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The World God Only Knows (TV).

I'm really not understanding the love for it. How is this different to a good chunk of the high school romantic harem stuff already out there? The premise is laughably simple. I assume every week he's going to have to win another girl over to release the blah blah blah yaaaaaawn. Sorry, that's not enough to hold my interest.

eta: actually, just went and read your preview, Key (my comments above were in reaction to what you wrote in this thread). From what I can see, you have committed a cardinal sin of reviewing: you reviewed a show that doesn't exist: i.e. the one you wanted in your head.

Yeah, that's my real problem with Key's review.

The worst kind of review you can do is basically have it amount to "this isn't the show I wanted it to be. Therefore it sucks."

What I would consider key are a) his backtalk to the teacher where he tells her exactly what's more interesting than her class and b) the part of his narrated self-introduction where he says he's good at every school subject. These are two small scenes early on that were obviously cut for time purposes, but form the audience's central understanding of the character that affects how they view future events.

In the anime, he's a slacker who doesn't pay attention in class. He's a loser who retreats from reality into his video games and doesn't deserve any respect, and nor does he get any. However, he's got a big ego that he applies to games. Given what happens next, the natural progression of this story is for him to be hilariously forced to confront the "real" that he hates so much and slowly gain the confidence and motivation he needs to grow as a person.

In the manga, he's an eccentric genius. He doesn't pay attention in class because he doesn't need to. He's extremely precise and organized, and he doesn't care in the slightest about what people think about him. He's someone who could easily be successful in the "real" but chooses not to because of his obsession with the perfection of fantasy. He's a larger than life character who we want to see do awesome and improbable things simply because he can.

While I am a big fan of the manga something about the anime did bug me. Something felt off. It may have been their choice of seiyuu but something I read elsewhere actually pointed out my problem nicely.

I agree with this. Did anyone else get the same feeling from Ep 1?

I hope the anime does better at reflecting these things about him. Some of the highlights of the series are his epic rants. Whether I keep watching or stick to the manga will depend on how they handle the "BMW" rant that should be in the next episode.

Good god that quoted rant is ridic, I guess they should've added those scenes and cut down on Ayumi's screentime instead. I mean adding in the Ayumi scenes during Mio's arc would be much more easier than Keima backtalking his teacher and showing how smart he is. Those scenes couldn't possibly be included at any other time in the show whereas we can slot Ayumi falling over into the middle of any other arc in the show.