Opening Your Day: The World God Only Knows (OP 1)
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Anime Review: The World God Only Knows S2 - 12 (FINAL)
“The real world is just a crappy game. The ideal world can only be found in a game…
Or so I thought.
But if an ideal can be found within a crappy game, there may be an ideal route in the real world for me to discover…”
And thus ends the second season of The World God Only Knows.
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I actually enjoyed the numerous anime series and movies that was referenced throughout this episode. One reference in particular (with the image linked above), The Girl Who Lept Through Time, amused me. Keima in a skirt, it was bound to happen.
They also had a couple of other series referenced, in particular a Gundam scene — classic.
Similarly, every girl that Keima had to “conquer” in both this season and the first make cameos throughout this episode. I found this to be quite a nice touch, and almost a kind of fun ‘where’s waldo’ kind of game.
New uniforms are shown in this episode — a symbol of the new changes in Keima’s thinking that he developed throughout this episode. This final episode involved Keima finding his “ideal” through an otherwise-bad video game. He plays it knowing full well that it was poorly made, but falls in love with the main character, who ends up being the closest to Keima’s ideal person.
He becomes so engrossed in the game, he becomes pretty much obsessed. Once he finishes the game, though, he reaches sort of an epiphany — the kind that protagonists go through at the end of a series. He realizes that if he can find his ideal in a bad video game, then maybe there’s something worth searching for in the real world, too.
The series ends with this epiphany, which leaves for further character development in Keima, assuming there will be a third season.
As of now, there’s been no announcements of a third season, but they did introduce a number of girls in the ending sequence which we can only assume will be more girls that Keima will have to “conquer.”
Among them were a younger girl (I’d assume Keima would have to play the “big brother”/”prince charming” role) and a girl whose reflection mirrored a split-personality type of character arch-type.
If there were a third season, the hints they’ve left for us is nothing less than taunting. The wait to see if there will be a third season and when it will air is still unknown at this point, as they could always go down the original “Inuyasha” route and announce to the fans to read the manga to know what happens next..!
Overall, I really enjoyed this second season. It kept the same general pace as the first season, so the second wasn’t a let down at all. If anything, it might have been better in some cases, as I liked how they developed some characters throughout multiple episodes instead of having one girl per episode.
GO Rating: 4.5/5
This final episode let us see how much Keima grew and how his character developed. I also enjoyed the references to other series as well as to previous episodes of TWGOK. I am crossing my fingers for a third season — this series is quite enjoyable, and I’ve become attached to many of the characters, too.
