Review of The World God Only Knows

This anime is the ideal of extreme game addiction and harem consolidated together. An anime where you can sit down, relax, and enjoy it for a significant amount of time due of it having many seasons. Furthermore, it is also an anime where gamers as I can relate with. Story : 10/10 Keima Katsuragi the legendary online dating-simulator game beater, "God Of Conquest" that chooses to pick the 2D world instead of reality, is an Otaku obsessed with games with attractive girls. One day, he haughty accepted an offer through his gmail regarding to prove that he is the supreme of dating-sims. But it went outwrong, and it lead to him helping a demon girl named "Elsie" to retrieve runaway spirits escaped from hell that scattered themselves throughout human world. In order to do so, he has to conquer the hearts of 3D girls.

The story was exciting and well-built for a series including harem, supernatural, shounen and so forth. The initial couple of scenes made me feel as advertised as riding a roller coaster of pleasurable feelings. Each time I completed an episode, I wanted to continue watching more, I wanted more of the GOODS. This demonstrates that this anime can truly attract watchers to turn out to be progressively dependent on this anime and continue watching.

What I like most about the story is it being related with "games". I am a gamer, and I have begun playing games since I was around 6-7. My first game was Godzilla ( the first version ). Ever since then, I got addicted to games and I continued playing games up until now.

This anime truly demonstrates the aspects of being addicted to games and how games can help with real life circumstances, for an example, getting a girl to fall for you. As a gamer and an Otaku, I can thoroughly relate with Keima's game addictions and otakuness.

What the story lacks the most is the comedy, in spite of the fact that I concur that this anime is amusing to watch and enjoyable. There isn't much comedy to the level that will make me "laugh". The jokes and scenes that are supposed to be "funny" are quite lame ( in my opinion ) for an anime with a comedy genre,and it sometimes annoys me. However, because of the anime being so flawless in other factors. The score of this anime's story is saved and appraised at the most highest point.

Art : 8/10

The art was satisfactory. Some scenes are poorly animated and drawn, for an example when they make them black and white with nothing in the background. And they don't really make the background too detailed ( not complaining ). Besides that, the majority of scenes within this anime are fine but not perfect, and the art style is okay. So I have nothing else to criticize or admire about the art.

[UPDATE] : I just realized that this anime is aired in 2010! I'm shocked! I have increased my score for the art of this anime.

Sound : 6/10

In most anime, I tend to not concentrate on the opening or ending songs since they're a waste of time. But in this anime, I enjoyed in the opening. It was appealing and I truly like the blend of how they sang it in English yet in a Japanese style of saying ( Although I sort of imagine that if they sang in Japanese it'll be x2 better ). There's also something else that truly astonished me. There's no ED! I was really surprised because throughout my journey of watching anime I haven't experienced an anime with no ed for quite a while now. It made me telepathically tell this anime "Thank you for not wasting my time, despite the fact that you could've made a decent ending. I'm fine with nothing."

The voice acting is also pretty good, particularly for Keima. His voice and his character truly combines together greatly. One issue about the voice acting inside this anime is Elsie's voice acting, sometimes I find it AMAZINGLY irritating when she jabbers during when she's frantic, dismal, frightened etc.. Other than that, there's nothing wrong with the voice acting.

I forgot to mention this above on the first paragraph, so I will mention it here. Kanon's songs were great. Maybe even as good as the opening. They did well with Kanon's arc. If Kanon's songs were the opening and ending songs of this anime, I might listen to them.

The last thing about this anime that I noticed about the sound is the background musics,background sound effects and stuffs. I have a feeling that it's sort of lacking and they don't generally utilize much sound in scenes ( if there were sounds that I most likely didn't hear because it blends excessively well with the scenes or because I didn't bother hearing them, I apologize if you got triggered by what I have written here).

Character : 10/10

Since this anime is a comedy, harem, and supernatural genre kind of thing. I understand why they don't really get into the detail of characters story. Which is totally fine to me. The characters are also likable, except I have one complaint. Elsie is - censored - annoying. She pretty much represents a younger sister that is very annoying. I disliked most of her, the rest of her that I am satisfied with is when she's flustered. Other than that, I don't like the other parts of her.

The character designs are good. Keima's character may not fit his role logically in reality but since he's the "god of conquering 2D girls", might as well make him look edgy and smart as hell. On the other hand, Elsie's character design also fits her role perfectly. Failure as a demon, annoying, little sister, etc..

Enjoyment : 10/10

I truly enjoyed this anime, it was beyond my expectations. Back then I hesitated to try this anime because it looks like the typical "school" anime with tsunderes everywhere. But I was completely wrong, I have once again feel guilty for judging a book by it's cover. Guiltiness aside, I am glad that I made up my mind to watch this anime.

Overall : 10/10

"Just because all the scores aren't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be considered as perfect."

This is one of the best anime related to games and harem that I have encountered. I enjoyed this anime to the fullest. I recommend this to everyone that likes an anime with games, harem, some comedy and romance.

- p.s. Apologies if I have grammatical errors, I am not fluid with English. Thank you!