'High School DxD' Season 3 'Born' Release Date Confirmed, Funimation To Stream Series Outside Japan

Harem and ecchi anime fans fear not. On the curtails of what some would consider lesser series of the winter anime season, "High School DxD BorN" is set to return as part of the spring 2015 anime season. While the Japanese air date was confirmed for April 4 long ago, fans outside of Japan can relax as subscription service Funimation is set to stream the series. Unfortunately Funimation did not confirm when they will air the episodes, but they will likely catch up soon.

Fans in an ANN forum were not surprised but happy that Funimation will be streaming "High School DxD Born."

"Completely expected this one. Issei and the OPPAI are back," commented Stark700.

"I honestly hope this doesn't get a broadcast dub so that the dub will turn out as best as it can be. Some of Funi's broadcast dubs haven't had the best quality, and it takes time to dub a show like this well. The first two seasons were dubbed great, and I hope the third is as well," explained ZeArNkN.

"We knew it going to happen so YES YES YES for s3 of DxD now the asking when dub & dvd-blu be ready on it," said KLAC.

Anime News Network reports that Tetsuya Yanagisawa will once again direct the series and Takao Yoshioka will handle series composition. TNK will handle the animation production. Junji Goto will once again design the characters and direct the animation.

The main Japanese voice cast for the series is as follows:
Yōko Hikasa as Rias Gremory
Yuuki Kaji as Issei Hyōdō
Ai Kakuma as Rossweisse
Ayana Taketatsu as Koneko Tōjō
Ayane Sakura as Gaspard Vladi
Azumi Asakura as Asia Argento
Kenji Nojima as Yūto Kiba
Maaya Uchida as Irina Shidō
Minami Takahashi as Kuroka
Rikiya Koyama as Azazel
Risa Taneda as Xenovia
Ryota Ohsaka as Vali Lucifer
Shizuka Itou as Akeno Himejima
Yūichi Nakamura as Sairaorg Bael

For those who are not familiar with the series, My Anime List provides the following description for "High School DxD":

"Issei Hyodo is your average perverted high school student whose one wish in life is to have his own harem, but he's got to be one of the unluckiest guys around. He goes on his first date with a girl only to get brutally attacked and killed when it turns out the girl is really a vicious fallen angel.

To top it all off, he's later reincarnated as a devil by his gorgeous senpai who tells him that she is also a devil and now his master! One thing's for sure, his peaceful days are over. In a battle between devils and angels, who will win?"

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Top 23 Most Perverted Female Anime Characters

When Alexavis article "Girls Can Like H Too!" article dropped, some perfect cinnamon roll of people realized that girls can be just as big of lovers of hentai and perversion as guys.

Let's shake down convention even more and look at some of the biggest lady perverts out there!

1. Anna Nishikinomiya - Shimoneta

 

2. Rika Shiguma - Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai

 

3. Momo Deviluke - To LOVE-Ru

 

4. Rias Gremory - High School DxD

 

5. and 6. Riko & Ako Suminoe - Kiss X Sis

 

7. Kuroko Shirai - To Aru Kagaku No Railgun

 

8. Akeno Himejima - High School DxD

 

9. Chizuru Minamoto - Kanokon

 

10. Amakusa Shino - Seitokai Yakuindomo

 

11. Kajou Ayame - Shimoneta

 

12. Miyamae Kanako - Maria†Holic

 

13. Kousaka Kirino - Oreimo

 

14. and 15. Panty and Stocking - Panty & Stocking

 

16. Fujiko Mine - Lupin III

17. Miwako Mizukoshi - Hen Zemi

 

18. Hana Midorikawa - Prison School

19. Yamada - B Gata H Kei

 

20. Yaya - Unbreakable Machine-Doll

 

21. Nyaruko - Haiyore Nyaruko-san

 

22. Suruga Kanbaru - Monogatari Series

 

23. Maria Naruse - Shinmai Maou no Testament

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Chara-Ani announces “High School DxD BorN” Rias Gremory 1/6 scale figure

[Correction, updated on July 5th, 2015] New information reveals that the figure is manufactured by Chara-Ani and not Embrace Japan as previously reported. There also is new information and details about size of the figure which is sculpted in a 1/6 scale standing 20 cm tall, scheduled for release in Winter 2015 and with price and a more precise date still to be announced.

Original news, slightly edited and first appeared on July 1st, 2015, is available below.

Chara-Ani has recently announced a figure dedicated to the sexy Rias Gremory from popular series “High School DxD BorN”, also revealing some photos of unpainted prototype.

The “Crimson Haired Ruin Princess” is proposed in a revealing devil outfit and in a quite interesting pose. Waiting for more information, here’s unpainted prototype photos recently released.

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Character Profile - Rias Gremory

Name: Rias Gremory, Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess, Princess of Destruction

Origin: High School DxD

Gender: Female

Classification: Devil, Ex-President of the Occult Research Club, Heir of the Gremory Family, Member of DxD

Age: 18

Powers and Abilities: Super strength, speed, durability, senses, flight, immortality (type 1), shapeshifting, invisibility, teleportation, elemental manipulation, fire resistance, cold resistance, magic resistance, barrier creation (also serves as pseudo-BFR), mindfuck, mindfuck resistance, soulfuck, soulfuck resistance, energy projection (this actually works as a kind of atomisation) | Energy Manipulation (the same abilities as Issei)

Weaknesses: The Gremorys are known for being overly affectionate towards their servants, to the point of thinking of them as family, light based attacks, extinguished star requires charge time | None notable

Destructive Capacity: Country level (Killed Ladon the Evil Dragon Specialized in defense, even the True Longinus couldn't do it) | Country level (fights on the same level as Issei)

Range: Several dozen meters

Speed: Relativistic reactions | Relativistic reactions/combat speed (keeps up with Issei)

Durability: Large building level+, country level level+ with barriers | Country level

Lifting Strength: Superhuman

Striking Strength: Class KJ+ via powerscaling | Class ZJ

Stamina: High

Standard Equipment: A red bat that acts as her familiar

Intelligence: High books smarts and decent tactician, although often outclassed in this area by specialists

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

- Power of Destruction: A type of demonic energy that allows her to release energies that can disintegrate matter, both living and inanimate, with relative ease. She is further able to control the shape and power of the technique such as creating multiple softball sized bullets to lessen the destructive force yet increase the range of her attack.


Rias Using the Power of Destruction

- Extinguished Star: Rias' ultimate one-hit kill technique created from the change in Rias's demonic power due to the influence of Issei's power. Rias manipulates her Power of Destruction into a compression of unimaginable amounts of demonic power. It has the appearance of an enormous sphere with a mixture of crimson and black aura radiating from inside of it. Its destructive power is stated to surpass the speed of the retiring system in the Rating Game.

- Demonic Power: Rias has all the common skills and powers of a Devil. She is also shown to be at least somewhat proficient in the use of spells, such as the ritual to drain energy from Issei's left hand to let it appear human again, healing, teleportation by magic circle, and others.

- Memory Alteration: Rias has shown that she has skills in memory alteration using it on Issei's Parents.

- Crimson Extinct Dragonar (深紅の滅殺龍姫クリムゾン・エクスティンクト・ドラグナー, Kurimuzon Ekusutinkuto Doragunā): A combination technique between Rias and Issei. Issei uses his Red Wyverns and they sync both of their auras and the Wyverns attach themselves to Rias to create her own female version of Issei’s Scale Mail and when Rias is wearing the armour, her Power of Destruction and her other abilites are stronger as well. Using the technique Rias can use Boost, Transfer, and Penetrate up until her limit.

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List of High School DxD episodes

High School DxD is an anime series adapted from the light novels of the same title written by Ichie Ishibumi and illustrated by Miyama-Zero. Produced by TNK, directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa and written by Takao Yoshioka, the anime aired on AT-X from January 6 to March 23, 2012, and continued with the second season, titled High School DxD New (ハイスクールD×D(ディーディー) NEW(ニュー) Haisukūru Dī Dī Nyū), from July 7 to September 22, 2013, followed by High School DxD BorN (ハイスクールD×D(ディーディー) BorN(ボーン) Haisukūru Dī Dī Bōn) from April 4 to June 20, 2015.^[1][2][3] Set during the struggle among the devils, fallen angels, and angels, the story follows the adventures of Issei Hyodo, a perverted high school student who is nearly killed by his first date, who is revealed to be a fallen angel. He is revived by Rias Gremory, a crimson-haired school beauty who is actually a devil, and he becomes her servant. The first season adapts material from the first two volumes of the light novels, and a few side stories from Volume 8, while the second season continues with the third and fourth volumes of the light novels and is split between two arcs: The Excalibur of the Moonlit Schoolyard (月光校庭のエクスカリバー Gekkō Kōtei no Ekusukaribā) and The Vampire of the Empty Classroom (停止教室のヴァンパイア Teishi Kyōshitsu no Vanpaia), and the first ten episodes of third season adapts material from the fifth to the seventh volumes of the light novels, while the last two episodes form an original, self-contained story arc.

Six DVD and Blu-ray compilation volumes of the first season were released by Media Factory between March 21, 2012 and August 29, 2012, each containing an OVA short entitled "Release the Swaying Delusions" (妄想爆揺解除オリジナルビデオ Mōsō Bakuyure Kaijo Orijinaru Bideo, lit. "Release the Swaying Delusions Original Video") and other bonus material.^[4] An OVA episode (listed as episode 13) was released with the limited edition of the 13th light novel volume on September 6, 2012 on Blu-ray disc,^[5] with the script handled by Ichiei Ishibumi, the author of the light novels.^[6] Another OVA episode (listed as episode 14), also written by Ishibumi, was bundled with the limited edition release of the 15th light novel in May 31, 2013 on Blu-ray.^[7] The first DVD and Blu-ray compilations of High School DxD New was released by Media Factory on September 25, 2013, with the sixth and final compilation released on February 26, 2014.

In January 2012, Funimation Entertainment licensed the series for simulcast on their official website in North America.^[8] The High School DxD DVD/Blu-ray limited edition box set was released in North America on August 20, 2013.^[9] In Australia and New Zealand, the series is licensed by Madman Entertainment.^[10]

The original score for the series was composed by Ryosuke Nakanishi. Ten pieces of theme music are used for the series. The opening theme for the first season, titled "Trip -Innocent of D-", is performed by J-pop group Larval Stage Planning, while the ending theme is "STUDYxSTUDY", by the voice actress unit StylipS, consisting of Arisa Noto, Yui Ogura, Kaori Ishihara, and Maho Matsunaga. The opening theme for the first arc of the second season is titled "Sympathy" and once again performed by Larval Stage Planning and the ending theme is Hōteishiki wa Kotaenai (方程式は答えない)performed by the Occult Research Club Girls (オカルト研究部ガールズ Okaruto Kenkyū-bu Gāruzu), a voice actress unit consisting of Yōko Hikasa, Shizuka Itō, Azumi Asakura and Ayana Taketatsu as their characters Rias, Akeno, Asia and Koneko, respectively. The opening theme for the second arc is "Passionate Argument" (激情論 Gekijō-ron) and performed by Zaq, while the ending theme is "Lovely♥Devil" (らぶりぃ♥でびる Raburyi♥Debiru) performed by the Occult Research Club Girls, also featuring Risa Taneda and Ayane Sakura as their characters Xenovia and Gasper. The opening theme, titled "Bless Your Name" performed by ChouCho while the ending theme is "Give Me Secret" performed once again by StylipS.

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