

Anime such Aesthetica, Ikki Tousen, and even Date A Live at least try and offer some kind of narrative to contextualise (if not actually justify) the fan service. But here's the thing the anime is refreshingly honest about what it is, and within the ranks of fanservicey harem animes, it's not like you're going to find a more pure vein of ore to mine than High School DxD. With all that information above, you're going to know instantly if this anime is for you or not. It is, of course, a chuunibyou narrative too, as so many harem animes are, playing right into the fantasies and dreams of socially awkward teen boys that would amputate their own arm if it meant that they could have a couple of naked girls in their bedroom with them.

Then lots of clothes get removed, and all the kids go to school or the other way around. But angels aren't just good, demons aren't just evil, and so on and so forth. And the demon guy protagonist has a dragon arm-thing that will talk to him and provide advice, though he's not a pleasant fellow himself. According to the narrative it was something about him being a demon and stripping girls naked in public is a pretty demonic kind of thing to do, but the borderline sexual assault connotations of such a power are certainly quite extreme, even for the fanservicey harem genre.Īnyway, In terms of plot what we have here is an anime in which a demon guy and some demon girls fight some angel people in a war between good and evil. The leading man (who is every bit as disturbingly sleazy and irritating as protagonists in most other harem anime) has a special power that simply by touching a girl he's able to completely disintegrate all of her clothes. It's not just the nudity that should have sent the censor's heads spinning, either.

Clearly they weren't paying attention this time around, because the nudity is extreme and startlingly regular. After a couple of episodes I couldn't help but laugh that this collection was given an MA15+ by Australia's Censorship.

I had trouble getting screenshots for this review because there are rules against showing nudity that I don't wish to breach. There is nothing that happens in this anime that doesn't lead to girls getting naked, and even competing with other girls to get more naked. I don't even mean that in a figurative sense. Highschool DxD New Season 2 is pure fanservice. After all, I hadn't seen the original season, and I was certain that a series with such a complex and in-depth narrative such as this one would make it difficult for me to catch up with the events and characters and. I was worried going in to Highschool DxD New Season 2.
