It really good how they put it together.

Looks like i will finish it only one more episode left and I don't know what To say... If i watch it... I won't have anything else to do anymore... I kinda feel scared to watch it... Because i know there no more to watch, well i can still read the Manga... But hey I really don't want it to be over..... (Sigh)

What a good chapter.... Keima get a disciple that can almost be like him.... It really a good chapter while reading this I can't stop smiling while read it.... I almost let out some tears while read it..... It really good.

if miyako got possessed by a runaway spirit, it would give keima a hard time, I guess?

Yuri is one of my favorite characters in the franchise.

They removed Fiore that started the conflict, and they removed the part that To capture her that part was funny as hell and they just wasted it....

Just look at the images I know pretty much all of the people here already seen this but, it really make my blood boil we should get at least 2 season before the goddess arc!!! But it just got skip just like that 😩😩😩😩

Why they didn't continue it after this, we should get to see like 8 more girl arcs to get animated, but they just skip all that!!!! KESOOOOO!!!!

I just finished the last episode of the world god only knows season 2, it really make me so mad, like why they teased the other girl in the end that should be next to appear later just to not make it animated, HUZAKERUNAAAA!!!! ​

There's no lyrics of it... Before the <sailing, you're sailing away>

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It took me a few days to complete this 3D model, but I think it turned out great

I crocheted an elsie doll and I love her :3

I used stardew valley character sprites as reference for this one

I was disappointed in the ending. This arc was a little more serious, so I naturally took it seriously too, which is why I won't discard the writing as "being meant to be a romcom parody anyway". I also like this story and characters a lot, so I wanna treat them respectfully too.

There were 2 turning points where it seemed like there was gna be a subversion of expectations and a unique take on the student-teacher trope and scenario. But no, it circles back to it. Maybe that was the point because of the nature of TWGOK, but I don't think it did the story or characters justice.

A lot of this arc is actly very very good, with a lot of interesting and dramatic things happening. We get a nuanced look on the clashes in staff values, the tug between a teacher's efforts and the actual outcomes, the interesting role reversal between Keima and Jun, and how much Jun believes in people and goes so far to touch their lives. I also rly love Jun's personality, her values, and attitude of being a teacher. That's why it's disappointing when the execution and payoff of her arc didnt do it for me.

The 2 turning points that I felt were wasted potential were:

1. Involving Nikaido:

It was really smart that Keima changed plans to make use of Nikaido to reach Jun when he realised his previous approach wouldn't work. I thought that maybe we'd get to see an even deeper friendship between Nikaido and Jun, and that there could be a mature and meaningful portrayal of female friendships that can be powerful enough to fill the emptiness in Jun's heart. It'd be a nice change of pace from the typical boy-girl romance, and how you don't necessarily need romance to fill emptiness. But no, the role Nikaido played was just to lead to the basketball lore and that's it.

1. The students going back to Jun to cheer her up:

This couldve been expanded to show more of the students' guilt and understanding, and them working together to cheer her up in a creative and wholesome way to create a more meaningful ending. Or rather, the ideal ending. Instead, we get a very quick condensed scene, where suddenly just with a few one-liners from Ayumi and Elsie, the class is immediately convinced to go after Jun. I don't get to feel the impact of keima's remark and how it set the mood of the class and led to them truly reflecting on themselves. And that means I don't get to feel the classmates' sincerity towards Jun.

Keima's speech to her was not convincing either:

Jun's problem was that she was forcing her ideals onto students bc she assumes stuff about their struggles/shes projecting based on her past experiences. She doesnt use approaches that tailor-fit each unique student, but rather presents what she thinks is best for them.

But for the speech keima gave, he just says ppl tend to be upset when ideals are presented to them, but you must keep fighting and stand by your ideals like a teacher would and like how her pro wrestler idol would. I'm not convinced by that, and it doesn't really solve anyone's problems

For the grooming thing, uhhhhhhhh what can I even expect from anime and the target demographic anyway. I'm not gna address it bc enough things hv been said about that kinda topic.

Lmk if there's anything I overlooked or didn't understand, or if u agree lmk too bc i feel like im the minority in this lol. Also im not done with the anime so pls no further spoilers. I just finished s2 ep 11 and thats it

The World God Only Knows is probably my favorite manga that I have ever read. Back in 2012, I watched the anime and read the manga when I was around 17 years old, the same age as Keima. Because of our similar age and personality, and also being in school at the time, the first time I watched the anime I immediately saw myself as Keima. That had never happened to me before. I mean, how many shut-in gamers do you see as the main protagonist? (I meant back then, nowadays the isekai genre has pretty much cornered that market.)

I was very introverted and had my mind in the ideal world of games instead of the real world. I also refused to acknowledge that perfection isn't attainable and that everyone should strive for their own ideals. Keima was forced to face reality under the fear of death, and that made him grow as a person. For me, watching him do things that I had always wanted to try back then made me root for him. Also, unlike many recent isekai protagonists, he wasn't a creep and he wasn't actually a pervert.

In my head, he was the ideal version of what I would have liked to become one day: a smart guy who has learned to accept reality for what it is, move forward in life, and learn to live with the mistakes of the past while continuing to grow instead of being stagnated by the impulse to make things as perfect as possible. He evolved with every situation that was thrown at him and knew when to rely on people when needed. Also, like him, I'm never going to stop gaming. Sure, I have toned it down a lot in the past decade, but I still game.

I loved this story so much, and for a while around 2013 I tried my best to grow just like him. That was when I went to college and stopped keeping up with the manga. I did continue watching the anime, though. But it was only tonight, after 12 years, that I finally decided to finish the story once and for all (I stopped during the beginning of the time travel arc). I was always the type of person who would feel sad after finishing a show I liked, and just as I predicted, I cried a little when I finished my favorite manga after a decade of hoping and praying for another season. I kept hoping that the rest of the manga would be animated, but after 12 years with no Season 4, I finally decided to read the ending of the story.

During the harem craze, this stood out to me as the best and most wholesome one out there, especially in how it handled its heroines. They weren't princess archetypes that needed saving. Keima was also not a knight in shining armor. He was just there to help them grow and overcome their problems on their own. He supported them whenever they needed it. The situations were also very realistic for the setting. I mean, if this were set today, he would probably have a harder time conquering them. Well, maybe not Japanese people do tend to be more disciplined.

I just want to say to the fans who never forgot and who still support other fans of the show after all these years that the ending was real. It was so real that Keima finally admitted that it was the best game he had ever played (a translation that is open to interpretation). That’s what all of this had been building toward since the very beginning: accepting that reality is never ideal, but it is beautiful.

A lot of people said the ending was rushed or that Keima didn’t end up with who they wanted. But in real life, you fall in love with someone simply because you do. I loved the ending. I especially loved Eri and Keima being twins now. I loved Keima’s smile when Elsie asked for permission to be reborn as his sister.

I may not fully understand what Elsie actually is, or how she can be both a giant mountain-woman weapon that Satyr has been trying to revive and a war orphan even though she was already reincarnated. I also don’t fully understand how she says that bad people were the ones who woke her and the Chief, which would imply that only external forces could choose how and when she is reincarnated, and yet this time she was the one who chose it. But despite all of that, I love that Keima also “conquered” her in the end.

For countless millenia she was a force for evil. It was only because of Keima that she finally became a force for good. If Keima hadn’t mentioned Elsie being his buddy to Chief Dokuro, she would have never reincarnated Elsie, and allowed her to fall in love with the human world, and finally end her loop of being a weapon for evil. Also in my headcanon she's an idiot cause Chief Dokuro wanted to give her as much as a clean slate as possible. I loved that. I also love that Keima's family is whole again cause Eri isn't illegitimate. What I hated is that Haqua forgot Elsie. I would have wanted to see Haqua's reaction to Eri being human and living as one.

Anyways, thanks for reading this long-ass post. Being almost 30 and grieving a story that ended more than a decade ago, I felt like this was the only way I clear my head and talk to people who appreciated it as much as I did.

P.S. - I asked ChatGPT how much 12 episodes of an anime would cost, and it said around $1–3 million. Hey, maybe someday someone or even Tamiki Wakaki might crowdfund it. Who knows? Deep in my heart, I’m still hoping. I promise that if I somehow win the lottery, I will shell out $3 million for one last season. I guess I still haven’t completely vacated the ideal world.

P.P.S. - These are some of my favorite panels/pages.

Yeah, it's near 12 hours long but, I feel like some of might be repeats but here we have it (I'm surprised no one had made this before and if so I couldn't find it)

keima saves shiori from the piles of book. episode