Anime fans it's been a good few months since I last reviewed anything to do with anime and well very lately i've been thinking about putting that to an end. The only issue I had was choosing what anime to take a look at since there are so many anime out their it was so hard to choose one that I really wanted to to take a look however I think that i've chosen a good one and so then join me as I review the first five episodes of the show made playing chess cool again with the show in question being called simply just "High School DXD" enjoy.
The plot of these first five episodes is Issei Hyoudou suddenly finds himself with a girlfriend however when hos girlfriend kills him he is turned into a servant of his school devil and has to adjust to his new life. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes was in all honesty not that bad since it was a very entertaining plot but at the same time their was really nothing to this story at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these first five episodes is Jamie Marchi as Rias Gremory and Scott Freeman as Issei Hyoudou. Also starring in these first five episodes is Marie Charlson as Sona Sitri , Lauren Allison as Tsubaki Shinra , Ashleigh Domangue as Momo Hanakai , Luci Christian as Tomoe Meguri , Sean O'Connor as Yuuto Kiba , Teri Rogers as Akeno Himejima , Jād Saxton as Koneko Toujou , Felecia Angelle as Raynare , Jarrod Greene as Dohnaseek , Staci Moon as Kalawarna , Tyson Rinehart as Matsuda , Ruben Tadeo Garcia as Motohama , Chris Smith as Riser Phenex , Haley Esposito as Murayama , Mary Morgan as Katase , Ben Phillips as Freed Sellzen , Milly Prower as Viser , Mariela Ortiz as Mittelt , Jessica Cavanagh as Miki Hyoudou , Sonny Strait as Gorou Hyoudou , Ricco Fajardo as Morisawa and Chloe Daniels as Asia Argento.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes was in all honesty. Wit all of the episodes cast member turning in some really good performances with all of them going from light and breezy voices to dark and serious ones within the exact same scene and that is something that takes alot of skill and it really does just prove how good the acting is in these first five episodes.
Doing the animation for not only these episodes but for the show as a whole is the legends and greats that are currently over at TNK. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the animation being alot better then what it really had any right to be.
This show does of course introduce us to Rias Gremory and I have to say that I really do like this character. This is because of the fact that the character even after five episodes seems like a fully three dimensional character with her being kind caring but also tough and ruthless when she needs to be she's also helped by the fact that she does get alot of episode two's big laughs all of which add to her character as they make her seem like she just doesn't care about what other people think about her which is a really cool idea.
I want it known that not only is this review being based of off the dubbed version of the show but that these episodes are also uncensored. Which means that I got to see everything so don't go watching these episodes when there others around and while it is great to see this show uncensored what we do get to see really does add nothing to overall plot of these first five episodes which only makes me wonder why there were included in the first place since you could have removed those bits entirely and nothing that's actually important to the plot would actually be lost.
The one thing that I didn't like about these first five episodes is that they boil down to the power of friendship. Which really did annoy me since it wasn't something that they needed to do this early into the shows run because of the fact that from a storyline point of view these characters have only really known each other for a few days and so having them call each other friend when they don't really know each other just didn't seem right now if they included this later on in this first season or even the show as a whole then it would have made alot more sense then what it does in these first five episodes of the show.
Now then these episode has / had a combined grand total running time of roughly one hour and forty minuets. Which for it to tell this one story in that amount of time just doesn't work for me since you very easily could have told this exact same story in about three or perhaps even four episodes as such with this extra episode it just makes the rest of episode five feel like filler since it isn't something that's needed let alone something that needs an entire acct of an episode in order to tell it and this is something that really does effect the pacing of the over all story since it means that we get some filler scenes when we don't really need them this early in the shows run at all.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first five episodes was in all honesty not that bad. Altho at the same time it;s not as good as they perhaps could have been either this might be due to budget reasons tho since the action goes from looking good in one shit to looking pretty cheap looking in another but all of the action does have some really cool moves in them both tho in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall these were a good first batch of episodes to watch and they did remind of just how much fun that this show could be when it's really well written and really well made as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these first five episodes in this very review and as such that means that these first five episodes earn themselves a grand total combined score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official High School DXD fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.