神(かみ)のみぞ知(し)るセカイ(The World God Only Knows) is a series about a gamer who loves dating sims conquering real girls to rid them of literal demons. Pretty cool no?
This is one of my favourite series and I consider it very important. I’ll eventually have a whole lot written about it, hopefully soon.

Seems like these review things will be hard to get rid of for a while.

Hell has a bit of a problem. Occasionally, a spirit being tortured manages to escape. After escaping, these spirits hide in the gaps of people’s hearts, usually girls for whatever reason.
To reclaim the runaway spirits, Hell formed a team to capture them. This team then forms pairs of people (1 demon and 1 human) who have to the task of finding and capturing the spirits.
The human in the pair is tasked with filling the gap in the hearts of others, while the demon actually seals the spirit after it gets pushed out. Not all pairs work this way though.

The protagonist. He is an otaku (here we mean the more derogatory meaning of the term) obsessed with playing galge (“Gal Games” - “Dating Sims”). So obsessed in fact, that he has rejected reality. He is also insanely good at playing galge. So much, that he has earned the title of “Capturing God” - no girl can resist but falling in love with him.
Due to this, he is (involuntarily) recruited by hell to capture runaway spirits.
As time goes on, his rejection of reality slowly dies down more and more.‥ until he ends up falling in love with a girl himself.
He can best be described as intelligent, proud, shameless and efficient. He gets ridiculously good (er, perfect) grades in school and that’s only because he was under the impression teachers wouldn’t mind him playing games if he passed every test. His shamelessness is more in regards to him not caring about the fact people view him as a pathetic otaku… that and he can say and do things that would embarrass the hell out of any normal person.

The ‘younger sister’ of our protagonist.
She is a demon from hell, sent to be the ‘buddy’ of Katsuragi during his conquests.
She’s childish and a little flighty. She has an adorable obsession with fire trucks, which always brings an involuntary smile out of me.
Prior to joining the Runaway Spirits squad, she was a janitor. Because of that, she is very good at cleaning and is constantly carrying a broom around.
The manga comes up with a truly atrocious backstory for her, that almost single-handedly ruined the whole series for me. So basically, she’s the physical embodiment of an ancient weapon from hell.

Elsie’s friend from school.
Having graduated as an honour student, she goes down the typical path of ‘despite being great in school, I’m terrible at life’.
Something of a tsundere towards Katsuragi.

Despite being one of my favorites I have several problems with the series, which I’ll explain somewhat here.

• Official Anime Site
• The Wikia - Pretty bad, don’t bother.