Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) Discussion

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Wheeeeeeee!

Off to capture some girls!

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So, this is the one shot that started things.

The art is...odd, definitely unpolished. When was this made in relation to the start of actual serialization?

Anyway, its a fairly standard capture plot, girl's name is Mio, ojou-sama, blah blah blah.

Holy shit I like this design for Elsie. Busty and cleavage showing? YES PLEASE. Also she has a scythe, not a broom.

And they totally wussed out on that kiss. She kissed him? On the cheek? Laaaaaame

Alright, that was interesting enough, on to the actual story!

[HitokiriShadow]

Wow, already? I remember you expressing interest in reading the manga, but I wasn't expecting you to start a thread for it before the anime finished.

I was already planning on reading it (and making a thread for it if you hadn't already) after the anime finished. Though I might need to wait until after I finish A Feast for Crows or A Dance with Dragons, since I really don't need more things to suck away time from reading those.

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Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

Wow, already? I remember you expressing interest in reading the manga, but I wasn't expecting you to start a thread for it before the anime finished.

I was already planning on reading it (and making a thread for it if you hadn't already) after the anime finished. Though I might need to wait until after I finish A Feast for Crows or A Dance with Dragons, since I really don't need more things to suck away time from reading those.

I was going to wait, but decided to start, since there's plenty of time (seriously this manga is currently 132 chapters long. What the hell?), and I plan to only do a chapter or so a day after today, and if I catch up, I'll just stop.

I need to get back to those books too, though.

[HitokiriShadow]

Well, it was interesting to see the differences in the set-up between this and the real story. Along with a prototype for one of the characters that shows up eventually.

I've seen a few page shots of the manga, and the art here is definitely rough around the edges compared to what I've seen.

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Takahara Ayumi, track team.

60+ page chapter, so we get the whole capture here. Went down just about the same as in the anime, so not much to say about it, other than that Ayumi was really cute.

Was interesting to see some stuff carried over from the one-shot, though with changes. Definitely prefer this teacher. But I miss busty, cleavage Elsie, though it would be weird with her current personality.

And Keima was way too cute when he took his glasses off there at the end. He needs to avoid doing that.

He seemed kinda upset that Ayumi lost her memory, despite what he said about it being convenient

[HitokiriShadow]

Yep, the art improved noticeably in this chapter.

Aside from that, it's.... pretty much exactly the first episode of the anime, so I don't really have anything to say about the actual content. For that reason, I'm probably not going to be commenting on many of the chapters that were covered in the anime, as I'll generally only have something to say if something was changed in the adaptation.

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Elsie's Keima's little sister! And the illegitimate daughter of his father!

Keima's mother takes it...slightly better than expected. Slightly.

Keima feels Elsie does not qualify as a little sister! But she tries hard, and he sorta starts accepting her.

And she is a little sister, she has an awesome onee-sama.

Damn that celestial robe...

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Aoyama Mio 1

New capture target. Aoyama Mio. Short, blonde, twintailed, tsundere ojou-sama. Elsie thinks she'll be a challenge, but Keima says that girls like this are easy once you break their armor.

After a rejected confession, they follow her home and...she's living in a run down apartment!?

Edit: Oh yeah, Elsie dropped a bombshell here. Loose Souls only invade girls because they will eventually be reborn as the girl's offspring. Keima...was not expecting that. Also it seems the school has only recently become co-ed, with only about 200 boys as compared to over 2000 girls

[HitokiriShadow]

So at Keima's school, the girls outnumber the guys by about 5 to 1. Interesting, I don't remember that ever coming up in the anime.

And its explicitly stated the loose souls can only inhabit females, and its because they are then reborn as their children. I think that was mentioned in the anime, but I forgot about it.