It has been a remarkable ride following this series for so long, and looking back at how The World God Only Knows has impacted the anime community, it’s not far off to say that it changed harem anime as we know it. It shows that you don’t need to show girls in suggestive situations all the time to provoke entertainment or emotion into your harem. Sometimes all you need is genuine emotion and intelligent comedic writing to create a meaningful love story. Or, in this case, multiple love stories.
The story has focused on the Goddess Arc, which fans have criticized because it skipped a large
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portion of the manga to get to this point. This brings up the fact that judging a show based on the source material should always be said: Always consider an anime based on its own merits rather than how well it follows the source material. What’s more important is how it keeps telling the story in a concise and detailed matter that is true to the spirit of the manga rather than how specific scenes follow the manga well. In Megami-hen’s case, the pacing and how they develop the story, while not necessarily perfect in some areas, complement each other exceptionally well in terms of emotion and clarity. While it does jump around in certain areas a little too fast, especially in the later episodes, it doesn’t deter the show from having an emotional impact whenever it is on-screen.
With each passing season, the art and animation are spectacular. Tamaki Wakaki has a creative eye when he draws his manga. His drawings come to life in animation and are both a perfect representation of them and an adorable treat to watch with great easy-on-the-eye art. The characters look lovely with the colorful backgrounds that complement each other with high excellence and creativity in a limited scope of the Moe and Slice of Life genre.
I’ve always admired The World God Only Knows. The manga and anime versions are how they can pack in so much depth and development into every character that you come across in just a short amount of time. In this season, the characters are now fully developed after two seasons, and none of them have lost their charming personalities. Keima is still the cynical but often hilarious protagonist that we’ve all grown to love and kind of hate at the same time. His sense of courage and intelligence make for an enticing protagonist and a larger-than-life character in general. At this point in the story, we finally see a bit of humanity in his role. It is portrayed with immaculate maturity and pure excellence, making Keima a three-dimensional character rather than this one-sided gamer otaku that he is often depicted.
The girls, once again, are as cute and charming as ever. Now that Elsie has replaced Kanon for Keima to find the other Goddesses in the girls he’s conquered, Haqua is now Keima’s buddy, and man, do these two make for such a hilarious duo of detective and partner. The only slight problem with this is that they don’t go far enough to show that Haqua and Keima’s relationship develops further through these conquests. Despite this, they add a lot of chemistry between our two main leads regardless of the amount of screen time.
As for the rest of the cast, not all girls return from previous seasons. Only a select few can have the honor of getting the most out of the story. For what it is, the girls and the comedy that they bring to the table can still be quite enjoyable to anyone who appreciates excellent parody in their spare time. One, in particular, is Shiori, who is trying to write a story of her own that she got inspired by her conquest by Keima. What results is them bickering by writing together to create a funny parody of how people tend to criticize how people typically write a story in context with the show.
We turn to the girl who has the most significant presence in the season: Chihiro. Her personal development with Keima couldn’t be more heartwarming than any anime character relationship story in recent years. Heartbreaking and sentimental as it might be, there is still this aura within Keima that completely changes him and morphs him into a new way that we’ve never seen before. It is times like this that make The World God Only Knows a very excellent harem show. It treats the subject matter in a parodied manner, but at the same time, it can emote these heartwarming scenes that work from not only a writing standpoint but also a pacing one.
Music in The World God Only Knows always tread in J-Pop's territory, with Kanon’s songs in Season one and other character songs in the past. The pieces in Season 3 are just as good as previous seasons, even though they don’t necessarily step on any new ground in terms of instrumentation. This opening is oddly enough sung in English by Saori Hayami, who does it very well! Her pronunciation of the English language is spot on without many awkward attempts at sounding both Japanese and English or Engrish as it is often called in slang terms. Unfortunately, I felt the ED was mostly forgettable after repeated listening. All singers do their jobs well, but other than the voices, I found myself often skipping them most of the time.
As for voice acting, which is often the bright spot in the series, the seiyuus all do a fantastic job in their roles. Hiro Shimono is as charismatic as Keima. The always beautiful Saori Hayami does a tremendous performance as Haqua, and a surprise performance by Kana Asumi as Chihiro, who wholly owns her role through the latter half of the show. Though it could’ve shown more of Kanae Itou as Elsie, you want more of her sexy voice on-screen when you have her on a show.
There will undoubtedly be a lot of debate with this season in particular. Whether you agree that watching the show and criticizing it for not following certain things correctly in the source material is a valid reason for not liking it or not, you have to set aside that in the back door and appreciate the show on its own merits. All the seasons were building upon this, and the result was worth the wait. There are moments in the anime that will make you remember specific moments for years to come, whether it was something that made you laugh with exquisite delight or cry with overall genuine emotion. For me, this one line in the show is the one that will stick with me for years after watching it: “You don’t need a reason to fall in love.” Words of wisdom by Chihiro.
Grade: A
Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai III, Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai 3, Kaminomi III, Kaminomi 3, The World God Only Knows III, The World God Only Knows 3
Japanese: 神のみぞ知るセカイ 女神篇
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TV
Episodes:
12
Status:
Finished Airing
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Jul 9, 2013 to Sep 24, 2013
Premiered:
Summer 2013
Broadcast:
Tuesdays at 01:35 (JST)
Licensors:
Sentai Filmworks
Studios:
Manglobe
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Manga
Demographic:
Shounen
Duration:
24 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Your Feelings Categories Sep 30, 2013
It has been a remarkable ride following this series for so long, and looking back at how The World God Only Knows has impacted the anime community, it’s not far off to say that it changed harem anime as we know it. It shows that you don’t need to show girls in suggestive situations all the time to provoke entertainment or emotion into your harem. Sometimes all you need is genuine emotion and intelligent comedic writing to create a meaningful love story. Or, in this case, multiple love stories.
The story has focused on the Goddess Arc, which fans have criticized because it skipped a large ... Sep 23, 2013
In most harem series, we generally have the guy who seems to be oblivious to certain factors. These usually include girls who are desperate to get the guy's attention with intense rivalries, jealousy, and sometimes even includes violence. But what if that role was sort of reversed? What if the guy in a series is actually seeking the girls themselves? What if it becomes a certain type of game where the guy is the player and the girls play the roles of the conquests? Well, if there's one thing that's for sure...The World God Only Knows is one of those series where it takes the
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Nov 10, 2013
When was the last time you saw a sequel to an anime and thought to yourself, "this was say better than the previous seasons." Rarely. Am I correct? Well with the third instalment of to Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai franchise, I can promise you that this instalment surpasses the previous two.
The story of this season continues in a similar fashion to the other two, however in this season Keima has to reconquer his former heroines from the past. Unlike the other two seasons, by the end of this anime we get to see hints that Keima will develop a lot as a character, but ... Sep 23, 2013
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-hen. (Long titles FTW). As the third installment of this series, many fans who haven't read the manga should probably be expecting what is to be expected of this series. This review is literally after I finished the series.
Story: For those of you who haven't seen or heard of this series, the world god only knows is the story of a gamer who is forced to make girls fall in love with him in order to capture loose souls, forcing them out of the girls' hearts in order to be captured. However, the story of this ... Sep 23, 2013
The World God Only Knows is well known for its different take on the harem genre. The main character, Keima, is out to make girls fall in love with him at first to save his own head, but later for more important reasons. It contrasted greatly with the common stereotypical harem series that had an oblivious main character with girls that were head-over-heels in love with him. However, the Goddess Arc, for which this third season is based off of, is the story arc that propelled this series from something fresh and interesting to something that really became something special. While this anime adaptation has
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Sep 23, 2013
THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
The World God Only knows, or KamiNomi for short, a series that has been so successful that it has achieved its third season with the subtitle ''Goddess Arc''. An arc featuring a little of complexity and little change in the routine we thought up of Keima. Making a transition of a romantic comedy harem into a really deep drama romantic anime. So let's see what it has to offer. STORY -9- The story continues after the OVAs of Tenri were finished. At first it was believed that the story will continue with the conquest of another girls but that is not ... Sep 24, 2013
The first time I heard KamiNomi get third season I'm getting excited. After the luckluster sell from previous two season I'm worried that it won't get any anime. But my excitement fall quickly when they anounce that this will cover Goddess Saga in one cour. This is going to be terrible, this is going to be bad, they going to get this butchered is what cross in my mind that time as a manga reader. But Manglobe prove me wrong and show me how they can cover 70+ chapter into one cour amazingly.
Story : 10 This is covering fan favorite part of the manga Goddess Saga. ... Dec 4, 2014
What an amazing ride KamiNomi has taken us through all 3 seasons, and by far season 3 was definitely the best! Sure no part of the plot really makes much sense - making girls fall in love to save the world from the demons? But aside from all that, this anime proves that the harem genre CAN go beyond just fanservice and lousy characters. It is the best harem anime I have seen in my entire life - and it is an absolute MUST WATCH for everyone - just because it's so special (and I'll elaborate why below).
"I can see the ending!" - Keima TL;DR Story: ... Oct 9, 2013
This is my second review.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KSS's first and second season has much more been a typical harem show and I wasn't expecting anything to change. However things did change and it shocked me ultimately to say the least. The plot started to develop and it was a pretty good one at that. While the first and second season has been more into how Keima deals with his 'conquests' at trying to make a girl fall in love with him to draw out the loose souls, this final season has given us a perfect and powerful ending to end the series entirely. The build up over the ... Oct 12, 2013
Story: I thought the story was a good sequel to the others. It had lots of fluffy and cute scenes and also pervy ones. It would've been a perfect story if it wasn't for the fact that Elsie was totally left out, and that just felt wrong for me, everytime I saw Elsie NOT being part of the story I felt guilty. It must be 'cause she was the one that started the story. Apart from that it was just perfectly surreal.
Art: As always it was bright and fantastic, there were some scenes were it looked better though... Sound: I fell freaking in love with the ... Jan 13, 2014
It has been a considerably entertaining few years as this anime was first introduced into the community, and once again The World only God Knows has changed our understanding of the Harem/Romance genre. Whilst the initial two seasons follows the manga closely and broadens our understanding between Keima's idealistic fantasy and his unavoidable destiny to conquer the "real-life" girls, season 3 would have been an absolute disaster if the continuation of his conquests was not supported with any actual "ending" (Keima's favourite word).
Thankfully, TV Tokyo decides to take the major risk into a timeskip between seasons 2 and 3, and while it may have confused ... Sep 24, 2013
Doro,doro,doro,doro,doro,doro,doro...OOOOOH a loose soul is running around, kidding, Bueno no more running around and I'm just gonna present each of my ratings for this third sequel of "Kaminomi" :
Oh and btw, though I may have read the manga, I haven't read all of it yet in fact while writing this review I'm still on Chapter 2, so my review is only for this anime's third sequel. Story, character, enjoyment- good 7. Story: Though, it still follows the same genre, it is the introduction of new set of characters, a switch of the secondary main character and a new mission for the main character where ... Jun 21, 2015
An average anime that looks like a work of art.
Routes games and kisses? Perfect! The construction of characters, especially Keima, is really amazing. An anti-social character, he becomes a god to the characters around him. Each episode depicts how evolution character happens at different times. The fights may be through tedious, but forget the struggles with the beautiful music backgrounds. Musical backgrounds? We should call the work of musical arts. The Oratorio of The World God Only Knows leaves his very gentle soul. ... Apr 26, 2022
Actually 5 years ago I finished watching 3 seasons, but I still want to give a review for this series.
I started to miss harem anime like this, because I feel after 2020, harem anime has lost its quality. weightless story, unclear story objectives, poor character development, lack of character motivation, in the end just a place to add to a colorful waifu collection. If you are new to watching anime, especially the harem genre, you have to look back, especially the ones that were released before 2015. I don't want to lie, "The World God Only Knows" is one of the quality harem anime. That number doesn't ... Oct 31, 2013
The capturing god returns in Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai : Megami-hen. This anime, without fail, manages to improve with each new release by carefully developing the parts that were lagging in previous seasons as well as sprinkling some new content on top of an already near-perfect plot. Megami-hen, so far, is the pinnacle of this anime's success.
Keima returns in this season to continue his conquest of lose souls that reside within girl's hearts but due to suddenly changing circumstances his pursuit changes from aforementioned loose souls to goddesses, advancing this anime's already divine tone. As far as plot progression goes, Tenri-hen goes ballistic. ... Jul 12, 2014
Story: 6
The story was a lot more confusing than the first and second seasons because although it was loyal to the manga, that meant it had to skip a lot of chapters and that means we have a lot of random things suddenly appearing, confusing the viewers. Even though the Tenri Arc ended up being an OVA, the stories of the other goddesses were basically a few seconds, and that was only the kiss scenes. The last few episodes centered around Ayumi and Chihiro were better. It was well developed and a little heart-breaking when Chihiro was very much manipulated. Unlike the other ones, it had ... Sep 26, 2013
In an age where Genre,Premise and Tropes define anime.TWGOK shows that great original storytelling could still exist.
TWGOK could have been a mindless moe anime.It could have been one of those otakuism stories like Welcome to the NHK or Watamote to appeal to otaku relatability.It could have been "Dark and Edgey" for the sake of appealing to a superficial undestanding of maturity. Anime these days have become this giant pandering fest,instead of doing what an anime i feel ought to be doing,drawing people in with their own stories. TWGOK was an anime that did not follow trends,what started as a deconstruction of the harem genre with a theme ... Sep 24, 2013
I feel the Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-hen aka The World God only Knows (TWGOK) really needs two separate reviews. One for people who have already seen at least part of the previous seasons and one for someone who has never seen any.
If you've never seen TWGOK, your missing out. Have you ever been watching an anime where you were thinking "just kiss her dammit!" Have you ever just wanted to reach into the screen and shove the two awkward love birds together? Well, this show is quite satisfying on that level. In fact, if anything, there might just ... Apr 12, 2015
Review for Kami Tomi 3
============================================= I have already posted a review for the first and second season, if you are reading this you are probably wondering if you want to continue this series or not. First of all I would recommending watching the following OVA's in order: Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: 4-nin to Idol Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Tenri-hen Magical☆Star Kanon 100% To prepare you for Season 3, I hope you find my review helpful ============================================= ... Nov 1, 2015
First and foremost, this anime is a lot of fun. I actually decided to watch it because I am a big fan of Hayami Saori (seiyuu) and so after listening to one of her songs from this series, I decided to give it a shot. As a side note, her co main from Teen Romantic Comedy (Touyama Nao) is also in this series. Anyway from that basis I came to the series with no idea what to expect having not read the manga either.
To summarise the story, The World God Only Knows (TWGOK) is a series about a gamer who excels at dating sims. He ... |