Kamisama ni Natta Hi

Dressed in a conspicuous outfit and armed with an eccentric spirit, Hina Satou goes around insisting that she is the Asgardian god "Odin." When she crosses paths with a boy named Youta Narukami, she uses her precognition abilities to warn him about an impending catastrophe threatening the end of the world. But being a teenager preoccupied with his problems, Youta finds it hard to believe such a preposterous claim.

Somehow forced to tag along with her antics, he witnesses the effectiveness of Hina's skills with his own eyes and realizes that she truly is capable of divination. Nevertheless, despite her persistence in being a god, Hina is still a child who desires to see and experience the wonders life has to offer. With the world ending in 30 days, Hina, Youta, and their friends venture forward to create lasting memories they will cherish forever.

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Narukami, Youta Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Satou, Hina Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Izanami, Kyouko Supporting

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

Narukami, Sora Supporting

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Suzuki, Hiroto Supporting

Shigematsu, Chiharu Japanese

Jinguuji, Hikari Supporting

Terui, Haruka Japanese

Kokuhou, Ashura Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Tengan, Kako Supporting

Shimamura, Yuu Japanese

Narukami, Daichi Supporting

Shingaki, Tarusuke Japanese

Narukami, Tokiko Supporting

Yuzuki, Ryouka Japanese

Toba, Yousuke Producer

Yamamoto, Akira Producer

Asai, Yoshiyuki Director

Iida, Satoki Sound Director

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Nov 29, 2024

devilnextme

Recommended

A beautifully emotional series that mixes comedy with deep, thought-provoking themes about life, fate, and love. It starts off with an eccentric twist Hina, a self-proclaimed god, tells the protagonist, Youto, that the world is going to end in 30 days. At first, it feels like a quirky, lighthearted show, with Hina’s godly antics and predictions providing plenty of humor and charm. But as the story unfolds, it reveals its deeper emotional layers.
What I really loved about the show was how it transformed from a fun, supernatural premise into a story that really hits home. Hina, despite her confidence in knowing everything about the world, ... is more than just a playful character she’s also deeply vulnerable and carries the weight of the knowledge that everything is about to end. Watching her relationship with Youto grow from playful banter to something much more meaningful really pulls at the heartstrings.
The animation, typical of Key studios, is soft and colorful, but it’s during the more emotional moments where it truly shines. The music also complements the mood perfectly, shifting from light and carefree to somber and reflective as the story progresses.
The series builds to an incredibly emotional ending, one that’s bittersweet and beautifully crafted. It’s the kind of show that makes you reflect on your own life and the people you care about. Kamisama ni Natta Hi is a journey full of laughs, tears, and powerful moments. If you enjoy stories that mix lightheartedness with deep emotion and want a show that will stay with you long after it ends, this one is a must watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 24, 2024

KaptainKoolaid

Mixed Feelings

Top part is a normal review, bottom part is about Jun Maeda & me ranting about what went wrong

Overall the series has a good concept, but fails at the execution. I can really only recommend it as something you should try, but can't encourage you to finish it.

It starts off strong, the idea of a omnipotent god warning a group of kids about the end of the world, then just plays with them is goofy. However, as the story progresses it starts to derail. It looses sight of the message it wanted to convey, weird plot devices start that could have been used differently, ... and towards the end it completely destroys the MC's decision making process. With all the copium in my body I could go back and find some better explanations for what happened, but I think the series was an disappointment.

Jun Maeda & rant

I can't help but feel disappointed with this addition to Jun's portfolio. If you don't know who Jun is, he made the story for both Charlotte and Angel Beats, and he worked on a bunch of the other Key stuff. Angel Beats had one hiccup, but is amazing. Charlotte rushed the plot, but had an amazing concept and characters that I enjoy a lot. If you finish Kamisama, go watch both of those shows and anything else made by Key.

Dude took the food out while it was still cooking. If this is supposed to be a time of precious memories, why is the daughter and father plot a part of it. The hacker just felt weird and did not need that much development or side plot. In the second half the MC's decisions made me mad as he acted like a complete buffoon. Not only did he do stuff that obviously was not working or made him look like a clown, but it also feels unnatural the way he reacted when he saw her again. Kamisama as a concept makes me sad, but the execution made me bored and upset.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 13, 2024

ggultra2764

Not Recommended

The name Jun Maeda might ring a bell to fans of anime adaptations of visual novels from Key that were popular in the 2000s and early 2010s like Kanon, Air, and Clannad with his involvement in their writing. These titles were well known for having light comedy mixed in with heavy drama, romance, and fantasy elements that pushed things rather heavily with suspension of disbelief. Unfortunately, pushing out the same type of storytelling formula with all your works can lead to audiences tiring of someone’s creative works over time. Such is the case with Maeda’s most recent anime made, The Day I Became a God, ... focused on high school student Yota Narukami meeting a strange girl in nun attire named Hina who claims that the world will end in 30 days and promises to help Yota with his affairs in the time they have left.

Roughly the first eight episodes of The Day I Became a God focus on Hina aiding Yota and several of his friends in helping them out with their various problems. She shows a superhuman level of predictive abilities that help aid the characters with resolving whatever personal issues they are facing. This storytelling focus has its equal parts of the light comedy and emotional drama you can typically expect out of Maeda’s works. However, the biggest issue with this angle to the series is that much of this focus on Yota’s classmates feels irrelevant in the grand scheme of things as their developments feel a bit rushed, they largely remain the same characters once their dilemmas get resolved, and they get pushed back into the background once their story is over. All this feels largely done to show off how impressive Hina’s abilities are, pad out the TV anime’s runtime, and reminds me of the issues that the anime adaptation of Air had back in 2005 with its focus on Kano and Minagi’s story arcs.

The side story of the series involving a mysterious organization investigating someone related to Hina serves as the actual focus to the series, though even this is ripe with a number of issues. This angle to the series implements the fantasy elements of Became a God, but more into the sci-fi realm as said organization relies on the hacking abilities of a young man with superhuman calculative abilities to aid them in their goals, serves to eventually reveal the source of Hina’s superhuman predictive abilities, and lead into the more serious developments of its final four episodes. This unfortunately creates a rather misleading direction for the show’s story as a whole with the direction its drama goes and does a rather sloppy and unconvincing job of developing a romance direction that early episodes never hinted to or smoothly developed. It also dabbles into some complicated themes like government corruption and the ethics of technological advances and uses, yet Maeda never bothers to dabble further into these themes as he’s more fixated on the unconvincing romance he sloppily put together at this point of the series.

But perhaps the one element to the series that made me personally disgusted with the final few episodes of Became a God was its handling of medical treatment for the disabled. Limiting spoilers, one major character gets heavily disabled enough to the point where they get admitted to a medical facility for treatment of their disorder and require regular support from nursing staff to maintain their everyday functions. My issue isn’t so much with the nursing staff in question as the series believably depicts the delicate handling of treatment for the character in question, the nursing staff genuinely caring for the character’s well-being, and how anything outside the scope of regular care they are receiving can be a negative risk to their physical and mental condition. My issue with this angle to the series is that because of Maeda’s storytelling approach, he tries to manipulate the audience into thinking the “power of love” can overcome whatever issues this character is experiencing while ignorant of the various accommodations, amount of therapy time, and necessary needs that would have to be in place for the living environment of said character to be able to live comfortably outside of a medical facility. Having experienced developmental and physical disabilities personally growing up, I’m aware of the struggles both personally and within society that occur when going through the effort to go through therapy in improving both my physical condition and my ability to properly interact with others. The fact Maeda thinks he can just gloss over this harsh angle to reality to create his idealized romance personally ticked me off and made my viewing of Became a God’s final few episodes a struggle to get through.

In short, The Day I Became a God greatly exposes the issues with the storytelling approach from Jun Maeda with having a good deal of storytelling issues, pushing suspension of disbelief too heavily, a good chunk of its story from its first half largely feeling pointless and feeling like filler, misleading audiences with its haphazard change in story direction, the sloppy romance it tries pushing for, and glossing over some serious themes to focus more on said sloppy romance. While I would typically rate this as a weak series and just move on from there, Maeda’s handling of treatment for the disabled in pushing for his romance angle personally ticked me off enough as such where I’m actually rather disgusted with this series and this now ranks among my all-time worst anime as a result.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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