Friday, October 15, 2010
The World God Only Knows 1/2The story begins with our main protagonist, Keima Katsuragi, happily enjoying his bishoujo games on his PFP... during classes. His teacher didn't let him off easily too and bashed the hell up of his face. Keima, a student, is interested in girls, but not the girls in reality but those in bishoujo games. There is no bishoujo games' heroine that he's not able to "capture" the hearts as of yet. His classmate, Ayumi Takahara, came running towards Keima and collides into him, damaging his PFP as a result while she rammed into a wall. Ayumi asks Keima to clean the rooftop by himself since they were both assigned to the cleaning duty but Ayumi, who is in the track team, has an upcoming sports meet and would want to train for it. Keima refuses but before he could finish his sentence, Ayumi had already been long gone. In the end, Keima was the only one who had to complete his cleaning duty by himself and as he was taking a break, he browsed through the emails, fan-mails to be exact, as he is nicknamed the capturing god by the other bishoujo game players. He then realised a weird mail that sounded like a challenge to him, after stating that there is a girl that they would hope he could "capture" and with his pride on the line, Keima accepts the challenge without hesitation. Something then seemed to have dropped from the sky, throwing Keima off his feet and when he managed to get back his attention, he finds a girl floating down from the sky, thanking Keima for accepting their proposal and flies off with him. Back in the classroom, a disturbed Keima now tries to calm himself down and made matters clear with the girl. The girl, introduces herself as Erucia de Lute Ima, Elsea for short, and she's a girl from hell whose in charged of capturing escaped spirits. Keima is unable to comprehend to the situation and leaves but Elsea stops him, telling him that the previous mail he had received was the contract and if he doesn't adhere to it, his head would be taken. Keima then realises that there was a ring around his neck and it was a prove for the contract. Elsea then brings Keima to the window, telling him that there was already a escaped spirit around and the carrier was Ayumi. Apparently, escaped spirits are souls that have escaped from hell and hides in the depths of the heart, and Elsea believes that through love, the escaped spirit would be forced to escape. Keima then drills the fact into Elsea that he captures girls in the game and not the girls in reality and that disappointed Elsea as she had misunderstood his abilities. Keima requests that since she now knows that it was impossible for him, to remove the ring immediately but Elsea tells him that it could not be done and even if Keima dies, she would lose her head as well as they were bounded by the contract together. Elsea suggests to Keima to use the identical methods to capture a girl in reality but as Keima despises their appearance as compared to the girls in the games, Elsea tries to make them similar which her special robe and Ayumi starts to become slightly more similar to a bishoujo game character, like tying up her hair when she got serious and Keima thinks that its an ideal trait for all track members. Keima thus begins his "capture" the next day through displaying banners with words cheering Ayumi on but was quickly kicked by Ayumi when she saw it as she feels that it was like a revenge for making him clean the rooftop by himself. Keima however believes that love sprouts from more encounters and continues to support Ayumi with banners, balloons etc, declaring openly that he's cheering for her. Ayumi had already began to ignore all his efforts and later when their track seniors came, she was reprimanded for training earlier than them and punished her with numerous rounds around the track. One day, while training, Keima notices something was wrong with Ayumi and while practicing hurdles, Ayumi trips and sprains her ankle. Outside the infirmary, Keima thinks about the current situation he's being tackled with, sports meet, cheering, bad seniors... and he feels that he could already seen the end to it. Keima later asks Ayumi out after sending her a basket of fruits and when he was asked the reason for doing so, Keima told her that he wanted to see her run in the sports meet. Ayumi rebukes him by saying that she had sprained her ankle and would be unable to run, but Keima replies to her, that she wasn't injured at all as she hadn't tie her hair up when she fell, and she had always done so when she was serious. Ayumi then stands back up straight and she really wasn't injured at all. She had wanted to go for the sports meet but was stressed by her seniors. Keima then tells her that it would be alright for her to just run as fast as she can and if it was the rank that matters, she was already number 1, in his heart. Blushing, Ayumi started to throw more fruits at Keima and then discovers a set of new running shoes beneath the fruits. She steps forward and asks if Keima would go and support her in the sports meet, which he agreed. Ayumi edged closer to Keima and while retreating, Keima trips from the steps and as Ayumi grabs him, she kisses him and the escaped spirit is forced out and successfully contained by Elsea. The memories of the capture faded away and it was easier for Keima as well and as things were about to become peaceful again, Elsea arrives in class and introduces herself as Elsea Katsuragi, his "sister".
Following up, Elsea is now transferred into Keima's class and she had also a letter in possession as by being his sister, any escaped spirit in the vicinity would be quickly cleared up. The contract bounded would only be removed after the escaped spirits are all taken cared off in the town. Keima realises that Elsea was about to follow him and live with him and rejects her immediately, however, Keima's mother approaches them and invites Elsea to their house to have a good chat. While having tea, Elsea introduces herself as Elsea and was an illegitimate daughter of Keima's father. Elsea then hands the letter to Keima's mother, saying that it was letter from her deceased mother. After reading the letter, Keima's mother goes off and calls her dear, asking for an explanation for this and in the meantime, starting destroying the chairs within her range. It was partially due to that she was previous from some biker gang in the past. Keima's mother then throws away the phone and hugs both Keima and Elsea, telling them that she would be responsible for them from now. In the town, Keima tells Elsea that he would not accept her as his sister yet as she doesn't have the traits of being one, as quoted by Keima, the BMW traits. 1st, the blood that's flowing in them are not the same, the 2nd, there isn't any memories of siblings, and the 3rd, the "wonichan moe" which describes the love for their brother. Having said all that, Elsea bites Keima's finger, and tells him that now they have the same blood flowing in them and she would really want them to work together to capture all the escaped spirits. Later in the night, Elsea cooks a dish for dinner, which was filled with ingredients from hell and poor Keima was forced to swallow it and it actually tasted good. Upon realising how clean the house was, Elsea reveals that her broom, that had followed her through hundreds of years of cleaning duties, was able to sweep off any amount of dust and while demonstrating, she destroys and wall after accidentally setting the power on the broom to maximum. Keima soon feels the aftermath of the dinner and started having a hell of a diarrhea in the restroom. Later in the bath, Keima thinks that Elsea is starting to meet the BMW requirements and begins to worry. While doing so, the lights went off and he felt something touching his shoulder. He then pulls the shutter down to allow light to enter and sees Elsea in the bath with him. Keima lets out a piercing scream and covers himself out of the bath. Elsea said that he wanted to make up for her mistakes and she also explains that she wasn't trying to fake being a little sister as she really was. She had an elder sister who's a great demon unlike her who was always on cleaning duties and when she was selected to help capture the escaped spirits, she was elated and felt that it was one step closer to being a great demon. Keima seems to understand her feelings and allowed her to stay by his side, brushing it off by saying that it would be the best for the both of them as the faster they get the job done, the faster they could get the rings around their neck removed. The next day in school, Elsea wanted to pass a message to Keima, about keeping the time they had in the bath a secret as it was embarrassing but the message was read aloud by a classmate before passing over to Keima and that brought suspicions about what exactly did happen in the bath. The duo later finds their next target, a rich girl, Mio Aoyama. Keima thinks about her characteristics and planned a route for her. While Elsea was also thinking about the situation, Keima confesses his love for Elsea. Feeling embarrassed, Elsea couldn't walk straight and then she realises that Keima was just trying to find out the different forms of confession to Mio. Keima had took into account that she seems to be an aggressive girl but gentle in the inside and focusing on breaking the outer armour would be the best option. And after testing them out on Elsea and her getting repeatedly lovestruck, Keima took an opportunity to confess to Mio but was silently rejected and beaten up by her bodyguard. Following after their vehicle, the duo discovers that Mio was actually living in an old apartment and what they had initially expected was different from reality.
honestly, this series could be one of the best for this season. animation quality's good, seiyuu's good too :) shan't give much spoilers ahead. pace is moving nicely as well. great series! :D