Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows)

Keima Katsuragi, known online as the legendary "God of Conquest," can conquer any girl's heart—in dating sim games, at least. In reality, he opts for the two-dimensional world of gaming over real life because he is an unhealthily obsessed otaku of galge games (a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls).

When he arrogantly accepts an anonymous offer to prove his supremacy at dating sim games, Keima is misled into aiding a naive and impish demon from hell named Elucia "Elsie" de Lute Ima with her mission: retrieving runaway evil spirits who have escaped from hell and scattered themselves throughout the human world. Keima discovers that the only way to capture these spirits is to conquer what he hates the most: the unpredictable hearts of three-dimensional girls! Shackled to Elsie via a deadly collar, Keima now has his title of "God of Conquest" put to the ultimate test as he is forced to navigate through the hearts of a multitude of real-life girls.

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There was a limited viewing on September 25, 2010. The regular TV broadcasts started on October 7, 2010.

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Adaptation:	Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai
Prequel:	Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0
Sequel:	Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai II
Other:	Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Nonstop!! Hunters, Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai PV
Spin-off:	Magical☆Star Kanon 100%

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Characters & Voice Actors

Katsuragi, Keima

Main

Shimono, Hiro
Japanese

de Lute Ima, Elucia

Main

Itou, Kanae
Japanese

Kosaka, Chihiro

Supporting

Asumi, Kana
Japanese

Shiomiya, Shiori

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Nakagawa, Kanon

Supporting

Touyama, Nao
Japanese

Takahara, Ayumi

Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana
Japanese

Nikaidou, Yuri

Supporting

Tanaka, Atsuko
Japanese

Katsuragi, Mari

Supporting

Yuzuki, Ryouka
Japanese

Aoyama, Mio

Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Asuka, Sora

Supporting

Sakurai, Tomo
Japanese

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Matsuda, Akio

Producer

Kouchiyama, Takashi

Producer

Takayanagi, Shigehito

Director, Storyboard

Iwanami, Yoshikazu

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

"God only knows Daisanmaku (God only knows 第三幕)" by Oratorio The World God Only Knows

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Ending Theme

	1: "Koi no Shirushi (コイノシルシ) feat. Ayumi Takahara" by Kami no Mizo Shiri-tai featuring Ayana Taketatsu (eps 1-2)
	2: "Koi no Shirushi (コイノシルシ) feat. Mio Aoyama" by Kami no Mizo Shiri-tai featuring Aoi Yuuki (eps 3, 5-6)
	3: "Tatta Ichido no Kiseki (たった一度の奇跡)" by Tomo Sakurai (eps 4)
	4: "Happy Crescent (ハッピークレセント)" by Nao Toyama (eps 7)
	5: "Koi no Shirushi from Elsie (コイノシルシ from Elsie)" by Kanae Itou (eps 8)
	6: "Koi no Shirushi (コイノシルシ) feat. Kanon Nakagawa" by Kami no Mizo Shiri-tai featuring Nao Toyama (eps 9-10)
	7: "Koi no Shirushi (コイノシルシ) feat. Shiori Shiomiya" by Kami no Mizo Shiri-tai featuring Kana Hanazawa (eps 11)
	8: "Shuuseki Kairo no Yume Tabibito (集積回路の夢旅人)" by Hiro Shimono with Oratorio The World God Only Knows (eps 12)

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Mar 20, 2024

DOOMGuYMi5js

Recommended

Oh my god.The best harem anime with best mc who is literal God with handling women. No cuck mc but chad guy who loves 2d women🗿but God had other plans for him.
You will be sad for him because a chad had to do most humiliate things to save his own life.
No shitty as blushing or lovey dovey shit. The girls as preety ass though except the idol one(best portrayal of women as they are only thankful to the guy's the love Or have crush on and ignores the guy who is not).

Best harem anime with actual logic and oh my go I who ...

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May 2, 2023

asschewer

Mixed Feelings

Do you know what hides behind those anime avatars? Narcissism. Such is the condition of many otaku. Our hero is a bona fide galge expert, to the exclusion of anything except his newfound demon friend he doesn't care about.

The hero spends his days slamming the buttons of a handheld called a PFP, styled after the PSP Go N1000, a system not known for eroge outside of the homebrew scene. That means our boy probably plays galge without even the enticement of anime tiddy.

When I was in high school, I played Doukyuusei 2 on ZSNES. I played dating sims without the tiddy. I was a narcissist. ...

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Sep 21, 2022

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

Recommendation: An interesting premise goes to waste. You can safely skip it even if it looks intriguing to you on paper.

What a disappointment. Stripped to the essentials, the plot seems promising. A gamer that can beat any dating sim has to use his skills to make women fall for him IRL. All I can say about that is that the plot really does not exist. Each main girl is conquered in sequence over the course of 2 episodes and is then never seen again in the story, with no continuity between any of the sections. It reminds me of a bad VN adaptation from the ... early 00s, where they would adapt one route over the course of 2-3 episodes and then simply move on to the next route without explanation, even if it retconned events from the previous route. It makes the whole thing feel... weightless I guess. Like things are happening but there's no point to any of it, because once a girl is conquered, her part in the story is over and you'll never see her again.

This could be forgiven if it instead tracked the personal growth of Keima, the main character, over the course of these different relationships, but it emphatically does not. The Keima you see in episode 1 is identical to the Keima in the season finale. If anything, he may be even more pathetic. But rather than use the setup of the story to teach Keima that real relationships don't work like dating sim routes, it simply validates his every opinion and impression. In the world of TWGOK, real life is exactly like a video game and real girls will fall in love with you if you say the right line at the right time just like in a dating sim. It's a depressingly cynical vision of humanity and romance that views women as automatons programmed to respond to certain lines if certain conditions are met. You can be an arrogant prick with no friends like Keima and spend all your time gaming and being an asshole and still get the girl if you know the right cheat code to unlock her heart like in your favorite video games. If Keima were pathetic and the series acknowledged that, I think it would be fine, but the story itself instead portrays his worldview as largely correct, which makes it hard to enjoy.

And again, I think this would have all still been salvageable if it were at least fun or had good characters. However, Keima is an unlikeable bore and the 4 girls he conquers are all eminently forgettable. His attempts at romancing the girls are cliched by design, but in a different story, that could be interesting, if he had failed by doing that and needed to grapple with the difference between video game girls and real girls. Alas, as mentioned above, that doesn't happen a single time, the dating sim pickup lines are always 100% effective,. Elsie, Keima's demon sidekick, is one of the few positive things I can say about the series. She's cute and provides most of the few laughs, but isn't enough to make it watchable on her own.

The one other positive thing I can say is that the animation is quite good when they decide to flex. It looks very nice, especially given that its more than 10 years old as I write this, and has strong character design overall. Still though, that's just a fancy coat of paint over a rotten foundation and isn't capable of making up for the huge deficiencies in writing and pacing that make TWGOK an easy decision to skip.

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