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「あたしの中の……」 (Atashi no Naka no……)
“The Inner Me……”
Visually, Shiori’s arc is undoubtedly the slowest and most uneventful one thus far. However, despite the absolute dearth of things happening on screen, I still find myself amused by how long Keima will stand quietly in front of her, trying to figure out what she’s thinking, only for her to eventually walk off without a word. It’s almost as if Shiori’s giving him the cold shoulder, except we as the viewers are privy to her monologue of thoughts and know that’s not the case. Keima of course is not, given the so-called “inconveniences” of the 3D world, even though he realizes that there is one going on in her mind. Because of that, it just looks odd from an outside perspective like Elsie’s when Keima upsets Shiori by suggesting that books should all be digitized to save space. Her confused look over what Keima was trying to achieve by pissing her off turned out to be one of the fun things to watch for, which continued on for the rest of the episode as well. So between Shiori’s long pauses of silence and Elsie’s doubt that Keima’s plan is work, it was surprisingly enough to make this follow-up episode fairly interesting.
Be that as it may, I do feel they could have done without expanding on Shiori’s love of books even further. Throwing in a naked fairy version of herself did help spice it up a bit this time though. The actual relevant development came from the impending creation of a media room that the library committee is all for, except Shiori since it comes at the expense of more books being disposed to make space for it. Going alongside that was Shiori getting her inner and outer thoughts mixed up to the point that she inadvertently told Keima off for writing in books. On paper, that doesn’t seem like much — and even on screen it feels a bit lacking — but it looks like the next episode will conclude around saving the books that Shiori loves so much and getting her to open up more. Seeing as the best moments of each arc come when Keima spouts some amazingly cheesy lines and the girls react to them, I’ll reserve judgement of this arc as a whole until I see the conclusion of it. From what I can tell based on these past two episodes, it’s been a fairly straightforward progression without any indication it will change. As such, I’m not expecting any really surprising developments hereon in, other than some “real” interaction between her and Keima. The scene near the end with the two of them finally introducing themselves served as a good lead-in towards that, so I’m looking forward to seeing that pick up a bit more next time. Shiori is cute and all when she’s quiet, but a talking Shiori with a tendency to fumble her words is even cuter.
To tide things over, Elsie’s been fulfilling her role as the “useless sidekick” really well. Be it coming off that way for reading firetruck books or rhetorically question who Keima thinks he is for refusing to accept clichéd librarian girls, her involvement has been a breath of fresh air as things slowly trudge along. I can’t help but wonder how interesting (read: uninteresting) these first two episodes would have been without her, especially considering how she sort of stole the spotlight last episode. Mind you, this doesn’t mean that I don’t like how Shiori’s story is progressing, but simply that I’m appreciative of these side antics that help it along. As mentioned above, it’s cute seeing Shiori squirm about contemplating whether she should speak up. Now that she can to Keima, I’d imagine that unsociable shyness in her personality will be even better. That’s what I want to see, so hopefully the next episode delivers.
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“Visually, Shiori’s arc is undoubtedly the slowest and most uneventful one thus far”
Replace “Shiori’s arc” with “this anime” and agreed.
hats off for the ability to write so much about each snooze-fest of an episode.
i’d suggest just dropping it if you think it’s boring… hats off to you for continuing to watch the episodes and sleep through them, instead of just dropping it after sleeping through it the first time…
hey just cause i think the anime is boring and horribly done, doesn’t mean I don’t have a reason that I watch it!
Seriously, if you don’t like it, don’t watch it. Do you really have so much time to spare that you even watch a series that you can only whine about? Either that, or you like it but won’t admit it. In that case: Stop being a tsundere.
lol, like I said before… hats off to you
how many episodes does this series have?
if the arc finishes next episode what will epi 12 be about?
all the girls in the ED are done right?
Oh theres way more girls. The trailer for this series showed pretty much all the current girls that showed up in the manga so we have quiet a long way to go.
Keima’s genius is showing.
Laughed the fucked out during the Black Jack parody.
Random reference to Dead or Alive (fighting game…Xbox only?) when they the comittee was talking about the media room. Which I find odd considering how the PFP itself is a mildly cloaked reference, and then there are things in other series like Fate/Starry Night.
I think they made a dead or alive 2 hardcore for the ps2 in 2002.
Ahaha, Keima doesn’t like voice command games…*looks at DS*
OBJECTION!
Hanazawa Kana characters are awesome!! I don’t mind the slow pace as much for this arc, and Shiori’s monologues on books just sounds like Touko-senpai ranting too. However, I will say that the Keima portrayal is quite horrendous. I kind of want to imagine Fukuyama Jun voicing him instead.
Really? I find Keima portrayal very well and glad is not a Lulu clone.
I find the anime Keima to be too pussy and typical-anime-protagonist-ish. All the events leading up to “I see the ending” is like watching Junichi or Haru squirming around in the harem setting.
I don’t know. When I read the manga, I just hear Lulu in my head, and also Leopard laughing. =)
not surprising, he also voices haru you know?
Pussy? I think your describing the wrong character coz this is still the Keima will all know, love and worship. He still acts like magnificent bastard that he is.
Ya not alone that thinks that Fukuyama Jun is best suited for Keima role. I had been visualizing FJ as Keima for past 6 episodes. But gave up, as this really saps lots of energy of out me.
Visually, Shiori’s arc is “undoubted;u” the slowest and most uneventful one thus far.
Divine, you made a misspelling, its “undoubtedly”.
oh and an update from the manga: keima has been seduced. people who read the manga would know who.
Fixed, thanks. That was a last minute edit and it looks like the I got the excerpt right (front page text), but not the one in the actual post.
Cuteness overload!!!
Didn’t know that scolding someone can be so moe >_<
w0w anime did it again. adding stuff. but it was worthy
Adding is fine as long as they don’t remove or alter anything from the original manga (in my opinion)
divine can you cover the princess resurrection OAV series too? <3
Does anyone get the vibe that Hakua will be the final girl of the first season since her animated picture was shown in the end of episode 4 after the preview.
https://randomc.net/image/Kami%20nomi%20zo%20Shiru%20Sekai/Kami%20nomi%20zo%20Shiru%20Sekai%20-%2004%20-%20Large%20Preview%2001.jpg
It will end on a nice note if they did that arc as the finale of the first season 😀
Hacqua is pretty much confirmed for the next season though. Unfortunately, given the low sales of the DVDs for the series, it looks like we won’t even get to the part where Kaminomi shifts gets into high gear– that is, Tenri onwards.
Low DVD sales? Man, that is bad. Still I hope Kami continues on the winter season, Manglobe haven’t said how many episodes the first season will have.
Shiori sure is cute
This show is hit or miss. Some weeks its amazing and some I fall asleep waiting for stuff to happen. This week had to be one of the slowest in the series. Sitting thru all that crap had a payoff tho. She finally began to talk. Hopefully now that he has her talking it can move forward.
As slow as it might feel, I personally think that it’s progressing rather well. Shiori’s internal monologues are cute, she’s definitely my favorite character of the show, both in terms of character design and personality.
I like Kanon better for her graciousness, but all the girls so far are easy to like. 😀
Shiori screaming baka and aho was adorable. Well technically it wasn’t a scream, so her unscream/nonscream/not-a-scream/icecream was adorable.
I never liked Shiori’s arc in the manga and felt it was a waste of time. It seems that animating the arc was also. The only good thing about the manga arc was that it was quick. Animating it shouldn’t have been more than two episodes.
This is my favorite arc because it is so funny and cute.
SHIORI IS THE BEST GIRL IN THE SERIES
Finally hearing her “yell” at Keima almost gave me a heart attack from the moe.
though Keima got the girl to talk to him, I can’t think this way would work outside of anime world… 😀
can’t wait for the finale for this arc.
lol at useless sidekick XD
Having just finished Bungaku Shoujo, hearing that voice again really melts me. I <3 Shiori.
Cute faces,,
That was the most epic “baka!” & “aho!” i’ve ever heard.
Almost fell off my chair .. and that happened twice xD
… lovin this arc.
i wonder if keima will encounter any boys with a loose soul
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