A >>manga<< about a 'reality denying' boy who finds only satisfation in the dating sim universe is suddenly forced to help a devil apprentice to catch spirits that hide in the 'heart gaps' of girls... By making them fall in love with him. And though not happy about it, he uses his godly knowledge of dating girls in ren'ai adventures.


Catch phrase: "I can already see the ending."

After reading the first few chapters, this looks indeed like a fun story. Without a doubt little Erushi is one of the cutest demons I have seen until now. And Keima is surely right with his conclusion.

Great series! I got to 52 on Onemanga, and am now very sad, since I can't read past that

NEED MOAR CHAPTERS SOON!!!

The latest story, with Minami-chan (chapters 50 through 53), is probably my favourite up to now - not much of any gadgets or supernatural stuff involved, mostly just plain emotion, getting philosophic at times; I like that.

Ah, the Shinobu-type... ~q:

I like the librarian girl, her "..." are so expressive.

You're right, Shiori-chan (chapters 13 through 16) is really fascinating. A woman like her would be the right one to propose to - in written form, of course - and to live with happily in a library ever after. Why do librarians like that only exist in comic books?

I've read up to chapter 22. Elsee is just too cute for words. =)

And I liked chapter 17, where he was determined to finish that game despite the bugs. A true challenge for him.

He is an interesting protagonist. Quite well balanced. Neither a 100% looser who all the girls love for no apparent reasons. Nor does He have 'mad skillz' that go absurdly overboard...


And the author seems to ba a Charles Schultz (Peanuts) fan \^o^/

Even though some of the chapters seemed to be mere fillers (like the newest one), the series remained interesting, as there was some variety added beginning with the Tenri story (chapters 57 – 64), after the first chapters used to follow the same pattern. It was especially funny to see Erushi/Elsea being scared of ghosts in the Airi story (chapters 66 – 68).

By the way, why did they have to mess with the spelling of her name in the translation? While in chapter 1 her name was given as Erushia Delto Ima, called Erushi, it had turned to Elusia De Lute Irma, called Elsea, in chapter 56. In the Japanese text (just compare here and here) it's clearly エリュシア・デ・ルート・イーマ (Eryushia De Rūto Īma), called エルシイ (Erushī).

It looks like the translator had problems with proper names somehow; already on one of the first pages, where Chief Dokurō is asking Erushī to bring along a souvenir from the human world, in the translation he's saying "One about belly should be fine", while in the Japanese original it's 「ビリーのDVDでいいわ。」 - ("Birīno DVDde ii wa.") The translator added a note: "Maybe he means belly dancing or whatever", but in fact Dokurō is not talking about belly, but about Billy here, asking for a DVD by Billy Blanks, who's very popular in Japan.

It seems that a quite a lot of manga have the issue to drag on after a couple of good chapters. Like they are afraid to bring the whole thing to an end and be done with it. It was the reason I lost a bit interest in this one. Actually I found the repeating structure in the beginning acceptable. He's playing games and it's a repetive process as well.

I found "Kimi no Iru Machi" intriguing until the story (now) again sort of drags on or uses fillers to keep the protagonist from going to Toyko in order to find Eba.

Concerning translators. My best guess is, they do not care as much as you might do. Esp when they are young and translate, or rip data for 'fame', or due to it being the trend thing of the moment.

With TWGOK I had the impression, just when the story was about to get boring with too much repetition, they introduced some new elements into the storyline to prevent that. Tenri falling in love with Keima for real, goddess Diana revealing herself, evil Nora showing up - there are enough of unresolved puzzles in the background of the plot now to keep the whole series interesting even beyond the usual short story arcs.


So would you recommend this one? Maybe I'll give it a try as soon as I'm finished with the manga I'm working on right now.


I was just surprised to find mistakes like that belly/Billy-thing where even a beginner like me would be able to figure it out, while the translator, who should know Japanese much better than I do after all, didn't get it.

It was interesting to see the newest additions to the series (chapters 102/03) diverging a little from the usual path of the story, with Keima getting concerned about the well-being of Erushi/Elsee and trying to cheer her up, finally figuring out the right way to handle the situation by taking her to the fire station. I really liked to see his character developing that far to become more aware of the feelings of the people close to him - eventually getting active of his own accord and actually offering his help when it's needed.

I think one thing that puts me off following manga on a regular basis is the fact that the mangaka often seem to be making it up as they go along. They keep throwing in random new characters and plot twists to shake up the formula a bit, but eventually the series just gets way too top-heavy and runs the risk of falling over.

That's why I like Azumanga Daioh - it knew the time frame it wanted to cover and it was gracious enough to end when it reached the end of that time frame. It didn't outstay its welcome.

Basically, I like stories that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I don't mind if the story takes years to be told, as long as it's actually going somewhere. But too many manga series just seem to be trying to continue indefinitely, with no end point in mind until the title's popularity starts to falter and they have to wrap things up (often unsatisfactorily, due to the aforementioned excess of characters and plot twists, which make it hard to resolve things neatly).

TWGOK would have gotten boring, if it had just stayed with the original setting, and only repeated the same kind of scenes over and over again. So to keep things interesting, there had some additions to be made; by now there's quite a number of open threads that need to be finally wrapped up neatly somehow. So for the time being I'm curious if the mangaka will be able to make up a convincing ending with all these ingredients some day, or if the story will just fray in the end. But at the moment it looks like it'll probably take a whole lot of additional chapters for the story to come to a conclusion. So I expect this to become a really lengthy series; eventually it may surpass Love Hina, Ai Yori Aoshi or even To-Love-ru in volume.

I just continued reading from the Shogi event around chapter 70 and now the "body swap" is absolutely hilarious! x-D The manga had a little drop as Nora turned up competeing with Elsse. But now that Diana (the godess in Tenri) disclosed a new "task" or "option", things pick up momentum again ^_^b