Review of The World God Only Knows

"The world is just a crappy game" "2d girls are better than 3d(Real)girls" -Keima Katsuragi, the protagonist of this anime Story Keima Katsuragi, being the geekest of the geek, the 'God of gaming' has been dragged into a world of harem like no other. In this anime, the main protagonist gets forced to play a reality game in which he needs to conquer real girls. Well for me, I can see myself as a gamer too but without the harem. lels One day, he received an email containing a message in which he was challenged as a 'God' to conquer girls. This is the time when his devil assistant Elsie/Elseacame to his side. They were ordered to capture girls with runaway spirits, otherwise they'd get their head cut-off. The only way to capture these girls is to make them fall in love with Keima.

THE SETTING
The whole story sets in Maijima school. Keima studies there and is later on accompanied by Elsie after she gets to transfer. Yes it's the typical school setting where the main guy gets chased by other girls but there's just one difference here in TWGOK, because fantasy was also integrated into the setting. Keima gets a devil (Elsie) by his side to help him conquer the girls. I expected that this kind of story will be short as it is not a very complicated one and the story has only one route it follows: GUY-->CONQUERS GIRLS--> SUCCEEDS-->FINISH. *Spoiler* This might be true for the first and second season of TWGOK, but as far as I know, there are many changes and added arcs in the manga which are not shown in S1 & S2 but I think those arcs (Goddesses,Vintage) will be shown in S3 of TWGOK which was announced to be realeased soon.

The story was medium-paced and there’s a proper time for a break after Keima succeeds with a girl. Though for me, the story was interesting enough to hook you up. One main thing that you’ll love in this anime is Keima teaches his ‘conquering’ techniques, and he acted like they were still in a game, thus he computes all the routes and decides what personality and action he would take depending on the girl. These actually taught me techniques that I can use in real life! Interesting indeed. I would rate the story 8.5/10

Character

Ok so for our main protagonist we got Keima Katsuragi. He is a pro gamer who obviously doesn’t want anything else but his games. The reason why he is like that? The anime didn’t bother to give much information in his history, family background, and life. Hell I don’t even know who his father was nor how did he become a professional, apathetic, unsociable gamer. Don’t bother knowing about his past as this would not be shown in the anime. Though his mother was shown in season 2 if I’m not mistaken but not much detailed information was given about their family background. All in all, his definite role in the was to be this self-proclaimed ‘God’ of conquer, dating sims etc. who was forced (apparently) to help capture the spirits. This was nice because all throughout, he didn’t change his role nor swayed his personalities. And as for our Elsie, she was a…hmm clumsy all the time, she was worthless—for Keima. Some may find her annoying for she likes to butt in into somebody else’s affairs, kinda irritating once in a while when she gets to bug Keima with that childish mind of hers. Well, Elsie’s voice fits her right, teenish voice which for me is kinda cute and childish at the same time.

HEROINES
All of them I’d say, earned the right to be a heroine. Well I don’t play dating sims etc. and I don’t date that much. But to me, these heroines definitely will be loved if you look into their personalities more. And yes, they are not the same, each of them have their own uniqueness and character. Some are typical tsundere type, shy, conservative, the athletic ones, and etc. I would say they are distinguishable to each other by their own characteristics but if you’d compare them to other girls in other anime, they’re pretty much the same. But one thing I liked in this anime is that it doesn’t focus only on the ‘conquering’ part, we also get to know the heroine’s background, and her history. That is enough to make this story held in together and into full pieces.
As for characters, I’d go for a 9/10

Enjoyment

I enjoyed this anime pretty well, definitely a harem worth watching. I was not satisfied enough with the whole anime series though, it was short and I expected more so I continued TWGOK in the manga. And trust me, it’s worth reading the whole manga too. But as I’ve said earlier, if you’re looking for Keima’s background or history, give up..not gonna be there. Well, it’s one of the best harem anime out there for me. And I’ve learned some girl techniques too!So 10/10 for enjoyment.

And overall, sorry if I didn’t include a review for the sound and art for I have difficulty comprehending Arts and sound. Dunno why but I look at anime more with their story and plot rather than how they’re presented and done. So… for me it’s an 8.8/10 ^^ any feedback, suggestions or comments feel free to post on my profile! Thank you!