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TL;DR: Started off great but unwrapped plot points and rushed ending ruined the experience for me.

First and foremost, this is the first-ever review that I have made that does not recommend the piece of media. With that said, this review is going to be split into two parts, one part a spoiler-free review of the series as a whole, the other being a rant on the myriad of plot holes shown in the series which will most definitely spoil everything. Read it at your own risk.

The world god only knows is truly a world that only god knows about, this is because, the massive amounts ... of plot holes and storylines that are left incomplete, leaving a very sour taste in my mouth.

It truly pains me to do this as the first half of this series was so enjoyable to read. Watching Katsuragi conquer the girls with his extensive knowledge of dating sims was such a unique premise that it kept me hooked. Additionally, the fresh humor and strange comedic circumstances provided a truly enjoyable experience in tandem with the unique story. Throughout the first half of the series, character development was at an all-time high, providing an interesting backstory and context to why the characters acted in a certain way, giving reason to their strange mannerisms, while simultaneously trying to fix the characters’ biggest flaws and help them overcome whatever obstacles that they were currently facing. It would be great if the review stopped there, considering only the first half of things, I would’ve rated this series a solid 7/10, maybe even an 8/10.

However, this is where the fun ends. Starting with the latter half of the series, roughly when the Jupiter sisters arc begins, all reason is thrown out of the window, a confusing conglomeration of chapter after chapter throws at the reader a bunch of different concepts and ideas with no justification whatsoever as to why things are the way they are. This problem became increasingly obvious as I progressed in the story, with each chapter feeling increasingly rushed, culminating with the final volume being a complete and utter mess of an ending that failed to wrap up some important plot points. Additionally, it felt as if the author had no grand vision of the direction he wanted his story to go in, introducing major plot points without any foreshadowing preceding it. It truly felt as if the author just wrote what he felt like writing on a day-to-day basis, changing the entire story on a whim without any previous build-up.

Overall, if one were to read this series, I would stick to reading only the first half, maybe even to the point where vintage is defeated but no more than that.

Spoilers:
This is the point where I’ll be going on a little rant trying to point out the myriad of plot holes and unjustified actions, read at your own risk. I’ll also additionally be pointing out which girl “won” so please don’t continue reading if you don’t want to be spoiled.

- You pretty much never hear from the other girls that Katsuragi conquered that weren’t the hosts of the Jupiter sisters. Giving a maximum of a panel or one line to justify where they are.

- Akari is one of the characters with the most plot holes in them. It is never revealed why the spirit sensor detected a presence inside of her when she didn’t harbor one. Her quest in order to create the “perfect being” is never justified and never comes to fruition (I was thinking that she would create a kick-ass robot). It is later revealed that she was actually the sister figure (not the actual sister, I know) of Elucia and was working in collaboration with the homeroom teacher (who we’ll talk more about later), which begs the question, why didn’t Elucia recognize the sister that she idolized so much, or at least had some minor foreshadowing ex: hmmm that person looks strangely familiar. Rimyuel (Akari was Rimyuel’s alter ego) then 10 years in the past literally bashes her sister (Elucia) as she was flying through the sky without any previous explanation whatsoever Elucia just brushes it off as if it was nothing and it didn’t occur. Like what?

- In the latter half of the story, Katsuragi literally teleports to the past, and no reason as to how this happened or why it happened immediately after the group defeated Vintage.

- There is an event when Katsuragi teleports to the past and tries to go into his school and it just so happens that the school has a “magical gate” preventing the people not from the school to enter it. Due to this, Dokuro’s clone (?) (Who also happens to be Katsuragi’s homeroom teacher) isn’t able to enter the school premises. But then, as that arc is finishing up, Dokuro just sees Katsuragi, rips apart the “magical gate” and enters the school. Like what in the actual fuck? The best part is that the only explanation that she gives is that she “didn’t want to interfere with Katsuragi” and he just accepts that without batting an eye. I’m sorry what? How does that make any sense?

- It is revealed that Tenri knew about the events of the future but it was never foreshadowed beforehand

- Where the hell did Urara go? The author shows that Yui and Mio used to be her friends in kindergarten but when her grandfather appears (because Katsuragi changed the past yadda yadda yadda, don’t try to understand) there is literally zero mention of the girl.

- The parts where the group defeats the MAIN ANTAGONISTS both Vintage and Satyr conclude their battles in two pages. I’m sorry you just don’t have that sort of build-up while also having one of the most anticlimactic endings possible.

- Haqua is shown to harbor romantic feelings towards Katsuragi but that never gets resolved.

- In the end the homeroom teacher, Also happens to be Dokuro, is hinted to have romantic feelings towards Katsuragi, this is also completely out of the blue and left hanging

- You never get to see what happens to Fiore after she is captured inside the bottle.

- Hell is shown to be in the midst of an energy crisis but that never gets resolved.

- At the end of the series, it is hinted that Nora and Haqua, have to rebuild hell from the ground up. While this is technically not really a plot hole I would’ve at least liked to see hell fixed.

- Heaven feels like it’s only comprised of the Jupiter sisters as they are the only heavenly beings that we see in the series, even though we know that other heavenly beings exist. We never get to see any other angelic figures or even what heaven looks like.

- It is revealed in the end that Katsuragi likes Chihiro, this confession comes out of the blue, with the author only giving one line explaining why he chose her instead of The six Jupiter sisters which, by the way, are deep in love with the guy. Like seriously, you chose the one person who he said was the literal definition of normal and boring instead of the six Jupiter sisters who are so unique. A guy with such high standards relegates himself to 2nd place. This action was completely out of character, which such little justification that it made me die inside.

- Around the first quarter of the series you see hints that Elucia might harbor romantic feelings for Katsuragi, however, later on, nothing is ever shown.

- There is no explanation as to why the Jupiter sisters chose to inhabit inside of the hosts that they chose. It is an inference that Katsuragi based it upon a whim with no real reason behind it. Katsuragi says that the Jupiter sisters must have chosen a conquest target that was near to Katsuragi (meaning that they were in the near vicinity to him, for some reason they couldn’t have chosen someone older or younger than him or someone far away from him.

- Now where do I even start with Elucia? Her character has more plot holes than Swiss cheese. To begin with, why has she been chosen as the buddy to Katsuragi? It is shown time and time again that she is completely incompetent only really being useful because of her magical cloak and her cleaning abilities, something that I’m sure that other people in the spirit squad could’ve been of much greater help to Katsuragi. Additionally, it is showing that she just happens to be the big bad boss at the end of the story, and the reason why she didn’t go on killing everybody was because she had been reborn multiple times under Dokoro who trained her to become a kind-hearted spirit and whatnot, which again is shown in one line. This isn’t even the worst part upon returning to the present Katsuragi finds out that Elucia just so happens to become his actual sister and somehow erases the memories of both Haqua and Nora.

I think that this list is just about every single plot hole that is shown in the series, and my god is it extensive.

PS: Best girl Yui Goidou

Warning this review my contain spoilers


First impressions, so my first thoughts going into this was that this was was going to be a more complete story than the anime which stopped 3/4 in and so i read this to get the full package because I thought this worth the price of entry and to some extent it was because it a bit different from your usual harem.

Story, 6/10

Now I know that this is going to sound quite generic but please beer with me as I explain this isn't a problem.
So the story begins with are main character keima who kind of a outcast ... that doesn't really care for much besides playing dating sim games.
Which In fact he's pretty good at you could call him a grand master of dating sim games,
So much so that he called the God of conquest.
One day he get a mysterious email which request him to conquer girls
Thinking this is for a game challenge he agrees.
In repose he meets a air headed demon named elise who tells him that he has signed a contract with her to find and capture lost souls which love are evil spirits which hide in the hearts of girls, that can only be removed by love.
He first refuses to help because he has no interest or experience with real women,
But than finds out that if he doesn't he and Elise will be killed on the spot.
So now he is forced to use his dating sim skills and knowledge to surprising effect in order to have these girls fall in love with him and get the lost souls.

So as far as harem story's go I thought this was probably one of the more interesting ones I have read.
Now I not saying it revolutionary or anything like that,
Like quite a few people are saying it is.
Because it plays out pretty much like most harems,
Except for the fact that the main character doesn't give a fuck about these girls and there problems.
Kind of plays out like a video game when I think about it.

the first half of the story can be summarized as girl of the week.
With the Main character using his skills to Solve these problems.
Which was for the most part the usual teenage problems,
Like my family I don't get along or I have daddy issues or I am very shy.
That kind of crap Nothing really that deep or thought provoking.
Except for a few exceptions here in there,
When they where fixing problems that wasn't related to high school students .
But how they handled I thought was kinda interesting and should get credit for trying to be at least somewhat interesting.
Although it still held back by that it's most set in a high school so your opinions are going to be very limited.

The second half is where it actually starts getting a plot and becomes more serious and focused.
Because when he helps a girl they forgot all about him,
So he can continue playing video games and fixing more girls problems without much of a hitch.
But now there are actually some girls that do remember him because they contain goddess in them.
Which are now being attacked by remnants by an old faction of demons.
So there are more higher Stakes now because if he fucks up he's not the only one getting the chop, it now the whole world and hell.
So as he continues this quest to find and help these goddess and there hosts he actually starts to find that he actually fully cares about this one girl,
That got to him and made him question himself around the end of this goodness arc.

Which I quite like because here we have some actual impact and it still going to remain because there no forgetting this time.

Then after that arc is done and dusted what do they do,
They actually go into more and focus on the main character with his issues and what not, that they hinted in the story arc previous.
It basically his character arc where the explain what his deal actually is.

Which I think is very interesting and they handled it quite well actually.
So to summarize my positives,
It is probably one of the more interesting harem out there,
Just because of how they handle it and also when it gets serious it deliverers very well.
It has some ok pacing.

But of corse there are a few problems,
I think the story shouldn't have been as long as it was.
Like they could have cut some of the girl problem arcs or made them shorter.
Because some of them took much longer than they should have.
Like I not saying it pacing is bad.
but a feel it didn't have to drag out as long as it did.
Also it there are some parts to it that kinda predictable,
And made it dry in those parts.

Another problem I kind of on the fence about is that even though this try's to be different from your usual harem,
It still get trapped in the usual pit falls that is a harem gene.
Because on the one hand it tries to be more than most harem,
But at the same time its still a harem.


Characters 6/10

The Main character can pretty much be summarized as a very loner like anti social person who just wants to play his games and carry one with his life and he kind of a asshole about it.
Which I quite liked able to relate and also he a lot more interesting than most harem
Leards.
He also has a very nice development as the story goes on he become less of a dick,starts to take an interest in reality and actually cares in a sense some of the girls he is trying to help.
It not like a complete 180 Of his character it just now he is a little different from before.
I also like how they explored his character.
And his reaction to his situation was pretty interesting as well,
Because he was so detached from all these people,
Like the girl drama thing is pretty much like a job to him,
It's ok next.

The side characters.

Most of them are just the usual types of characters in any harem,
Like you have a tomboy, school idol, teacher, the child hood frend, etc

There drama made most of them sightly noticeable and interesting for about a spit second, but sadly that's not enough to make them memorial characters,
Most of them don't develop past there stereotype and drama.
Except for a few of the girls.
All though that's because they are part of the actual plot around the end.

The characters interaction where quite fun to watch for me,
Especially when people start remembering the things they shared with the main character.
there one scene in particular i remember, that I found especially funny.
Is this part where this chick who has a goodness in her confesses to the main character in front of everyone in the class and shit hits the fan.
It just so funny to see it all play out.

Art 5/10

The art most of the times looks very poor or very unfocused.
There are some manga pages that look quite nice.
But usually the art looks like shit.
Like for example the background are pretty much little lines drawn in a very disorganized fashion, it like the pen or pencil got sick on the page or something like that.
It very ugly to look at.

It has this very upbeat moe-ish like style to it,
Like the eyes are like really wide and they express a lot of emotions.
It art style reminds me of something you would see in the looney toons,
Like this very cartoonish look but with a splash of moe in it.

I kind of like the character design,
It's moe which I kind of dislike in a sense but not this time.
Because it not trying to be overly cute about it.
So I found it more tolerable.
They fit quite well,
But I kind of wish the demon designs where a bit scary or threatening.



Enjoyment,6/10

I quite enjoyed the fact that this at lest tried to be different.
And that's made it more enjoyable for me.
I also really enjoyed the main character.
And really enjoyed the overall storyline.
Other than that nothing much else is worth mentioning.


Overall 6/10

If you really like harem then check this out,
Because it one of the better harem story's out there.
if your looking for a harem that's a little different.

If you don't like harem or moe then probably stay way.