Review of The World God Only Knows
Alright, I've completed the first season of The World God Only Knows and what a journey it was. I hated it. Here's why. Story 1/10 Quite frankly the story, if you can call it that, the doomed from the start due to the premise of the show right from the beginning. Nothing ever matters in the show since all the girls Keima "conquests" forget he ever existed. One could argue that this is convenient or even good thing since things would get messy very quickly if the number of girls who like him increase, but truly it's simply a cop out that is necessary due to thehorrible premise.
Art 6/10
The art is fine and I have no complaints about it but it obviously isn't enough to carry the show.
Sound/music 6/10
I didn't dislike the music. There were even times I felt some of the music was being wasted because it sounded much too good for the show it was playing in. Overall nothing too memorable either for being outstanding or terrible.
Characters 1/10
Oh god the characters. Easily the worst part of the show. Keima is a horrible protagonist with 0 redeemable qualities. His entire personality is that he is horribly, unhealthy addicted to video games and the way he views women (as things to be conquested (is that a word?)) is disgusting. I understand that this show isn't supposed to be taken seriously, which would be fine if it were funny at all. Normally, I would go on to talk about the rest of the characters and express my distain for all of them but to save everyone some time I will simply say they are all just forgettable, flat characters designed to kiss the protagonist once and then be thrown any never to be seen again. Except Keima's mom. She's a glorious milf.
Enjoyment 1/10
I hate to be overdramatic and say I gained no enjoyment out of this anime like do so often in my reviews, but I mean... it's true. From the first episode I had a bad feeling about this anime, and low and behold, it was downhill the whole time until it hit rock bottom. Then there was still half the season left. Put simply as a person who derives most of my enjoyment from anime from the characters, I just hate The World God Only Knows...
Overall 1/10
All this being said I have to give this show a 1/10. Hear I would normally go over anything I've missed/still want to talk about but like there isn't much to talk about. The show just doesn't have much to offer. I mean the final episode felt like filler for god's sake. Idk for the first few episodes I felt like The World... was like a 4/10, then episode 4 came along and the premise of it was so bafflingly boring I was stunned. Then they introduced Kanon which was a mess, and after her arc was finished, the rest of the show was just paintdryingly boring. The show is so bad I have to keep making up words just to describe it. Obviously I can't recommend this show to anyone. As a comedy it fails miserably. I only laughed a handful of times and it was the kind of laughing you do at pathetic memes on the internet. It's not really a great harem anime because like there's only ever one girl in Keima's harem at any given time. I do not care about Keima's relation with Elsie so don't even mention it. The romance elements of the show obviously aren't any good because each romance is only given like 1-3 episodes to develop and they're all between characters I hate so... For the most part I don't really like shonens so... I'll just leave that as it is. And finally it is a supernatural anime for sure, but if you're a supernatural anime fan just skip this one and go watch ANYTHING ELSE. If you've read this far, have a nice day.