The World God Only Knows #02 — “Wonichan Moe”
October 13th, 2010
And I’m not going to make a single Battle Moon Wars joke.
Impressions:
About the same as the first episode, although the animation did take a noticeable hit. The music’s still weird and out of place and El’s still cute. And… that’s about all there is to it. If Keima would veer more towards sarcastic and snarky instead of of screaming all the time, this would be so much more enjoyable. The scene where he was playing it cool and practicing love confessions on El was easily the highlight. Too much of the rest was punctuated by his usual screaming though. Dude seriously needs to just take it down about eight notches. Although if he’s playing a PSP in a bathtub, he can’t be that bright to begin with.
The two halves were pretty much completely seperate this week. The first was El finding her place as his ‘sister’ and him explaining that ‘real’ sisters have BMW (Blood, Memory, and "Wonichan Moe"). Try not to overanalyze that last one. Then he accepts her… to more or less the same music they used as when he was explaining BMW. That’s a fine way to defuse a scene of any emotional impact. The second half was the start of his new conquest, the ‘tsun’ archetype girl, Mio, who is supposed to have her shell cracked by a direct confession of love, but that fails. Luckily, they only gave her about two lines and a single finger motion this week, so characterization is at an all time high here.
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Mio’s unimportant anyway. The better heroines comes later.