User blog comment:Gary299/High School DxD BorN episode 4 review/@comment-73.178.133.185-20150427011001

The episode on its own is great. Everything flows together quite well (with one or two exceptions) and the battle was fantastic. However, as a reader of the LNs, I do have some compaints.

1. I feel it was unnescessary for them to include Mjölnir in this episode. Should have saved it for the final battle. The fact suffers Fenrir's bite while trying to pick it up is disappointing, since in the LN he almost unconsciously moves faster the Fenrir's godspeed attack in order to protect Rias.

2. Asia was forced to stay behind...after watching the subs I "understand" why she was, but it makes Issei's life being saved much less believable, since he took a bite from Fenrir's god-slaying fangs (actually the original LN didn't even have him being bitten then).

3. The appearance of Mirror Alice and the other Vritra SGs. If the Gremory-Sitri Rating Game match does occur, Yuuto mistakenly sending Xenovia to attack Tsubaki in order to avoid the threat of "Reverse" would be confusing because they know her SG's ability already. Furthermore, Saji's despereate battle against Issei won't be as impactful as in the LN (though, we can at least assume that Vritra has yet to awaken).

4. Sköll and Hati, and the Miðgarðsormr clone(s) appearing. I realize the reason they appear (the need for enemies to showcase the Devils' strength on) but I feel that the final battle will lose some impact (read as "desperation") because they already know about them.

Mind you, I could care less about the timeline changes, they did a great job making them work, IMO. My biggest issue in the past episodes was Sairaorg's unnescessary appearance during Issei's training (could have shown how Issei was forced to feed himself, or how he would be attacked in the middle of the night instead). Oh, one last minor complaint about this episode: Rossweisse's "Full-Burst" attack didn't really feel like it contained multiple elements like it's supposed to. OK, nitpicking done!