User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 24 discussion blog/@comment-29963364-20171118175021

To all who are saying "This sucks! It's turning out like Naruto/Dragon Ball Super! All these OP characters coming out of nowhere is bullsh*t! Ishibubi is a terrible writer now!"

Calm your Hate-Boners (for women, I don't know what to say)!

In Naruto/Dragon Ball Super, I agree that the rapid excalation of power and sudden appearances of powerful characters is borderline rediculouse.

Naruto: Juubi Madara, Kaguya, Six-Path-Sage Naruto, Rinne-Sharigan Sasuke

DBS: Beerus & Whis, SSG Goku, Golden Frieza, Merged Zamasu, Omni-King, Jiren.

But in DxD, it actually stayes true to the premis of the story we've been reading since 2008. If Ishibumi had stayed true to real-life Mythology when writing various Gods, half of all the enemies in the story would've been one-shot easily (Ishibumi even said there are Gods with Cheat-like abilities).

The existance of potentially OP characters was already set in stone way back in Volume 1, when Rias explained the existance of not only the Christian God (before we find out he's dead), but also Gods from other religions/mythologies.

So why are to getting a hate-boner when Ishibumi introduces already foreshadowed, potentially OP characters?

As for the newly-introduced Super Devils, the spoilers explained how they came to exist, and IT MADE SENSE! It may have been out of nowhere, BUT AT LEAST IT WASN'T LIKE KAGUYA'S INTRODUCTION. They weren't the reason everything in the story happened. They weren't the master-minds behind the biggest moments of development for owr characters.

They were created, by one of the Top 10 Beings in the story, to be the tools of his spitefull war against the Underworld (since while Hades does hate other religions, he hates Devils & Fallen Angels most of all).

And if you're upset about Issei (and the other main character) getting too strong/powerful too fast (like in DBS), it's not like this growth in power is happening in the span of days/hours/minutes.

Issei went from below Low-Class to Heavenly Dragon-Class in just over one year. And the Rating Game Tournament isn't happening over the course of days/weeks. It's happening over the course of months. So it isn't at all unrealistic for Issei to be training for those several months and getting stronger as the tourament goes on.

Naruto & DBS when through rediculous power-escalation for the sake of raising stakes. DxD goes through this power-escalation because that was the natural flow of the story. It grew in scale from a small town in Japan, to the whole Underworld, to the entire Christian Religion, to the entire Supernatural World. As the scope of the story grew, more powerful/influential characters entered the spotlight. And each one of their introductions to the story made sense. They weren't just shoe-horned in because the story needed a powerful enemy to beat. They actually had a reason to oppose the Main Characters, and their actions had a legitimate impact on the story.