Angel's Anime Review - World God Only Knows
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The World God Only Knows(Oct 6, 2010 – Dec 22, 2010), Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai
Director: Shigehito Takayanagi Written by: Hideyuki Kurata Music: Hayato Matsuo
Comedy, Romance, Supernatural, Fantasy,
Key Words: Moe, Ren’ai, School Life, spirits, dating sims, Parody,
Studio: Manglobe Licensed American Publisher: Sentai Filmworks
Episodes: 12+1 Preview OVA
Keima Katsuragi is a 2nd year high school student who is a avid dating sim player. He isn’t interested in real girls and is able to pick almost every right answer to the story line of a game so he can get the good ending. One day, he gets a email that offers him a challenge to ‘conquer’ another girls heart. Thinking it to be in the game, he accepts and soon is bound into a contract with a demon from hell named Elsie who is capturing loose souls. Loose souls are within the hearts of people and only come out when someone else enters into their heart. That is mostly in them falling in love. Now he must try to conquer real women’s hearts or get his head chopped off.
MY Thoughts: Oh man, this is a pretty interesting show. Keima is a strange character who pretty much is only interested in games from girls. The strange thing is, when he actually goes for getting the heart of real girls, he actually gets them. It’s like his world itself is a dating sim because no girl in our world would ever go for the cheesy things he does from banners to strange stockings that he does. All the girls are pretty unrealistic stereotypes but it actually works for the story plot. The only episode that felt really bothersome was episode 4 with the loop. It only felt like it was there to show Keima’s personality a bit more.
The artwork seems rather good although it is really bright and ‘chubby.’ A lot of times, they seem like chibi’s or plastic doll. The ghosts look like strange blobs and seem odd. There’s not much I can say about the artwork since its pretty much like any other slice of life that has come out this around this time.
The voices are really interesting, and its fun hearing the English Sosuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic talking about dating sims! That’s right; Chris Patton is the voice of Keima Katsuragi. And his supporting character is Luci Christian’s voice, which also is the voice of Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic as well. She plays the Spirit Hunter by the name of Elucia de Rux Ima. It’s strange hearing there voices in here because they the characters here are almost complete opposite the characters they did play in Full Metal Panic. Another opposite is Hilary Haag who not only plays Tessa from Full Metal Panic, but Mio Aoyama, the rather short and prideful rich girl in this, and the shy Shiori Shiomiya who is more like Tessa in a sense. Basically, if you love the English voices of Full Metal Panic, you’re probably going to like the English voices here.
I actually really like the opening song; it has a rather nice beat. The ending is alright, though not as good as the beginning.
Rating: 
I love this show! It’s really fun show and I look forward to the next season!
Link to Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_God_Only_Knows
Other Reviews:
Glass Reflections - http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/02/glass-reflection-the-world-god-only-knows/
T.H.E.M. Reviews - http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1375
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