User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Shin DxD 3 discussion/@comment-43933896-20191020045459/@comment-92.188.161.225-20191020110311

From my understanding, Issei is really liked by Japanese people, which is the most important. It seems to be a problem mainly from western and anime-only fans, because Issei is still in a weak state in the anime, and some people don't get that this is a harem universe. it is not helping that TNK messed up some important parts of the Light Novels, which doesn't help painting a better picture of Issei. Passione has done a much greater job in Season 4.

Also, western people can be very hypocritical and jealous of Issei scoring all these beautiful girls, accusing Issei of being the worst guy on Earth by peing a pervert, without aknowledging all he has done and his qualities. Yet, when you see what they would have done with an OC MC in a fanfic, it is just a rehash of what Issei did in canon, and they are banging the girls in the first 5 chapters already ( who is the pervert then, at least Issei is honest about it ).

Without Issei, many characters would never have been the way they are now, the worst being Asia whou would have been a broken sex slave for Diodora, had Issei not been there. Sometimes, I just want to scream when I see anime-only fans talking about how weak Issei is, or that they would steal his girls, without knowing that they would be wiped out the moment they look at his girls in the wrong way. NTR has always been disgusting to me and seeing some of the "fan arts" of DxD about that makes me want to throw up.