User blog comment:GooerGaming/High School DxD BorN episode 8 review/@comment-24421137-20150525035412

Alright I guess I should review this episode and not be lazy.

So we start off with the ORC going to the place where Diodora is, and they find Diodora's peerage waiting for them, in the place, that was never specified. Any ways Diodora then challenges ORC to a rating game of sorts, and Rias accepts...although it is kind of redundant as there are bigger things going on then some match, but I guess he wants to prove he has the better peerage.

Any who Issei, Gasper, Xenovia and Kenko are separated from Rias Akeno and Kiba. Issei is able to preform dress break on all of the girls at his location, save Xenovia and Koneko, but much to his shock they are immune, as Diodora hypnotized the embaressment out of them, some how....I guess a simple watch would do I guess, maybe something else like a spell whatever. Issei then remembers to Billingual against the girl, and is able to read their thoughts...beating them easily with the combination of Gasper and Koneko, Xenovia then beats the other two girls with the holy canon....I mean holy combination swords of Ascalon and Durandal seriously she never slashes with them. She just holds them together and that's it. Its really weird.

Akeno and Rias are then seen having trouble against Diodora's queen and bishops....seriously I mean seriously. You could take on one of the top ten strongest beings, but you can't deal with three pieces that aren't even that strong......logic escapes me in this power level thing. Any ways they are able to pull through, after Issei tells Akeno he will go out with her on a second date, making Akeno excited and Rias jealous....it was kind of funny but I don't care.

Issei and the rest then go up the stairs, enter the door to find, Freed. Freed then becomes a chimera, after revealing he eaten two knight pieces, absorbing their powers as well gaining some of his own. And then kiba cuts him in less then a second......really I mean Kiba couldn't do something against those other two pieces, yet he was able to defeat Freed someone who has been shown to be a very good swordsman, or at least a respectable one by being on par with Kiba, and also gains the power of other knight pieces. That all we get, really.....I understood it when it was the LN as Kiba was shown to be very strong and it just showed it, but really, this confusing can someone tell me why kiba is such a flip flop power, beating Freed and holding his own against Fenrir and sons but not being able to take down the thre pieces in Diodora's peerage, that makes no sense, I was hoping maybe extending the fight since honestly Freed was an enjoyable character but I guess no, I would have gladly given this fight a little more time over the entire fight with Loki.....but I guess I am on my own on this one.

Diodora then appears from behind a curtain, like a boss. He then gets ready to fight Issei, who sucker punches him in the gut, while he was talking, unfair. Diodora tries to fight back but Issei is too strong for him, as he blasts through and beats Diodora. Issei then tries to save Asia but it turns out the lock a little bit stronger then expected, and Diodora smugly tells them that they will never have Asia, as its set to a timer, to kill them. I actually like the switch here, making Diodora not so pitiful, but actually a smug douche who has confidence in his plan and wasn't broken, I like that, make him more respectable as a villain.

Anyways the episode finishes with Issei using dress break, destroying the locks, and Asia is free. Asia then tells Issei to wait a minute as she wants to pray......I don't understand why she keeps praying to god, pray to Michael if you need to, God is dead D-E-A-D dead, whatever. This obviously sets up for a tragic event and Asia disappears, right in front of everyone.

Ok so final thoughts it was pretty good, taking it at face value and not looking back on the other events that had transpired. I like the animation, the change with Diodora not being so pitiful, and dat nice Serafall eyecatch, screw Rossweisse more Serafall is needed >:D.

That being said it gets an 8/10, nothing too special nothing too good either, it was an episode that you can't complain too much. It gets an extra point because Serafall has the eye catch ;).