It’s faction against faction in an effort to gain new familiars. What They Say:
Rias decides that it is time for Issei and Asia to have servant familiars. The school’s student council visits the club room, and Issei learns that they are another faction of devils. The two groups compete to see who gets first pick of the new familiars.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
While Issei has dealt with those in the occult club and their particular natures, Issei’s quite surprised to learn there are a heck of a lot more people in the school that are member of the dark races themselves. The idea that there were just a few certainly made sense as you’d want to keep things small and easily dealt with, but there’s also a safety in numbers thing. Issei’s introduction to them goes fairly smoothly when you get down to it, especially since Rias has made it clear to the rest of them that they need to accept him. Of course, there’s the problem for Issei that some of them are very eager to accept Asia and he’s very protective of her.
While they’re all familiar with each other, there are factions within the school and that has Rias and her group going up against the rest in a competition. With the idea that it’s time for some new familiars to be drawn into the groups, the competition is designed so that the one that wins gets first pick. And the competition that gets chosen of course is volleyball. And the opposing faction is hugely skilled with a larger number of people that arrive in tight little uniforms that drives Issei nuts. Of course, he barely has time to really pay attention to all the fanservice as it’s just an intense match as they whale on the competition with relative ease and style. It’s comically simple in how fast it plays out but it’s very cute and fun.
Naturally, there’s a twist that puts things in favor of Rias’ team but it’s just fluff and the fun is where it goes from there as the hunt for new familiars can begin. The whole thing goes through some silly moments, such as the water spirit and others, but it still has some good moments to it, such as when they come across a sprite dragon. You can sense instant mascot material out of him as he’s practically a Pokemon in design and the girls are all into him from the get go. Of course, it has to go in a complete dirty direction when slime begins to fall on the girls and it eats away at their outfits. It’s sad, but damnit, I love this show for the fact that it’s so brazen with this kind of material. It knows exactly what it wants to be and the guys can’t help but to get into it.
In Summary:
Highschool DxD pretty much goes for the fun and sexuality here in a big way and it succeeds pretty much throughout. While there aren’t any hugely compelling plot points here, the show expands the school a bit by pointing out student council members who are like Rias and the others and has a friendly-ish competition with them. We also get to add a new animal mascot to Rias’ group which comes after some heavy fanservice moments that as much as I want to hate it were moments that I actually enjoyed. The show continues to be pretty brazen and honest about what it wants to be, evidenced completely by its closing sequence of course, and this episode is no exception. The show is just plain, dorky fun.
Grade: B
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Streamed By: FUNimation
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
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