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* Resolve the situation with Issei and Rias's love for the second half of the film.
* Ignore the ''[=BorN=]'' storyline altogether since it's subjected to to CanonDiscontinuity

[[WMG: Fanservice in ''Hero'']]

Now that ''Hero'' has been announced for a 2018 release, Passione will have to figure out what to do with the fanservice (i.e. nudity, bath sequences, the BedmateReveal scenes with Issei and his harem) for this season without turning it into ''LightNovel/RailWars'' 2.0. Seeing as the previous seasons contain a decent amount of fanservice, Passione would most likely retain it for ''Hero''.

* Resolve the situation with Issei's emotional baggage for the second half now that the second half of ''[=BorN=]'' was considered CanonDiscontinuity.
* Ignore the ''[=BorN=]'' storyline altogether with possible {{Discontinuity Nod}}s and BroadStrokes.

* Now it's been confirmed that Taneda will reprise her role after all.

* Seems to be Jossed. The final battle of the series takes place in the Underworld as the main series ended with volume 25.

* Jossed. The final battle of the series takes place in the Underworld as the main series ended with volume 25.

[[WMG: The final battle will take place at Kuoh Academy]]
It would be the perfect ending as Kuoh Academy was the first location to appear in the series. It would also allow for some callbacks to the beginning of the series, such as the Student Council joining with the Three Factions in battle.

Now that Creator/{{Funimation}} is streaming all of the subtitle streams for the first three seasons to Creator/{{Crunchyroll}}, they will have to figure out a way to simulcast the subs and the dubs should they license ''Hero''. Maybe Funimation would keep the censored versions for a while until the release date of the first home video versions, in which the streams will be uncensored, like they've done in the past?

'''New entries go to the bottom of the page. And obviously, expect some unmarked spoilers.'''

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[[folder:Main Series (unmarked spoilers ahead)]]

[[WMG: Fanservice in ''Hero'']]

Now that ''Hero'' has been announced for a 2018 release, Passione will have to figure out what to do with the fanservice (i.e. nudity, bath sequences, the BedmateReveal scenes with Issei and his harem) for this season without turning it into ''LightNovel/RailWars'' 2.0. Seeing as the previous seasons contain a decent amount of fanservice, Passione would most likely retain it for ''Hero''.

[[WMG: What will be done for the simulcast of ''Hero'']]

Now that Creator/{{Funimation}} is streaming all of the subtitle streams for the first three seasons to Creator/{{Crunchyroll}}, they will have to figure out a way to simulcast the subs and the dubs should they license ''Hero''. Maybe Funimation would keep the censored versions for a while until the release date of the first home video versions, in which the streams will be uncensored, like they've done in the past?

'''New entries go to the bottom of the page. And obviously, spoilers for volumes 1-12.'''

[[folder:Main Series]]

[[WMG: Issei's new Dragon body will be the key to the defeat of Rizevim.]]
* Two reasons for this
* 1: [[spoiler: Sacred Gears do not work on Rizevim]].
* 2: There is way way the creator would give Ise this whole new body makeup and not do anything with it.
* Confirmed as a key factor. [[spoiler: The real winner is the Hyoudou family (including Asia). The final transformation is still not quite powerful enough against Rizevim, but everytime Ise is beaten down, Asia would heal him and his parents would keep cheering for him, allowing him to keep going. Doubles as CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.]]
* [[spoiler: Fafnir is the one who finishes off Rizevim, though.]]

[[WMG: The first episode of the anime's fourth season will have a BedmateReveal scene.]]

In the first season, Issei woke up to find Rias in his bed at the end of the first episode. In the second season, he woke up to find Rias sleeping with him again. In the third season, he woke up with Rias and Asia sleeping in his bed, only to be joined by Akeno shortly after. In the fourth season...
* According to the first trailer, Issei wakes up to find Akeno, Koneko, and Asia on his bed as in volume 9. Then, Rias joins them.

[[WMG: Animation studio for the fourth season]]

According to [[http://yusaani.com/l-ha/t-ha/haremking/2017/01/04/381509/ this report]], Passione will animate the season in TNK's stead. Given that, it's probable that they will:
** Keep most of the original main staff and cast such as Tetsuya Yanagisawa.
** Create censored and uncensored versions of episodes (obviously the AT-X airing will be uncensored).
* [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-10-21/high-school-dxd-hero-anime-promo-video-streamed/.123018 It's now been confirmed that Passione will animate the series]]. However, it's {{jossed}} with the main staff since it'll be a totally new production team right from the get-go.

In the case that after the series' FinalBattle takes place, Issei may end up graduating from Kuoh Academy and become a famous hero by the school, even for the girls and his harem. Not only that, but it'll possibly be in a {{Bookends}} sort of way.

Now that ''Hero'' has been announced for a 2018 release, Passione will have to figure out what to do with the fanservice (i.e. nudity, bath sequences) for this season without turning it into ''LightNovel/RailWars'' 2.0. Seeing as the previous seasons contain a decent amount of fanservice, Passione would most likely retain it for ''Hero''.

[[WMG: Xenovia Quarta's possible replacement actress]]

Given that Creator/RisaTaneda is slowly getting back into work on her voice acting after recovering from an unfortunate throat illness, there's some chance Taneda would possibly be [[TheOtherDarrin recast]] if she doesn't [[RoleReprisal reprise her role]]. Despite how iconic characters like Film/JamesBond, Franchise/IndianaJones, Manga/SaintSeiya, Anime/AstroBoy, {{Anime/Doraemon}}, Franchise/LupinIII and Anime/CuteyHoney are, there have been multiple actors to play them.
* Now it's been confirmed that Taneda will reprise her role after all.

Now that Creator/{{Funimation}} is streaming all of the subtitle streams for the first three seasons to Creator/{{Crunchyroll}}, they will have to figure out a way to simulcast the subs and the dubs should they license ''Hero''. Maybe Funimation would keep the censored versions for a bit until the release date of the first home video versions, in which the streams will be uncensored, like they've done in the past?

[[folder:Jossed]]

In the case that after the series' FinalBattle takes place, Issei may end up graduating from Kuoh Academy and become a famous hero by the school, even for the girls. Not only that, but it'll possibly be in a {{Bookends}} sort of way.

Given that her actress Creator/RisaTaneda is slowly getting back into work on her voice acting after recovering from an unfortunate throat illness, there's some chance Taneda would possibly be [[TheOtherDarrin recast]] if she doesn't [[RoleReprisal reprise her role]]. Despite how iconic characters like Film/JamesBond, Franchise/IndianaJones, Manga/SaintSeiya, Anime/AstroBoy, Anime/Doraemon, Franchise/LupinIII and Anime/CuteyHoney are, there have been multiple actors to play them.

Given that her actress Creator/RisaTaneda is slowly getting back into work on her voice acting, she might not be available and there's some chance she would possibly be recast. Despite how iconic characters like Film/JamesBond, Franchise/IndianaJones, Manga/SaintSeiya, Anime/AstroBoy and Anime/CuteyHoney are, there have been multiple actors to play them.

Now that ''Hero'' has been announced for a 2018 release, it would most likely retain the fanservice the first three seasons of the anime had, including the nudity (uncensored for DVD/Blu-ray or AT-X of course).

* Issei wakes up to find Akeno, Koneko, and Asia on his bed. Then, Rias joins them.

* [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-10-21/high-school-dxd-hero-anime-promo-video-streamed/.123018 Now it's been confirmed that Passione will animate the series]], but with an all-new main production team.

*** [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-10-21/high-school-dxd-hero-anime-promo-video-streamed/.123018 Now it's been confirmed that Passione will animate the series]].

True, all of the faction leaders sealed themselves to contain Trihexa. It seems likely that if or when they die, it will be the final volumes of the story, in an either of the PassingTheTorch variety or as a SacrificialLion to note that the cast is on their own.

[[WMG: The first episode of the anime's fourth season will have a naked BedmateReveal scene.]]

[[WMG: During the likely conflict against enemy vampires...]]
* Gasper will bite Issei's neck to suck his blood and gain a powerful power-up, thus bringing Ho Yay to a whole new "dangerous" level as a result. Kiba and even the girls might actually feel envious of Gasper. Also, expect Gasper to act as though he had his "first time" with Issei.
* Gasper will be suffering from the cruelty of the enemy or even ally vampires. Expect Issei to inspire him to fight on and remind him that he is the "Danball Vampire God" with insane yet awesome Danball Vampire action as a result.
* Should Issei or any of his allies bring some garlic, expect him to use gift on the said garlic to combat enemy vampires.
* All got {{jossed}}. [[spoiler: Gasper just decided to murder the man responsible for changing his best friend and that Rizevim drops by to personally wipe out the vampires.]]

[[WMG: The anime's fourth season is going to adapt ''EX'' and completely {{Retcon}} the ''[=BorN=]'' AlternateTimeline out of existence in favor of continuing the anime from where it last left off.]]
* The curse inflicted on Rias and Issei by Loki, the battle with Rias and Issei's clone in the Dimensional Gap, they're going bye-bye.
* While it would be nice to see a more faithful adaptation of Volumes 5-7, and adapting ''EX'' could pave the way for that, it's not very likely, if only because Issei and co. are not ''EX'''s main characters. It's far more likely that Season 4 will adapt Volumes 9 and 10 (Volume 8 being a collection of short stories, some of which have already been adapted as filler), with a couple of [[DiscontinuityNod Discontinuity Nods]] and some BroadStrokes treatment thrown in.
* There are also rumors going around about the season's plotline about time travel. Given this, it's possible that they'll either:
** Have Issei go on a time-travel adventure and stop Loki from causing chaos in the anime's timeline.
** Have Issei's 20 children go back to the past to confront Loki.
* Leaving aside the fact that those ''are'' only rumors, and completely unsubstantiated, it seems counter-intuitive to "correct" something that was disliked ''because'' it was anime-only by creating ''more'' anime-only content, and besides, ''[=BorN=]'' already ''has'' a built-in ResetButton in that Issei and Rias both suffer memory loss upon returning to the human world. In short, they don't ''need'' to do anything to put the anime back in line with the novels except never mention the changes or the anime-original content again.
** The official trailer has generic cut-out animations of the main characters interspersed with illustrations from the light novels. Those illustrations are from, in order: Volume 19 (one of its covers), Volume 17 ([[spoiler: Issei making a DeclarationOfProtection to Rossweisse after she asks him [[DyingAsYourself to kill her if it looks like she's being controlled]]]]), Volume 7 ([[spoiler: Rias comforting Issei before the second battle with Loki; the two battles were combined and heavily modified to make one battle in the anime]]), Volume 11 ([[spoiler: a "press extra" of Koneko going into heat and propositioning Issei]]), Volume 10 ([[spoiler: Sairaorg Bael in his equivalent of a Balance Breaker]]), Volume 4 (Issei and Vali's first fight), Volume 20 ([[spoiler: a glamour shot of Diehauser Belial]]), and [=DX1=] (short story collection) ([[spoiler: a glamour shot of Rossweisse and Ophis)]]. Make of that what you will.
* The Gremory vs. Sitri Rating Game will also be added (maybe) for the fourth season, given that it was an essential element featured at the end of Volume 5.
** Incorporating the Gremory-Sitri Rating Game into Season 4 would require ''massive'' modification to the storyline, since most of its important parts ([[spoiler: Koneko and Akeno using their nekomata and fallen angel powers, respectively, for the first time, with Issei's support; Tsubaki revealing her Sacred Gear Mirror Alice and what it does; Issei's unveiling of Pailingual]]) were moved to other battles in Season 3. They would also have to add in Rossweisse somehow. ''However'', something worth noting is that there are ''no'' illustrations from Volume 9 in the trailer. Volume 9 is one of only a handful of novels that Rias is barely in, as it involves the second-year students (including Issei, Asia, Kiba, Xenovia, Irina, Kiryuu, Matsuda and Motohoma) and some faculty advisers (which include Azazel and Rossweisse) taking a class trip to Kyoto; Rias has a handful of scenes at the beginning, one ''very'' brief (and weird) scene in the middle, and one scene at the end. ''Some'' (but not all) of Volume 9's important moments could be reworked into a Rating Game if the studio wants to give Rias more screentime - but then again, Volume 10 ''also'' involves a Rating Game (and a much more important one), and the studio may not ''want'' to do two in one season.

** {{Jossed}}. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-10-21/high-school-dxd-hero-anime-promo-video-streamed/.123018 The title will be]] ''High School DxD Hero''.

[[WMG: Issei [[spoiler: will [[DeaderThanDead stay dead for real]]; however, Ophis will replace him as the new Issei.]]]]
* Because that would be hilarious to {{Troll}} the fanbase.
** [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} [[HesBack big]] [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence time.]]]]

[[WMG: Fourth season title guesses]]

* ''[=ReBorn=]''. This will pay homage to the previous season titles ''NEW'' and ''[=BorN=]'', since they can also form two parts of a word. In this case, it's "Newborn."

** The official trailer has generic cut-out animations of the main characters interspersed with illustrations from the light novels. Those illustrations are from, in order: Volume 19 (one of its covers), Volume 17 ([[spoiler: Issei making a DeclarationOfProtection to Rossweisse after she asks him [[DyingAsYourself to kill her if it looks like she's being controlled]]]]), Volume 7 ([[spoiler: Rias comforting Issei before the second battle with Loki; the two battles were combined and heavily modified to make one battle in the anime]]), Volume 11 ([[spoiler: a "press extra" of Koneko going into heat and propositioning Issei]]), Volume 10 ([[spoiler: Sairaorg Bael in his equivalent of a Balance Breaker]]), Volume 4 (Issei and Vali's first fight), Volume 20 ([[spoiler: a glamour shot of Diehauser Belial]]), and DX1 (short story collection) ([[spoiler: a glamour shot of Rossweisse and Ophis)]]. Make of that what you will.

* Rias and Sona were ''already'' the next in line to be the heads of their respective clans. That's ''why'' they are called "heiresses" ("princesses" in the original Japanese). Satans/Devil-Kings are not allowed to lead individual clans, and according to ''EX'', [[spoiler: Rias steps down as soon as Millicas comes of age and hands the Gremory clan over to him, and then she spends some time competing in Rating Games before retiring from ''that'' and essentially becoming Issei's harem's investment manager]]).

** Incorporating the Gremory-Sitri Rating Game into Season 4 would require ''massive'' modification to the storyline, since most of its important parts ([[spoiler: Koneko and Akeno using their nekomata and fallen angel powers, respectively, for the first time, with Issei's support; Tsubaki revealing her Sacred Gear Mirror Alice and what it does; Issei's unveiling of Pailingual]]) were moved to other battles in Season 3. They would also have to add in Rossweisse somehow. ''However'', something worth noting is that there are ''no'' illustrations from Volume 9 in the trailer. Volume 9 is one of only a handful of novels that Rias is barely in, as it involves the second-year students (including Issei, Asia, Kiba, Xenovia, Irina, Kiryuu, Matsuda and Motohoma) and some faculty advisers (which include Azazel and Rossweisse) taking a class trip to Kyoto; Rias has a handful of scenes at the beginning, one ''very'' brief (and weird) scene in the middle, and one scene at the end. ''Some'' (but not all) of Volume 9's important moments could be reworked into a Rating Game if the studio wants to give Rias more screentime.

** Incorporating the Gremory-Sitri Rating Game into Season 4 would require ''massive'' modification to the storyline, since most of its important parts ([[spoiler: Koneko and Akeno using their nekomata and fallen angel powers, respectively, for the first time, with Issei's support; Tsubaki revealing her Sacred Gear Mirror Alice and what it does; Issei's unveiling of Pailingual]]) were moved to other battles in Season 3. They would also have to add in Rossweisse somehow. ''However'', something worth noting is that there are ''no'' illustrations from Volume 9 in the trailer. Volume 9 is one of only a handful of novels that Rias is barely in, as it involves the second-year students (Issei, Asia, Kiba, Xenovia, Irina, Kiryuu, Matsuda and Motohoma) and some faculty advisers (which include Azazel and Rossweisse) taking a class trip to Kyoto; Rias has a handful of scenes at the beginning, one ''very'' brief (and weird) scene in the middle, and one scene at the end. ''Some'' (but not all) of Volume 9's important moments could be reworked into a Rating Game if the studio wants to give Rias more screentime.