High School DXD TV Series First Five Episodes Review

 

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.

Some Anime Shows I Want To Review

Hello there anime fans as you might have noticed I like to review alot of things and that's because the things I want to talk about are things that havn't been talked about. Yes there is the odd new movie but it's mostly classic stuff and well I mention that because today i'm going to tell you some of the shows that I want to review at some point in the future.

My Hero Academia

When I first started thinking of shows to go on this list this show was nowhere to be found but as I started writing the intro I started to think it would be a really good show to watch. The only thing that's stopping me from doing it is the fact that there's alot of episodes per season to get through and that's very time consuming so i'll do it if they release some recap movies.

Love Live! School Idol Project

Now I do have a Love Live! review in the offing at some point in the new year but i'm also really thinking about reviewing this show. Which would make sense since I did review the movie and I plan of reviewing the Sunshine movie when that's out in the new year.

Love Live! Sunshine!!

As of right now this is the only Love Live! show that I can actually plan on reviewing since i'm getting the first season in a few weeks. I plan on reviewing it because nobody talks about the love live franchise be it good or bad so i'm going to do it just because no one else is and that is really surprising to me since it's a popular franchise.

Attack On Titan

Now that we've had a brief look in the idol genre let's dive back into the action genre because not only do I plan on reviewing Attack On Titan. I actually have a way to do it and it's so freaking simple my plan is simply this just watch the recap movies they cover all of the key episodes anyway so not only would that cut out alot of filler it would also save me a lot of freaking time.

High School DXD

I think every anime reviewer at some point has to take on this mammoth of a show the only thing that I would need to work out as how many episodes to watch. Since there's four seasons of the show and each season has twelve episodes it would be a huge task for any soul to take on. I promise you tho once I work out how many i'd need to watch and if I have the time i'll get right to it but that's a very big if.

 Blood-C

Now this is a show that I do actually plan on reviewing in the next few weeks and since I have the DVD it would be very easy to do. As with anything tho plans could change in a heartbeat so i'll say that if you see the review by next Monday then you'll know that my plans hadn't changed but if you don't see it then something came up that forced me to alter my plans.

Sword Art Online

Now this one would kind of be easy to do since there is a recap film of the first season out there. it's when we get to seasons two and three that things would get difficult to do it's not impossible by any means but i'd have to work out again how many episodes to watch in order to do the review justice but it's one that I look forward to working out and then reviewing.

Dragon Ball Z

As with a shocking amount of shows on this post the only thing that's stopping me from reviewing this show is the amount of episodes. Even if I chose to just watch the Kai series there's still a huge amount of episodes to get through and unlike a few of the shows i've already mentioned there's no recap films here to help me out. So i'd have to watch a huge amount of episodes in order to do this review any kinds of justice.

Why Anime Is Not Just For Kids

Good morning anime fans i really didn't intend on making a post this early in the morning but tho i want to finally put in my two sense about one single phrase and it's one that if your an anime fan such as myself you hear at least once a week and that phrase is "Anime Is For Kids" or at least some form of those words.

Now i would like to point out that not all anime is for adults because there are shows that are made just for kids some examples include Pokemon and Digimon i know that there is more but to mainstream people those are the two that matter most. That's because both of those shows especially Pokemon have become worldwide hits and so to mainstream people who perhaps don't know about Death Note or the Hellsing series all anime is just like Pokemon or Digimon I.E. just for kids. 

I will however say that both shows in the past few years have tried to mature a little in Pokemon XYZ ASh got his first kiss it's a small thing yes but it also shows that the series was at that point trying to mature and in the newest Digimon film series we catch up with the original Gang years later thus moving on from the kids show formula now i don't know if the writing for Digimon has mautred or not but i can say for Pokemon it has a little bit.

What the mainstream people have to realise is not all anime if for kids just go into your local DVD shop and look at the anime isle you'll see plenty of stuff for adults as well you don't have to watch any of it just look at the cover and the age rating that alone should tell you not all anime if for kids i've put up a picture of the recent Hellsing anime because that's honestly the most mature anime i've seen recently and was the anime that got me back into anime. 

If the mainstream audience were to see an anime like Hellsing it won't stop them from saying that all anime if for kids in fact most of them will not want to talk about it but i think it will help a little another anime that i think might help with this is the anime Death Note but that's one were i can see people looking at the cover and think it's for kids so with that one they may need to watch an episode or two but what both these shows and the next show i want to talk about have in common is the fact there not afraid to take risks and to tell a more mature story.

The other series i wanted to talk about was Attack On Titan if you think this show is for kids then wait until the end of the first episode in which spoiler alert the main heroes mother gets eaten alive and i'm sure you see some blood come out of her as well. If that episode alone doesn't convince you that anime is kids only then your in denial because this show has done something that the other two couldn't do and that's become popular with some mainstream people even the great Death note didn't do that so i think that Attack On Titan helped convince people that anime is not just for kids and it also got more people into anime which is a good thing overall.

As i mentioned early on not all anime is for adults but tho you cannot right of an entire medium just based on what's popular that like comparing The Fast and The Furious movies to Lawrence Of Arabia you just can't do that you have to treat them all separately in order to judge them all fairly and it's the same thing with music you can't compare Justin Bieber to Mozart they are two different people working in two different genre's so comparing them would be useless and pointless. The same thing can also be said for anime it's pointless to compare a kids anime to something like Ghost In The Shell because they have two different target audiences so what's the point in it.

I know people will kill me for not bringing up Elfen Lied but the fact is i cannot talk that much about the show as i've only seen a few clips here and there but based on what i have seen it's a very adult anime at least in terms of what it shows so that's really all i can say about that show and the same goes for deadman wonderland. 

Not all shows however have to be filled with blood and guts to called an adult anime look at shows like HighSchool Of The Dead or High School DXD they are full to the brim with fanservice and yet to the mainstream audience they are on the same level as Pokemon or Digimon to me that's not a fair comparison to make and again if the mainstream audience would look at the age rating on the DVD or Blu-Ray they would know that.

The bottom line tho is that as long as shows like Pokemon stick in the mind of mainstream audiences other more mature shows will just be classed in their minds as only for kids and we anime lovers will always be stuck with that phrase but there is something we can do however we can try and get them to watch shows like Death Note and like Elfen Lied or Hellsing in the vain hope it will change their minds.