User blog comment:B214/High School DxD EX/@comment-26450102-20150826072345/@comment-70.70.211.41-20150826095149

Pretty sure it did the opposite. I had to explain to a friend of mine what the goals of the Khaos Brigade were. BorN was very inconsistent and it felt like the main cast was never really in any danger. By fighting Loki and crew first in BorN, the contents of volume 6 seemed a lot less threatening. How can Diodora and his peerage been seen as a threat if they just beat a Norse God and a bunch of other mythological beings days prior? DxD has always been good at progressively making the main cast fight tougher foes, and BorN really ruined that.