Kamisama ni Natta Hi (The Day I Became a God)

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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Kamisama ni Natta hi is the third original anime written by Jun Maeda after Angel Beats in 2010 and Charlotte in 2015. Moreover, Yoshiyuki Asai, the director for Charlotte returns as this series' director.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Narukami, Youta

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Hanae, Natsuki
Japanese

Satou, Hina

Main

Sakura, Ayane
Japanese

Takajou, Joujirou

Supporting

Mizushima, Daichuu
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

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Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Tengan, Kako

Supporting

Shimamura, Yuu
Japanese

Narukami, Daichi

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Shingaki, Tarusuke
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Toba, Yousuke

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Yamamoto, Akira

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Asai, Yoshiyuki

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Iida, Satoki

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Opening Theme

"Kimi to Iu Shinwa (君という神話)" by Jun Maeda x Nagi Yanagi (eps 1-11)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Goodbye Seven Seas" by Jun Maeda x Nagi Yanagi (eps 1-4, 6-8,10-11)
	2: "Takaramono ni Natta Hi (宝物になった日)" by Jun Maeda x Nagi Yanagi (eps 5,12)
	3: "Natsunagi (夏凪ぎ)" by Jun Maeda x Nagi Yanagi (eps 9)

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Apr 4, 2023

Looping_Fox

Recommended

It was really a fun ride. watchers will really enjoy the first six to seven episodes. it is really engaging and entertaining.

However, after some time lapse the whole plot experiences a 180 degree flip.

But overall, it is a really nice show... don't know why many people criticized it. And the ending was really emotional . I found tears running down my eyes at one moment...not because OF sadness, but I was overjoyed and happy.

Also the animation was good.

The ending is really grt.

everyone should watch this anime. if you haven't watched it yet...watch it immediately... otherwise you are missing a masterpiece.

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Apr 10, 2023

Lolitroy

Mixed Feelings

MAL, of all things, was my first exposure to this anime. I had never heard of it before, and from browsing through the reviews here, I expected a trainwreck. Instead, all I got was another harmless, mediocre show. There's so many of those that have come and gone, that will continue to come and go, that it's weird to single this one out unless you know the context (which you almost certainly do if you're reading this) and how the author not only penned one of the highest rated anime on this site, molded the 'nakige' genre for visual novels and has since become (in)famous ... for writing stories with sad endings; he also hyped this up as 'the most depressing anime of all time'.

It wasn't, but it's really not THAT bad. I feel like this is more of a 'the higher you are, the harsher you fall' scenario. After a series of underwhelming shows that tried to capture the magic his early work had, I think this was what tipped people over the edge. The author seems to have tried time and time again to live up to his reputation while forgetting how he got there in the first place, which presumably wasn't to make 'the most depressing anime of all time', but simply to tell a good story.

'The Day I Became A God' features a main character who feels more like a tool than a person, a main girl coldly designed to be endearing and appealing, and side characters that exist because that's what stories do, yet might as well be decorations. Narukami Yota, the MC, is a vessel for jokes, and as such, his personality changes according to the situation. Not once did I get a grasp of what he's actually like when he's not yelling as a reaction gag or acting ridiculous because the main girl told him to. I've seen my fair share of blank slate protagonists and I'm numb to them at this point, but this is the first time where the MC is so devoid of anything that it caused deep existential dread. I really feel bad for him. He's no more than a pawn in Maeda's pursuit of his goal, and he deserves better.

As other reviewers have pointed out, Hina is the star of the show. She's designed to be this way (as pink-haired anime girls so often tend to be for some reason) and as such, she's the main source of comedy and the emotional core. Like Yota, however, she feels more like a tool than a character. I liked her, but I saw through her right since the beginning. I've watched more than ten animes in my life, and at least three have been Maeda creations. so I knew what would happen to he in concept. As such, it was hard to get invested or feel for her plight since it was so obvious. She, too, caused existential dread, though not for the reasons the story wanted me to.

Other side characters include the kuudere childhood friend, Best Friend(TM), the imouto, the haughty teen genius, you name it. You've seen these people before. You'll see them again. Strangely, they felt more human than the main characters. Yota's parents were lovely, for example. The episode that touched me the most featured said childhood friend reconnecting with a loving, yet distant father. Conversely, the haughty teen genius feels like someone stole the trope of a trope of a trope, and the Best Friend(TM) is, well... yeah. You don't even need me to tell you.

I don't think the length of the show is to blame here, for there's plenty of 12/13 episode anime that more than flesh out their characters. Again, I think it's the result of them being tools to make the audience cry rather than actual people, which is counterproductive if what you want is emotional attachment to them, but I digress.

As expected of the studio, the show looks beautiful, sounds beautiful. Character designs (aside frorm poor Yota) are pretty nice.

Plot-wise, given the genre, I didn't expect anything particularly thrilling, and even the more outrageous events had enough set up to feel natural within the context of the story. I liked the comedy more than I thought I would, though poor Yota's screaming got grating after a while. It's fine. It's an okay anime. Had the writer been anyone else and I don't really think it would've gotten as much flak as it did, not only from disappointed watchers, but from Maeda himself. He should've let these characters live. He should've let himself be an artist more than a name. In my opinion, it's not that he's a 'hack' or that the quality of his writing has gone downhill, but that he's too trapped inside what he thinks is his brand, and as such, this story feels like a product.

I think the ending is order of magnitudes better than the one in Charlotte, so there's that.

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Nov 22, 2023

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.

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