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 ====== Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai ======
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 {{ruby|神|かみ}}のみぞ{{ruby|知|し}}るセカイ(The World God Only Knows) is a series about a dating sim gamer who has been tasked by Hell to rid girls of escaped souls from Hell. If he doesn't do his job then he gets decapitated! Despite how that sounds, the series is mostly comedic and has a more light-hearted tone.\\
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+[[lb:kaminomi:elsie]] • [[lb:kaminomi:haqua]] • [[lb:kaminomi:keima]]
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 ===== Reviews =====
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 ==== Manga ====
 The Manga has a bad and abrupt ending. I may elaborate further, but this is the short of it.
+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 [[lb:kumoka]]’s manga – it's not bad, but it's definitely much rougher. I think that, of the manga I've read, only [[lb:Joshiraku]], [[lb:youjo senki]] and maybe [[lb:munana|Munou na Nana]] are consistently great from beginning to end.\\
+It's especially impressive if you consider it was only the author's second(?((:fn:>I will have to check to verify.))) long-term series.
 ===== Characters & Worldbuilding =====
 ==== Runaway Spirit Squad ====
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 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.
-=== Katsuragi Keima - Kami-nii-sama ===
-{{:img:eating.png?240 |A cute moment.}}
-The protagonist. He is an otaku (here we mean the more derogatory meaning of the term) obsessed with playing [[lb:galge]] ("Gal Games" - "Dating Sims"). So obsessed in fact, that he has rejected reality. He is also insanely good at playing [[lb:galge]]. So much, that he has earned the title of "Capturing God" - no girl can resist but falling in love with him.\\
-Due to this, he is (involuntarily) recruited by hell to capture runaway spirits.\\
-As time goes on, his rejection of reality slowly dies down more and more.<wrap spoiler>.. until he ends up falling in love with a girl himself.</wrap>\\
-He can best be described as intelligent, proud, shameless and efficient. He gets ridiculously good (er, perfect) grades in school and that's only because he was under the impression teachers wouldn't mind him playing games if he passed every test. His shamelessness is more in regards to him not caring about the fact people view him as a pathetic otaku... that and he can say and do things that would embarrass the hell out of any normal person.
-=== Elsie ===
-The 'younger sister' of our protagonist.\\
-She is a demon from hell, sent to be the 'buddy' of Katsuragi during his conquests.\\
-She's childish and a little flighty. She has an adorable obsession with fire trucks, which always brings an involuntary smile out of me.\\
-Prior to joining the Runaway Spirits squad, she was a janitor. Because of that, she is very good at cleaning and is constantly carrying a broom around.\\
-<wrap spoiler>The manga comes up with a truly atrocious backstory for her, that almost single-handedly ruined the whole series for me. So basically, she's the physical embodiment of an ancient weapon from hell.</wrap>
-=== Haqua ===
-Elsie's friend from school.\\
-Having graduated as an honour student, she goes down the typical path of 'despite being great in school, I'm terrible at life'.\\
-Something of a tsundere towards Katsuragi.
 ===== Speculah & Analysis =====
-==== The Ending ====
-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.
 ==== Alternative Approach ====
 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.\\
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 It should be noted that I do know the reason why this wasn't present in the series...or, rather, I have a pretty good idea why. I'll elaborate on that later.
+==== Classical Mythological Influence ====
+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 Ending ====
+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.
 ===== Trivilinks =====
   * [[https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/kaminomi/|Official Anime Site]]
   * [[https://kaminomi.fandom.com/wiki/The_World_God_Only_Knows_Wiki|The Wikia]] - Pretty bad, don't bother.