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I watched High School DxD Hero expecting to get the same kind of funny perverted comedy and sexy characters from the previous 3 seasons but I was sadly disappointed, this is a review from someone who owns Seasons 1-3 on Limited Edition from Funimation and really enjoyed this show.

It turns out that for Season 4 (Hero) the creator of High School DxD changed the studio that worked on the anime from Studio TNK (the one that did seasons 1-3) to a new studio named Passione because studio TNK changed the ending of Season 3 without the creators permission which led to the creator switching ... to a new studio for season 4.

The change is studio is very apparent in the art style, animation quality, and scenes for the new anime, and it honestly doesnt feel like im watching the same anime that I grew to love over the previous 3 seasons. Some of the differences from the previous 3 seasons are

1) The characters look different for example they have a little bump around their triangle shaped chins in some scenes that makes the chin look crooked, the shadowing on the characters faces looks different too, the scene where Rias was naked in bed in the end of episode 1 next to Issei her leg looked huge from the side view.

2) In some scenes the detail on the characters is so bad that it looks like a little kid drew them.

3) Issei is made to act more like a cartoon character in season 4 by puffing out smoke from his nose when he gets aroused, getting more nose bleeds, and making goofy perverted faces when hes aroused which makes him seem like a much less of a heroic character with epic dragon armor and more of a goofy pervert who got into a very lucky harem position.

4) They keep introducing new villains in each episode and then talking about "past fights" they had with Issei but their completely new characters that were not shown in seasons 1-3, they should introduce the characters properly instead of trying to cut corners and reference fights that never happened in the previous seasons of the anime or at least werent shown in the anime version of the show (without reading the light novels or manga).

5) The intro and outro videos arent as epic or sexy as in seasons 1-3, they seem more generic.

Honestly it feels like im watching a completely different anime instead of the High School DxD I grew to love over Seasons 1-3, I own the Limited Edition Funimation releases for the previous 3 seasons but im not sure if I will buy Season 4 or not, I wish they would have kept the same studio that made the previous 3 seasons. It feels like when you follow a show for a long time and grow to love the characters then the next season comes and you find out that the Director changed some of the actors who you grew to love for people that look similar to them in the hopes that the viewer wouldnt notice the difference in actors and keep watching the series, well High School DxD the fans have noticed and we're not happy.