The World God Only Knows
The cover of The World God Only Knows volume 3 as published by Shogakukan
神のみぞ知るセカイ (Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai)
Genre	Romance-Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
Manga
Written by	Tamiki Wakaki
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	April 9, 2008 – ongoing
Volumes	18 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written by	Mamizu Arisawa
Illustrated by	Tamiki Wakaki
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Gagaga Bunko
Published	May 19, 2009
TV anime
Directed by	Shigehito Takayanagi
Written by	Hideyuki Kurata
Music by	Hayato Matsuo
Studio	Manglobe
Licensed by	Madman Entertainment Sentai Filmworks Manga Entertainment
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 6, 2010 – December 22, 2010
Episodes	12 + 1 preview OVA (September 2010) (List of episodes)
TV anime
The World God Only Knows II
Directed by	Shigehito Takayanagi
Written by	Hideyuki Kurata
Music by	Hayato Matsuo
Studio	Manglobe
Licensed by	Madman Entertainment Sentai Filmworks
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	April 12, 2011 – June 28, 2011
Episodes	12 + 1 sequel OVA (September 2011) (List of episodes)
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The World God Only Knows (神のみぞ知るセカイ^?, Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai), abbreviated as Kaminomi (神のみ^?),^[1][2] is a manga series written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki. The manga has been serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine by Shogakukan since April 9, 2008, with individual chapters collected into eightteen tankōbon volumes as of July 2012. The prototype version of the story was first featured as a one-shot in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on its 2007 Issue 32 release, and was titled "Koishite!? Kami-sama!!" (恋して!? 神様^?). The 2010 Issue #19 of Weekly Shōnen Sunday announced an anime adaptation had been green-lit, which premiered on October 6, 2010.

Plot

Keima Katsuragi, a second-year high school student, is an avid bishōjo game player. He is known on the Internet as "The God of Conquests" (落とし神 Otoshi-gami^?) for his legendary skills to be able to "conquer" any 2D girl in games. However, in his actual school life, Keima is known as otamegane (オタメガネ^?), a derogatory portmanteau of the two words otaku (オタク^?) and megane (メガネ^?, "glasses"), and is considered nothing but an intelligent yet gloomy geek with glasses.
At the start of the series, Keima receives an e-mail offering him a contract to "conquer" girls. When he accepts it, thinking it is an invitation to a game, a demon from Hell named Elsie appears. She asks for his cooperation to help her in catching runaway spirits: Loose Souls. These spirits hide themselves inside the hearts of girls, and Elsie suggests that the only method to force the spirits out is by "conquering" the girls hearts, making them fall in love with him and filling up the gaps which the runaway spirits hide in. Interested only in video game girls, however, Keima is appalled by the idea, and refuses the assignment as he has no romantic real life experiences whatsoever. Nevertheless, with the contract already agreed, Keima has no choice but to help Elsie no matter what, as they will be beheaded if they fail.
After winning the hearts of several girls (and capturing the spirits residing in them), Keima and Elsie are given an even greater mission, awaken the "Jupiter Sisters", six godessess who are daughters of the god Jupiter. Each sister is dormant into the heart of one girl among those they had previously helped, thus Keima must locate them and conquer their hearts a second time, as all girls had their memories of falling in love with him erased. However, the time for Keima to awaken and assemble all godessess is limited as he must do so to prevent an imminent invasion of the human realm by a rebellious group of demons called "Vintage".
Aside from focusing on Keima and Elsie's adventures, the series also makes fun and parodying common and popular cliches about dating sims, anime character stereotypes, and pop culture.

List of The World God Only Knows characters

This is a list of characters from the manga, light novels and anime series, The World God Only Knows (神のみぞ知るセカイ Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai^?) by Tamiki Wakaki.

Main Characters

Keima Katsuragi (桂木 桂馬 Katsuragi Keima)

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (Japanese)

 

, Chris Patton (English)

Keima is the series' main protagonist. A 17-year-old high school student from Maijima Academy, he has an obsessive interest in video games since an early age where he soon became known as "The Capturing God" (落とし神 Otoshi-gami) on the internet and gaming world for his legendary skills in "capturing" any girls in dating sims especially Bishōjo games. Yet ironically in real life, he is called otamegane (オタメガネ) (a derogatory portmanteau of the two words otaku (オタク) and megane (メガネ, "glasses")) by almost everyone in his school due to his extreme devotion to games. Due to his devotion, the only kind of girls he likes are the girls of the game world as they are, according to him, perfect and with no flaws unlike in real life. His love for games is such that he even goes into withdrawal if he doesn't play enough and has a bad habit of locking himself in his room and playing games for days on end when he's depressed. Keima seldom neglects to save his game no matter what situation he is in, despite him being in extreme pain or danger.

At the start of the series, Keima becomes involved in catching the Loose Souls, or Weiss, which have hidden themselves in the hearts of girls when he replies and accepts an email from Docrow Skull. As a result, having no full knowledge on what he signed on to, Keima is forced by contractual agreement to help Elise or suffer the death penalty alongside her. Using his games as a reference, Keima first tries to know about a girl's background and problems, planning various scenarios with the girl or do things together with her to make her like him. When he finally figures out the girls are falling in love with him and he just needs to do one more final push, he utters his catchphrase "I can see the ending".

In the beginning, Keima only helps Elsie conquer the hearts of girls in order finish his contract and go back to his "normal life" but as the series progress, Keima soon learns to start appreciate and care for the girls he conquered and promises to help them even though most of them have their memories erased after falling in love with him. This is even true for his view of the real world, something he once considered a world he doesn't want to be involved but now sees it as not such a bad thing. However, he still insists that the game world and its girls are still better. After conquering 14 girls, Keima is 'recruited' by Diana, one of the goddesses of the Jupiter Sisters, to help her find her sisters who may have resided within the girls he conquered before as the Jupiter Sisters have the power to reseal the Loose Souls and thus finishing his contract). But he soon gets involved in a conspiracy when a mysterious group from Hell called Vintage plans to revive the Old Demons of Hell known as the Weiss, the spirits he has been capturing. After Kanon is injured by a Vintage assassin for possessing a Goddess inside of her, Keima, regrets not protecting her and plans to find the other goddesses quickly in a week in order to save her life.

Whenever he isn't capturing spirits, he is almost always seen playing games on his PFP (a parody of Sony's PSP). Due to his habit of playing games all the time (including in class), he is physically weak. Yet despite his gaming habits, he is a genius in every subject and manages to get the top marks in his class. Although he has very little gaming experience outside of video games, he can pick up any game (including chess) and excel at it. Due to his snobbish and manipulative attitude, he tends to get the nerve of people including his friends and family yet despite these negative attributes, he has displayed genuine kindness and caring to others. In one point of the story, he switched bodies with a girl named Yui and got addicted with Otome games (Dating sims for girls) and even acted like a girl too. Since returning to his body, he blushes and acts like a girl whenever he's with Yui.

His first name is derived from the term "gamer".^[1] In addition, his first name is also the same as the name of a shogi piece, which is similar to the knight in international chess.

Elysia de Rux Ima (エリュシア・デ・ルート・イーマ Erushia de Lūte Īma)

Voiced by: Kanae Itō (Japanese)

 

, Luci Christian (English)

Elysia or Elsie (エルシィ Erushii) as she is commonly known, is the series' Deuteragonist and Keima's partner. Elsie is a 300-year-old demon from Hell who has been sent to Earth to capture Loose Souls as a Spirit Hunter. Despite her age, she often acts childishly. Elsie has a sweet, pure and innocent personality. She is clumsy and easily distracted, which causes Keima to consider her unreliable.

At the start of the series, she meets Keima after he signs Docrow Skull's contract. Under the mistaken impression that he was a womanizer, she learns that he misunderstood the email and is actually a womanizer of game girls. As breaking the contract results in death for both the demon and human, she desperately manages to convince him that girls in real life are similar to those in games. She assists Keima in conquering the hearts of girls so she can catch the loose spirits inside of them.

In order to remain close with Keima without causing suspicion, she creates the role of his younger sister (and subsequently refers to him as "Kami-nii-sama" (Divine Brother)) by claiming that she is the illegitimate daughter of Keima’s father. She provides a forged letter to Keima’s mother, which allows her to live in the Katsuragi household and attend the same class as him.

Prior to the story’s beginning, she was a cleaner for 298 years until recruited by the spirit hunters. Elsie seized the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of her older sister, a famed spirit hunter. Elsie uses several items that she brought with her from the demon world. They include a long, floating scarf which can change the appearance of an object, enable her to fly, create disguises or hide people in plain sight, a skull-shaped hair ornament that detects loose spirits, and a magical broom from her previous job.

There are several running gags about Elsie including her cooking, which while pleasing and delicious to demons, is disgusting to humans due to her use of ingredients from hell. Her misunderstanding of human culture often leads to comical situations and her passion for fire trucks often sidetracks her from whatever task is at hand.

Due to her friendly and cheerful attitude, she has made many human friends, some of whom are the same girls whose hearts Keima has captured. Despite being her "husband's illegitimate child", Keima’s mother Mari adores Elsie and treats her like her own daughter. She is a big fan of the idol singer Kanon and is also the bassist in Chihiro’s band, known as the "2B Pencils", together with Ayumi, Chihiro, Yui and Miyako.

While Kanon was comatose, Elsie had been posing as her in order to prevent suspicion, and while she knows how to sing and dance like Kanon, she still acted like herself.

Haqua du Rot Herminium (ハクア・ド・ロット・ヘルミニウム Hakua do Lotto Heruminiumu)

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese)

 

, Jessica Boone (English)

Haqua is a spirit hunter and friend of Elsie. A 300-year-old demon, she was an honors student and is the District Chief of Area 32 in Nagumo City. A perfectionist by nature, she was always the best in school, but has found the professional world to be impossible to dominate in the same way. Unwilling to adapt, her lack of success creates further failures and results in her own depression which lead to a loose soul controlling her, but she was freed by Elsie and Keima.

Due to her intellect and knowledge, Keima uses her to get a better understanding of demons, their history, and his own plight and occasionally entrusts her with information he hides from Elsie. While Haqua develops feelings for Keima, his odd behavior and personality irritate her. Apparently, Hakua can be considered a bit of a tsundere when dealing with Keima. She is one of the most frequent to cause Keima bodily harm, usually do to the fact that she's embarrassed. A recurring gag is how Keima usually walks in on Haqua in the bathroom or vice versa usually when she is in an embarrassing situation and it normally ends with Keima being hurt one way or another. Haqua also substituted for Elsie while the latter was posing as Kanon and was Keima's partner in rounding up the goddesses.

As a spirit hunter, she possesses a skull-shaped hair ornament and magical raiment like Elsie’s but also the 'Scythe of Testament', a scythe awarded to the class Valedictorian. She lives with her human partner, an old woman named Yukie who treats her like a daughter, teaching her how to cook human food and embarrassing her in front of Keima, whom she originally assumes to be Haqua's boyfriend.

After Haqua is arrested by Vintage loyalists after she discovers how much they have infiltrated into the spirit hunters and replace Haqua with one of their agents, she is rescued by Docrow Skull who smuggled her back to the human world to help Keima.

Her first name is derived from "Cretaceous (白亜 Hakua)".

Tenri Ayukawa (鮎川 天理 Ayukawa Tenri)

A shy 17-year-old girl from Maijima Municipal Misato East High School. A reticent childhood friend of Keima, she was his neighbor before his family moved seven years ago. In the present, she and her mother visits the Katsuragis where Keima does not remember her well. Unknown to Keima at first, he believes Tenri has a spirit inside of her but in reality it is a Goddess named Diana. Ten years ago during a school trip, both Keima and Tenri got lost in an underground cave where they both witness the Weiss (what evil spirits where called before) escaping from Hell and were saved by Diana who agreed to take over Tenri's body. In order to save Diana, who is being chased by Nora who believes Tenri has a spirit inside of her, Keima pretends to capture Tenri's heart and kiss her and have Elsie release a weak spirit in order to fool Nora. After that incident, Tenri's family soon moves next door to Keima's home.

Tenri has been in love with Keima since they were children as she admired his ability to remain calm and collected no matter the situation. Despite Diana suggesting that Tenri should do more to make Keima fall for her, Tenri is just fine with their current relationship of being friends. She also enjoys doing magic tricks and playing with bubble wrap.

As Diana's host, whenever Diana takes over Tenri's body, she is able to perform and do amazing feats that Tenri is unable to. While she usually does nothing when Diana takes over, Tenri will sometimes interfere if Diana does something she disapproves, especially when it comes to Diana's attempts to make her and Keima closer. While not taking over, Diana can communicate and see others via reflective surfaces like glass or mirrors. Because of Diana's knowledge about Heaven's involvement with the New Hell regime, Keima usually meets Tenri to discuss with Diana about these topics. With recent events of Keima trying to find Diana's other sister Goddesses, Keima has warned Tenri to be careful as to not catch the attention of those targeting the Goddesses.

Tenri's name is derived from Tenri Station (天理駅 Tenri-eki) and her character design is modeled after Diana Barry, from Anne of Green Gables.

Conquered Targets

The following are the girls in the manga/anime that were once possessed by the Weiss. Each of the girls had a personal problem that allowed the spirits to hide inside their hearts where it feeds on their negative emotions and grows stronger. A side-effect of the possession is that the more powerful a Weiss gets, the host starts to manifest unique powers which is reflective of their personality. Most Weiss stay in their host until they are reborn as the girls' first born child; however, if the spirits are not removed before it becomes too powerful, they will take over their host. To prevent this, Keima tries to find out the girls' problems, try to solve it and make them fall in love with him (although there are variations for some of them). Once the spirit is forced out and captured, the girls' memories, including those of their acquaintances, are erased and modified by the Spirit Hunters, yet the girls' feelings for Keima and change of outlook remain. Each of the girls that Keima has helped are listed here chronologically.

Ayumi Takahara (高原 歩美 Takahara Ayumi)

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese), Kaytha Coker (Season 1), Elizabeth Bunch (Season 2) (English)

Keima's first conquest. An athletic, cheery 17-year-old girl, Ayumi is a member of the school's track-and-field team and Keima's classmate. She and Keima are often paired up for cleaning duty together which the latter despises due to her absentmindedness. She also tends to run carelessly into people. As Keima's first target, he tries to get her interested with him by showing his support (with Elsie's help) while she is training for the upcoming track-and-field tournament. While she at first is annoyed with his actions, she eventually gets used to him. However, the day before the tournament, Ayumi is confronted by jealous seniors and sprains her ankle during practice. However, Keima figures out that she faked her injury as the peer pressure from her seniors made her lack self-confidence. Keima consoles her and tells her to believe in herself, which makes her fall for Keima and kisses him, forcing the Loose Soul out. After winning the tournament and getting praised by her seniors, she becomes more eager to spend time with Keima and starts calling by his last name Katsuragi instead of his nickname Otamegane.

She is also friends with Elsie, Miyako, Chihiro and Yui where they a form a rock band called the "2B Pencils" with Ayumi as the Guitarist. Recently, Keima has suspected that she maybe a Goddess host due to Ayumi being interested with him and getting jealous over Kanon's confession to Keima. During Keima's search for the Jupiter Sisters, Keima gets sick and uses it as pretense to have Ayumi visit him to confirm her as the host of the Goddess Mercury. Keima only confirmed that Ayumi is Mercury's host after he makes a move on Chihiro instead. Angry at Keima for rejecting Chihiro after she confesses to him, Ayumi has become according to him, his most difficult girl to conquer, given the now strained relationship between the three and the fact that time is running out for him to assemble the goddesses as Vintage's invasion on the human world is about to begin. With the help of Chihiro, Keima manages to become closer to Ayumi once more, but this final conquest has proven even more difficult than he predicted, as not only she asked him in marriage, to which he agreed, but for the first time in a conquest, Ayumi asked Keima if he truly loves her, something he never said to any of the other girls.

Her surname is derived from Takanohara Station (高の原駅 Takanohara-eki) and her habit of tying up her hair during track-and-field is a homage to Dōkyūsei's heroine, Misa Tanaka.

Mio Aoyama (青山 美生 Aoyama Mio)

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)

A short, blonde 16-year-old girl from Majima Academy. An elitist with an imperious and disdainful pride, she is the daughter of the President of Aoyama Central Industries. As Keima's second target, Keima at first believes he can easily win her heart due to Mio displaying typical Tsundere characteristics but when he and Elsie secretly followed her home, learning that Mio's family fortune has fallen after her father died. Now living with her mother now lives in a shabby apartment, Mio refuses to accept this out of pride and maintain her upper class appearance. Taking advantage of knowing her secret to get close, Keima becomes her chauffeur after her old chauffeur Morita quits over her stubborn pride, riding her to school in various Cycle rickshaws made by Elsie with Mio warming up to him eventually. After taking Mio to a party for the rich, Keima confronts her with the truth that what motivates her facade: Her refusal to accept her father's death and letting go of the past. Keima convinces her to accept the past and move on as this is what her father would want, which makes Mio fall for Keima as she realize he cares about her, which allows him to kiss her and forces the spirit out. Soon after the Loose Soul in her is captured upon being convinced to move on with her life, Mio accepted her father's death and financial situation yet still acts prideful with an interest in Keima though her memory of their time together was removed.

When Keima encounters Mio again while he is in Yui's body, she is now working at a bakery to help her mother. Due to her memories being modified, Mio is unsure and thinks Morita went with her to that party that night. Seeing Mio getting better, Keima wishes her good luck which Mio finds familiar.

Her surname is derived from Aoyamachō Station (青山町駅 Aoyamachō-eki). Also, Mio originally appeared in Wakaki's one-shot prototype Make Love?! God!! (恋して?! 神様！! Koishite?! Kami-sama!!) with the surname "Tsumagawa".

Kanon Nakagawa (中川 かのん Nakagawa Kanon)

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

A 16 year old teen idol and a classmate of Keima's who wears glasses when she is at school and in private. Suffering a slight Histrionic personality disorder as a result of people ignoring or unaware about her, Kanon sought attention to be acknowledged by becoming a member of the pop idol group Citron with Lime and Yuri two years prior. However, Citron disbanded due to Kanon's popularity as she went solo. and manages to make a name for herself as a hit sensation with her quaint style, beauty and singing talent. When Kanon finally returns to school after making a name for herself, Kanon is shocked that Keima doesn't really know who she is and tazes him in disillusioned rage before leaving. Bent on Keima acknowledging her, Kanon borderlines to Yandere tendencies as she forces him to attend private performances. Learning of the Loose Soul in her, Keima at first tries to ignore her attempts to win his attention to understand her problem. But once he sees her turn invisible due to the power of the Weiss reacting to her depression and need to be acknowledged, Keima changes strategy by supporting her and boosting her confidence. However, on the day of her Christmas Eve concert at Narusawa Seaside Hall, Kanon is overwhelmed by her fear of screwing up her career and turns invisible while running out. But Keima finds Kanon and encourages to believe in herself as she doesn't need others to prove her existence since she affirmed it with all her hard work to become an idol. Encouraged by his words, Kanon thanks him and kisses him, forcing the Loose Soul out. Becoming more confident, and finding her former bandmates hold no animosity against her and even encourage her new solo career, Kanon returns to her concert to do an amazing performance where Keima acknowledges her as a shining star.

Though her memories were altered, Kanon begins to remember her time with Keima as a result of being a host of the Goddess Apollo. However, she becomes the target of Fiore of Vintage which causes Kanon to be paranoid to the point she reveals to Keima she still remembers him and confesses her love to him in front of their class. But before Keima can do anything, Apollo takes over and runs away but is soon stabbed by Fiore with an enchanted cursed dagger and placed in a coma. Though Vulcan removed the dagger was released and her life was put out of danger, Kanon is still comatose due to Apollo's power "sinking". With the help of four of the Jupiter Sisters, Keima manages to contact Kanon within her dream world where both she and Apollo warn Keima of an upcoming threat.

Her surname was mistakenly written as Nishihara by the author in the Magazine serialization, but was later corrected in the manga volumes to her real surname Nakagawa, which is derived from Ise-Nakagawa Station (伊勢中川駅 Ise-Nakagawa-eki).

Shiori Shiomiya (汐宮 栞 Shiomiya Shiori)

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)

A very shy and reticent 16 year old bibliophile who is the liberian and secretary of the Majima Academy Library Committee, she is a school librarian with her position in the committee as the secretary. Like Keima, since kindergarten, Shiori sought to escape from reality through books due her extremely shy nature. When Elsie first encounters Shiori and detects a spirit inside of her, Keima purposely angers Shiori in their encounters to have her she confusingly speaks out her inner thoughts so he can speak to her normally. But when Shiroi learns the Library Committee are planning to dispose many books for a media room, she locks herself in the library in a protest. Learning of this, Keima reveals to Shiori that she is really protecting herself due to her conflicting wish to speak out to others and fear of offending people. However Keima vows to be her support she needs and kisses her, not only forcing the spirit out but allowing Shiori to speak for herself as she convinces the Library Committee to have a meeting over how to deal with the fate of the disposed books.

However, though her memory was altered, Shiori had some faint memories of her encounters with Keima and proceeded to write a story based on what she could remembered. During his search for the goddesses, Keima learns of the book to his dismay while realizing that Shiroi is a goddess's host, later confirmed when he meets Minerva. However, as the goddess is able to assume physical form outside her body, Shiori is unaware of Minerva who is too shy to formally introduce herself. Keima tries to repair their relationship after Shiori catches cross-dressing while he was dating Yui, by revealing he does remember their time together and helps her write a story for the school festival and for him to read. After suffering from Writer's Block, Shiori, with the help of Minerva, manages to write a story of her love for books but especially her love for Keima. Keima reads the story, telling her he enjoyed it and kisses her on the cheek, which restore Minerva's powers. After Keima leaves but not before giving her magical bracelet, Minerva properly introduces herself to Shiori.

Her surname is derived from Shionomiya Station (汐ノ宮駅 Shionomiya-eki).

Kusunoki Kasuga (春日 楠 Kasuga Kusunoki)

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Maggie Flecknoe (English)

A 18 year old tomboy, third-year Majima Academy student and head and only member of the Girl's Karate Club. A practitioner of Kenpō, Kusunoki is the heir to her father's dojo and their family's martial arts called Koshikibujutsu Kasugaryuu Rashinkassatsujutsu (古式武術 春日流 羅新活殺術, Ancient Martial Arts, Kasuga-Style, Life And Death Technique). Keima and Elsie meet Kusunoki when she saved them from delinquents but also looks down on Keima's weakness. Upon learning that she is his next target and investigating by becoming her disciple in the Karate club, Keima's learns that Kusunoki is trying to be masculine in order to become her father's successor by suppressing her feminine side. However, Kusunoki secretly likes cute things but tries to despise them and stay away from them as she sees her femininity as a weakness. As her personality continues to polarize, the spirit inside of her causes Kusunoki feminine side to manifest itself. In order to draw out her feminine personality, Keima convinces Kusunoki to do do a very girlish activity; go on a date with him. After drawing it out where both the masculine Kusunoki and her feminine side fight it out over which personality should be the dominant one, Keima manages to convince both personalities to accept each other which her feminine side agrees to merge with Kusunoki as long as the latter accepts her femininity. Before completely merging, Kusunoki's feminine side takes over Kusunoki to kiss Keima to remember their date, which forces the spirit out.

Since then, Kusunoki has opened up to her femininity which includes liking cute things and adopting a pet cat with new members joining the Girl's Karate Club. When Keima joins her family dojo in order to get to his next target, her older sister Hinoki, he learns she still remembers Keima during his time as her disciple but not during their date which she believes he ran away. He also learns that Kusunoki's femininity problems before stems from her sister Hinoki, who she admired the most, left for America after having a disagreement with their father over inheriting the dojo, and in order to fill the void Hinoki left, she focuses herself in martial arts to become what she was when Keima first meet her. Yet, Kusunoki becomes a valuable help later when a powerful Weiss takes over her sister's body where both she and Keima goes into Hinoki's heart to fight a possessed Hinoki. As the sisters battle, the possessed Hinoki reveals her hatred for Kusunoki for forcing her to maintain the image of the perfect older sister and denying her right to be who she really wanted to be. Kusunoki at first is reluctant to hurt Hinoki but after some encouragement from Keima, Kusunoki is able to defeat the spirit possessing her sister and tells Hinoki she apologize for what she had go through as she never wanted a perfect sister, she just wanted the older sister she loved and would still admire Hinoki no matter what path she choose which finally calms Hinoki's heart and forces the Weiss out. After Hinoki's Weiss was captured, the supernatural events that both she and Hinoki experienced were erased from their memories, yet the relationship between the Kasuga sisters is repaired.

The cause of Kusunoki's negative emotions was her conflicted feelings to become masculine or feminine.

Her surname is derived from Kasuga Station (春日駅 Kasuga-eki^?). Her forename Kusunoki is the Japanese name of the Cinnamomum camphora.

Chihiro Kosaka (小阪 ちひろ Kosaka Chihiro)

Voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Serena Varghese (Season 1), Brittney Karbowski (Season 2) (English)

A 17 year old classmate and close friend of Ayumi and Elsie. A very average girl with no redeeming features whatsoever, she likes to make fun of Keima and his gaming habit but is helpful to Elsie. When Keima learns she is his next target, he refuses to get involve with her as she had insulted him earlier and the fact according to his gaming argot, acts like a background character with no defining characteristics. But upon seeing her cry after a popular boy she confess rejected her, feeling sorry, he tries to console her but he immediately changes his mind upon learning this is not the first time she has done this and will quickly get over it and find another popular boy she likes which leads to a fight between the two where he accuses her of playing around with love. Worried about them, Ayumi tricks both of them into cleaning duty, where Chihiro makes Keima help her to successfully confess to another boy which Keima agrees since he won't have to make her fall in love with him. With the time he spends helping her confession, ironically, Chihiro falls for Keima instead due to their similarities of having a sense of disappointment with the real world, which Keima does not take lightly when he learns she wants to call off the confession. After an argument between the two and realizing he never consider her feelings, Keima chases after Chihiro and confronts her where she shouts her feelings to him that an average girl like her can never be special but he kisses and tells her, as long as she truly wants it, nothing can stop her from becoming special, which forces the spirit out.

Afterward, Chihiro's attitude towards Keima improves despite still making fun of him and with new confidence, she starts an all-female Rock band called the "2B Pencils" together with Ayumi, Elsie, Miyako and Yui with her as the band's singer and lead guitarist. During his search for the goddesses, Keima suspects Chihiro is a host as she acted with jealousy since Kanon confessed to him. Later in Keima's "sick play" scenario, Chihiro, after performing her little made up tune, confesses to Keima. After many consideration, Keima came to the conclusion that between Chihiro and Ayumi, Chihiro is a goddess host and tries to conquer her during the school festival, but his guess is proven wrong and he tries to reverse the situation by harshly rejecting her after she kisses him, but his plan backfires as Ayumi, who was eavesdropping on them, becomes angry on his treatment on her and starts avoiding him. Later Chihiro is dragged into Keima's effort to conquer Ayumi, and despite learning that he must win her heart as fast as possible, she disapproves his game-related schemes, claiming that to do so he should be truly honest about his feelings for her instead.

The cause of Chihiro's negative emotions was her belief that she can never be special and will always be average.

Her surname is derived from Kawachi-Kosaka Station (河内小阪駅 Kawachi-Kosaka-eki^?).

Jun Nagase (長瀬 純 Nagase Jun)

Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English)

A 21 year old Narusawa Kyōiku University student, Maijima Academy graduate and Nikaido's junior. Returning to Maijima Academy as a student teacher for Keima's class, she is very passionate to help her students. Innocent and naive, she is a fan of the pro wrestler Jumbo Tsuruma. Concerned that Keima's is a troubled child, she tries to help him to open up and give-up on video games. But Keima, learning she has a spirit inside of her and in an attempt to get rid of it, does his best to try and get her angry, such as playing more games in class but his plans backfire which only causes her to be more concerned about him instead, which infuriates him. Eventually, Keima does cares about her when he unintentionally upsets her, causing her to try to help the other students in his class. After Keima asks Nikaido about her past, she reveals that both she and Jun were on the high school basketball team with Jun as the Team Captain but Jun passionate desire to aim for the championship caused the rest of the team to quit because they felt she was just forcing her ideals onto them. After her over-zealousness leads to a disagreement with the students in class, Keima confronts her and reveals that the problem wasn't because she was trying too hard but she was just giving up too easily and tells her to continue to follow her beliefs and not give up. Right afterward, the whole class (thanks to Keima's manipulations) reconciles with Jun. Before returning to Narusawa University after her time as a student teacher is over, she tells Keima that she will become a better teacher, make him give up video games and kisses him which expels the spirit.

During Keima and Haqua's search for the Jupiter Sisters, they encounter Jun at her university who still remembers him. When he claims he has become a better student and Haqua is his girlfriend, Jun congratulates him without showing any signs of jealousy which Keima sees as proof that she doesn't have a goddess inside her as her memories of falling in love with him are gone.

The cause of Jun's negative emotions was her doubt of having her ideals coming true.

Her surname is derived from Nagase Station (長瀬駅 Nagase-eki^?).

Tsukiyo Kujyō (九条 月夜 Kujyō Tukiyo)

A short, blond 17 year old Majima Academy student and the only member of the Astronomy Club. The daughter of designer Yoko Kujyō, she rarely attends class and is frequently on the school rooftop in her private observatory to watch the moon with her doll Luna which she holds dearly. Her cold personality comes from watching her parents fighting and later divorcing when she was younger, which made Tsukiyo hate the real world and wish she could live on the moon, her ideal world with Luna, a metaphor for her desire to escape reality. Keima encounters her and finding out she has a spirit after they both get into an argument over what is "true beauty". Later that night while watching the moon, she wishes she was beautiful just like Luna which the spirit inside of her shrinks her to Luna's size. Keima discovers her problem and with the help of Elsie, assists Tsukiyo with her situation. However, Tsukiyo begins to grow comfortable with her new life which Keima fears it will only widen the gap in her heart so he and Elsie make her new environment more bigger in order to frighten Tsukiyo by making her think she has become smaller but she later discovers the ruse and escapes to the roof. Keima confronts her there where he convince her despite what she believes, there is beauty within the real world. However, she accidentally falls but Keima jumps down to catch her and the two kiss and saved by Elsie's magical raiment. In the aftermath, Tsukiyo still goes to her observatory with Luna but without the carpet that acted as a border between her ideal world and the real world and watches Keima through her telescope, blushing.

During his search for the Jupiter sisters, Keima suspects she has a goddess as she has return using the carpet for her observatory again after rumors of Kanon's confession and he is her boyfriend spread but he manages to convince her the rumors are not true. However, Keima's suspicion comes true when it is reveal that Tsukiyo is the host of the goddess Vulcan. Unfortunately, Vulcan via possessing Luna, catches Keima with Shiori and tries to kill him for being unfaithful but he escapes and confronts Tsukiyo and Vulcan at the observatory. There, Tsukiyo reveals she still remembers her time with him but is angry that he is three timing her along with Kanon and Shiori. Keima then tells her to trust him and that since he gives love to her then to give love back to him as well while receiving Vulcan's attacks. When Vulcan is about to finish Keima Tsukiyo intervenes and stops Vulcan revealing her true feelings and kissing Keima. Vulcan is currently the "most" developed Goddess by having a halo and a pair of wings that grew up when Tsukiyo kissed Keima. When Keima takes her to see Kanon, he encounters Fiore from Vintage and develops a plan to get her to reveal Vintage's plan and after hearing it Vulcan easily defeats her. With the help of Diana, they are able to removed Kanon/Apollo's curse.

The cause of Tsukiyo's negative emotions was her hatred of humanity and reality's flaws.

Her surname is derived from Kujō Station (九条駅 Kujō-eki).

Minami Ikoma (井駒 みなみ Ikoma Minami)

A 15 year old Majima Academy Middle School student who is a member of the Swim Club. A naive girl who loves swimming, she has messy hair that won't straighten due to chlorine from swim practice which her younger brother makes fun of by calling her "Bird Nest". Her story is unique as it is mostly told by her own point of view. When she is first introduced, she learns that she has been selected as a third substitute for the school team despite wishing to be on the main team instead. As Minami laments on whether she should give up swimming just like her friends, Elsie detects a spirit inside of her and informs Keima. Then on one late night swimming practice, Minami meets Keima swimming at the school pool where she is captivated by his handsome looks and perfect swimming (thanks to Elsie help). At first, she believes Keima is a great senior within the Swim team, only to learn from her friends that Keima has an infamous reputation for being weird which leaves her very confused. Unknown to her, Keima is actually doing this to make Minami figure out the connection between the school's impression that he is a weirdo and her impression that he is an amazing athlete. As she starts stalking Keima and rides on the bus with him, Minami starts to fall in love with him which Keima decides to ask her out at the Tanabata Festival. After having a good time at the festival, Minami wishes to stay with him forever as the festival ends but Keima comforts her, teaching her that moving on and accepting the past is a part of growing up and kisses her, which forces the spirit out. After the festival, Minami becomes mature thanks to Keima's words (even though she has forgotten) and decides to stay and continue in the Swim Club. During Keima's search for the goddesses, Keima meets Minami again and finds out she does not remember who he is which he confirms she doesn't have a goddess. Before leaving, Keima asks Minami if she is still practicing swimming and wishes her luck.

The cause of Minami's negative emotions was being unable to achieve her dreams.

Her name is derived from Minami-Ikoma Station (南生駒駅 Minami-Ikoma-eki).

Rieko Hinaga (日永 梨枝子 Hinaga Rieko)

An elderly woman living in the countryside where Keima's grandparents also live. While visiting his grandparents to celebrate the Obon festival with the rest of the Katsuragi family, Keima and Elsie meets Rieko and her granddaughter Airi, a little girl who speaks very scary things. At first, Keima and Elsie believes Airi has a spirit inside of her after seeing a ghost-like apparition of her appearing at the village cemetery at night but upon further investigating, Keima learns the apparition is actually Rieko due to the fact she looks similarly to her granddaughter when she was younger. As he meets Rieko at the cemetery, Elsie talks to the spirit possessing Rieko's body and convinces it to leave and surrender as Rieko is too old to bear children. At the cemetery, Rieko's apparition, now in a form when she was a teenager, explains to Keima the gap in heart was because she feels lonely and misses her family and friends who are either old, have left or died. However both she and Keima agrees that she was able to live a long and happy life before her apparition departs. In aftermath, Keima explains while she is no longer possessed by a spirit, the gap in Rieko's heart remains but she has accepted it and moved on with her life just like his grandparents.

The cause of Rieko's negative emotions was her loneliness being without her loved ones and a wish of a return to the time of her youth.

Her surname is derived from Hinaga Station (日永駅 Hinaga-eki).

Sumire Uemoto (上本 スミレ Uemoto Sumire)

A 17 year old girl from Narusawa 3rd Public High School. Her a father is a chef and owner of a small Chinese restaurant called “Uemoto-ya” while her mother used to work there before she ran away which the only memento Sumire has of her mother is a cheongsam which she also wears while working at Uemoto-ya. Keima and Elsie first met Sumire during the last weeks of summer vacation while she goes out tasting every Ramen store’s ramen in the city. As they follow her to Uemoto-ya, they watch how both Sumire and her father have a thorny relationship which the latter doesn’t want her to work here. In order to figure out what is the cause of the gap in Sumire’s heart and the Uemoto’s family situation, Keima decides to work at Uemoto-ya much to Sumire’s suspicions. After gaining her trust, Sumire reveals she wants her father’s acceptance of her helping his ailing restaurant by researching the other Ramen stores and creating her own unique recipe of Ramen called “Sweet Ramen” with Keima as her food taster much to his displeasure as he dislike sweet food. After several failures and their relationship going smoothly, both Sumire and Keima finally make a Sweet Ramen that is delicious and edible. However, Sumire’s father refuses to eat it and tells her to just quit which Keima finally realizes the problem between father and daughter. In reality, both of them want the other to be happy which Sumire wants to help her father’s restaurant and her father wants Sumire to give up the restaurant and have a better life. Eventually, Keima manages to have her father taste a ramen made by Sumire which taste exactly like his which Sumire explains that all that she wants is to help him succeed which will make her happy. Realizing his mistake, her father finally relents and passes the restaurant to Sumire. Before Keima leaves, Sumire thanks Keima and promises to make any ramen he wants if he visits and kisses him which expels the spirit in her.

After these events, the restaurant, now renamed "Sumire-ya" and under Sumire’s management becomes popular thanks to her Sweet Ramen which is a hit with the customers. While she still continues making new Ramen recipes and trying to lose weight from her research, Sumire remembers having a “boyfriend” but doesn’t remember who he was.

The cause of Sumire’s negative emotions was her disappointment that her father refuses her help.

Her surname is derived from Ōsaka Uehommachi Station (大阪上本町駅 Ōsaka Uehonmachi-eki^?).

Nanaka Haibara (榛原 七香 Haibara Nanaka)

A quarter French, red head 17 year old from Maijima Municipal Misato East High School and member of the shogi club who speaks with a Kansai dialect. A classmate of Tenri who has returned from overseas, Nanaka is a champion shogi player with a short temper who doesn’t like to lose, an attitude she inherited from her French maternal grandfather. Despite her tough exterior, she cries very easily. Keima and Elsie first met Nanaka after she beaten the Majima Academy’s shogi club and wants to beat her “rival”, who is later revealed to be Tenri. Nanaka’s rivalry with Tenri began when Diana took over Tenri’s body and beat Nanaka in a shogi match. Refusing to accept defeat, Nanaka keeps challenging Tenri until she wins. Realizing it is Nanaka’s pride that is the cause of her negative emotions, Keima devises a three-part plan to force the spirit out. First, Keima beats Nanaka in shogi, then Diana will later beat him and finally both he and Nanaka will work together so that Nanaka can face Tenri/Diana where no matter if she wins or lose, Nanaka will accept the results. The first part of the plan works exactly as he predicted, but the second part went all too well when Diana, angered upon learning that Keima has kiss other girls than Tenri, beats him in shogi seriously. After Keima helps her train for the final part of his plan, Nanaka miraculously beats Diana when the latter makes a mistake that allows Nanaka to win. After celebrating her victory, Nanaka thanks Keima for supporting her as he was her “Third Knight” in shogi (As Keima means Knight in Japanese) and kisses him which expels the spirit. Nanaka still continues to play shogi with Tenri but confuses the Knight piece for the King piece much to her bewilderment.

The cause of Nanaka's negative emotions was her pride of not accepting defeat.

Her name is derived from Haibara Station (榛原駅 Haibara-eki^?).

Yui Goidō (五位堂 結 Goidō Yui)

A 16 year old Majima Academy student and a former member of the Music Instruments Club who loves playing the drums. The second daughter of the Goidō family, one of the oldest and richest family's in Majima City, Yui life has always been ruled by her parents who insist that she becomes a proper lady. However, Yui wishes to have more freedom in her life but is unable to voice her complaint to her parents especially her overbearing mother. Keima first met Yui after she accidentally falls on him and was force to quit the Music Instruments Club by her mother which was also the same time that he learns she has spirit inside of her. When he learns of Yui's family situation from Elsie and Yui's friends, Keima comes up with a plan to make Yui fall for him that she will lose her family's influence on her. But things get an unexpected turn when the spirit causes both Yui and Keima to switch bodies due to stress and her sudden confusing feelings for Keima. With Elsie the only one to know their predicament, Keima promises Yui that he will try to find a way to fix it. At first both of them wanted to get back to their original bodies but soon they started feeling comfortable with their new bodies with Yui enjoying her new freedom of being a boy and talking like one and Keima becoming more feminine and addicted with Otome games much to the latter's horror. But after his encounter with Mio lifts his spirits, Keima figures out how to force Yui's spirit out. Thanks to his new knowledge from Otome games, Keima decides to become a "Damsel in Distress" in order to make her "Prince Charming", Yui, rescue him. Using her feelings for him, Keima pretends to be sick to make Yui worry about him which finally gives her the courage to sneak into her home to stand up to her mother and be with Keima who she loves and kisses him which forces the spirit out. However, Elsie is unable to catch the spirit as it has become a Level 4 and is too powerful but thanks to the help of mysterious ally, Yui's spirit is finally captured.

After getting back to their original bodies, Yui becomes more independent from her family by becoming a tomboy and dressing in boys clothes, which gains her a huge popularity at school with both boys and girls. With her love of playing drums, she becomes the drummer of the 2-B Pencils with her new friends. During his search for the goddesses, Yui starts to take an interest with Keima as she fallen in love with him much to Keima's shock as she is chasing after him and his femininity returns every time he is with her. In order to learn if Yui has a goddess, Keima agrees to go on a date with Yui by crossdressing as a girl much to Yui's joy. His suspicions are later confirmed when the date becomes a catalyst which awakens the Goddess Mars inside of Yui. In order to restore her powers, Keima pretends to be captured by Haqua (disguised as a member of Vintage) which prompts Mars/Yui to go rescue Keima and kiss him, finally restoring Mars powers. After explaining everything to them, Keima tells both Mars and Yui to be careful about Vintage.

The cause of Yui's negative emotions was her wish to have courage to be free and independent.

Her surname is derived from Goidō Station (五位堂駅 Goidō-eki).

Hinoki Kasuga (春日 檜 Kasuga Hinoki)

A 20 year old eccentric fashion designer, actress, and artist who is also Kusunoki's older sister. Loud, adventurous and ambitious, she carry's around a megaphone to speak out her thoughts. Keima and Elsie first meets Hinoki who has return to Japan from the US after five years to meet her younger sister, Kusunoki. Keima joins the Kasuga dojo and becomes Hinoki's accomplice in her zany schemes to learn what caused a Weiss to possesses her. At first, Keima is unable to find anything negative about her as he only learns Hinoki is better than Kusunoki in everything and left the family dojo five years ago as she refused to follow in her family's footsteps as she had bigger dreams than that. However, when he sees her turning into a giant several times where only he, Elsie, the other Spirit Hunters and their human partners can see, Keima soon realizes what is the cause. It is revealed, due to her ambitious desires, the spirit inside of her is feeding on those desires to make her bigger as her desires are her negative emotions as despite what she claims, Hinoki's current image is a lie as her desire to be successful in everything was to please Kusunoki who had high expectations for her, which causes a considerable amount of stress and pressure to Hinoki.

Realizing he cannot solve Hinoki's problems by making her fall in love with him, Keima gets the only person who can solve it, Kusunoki. However, Fiore of Vintage disguises herself as Kusunoki and verbally insults Hinoki that she is ashamed Hinoki is a failure of a sister and wishes she would die which shocks her and causes the Weiss to be powerful, take over her giant body, make her even bigger, and be visible by everyone in the city. With no other choice, Keima and Kusunoki get inside Hinoki's heart to faced the possessed Hinoki. As the sisters battle, the possessed Hinoki reveals her hatred for Kusunoki for forcing her to maintain the image of the perfect older sister and denying her right to be who she really wanted to be. Kusunoki at first is reluctant to hurt Hinoki but after some encouragement from Keima, Kusunoki is able to defeat the spirit possessing her sister and tells Hinoki she apologize for what she had go through as she never wanted a perfect sister, she just wanted the older sister she loved and would still admire Hinoki no matter what path she chooses which finally calms Hinoki's heart and forces the Weiss out.

After her spirit is captured thanks to the Spirit hunters and help from a certain teacher and her relationship with Kusunoki amended, Hinoki decides to return to the US to continue her job and find her own path but not before giving a french kiss to Keima much to Kusunoki's anger and embarrassment.

Due to her ambitious and eccentric behavior, she is a well known fashion designer actress, and artist in the US and also drives a Mitsuoka Himiko sports car. After her spirit was captured, she continues to have contact with Kusunoki and wants her and Keima to be a couple much to Kusunoki's chargin.

The cause of Hinoki's negative emotions was the stress and pressure to maintain her perfect image for her sister Kusunoki.

Just like her sister Kusunoki, Hinoki's name is derived from the Kasuga Station and a tree. Her forename is derived from the Japanese cypress.

Supernatural Beings

A long time ago, the realms of Heaven, Earth and the Underworld maintained a harmonious relationship with human souls where if a human dies on Earth, it's soul will be ferried into the Underworld where half of its energies are processed and later sent to Heaven where it's remaining energies are processed and send back to Earth to be reborn. But 300 years ago, the demons of the underworld became greedy for the energies of human souls and devise a plan to take over both Heaven and Earth. However some demons were against it and rebelled against the conspirators. Together with the forces of Heaven, the rebel demons, who would be later known as the New Hell era demons defeated the conspirators, now known as the Old Hell era demons and sealed them. With the Old demons reign over, the New Hell regime took over the Underworld and introduce many changes in demon society including democracy, ending barbarism and an energy efficient society. However, ten years ago, runaway spirits, called Loose Souls or Weiss, escaped from the Underworld and came to Earth. In order to stop the Weiss possessing human girls, the Spirit Hunter squads were created to capture them. Yet unknown to most New Hell demons, the Weiss are in fact the souls of the Old Hell demons who are using their hosts in order to be reincarnated within their children.

Spirit Hunter squad

Spirit Hunters are demons and their human partners who are assigned to capture the Weiss.

Docrow Skull (ドクロウ・スカール Dokurō Sukāru^?)

Voiced by: Kujira (Japanese), Samuel Roman (English)

The Section Chief of Counter Measures of the Far East branch and a former hero who fought for the New Demons. She is Elsie, Haqua and Nora's boss and is the also the one who assigned their human partners. Despite Elsie's clumsiness, Docrow treats her with respect. She is a fan of the Billy's Bootcamp DVDs by Tae Bo instructor, Billy Blanks. Docrow is well aware of how much power the organization Vintage has taken within New Hell but is powerless to stop them but she still believes the future belongs to the New Demons like Haqua.

Nora Floriann Leoria (ノーラ・フロリアン・レオリア Nōra Furorian Reoria)

Nora is a 310 year old senior Spirit hunter and demon who was born during the Old Hell era before they were overthrown by the New Hell regime. As the new District Chief of Area 30-2 and Elsie's superior, Nora is arrogant and disdainful and looks down on younger demons but has very exceptional skills as a Spirit hunter. Nora's human partner is a young man named Ryou who is unfortunately useless so she tends to do the work all by herself. Unlike Keima's and Yukie's method which forces the spirits out of the possessed with love and kindness, Nora forces spirits out of the possessed by giving them what they desire (eg.riches for those who desires money, suitable partners who desire love, death who desire revenge, etc) which fills their hearts so much it forces the spirits out. Unfortunately, due to her impulsive nature, she sometimes mistakenly assumes most peoples desires are hate and kills the person they hate even if they don't really hate that person at all. Haqua dislikes Nora due to her arrogant behavior and having bigger breasts than her. Despite looking down on them, Nora does care about her fellow Spirit hunters and refrains from doing anything that may kill them. She later becomes a part of Keima's quest to find and protect the Jupiter goddesses after enticing her that she will receive all the credit if she helps him. It is shown that she is quite shrewd with a keen intuition when she manages to trap Fiore after Haqua released her, knowing what both of them would do. Most recently, Nora has decided to join Vintage to act as a double agent to protect the goddesses, going as far as sending her buddy to aid Keima.

Ryō Asama (浅間 亮 Asama Ryō)

An 18 year old boy and Nora's human partner. A good-looking young man from a private high school, Ryō claims to be a Casanova-type that can charm any girl. But in reality, he is an idiot who is unable to remember his lines and is forced to rely on small sheets of notes to remember them, which isn't much better as he is terrible in writing kanji and often misspell his lines. He even can't differentiate his left hand from his right hand, forcing him to write the words "left" and "right" on his hands to remind himself. It is because of these faults that Nora sees Ryō is useless and will beat him whenever he fails her or annoys her.

Yukie Marui (丸井 雪絵 Marui Yukie)

A 54 year old saleswoman and Haqua's human partner. She sells Gokult (a parody of Yakult) by delivering and selling the drink around town. As Haqua's partner, Yukie has helped her find many people in town who are possessed by spirits yet Haqua thinks Yukie is useless sine she only just visits them daily for months and nothing more. However, Keima manages to explain to Haqua that Yukie method is working albeit slowly as she is trying to get to know the possessed personally while visiting them in her work. Haqua lives with Yukie at her house where the latter dotes on her like a daughter and teaches her how to cook human food.

Meg (メグ Megu) and Angie (アンジェ Anje)

Haqua and Elsie's friends.

Camry (カムリ Kamuri) and Cresta (クレスタ Kuresuta)

Nora's underlings. Camry has black hair while Cresta has long hair.

Shalia Frey Amon (シャリア・フレイ・アモン Sharia Furei Amon)

Primarily known as Shali (シャリィ Sharī), she was Elsie's supervisor and the District Chief of Area 30-2 before being transferred to become the District Chief of Area 30-4. Later is was revealed that Shalia was the one who reported Haqua to the Public Security Force as she was suspicious on Haqua's behavior and Vinatge threatening her.

Fiore Loderia Lavigneri (フィオーレ Fiōre)

A spirit hunter and friend of Haqua and Elsie who is secretly a member of Vintage, an organization compose of New Hell era demons who wants to bring the era of Old Hell back to the Underworld. Her first appearance was after observing Keima and Elsie getting Yui's evil spirit and believing they capture it. She makes her official debut after disguising herself as Kusunoki and manipulates Kusonoki's sister Hinoki in order to make the spirit inside her more powerful. But her plan fails when the spirit is defeated and captured which shocks Fiore. Fiore returns again, this time searching for the Jupiter sister goddesses. By using a modified spirit sensor, she manages to find the Goddess Apollo inside of Kanon and tries to kill her with an enchanted dagger and believes she has succeed, unaware that she has failed to kill her. When she transfers to Nora's district, Keima suspects she is a member of Vintage and is able to prove it when she falls for a trap made by him and Haqua where she tries get her modified spirit sensor back. However, Fiore convinces Haqua to releases her despite Keima instructions not to which Fiore takes advantage by trapping both Haqua and Nora into her own spirit catcher bottle and creating magical doppelgangers of them to take over their districts for Vintage. Unfortunately for Fiore, when Keima returns home, he lets himself get captured by her where he tricks her again by having her expose Vintage goals and the true purpose of the Spirit Hunter Squads where unknown to her and her minions, Tsukiyo, whom Keima earlier discover was the host of the Goddess Vulcan, has been secretly listening. Vulcan, angered from this revelation, decide to make Fiore and her minions suffer her wrath. Currently, she is held captive by Keima in his home.

Lune

Another agent of Vintage within the spirit hunters who oversees other fellow Vintage agents. She is a very moody person as she can easily switch from quiet to happy to angry. She despise humans but is not allowed to harm them so she instead scares them by cutting herself which she seems to enjoy doing. After Haqua is fired from the spirit hunters, Vintage has Lune take over her position as District Chief of Area 32.

The Jupiter Sisters

300 years ago, the Heavens helped the New Demons defeat the Old Demons for control of the Underworld. In order to seal the Old Demons forever, six sister goddesses, daughters of the god Jupiter, sacrificed themselves to seal themselves together with the Old Demons in the Underworld. Ten years ago though, the seal was broken and the Old Demons, now called the Weiss escaped to Earth including the Jupiter Sisters, who were now weakened due to the time they spent confined. Keima's current quest is to find them as he believes that they currently reside in the girls who he had previously conquered. Unlike the Weiss, whose powers comes from negative emotions, the goddesses powers come from love. Furthermore they can communicate with people by either taking through their host, which changes their appearance, or speaking via reflective surfaces. When a goddess is in control of her host, a tell-tale sign can be seen in the form of a halo above the host's head and when their powers are restored, they manifest angel-like wings. Each of the goddesses are name after a Roman deity. After all goddessess are awakened and Vintage's plans are foiled, they come with another problem as all their hosts fell in love with Keima and each goddess wants her own host to find hapiness by having her feelings for him requited. The situation becomes even more complicated with one of the goddessess falling for Keima herself instead of only her host.

Diana (ディアナ)

Goddess of "the hunt and the moon", she is the third-born sister who resides in the body of Tenri Ayukawa. At first, Keima believed her to be a Weiss until Tenri manages to convince him otherwise after she tells Keima about how she first met Diana, who saved them both ten years ago from the Weiss. Because of her knowledge which Elsie and Haqua aren't aware of, Keima visits her when he wants to know more about the relationship between Heaven and the Underworld. When Diana takes over Tenri's body, she appears with slanted eyes in contrast to Tenri's rounded eyes. Diana acts cold, selfish and thoughtless most of the time which tends to irk some people, yet she is very supportive of Tenri's love for Keima. She wishes for Tenri and Keima to be a couple as it would restore her powers, despite being disgusted that Keima has managed to make other girls fall in love with him as well. Diana is also the one who originally requested that Keima should find her sisters, in exchange for helping him seal back the Weiss, and finish the contract with Elsie. Later on in the series, after Keima apologises to her for his indecisiveness, Diana regains more of her powers and now has the ability to use her wings. Even though her wings grew, she did not notice it and feels that the reason her wings didn't grow is because she too, has feelings for Keima. Feeling bad for Tenri, she tries to push Tenri with Keima even more.

Apollo (アポロ Aporo)

Goddess of "music, poetry and the arts", she is the second-born sister who resides in the body of Kanon Nakagawa. Unlike Diana, Apollo admits she's an idiot and does not remember much except that she and her sisters previously sealed the Weiss. Apollo manages to regain some of her powers thanks to Kanon's songs which are filled with love and in the process helped Kanon remember her erased memories. When Apollo takes over Kanon's body, facial markings appears on her face. Like her sister, she too is supportive of her host and wants Kanon and Keima to be a couple. However, when they were targeted by Fiore of Vintage, Kanon confesses to Keima that she still remembers him but Apollo takes over and runs away as she thinks that as a human being, Keima should not get involved. Unaware that Keima was sent by Diana to find the other goddesses, her mistake soon causes both her and Kanon's lives to be in danger when Fiore stabs her with a dagger, enchanted with the dark magic of Old Hell. Before falling into a coma, she sends a message into the sky warning her sisters to trust no one as she believes that the New Hell demons have betrayed them, making Keima's quest to find the goddesses much harder. Later on, the curse is finally removed with the combined strength of Diana and Vulcan, but Kanon remains in a suspended state due to a spell Apollo used to protect herself, submerging her consciousness in the process. After Keima manages to contact her and Kanon within a dream world thanks to four of the Jupiter Sisters, she warns him of an upcoming danger in the future.

Vulcan (ウルカヌス Urukanusu)

Self-proclaimed goddess of "love and justice", she is the first-born sister who resides in the body of Tsukiyo Kujyō, though more often personified in the form of her doll Luna. Unlike her sisters, Vulcan is almost blind, almost deaf and can not walk, but instead possesses the ability to move and animate objects telepathically. When Vulcan takes over Tsukiyo's body, her hair becomes darker. During Keima's search for the Jupiter Sisters by getting reacquainted with his past conquests, Vulcan catches Keima getting friendly with Shiori through her possession of Luna. Angered with the rumors that he is already dating Kanon and now catching him three timing with Shiori behind Tsukiyo's back, Vulcan vows to punish Keima and protect Tsukiyo by killing him. Despite this, Keima still manages to evade her attacks and confronts Tsukiyo herself, who chooses to believe in his sincerity. This causes Vulcan to reluctantly cease her attacks, and after Tsukiyo kisses Keima on the cheek, Vulcan grows a pair of wings, (much to Diana's chagrin).

Mars (マルス Marusu)

Mars, the goddess of war, is the fourth-born sister who resides in the body of Yui Goidō. When Mars takes over Yui's body, her hair becomes lighter, tied into a braid while wearing a ringed headband. Unlike her sisters, Mars has only just recently awoken after Yui started dating Keima when the latter agreed to cross-dress for the occasion. As a goddess of war, she is very cautious about going into any new situation and always suggests that Yui bring a weapon with her as a safety precaution. Mars is just a little confused by Yui and Keima's cross-dressing and at first, mistakes them for a boy and girl respectively, but while she has only just got to know Yui recently, Mars fully supports Yui's love for Keima. After "saving" Keima from a disguised Haqua and kissing him during their date, she too is shown to have recovered enough power to use her wings.

Minerva (ミネルヴァ Mineruva)

The Goddess of wisdom and poetry and the fifth-born sister. While Shiori Shiomiya is her host, Minerva is able to exist outside of her host with in the form of a young 5-6 year old girl who looks similar to Shiori. When Minerva takes over Shiori's body, her body shrinks and hair grows longer. Like her host, Minerva is shy and loves reading books. When Minerva is first introduced, Shiori is unaware who she is, believing she is a lost child as both have yet to make their acquaintances. While it is unknown when Minerva awoke, it is known that it happened before Apollo's warning to her sisters. During the time Keima repairs his relationship with Shiori by helping her write a story for the school festival, Minerva secretly helps her as well. But when she suffers from Writer's Block, with help from Keima and later Minerva, who finally talks to her face to face, Shiori is finally able to finish her story; a story about her love for books and Keima. When Keima finishes reading her story while Shiori is sleeping, Minerva takes over her body and meets Keima for the first time. But because of Apollo's warnings, she is unwilling to talk to him. Nevertheless, with his relationship with Shiori improving, which restores Minerva's powers including her wings, Keima decides to leave them be for now while Minerva properly introduces herself to Shiori. After the sisters reunite, Minerva tries to prevent her older sisters from claiming Keima, believing he belongs to Shiori.

Mercury (メリクリウス Merikuriusu)

The Goddess of trade, the sixth and final sister to be introduced and her host was revealed to be Ayumi Takahara. She is known to know exotic spells and throughout the Goddess arc, her sisters kept commenting that she may be able to break Apollo's hydration spell. Whenever Mercury takes over her host, her skin becomes darker and her hair turns lighter with bangs covering her left eye. She also has two small face marks underneath her eye. Her personality is the opposite of Ayumi-- She has a detached personality while Ayumi has a caring personality. She seems to find human behavior interesting. Like the other goddesses, she cares very much about her host but unlike them, she's not afraid to tell Ayumi what's on her mind and even criticizes her like when Ayumi followed Keima and saw him dump Chihiro, with Mercury saying "you reap what you sow".

Others

Mari Katsuragi (桂木 麻里 Katsuragi Mari)

Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)

Keima's mother, who usually acts like a typical shōjo manga-style mother: optimistic, ditsy, and loving. However, she is revealed to be part of a biker gang in her youth. This is evident when whenever she gets angry, Mari removes her glasses and lets her hair down and becomes very violent. While she loves her son, she is constantly worried about his future. She also adores Elsie and treats her like her own daughter despite the latter making Mari believe she is her husband's "illegitimate child". She also runs a small cafe from her home called "Cafe Grandpa". She also rides a Ducati 1098 which she still maintains at home.

Yuri Nikaidō (二階堂 由梨 Nikaidō Yuri)

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Elizabeth Bunch (Season 1), Maggie Flecknoe (Season 2) (English)

Keima's 22 year old homeroom and Japanese language teacher. A born sadist, many students fear her except Keima as she has no qualms about beating her students if they don't pay attention in class. She was also Jun's senior in highschool. When Hinoki's spirit becomes too powerful for the Spirit Hunters to be captured, Nikaidō secretly helps them and easily captures it singlehandedly while lamenting how New Hell's demons were weak Due to her skills, her skull badge and the fact she knows what Keima and his associates have been up to, it is hinted she has some connection with New Hell.

Her surname is derived from Nikaidō Station (二階堂駅 Nikaidō-eki).

Ichirō Kodama (児玉 一郎 Kodama Ichirō)

Voiced by: Ryūsei Nakao (Japanese), Chris Ayres (English)

Maijima High's English teacher and the Head of the Arts Clubs. Kodama's personality is similar Nikaidō, except for the fact that he exaggerates his way of speech, and he has a tendency to deny students from doing what they enjoy. Kodama has an insidious hatred against Keima, due to the fact Keima, who in his view, should be a delinquent due to his gaming habits, has manage to defy the odds to be the best student in class every time, something which irks him.

Miyako Terada (寺田 京 Terada Miyako)

Voiced by: Nozomi Chikamura

A 17 year old Maijima High School Academy student enrolled in Class 2-B. A girl with long hair and freckles on her cheeks, Miyako is a close friend of Ayumi and Chihiro and is also a Track-and-field club member. She is also a member of the rock band, the "2B Pencils" with Miyako playing the keyboard.

Her surname is derived from Terada Station (寺田駅 Terada-eki).

Akari Kurakawa (倉川 灯 Kurakawa Akari)

A small girl from Majima Academy and a member of the Biology Club who is obsessed with the idea of creating the perfect human. At first, Keima assumes she is another girl who has a spirit inside of her but it is later revealed she doesn't have one as the cause of the detection was in fact a fake spirit signal design by her. Akari is actually an undercover Spirit Hunter name Rimyuel and Nikaidō's partner as both of them are trying to catch the members of Vintage on Earth.

Her name is derived from Akuragawa Station (阿倉川駅 Akuragawa-eki).

Minor characters

Izumi Ishikiri (石切 いづみ Ishikiri Izumi)

Voiced by: Mayuki Makiguchi

Izumi is friend of Ayumi teammate in the Track-and-field club.

Her name is derived from Ishikiri Station (石切駅 Ishikiri-eki).

Fujiidera (藤井寺)

Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)

A braided haired girl with glasses, she is the Chairman of the Library Committee.

Her name is derived from Fujiidera Station (藤井寺駅 Fujiidera-eki).

Morita (森田^?)

Voiced by: Shōto Kashii (Japanese), Kalob Martinez (English)

Mio's chauffeur. He used to work for Mio's father before he died and stayed to serve Mio as an act of loyalty to his late boss. However, he leaves her after the prideful Mio refuses to stop living a lie that she is still rich but later returns after Mio has accepted her family situation.

Morita is modeled after late actor Shin Kishida.

Okada (岡田^?)

Voiced by: Miki Itō (Japanese), Elizabeth Bunch (English)

Kanon's manager.

Lime (らいむ Raimu) and Yuri (ゆり)

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka and Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Serena Varghese and Monica Rial (English)

Kanon's bandmates in the idol group Citron before she went solo.

Airi Hinaga (日永愛梨 Hinaga Airi)

Rieko's granddaughter. Airi has a disturbing fascination with things that are creepy or involve death. She looks similar like her grandmother when Rieko was a child.

Hiyori Sakurai (桜井 ひより Sakurai Hiyori)

A 17 year old Maijima High School student and a member of the swimming club.

Her name is derived from Sakurai Station (桜井駅 Sakurai-eki).

Hiroko Matsumiya (松宮 宏子 Matsumiya Hiroko)

Voiced by: Mayuki Makiguchi

A short-haired girl with glasses attending Maijima High. Nicknamed "Mappy", she is a character from the manga "Holy Crystal Albatross", a previous work of Tamiki Wakaki.

Her nickname is derived from Mappy.

Game characters

Sora Asuka (飛鳥 空 Asuka Sora)

Voiced by: Tomo Sakurai (Japanese), Melissa Davis (English)

The heroine of the PFP game "Crayon - Sora no Art". She is the focus of the chapter/episode "On A Crusade" as Keima tries to finish her game despite the numerous bugs the game has.

Her name is derived from Asuka Station (飛鳥駅 Asuka-eki).

Yū Hatori (羽鳥 ゆう Hatori Yū)

Voiced by: Yū Kobayashi (Japanese), Melissa Davis (English)

The 10,000th game girl captured by Keima. Appears in the chapter/episode "Love Makes The World Go Round".

Yotsuba Sugimoto (杉本 四葉 Sugimoto Yotsuba)

Voiced by: Sakura Tange (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)

Also known as Yokkyun, she is Keima's favorite game girl. She is drawn in a parody style of the famed visual novel Kanon.

Yumi (ユミ^?)

A character of the pitching machine display in a batting center. She will give different reactions based on where the ball hits.

Novel original characters

The following characters appear in the light novels.

Tooru Amami (天美 透 Amami Tōru)

A girl cosplayed as an angel who rescued Keima from fire in a cafe. Her speech and conduct is the so-called day-dreamer (電波系 denpakei^?) (which Keima categorized as flower field-type (お花畑タイプ ohanabatake-type^?)), going around stores' neon signs calling it "Star Pilgrim Quest", searching for "Eternal Plus" and saying other incomprehensible things. Has a nice body style and sharp intuition. Sometimes shows a cold expression.

Born in a rich family, she received a strict management education and special education at home and goes to a special school for the riches. She almost has no time for herself and her parents prohibit her hobby for picture book. Her family policy imposes a subtraction system called "Minus Check", every time she does something that considered not good she will get subtraction, and after reaching some point she will be punished. Oppressed by the constrained life, she imagines a fiction world inside her head and often make an eccentric actions.

Her name is derived from Kawachi-Amami Station (河内天美駅 Kawachi-Amami-eki^?).

Asami Yoshino (吉野 麻美 Yoshino Asami^?)^[53]

A 17 year old Majima Academy student and Keima's classmate. A quiet girl, in the class she usually reading alone and does not actively interact with other. From the start, she already have an interest on Keima and always looking at him.

Different with her sister, she is not good socializing with people, to fix it she joins tea ceremony club and always participates in the class activity. But it doesn't go well and talking with others too much makes her want to puke. She can talk normally with her family.

Her name is derived from Yoshino Station (吉野駅 Yoshino-eki).

Ikumi Yoshino (吉野 郁美 Yoshino Ikumi)

Asami's twin sister who goes to a different high school. Opposites with her sister, sociable and really active. Approaches Keima while pretending as Asami to know more about him because Asami shows interest on Keima.

Her name is derived from Yoshino Station (吉野駅 Yoshino-eki).

Shino Akuragawa (阿倉川 紫埜 Akuragawa Shino)

A miko from Toyoboshi-jinja, Mt. Uryu. In her middle twenties, she has a mature beauty although she does not really take concern about it. Talks exaggeratedly like a samurai. Dignified and diligent, easy to hang out with and cares for others. She also handles domestic chores flawlessly, but in the other side she is a klutz. Has mysterious ability to create barrier etc. In pursue of Akuoni (あくおに^?) that released by Mogami in the past.

Mogami was a gal game programmer, scenario writer and artist who renowned for the horror games. To make an ultimate horror game, he released Akuoni from Toyoboshi-jinja and accomplished on inserting it to the last game he made, Saiontourou (西恩灯籠^?).

Her name is derived from Akuragawa Station (阿倉川駅 Akuragawa-eki^?).

Aoba Fuse (風瀬 青羽 Fuse Aoba^?)^[54]

A 17 year old genius from Maijima High School student. Has no interest on anything, even herself. Almost never show any emotion. Has a great talent that if she wants to, she can get excellent grades for everything, whether it's sport or science. Even Keima acknowledged her as a genius. But, because of her talent, there is nothing that truly interest her and thus creates a gap in her heart.

After captured by Keima, from the sequent of events, she becomes addicted to gal games and becomes famous in gal game world as "Mai(jima) Princess (舞姫 Maihime^?)".

Her name is derived from Fuse Station (布施駅 Fuse-eki^?).

Media

Manga

The World God Only Knows is written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki, serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since April 9, 2008. Wakaki created a prototype version of the story which debuted as a one-shot in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 2007 Issue 32 and was titled, "Koishite!? Kami-sama!!" (恋して!? 神様!!). Publication is ongoing in Japan by Shogakukan; the first tankōbon was released on July 11, 2008, and as of March 2012, sixteen volumes have been released.
The series is licensed in South Korea by Haksan Culture Company, and the first two volumes of the series has been simultaneously released on August 2009 with limited edition supplement for each.

Light novel

A light novel entitled The World God Only Knows―God and the Devil and an Angel (神のみぞ知るセカイ―神と悪魔と天使 Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai Kami to Akuma to Tenshi^?), written by Mamizu Arisawa and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki, was released on May 19, 2009, published by Shogakukan under their GAGAGA Bunko label.^[7] The novel features a completely original story that disparate from the series, with original novel characters.
A second light novel entitled The World God Only Knows 2 Prayer and Curse and Miracle (神のみぞ知るセカイ 2 祈りと呪いとキセキ Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai Inori to Noroi to Kiseki ^?) was released on May 18, 2010.^[8]

Anime

The anime adaptation of this manga was officially announced in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday 2010 Issue #19.^[9] It was announced that script writer Hideyuki Kurata, character designer Watanabe Akio, and director Shigehito Takayanagi would be working on the project.^[10][11] The studio in charge of the animation is Manglobe.^[12] A prologue OVA episode was released and bundled together with the tenth manga volume on September 17, 2010.^[13] On September 18, 2010, Crunchyroll announced the anime will be streaming online on their site.^[14] The anime began airing on TV Tokyo from October 6, 2010 to December 22, 2010,^[15] with the second season airing from April 11, 2011 to June 28, 2011. A second OVA was released and bundled together with the fourteen manga volume on September 16, 2011.^[16] At Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011, Sentai Filmworks announced that they have licensed both seasons of the anime in North America and will release the first season on DVD and Blu-ray in January 2012.^[17] In July 2012, it was announced via the cover of volume 17 of the manga that production on a new anime OVA featuring the character Tenri had been green-lit.^[18]

List of The World God Only Knows episodes

The World God Only Knows (神のみぞ知るセカイ^?, Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai) is a 2010–2011 anime series based on the manga series of the same name by Tamiki Wakaki serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine. The anime is produced by Manglobe, directed by Shigehito Takayanagi, series composition by Hideyuki Kurata, character design by Akio Watanabe, art direction by Ayumi Sato and Kayoko Tokou and sound directed by Yoshikazu Iwanami.^[1] The first season aired from October 6, 2010 to December 22, 2010 on TV Tokyo, TV Hokkaido and TV Setouchi and on later dates on TV Aichi, TV Osaka and TVQ Kyushu. A second season titled The World God Only Knows II aired from April 11, 2011 to June 28, 2011.^[2]
The series follows the exploits of Keima Katsuragi, an intelligent, gloomy teenager who is known on the Internet as "The God of Conquest" for his legendary skills to "conquer" any girl in Bishōjo games, yet ironically does not like girls in real life, where he is known as the Otamegane (オタメガネ^?), a derogatory portmanteau of the two words otaku (オタク^?) and Megane (メガネ^?, lit. glasses). One day, out of pride, he accidentally accepts what he assumes to be a challenge for a Bishōjo game when in reality he has accepted a contract from a bumbling demoness named Elsie who asks for his help in capturing runaway spirits from Hell who are hiding in the hearts of girls. The only way to force the spirits out of the girls hearts is by replacing the spirits in the girls' hearts with himself (metaphorically speaking) by making the girls fall in love with him, much to Keima's horror. With the threat of death for both of them should he refuse, Keima has no choice but to help Elsie. Together with his intelligence and knowledge of the dating sim genre and Elsie's magical powers, Keima is about to embark on his greatest challenge.
In the first season, the anime's opening theme song was "God Only Knows" by Elisa under the name "Oratorio The World God Only Knows" and the ending theme song was "Koi no Shirushi" (コイノシルシ^?, lit. "The Proof of Love") by "The Groove Party God Only Knows" (神のみぞ知り隊 Kami nomi zo Shiri-tai^?) which is composed of the first season's voice actresses, Kanae Itō, Ayana Taketatsu, Aoi Yūki, Nao Tōyama and Kana Hanazawa, who each sing a solo version of the ending theme song with the rest as back-up. Episodes 1 and 2 feature Ayana Taketatsu's version, episodes 3, 5 and 6 feature Aoi Yūki's version, episode 8 features Kanae Itō's version, episode 9 and 10 features Nao Tōyama's version and episode 11 features Kana Hanazawa's version. Also, three special ending theme songs were used, the first was "Tatta Ichi Do no Kiseki" (たった一度の奇跡^?, lit. "Just One Miracle at a Time") by Tomo Sakurai in episode 4, the second was "Happy Crescent" by Nao Tōyama in episode 7 and the third was "Shuuseki Kairo no Yume Tabibito" (集積回路の夢旅人^?, lit. "The Dream Traveler of the Integrated Circuit") by Hiro Shimono and Oratorio The World God Only Knows in episode 12.
In the second season, the opening theme song was "A Whole New World God Only Knows" by Elisa and LIA under the name "Oratorio The World God Only Knows" and the ending theme song was "Ai no Yokan" (アイノヨカン^?, lit. "Premonition Of Love") by "The Groove Party God Only Knows" which this time is composed of the second season's voice actresses, Kanae Itō, Saori Hayami, Ami Koshimizu, Kana Asumi and Aki Toyosaki. A special version of "Ai no Yokan" (アイノヨカン^?, lit. "Premonition Of Love") sung by Kanae Itō and Saori Hayami was used as the ending theme for episodes 16 and 20. For the 24th episode, the song "God Only Knows" sung by Elisa was used as its ending theme.
An OVA was released with the 14th manga volume on September 16, 2011. The opening theme song was "Natsu Iro Surprise" (夏色サプライズ^?, lit. "Surprise Summer Colors") by Nao Tōyama and the ending theme song was "Hajimete Koi wo Shita Kioku" (始めて恋をした記憶^?, lit. "Memories of First Love") by Kana Asumi.

Episode list

The World God Only Knows

No.	Title	Original airdate
00	"Flag.0"	September 17, 2010 (OVA release)
A preview OVA that was released together with Volume 10 of the manga. Hosted by Hiro Shimono and Kanae Itō who voice Keima and Elsie respectively, the hosts introduce and talk about the series, the anime and their characters. Included in the end is a short animated prologue which introduces Elsie and her induction as a Spirit Hunter.
01	"Flag.1.0 Love Makes the World Go Round" "Sekai wa ai de Ugoite Iru" (Flag.1.0 世界はアイで動いている)	October 6, 2010
Keima is bishōjo gamer who is called "The Capturing God" on the internet for his ability to capture any girl in any bishōjo game, although he does not like girls in real life. One day, he accidentally accepts a contract with the demoness Elsie to help her capture evil spirits that have escaped from Hell and have hidden themselves in girls' hearts. The only way to force these spirits out is to make the girls fall in love with him. Keima angrily explains to Elsie that he doesn't like girls and his "capturing skills" only work in games but is shocked to learn that both of them will be killed by the magical collars on their necks if he breaks his contract. His first target is his classmate, Ayumi Takahara who is training for the upcoming track-and-field meet. Keima cheers her on by displaying banners using Elsie's magical raiment at the field every day. While Ayumi is annoyed by his actions, Keima believes she will eventually get used to him and like him. After a confrontation with jealous seniors, Ayumi sprains her leg the day before the meet. However, Keima confronts her that night since he figured out that Ayumi faked her injury because her meeting with the seniors made her question her confidence. Keima consoles Ayumi and tells her to believe in herself, which makes her fall for Keima. They kiss when Ayumi keeps Keima from falling down the stairs, forcing the spirit out of her body and allowing Elsie to capture it. Ayumi wins the meet but loses all of her memories with Keima, though she blushes when Keima congratulates her. Much to his confusion, Elsie has transferred to his school, claiming to be his sister.
02	"Flag.2.0 Demon of a Sister" "Akumademo Imouto desu" (Flag.2.0 あくまでも妹です)	October 13, 2010
	"Flag.2.5 Baby, You’re a Rich Girl" "Beibī Yū ā a Ricchi Gāru" (Flag.2.5 ベイビー・ユー・アー・ア・リッチ・ガール)
Keima confronts Elsie on why she’s still here and he still has the magic collar around his neck, and Elsie reveals that their contract is still not finished and the collar will only be removed until they capture all of the runaway spirits in the city. After meeting Mari, Keima’s mother, Elsie claims she is her “husband’s illegitimate child” which causes Mari to snap during a phone conversation with her husband for his “infidelity” and allows Elsie to stay with them. Keima however, refuses to accept Elsie as his little sister as in his view, she doesn’t have the requirements that qualify her to be one. However, upon hearing her story on wanting to be successful just like her older sister, Keima reluctantly accepts Elsie as his sister. During lunch at a popular food stall, Keima and Elsie find their next target, Mio Aoyama, a rich girl who proceeds to buy all of the yakisoba sandwiches. Keima believes she is an easy target as she has all the characteristics of a Tsundere, and a love confession might break her hard shell. Unfortunately, the confession doesn’t work as planned, and Mio has her chauffeur beat Keima. As Keima and Elsie follow Mio to her home, they are surprised to learn Mio lives in a shabby apartment.
03	"Flag.3.0 Drive My Car" "Doraivu Mai Kā" (Flag.3.0 ドライヴ・マイ・カー)	October 20, 2010
	"Flag.3.5 I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" "Pātī wa Sonomama ni" (Flag.3.5 パーティーはそのままに)
Keima and Elsie eavesdrop on a conversation between Mio and her chauffeur and learn that the Aoyama family is no longer rich since her father died and Mio’s mother has been working hard to make ends meet. The chauffeur leaves in disgust after the prideful Mio refuses to stop pretending to be rich. Mio catches Keima snooping around and quickly goes back to her apartment. Since Keima is the only one to know her secret, he can use it to get closer with her. The next day, Keima becomes Mio's new chauffeur by riding her to school in various elaborate bike carriages made by Elsie’s raiment. On the fifth day, Keima is tired of driving Elsie's latest carriage designed and almost gets whipped by Mio who smiles briefly, but quickly reverts to her cold expression and goes home. Keima now begins the next stage of his plan by bringing her to a grand ball to which she has been invited. At the ball, a dressed up Mio is angry to learn that Keima, now in a tuxedo, actually brought them at the mansion gardens but Keima gets her to teach him how to dance. But after encountering a few rich people who look down on Mio’s current status, Keima finally tells her that she should stop pretending to be rich. Even though she keeps the act up to keep her father’s memory alive, Keima convinces Mio that she should let go of the past and move on and live her own life for her father's and for Keima’s sake. Keima kisses Mio and the spirit from her body is captured by Elsie. The next day, Keima and Elsie meet Mio, now without any memories of Keima, who has a change of attitude and has accepted her family's status and burns incense for her late father. However, she still acts prideful, and blushes when she sees Keima.
04	"Flag.4.0 On a Crusade" "Ima Soko ni Aru Seisen" (Flag.4.0 今そこにある聖戦)	October 27, 2010
Keima attempts to finish and get the heroine, Sora Asuka from the PFP Bishōjo game "Crayon". But the game has many bugs including one that loops a previous scene over and over again. Not making things any better is the fact saving the game only crashes it and game company that made it is now bankrupt thus there are no patches to fix the game. In order to avoid the bug loop and finish the game, Keima forcefully enlists a reluctant Elsie to help record the choices that he made in the game. Elsie is at first confused on why Keima takes the game seriously but soon respect his dedication to help the girls in his games just like the girls he helps in real life. After many attempts, Keima finally manages to avoid the loop bug and goes to the next scene but unexpectedly gets into another bug, resolving him to try again much to Elsie's horror. A Wikipedia article about "Crayon" reveals a rumor that someone managed to get the ending, hinting that Keima was able to finish the game.
05	"Flag.5.0 IDOL BOMB!!"	November 3, 2010
Elsie has become a fan of the popular teen idol, Kanon Nakagawa. However Keima shows no interest in her, explaining the flaws of idols in real life compare to video game idols. Unknown to both of them, Kanon just so happens to be a classmate of theirs and is coming back to school. When Kanon meets Keima on the school rooftop garden, she is shocked and depressed to learn Keima doesn’t know who she is and precedes to taze him repeatedly which at the same time Elsie detects an evil spirit inside Kanon and Keima’s next target. Kanon vows to make Keima acknowledge her and make him her fan by holding a private concert just for him but Keima ignores her and act cold to her. However Keima is purposely ignoring her as he believes it’s a trap as boys should be chasing girls, not the other way around. The next day, Kanon holds another concert for Keima which he ignores again. Depressed, Kanon suddenly starts to disappear in front of Keima and Elsie.
06	"Flag.6.0 I’m Ordinary?" "Watashi Heibon?" (Flag.6.0 ワタシ平凡?)	November 10, 2010
Keima and Elsie realize that Kanon is actually turning invisible because of the spirit inside of her and manages to stop Kanon from tazing him again by praising her song. As Keima sends Elsie to investigate, they learn Kanon was once a member of the pop idol group Citron before they disbanded and has never played any songs from her old band. Kanon's need for attention was the result of people not noticing her in the past. Keima later receives an email from Kanon and cheers up the depressed Kanon at her TV shoot. Kanon continues sending Keima an obsessive number of emails to visit her whenever she feels down. With the relationship going smoothly, Keima agrees to come to Kanon's Christmas Eve concert at Narusawa Seaside Hall. On the day of the concert, Kanon is nowhere to be found and Keima knows it's time to go to the final stage of his plans to capture Kanon's heart.
07	"Flag.7.0 Shining Star"	November 17, 2010
As Kanon prepares for her concert, she soon gets second thoughts and fears that she will mess up and be forgotten again causing her to turn invisible. She leaves the stadium which sends the backstage staff looking for her. As the concert draws near, Keima finally finds Kanon at a nearby building. Keima knows why Kanon fears being unnoticed, but tell hers she shouldn’t seek people’s attention as proof as an idol. As her hard work to become one was the proof all along. With his encouragement and her fans cheering for her, Kanon returns to the stadium, thanks Keima and kisses him which causes the spirit in her to leave and be captured by Elsie. As she is about to go on stage, she learns that her former bandmates from Citron, Yuri and Lime, have sent their congratulations to her for making it this far and Kanon makes an amazing performance to the crowd. As Keima and Elsie leave, he tells her his views on idols hasn’t changed, but sees Kanon not as an idol, but a shining star.
08	"Flag.8.0 Coupling With, With, With..."	November 24, 2010
This episode features 4 different perspectives happening on the same day. Elsie is angry that Keima called her useless for making his lunch since "it" had bizarre ingredients that are still alive. After her friend Chihiro advises her on how to impress Keima, Elsie decides to make a strawberry cake for him. Unfortunately, she misunderstands the recipe's instructions and mistakenly uses ingredients from Hell instead of normal ones, causing many accidents including releasing a Mandragon and blowing up the Home Economics classroom. At the same time, Keima irritates his English teacher, Mr. Kodama, who dislikes the fact Keima constantly plays games during class yet still manages to get perfect scores on tests. After getting into an argument with Keima over games and real life at PE class, Kodama is chased by the Mandragon. The Mandragon eventually arrives at the Katsuragi residence, where it drops Elsie's cake. Keima returns home and finds Elsie's cake and eats it out of guilt. However, because he was hiding, his mother mistakes him for a thief and hits him on the head with a vase. Kodama arrives at the Katsuragi residence for his meeting with Keima's mother, but sees the Mandragon get eaten by the "lunch" Elsie made earlier, scaring him away. Elsie returns home and vows to make another cake for Keima. Despite having eaten the cake, he tells her that he doesn't like sweets, much to her chagrin.
09	"Flag.9.0 Inside & Outside the Big Wall" "Ōki na Kabe no Naka to Soto" (Flag.9.0 大きな壁の中と外)	December 1, 2010
Keima orders Elsie to go to the school library to learn modern human history after learning her knowledge about human history is two centuries out of date. Instead, she becomes fascinated on a book about Firetrucks. When she looks for more books about Firetrucks, she ask one of the librarians, Shiori Shiomiya and detects a spirit inside of her. After bringing Keima to the library, the two are amazed that Shiori managed to find 458 books related to Firetrucks. While Keima thinks Shiori used the library index, Shiori, deep in thought, wants to tell him she was able to find them as she remembered all the books she reads in the library but is too shy to speak up. The next day, Shiori arranges the books in the library and explains her love for books. Keima is aware how shy librarian girls like her are easy to figure out as they are a common character in games, but unlike games where he can read what the character is thinking, finding out what Shiori is thinking might be more difficult. As Shiori removes some books to be disposed of and laments to herself about their fate, Keima helps her get one book she can't reach. Shiori tries to think on how to thank him but fumbles in her words while thanking him.
10	"Flag.10.0 Inside of Me..." "Atashi no Naka no ......" (Flag.10.0 あたしの中の……)	December 8, 2010
Shiori is embarrassed on what she said and tries to leave but when Keima comments on why books are useless nowadays, with much courage and anger, she verbally calls him stupid before quickly leaving. Keima later reveals to Elsie that he is purposely angering Shiori in order for her to speak up. Shiori laments on the fact that her shyness has prevented her to speak to people normally, but decides she doesn’t need to communicate with people and the only things she need is her books. The next day, the Library committee has decided to add a Media room for the library. Shiori tries to give her opinion to the committee but is too shy to speak up. Later, she catches Keima writing in one of the library books which he justifies that he was making corrections and comments how books can’t instantly be corrected, angering Shiori. The next afternoon, she catches Keima doing it again only to realize he’s scribbling in his own book. In anger and confusion, she starts thinking outloud without realizing it until Keima points it out. The next day after that, Keima introduces himself to Shiori and talks about the library, now that she is speaking normally to him. With Shiori now speaking up, Keima decides it’s time to capture her heart after finding a Library notice to dispose library books for the Media room.
11	"Flag.11.0 The Last Day" "Oshimai no Hi" (Flag.11.0 おしまいの日)	December 15, 2010
Shiori locks herself and barricades the library to prevent the Library committee from disposing books for the Media room. As the committee tries to get inside, Shiori falls asleep and dreams how her love for books began until she is awoken by Keima who manages to enter the Library through a hole at the rooftop made by Elsie. Keima has come to support Shiori in her protest and stays close to her. The Library committee cuts the power to the library, surprising Shiori and causes some books to fall over them. As she hugs Keima, Shiori tells him that only he understands her love for books and reasons for protecting them. However, Keima calls her a liar and tells her she didn't barricade herself to protect her books, but herself to the world. Keima knows she always wanted to talk to people, but her fears of being misunderstood prevented that which is why she reads books as an escape from the real world. Troubled with this revelation, Shiori feels unsure on what to do until Keima drags her out of the rubble of books, telling her he'll be her support and kisses her, which releases the spirit. As the Library committee finally enters the library, Shiori finally speaks up for herself and explains her reasons which the committee agrees to have a meeting. In the epilogue, Shiori feels like she has forgotten someone who was with her during her protest so she writes a story on what she remembers.
12	"Flag.12.0 More Than a God, Less Than a Human" "Kami Ijou , Ningen Miman" (Flag.12.0 神以上、人間未満)	December 22, 2010
Due to helping Elsie capturing spirits, Keima has gathered a large backlog of new games he hasn't played. So on Sunday, he plans to finish all the games in his room by playing 6 games at the same time by going into "God of Conquest Mode" which enables him to play multiple games at the same time with impressive speed, while still managing to logically make the right choices and enjoy each game individually but suffers from Burnout later. Elsie finds this impressive, yet bewildering and leaves him alone. Realizing he cannot finish all of his games at this pace, Keima decides to up the ante by playing 24 games at once while in "God of Conquest Mode". Keima finally manages to finish all of his backlog games except one as he is too tired to continue, but he soon starts hallucinating that all of the game girls he captured are encouraging him to not give up. Rejuvenated, he finally finishes the last game and "follow" his game girls into the game world where they all sing and dance together. The episode ends with an announcement for the second season of the anime and a new character introduced.

The World God Only Knows II

Episode No.	Series No.	Title	Original airdate
01	13	"Flag.1.0 Flower in Bloom" "Ikka Ryōran" (Flag.1.0 一花繚乱)	April 12, 2011[3]
After a brief recap of the first season, Keima theorized to Elsie on why the spirits are attracted to the girls he helped before until they get into trouble with bullies but are saved by Kusunoki Kasuga, the captain of the girls karate club. As Kusunoki berates Keima for being weak, Elsie's spirit sensor detects a spirit inside her. Despite learning from Elsie that Kusunoki is heir to her family's martial arts thus her hatred of weak/cute things and tough training which made most of the members of the girls karate club to quit, Keima asks Kusunoki to make him her apprentice to learn more about her. Kusunoki refuses at first but reluctantly agrees due to Keima's Bishōnen looks. At first Keima can't find anything useful until he catches Kusunoki cuddling a cat which reveals she does like cute/weak things. Embarrassed and angry, Kusunoki tries to throw the cat out from the balcony but a manifestation of her appears and saves the cat. Keima realizes Kusunoki's conflicted feelings to be masculine or feminine has made the spirit in her manifest her feminine side whenever cute, girly and weak things appear before her. In order to fully draw out her feminine side by doing the most girly thing, Elsie tells Kusunoki to go on a date with Keima much to their embarrassment as they both reluctantly agree.
02	14	"Flag.2.0 Problem Solved by the Fist" "Ikken Rakuchaku" (Flag.2.0 一挙落着)	April 19, 2011[3]
Kusunoki is embarrassed on her date with Keima but still continues it hoping it will draw her feminine side out. After failing to connect themselves in their date, Kusonoki and Keima decide to do the most romantic thing: eating an ice cream together. After overcoming their embarrassments and eating it, Kusunoki's feminine side finally comes out where both Kusunoki and her feminine side fight for dominance. As both of them fight and explaining their reason with Kusunoki wanting to get rid of her femininity as it is a weakness in her martial arts and preventing her from inheriting her family dojo while Feminine Kusunoki wants to get rid of her martial arts as its preventing her from becoming a woman, Keima stops them and tells them they can just choose both and not sacrifice one for the other. Kusunoki protest at first but Feminine Kusunoki tells the former that Keima is correct since she did enjoyed her date with Keima despite her earlier denial. Feminine Kusunoki admits her defeat but makes Kusunoki promise not to forget her femininity. As her last act, Feminine Kusunoki takes control of Kusunoki's body to kiss Keima as a remembrance which Kusunoki does so willingly as she realize she likes Keima and kisses him which release the spirit inside of her. Kusunoki still continues her martial arts and now accepts her femininity. Later, Elsie tries to explain to Keima the powers of the evil spirits only to get trapped inside a Spirit capturing bottle used by her friend and fellow Spirit hunter, Haqua.
03	15	"Flag.3.0 The Section Chief Cometh." "Chikuchō, Kitaru." (Flag.3.0 地区長、来たる。)	April 26, 2011[3]
Elsie is glad to meet her friend Haqua, a genius who was one of the best students in their class and is now the Section Chief of District 32 of the Far East Division. When Elsie ask Haqua how many spirits she has captured, Haqua claims she captured ten and is in disbelief at first when Elsie says she captured five as she always known her as a klutz. But their conversation is interrupted when Elsie's boss, Chief Docrow, reports an evil spirit is on the loose in her area due to a failure of another spirit hunter. Haqua decides to capture this spirit by herself but Keima, after hearing her talk with Elsie and seeing her suspicious attitude, tells Haqua that he knows the spirit hunter who let the spirit loose was Haqua herself as she was chasing it before she meet Elsie and Docrow reported it. While Keima isn't interested on why Haqua is keeping it a secret from Elsie, he offers to help her find the spirit at school in exchange for telling him what the evil spirits are. Haqua explains the spirits are the souls of the Old Demons of Hell who were overthrown and sealed by like-minded Demons who were oppose with the former's wicked ways but managed to escapes to Earth and hide in girls hearts which the spirit hunters are tasked to capture them before they are reincarnated as their host's child. Since the spirit feeds on negative emotions, Keima leads Haqua to the most depressing place in campus, the school theater. Keima decides to leave everything to Haqua but she needs his help and admits to him that she hasn't caught a spirit yet and lied to Elsie to save face. It is then when Elsie reports to her that she has found the spirit in the theater.
04	16	"Flag.4.0 The Section Chief Regains Her Pride." "Chikuchō, Hokori o Torimodosu." (Flag.4.0 地区長、誇りを取り戻す。)	May 3, 2011[3]
Haqua arrives and tries to capture the spirit which has gotten powerful from feeding the negative emotions of the unconscious students around them but the spirit escapes to the roof by possessing the students to stop Haqua and Elsie. Keima suggests Haqua should team up with Elsie but Haqua refuses, claiming she is more better than her. However, Haqua is in distraught as she has failed to live up to her friends expectations which allows the spirit to possesses her. By the time Keima and Elsie reach the roof, Haqua is under the spirit's control and it uses her and the possessed students to capture them. In order free Haqua from the spirit's control, Keima tells Elsie to calm the negative emotions in Haqua's heart. As Elsie talks to her, Haqua admits to Elsie that she lied to her as she was ashamed and didn't want let her down but Elsie breaks free from the possessed students and hugs Haqua, telling her no matter what, she will always been the greatest demon in her eyes which finally breaks her free from the spirit's control. Now working together, Haqua defends Elsie from the possessed students while the later uses the spirit capturing bottle to capture the spirit which they succeed. With the spirit captured and returned to her, Haqua thanks Keima for his help and for not revealing her lie to Elsie while Keima congratulates Elsie on a good job which she celebrates by buying both Keima and Haqua lunch.
05	17	"Flag.5.0 It Always Raining When We Get There" "Tadoritsuitara Itsumo Ame Furi" (Flag.5.0 たどりついたらいつも雨ふり)	May 10, 2011[3]
After learning there are still 60,000 spirits to be captured before his contract is finish, Keima goes into a depression, not helping matters when his classmate the cheerful Chihiro Kosaka makes fun of him. Despite telling Elsie he doesn't care what people say about him, he is still affected by Chihiro's words. Suddenly, Elsie detects a spirit and to Keima's horror, it's inside Chihiro. Keima refuses to help her since he's still angry on what she said and the fact she's very average and doesn't have any unique traits that can help him figure her out. However, they watch her confessing to a boy, only to see her get rejected and runaway crying. The next day, Keima, feeling sorry for Chihiro, decides to console her over her rejection but to his anger, Chihiro is back to her old self as she reveals she has been confessing and getting rejected to any boy she fancies many times. Keima scolds Chihiro for playing around with love but she strikes back with his obsession with games and his anti-social attitude which strikes a deep cord within him. Even more depressed, Keima locks himself in his room for days until he does come back to school but refusing to speak with anyone. Worried about him, Ayumi visits Keima who has fainted from not eating.
06	18	"Flag.6.0 10% Chance of Rain" "10% no Ameyohou" (Flag.6.0 10%の雨予報)	May 17, 2011[4]
Ayumi attempts to lighten Keima's mood after his fight with Chihiro and asks him to makeup with her. After sharing lunch together, Keima learns that all his past girls he helped still have remnants of their feelings for him. Ayumi later tricks both Keima and Chihiro to do cleaning duty together where Keima learns Chihiro is truly sorry for insulting him. By chance, Keima discovers Chihiro's new crush, Yuta. After admitting Keima's claim that she doesn't take love seriously, Chihiro ask Keima to teach her some of his dating sim techniques in order to win over Yuta's heart. The following morning, Elsie indirectly points out that should Keima help Chihiro, he would not have to be directly involved in filling the emptiness in her heart. Overjoyed by this revelation, he gathers information on Yuta which he then formulates into a plan where he helps Chihiro get a notable impression from Yuta. As Keima teaches Chihiro in his final plan to get her to confess to Yuta tomorrow, Chihiro start to take an interest with Keima.
07	19	"Flag.7.0 Singing in the Rain"	May 24, 2011[4]
As Keima prepares Chihiro to finally confess to Yuta, Chihiro begins to have second thoughts and realizes she likes Keima and calls off the confession. However Keima is angry that everything he did for her is being thrown away and accuses her for not being serious which Chihiro angrily leaves as it won't matter how serious she get as she'll never be special like others. Keima, after realizing he never consider Chihiro's feelings as he was too focus on the confession, he decides to make amends and capture Chihiro's heart. By the time he finds her on a ship, Chihiro confesses she started liking Keima since they're both similar of being disappointed with the real world. However, he corrects her that despite his dislike with the real world, he never given up on himself so she should do the same thing. But when Chihiro tries protest that someone as average as her can never be special, Keima kisses her by surprise and tells her as long as she truly wants it, nothing can stop her from becoming special, which forces the spirit out. With the spirit gone, Chihiro becomes more cheerful, confident and tells Elsie they should start a rock band. As for Keima, he starts to question his life after remembering the girls he helped before.
08	20	"Flag.8.0 Her First Errand" "Hajimete no☆Otsukai" (Flag.8.0 はじめての☆おつかい)	May 31, 2011[4]
		"Flag.8.5 Tea for Three." "3-Nin de ocha o." (Flag.8.5 3人でお茶を。)
Keima learns the rare First Edition of the Dating sim game "Love Tears" will be on sale at another town so he goes there the next morning with Elsie tagging along. After teaching Elsie the history of dating sims and difference between many editions of the same game, Keima tasks Elsie to buy the game while he goes to a game fair. When she finally finds it, she discover three different editions of the Love Tears game but manages to get the correct one due to it's expensive price. Unfortunately, Elsie instead buys the Love Tears anime by mistake which Keima suspected so he bought the game at the game fair just in case. Later, Haqua arrives at the Katsuragi residence's and asks Elsie and Keima's assistance for her report during the time she captured the escaped spirit at Majima Academy by using a magical scale model of the school including autonomous dolls of them and the students that follow their command by a mic. After Keima helps complete her report, he protests over one detail that Haqua changed in her report which was when they both arrived at the theater, she claims Keima clung to her when the truth was it was the other way around. After they fight over their version of that incident, Haqua destroys the mic to keep Keima from changing it. Unfortunately, she last commanded that Keima was a pervert chasing after her which Keima's doll does obscene things with Haqua's doll, much to Haqua's embarrassment and Elsie's anger where they both hit Keima and accidentally let the dolls loose. After helping recover the dolls, Haqua's thanks them for their help and Elsie wonders if Haqua used the report as an excuse to visit Keima.
09	21	"Flag.9.0 Class 2-B Miss Nagase" "2-Nen B-gumi Nagase-sensei" (Flag.9.0 2年B組長瀬先生)	June 7, 2011[4]
Jun Nagase is an idealistic and upbeat new student teacher at Majima Academy assigned to her senior's class, Miss Nikaidō, Keima's teacher. Jun is at first bewildered that Keima is playing video games in class and nobody minds about it but after the teachers tell her the problems they have to deal with him, Jun believes Keima is a problem child and wants to help him. She goes to talk to him but gets scared looking into his eyes and leaves. Convinced that Keima is actually lonely, she resolves to help him open up which at the same time a spirit enters her body. When Keima and Elsie learns about Jun's spirit, Keima finds his next target difficult as making of a teacher falling in love in games takes too much time as teachers never fall in love with their students as they only see them as their students only. Thus in order to make Jun fall in love with him, he has to make Jun see him as her equal in a short amount of time. As Keima leaves school to figure out his plan, he is caught by Jun who thinks he's ditching school. After dragging him to have lunch with her and talking about her idol, the late pro wrestler Jumbo Tsuruma, Jun tell Keima to talk about his problems to her. However Keima does not like this unprecedent event since it will take too long for him to capture Jun's heart.
10	22	"Flag.10.0 School☆Wars" "Sukūru☆Uōzu" (スクール☆ウォーズ)	June 14, 2011[5]
Keima has an idea to quickly grow the relationship between him and Jun by making her hate him and turning those feelings into love. But the plan backfires as it only cause Jun to be more concerned about him. After getting him alone in class, Jun tell Keima that she believes he is lonely and plays games as a form of escape but he shoots her down as she has no clue what he is and that she shouldn't judge him by her own standards, which leaves Jun shocked. With no other choice and a change of plans, Keima asks Miss Nikaidō for more information about Jun which she agree in exchange for helping her in her school work. Meanwhile, Jun still affected by Keima words, decides to help his class in their schoolwork after Mr Kodama insult them as failures. But when the students tell her that they don't have the zeal to improve themselves, Jun in anger, inadvertently scolds them and quickly leaves. After finishing his part of the deal, Nikaidō finally reveals to Keima that she and Jun were members of the highschool's girls basketball team before it disbanded over an incident in the past. With this new information, Keima now knows what to do.
11	23	"Flag.11.0 There's Always a Sun in Your Heart" "Itsumo Kokoro ni Taiyō o" (いつも心に太陽を)	June 21, 2011[5]
Still upset over what happened at class, Jun goes to watch a pro wrestling match only to find Keima sitting at her seat thanks to Elsie making a copy of her ticket. As she is forced to sit with him to watch the match, Jun wonders why the class won't let her help them, which Keima then asks her why the girls basketball team disbanded when she was captain and correctly concludes that it was her idealism that forced the other members to quit and despite claiming she was trying to help the team for them, she was actually helping them for herself which Jun leaves the match in anger. Despite this, Keima concludes it's time to capture her heart. Later, Jun tells the class she has entered them for a marathon hoping to help them bond, but instead they refuse, feeling that she's trying too hard on them, which leaves Jun disappointed and tells the class how selfish they are before running away. As the class bad mouths Jun, Keima unexpectedly calls out on their behavior and disappearing before they confront him. As Jun arrives at the old girls basketball team locker room, Keima confronts her, telling her despite claiming to have changed in order to teach her idealism to others, she still hasn't changed at all. As she runs away into the school gym crying and wondering why people won't let them help her, Keima consoles and tells her to not give up and try harder as it will finally make them accept her idealism. Just then, the whole class arrive in the gym to apologize to Jun much to her joy. Unknown to Jun, Keima knew what was going to happen so he planned with Elsie to have the class to start hating him after Jun left and made them worry about her after she was gone. As Jun's time as a student teacher comes to an end, Keima sees her off and asks her to come back which she promises to become a better teacher and kisses him, finally expelling the spirit inside of her.
12	24	"Flag.12.0 Summer Wars" "Samā Uōzu" (サマーウォーズ)	June 28, 2011[5]
While playing his recently bought dating sim games, Keima plays one called "One Leaf". At first, he assumes it's a terrible game due to it's horrible character design but quickly falls in love with its heroine, Yotsuba Sugimoto, aka "Yokkyun", as she is his ideal game heroine. Keima enjoys the game so much, that he decides to play it at a slow pace, ignoring everyone throughout the whole day much to Elsie's chargin and Haqua's confusion. Later that night, Keima receives an email from the game studio that created "One Leaf", who asks Keima to help them create the perfect dating sim game under his direction. As Keima think of ideas for the game, his inner minds soon starts arguing over what is the ideal and perfect dating sim which leads to an intergalatic war. But the war finally stops when all of them remember about Yokkyun and what is important that makes the perfect dating sim game. Finally making a decision, Keima decides to tell the studio to just make a good game. As the season finale come to an end, including a preview of the new cast of heroines for Keima in the next season, Keima ends the episode saying he used to think games were the ideal world and real life was just a bad game. But after learning that a perfect world can be found in a bad game, then he can also find it in real life as well.
OVA	OVA	"4 Girls and an Idol" "Yonin to Aidoru" (４人とアイドル)	September 16, 2011 (OVA release)
Chihiro forms a rock band with her friends Elsie, Ayumi and Miyako Terada. But their music is horrible and needs more practice, which Elsie suggest forming a light music club and getting their own club room which they agree. However, Mr Kodama refuses to form any new clubs so he gives them a challenge: If they can get 100% for their English Term tests, they will get their club or else all of them gets extra class work. Chihiro at first wants to give up on the club idea but when Kanon comes back to school to take her tests and tells the band that she will be performing for the school fall dance festival, Chihiro changes her mind and wants the band to be on stage together with Kanon. In order to help them, Elsie drags Keima to help teach her, Chihiro, Ayumi and later Kanon for their english test. Keima refuses since most of the girls were his past conquest but reluctantly agrees after Elsie assures him that they don't remember that. However, Chihiro, Ayumi and Kanon acts awkward and embarrass everytime he teaches them but he manages to give them helpful tips for their tests. By the time their results are out, Miyako, Chihiro and Ayumi manage to get 100% except Elsie but a joyful Kodama allows the club to be form because Keima got 99% as the latter was bothered by the girls behavior. Kanon also got 100% as well but was more happy to have made new friends. Now with their own club room, Chihiro's band, The 2-B Pencils starts practicing.

Reception

The third volume of The World God Only Knows was the fourth highest-selling tankōbon in Japan on the Oricon Comic Chart for the week of January 13 and January 19, 2009, with over 50,500 copies sold that week.^[19] The following week, it was the twenty-first highest-selling manga volume in Japan, having sold 30,600 copies the week of January 20 and January 26, 2009. As of January 2009, the third manga volume have sold about 81,100 copies.^[20]
Carlo Santos of Anime News Network reviewed the anime's first season and gave it a B where he was surprised how much he enjoyed the great storyline despite its plot description alone might be off putting to some saying, "By most expectations, anything involving ditzy demon girls and gaming-obsessed geekboys and a rotating lineup of high school beauties should have been the stuff of critical derision. Yet the show's sharp sense of humor, honest emotions, and polished production values prove that working with familiar clichés doesn't have to result in a clichéd product. With the right prodding and poking, any anime series can indeed become greater than the sum of its parts."^[21]

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