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"Oooohhhh yeaaah!! Being a devil rocks! Hell yeah! I can't calm myself anymore! I probably can throw away my porn!" {{spoiler|He never throws it though.}} }}

 

 

Enter Rias Gremory, his school's beautiful, crimson-haired sweetheart. She's also a demon queen, who resurrects him. Without knowing what became of him, Issei returns to his normal life of watching porn, peeking into changing rooms and interacting with his two fellow perverts. But no sooner had he started reconnecting to his old life than a fallen angel attacks him, only to be saved once more by Rias—now accompanied by two of her faithful servants, Akeno Himejima and Koneko Toujou.

[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=High_School_DxD Baka-Tsuki has a translation project for the Light Novels.]

 

 

The series is decidedly ''not'' about high-schoolers playing [[Dungeons & Dragons]].

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: So far almost all female devils (except Asia) are pretty good at ass-kicking anyone with either physical or magical attacks.

** [[World of Action Girls]]

* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Generally there's nothing accidental about the situations Issei gets caught in, but that time his mom found him sleeping naked next to Rias was totally innocent.

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Issei himself is this seeing as Rias had to use all 8 of her pawn chess pieces to even have him as a servant. Saji is also this to a lesser degree.

* [[All Just a Dream]]: The 2nd special episode.

* [[All Myths Are True]]: The Greek and Norse are confirmed in the novels. Heroes such as King Arthur and Cao Cao feature as well.

* [[Another Dimension]]: {{spoiler|Cao Cao traps the group in one in Volume 11.}}

* [[Ars Goetia]]: The Gremory and the Phenex family names are in it.

* [[A Truce While We Gawk]]: In volume 7, while an epic battle is going on Issei somehow {{spoiler|summons a breast god}}, yes there is apparently one in the universe. When he announces this everyone on both sides stop fighting and start staring at him as if he's done something stupidly crazy again...

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: If you are a leader of a faction, one of the minimum requirements is that ''you have to kick ass''.

** [[Badass Abnormal]]: Issei. He has a sacred gear but it's noted that he achieved his level of power not because of his sacred gear but because of [[Training from Hell]] and his [[Determinator|will to never give up]]. Otherwise he would be far weaker.

** [[Badass Adorable]]: The girls may look beautiful but most of them are strong enough to easily destroy buildings.

** [[World of Badass]]

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: In the anime's opening the girls (most noticeably Asia) have nipples but the crotches of barbie dolls, but early in the manga even Issei lacks nipples, though in the manga the girls use [[Godiva Hair]] too. Later in the Manga it's averted.

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: {{spoiler|[[Journey to the West|The original Son Goku]] uses only ''one finger'' against Cao Cao's [[Game Breaker|True Longinus]]}}.

* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: At the end of episode 1 has Issei waking up and finding.<ref>Nude I might add</ref>

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: How ''much'' can Issei power up using Rias' breasts!? How much [[HSQ]] are the fights in this series!? Which mythology will be the next one introduced!? ''What kind of new perverted power up can Issei pull off next!?'' [[Rule of Cool|Yeah]] [[Rule of Awesome|it's]] [[Widget Series|that kind of series.]]

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Rias' house in the Underworld {{spoiler|and later on, Issei's house becomes this.}}

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: ''Anybody'' who is in the high ranks are this. Sirzechs, Serafore, Azazel, Odin.. take your pick.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Compare everyone in the [[The Beautiful Elite|Occult Club]] and [[And Zoidberg|Issei]]. A good amount of the time Issei is going to take the brunt of some damage from events like sports, rumors, or from Azazel's crazy experiments.

* [[Catgirl]]: They exist in the universe {{spoiler|Koneko is one}}

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Raiser's two pawns, who are also twins, uses this against Issei.

* [[Chess Motifs]]: Rias [[She Is the King|is the King]], Akeno is the Queen, Kiba is the Knight, Koneko is the Rook, and Issei is the Pawn. Of course, [[Magikarp Power|if you know how pawns work in chess...]]

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Not so much in the beginning Issei, but after being reborn...so many hot women are after him.

** According to Ddraig, anybody who possesses the power of dragons instantly becomes a [[Chick Magnet]] because apparently, chicks dig power. He even describes to Issei that one of his past users slept with a lot of women.

* [[Church Militant]]: It seems the church in this setting has special squads of assassins and exorcists to deal with the supernatural.

* [[Clothing Damage]]: When Issei first gets his powers the Fallen Angel that's attacking him gets what [[Stripperiffic|little clothes]] she's wearing blown off. And then he gets Dress Break, the ultimate move in a Rating Game where it outright ''got banned'' after the first game was over.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Issei's Boosted Gear has the ability to double the power of the user every ten seconds at the cost of putting strain on the user. Oh the effects can also be stacked. It may remind some people of the [[Dragonball Z|Kaio-ken]] which boosts the users power, speed, defense, ki, etc. The only change produced by the basic Kaio-ken to be quantified in the series is that it doubles the user's power level. The Kaio-ken is also quite taxing on the user's body.

** [[Dragonball Z Abridged|Kaio-what?]]

* [[Downer Ending]]: This is how the past Boosted Gear users lives ended according to a lot of people, foremost being Ddraig. {{spoiler|Issei so far, while [[Our Hero Is Dead|so far dead]], had a happy life to the point, Ddraig refers to him as the greatest Red Dragon Emperor ever despite being the weakest.}}

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: [[Averted]] with Issei. At the start he was treated as a joke by even low tier fallen angels but once he started getting stronger opponents took him more and more seriously.

* [[Engagement Challenge]]: Ok so we knew Rias is engaged to the Phenex household, so Issei when comes to rescue her it becomes this to the people watching it unfold.

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: It is so painfully obvious Rias likes Issei that her father acknowledges him as his future son in law... Same thing applies for Akeno later on, and any savvy reader notices Asia's liking of Issei from the first chapters after she's introduced.

* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: Humans, devils, fallen angels, angels, Norse mythology, Greek mythology, dragons, {{spoiler|a breast god}}, anything you can think of, it's in here.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Yuuma Amano.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Rias in a nutshell, although her power is actually destruction.

* [[First-Episode Resurrection]]

* [[First Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Rias steals Issei's first kiss and later on, Asia and Akeno's first kiss are also from Issei.}}

*** [[The Smart Guy]]: Arthur

*** [[The Chick]]: Le Fay

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: you can see Issei's penis in the beginning of episode 2 when his mother closes the door. Funnily enough, ''this'' gets removed in the blu-ray version.

* [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]]: During a break from their sparring, Azazel asks Kiba between Issei and Rias, who would he save. Kiba then flat out tells him that he'll save Rias because without her, everything is lost.

* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: {{spoiler|When Hell gets invaded by Hades and the Chaos Brigade, the leaders try to convince the other members of [[The Alliance]] to help them. While they would, seeing as there's [[Achilles' Heel|someone who wields the most powerful Longinus that could kill them]], it made things harder for them to move. They then send their armies instead to deal with the threat.}}

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: What pretty much happened with Issei VS Sairaorg.

* [[Handshake Substitute]]: Issei and Kiba do the fistbump variation just before they go to their separate positions in their first Rating Game.

* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Subverted Hard. Issei is mentioned constantly to be talentless and no good at anything at all. He goes through [[Training from Hell]] constantly to improve himself and in the end it worked. He turned out to be the strongest out of the Occult Club which consisted of some of the most talented individuals and some of them even had special lineages such as the the sister of the current Maou and the daughter of a leader in the Fallen Angel faction. He even eventually muched up to [[The Rival|Vali]] who had the lineage of the original Maou to back himself up. The author himself mentioned that this is a series where hard work pays off and it shows. Azazel even thinks of Issei as a sponge who can absorb anything. Same thing with Sairaorg who also subverts this trope because any devil who fights off against him and loses, they don't have what it takes to bounce back since their powers don't work on someone who's just using his body as a weapon.

* [[Hearing Voices]]: Special sacred gears usually have something sealed within them {{spoiler|Issei's has a red welsh dragon named Ddraig.}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|''Everybody'' in the Occult Research Club after [[Our Hero Is Dead|Issei dies]].}}

* [[High Altitude Battle]]: The first fight of Volume 7 has everybody facing Loki in the air.

* [[Horny Devils]]: The main reason Issei is cool with becoming a demon is that Rias tells him he can use it to get laid.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: {{spoiler|Azazel makes one from Sirzechs request. He builds it ''underneath the swimming pool of the school'' named Maouga.}}

* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: Vali invokes this from time to time. Sometimes however, he really does have an agenda.

* [[Jaw Drop]]: Tanninim pulls off a funny one when {{spoiler|Issei accidentally summons a Breast Fairy and asks the former as to which mythology is it a part of.}}

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: More like sprinted towards the call but Issei definitely fits.

* [[Kiai]]: Koneko uses them, [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] since she's not [[Hot-Blooded]] at all, rather than screaming it's a quiet "eh!" then whatever she just punched [[Punched Across the Room|goes flying]]

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Fallen angels can still use the power of the light, and they're in hell fighting with the devils.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: At the start, there was only the Occult Research Club, then they added fallen angels, devils, God and his angels, dragons, exorcists, fallen exorcists, Valhalla, pretty ''any mythology'' you can think of, it's here.

* [[Love Makes You Evil|Love Makes You Turn Into A Fallen Angel]]: Azazel explains that the first fallen angels became so was because they made out with a human being. {{spoiler|Irina almost gets turned into a fallen angel twice.}}

* [[Lover Tug of War]]: Poor Issei sometimes.

** Which becomes a [[Title Drop]] when you find out that {{spoiler|Great Red is the current "D×D" known as "Dragon of Dragons". And then comes full circle when Issei becomes a "D×D" who's still in high school because Great Red used his powers with Ophis to create Issei's body.}}

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Its through hell that Issei finds his heaven.

* [[Melee a Trois]]: There are three different powers currently in this setting: [[God]] and his angels, the fallen angels, and the devils.

* [[Meido]]: Grafia, head maid to Rias' Brother's household {{spoiler|Also she's his wife.}}

* [[Moment Killer]]: ''Tons'' in this series. If it's not Issei who says something idiotic or [[Oblivious to Love|doesn't know what his partner is talking about]], it'll either be someone else either spying on them (Irina, Xenovia) or calling them from a distance (Azazel, Odin).

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: After discussing serious issues in volume 7, Azazel asks where Odin wants to go. He ''immediately declares'' that he wants to go to a breast club much to the consternation of the group.

** Volume 12 starts out depressing after what happened in the previous volume. {{spoiler|And then, it's now at Issei's perspective of the story where the first few things that he says is that he can't even make out with Rias anymore with his current spirit form.}}

* [[Name's the Same]]: Sister Asia Argento

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Issei wants a harem, but doesn't notice the one he has.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Rias sometimes refers to Issei as a child in the novel, suggesting she isn't as young as she looks.. also considering Devil's can live for 10,000+ years...

* [[Old School Building]]: Where the Occult Clubroom is located.

* [[Peace Conference]]: Happens in the fourth volume. It was successful, however there is a certain faction who doesn't want in.

* [[Panty Shot]]

* [[Peeping Tom]]: The first scene in the novels involves Issei and his friends Matsuda and Motohama peeking at the girls locker room.

* [[Physical God]]: {{spoiler|[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Gods]] in this series are extremely strong. Loki for example could hold off the two strongest members of the Fallen Angel group plus the entire Occult Club plus Saji in his dragon from with ease. Also Son Goku has been shown to utterly crush the Hero Faction which are each individually at a High-Ultimate Tier Devil level. The two strongest beings Ophis and Great Red are represented by Infinite and Dreams which say volumes of how strong they are}}.

* [[Radial Ass-Kicking]]: The Occult Research Club ''was'' going to do this, until [[Big Damn Heroes|Odin showed up.]]

* [[Rags to Riches]]: Issei's home gets renovated from a normal Japanese house, into a ''six-floor mansion overnight.''

 

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