She also liked giving the side characters more personality. She saw the main heroine Rias was calm and stern and a character that she isn't used to playing. When Rias' English voice actress Jamie Marchi was writing the dub script, she noted it was a breast-centric show, even noting that they have sound effects for when they move. In Volume 5 of the light novels, Ishibumi writes that he likes to pair the main characters: Rias and Akeno as the big sister duo, Asia and Xenovia are the church-related duo who become friends, Gasper and Koneko are the young first-years, and Issei and Yuto are the guys. For example, Sirzechs Lucifer is a combination of Char Aznable and Zechs Merquise, and Millicas is named after Merquise and Aznable's real names Milliardo and Casval.
Ishibumi named the Four Great Devils after characters from the Gundam media franchise. He also added characters and legendary beasts from a variety of places from Norse mythology to Japanese yokai. He created a world where the war between the three main factions (angels, devils, and fallen angels) is over, and where many famous angels and devils have already ceased to exist. Some of his characters are loosely referenced from the Bible, non-fiction books, and mythology. For the first volume, he made Rias a second lead character and heroine, and Asia to be the second heroine. His main character Issei was made into a lecherous guy at the request of his editor.
In the volume 1 afterword, he mentions that he changed his writing style, and wanted to develop one in the school-life, love-comedy, battle, and fantasy genre. Author Ichiei Ishibumi had previously worked on a horror genre series two years before publishing the first light novel for High School DxD.
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