User blog comment:B214/High School DxD BorN Episode 10 Review/@comment-25792629-20150610215220

So I'm no expert but I definitely remember my DxD LNs, and this isn't how it was back in the LNs, If anyone can sooth my painful heart by telling me this doesn't mean we're going to get a completely different storyline from the LNs for S4 then do so now, please.

I'm no genius when it comes to gathering information about these sorts of things so therefore I seek to ask those who probably know more than I do about such matters, so my initial hypothesis based on the unexpected anime-twist is that they're doing this to kind of reforge what the Author of the LNs now thinks he would have wrote in the LNs but obviously can't since those Volumes are complete, which means he's not necessarily taking an opposite-ending-route but more so revamping what he now wishes the LNs storyline would have been. Therefore I believe (since S4 is almost inevitable, I mean, DxD will always catch Hentai's eyes) Season 3 will still follow the LNs but just in a more... redefined manner to the LNs Author's likings?