ApexDragon

I’ve never seen Lala picked for a chat room system before. She’s way too underused in crossovers in general.

This is probably a translation error. Jozu actually lost an entire arm in the war.

Take a step back and look at the situation not with real life common sense but from the perspective of this being a light novel in where Rias’ engagement with Riser likely didn’t exist until the author thought, ‘what kind of conflict can I make up for this next volume?’ If there’s no conflict in a story then there’s no tension or a way to move the storyline forward. So if Rias and her peerage were anywhere close to Riser in strength there’d be no tension or a reason for them to attempt to get a lot stronger in such a short period of time. This happens with many series in where the author makes things up as they go and eventually storyline events don’t line up organically. Before Balance Breaker was made up, it was said in the novel that boosted gear evolved and would eventually cover more of Issei’s body starting with his arm. Ophis was directly stated to be the most powerful being in the world initially but then all the sudden later there’s Great Red which is why I’ve come across some fanfics that state that only higher ups know about Great Red to explain the discrepancy. These fictional worlds eventually become so dense with lore and progression that we look back to the beginning and think ‘why didn’t they do this or why did they wait to do that?’ instead of seeing the key elements of story telling the author was following to tell the story.

He only does that in the English dub.

To be fair, DxD was poorly planned and a lot of the potholes make Rias seem lazy or lucky which has led to a lot of fanfics writers to exaggerate it more. I also think that the anime adaptation didn’t help with the change of Issei being under Rias’ radar before he died like it was a part of a insidious plan when both the manga and Light Novel start after he was reincarnated.

I delayed reading this chapter because I expected something like this… it just made me feel bad again…