Review of The World God Only Knows

Brief overview: MUST-WATCH It's about retrieving souls that have escaped from hell. Each of those souls has now possessed a girl's body therefore to capture that soul the protagonist needs to make those girls fall for him and kiss them at the same time to draw the soul out. This review will be based on the whole series. 10/10 for the whole series. Introduction Keima is a high school student who has loved visual novel dating games his whole life. He is an introvert and never likes making friends however his obsession with visual novel dating games has gone to another level where he will even play thosegames during class time. One day he received a mysterious message from his game console where he asked if he could make all sorts of girls fall for him. He then carelessly accepts the request. Believing this to be some sort of taunt and not realizing that he made a serious contract with hell to obtain souls that have escaped hell and is forced to retrieve them along with Elucia to help in order not to have his neck snapped by the seal that has placed on his neck.

Story 10/10
The first two seasons are a straightforward narrative that is all about Keima trying to capture the souls of each individual girl who has been possessed by them. To drive those souls out he needs to make those girls fall for him and kiss them at the same time. Towards the last season, the narrative has completely changed direction where it is no longer trying to save those girls but saving the goddess to prevent them from getting taken by an evil organization. This is still a light-hearted, comedic, and romantic focus style of anime where it is heavily focused on dating strategy because each girl has different likes, personalities, and conditions therefore each approach needs to be different. However, towards the last season, the style changed its direction to more of an action-adventure style, with deeper lore towards the story and surprisingly emotional moments. There is one crucial part that slightly ruins the series at the end because at the beginning of the new season when they introduced the new characters. Most of the character content is skipped and rushed with its pacing.

Characters 9/10
The characters are great, especially the main protagonist who is not a cliche type of character. He is an introvert and hates socializing, but at the same time, he is extremely smart and generous at the time if someone is in serious trouble. Whenever he needs to approach a girl on a date he always needs to change his personality to adapt to that girl's liking so for the most you see an introvert who loves playing dating games and at sometimes he will change his personality to adapt. Toward the end of his approach to the possessed girl, he always points out their problems and tries to give an example that they need to change because if they don't change anytime soon they will have regret in the later part of their life. So is not just retrieving souls, but at the same time saving them from going in the wrong direction. Other characters like Haqua and Elucia are great as well. They demonstrate that no one in this world is perfect, even though if one has an exceptional talent that doesn't mean they will do perfectly in their job, and the other one that has no talent also doesn't mean that they will do terribly in their job. This shows a great example that you can't judge a book by its cover. A minor problem with the supporting characters that are the possessed girls. Most of them only serve their purpose until their wish has been fulfilled and towards the later story most of them only serve as cameo only. So it's quite a letdown because you only see them when it comes to their story and when their story is over you never really see them again toward the later bit, but as a cameo only.

Animation 8/10
The animation is great there aren't any flaws to it however it does look a little generic at times. However, it is still really good as they draw a lot of comedic drawings to fit the style of the anime.

TLDR
This is one of my favourite anime of all time and I can easily recommend this to those who are seeking a comedic, romantic, and story with so much deep meaning behind it. The story is about Keima who is trying to retrieve souls that have escaped from hell. Those souls all possessed different girls so he needs to adapt different personalities to make them fall for him in order to bring the souls out of their body. The characters are great as it shows that you can't judge a book by its cover and no one is perfect in this world while the animation can look a little generic but it serves its purpose within the series.