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[[File:TWGOK_god_of_the_gaming_world_3670.png|link=A God Am I|frame|God to one world,<br />[[Otaku]] to [[Real Life|the other]].]]

 

 

Keima Katsuragi is famous on the Net as "The Capturing God"; there is no [[Dating Sim]] that he cannot beat, no heroine he cannot capture -- while in real life he's known as "''[[Otaku|ota]][[Megane]]''" and hates all real girls. One day, he receives a provocative email asking for his help in capturing some girls. He rises to the challenge, inadvertently making a [[Deal with the Devil]] to help Elsie, a low-ranking devil, catch runaway spirits. Apparently the spirits only hide in the hearts of troubled girls, and the only way to get them out is by making the girl fall in love. If he fails, the contract will take his head!

* [[Axes At School]]: In the original manga, the delinquent Ryou who fought Kusunoki had a [http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/the_world_god_only_knows/en/0/18/page/7 butterfly knife]. This was changed in the anime into a collapsible baton.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Keima gives these from time to time.

* [[Balanced Harem]]: It's completely unclear who Keima could end up with. [[Chaste Hero|Or if he will end up with anyone at all]]. At the moment, it seems that Elsie, Tenri/Diana, Haqua and {{spoiler|the other goddesses}} have the best shot.

** Or maybe it will be {{spoiler|Chihiro, who fell in love with Keima before her own capture, meaning her feelings are entirely her own and not a result of Keima putting on an act.}}

** [http://www.mangareader.net/120-58319-11/the-world-god-only-knows/chapter-119.html Ah, sorry... My hand slipped.]

** There's also one in Shiori's novels, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v14/c128/11.html after the character based on Keima] died.

* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Tenri in her initial arc, due to being a [[Shrinking Violet]], but she cuts her bangs after the kiss. Diana, who is a [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] instead, doesn't have this, [[Instant Costume Change|even before the haircut]].

* [[Blush Sticker]]: Actually, they're quite easy to find.

* [[Brick Joke]]: Keima gets mad at a capture target and so Elsie whips up a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v05/c043/13.html bowl of curry] she claims will make her turn into a frog. It doesn't [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v05/c046/16.html quite] work.

* [[Bridal Carry]]: Invoked by {{spoiler|Vulcan}}, then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Keima.

'''Keima:''' Switch back to {{spoiler|Tsukiyo}} and walk!! }}

** Diana also did this to Keima twice. The first time chronologically was during the time when she entered Tenri's body to help her and an unconscious Keima.

** Maijima Private Junior High School

*** 3rd year junior high school students

** Maijima Private High School

*** 2nd year high school students

* Class 2-B: Keima Katsuragi, Elsie, Ayumi Takahara, Chihiro Kosaka, Kanon Nakagawa, Miyako Terada, and Asami Yoshino<ref> She is from the 1st Light Novel</ref>.<br />

* Class 2-C: Shiori Shiomiya and Aoba Fuse<ref> She is from the 2nd Light Novel</ref>. }}

*** 3rd year high school students

* Class 3-C: Akari Kurakawa }}

** Misato Hisagi High School

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the anime, all the girls Keima "captures" or helps out after their story arc is done. They either play very minor roles, or are only seen briefly afterwards. Only Haqua breaks out from this, as we see her again a few times and she does something with the main characters.

* [[Description Cut]]:

'''Elsie:''' Ah, a fire truck!! ''(starts fangirling)'' }}

* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: The OPs for both seasons feature some incredibly detailed and stylistic art.

* [[Double Standard]]:

** Haqua vs Keima.

'''Haqua:''' SHUT UP! }}

** Keima alone is a big contender: male dating sim gamers are pure, female ones are just lustful girls in search of pornographic materials.

** Post-capture Yui at the end song of the OVA.

* [[Ear Worm]]: Kanon's songs in the anime.

** It might be a pretty serious issue if the season 1 ending song (feat. exhausted/half-insane Keima Katsuragi) got stuck in your head.

** Bonus points for giving Kanon a whole CD of earworms. Specifically Omoi wa Rain Rain and DARLING BABY...

* [[Elevator School]]: From middle school to high school; however, you rarely get to see the [[Sempai-Kohai|kohai because the school building is separate.]]

* [[Embarrassing Cover Up]]: In order to score love points with Chihiro, Keima calls her from Elsie's phone. When Chihiro asks why Elsie can't answer...

* [[Emoticon]]: Keima has a smile emoticon on his face after he sends Nora and Haqua out in "one click".

* [[Emotion Eater]]: The runaway spirits hide in girls' bodies to feed off of their negative emotions. {{spoiler|The goddesses feed on love instead.}}

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:

** From chapter 69:

'''Elsie:''' ''(watches him with a stack of games)'' So it seems. }}

** In chapter 108, Elsie protests Keima's accusation that real girls throw tantrums... by throwing a tantrum.

** Then in chapter 112, Keima proclaims he's not emotional while throwing a tantrum of his own.

** Chapter 168, after Diana {{spoiler|marches an unconscious, swimsuit-wearing Tenri to a naked Keima so she could profess her love for him}}

'''Keima:''' I don't want to hear that from you! }}

* [[I Am Your Opponent]]: pronounced by Elsee against a [[Butt Monkey|school gang]] in chapter 18.

* [[Genie in a Bottle|Kaketama In A Bottle]]: No, it doesn't grant you wishes.

* [[You Fail Logic Forever|Keima Fails Logic Forever]]: There are numerous instances of this from Keima, mostly from being out of touch with [[Real Life]]. For some examples:

"She has [[Tsurime Eyes|cat-eyes]]!! She has a light [[Hair Colors|hair color]]!! You can see her [[Show the Forehead|forehead]] and her hair is in [[Girlish Pigtails|pigtails]]!! 99%!! She's [[Tsundere|that type]] of woman!!" ''(He turns out to be right)''<br />

"The voices of their hearts... You can always hear them!! It's right there on the screen, in the [[Inner Monologue|monologue]]." }}

** Of course, with the introduction of {{spoiler|Minerva}}, things may change....

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Keima and Tenri.

'''Mari:''' Wow, you're so annoying that I can't believe you're my son. }}

** Also how Nora justifies leading Runaway Spirit hunts.

** [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the Mai High Festival Eve plot {{spoiler|as a gambit to determine whether Mercury's host is Chihiro or Ayumi}}. He agrees to go to the bonfire with {{spoiler|Chihiro}} and then approaches {{spoiler|Ayumi}} to ask for advice, thereby allowing him to interact with both while keeping them from interfering with one another.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Among other interpretations, the title "The World God Only Knows" could refer to:

2: Keima's nearly-undivided attention to the Game World, at the expense of real life. }}

* [[Medium Awareness]]: As in the scene where Keima first utilizes "[[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Capturing God Mode]]":

'''Elsie:''' "Um, around page 4." }}

* [[Meganekko]]: [[Yandere|Kanon Nakagawa]], Keima's mother Mari, and the {{spoiler|single-horned New Devil Fiore.}}

* [[Noble Demon]]: Though they like to keep some of the trappings of demonic villainy, Hell is pretty much entirely run by these guys {{spoiler|having seized control of Hell from more old-school demons in a coup some time ago}}.

* [[Nobody Poops]]: Sadly averted. Keima decides to spend his last day of summer playing videogames all day long, and so goes to use the bathroom early on... only to find Haqua in there. Keima simply scolds himself for not having realised and walks away calmly while Haqua decides to ''beat his face in'' with her scythe!

** Also had to be brought up during the [[Freaky Friday Flip]].

* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: Invoked by Keima whenever a loose soul target makes the first move, such as Kanon or Nagase-sensei.

* [[Sacred First Kiss]]: Played straight... twice.

** Keima refuses Diana's suggestion to wed Tenri and adds that it was [[Fake-Out Make-Out|all an act]].

** Upon learning that Keima courts other girls to make them fall in love with him...and that it all finishes with a kiss.

* [[Saw It in a Movie Once|Saw It In A Game Once]]

* [[Say It with Hearts]]: Beautiful instance [http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/the_world_god_only_knows/en/0/119/page/17 here]. Indeed, she can't get inside if he stays in the doorway.

* [[Spock Speak]]: Keima's way of speaking in more or less only gal game terms can confuse pretty much anyone who is not very used to his speech patterns or doesn't know gal games well. This [http://www.mangareader.net/120-53818-15/the-world-god-only-knows/chapter-102.html scene] happens after Keima says that he wants to cheer Elsie up in his own way.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Unarguably, Keima Katsuragi. He has 6 LCD TVs, 6+ home videogame consoles, 10+ portable [[Play Station Portable|PFPs]], and a collection of gal games... in his own personal game library. And where does this all come from? Well, the "[[All Take and No Give|M funds]]". Also, the restaurant where he buys burgers in chapter 96 actually exists. And [[Sarcasm Mode|surprisingly]], it's called "Fatburger". Now, from the information collected in the chapter, we can calculate how much he spent from his allowance (depending on which size he bought).

If medium (Fatburger): $4.49 x 250 {{=}} $1122.5 USD }}

* [[Spoiler Title]]: Chapter 116: {{spoiler|"The Sun Goes Down".}}

* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Despite encoutering people able to read a whole library, centennial devils who aced their exams and goddesses who are at least several milleniums old, Keima is never challenged intellectually. Even worse, despite seeing forthright his tricks and manipulations, some girls are still falling for him, even when it's obvious he's putting up a persona to please them.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Many of them, courtesy of Haqua, but this one stands out:

'''Elsie:''' Y-Yeah. It must all be some kind of mistake. All the meeting and talking... And kissing! }}

* [[Swallowed Whole]] -> [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] -> [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: {{spoiler|In order to rescue Hinoki, Keima wraps Kusunoki with the hagoromo as a capsule, saying to Hinoki that it's a cure to make her smaller again (when asked what it actually is, he says it's a medicine for constipation) and tricks her into swallowing them. Then, it is revealed that they're actually inside Hinoki's runaway spirit, and they venture into the darkness to find Hinoki.}}

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Chapter 28 has a notable example. Keima rants "That real girl! There is absolutely no way I would even be concerned about her!" Cue Elsie's spirit sensor going off.

** Chapter 154, when {{spoiler|Ayumi}} is at his house while he's sick:

* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Kanon's appearance is rather plain... until the glasses come off.

** When Keima's mom takes off her glasses, however... ''run''.

* [[Visible Silence]]: Shiori, so, so much.

* [[Visual Pun]]: Brands (''burando'') / swings (''buranko'') in chapter 42.

''*Cue Elsie playing on the swings*'' }}

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: "Can't catch me"

* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|Chihiro's last line to Keima in chapter 155. "I like you."}}

** The previous line is overshadowed in WHAM-ness in the very next chapter.

** Also in 165...

** Chihiro just seems to be a machine for these. {{spoiler|As seen in Chapter 181.}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: There was a one-shot before the series proper began with a number of differences, including no contract, no memory wipe, a seven day time limit on the catch, a more mature design for Elsie, Keima acting and looking more like your average [[Nerd]] and less like a [[Manipulative Bastard]] and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|his last name being Imai]].

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: CAPTURING GOD MODE! Playing 6 dating sims at once.

* [[Woman Scorned]]: Keima's mother is ''really scary'' when she's pissed off. It doesn't help any that Elsie's [[Secret Identity|cover story]] is that she's Keima's illegitimate half-sister.

** After using the "Forced Development Technique" on Nora (see [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] above), Haqua's reaction is full of this:

'''Keima:''' [[Oh Crap|Come again?]]<br />

Cue severe beating and lots of [[Baka]]. }}

* [[Years Too Early]]:

** Elsie thinks she has a leverage with [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|her age]]; she's wrong.

'''Keima:''' What's with that? I have lived for 10,000 years. In the games. }}

** Keima uses it straight when challenging Nanaka:

** From the members of Kusunoki's dojo: "Hey, you're 100 years too early to ask Toushu [Kusunoki] for a favor!!"

* [[Yonkoma]]: Each volume of the manga has them as an [[Bonus Material|added bonus]]; their [[Canon|canonicity]] to the manga's storyline is in debate.