The anime doesn’t adapt the entire manga. This is most obvious at the start of Megami-hen which skips forward from the end of KamiNomi2 to the Goddess arc in the manga.

Besides this, the anime ends at Megami-hen and doesn’t adapt the rest.^A) This, interestingly, leads the anime to having a sad ending.

I’ll elaborate on this a little later.

I’ll add now that I noticed the manga has a very clean artstyle. It’s drawn very confidently and professionally and I think that may be one reason it ended up being so popular. Especially when compared to Kumo desu ga, nani ka?’s manga – it’s not bad, but it’s definitely much rougher. I think that, of the manga I’ve read, only Joshiraku, Youjo Senki and maybe Munou na Nana are consistently great from beginning to end.

It’s especially impressive if you consider it was only the author’s second(?^B)) long-term series.

Time to add a little more before the re-write (which still isn’t coming for a while). The series can broadly be split into three big ‘parts’:

1. The rest
2. The Goddess Arc
3. The Heart of Jupiter Arc

The first big part is basically composed of small episodic arcs. Each of those lasts just a few chapters and each volume usually contains two. The Goddess Arc is a major story arc that starts in volume 11 and ends in volume 19 (though the earliest hints for it start in volume 4 and the most obvious hints in volume 6). The Heart of Jupiter Arc starts volume 20 and continues until volume 26. Then the series ends.

It’s apparently written like this because the author wasn’t sure if the series would continue or not, so he avoided writing any major story arcs.

I don’t think it’s a big problem until around volume 6. You’ll note that there are still five volumes between then and the major story arc. Those in-between volumes are kinda forgotten about. Though I think this is partially since the anime never adapted them.

As I explained in my Alternative Approach, I think part of the issue is that the girls lose their memories. I think it would have been better for the story overall if they didn’t, or at least if they continued playing an important role even after they lost the memory of the conquest. That would fix the issue with these last few conquests before the Goddess Arc feeling kinda pointless.

I don’t even really dislike these later ones, it’s just kinda weird.

Though I’m not sure how this could have been done considering the author’s fears.

Hell has a bit of a problem. Occasionally, a spirit being tortured manages to escape. After escaping, these spirits hide in the gaps of people’s hearts, usually girls for whatever reason.

To reclaim the runaway spirits, Hell formed a team to capture them. This team then forms pairs of people (1 demon and 1 human) who have to the task of finding and capturing the spirits.

The human in the pair is tasked with filling the gap in the hearts of others, while the demon actually seals the spirit after it gets pushed out. Not all pairs work this way though.

I believe it would have been interesting if the conquest targets didn’t lose their memories after the conquest. I don’t necessarily mean that they literally remember everything but that they still have feelings left-over.

The series did, at some point, imply this was the case - although this turned out to be setup for Megami-hen.

This isn’t a flaw with the series; just something I thought would have been interesting.

The conquest targets having some memories left-over could have led to some more interesting situations - for example, Keima could have gotten their help in other conquests.

KamiNomi has some influence from Greek and Roman mythology. For example, all of the goddesses have Roman names: Diana, Apollo, Mercury, Minerva, Vulcan. They’re even called the ‘Jupiter Sisters’.

Though it should be noted that outside of aesthetic similarities, KamiNomi is very disconnected from Classical Mythology.

The review should have mentioned that the Manga’s ending is just bad. This section exists so that I elaborate on that.

That doesn’t mean right now.