User blog comment:Striker10/High School DxD BorN episode 7 review/@comment-24421137-20150518011307

Another week gone by another review, which most will ignore since my opinion doesn't really matter to anyone.

Ok first off we have Sairaorg fighting against Zephyrdor...and well Zephrydor gets beat up pretty badly. I am kinda surprise that they put this in, then again Sairaorg was supposed to play a big role so maybe not really that surprised, but still surprising (Its nice to put words together).

Ok next we have ORC discussing Diodora and Zephrydor's brother maybe cousin....who was the original heir to the Glasya-Labolas but they are soon interrupted by Diodora who wants to have Asia's hand.....in marriage. He tries to trade a bishop for her but to no avail, and then he leaves but not before hitting Issei for touching him, and the Asia slapping Diodora for hitting Issei. I guess the way to solve violence and bigotry is to do more violence...makes sense.

The ORC are then seen eating (with Rosseweisse and Irina...is Irina a part of the ORC, I mean I guess in the anime but not in LN until around 15 or 16 maybe) and they talk about how Issei brought them all together, pretty much like every main character of a manga, Naruto Natsu and so on and so forth. Irina then has an idea for thanking him for brining them together.

Konkeo and Issei are then seen going from a clients house, when Vali and Kuroka appears. Kuroka wants to mate with Issei and Vali tells Issei to watch out for Diodora. Obviously one came for a more important reason then the other.

Issei then comes home to women who are dressed in very provocative clothing, taking Irina's idea and well dirtying it up a lot....still don't understand why they censored their nipples in the censored version I could barely see them but whatevs I guess. Rias gets jealous and dresses up, and Akeno then dresses even more provocatively, and they get into a fight. Later in Issei's room, Issei promises to protect Asia, to Rias, who is worried about Diodora calm demeanor. Eventually Issei learns he is being requested to guest appear on some tv broadcast studio....wonder what that is leading to.

So then we cut to a mysterious figure in the dark talking about Loki's defeat, oooooooooooo. He talks about it being hard for a norse god to be sealed so easily, so this may hint to Loki coming and getting beaten again.....I am not excited in the least.

Cut to Issei finding Xenovia training, and he says some nice stuff to Xenovia, yadeh yadeh yadeh, and you get Xenovia kissing Issei. Issei once again finds asia and promise he won't loose to Diodora.

Next Sirzechs and Azazel talk through the communication circle, talking about Diodora's drastic power increase and Zephyrdor's cousin/brother, I don't know, death being connected.

Next ORC go to the rating game where they are met with the old satan faction, who look the exact same.....hmmmmmm this feels like that freaking Fairy tail anime adaption of the future arc, where all those dragons breathed fire and nothing, which comes off as lazy to me. Diodora then comes and kidnaps Asia and then escapes. It is then revealed that the good devils already knew of the invasion, which is why Odin is there, and he is able to take on the devils who just appeared by himself and a banana. We last see Issei and the group about to take on Diodora and his peerage.

K so my final thoughts on this episode was, well not good, when looking at from an anime only fan. You see Diodora was an obvious villain the moment he started talking, and it feels like that whole Zephydor's cousin death thing was just added in to make him seem more evil or to have the people go off of something not just because Diodora looked and sounded evil. I feel this sort of seems lazy once again, it was just not for me or someone coming into this with fresh eyes. Also anyone feel like Sairaorg is kind of douche in this adaption. I mean he seems overly confident in his abilities, instead of being prideful I don't know I see this and I feel he is just being a complete jerk when interrupting people's training, not being that cheerful when seeing his cousin again, and now this. I don't know I am getting a very different vibe from him than what I got from the LN's.

So with that being said.....uhmmmmm 7/10. It didn't feel as playful as the other one, and the more I see Sairaorg the more I dislike him, even though I like him in the LN's, maybe I am remembering his character wrong and he was always like this. It had some redeeming qualities for LN's readers because the voice actor really did do a nice job with Diodora, as well as the possible foreshadowing of Loki and Shalba. So it wasn't all bad but it wasn't all good either.