“High School DxD” is about as ridiculous a show as you can get. It knows exactly who its target audience is. It knows it isn’t high art but it is fun. Be aware that this an anime with lots of nudity and discussion of sexual topics.

Issei is a perverted teenage boy, who wants nothing more than to see girls with their clothes off. When he’s killed by a girl with supernatural powers on their first date, he’s resurrected by a rival supernatural girl and given magical demonic dragon powers. Now, he’s part of Rias Gremory’s demonic order. If he fulfils her desires, he’ll have his own hareem.

Issei feels like a mixture of the traditional goofy anime hero such as Naruto and Goku along with the blatant perversion of many other anime characters. The girls in this show have surprisingly very different personalities. Rias is very strong and confident leader of the Occult Research Club while Asia is a shy nun. Ultimately, the girls are just here to be in various state of undress and hilarity ensues whenever Issei is confront with their nudity. The other characters are okay but nobody has much depth in a show so obsessed with breasts.

“High School DxD” is genuinely a funny show. Some may view it as bad taste and maybe it is but I laughed at it. The way it combines overpowered beings battling one another with a teenage boy being socially awkward around women is pretty amusing. While you never actually see any animated sex, there is an awful lot of nudity here so please be sure to keep this away from young kids. “High School DxD” is sort of like the anime equivalent of a Troma film, it knows it’s trashy and it has fun being trashy. If you like anime and you’re not offended by the concept, give it a go.