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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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+<div callout caution>Will re-write at some point, as well as all the other [[lb:kaminomi]] articles.</div>
+**<span denote :ja>{{ruby|神|かみ}}のみぞ{{ruby|知|し}}るセカイ</span>**(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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+Re-write progress:
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 ===== Reviews =====
 ==== Anime ====
-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.\\
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-Besides this, the anime ends at Megami-hen and doesn't adapt the rest((:fn:>To be fair, the manga only has two major arcs - The Goddess Arc being one, with the Heart of Jupiter Arc being the one to end the manga. The anime does adapt most of the manga and also avoids the frankly awful ending of the manga. Most of the minor arcs + one of the two major arcs is pretty good, all things considered.)). This, interestingly, leads the anime to having a sad ending.\\
+<div heart>♥</div>
-I'll elaborate on this a little later.
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
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+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.
-Comparing the Anime to the Manga: the Manga has better comedic timing, if that even makes sense. Generally, the comedy in the Manga is handled far better - the framing, layout and such all aids it. The exception to this would likely be <wrap spoiler>'I am your husband's illegitimate daughter.'</wrap> where the Anime is superior.
+Besides this, the anime ends at Megami-hen and doesn't adapt the rest.((:fn:>To be fair, the manga only has two major arcs - The Goddess Arc being one, with the Heart of Jupiter Arc being the one to end the manga. The anime does adapt most of the manga and also avoids the frankly awful ending of the manga. Most of the minor arcs + one of the two major arcs is pretty good, all things considered.)) This, interestingly, leads the anime to having a sad ending.
+I'll elaborate on this a little later.
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+Comparing the Anime to the Manga: the Manga has better comedic timing, if that even makes sense. Generally, the comedy in the Manga is handled far better - the framing, layout and such all aids it. The exception to this would likely be <q :en><mark spoiler>I am your husband's illegitimate daughter.</mark></q> where the Anime is superior.
 ==== Manga ====
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+<div heart>♥</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
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 The Manga has a bad and abrupt ending. I may elaborate further, but this is the short of it.
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+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.
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+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’:
+  - The rest
+  - The Goddess Arc
+  - 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.
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 ===== Characters & Worldbuilding =====
 ==== Runaway Spirit Squad ====
-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.\\
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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.\\
+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.
-=== Katsuragi Keima - Kami-nii-sama ===
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-{{: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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-The series did, at some point, imply this was the case - although this turned out to be setup for Megami-hen.\\
+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.
-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.
+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.
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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 ====
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+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.
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+==== The Ending ====
+<div passage>
+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.
+</div>
 ===== 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.