Kamigami no Asobi

At last, this anime has finished airing (although I am pretty sure specials will be on their way). I will not include any spoilers, just cause not even the barely-decent stuff is worth mentioning.

Ever since this anime was green-lit, I was really excited to watch it. The original game comes from Broccoli, who also made Uta no Prince--and I loved the anime for that game, albeit the second season got pretty ridiculous. I love otome games in general, so I was psyched to watch another anime based on a game. But now that the anime is over, I feel extremely disappointed and that I've wasted ... 12 weeks watching this.

Story: Now, the story seems decent. However, since this is a reverse harem show, obviously the anime will have little stories in it dedicated to individual gods and their respective relationship development with Yui. These stories are quite boring, and sometimes goes past the point of ridiculousness in a bad way.

Art: Possibly the only topic I can give higher than a 4 on. It's pretty, although not so pretty that I can constantly admire.

Sound: Not memorable. Not even the opening and ending songs are good.

Character: Oh God, these characters are terrible. All the gods are pigeonholed so much that I was always extremely annoyed with them. Example: Dionysus, who ONLY talks and thinks wine. Yes, I know he is the Greek god of wine, but a good character should develop or at least not repeat the same crap every. single. episode. Dionysus was also just a background character, and so nobody bothered with him--which I annoyed me so much, because I wanted a reason why this character is there if the studio bothered to draw and animate him. All other gods do this to some degree, and never really develop--even with what happens at the end. Yui is pretty much the only decent character there, because she discovers what these gods are going through and is not a--relatively speaking--wooden character that is bland and boring. But the flaws of all the other characters overshadow her, not letting her stand out.

Enjoyment: With poor characters, fair art, and terrible stories, I felt like I was trudging through quicksand when I decided to continue with this anime, since I wanted to finish what I started. Nothing exciting happens really.

Overall: I tell everyone to steer clear of this anime, even those who are fans of otome games and the reverse harem genre. This show isn't even laughably bad. I am severely disappointed, and annoyed that I have wasted my time with this anime.

When I first read the synopsis I thought, oh cool, this sounds like something interesting, and I thought of the possibilities such a concept could have. So going into the anime I was pretty excited. After watching the anime I feel as if I wasted my time, when I could have been watching a far better show. Here I'll go into my reasoning:


Story(2):
The show doesn't have much of a plot, it is basically the female protagonist getting to know all the characters (which makes sense because it is based on a otome game), which, for me, was pretty boring to watch. In addition, the ... anime gradually leads up to a main conflict/climax, but it is unknown what this climax is until the end, when they introduce it, resolve it, and wrap up the anime in about 2 episodes. It simply felt pointless, and the entire "plot" was a big disappointment.

Characters(4):
The characters themselves were pretty simple, though the anime did try to give some of them backgrounds, but many characters were left flat and two dimensional. This includes the protagonist, who had no backstory, and whom I found to be annoying, especially as her character seemed to react the same way to everything.

Art(6):
As far as the art and animation go, it wasn't the best I've ever seen but it certainly wasn't bad. It was pretty basic, and I actually enjoyed some of the character designs.

Enjoyment(4):
Now I didn't really enjoy this anime and despite all that I have already said there were a select few parts of the anime I enjoyed. The first being the humor. Now this anime is, of course, not a comedy, however, there was some humor that I enjoyed (particularly episode 10). I also enjoyed Apollon's and Thoth's nicknames for the various characters.

*Sound(4): In case you were wondering about the sound of the anime, there isn't much for me to say except it was fairly bland, nothing special, but also nothing terrible.

I dont know if this is just my opinion, but I found it to be very boring. The plot was weak and I felt like a lot of stuff either didn't make sense or were just over the top and unrealistic. The protagonist had a very plain personality, and the other characters felt one dimensional and uninteresting. i was forcing myself to watch the anime from episode one hoping it would get better, but gave up because I found it impossible to enjoy myself. I dont really recommend this anime to anyone unless they dont mind a dead plot with hot gods as love interests.

For everyone who forgets to check the tags before watching an Anime, I remind you that this is a reverse harem.
Only girls that like to fantasize about feminine men hitting on them would watch this anime... I respect it, but this is so average, I've seen a lot of animes with lots of content trying so hard to make a good show with lower rating, it doesn't make sense!
Can't believe nobody really talks about what this show really is about... This anime doesn't even have a story, the beginning is fast and then gets super SLOW...
Each episode is about one of these unrealistic dudes ... hitting on the girl or talking to her aggressively and there is like 8 dudes and 12 episodes, nothing really happens here... Time never comes back.