Okay, this post will be the first of many that are brief reviews of a series I have just finished. The honor of the first post goes to "The World God Only Knows," a series that revolves around a single boy who is an expert at playing "Dating sims." If you're not familiar with that, its a decently large genre of video gaming in Japan in which you follow along as part of the story, making decisions with the goal being to strike up a relationship with one of the other characters. The end game typically being a successful relationship. I'm not really a big fan of these, they seem a little weird and have tried one. Frankly, I'd rather watch an anime or tv show than play through one of these games. But anyway, that is not the real topic of this post. In this series, there exist these sort of, spirit hunters who are spirits themselves. I use the term spirit hunters so I don't have to explain the japanese word origin. Anyway, a bunch of souls escape containment and begin jumping into humans all over the place. The only way to free the humans is to get them to fall in love, at which point the spirit hunter will gather the soul and seal it. At the beginning of the series you have a spirit hunter making a pact with the God of Conquest, a teenage boy who does nothing but play dating sims games, even in class at school, sometimes playing more than one at once. He is famous among the fans of the dating sim genre as the best there is, so of course he applies this talent to the girls who have been possessed and ends up conquering girl after girl, each of which forget it all afterwards.
So, while it was funny and enjoyable, I'd give it a 6/10. Not a waste of my time, but probably not going to watch it again.
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