User blog comment:Chichiryuushintei/High School DxD BorN Episode 5 Review/@comment-24421137-20150503034023

Ok so didn't get a chance to review last week so I guess I will make that very short, it was good, only problem I really had was Fenrir being nerfed to the max, also Saji, gaining his Sacred gear pieces a little early but whatevs.

8/10 for that episode.

On to this weeks.....What to say about this weeks episode.....Still not sure but I guess that's part of the review getting my thoughts out there.

So the episode starts off with Rias continuing her rage. She nearly does some unknown suicide spell, having powerful demonic aura surrounding her, her eyes turn and she is about to kill herself, and possibly Loki, and when Rias finally releases it she is stopped.....by some random object she has no knowledge of, and then convieniently it has phoenix tears.....She stopped herself because of a random package that fell out of Issei (the way I worded it made it sound dirty so I guess that makes things up :P)

Next we have Fenrir, who is ordered by Loki to bite and destroy the hammer of Thor. This is it, we finally get to see what Fenrir is all about, this is going to be awesome, even this small show of power will be enough to satisfy me....he gets captured by Glepnir.......>:(.

Arthur and Kuroka come stating Vali wants Fenrir....and Loki the god of trickery, gets tricked by a boy.....well when you're the white dragon emperor anything is possible. I am leaving that explanation like that.

We then have Issei get up, and is healed by that gift Ravel gave him, by Rias, which turns out to be phoenix tears, hurray. Loki tries to stop Issei with his lighting, but Akeno's proves to be stronger, and then he tries to leave, but Saji stops him. With no way out for Loki, Issei charges Thor's hammer to its max, and attacks with all his might. Loki is then sealed, but before he puts a curse on Issei, and maybe Rias not so sure about the details on that.

The ORC then leaves the underworld, but first find out about Sirzech Grayfia and Millicas' relationship, that's fine I guess. We then arrive at the Hyodou residence, and Xenovia and Issei has trouble with their summer homework, summer homework screw that, its all about R&R for me. Anyways Akeno then helps out Issei which leads to their date, which was basically a montage of pictures, and then that's it. Oh yea during the date ORC are found out spying on them. They run and find themselves in the red district, and before they are able to do something Baraquiel, Odin, and Rossweisse show up.

Akeno is then meeting with her father, and reveals their personal relationship....and Issei is right there. I guess no one is going to notice him. As most people just air out there personal life to everyone. Whatever next Akeno then goes to Issei's room, to have sex. But Issei thinks about stopping her, thinks doesn't do it, or doesn't have a chance to, as he accidentally activates bilingual. He then hears Akeno's true voice, nice I guess. Akeno then decides against her action with Issei, and make Bento for both Baraquiel and Issei, showing that she has forgiven Baraquiel. She then gives Issei a kiss episode ends.

final thoughts I really didn't like this episode. Why I didn't like this episode is because of two things, this episode doesn't work on two levels. In one case you have the LN readers, who know how strong Fenrir is but is just so weak, he felt so unimportant. He was nothing more then support for Loki, leaving a bad taste in many of Fenrir's fans mouth. Second, it doesn't work for the Anime watchers. It doesn't work for them because they don't know what these characters are doing, bilingual, they didn't explain what it does, they didn't do anything with it. Also Sairaorg, most people think they are competing to be number one in the rating games, but in actuality they are talking about competing for number one among young devils. And lets not forget glepnir itself, how would anybody know what that is, also where the heck did Vali get that from, I can't remember then explaining where he got it. No one would know what these things are unless you did one of two things, read the LN or put it together yourself with speculation and such.

It just felt like a bad episode in general for me. With that said it gets a final score of 3/10, so much was not explained, so much was disappointing, so much was just aweful. I am sure they will get some way to pick things back up I am sure of it.