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REVIEW: The World God Only Knows Blu-Ray

Some will doubtless look at this as a clever application of one medium to another, but it's really a cop-out because it avoids taking the more challenging and potentially even more interesting course: showing an otaku actually learning to step beyond his games and deal with people in a normal manner.

In other words, you want Keima to reject his own identity and what makes him happy.

That's the problem I have with Train Man, which has the message that Otaku can only find happiness by giving up their hobbies and drastically changing themselves. I just don't like it.

I actually think it is more interesting that Keima is unashamedly a proud and fiercely devoted Otaku. He doesn't change himself to fit in, he thinks he's fine and that the world should just accept him the way he is. And what's the harm with that?

Some will doubtless look at this as a clever application of one medium to another, but it's really a cop-out because it avoids taking the more challenging and potentially even more interesting course: showing an otaku actually learning to step beyond his games and deal with people in a normal manner. The producers cannot be faulted too much for this, because they clearly understand that they are pandering to exactly the kind of audience that Keima represents and giving them exactly what they want to see, but wasting such a golden opportunity to make something more of an anime title is disappointing to see.

Theron wrote:

Some will doubtless look at this as a clever application of one medium to another, but it's really a cop-out because it avoids taking the more challenging and potentially even more interesting course: showing an otaku actually learning to step beyond his games and deal with people in a normal manner.

In other words, you want Keima to reject his own identity and what makes him happy.

Theron wrote:

Some will doubtless look at this as a clever application of one medium to another, but it's really a cop-out because it avoids taking the more challenging and potentially even more interesting course: showing an otaku actually learning to step beyond his games and deal with people in a normal manner.

In other words, you want Keima to reject his own identity and what makes him happy.

That's the problem I have with Train Man, which has the message that Otaku can only find happiness by giving up their hobbies and drastically changing themselves. I just don't like it.

I actually think it is more interesting that Keima is unashamedly a proud and fiercely devoted Otaku. He doesn't change himself to fit in, he thinks he's fine and that the world should just accept him the way he is. And what's the harm with that?

Theron wrote:

Some will doubtless look at this as a clever application of one medium to another, but it's really a cop-out because it avoids taking the more challenging and potentially even more interesting course: showing an otaku actually learning to step beyond his games and deal with people in a normal manner.

In other words, you want Keima to reject his own identity and what makes him happy.

That's the problem I have with Train Man, which has the message that Otaku can only find happiness by giving up their hobbies and drastically changing themselves. I just don't like it.

I actually think it is more interesting that Keima is unashamedly a proud and fiercely devoted Otaku. He doesn't change himself to fit in, he thinks he's fine and that the world should just accept him the way he is. And what's the harm with that?

And did you really find the voice-work (Japanese) so bothersome? I, personally, found the delivery top notch work and was rather impressed with how well Shimono Hiro played Keima and all his awkwardness and glory.

Christ Patton just couldn't do the character justice, IMO. It's not so much the low score of one or the other that bothers me, but that fact they were given the same score? Seems somewhat skewed, but that's just my opinion.

Also, "not moe enough"... really? Was this supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? Do you honestly believe that TWGOK lacked moe?

So your complaining that the series isn't moe and when your not enjoying and the seeing the bigger picture of an awkward, geek who at first refuses to accept the real world for the game world but slowly starts to change after helping and knowing the girls?