicness of the fanservice was something I definitely was NOT prepared for. It's beat you over the head ridiculous. Every character, and by character I mean pair of boobs and legs, are large and long respectively. The 3 dudes that inhabit this world overpopulated by incredibly hot teenage girls are ... how do I put this ... idiots. And none more so than our main character.
How or why ... sigh. I won't bother. Suffice to say, Issei is a pervert and about as dense as they come. The plot's your typically, hot girl sees potential in worlds biggest loser. Loser has potential to be gamechanger, loser just has to believe in himself and his hot compadre.
Ok, to be fair, the show's got some good things going for it. The sequence where Issei gets his first date was very cute and well done, and you couldn't help but feel for him when things went really south. Also, the idea of Angels, Fallen Angels and Demons fighting each other, while not original was done with a twist, namely the incorporation of "chess" pieces as soldier types. Rias is a compelling enough character at first, even though this amounts to very little in the end, and her story arc is incredibly generic. Still, there's a funny episode where we see what Ash Ketchum would turn up like if he lost all his friends and lived 10 years in a demon dimension.
The plot is beyond predictable. The harem sketches are barely amusing, and the characters while well drawn, desperately needed to be fleshed out a lot more. Pardon the expression. If the story execution was any good, this show could have been watchable. Hec even the copious amounts of fan service would not have been nearly as insulting. But as things stand, this is definitely one for people only interesting is seeing how many times animated boobs can jiggle after the rest of the body has stopped moving. That's about as interesting as the story gets.
My conclusion, if you're looking for a bit more out of your ecchi comedies that just panty shots and lame slapstick humor, AVOID THIS ONE!
