The World God Only Knows Discussion Thread

[goldenarms]

Yea. Seriously. The people from the past who helped Keima in the present had it rough.

No kidding. All that help, and in the end, Keima blindsided them all. I think the ending is unsatisfactory because there was no development of Keima ending things with the other girls -- they had to learn of things through the ether or however it happened, and that's probably the worst way of ending a relationship. Even if you tell a girl that you don't like her, or you like someone else, at least it shows that you cared enough about her to tell her directly.

He could have done one more story arc, if for nothing else, one of the rejected girls going berserk and Keima having to deal with the fallout of rejection. Basically, deconstructing the galge and how the real world isn't so nice and neat with its endings.

 

[TC_Hazard]

It was a rushed ending. The forced cancellation bell is strong here.

It's like he skipped ahead with the ending he envisioned but also skipped some of the steps needed to get there. When you think about it, Elsie is the only one with a proper end.

Honestly, the problem was the time travel arc being several times longer than it had to be.

 

[byakuryuu]

The real world isn't so nice and neat with its endings.

Didn't this just happen? I do agree that there are some things that needed a proper closing door, but what you're asking for here pretty much happened. Choppy, a bit contrived, not quite messy but otherwise an ending for the series as a whole.

Been a good ride, overall. Just wish we could have seen what happened to Hell and all that. Don't know how these questions are going to be answered now the whole thing's reached a closing point.

 

[chronodekar]

It was a rushed ending. The forced cancellation bell is strong here.

I've been suspecting this for some time too. But even if it were true,

The ending isn't a disappointment. Which, for a "harem" series is an achievement, IMO. I've been rooting for Chihiro for some time now and as happy as I am to see her victory, there is a sense of "unknown" left here.

The ending isn't the greatest of endings, and it feels a bit ... incomplete, but with the last words being "the unknown future", that actually feels more true here than other places where I've seen it. (Mass Effect tried something similar, but there is a bigger problem with how that game ended. At least here, we didn't get a whip-lash.)

-chronodekar

 

[goldenarms]

It was a rushed ending. The forced cancellation bell is strong here.

I felt that, too.

The real world isn't so nice and neat with its endings.

Didn't this just happen? I do agree that there are some things that needed a proper closing door, but what you're asking for here pretty much happened.

I meant one of the losers not taking so well to the losing. In fact, you'd think there would be a HUGE issue as the goddesses were fighting among themselves when they all got together over Keima, and now, they're all peachy about it? Hell, the only goddess to appear at all was Diane, and largely because Tenri needed a "You're not alone" pep talk after carrying around her rejection letter for nearly ten years. It wasn't even a kind rejection letter, either; no "regretful" or any such tone.

But I'm getting off track.

While we had Chihiro/Keima heartbreak, we could have gotten another story about what happens when you break a goddess's heart, or the heart of her vessel. Because while Chihiro possessed no power, a goddess certainly could have made life very difficult for Keima. Alternately, the loss affects her very being, and Keima has to once again restore her, though now there's an additional risk of losing what he was seeking with Chihiro.

Overall, as others point out, it's not a very satisfying conclusion, and really I felt Chihiro was the least interesting of the girls involved. No one particular favorite (I favored the "All Goddesses" ending, to be honest), but at the least it didn't go Keima/Elsa, as I hate "first girl wins" and "falling in love with the person that gives me all this trouble I never wanted" plot points.

 

[shiki]

Pretty sure Wakaki is ending it because of some real life thing. Heard something on the net that he was getting married or something soon. It may or may not be true.

 

[chronodekar]

Pretty sure Wakaki is ending it because of some real life thing. Heard something on the net that he was getting married or something soon. It may or may not be true.

So being married is going to affect any harem fiction you are working? This has me concerned...

-chronodekar

 

[Hoki]

So this is how it ends? I guess I was expecting too much.

I feel for Tenri, she is undoubtedly best girl.

 

[Megaolix]

-DELETED-

 

[Knyght]

You took a wrong turn, dude.

 

[Megaolix]

You took a wrong turn, dude.

Oops...

 

[TC_Hazard]

So this is how it ends? I guess I was expecting too much.

I feel for Tenri, she is undoubtedly best girl.

While I wouldn't say best, she really deserved better than that letter.

Doesn't help that I was in the anyone but Chihiro camp.

 

[byakuryuu]

Pretty sure Wakaki is ending it because of some real life thing. Heard something on the net that he was getting married or something soon. It may or may not be true.

So being married is going to affect any harem fiction you are working? This has me concerned...

-chronodekar

Probably does. I was heavy into harems until my first two relationships (Incidentally, the only two relationships I've had) and it opens a huge new bunch of considerations when you're writing harem as part of a plot (and not just for the sex). For instance, that each and every one of these girls have their own lives - their own desires and such and it's not always going to be hunky dory. Your view changes quite a bit when you're writing romance when basing it on real life interactions and people.

I can understand if the reason he ended it was because of that.

 

[seitora]

So after finally getting through the last few chapters, I must admit I'm rather disappointed at the ending myself. Dokuro's and Elsie's wrap-ups I'm satisfied with, everything else not so much. Oh well, fun while it lasted and I still have the 3rd anime season to watch someday.

Spoiler

I had been hoping for a Keima/Haqua pairing, damnit!

 

[MastaofBitches]

Yeah... But the Arc Fatigue was getting really bad near the end.

 

[seitora]

No doubt, considering like the first two years were monster-of-the-week arcs, then the Weiss arc, then we spent like two damn years in this last arc. Really, on the face of things it would've been a lot better if things had been wrapped up after Weiss or went in a different direction.

 

[MastaofBitches]

True, The Time Travel Arc started out interesting enough, it just dragged on far to long, and it wasn't a particularly satisfying conclusion.

 

[chronodekar]

True, The Time Travel Arc started out interesting enough, it just dragged on far to long, and it wasn't a particularly satisfying conclusion.

I like to think that it dragged on for too long, they (producers?) decided to kill the series.

Personally, I didn't like the time-traveling thing either.

-chronodekar

 

[goldenarms]

TWGOK: On the Train

...why you tease me so?

 

[MastaofBitches]

Cute, but a painful reminder.

 

[chronodekar]

Cute, but a painful reminder.

Cute and CRUEL reminder. What is the point of it?

-chronodekar

 

[shiki]

Trains.

 

[MastaofBitches]

KamiNomi/Rail Wars crossover?

 

[seitora]

And how did we never get a Yokkyun tie-up?!

 

[MastaofBitches]

Alright, I'm extremely new here. To this thread and thefanfictionforum in general.

But in case this wasn't clarified:

Season 3 is getting dubbed March 2015.
Season 4 is in production.

I'm not sure how I feel about a season 4... On one hand, I'm always glad for more TWGOK, but on the other... On the other hand, the last arc of TWGOK was terrible.