Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai

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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Katsuragi, Keima Main

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

de Lute Ima, Elucia Main

Itou, Kanae Japanese

du Lot Herminium, Haqua Supporting

Hayami, Saori 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

Matsuda, Akio Producer

Kouchiyama, Takashi Producer

Takayanagi, Shigehito Director, Storyboard

Iwanami, Yoshikazu Sound Director

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Apr 3, 2025

ggol

Recommended

Brief overview: MUST-WATCH
It's about retrieving souls that have escaped from hell. Each of those souls has now possessed a girl's body therefore to capture that soul the protagonist needs to make those girls fall for him and kiss them at the same time to draw the soul out.

This review will be based on the whole series.
10/10 for the whole series.

Introduction
Keima is a high school student who has loved visual novel dating games his whole life. He is an introvert and never likes making friends however his obsession with visual novel dating games has gone to another level where he will even play those ... games during class time. One day he received a mysterious message from his game console where he asked if he could make all sorts of girls fall for him. He then carelessly accepts the request. Believing this to be some sort of taunt and not realizing that he made a serious contract with hell to obtain souls that have escaped hell and is forced to retrieve them along with Elucia to help in order not to have his neck snapped by the seal that has placed on his neck.

Story 10/10
The first two seasons are a straightforward narrative that is all about Keima trying to capture the souls of each individual girl who has been possessed by them. To drive those souls out he needs to make those girls fall for him and kiss them at the same time. Towards the last season, the narrative has completely changed direction where it is no longer trying to save those girls but saving the goddess to prevent them from getting taken by an evil organization. This is still a light-hearted, comedic, and romantic focus style of anime where it is heavily focused on dating strategy because each girl has different likes, personalities, and conditions therefore each approach needs to be different. However, towards the last season, the style changed its direction to more of an action-adventure style, with deeper lore towards the story and surprisingly emotional moments. There is one crucial part that slightly ruins the series at the end because at the beginning of the new season when they introduced the new characters. Most of the character content is skipped and rushed with its pacing.

Characters 9/10
The characters are great, especially the main protagonist who is not a cliche type of character. He is an introvert and hates socializing, but at the same time, he is extremely smart and generous at the time if someone is in serious trouble. Whenever he needs to approach a girl on a date he always needs to change his personality to adapt to that girl's liking so for the most you see an introvert who loves playing dating games and at sometimes he will change his personality to adapt. Toward the end of his approach to the possessed girl, he always points out their problems and tries to give an example that they need to change because if they don't change anytime soon they will have regret in the later part of their life. So is not just retrieving souls, but at the same time saving them from going in the wrong direction. Other characters like Haqua and Elucia are great as well. They demonstrate that no one in this world is perfect, even though if one has an exceptional talent that doesn't mean they will do perfectly in their job, and the other one that has no talent also doesn't mean that they will do terribly in their job. This shows a great example that you can't judge a book by its cover. A minor problem with the supporting characters that are the possessed girls. Most of them only serve their purpose until their wish has been fulfilled and towards the later story most of them only serve as cameo only. So it's quite a letdown because you only see them when it comes to their story and when their story is over you never really see them again toward the later bit, but as a cameo only.

Animation 8/10
The animation is great there aren't any flaws to it however it does look a little generic at times. However, it is still really good as they draw a lot of comedic drawings to fit the style of the anime.

TLDR
This is one of my favourite anime of all time and I can easily recommend this to those who are seeking a comedic, romantic, and story with so much deep meaning behind it. The story is about Keima trying to retrieve that escaped soul from hell. Those souls all possessed different girls so he needs to adopt different personalities to make them fall for him. The characters are great as it shows that you can't judge a book by its cover and no one is perfect in this world while the animation can look a little generic but it serves its purpose within the series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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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. ... If I were a true connoisseur, I surely would have explored the genre's vast benippled history, from the landmark PC-98 games of Alice Soft to the early modern classics of Clockup, and maybe some Illusion titles. Instead I played what was easiest to get a copy of, and that laziness is held against otaku kind as if everything they do in life is half-assed.

Despite the hero's apparent laziness, he seems to be the world's foremost expert on all-ages moe galge (the only flavor of galge we see him playing). In that respect, the hero seems unprepared for the psychological inferno of real girls, yet somehow his interactions with them are on point. Are the girls in his life just that shallow? Is he just that shallow? Is the show just that shallow?

For the most part, the tone is pure satire. The last couple of episodes assume a more serious tone, and at that point it becomes clear that the animators would rather be working on something like Evangelion than a Dokuro-chan successor. The protagonist's total apathy and lack of depth make him unrelatable, and that's fine for a certain kind of anime. It's not bad, it just doesn't stand out either.

After watching all 12 episodes, my only question is: "Why is there more?" Why make more of this nonchalant, apathetic, inoffensive, and sometimes boring anime that tells the same couple of jokes repeatedly? I don't feel anything. It's good, but it's sexless and repetitive and ultimately not quite my thing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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