High School DxD - Episode 06

Episode – 06 characters

Matsuda & Motohama – They are Hyoudou Issei's friends from mid-school, on graduation they decide to enroll in Kuou Academy because they just change from an all girls school to co-ed. The reason they want this is that there would be high population of women to men, so that they could fulfill their dream of having a harem.

Kiba Yuuto – Is extremely popular with all the girls, and because of this he is envied by Issei, Matsuda, and Motohama. Although it seems that he will play a larger role later on.

Rias Gremony – Is the President of the Occult Research Club, and another key character in the story. However for some deeper reason she has been keeping a close eye on Hyoudou Issei.

Hyoudou Issei – Is overtly perverted, and has some strange dream about being a harem king. Which if you ever watch Yu-Gi-Oh, the joke that the writer is making is quite apparent. Although after he dies he has a slight change of heart. It will be interesting how much he maturates over the course of the series.

Amano Yuuma – She is the girl that asks Issei out early in the episode, although you would have to ask what kind of respectable woman would date a known pervert. However the reason is later revealed.

Souna – There isn't much that we know about her other than she is close to Rias Gremony or at least the gremony family.

Himejima Akeno – She is the Vice-president of the Occult Research Club, and her personality is a refection of the Yamato Nadeshiko “Ideal Japanese Woman”. Although other than this not much is revealed.

Toujo Koneko – First year student at this part of the Occult Research Club, and is classified as a loli character that is popular with men and woman.

Dounashiki – He is the second fallen angle that Issei ran into in the first episode, since they name him. It is likely that he will be making a second appearance.

Ashia Argento – She is a nun that has recently moved into the city that Issei lives in, but the strange thing is that, the only church in town doesn't have a Priest so no-one see a point in going there. Other than this brief introduction not much more is given out about her.

Freed Serzen – Is the Priest that works for the strange church in town, although he is a very violent person. That doesn't seek so save the soul of the people that make contracts with devils but seeks to kill them before they can make them. It appears that the reason the priest is so strange is that he works for the fallen angles.

Mystel – Is another one of the fallen and nothing more in-depth was given. Although she isn't very important since she dies in the fifth episode.

Episode – 06 Summary

In the aftermath of Issei rescuing, it made Rias realize two important things. The first is that Issei is incredibly weak that if Reinare wasn't underestimating Issei he would of never have won in the first place. Another important point on top of this fact is that his Scared gear my strength him, it is still dependent on how much base-level strength he does have. Which is why starting immediately she has him begin training by getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning. The other reason for this is that in the demon world the weakest are always the first to be eliminated.

The second fact that she has to deal with is where is she going to have Ashia live from now on. Although to solve this problem she is going to have Ashia live with Issei because she can't continue to live in the Club-room. If you think about it, when she first meet Issei she was going to live at the church now that she is a devil she can't really live at the church anymore now can she. However the reasoning that Rais gives to Issei's parent is that the school selected them for Ashia home-stay. In the begging Issei's parent are against the idea of having a young woman live under the same roof as their pervert son. However upon hearing about how Issei has been looking after Ashia, and how she really is indebted to Issei for all the things that he has done for her since she has arrived. They completely agree when Rais suggest about having it be a practice “Haneyome” training, this makes his parents overjoyed because they don't believe that they would get grand-children from a son like this. Ultimately this resolves the issue about where Ashia is going to live.

This then leads us to the fact of seeing how Ashia will fit into her new daily life as a devil. Things get started off with her introduction into Issei's class that it appears that somehow Rais manage to get Ashia to join the same class that Issei is a part of. Straight off the bat she is accepted by the class, and once the girls in the class find out that she is going to be staying with Issei they give her various warnings about how she needs to be careful around him. While Issei's friends are angry with him because he didn't inform them about any of this at all. Although at night they pass-out the papers together with Ashia riding on the back of his bike. Currently is seems like Ashia is happier as a devil in her new life, than she ever was as a human.

In continuing with Ashia new life, Issei is concerned about what sort of request someone might make that Ashia would be forced to fulfill, since she as yet to respond to a request yet. In an attempt to protect her he volunteers to do them so that no-one could force her to do anything that she doesn't want to do. Although like Issei previous request he gets involve with another anime obsessed person which ends up in another fail wish request. Which he is getting depressed that he is always letting down Rais. Which leads to her accompanying Issei on his next wish request.

Although this person appears to be another strange person because they have decorated it to look like something out of the sengoku jidai (period of warring states). The request is that this woman that is dressed from head-to-toe in Japanese armor wants to make a confession to a man she is depply in love with but is too shy to convey her feeling, so Issei suggest having her write a love letter. However she writes in very strange way and sends it off on a yagumi (arrow message). Things get even funnier when she goes out to meet this person it is like they are meeting before going to war. How ever thing end well for her and feeling are reciprocated by the man dressed in western armor. One important thing to note through this whole request fulfillment is that Rias has been lamenting her own love life and the nature of love. Which I fell is some sort of foreshadowing on future events. Even-though things end with Issei fulfilling his first request.

Notes

Haneyome – Is what in western society would view as someone that is going to be your wife. Although in Japanese Society it is more about a woman marring into your family and the woman learn about how to preform her duties after being married. The Idea behind is that the woman isn't just marring the man but marring into the family, which demand the strengthening of bonds with the entire family and not just the man you will end up marring, because it is also view as strength one's family.

Yagumi – Is what it looks like a letter tie to an arrow and fire at the person you want to receive it. This was a classic way opposing general communicate to each other during sengoku jidai without ever actually ever having to meet face to face. It is also use in sending a challenge to someone your about to engage in battle.