The World God Only Knows: Goddess Arc - 03 [Review]

In this episode, Keima plans out his conquests and uses the skills that he had learnt from his previous conquests, in order to make sure that the girl will fall in love with him. Watching Keima move from girl to girl is funny in the sense that he’s a “player” but is also quite sad considering his progress.

What made episode 3 great was it’s characters. The World God Only Knows excels at story telling and it's developing characters. An example being Chihiro. When Keima and her met, she ‘hated’ him and went out of her way to be mean to him. Look at her now. She’s having calm, collected conversations with him, conversations that would really only occur between friends.

Though, we still have the issue of Kanon. Conquests aside, Kanon is dying up in that room and Keima knows it. It’s a joyous thing to see Keima get so serious of a girl. When he started ranting about his games and how life should be like them. I thought it was brilliant to see Keima have a reality check. Life isn’t a game. In order to save Kanon, Keima is willing to do anything.

Episode 3 was amazing because even though they crammed so much in, it didn’t feel rushed. It was done perfectly. And, when it did feel rushed, the viewer didn’t tend to notice because it felt almost like it was meant to be that way. Keima is hurrying to save Kanon’s life. If he’s sitting around doing nothing every episode I think people would complain more. Just saying.

To conclude, The World God Only Knows is getting better with each episode. So far, this has been my favorite episode of the series, encompassing all of the best bits from the first two series into one 25 minute episode. That said, I’m hoping there’s more drama next episode so that we can see the Goddesses arc as it was meant to be seen, the most serious arc in The World God Only Knows so far.