Wakaki Tamiki | Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai

Japanese: 神のみぞ知るセカイ
Synonyms: KamiNomi, Kami nomizo Shiru Sekai, The World God Only Knows, TWGOK
Type: Manga
Volumes: 26
Chapters: 271
Status: Completed
Published: Apr 9, 2008 to Apr 23, 2014
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, School, Shounen, Harem, Supernatural
Mangaka: Wakaki Tamiki (Story & Art)
Serialization: Shounen Sunday

Synopsis: Katsuragi Keima is known on the net as the god of getting the girls while in real life he's known as otamegane and he hates all real girls. However he is approached by Elsie, a devil from hell, to help her in catching runaway spirits that hide in people. Apparently the spirits only hide in the hearts of girls and the only way to get the souls out is by making the girl fall in love so the spirit gets forced out. And he's not allowed to fail or he will lose his head.

Related Manga

Side story: Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai

Adaptation: 

• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai II, 
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Tenri-hen, 
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0, 
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-hen, 
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai, 
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: 4-nin to Idol

Spin-off:

• Magical☆Star Kanon 100%, 
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: On the Train+Pilot Films

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Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates

Side notes: I've seen the first season of this series and I'm still a bit amazed why this manga was on the list of Time jump/ time travelling... but I've not read more that start of the series so that will be relevant later on.(I sneaked a peek on the chapter names so there was at least few points where the time skip seems happening.) So let's see... as I can easily say this isn't my favorite type of manga... still you can forget that when start reading and find out that the art is good if not even great level (depending of the likes). Also the comedy which is more present in manga than in the anime makes it fun to read... but still you can't mistake it for shoujo. There is that "fan service" aspect, although it's not too dominant, to be found... but this is more meant boys to read so it's probably more or less "goes with the genre" thingy and shoujo has their own charismatic boys too so I think it's evenly balanced this way.

Main characters

Keima Katsuragi (桂木 桂馬)

Age: 17

Birthday: 6 June, 11:29:35 (HH:MM:SS)

Zodiac sign: Gemini

Class: 2-B

Height: 174cm

Weight: 53kg

Interests: Bishōjo games (Gal games) and 2D girls 

Hates : All Real girls, reality, sweets

Favorite quotes: "I will teach you something useful" ; "I can see the ending" 

Keima Katsuragi, the protagonist of the story, is a 17-year-old high school student attending Maijima High School Academy. At an early age, he acquired an obsessive interest in video games; now he is known as "The Capturing God (落とし神, Otoshi-gami?)" in the gaming world for his legendary skills in "capturing" any girls in dating sims. But ironically, he is called otamegane (a derogatory portmanteau of the two words otaku and megane-"glasses") by almost everyone in his school due to his extreme devotion to videogames. Despite himself saying he likes girls, it's the perfectly theoretical and beautiful girls of the game world that he prefers, not the girls in reality. His love for games is such that he even goes into withdrawal if he doesn't play games enough and he has the bad habit of locking himself in his room and playing games for days on end when he's depressed.

At the start of the series, Keima becomes a collaborator for catching runaway spirits when he replies to an instigative e-mail to his mail address in his PFP (otoshi-god@zumcities.co.jp) requesting his help to "capture" girls without knowing it was a contract from Hell, to which Elsee appeared and asked for his aid to "capture" girls in real-life. For each individual of the "Capture Targets"—a girl with the runaway spirit in her—Keima utilizes his analytical skills and experiences from dating sims to "capture" them. When he has figured out the final push needed to "capture" a girl (in both reality and games), he says the catchphrase "I can already see the ending". Whenever he isn't capturing runaway spirits, he is almost always seen playing video games on his PFP (a parody of Sony's PSP), which might explain his weak physique.

Also, despite the fact he even plays video games in class, he is still at the top of class in every subject. During a scolding of a teacher for his gaming habits, Keima reasoned that all would be fine as long as he aced all his exams; he then proceeded to do so, demonstrating a great academic ability. It is shown that Keima's analytical skills he utilises to "capture" girls is also applied by him in his studies, proven true when he flawlessly predicted the questions on the upcoming English test based on the teacher's personality and the examination extent. As the story progresses, his perspective of the "real world" girls becomes different. Nevertheless, he remains faithful to his "2D girls", in particular, a girl named "Yokkyun" who seems to be drawn in a parody style of famed visual novel Kanon.

His mastery and devotion to girl games was revealed to be way higher above than just average otakus. He is able to play six games at the same time with each of different screens with the activation of his 'Capturing God Mode'. His PFP breaks numerous times during the series, but later found that he actually has a lot of spare PFP hidden around his body. He frequently does lengthy lecture on various archetypes of characters and philosophies on capturing girls. However, he is completely ignorant to everything else, including real girls and their body, foods and even his own life. 

Elucia de Lute Ima (エリュシア・デ・ルート・イーマ)

Job: Private Household Demon

Age: Over 300

Birthday: March 14

Class: 2-B

Bloodtype: ? (O-type character)

Height: 159cm (with bun)

Weight: 44 kg

BWH: 83-58-84

Likes: Firetrucks, sweets, anime

Dislike: Scary things

Elsie is a shinigami who was assigned to capture evil spirits that have escaped from hell and is the Deuteragonist of the story. She is shown to have a very sweet, pure and innocent personality and often tries to please Keima's expectations as a "little sister" though often fails due to the cultural differences between them and how her endeavors usually leave Keima in a bad situation. She is fairly popular among young males, apparently more people (primarily boys) began coming when she began working in the family's cafe, such that Keima's mother once had her dress as a maid to attract more customers on the ground that no-one could resist her when she's wearing it (from the reactions around her while she's wearing it and after she takes it off it can be inferred to be true). Her feather cloth (the floating scarf she is always seen with) can change the appearance of an object, create disguises to aid the mission or it can hide people in plain sight. She is left-handed and is rarely seen without her broom, which she had for 298 years, as it was from her original role as a cleaner for hell. She reveals that she has an older sister that was very famous and was known as the "Demon of Demons". Ironically, despite being a demon, she is shown to have an incredible fear of ghosts and the dark.

To stay close to Keima, she tells Mari, Keima's mother, that she is an illegitimate child of Keima's father (nearly getting his parents divorced), and ends up living in the Katsuragi household as well as attending the same class in school. 

Supporting

Mari Katsuragi (桂木 麻里)

Birthday: November 25

Blood Type: AB

Height: 168cm

Weight: 49kg

BWH: 89-56-86

Keima's mother resembles a typical shōjo manga-style mother; optimistic, ditsy, and loving. However, when she is angry, Mari removes her glasses and lets her hair down and changes her personality completely. Keima claims that she used to be a part of a biker gang.

Shiori Shiomiya (汐宮 栞)
Age: 17
Birthday: 26 December
Class: 2-C
Bloodtype: B
Height: 157cm
Weight: 41kg
BWH: 78-54-80


Shiori is a quiet girl who loves to read books. She is the librarian of the enormous collection of books in the school. Keima immediately catches her attention and anger by saying that books are useless. Shiori finally brings herself to shout out at Keima after he abused, marked, and tore some books.

Kanon Nakagawa (中川 かのん)
Age: 16
Birthday: 3 March
Class: 2-B
Bloodtype: AB
Height: 161cm
Weight: 45kg
BWH: 86-58-85


Kanon is the most popular teen idol around for her beauty and singing talents. She was also in Keima and Elsie's class but had not been in school because of her idol status. However, she returns one day. She is constantly worried about the acknowledgment of her existence by others; this fear was so extreme and demonstrated when she attacked Keima with a stun gun after he said that he did not know her. Kanon hopes that her song would "resound in everyone's hearts."

Mio Aoyama (青山 美生)
Age: 16
Birthday: January 2
Class: 2-A
Blood Type: A
Height: 149 cm
Weight: 38 kg
BWH: 74-54-77


She is known as the rich girl of Maishima Academy. However, her father passed away over a year ago and has been living in an run down apartment since then. She is the second heroine to appear in the series. - I can't stop thinking about Tegami bachi and "Dingo" whenever I see her.>.<

Sora Asuka (飛鳥 空)
Job: Loop Art Club Member
Age: 17
Birthday: 11 August
Bloodtype: B
Height: 160 cm
Weight: 50 kg
BWH: 85-60-88


Heroine of "Kureyon - Sora no Art", Atelier Lilith's game for PFP that can't be cleared because of the bugs.

Chihiro Kosaka (小阪 ちひろ)
Age: 17
Birthdate: December 3
Class: 2-B
Blood type: O
Height: 158cm
Weight: 50kg
BWH: 82-61-85


A friend of Takahara Ayumi. Chihiro is a girl who tries to confess to a boy immediately after she thinks that he is handsome and attractive. However, she has confessed to many boys without positive results. Keima describes Chihiro as a "mob character" using visual novel argot.

Yuri Nikaido (二階堂 由梨)

Age: 22+

Height: 170 cm

Class: 2-B

A born sadist, Nikaido is Keima's homeroom and Japanese teacher. She has been ignoring Keima ever since he told her that there are 5012 games that are more fun than her lessons. 

Nikaido is also a school senior of Jun Nagase.

Ayumi Takahara (高原 歩美)
Age: 17
Birthday: 2 May
Class: 2-B
Bloodtype: O
Height: 158cm
Weight: 50kg
BWH: 84-60-85


A girl in Keima's class at school, Ayumi is a member of the school's track team. She is an exceptional runner and quite likely the best on the team. However, she was bullied by the upperclassmen in her team.

Others

Fujiidera (藤井寺)
The chairman of the Library committee.

Yuu Hatori (羽鳥 ゆう)

Keima's 10,000th target captured in galge.

Ichirou Kodama (児玉 一郎)
Maijima High's English teacher and the Head of Arts Clubs. Kodama's personality is similar to that of Nikaido and he has a tendency to deny students from doing what they enjoy, such as denying the creation of a Light Music Club for Chihiro's band unless they all manage to achieve 100 percent in the oncoming test.


Kodama has an insidious nature against Keima, because he cannot do anything about Keima playing games in his class due to the fact that Keima was able to ace all of the tests given out by Kodama.

Anime promotional video

Season 1. English Dub.