The World God Only Knows (神のみぞ知るセカイ Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai), often abbreviated as Kaminomi (神のみ) in Japanese and TWGOK in English, is a manga series written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki and published in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine. It follows the life of Keima Katsuragi, an avid player of galges (dating simulation games), whose skills and website have given him internet fame as the "Capturing God". However, he has rejected reality in favor of the world in those games, and is known as "Otamegane" in his school. When Keima unwittingly signs a contract with Hell he is forced to assist Elsea de Lute Irma, a Demon, to capture evil spirits which have escaped from Hell, or else he has to face death. As the escaped spirits are hiding within 'gaps' within the hearts of girls caused by negative emotions, he must use his skills with gal games to replace those emotions with love. This wiki already has 43,705 edits and a total of 434 articles ever since its founding in July 2010. This wiki contains more information about the series than other TWGOK Wiki's out there.
Who is Tamiki Wakiki?
Tamiki Wakiki is a author and creator of a Holy Crystal Albatross (聖結晶アルバトロス, Seikesshou Albatross) and The World God Only Know manga.
Tamiki Wakiki Life Story, is..?
Wakaki Tamiki was born in Osaka, and graduated from Kyoto University. He studied manga and submitted his first one shot in 1993 (at age 21), achieving the 'Shogakukan Comics Award' grand prize. He was at first acclaimed to be 'Rising new figure whose future 10 years are anticipated'.
After receiving some bad reviews from the manga editor of some of his various oneshots though, he left the manga industry due to great shock. After a year, he returned to start anew and started his first assistant job under manga artist Takemura Yuuji.
Even though he gained more experience, Wakaki continued to fail at receiving a serialization. Thereafter, he became a NEET and moved back to his hometown of Osaka. Wakaki returned to Tokyo, 6 years after he received his first award, now at the age of 27 years old. In January 2000, he submitted another new oneshot, 'First Touch' (ファースト タッチ), but he again failed to receive a serialization.
Wakaki continued to submit multiple one-shots after 'First Touch', all failing to get serialized. In 2006, 13 years after his days of hell began, now at age 34, Wakaki was able to serialize a series named Holy Crystal Albatross (聖結晶アルバトロス, Seikesshou Albatross). However, his suffering did not ended. The content itself was based on one of his old one-shot called Information Thief Group Albatross, which he presented in 2004. The series was serialized for around a year, but ended up getting canceled by the staff because the editors said it was an accidental-serialization. Something that is more saddening is that he was never able to finish the series properly. For instance, the story was something about collecting 5 crystals, but ended with only collecting 2 and suddenly got an axed-ending. Wakaki Tamiki made a blog post to explain all the plot+foreshadows+questions regards to storyline due to his sudden cancel[1]... And pretty famous incident occur after that: 'I have less than 10,000 yen left in my bank balance'[2]. He said 'Now my bank balance fell below 10,000 yen. If I don't get any sort of
The reception of this one shot wasn't the best. In Internet + otaku communities, it was groundbreaking series for them, but for everyone else, they thought it was complete garbage. Since there was too much spare space in the magazine Shonen Sunday, it just went through into the serialization as the series we know of now: The World God Only Knows.
With the actual series, editing department never liked it at first. However, it gradually got recognition from general readers, not just eroge/galge otakus who were already treating it as a 'Godly Manga'. Finally, Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai hits its 15th volume now, and even received two seasons of anime. He escaped from the endless cycle of NEET, and became one of the most influential mangaka in Shonen Sunday.
My Refrension is: http://kaminomi.wikia.com/wiki/The_World_God_Only_Knows
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