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LAST UPDATE: 11/25/14 9:03 AM. Full v19 spoilers and Illustration images added.

High School DxD LN Volume 19 - Preview, Spoilers & My Thoughts

Spoiler Alert: This blog contains major spoilers for the events of High School DxD! If you are caught up at least to volume 17 and have read the volume 18 spoilers, you can read the contents of this blog without worry; Otherwise, you do so at your own risk!

Note: This blog will be updated the morning of November 20th with the latest spoilers from volume 19 and will be continually updated for a few days after with any other new spoilers. It will also be updated over the next few days with an official translation of the preview! Discussion of the translation will be in a new blog.

Ishibumi just posted volume 19's preview on his blog about 5 hours ago, and although Code-Zero hasn't translated it yet, I read it through Google Translate earlier and managed to understand parts of it. Here's what we know so far:



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Preview Update: Basic translation of the volume 19 quotes can be found here!

My Thoughts: (Preview spoilers follow!)

Okay, wow. I am hyped as fuck for volume 19. I already thought that volume 19 would cover a huge amount of epic content, but after reading the preview this is just too exciting. For starters, everyone's favorite loli fox has returned! Viva local wives! I'm really hoping she's gonna attend Kuoh Academy and move into the Hyoudou Residence. I mean, it's not time for her to be princess of Kyoto yet, and there has to be a reason for her to visit...right?! So Kiba gets to meet a former wielder of Excalibur, interesting. And it looks like everyone's still getting adjusted to the start of the 3rd semester, with Rias and Akeno being gone from the club and Asia not realizing she's in charge now and Gasper feeling lonely. Ah well, Saji will wholeheartedly support whoever becomes President, and I'd love to see Kuoh Academy run by Xenovia so let's make it happen!

It also looks as if Vali and Ise are going to have a sparring match in this volume, so that's going to be epic. And can we please see Arthur vs previous Durandal wielder, perhaps wielding Ex-Durandal?! It's so freaking rare to see Arthur fight and this looks like it would make an epic battle. Crom Cruach being a good Evil Dragon is interesting because it looks like he's on his way to protagonist status. If he makes an appearance this volume, I wonder what will happen?

I'm glad that Sister Griselda is supporting Xenovia, both in mastering Ex-Durandal and running for Student Council President. And holy shit, I did not expect the teacher of the exorcists to be a part of this rebellion too. Is this the same guy that trained Freed and Siegfried?! Poor Ravel, she's proud of Raiser for getting to fight Belial, but is he gonna make it out alive? I'd really like to see his Rating Game vs Belial near the end of this volume after the exorcists are dealt with. Koneko-chan, could your junior be Kunou?! Or Le Fay?! Or Bennia?! Or all 3?! No, wait, Le Fay and Bennia might be in the same year as Koneko and Ravel (second years soon)... KUNOU!!!

Tsubaki's Balance Breaker, I'm really looking forward to that. More than that, though, I want to see Dulio's BB in this volume and I still have no idea what the hell Asia's BB is going to be lol. I wonder what the true nature of Durandal is, too. And what the heck is Azazel's "insurance" besides Team DxD?! And what is the end result of Rossweisse's research on 666?! Did she finally create a seal for it?

With only 17 days until spoilers are out and 18 days until the official release, I am so super-hyped for volume 19 and absolutely cannot wait!

Volume 19 Cover:



Larger version from Ishibumi's blog

Seriously, Xenovia looks so cute! And I am loving that outfit so much as well. Here's hoping volume 19 will have at least 3 or 4 illustrations, DxD's art is too good!

Illustration Details

Spoilers have started leaking from 2chan, and so far what we know is Miyama-Zero has finally recovered!! 4 color illustrations and 5 non-color illustrations!! Colored ones are unknown as of now, but the uncolored illustrations consist of Kunou, Ravel, Kiba, Dulio and Valerie. Pictures coming tomorrow or the 21st.

I'm really hoping for a color illustration of Crom Cruach, and it's great to finally see what Valerie looks like, plus another illustration of Kunou and finally an official illustration of Dulio! (Up until now we only had a rough sketch from the DxD Artbook). With one day until the release, the hype is so real right now and I am so fucking excited!

EDIT: All of v19's illustrations can be found here!

Full v19 spoilers!!

I'd like to apologize for not posting the info until today, the 25th, but not only did I want to post all the spoilers at once, I also was so hyped I ended up spending all my time on the DxD Wiki and AnimeSuki discussing this info for the past several days. Without further ado, here are all of volume 19's spoilers!

Tiamat will appear
Azazel meets Shiva. Shiva has a form of a child. And it seems like he's much stonger than the other top-10 strongest since he's probably the only one who can stop 666. Hence the reason Azazel meets him.
Kiryuu knows about Devils since she summoned Xenovia
Kiba gets a girlfriend
During the RG between Raiser and emperor, the emperor uses a immoratlity-cancel power thing
Ravel joins the RG as Raiser's servant. It appears she gets "killed".
Raiser snaps, but both the status of Ravel and Raiser isnt known.
That scene was the last chapter and ended in a cliffhanger. Just like volume 11.

A bit more info:

Kiba was called "Izaiya" before he met Rias. A girl called "Tosuka" was in the same institute as him and survived because she had a powerful barrier-type Sacred Gear. She still has the young appearance from back then. She and Kiba hugs while everyone watches.
I guess the earlier spoiler about Kiba having a gf is related to her and not Shinra. Shinra will still continue to fight for Kiba even if a new "rival" appeared. She also states that she would need to defeat Ise anyway, so a new rival isn't a threat.

Xenovia wins the election for presidency. Saji will become the vice-president.
Le Fay and Bennia will enroll in the Kuou academy while Kunou will enrol in the elementary of Kuou academy.
There's some hidden factor behind Rating Game and Evil Pieces. Tiamat is involved in it and she's actually the judge of the Rating Game behind the scene. She has partnership with Ajuka. She has an appearance of a huge blue dragon.
Tiamat didnt appear till this volume but she was involved in the Devil's world all this time (since the creation of RG and evil pieces).


Ise can fly now. Ise has two kinds of wing. A Devil's wing and a Dragon's wing. Till now Ise showed Devil's wing in his base form and Dragon's wing when he's wearing his armour. But in v19 he showed he can make his Dragon's wing appear in his base-form. And he managed to fly with it using his Dragon's wing. Though not for the Devil's wing. He has better compatbility with the Dragon's wing. It's due to his new body.

Speaking of Crom Cruach, he's staying at Tannin's place. He and Tannin is getting along and Tannin's also keeping his eye on him. Tannin came to Ise's place to have them look after a certain Dragon egg. Its apparently a very rare Dragon species and the human world is fit for the hatching of the egg.

Also this volume isn't a fight against villains. Its more of a duel against people who can't accept the allaince of the three great powers. And the former durandal weilder is one of leaders of such group. He's a human in his eighties who stands more than two metre tall. Not only his swordsmanship is at the god-level, but he is physically stronger than the Devils in terms of brute force. His punch is equal to that of Sairaorg. He can stop Xenovia's Ex-Durandal with just his finger. And he was so fast that he can go behind Ise and stop him from moving with ease. Kinda reminds me of Aisen from Bleach when he stopped Ichigo's sword.


Xenovia won the election and is apparently Xenovia Quarta (newflash, she has a surname?!). By doing so, the school politics between Xenovia and Asia would parallel the current friendship between Sona and Rias. Irina and Kiryu support Xenovia's bid and eventually Issei learns that Kiryu has found out the truth about devils. By the way, Xenovia kisses Issei early in the story, as opposed to near the end, as is the case from all the other girls.

Cardinal Bishop Vasco Strada leads the church warriors and is the key villain of the piece, and wields the replica of Durandal, though he is the previous wielder of the original blade. Ageless at 87, he in fact fought Kokabiel during WWII. Strada is aligned with Cardinal Bishop Teodoro Legrenzi, whose parents' deaths at the hands of a devil fuel this quest.

Seems that characters with swords figure heavily in this volume. The 2nd most important character to Xenovia is Kiba, who no doubt has his holy sword put to the test particularly against Ewald Cristaldi, Strada's ally and the wielder of the Excalibur replica. Kiba joins with Irina, Dulio and Griselda in this battle. Kiba develops a new technique with his holy sword; translation indicates he can absorb the power off another holy sword, an ability that leads to Cristaldi's downfall.

Helping out for the Gremory team is Arthur. Kiba is impressed by Arthur holding his own against Strada, and looks forward to the next time he and Arthur may cross swords.

Xenovia duels with Strada and divides Ex-Durandal so she can wield the dual blades of Excalibur and Durandal at once (reminding readers of her image in Volume 6). She ultimately fells Strada with a knee.

Tsubaki achieves Balance Breaker! It's called Nostalgia Mad Tea Party, which involves a triple mix of sleep, frenzy and hallucinations to wear down opponents.

Walburga arrives again, with an army of a hundred dragon replicas. But with a little help from Saji and Rossweisse, Issei makes her the latest victim of Penetrate, Bilingual and Dress Break....at once!


Vali will be the focal point of Volume 20.

I don't think I need to say anything here, do I? Volume 19 looks and sounds so freaking EPIC, I seriously can't wait until translation begins. Ishibumi really has managed to create a volume far more epic than v18. Wow. Guess from now on, "every successive volume of DxD is always better than the last" has to be a rule, huh?

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