User blog comment:Jopjopjop/Volume 19 Spoilers/@comment-1.53.124.174-20150712141105/@comment-1.53.124.174-20150712160025

@Gary299

That's where the repetitive format came from. In vol 18 they were walking to a station and met Yaegaki there, Strada being a monster doesn't mean he can go anywhere he wants, that's just a boring/cliched way to introduce new antagonist.

Yes no security is perfect but they did not even try to do something about it. That's plain stupid.

I don't expect Rizevim to let Yaegaki live and join DxD, but I was expecting to see how Issei deal with a strong opponent with holy dragon slayer sword, yet what I got were talking talking and Irina dues ex machina, Ishibumi could have made some team up battle with Issei and Irina did some kinds of combination/tactics/attacks to defeat Yaegaki like Issei/Sairaorg vs Grendel or even Cao Cao/Gremory team vs Ladon but no, he axed Yaegaki right there like how vampire arc ended in disappointment.

Why can't I get quality battle like Issei vs Rizer, Issei vs Sairaorg or Issei vs Cao Cao anymore? Because the quality has dropped.

Right from the moment Issei used Reflect everyone was guessing Ddraig must have a similar abilility already, but that was a convenient powerup and it made Issei look like a damn asspull. Why Issei gained the powerup to fight Rizevim? Why it couldn't be Fafnir with his treasures? Why it couldn't be anyone else? Didn't the reason Ishibumi introduce Rivezim because he wanted to make an opponent Issei had to come up with something aside from his Sacred Gear to fight with? Or Sirzechs Peerage?

That scene sucks so much, at this point Issei is turning into the boring shounen protagonist if Ishibumi does not do something to change, and if in vol 20 he killed Issei parents he officially got a tragedy to become his motivation.

It destroys what established DxD as an interesting story so much.