Koi no Kamisama

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Synonyms: Komi Naoshi Tanpenshuu, Island, Williams, Personant, Apple, Nisekoi Pilot, Nisekoi Prototype, Koi no Kami-sama

Japanese: 恋の神様古味直志短編集

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 6

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 2007 to Jan 8, 2011

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life

Theme: Super Power

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Komi, Naoshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.47¹ (scored by 10,411 users)

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Ranked: #3184²

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Popularity: #1027

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MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Komi, Naoshi (Story & Art)

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First collection of Komi Naoshi's short stories.

1. Island
2. Koi no Kamisama
3. Williams
4. Personant
5. Apple
6. Nisekoi (pilot)

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Aramiya, Satoshi

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Dunkus, Damore

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Marue

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Connie

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William

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Oly

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Aira

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Director Rui

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Kirisaki, Chitoge

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Ichijou, Raku

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Jan 20, 2009

Archaeon

Recommended

Preliminary (1/6 eps)

Mod Note: This review was initially posted for the one-shot, Koi no Kamisama, and was subsequently merged into Koi no Kamisama.

Many people will be familiar with Komi Naoshi, as his series [i]Double Arts[/i] has proven to be highly popular. However, the mangaka has received far more critical acclaim for his various one-shot manga, the most famous of which is [i]Island[/i]. That said, it should be noted that his other one-shots are also extremely good, especially as Komi is able to bring a certain... uniqueness, to his stories.

Koi no Kami-sama is a good example of this.

The story is about Tsuchibe Taichi, a boy who ...

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Feb 4, 2009

Beatnik

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Preliminary (1/6 eps)

Mod Note: This review was initially posted for the one-shot, Personant, and was subsequently merged into Koi no Kamisama.

Personant is like a manga written by Akito Takagi from another manga called Bakuman. It’s smart enough to stand out from shonen generics, yet simple-minded enough to appeal to a young demographic. In short, it has the makings of a successful manga.

The year is 3333 and we begin with the 100th anniversary of the personant system. Everyone’s wearing masks, which have this cool blending-into-face sequence that probably looks spiffy animated. The purpose of the masks is to eradicate discrimination, conflicts, differences in appearance ... and class, and was apparently essential in the building of a society of equality and peace.

A guy called Damore wants to rip that peace apart, a reporter gal gets roped along and a big bad guy gives chase. That’s it.

So as mentioned above, this manga is a manga of two halves. Stuck between shonen and seinen. Big ideas ripe for exploration, but quick and easy execution. Like a burger dressed up as a...as a cow. Or something. Anyway, you become aware of this juxtaposition when the author immediately starts putting sweat marks or stress veins in characters' faces, even though 90% of the people in this manga wear masks, and the author's entire point of the manga is meant to be how wearing these masks strips us of our individuality, yet ruins it from the get-go by giving these masks characteristics. Way to go buddy!

But it’s not something to moan much about, you have to be aware of the demographic the manga is aimed at. You just can’t have the manga be populated by stoic plain white masks with no facial reactions. The young readers would become restless quick. Well, that’s the reasoning of publishers and editors at least, who knows if that’s the case in reality.

The manga speeds along with no restraints, not bothered with the gigantic plot holes left in its wake, completely oblivious of the contrived coincidences and convenient plot devices. This is all just one gigantic shonen franchise condensed all into one chapter, like a greatest hits, or 101 Tips On How To Make A Shonen Manga.

Personant is a decent read if you're a shonen fan, as you've realised by now, but for shonen readers who also happen to be seinen lovers there is this slight hint of what could have been with this manga. There is this idea of an anarchist being the protagonist plunging the world into chaos which seems really cool, but in Personant everything's nice and simple, no edgy ideas at play, the good guy is good, the bad guy is bad, and what the good guy is trying to do is positive and not questioned at all in any way.

That is the difference between seinen and shonen at the end of the day, one author will ask questions, the other will just give answers.

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Apr 7, 2009

Pure-Lyfe

Recommended

Preliminary (1/6 eps)

Mod Note: This review was initially posted for the one-shot, Apple, and was subsequently merged into Koi no Kamisama.

Komi Naoshi does it again--deep, comical, and thought-provoking all in one VERY prettily drawn package.

Story: Unique and interesting--Earth creating an ultimate being? and that being's destiny is to save the Earth from disaster? AND THAT BEING IS AN OTHERWISE FAIRLY AVERAGE TEENAGE BOY?! Quite interesting if I do say so myself. It had the potential to be drawn out a few more chapters, maybe 5 at most, but still a nice read. The ending is quite funny, too.

Art: What can I say? I love his ...

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