User blog comment:Jopjopjop/Volume 18 Spoilers/@comment-213.120.234.154-20140910170309

I hope I'm wrong about this, but the more I read this new story arc the more I think Issei and Rias are beginning to grow apart. I really hope that doesn't happen though, but all the evidence seems to support it. In all the volumes so far in this story arc, Rias has been elbowed out in favour of the other girls in the harem. Im a big Issei and Rias fan and I understand Issei is a harem guy, but it seems the more time he spends with the other girls the more Rias is getting frozen out. And now in this volume it is revealed from what ive read that Issei is becoming less perverted, and his first kiss was with Irina and not Rias. I hope these factors don't destroy their relationship, because that would break the very foundation of Issei's harem altogether.