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 The World God Only Knows is a Romantic Comedy manga by Tamiki Wakaki serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday. It stars Keima Katsuragi, who is able to capture the heart of any girl he wishes. His ability to swoon is so profound and so famous he is known as the "Capturing God" online. Of course, all of this only applies to 2D video game girls. Keima, who despises the "real" world, is more than content to live his life in the world of games. Unfortunately for him his services are solicited by a devil named Elcea "Elsie" de Rux Ima, whose organization has duped Keima into a contract to capture runaway spirits. The spirits, who hide themselves in the hearts of girls, can be extracted if the target's heart is filled with love. Keima would love to ditch this arrangement, but if he fails to fulfill his end of the contract he'll literally lose his head. Being the resourceful pragmatist that he is, Keima sets out to utilize his capture skills in the dreadful real world. Along the way he and Elsie will find themselves embroiled in numerous misadventures, as well as some dark conspiracies that could threaten both the human and devil worlds.  It's a pretty funny manga with nice art, a good cast, and a surprisingly large-scale story. It has even delivered quite well on drama. Really, the manga just does a lot of things really well. LAST TIME ON TWGOK: We wrapped up a pretty solid capturing arc with Urara, and then a pretty dumb magical girl Kanon spin-off that everyone will probably forget about it. A third anime season has also been green-lit, which is cool because surprisingly the anime adaptions thus far have been excellent. Probably still not going to make it to Yui though  Though maybe all of this is pointless, because we can of course already see the ending...  Old Thread Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Mar 27, 2013 |
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Mar 27, 2013 01:05
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This series really is much better then it has any right to be based on its premise. It's one of those series that I have a hard time recommending to people because after I setup the basics of the plot I get looked at the kind of way that makes me interject 'No, really, it's good!' It's got some really nice humour and a good to decent plot with nice pacing. The thing that really saves it is that the characters for the most part manage to play with or at least sidestep most of the cliche pitfalls you find in this type of genre, with the main character being the most prominent example. My theory is that the creator managed to skimmed off all the bad stuff from the main series, but ran out of space to store it and had to cram all of it into the Kanon spin-off, which is easily some of the most inane, terrible poo poo I have ever read (which I guess shows that I don't read very widely).
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Mar 28, 2013 01:52
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I'm really not digging this spin-off story with the worst capture target.
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Mar 28, 2013 02:29
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Was there a break this week?
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Mar 30, 2013 16:17
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Nate RFB posted:Was there a break this week? Accoring to Red Hawk, yes. Is on break until issue 20, this week was issue 18 Edit: And just as I said that, they release a new chapter  So we finally know the reason for Keima's choosing. Dark_Tzitzimine fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Mar 30, 2013 |
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Mar 30, 2013 18:02
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New chapter's out - http://mangafox.me/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v23/c223/1.html Keima cares about Elsea after all. 
JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Mar 30, 2013 |
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Mar 30, 2013 18:59
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I'm surprised this manga went this long without making that pun before.
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Mar 30, 2013 19:08
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Present-day Keima's mom should switch back to twintails from the bun.
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Mar 30, 2013 21:39
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So I guess the teenage Dokurou is Dokurou's real body then?
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Mar 31, 2013 00:16
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Looks like it. I guess Keima's changing the timeline so that Dokurou doesn't get turned into a skeleton? SHAMELESS FANSERVICE this chapter.
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Mar 31, 2013 01:45
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Gamer, what a terrible pun.
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Mar 31, 2013 19:28
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paragon1 posted:Looks like it. I guess Keima's changing the timeline so that Dokurou doesn't get turned into a skeleton? Dokurou got turned into a skeleton long before Keima was born. It happened during the war with old hell. However, this is different from Dokurou's recent death. It seems likely that fleshy Dokurou survived. Also, this nicely explains why Elsie was sent to Keima in the first place.
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Mar 31, 2013 19:41
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Serious Frolicking posted:Dokurou got turned into a skeleton long before Keima was born. It happened during the war with old hell. However, this is different from Dokurou's recent death. It seems likely that fleshy Dokurou survived. Also, this nicely explains why Elsie was sent to Keima in the first place. I dunno. I didn't get any explanation of why Elsie was sent. Pretty good to return to Keima again. Kanon was alright but I wanted to go back to the meat of the story.
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Apr 1, 2013 17:52
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Artificer posted:I dunno. I didn't get any explanation of why Elsie was sent. Dokuro was the one who sent Elsie to Keima, telling her that he was the man who could capture any girl and that it had to be done with love. None of the other devils really use love, but it was the key to awakening the goddesses. And now Dokuro has told Keima that she will leave the goddesses to him. It is a time loop thing.
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Apr 1, 2013 20:05
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tangential unrelated questions: -Keima's dad: Friend or Foe? Saturn to Keima's Jupiter or used car salesman red herring? -If the katakana for this character's name is "ツアー", ("Tour") why is that translated by Redhawk as "Gira"? Is this another case of the author having a creative romanization, or was Redhawk taking liberties with the translation? And if it was Redhawk, what else have they fiddled with? Does that mean I'm forced to live the rest of my life plagued with doubt and distrust of everything, and everyone?
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Apr 2, 2013 01:12
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If you look at the bottom of that page you linked, it says that Gira is spanish for tour. I guess they felt that Tour in english didn't sound like a girl's name.
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Apr 2, 2013 04:17
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Zogundar posted:tangential unrelated questions: Also Elsie's sister.
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Apr 2, 2013 04:25
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Sleeping Sigma posted:If you look at the bottom of that page you linked, it says that Gira is spanish for tour. So this was probably Redhawk and not Tamiki Wakaki? drat you Redhawk! Although her real name is hard to search for in any language I tried doing it once and all that came up was stuff about tours unrelated to TWOGK. 
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Apr 3, 2013 00:49
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That image in the OP reminds me that I need to go back and re-read this series. So many fun arcs.
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Apr 3, 2013 02:20
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Zogundar posted:So this was probably Redhawk and not Tamiki Wakaki? Wikis are usually wrong about things.
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Apr 4, 2013 07:57
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Yeah, Redhawk definitely takes liberties with translation, but not in the way you suspect.
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Apr 4, 2013 11:28
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failedninja posted:
*sigh* I did try to find the raw for that chapter a couple of times, but I was obviously not successful. I will thus redirect my anger toward the Wiki. Where the flip did they get "ツアー" from "ギラ"? I don't care if you can't read Japanese, this isn't crazy illegible squished together variant kana handwriting, it's right there in a typed font. 
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Apr 4, 2013 17:23
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New Chapter Plot heavy issue 'Me haff no clue' 
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Apr 14, 2013 00:35
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I really don't understand how Dokuro's orb plan even worked but whatever.
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Apr 14, 2013 00:44
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God some of those pages were hysterical. Also I like how this is literally a plan almost lifted straight out of a Visual Novel.RatHat posted:I really don't understand how Dokuro's orb plan even worked but whatever.
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Apr 14, 2013 00:57
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Well uh, that's quite the twist  So suddenly TWGOK is now an Uchikoshi VN.
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Apr 14, 2013 01:07
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It's actually pretty clever. The mangaka doesn't fail to make things work out. An interesting spin on "I can see the ending".
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Apr 14, 2013 01:08
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I guess the manga really is wrapping up. I don't think you write something like this unless you're near the End end, even to close off a major arc. It's kind of hard to top this plan.
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Apr 14, 2013 01:27
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That girl in panel 1 of page 7 is unrecognizable. I think? Any ideas? Also holy poo poo, yeah this is like a VN now. Oh man. I can see paradoxes already.  
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Apr 14, 2013 01:54
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Nate RFB posted:God some of those pages were hysterical. Also I like how this is literally a plan almost lifted straight out of a Visual Novel. Super Jay Mann posted:Well uh, that's quite the twist
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Apr 14, 2013 02:00
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Krinkle posted:If you're going to be vague about which one why even spoiler it? (which one are you thinking about it sounds like a few but not quite)
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Apr 14, 2013 02:07
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I like how Dokurou is cheating in the exact way I would if I had access to time travel.
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Apr 14, 2013 02:39
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TWGOK: Infinite
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Apr 14, 2013 02:53
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I can already see the beginning. 
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Apr 14, 2013 03:36
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Einander posted:I guess the manga really is wrapping up. I don't think you write something like this unless you're near the End end, even to close off a major arc. It's kind of hard to top this plan.
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Apr 14, 2013 14:50
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Artificer posted:That girl in panel 1 of page 7 is unrecognizable. I think? Any ideas? That's not any particular girl in the series. It's a "generic faceless girl" representing all the girls he's had to conquer.
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Apr 14, 2013 14:57
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New Chapter I just don't know anymore  It seems that the Weiss were released before the expected
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Apr 21, 2013 01:00
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I stopped trying to predict what would happen in this manga long ago and just decided to roll with it. It's one of those few stories that is just unconventional enough that I can't predict what will happen, but not so unconventional that I can't tell what is going on. I guess I need to play more games.
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Apr 21, 2013 01:11
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Oh gently caress. A wrench has been thrown into Keima's works.
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Apr 21, 2013 01:19
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Not sure what there is to be alarmed about, since it could be anything. For all we know this has to happen anyway.
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