And now we can pick back up where the story should have been, without all that other nonsense. It’s the right kind of stupid to be endearing, and having this happen instead of some uber-serious plot turn is way better. Having Issei be saved through a silly song, and because he pressed Rias’ nipple (“Switch Hime”, hah!), is the right kind of delightful absurdity for this series. Part of what makes this series so much fun is that it doesn’t take itself seriously for too long, and when it does there’s a sense of good cheer about it. I was laughing my butt off! And from a storytelling point of view it was the absolutely right thing to happen, because it was very in character for High School DxD. No way did I expect the Oppai Dragon Song to be plot important, but here we are. Not because it stays true to the LN for staying-true-to-the-source’s sake, but because the source is friggin’ hilarious! There wasn’t much new content in this episode overall, but what there was left me in stitches. But when it comes to the actual content, this episode wins out. Maybe it’s just the version of this 00 episode that I got a hold of, but the animation in HERO seems cheaper and fuzzier. The funny thing is that, in a straight one-to-one comparison of scenes that are in both episodes, the BorN sections are better. The story picks up after the end of episode eight of BorN, and contains many of the events of episode nine, with several very important changes. I guess the pessimists were wrong this time. I mean, they’re going to gain all sorts of goodwill from the LN crew for doing this, right? It’s really smart! I’m just surprised they did it. But what makes it even more odd is that it’s the right decision-which often has no bearing on what an anime production committee does. This is really unusual, because it comes across like they’re shitting all over the other studio/whoever made those awful decisions last time (the production committee, realistically-which makes it even more surprising, because some of those committee members might still be there) while doing all this extra work for comparatively little new content. After TNK got the boot and Passione took over, word was that they would ignore the anime-original ending of BorN and continue on with the LN plot, but I didn’t expect them to take the time to officially retcon all that out and fill us in on what we missed.
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