Reviews for Kamikatsu: Working for God in a Godless World

This show is hilarious. I think the bad CGI filtered a lot of people who gave it bad ratings but for those who didn't get it : it's on purpose. they have a small budget so they went full shitpost and made the cgi as bad as they could and It's just amazing. If you read the manga you can notice the changes that they made (like how they turn scary looking monsters to hilarious CGI beasts). The characters are great, the story is weird and goes unexpected ways every episode. and most impotantly it's done by a passionate staff who add to the humourwith their shitposts. The Seiyuus performance is also great as you feel how much fun they are having with it.

This type of humour might not be for eveyone though. But if you like weird japanese comedy this is absolute gold.

When i see the title of this anime i thought this anime was gonna be a thought provoking,mature,deep and meaningful anime about a god spreading religion in a world where nobody know the concept of god and religion and not to mention the r-17 ratings this anime has. Well...i was wrong about the first 4 points, it's not really thought provoking, it's not that mature, there's no deep or meaningful scene either. Is this a bad thing ? Not really, especially if you are interested in watching something quite wild. Let me start by saying that the cast in this anime is dominated by degenarate. There's a booze addictwoman, extremely horny and devoted dude,a weird cult leader and there's even a girl that willing to amputate her boobs cause she mistakenly think that the MC like flat chested girl.

Also worth to mention that almost every single of this depraved characters is voiced by an sss tier,imagine having Hanazawa Kana,Yuuki Aoi and Takanashi Rie in the same project and not only that,they make a loli god that love to be naked voiced by akari kitou,amen to that, that's a fcking wet dream become true right there.

I also wanna talk about the animation,the animation of this anime is pretty good,i can even safely say that it's above average standard for nowadays anime but then they pulled out a fcking CGI that almost as bad as southeast asian fantasy drama show from early 2010 and for god sake,that has to be intentional, ain't no way that shit is unintentional cause even if they run out of budget because they hired a high class VA,im pretty sure they can still make CGI better than that.

The music is good,Akari Kitou done an amazing job on the ending and the opening song is so good that it can make the melody echoes in your head for a few days,also wanna point out that it's kinda weird that such a wholesome sounding song with a melody as soft and as calming as hymm you heard in a sunday school was made to be an opening for an anime as bizarre as this.

This anime also contains a lot of scenes that would triggered some certain group of people in some certain social media that gonna write a 26 paragraphs essay about how much they hate this anime and fanservices and im all for it.

One of the best isekai in this season, it's a hit or miss,some maybe hate it and despise all the charactes so much but some maybe already fall in love with Mitama.

Give it a try!

Holy Cow! KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World is a true masterpiece of an anime, blending 2D animation and absolutely stunning CGI animation with a captivating storyline that keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. The anime's plot is both thought-provoking and emotionally charged, as it explores themes of faith, spirituality, and the human condition in a world devoid of these concepts. The main character, Yukito, is a complex and fascinating figure whose journey to find meaning and purpose in a godless world is both heart-wrenching and inspiring. One of the standout aspects of KamiKatsu is the quality of its animation, which issimply breathtaking. The combination of 2D and 3D animation styles seamlessly immerses the audience in the story, creating a unique and immersive viewing experience. The characters are beautifully rendered and their movements are fluid and natural, making every scene feel like a work of art. The attention to detail in the animation is truly remarkable and adds a layer of depth to the storytelling that is rare in anime.

In addition to its stunning visuals, KamiKatsu features a haunting and memorable soundtrack that perfectly complements the anime's themes and atmosphere. The voice acting is also top-notch, bringing the characters to life with nuance and authenticity.

Overall, KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World is a must-watch for anyone who appreciates beautiful animation, compelling storytelling, and thought-provoking themes. It is a shining example of what anime can achieve when it pushes the boundaries of the medium and delivers something truly special. The blend of 2D and 3D animation in KamiKatsu is yet another testament to its exceptional animation quality, adding to the depth and dimensionality of the anime's world and characters. The animation quality in KamiKatsu truly sets it apart from other anime, and the mix of 2D and 3D animation is just one example of the care and attention to detail that went into its creation.

This is the best anime of the spring season of 2023, although, no, it might just be the best anime ever made. Aoi Akashiro is a genius, and that says it all. If you're a fan of unpredictable plot, unexpected twists and turns, you've come to the right place. I'll start my second paragraph by repeating: Aoi Akashiro is a genius. You don't believe in God? Are you an atheist? Are you a scientist? After watching this anime, you will discard your ridiculous principles, because there is a goddess here - LOLI! Even if you're not an atheist, why worship all sorts of Buddhas, Poseidons,Zeus (what's in fashion now), if you can worship LOLI? One Lola goddess and the population of the entire globe will be converted to monotheism.

The protagonist, Yukito, finds himself in a world where, left behind in a village, he realizes that none of the inhabitants know the word "god." However, it is time to find out, as we have an evil empire that wants to destroy the village for unexplained reasons. That's where Yukito's powers come in: a powerful loli, the prerequisites for a scientific and technological revolution, and also the ability to make fancy alcohol. What will come of this? The hell knows, due to the abundance of unexpected twists and turns in the plot, I'm completely confused, so let's just admire the goddess from now on.

Many viewers have had time to laugh at the 3D animation, which is silly, because even Ufotable Studios couldn't create the kind of beauty in the new season of Demon Slayer that Palette created. It's a shame that almost no one has been able to reach their level (and only Berserk is an exception), which is why the anime industry staggers in the same place, there is no progress. We need to learn from "Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou".

Despite my dislike of isekai, this work was a unique case, for it mocks the clichéd nature of the genre through amusing dialogues, moments and drawn faces. It is also dominated by a number of references, such as to wahoo. In a way, the anime makes fun of many things, but not all viewers understood that and therefore gave it a low rating.

Well, I recommend this anime only to people who like to laugh with all sorts of cringe-worthy crap like boob jokes, alcohol and various isekai things. If you're not a connoisseur of beauty, then turn around and go watch boring crap like "The Eminence in Shadow", but hopefully you can still realize someday that Aoi Akashiro is a genius.

"It's so bad that it's good" is probably the best way to describe this isekai. I feel like I've been trolled by this show. At first, I thought, "There's no way this CGI can be any worse than this," and then I watched episode 4. I felt defeated. There's no way they didn't do this on purpose. It has to be intentional. The studio has to be on some kind of drug to have produced such a masterpiece like this. They know they can do good CGI when they want to, its proven by episode 4 that they can do a good CGI. CGI aside,the comedy is basically a shitposting and a good one at it. Other than that, the mc basically has no any OP ability well ofc except that loli god.

TL;DR: It's a shitposting in anime form.

The normal, typical, and boring Isekai: "I have gained a fantasy life where I can be OP, have a harem, be my own lord, all the things that I want to do! The world is at my beck and call!" KamiKatsu: "Hold my beer, because I got drowned by my own family member passing on the mantle of being the next cult leader, and instead, woke up to a delightful handjob from a girl who doesn't know anything! Ah...jack and jerk off, like the pleasant guy I am..." In all senses of the word, mangaka Aoi Akashiro's Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou a.k.a KamiKatsu: Working for Godin a Godless World, is one fine unhinged work, made intentionally worse or funny (depending on how you see it) by debut director Yuki Inaba inputting CGI like it was a joke and then sharing it on Japanese Twitter to proclaim that fact, I don't know what to say. But in all seriousness, I'm very glad that KamiKatsu (the short name form of the show) exists to dish out a plate of Isekai reincarnation parody that, aside from the KonoSuba spin-off of Megumin, is a breath of fresh air in the never-endingness of typical, boring Isekai works that we always get in each and every season. And I mean it, deep down in my heart, that comedy works like Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu a.k.a Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy, are what the anime industry sorely needs in a time where Isekai reincarnation shows are a dime a dozen. It's like someone saying, "Shimoneta, but Isekai? Holy hell, this is another cuck fantasy!"

Being reincarnated into a world where kingdoms and gods are well established regardless of good and evil is painstakingly stereotypical. However, in a world where a person reincarnates to see the exact same thing but without gods or religion, that is a frightening aspect. And for better or worse, that is the life of the MC: Yukito Urabe. He is the son of a cult founder who worships their god, the omnipotent Mitama-sama, and is chosen to be his father's organisation's next guru to participate in a death-defying ritual. But in an unfortunate sleight of hand, things start to go awry, and Yukito sadly loses his life through simple drowning, with the wish that he wants to be reborn in a godless world.

Through sheer coincidence, he awakes in a world, seemingly reincarnated into a second life, only to find that he's been given a handjob by a girl who does not know what a dick is. And understanding things further, Yukito indeed lands in a godless world, but that's not what it seems, as people are being killed for their "faith" on the obtuse angle that death is absolute. And this, unfortunately, is worse than what Yukito would've imagined of a world that's free of religion. To that, he responds to his God, Mitama, who comes down from Heaven like an angel, but is awfully weak afterwards because they need followers as their fuel. And in this post-apocalyptic distant future where gods don't exist, Yukito and Mitama would make this right by amassing followers to give the latter powers that would make him reign supreme over others.

I'm not going to lie; I really like the idea of being in a world where there are no gods or religions. Though it's not unique and something that the Japanese will consider taboo because religion runs very deep in their blood, it's fascinating to see through the eyes of Aoi Akashiro, one person's intent to make THE plot within a "plot", that despite the freedom of what people choose to do and/or follow, they are still bound to the same degrees of their limitations if factoring in the need for the reestablishment of new gods in a godless world.

To say that Yukito Urabe got off on the wrong foot because of his circumstances is truly an understatement. He is a very rash character who wants demands at his beck and call, and in similar ways, I can relate to him being straightforward, but methodical in his approach against those seeking to have their own religions created and fought in the post-apocalyptic world. Such is the interaction with the isolated village that Yukito is home to, between sisters Alural and Siluril, and fellow residents Roy and Clen. First off, Alural and Silural, you can't tell me that they're pure waifu material for the people that they care about in the isolated village where rules are non-existent. And aside from their buxom bodies, Alural is the true degenerate of the sisters, having had an unhealthy obsession with Yukito since his first day appearing naked in front of her. Speaking of degenerates, Roy is the not-so-masterclass pervert and masochist of the world. Being unbashful and shameless about his pursuits of the perverted tropes, anything works for him unless he's convinced otherwise.

And then there's Clen, whom Yukito thought, for once, was the closest to being a normal resident in the god-forsaken, isolated village. But Clen is only a disguised alias for his true identity, because "he" is a she and hails from the Empire that kills innocent people for their "un"-lawful ways, which Yukito witnessed for himself as blasphemy. Coming to him as an Archon, Loki is one of many false gods who've witnessed the calamity on Earth, but also has the power to manipulate events, more than knowing the truth of said Empire. Sure, there are others that are seen in the anime, like the youngest Archon Atar, the erotic cult leader Gohonzon a.k.a Dakini, and the creature summoner Gaia, as well as the always manipulated Empire commander Bertrand, with the sex-changing every so often, but for the most part, they are the antagonists that both Yukito and Mitama must face if they want to change the face of the world into their reign and oppose any evil that could harm the development of their "religion". It's THE plot within a "plot"! How meta.

Studio Palette is a rather new studio, besides the fact that they've collaborated with Silver Link on last Fall's Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei suru a.k.a The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat, as the studio's first credited work. The first FULL credited work, however, belongs to KamiKatsu, and for the most part it holds up well, except for the fact that if you take in the liberties of newbie director Yuki Inaba and his staff team going all "Bocchi the Rock!" style with the 8-bit figures and downright horrible CGI monsters (that technically aren't a far cry from the manga adaptation of the LN), and that one infamous CGI tractor live-action-made-anime meme scene that serves to be the butt of the joke. If the episode titles aren't an indicative factor well enough, take the replies on Japanese Twitter that "this is all a jokuuuu" for all you care as a grain of salt, but this is too hilarious and meta in and of itself to be presented in a rather "unique and creative" way that only the medium of anime can do.

Sound-wise, it is, dare I say, a pleasant surprise. I know; I'm also shell-shocked. Rin Kurusu's OP "I Wish", besides being a pleasant song that gels well as a song on its own, with the OP visuals giving it a good spotlight. So, to unironically say that it's one of the best OP songs we've gotten this Spring, I'm not kidding at all. Give or take about Akari Kito's ED being fine to decent, but the OP really sells the show for me.

When a show wants to sell itself to you in the category of "it's so bad, it's good", see it from two points of view: either that the source material itself presents itself as one, or it's the anime staff team that gives it that vibe. And KamiKatsu definitely leans more towards the latter. It's both a work and a show that you should and shouldn't take seriously, though it all matters if the message is cohesive enough for you to warrant watching. But if I can give a resounding message, it's that KamiKatsu is undoubtedly one of the best Isekai this season. It's wild, it's frenetic, and it's trollish, but it has a soul and a god to worship and adore.

"We know we are not worthy. O great Lord Mitama." Bless us to enjoy this show at its wackiest, and then we'll become your followers to bless you with great power from the bottom-top.

Hands down the dumbest series of the season. I enjoy it. Story: I honestly didn't know what to expect going in but MC gets isekai'd and due to the events of EP 1 summons the god his father worshiped and realized "my dad wasn't full of it with his cult after all." Then has to essentially make a cult in a world without religion and using shady practices like cults would. Character: There's not much to them really and that's fine for now. They all work pretty well with each other. Art: The biggest fault of the series is the art. The 2Dlooks fine but damn does this series have some of the worst fucking CGI. The monsters in this have CGI so bad that it rivals the Golgo 13 Helicopter scene.

Overall its a dumb series without some profound message to it and the humor is pretty juvenile. It's a fun series to just sit down and turn your brain off to.

KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World is a fantasy isekai anime that explores the themes of religion, morality, and free will. The story follows Yukito, a boy who is transported to a world without gods after a failed ritual, and Mitama, the goddess who answers his prayers. The anime has a mix of action, comedy, and drama, as Yukito and Mitama face various challenges and enemies in their quest to restore faith and order in the godless world. The animation is well-done, the characters are likable and funny, and the plot is engaging and unpredictable. I recommend this anime to anyone who enjoysisekai, fantasy, or satire. It is a refreshing and original take on the genre that will make you laugh, cry, and think.

Yes, this is peak chaos. If you ever wondered what Konosuba could be cranked up to 11, and with peak degeneracy elements added, and on a strategically deoployed shoe-string budget, this is your answer. It is bizarre, obscene and hilarious, and it knows exactly what it is doing. And it does it really well, IMO. It goves zero keks about what anyone thinks. It's just there for a deprived ride. And I am 10/10 for it. This is my hilarious isekai pick of the season. Questionable characters, unique lore and world-building and peak artistic direction. Executed successfully. The art style is actually great, the story keeps throwing unpredictable things intothe mix, the characters are really quite interesting (and lewd), and whether you enjoy it will certainly depend on your unique sense of morality, and whether you enjoy this type of show.

"Screw with your expectations!" - the writer, probably. Its not often that MAL have to update the anime tag/theme half way into the season, yet here we are, it had to be updated post EP 5. The 1st 3 ep feels like a build up and intentionally misleading by the director and writer. It's very much underated in the sense that eveything some reviewers thought to be a 'odd' or 'bad' (the 3DCG) about the anime so far (which resut in a bad rating), turned out to be intentional and a troll by the director and writer What we thought to be a generic isekai, end up beingsomething else completely, it's got very funny and slapstick at times, and a bit ecchi. The slapstick feels a bit like konosuba season 1. Which is kinda right since the scriptwriter for this, is the same guy who wrote screen script for S1 of Konosuba.

If you did the "3 episode" thing and came back to episode 5, you'd be selling it short.

Another Anime that get low review because people who are not supposed to watch this anime picked it up. Before that. The bad part: - MC is the typical anime loser MC that get's freaked out if a girl trys to have a sexual relationship. And Japan wonders why they have birth rate issues. - CG and various other animations are bad. Heck, for whatever reason, they where fast forwarded ruining the enjoyment even further - Tons of Censorship because?????? This is one of those anime that should have had nudity and more. - Is NOT for everyone. Not everyone can enjoys this anime. To make it very easyto understand: Do you like gag humour? Do you like perverted jokes? Do you like explicit sex related scenes? If no, skip this anime.

So the good part:

- Tons of sex related jokes to the level you have no idea what in the world you just watched.

- Exactly because of what I just wrote, as well as other stuff, you have no way how to explain what you just watched.

- If you ever want to see how religious brainwashing works, this is a good anime (otherwise, no, it's not a good part since religious brainwashing)

- The pace is all over, you have no idea and no way to tell what in the world will happen next (usually).

- tons of humour, but only if you are ok with sex related jokes (otherwise, stay away since it's not for you)

Since the first episode, i found this anime pretty interesting. It has a pretty unique concept. the 5th episode is probably the turning point of this anime. I hope more people will watch and appreciate this one. Hoping that things get better from this point on. The art style is good, not the best but good regardless. Not to intense but no too soft either, its fitting. MC is pretty cunning and strong but still a normal human (not OP). Some chara are strong but can't be considered op. Try it if you like trying something new. Honestly, i appreciate these kinds of unique settingsrather than the old bland getting-OP-with-no-reason-whatsoever isekai animes.

TLDR: Ugly, fan service, poorly written. Random Isekai anime with inexistant MC and huge boobs / horny womans to attract the average otaku, while everything else is empty and boring. Wouldn't recommand. Ok so the animation is ugly / lazy most of the time, and I won't even mention the 3D stuff, but it can be fine if the story is good... right? Yeah no, the story won't save the ugly visuals. It's boring af, ridiculous sometimes, and even if you watch it as a joke (which I did, with friends) it's still not very interesting and has a lot of censorship like they don't assumethe enormous amount of fanservice they do, pretty boring for an anime talking about sex litteraly all the time.

And, about sex : it's the classical "every character with a vagina has huge boobs and wants to make out with the MC while the MC is boring and uninteresting". Like, c'mon...

Oh and there's a lady teaching sex practices (like, not just how to make a baby but more like BDSM stufd) to a litteral CHILD and the lead female is a loli who looks like a 12 year old. So yeah pretty weird to have that among the horny huge boobs harem and the censorship.

If you want to watch an isekai or stuff talking about gods, just find something else. And if you just enjoy casual harem / fanservice stuff, you can find better animes as well.

I gave this show a chance out of boredom and it was a pleasant surprise. The best way i can describe is ¨Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Konosuba¨. It is a mixture of Isekai, Dark Comedy, Dystopian Drama, Parody and Religion Critique that somehow manages to work. Without giving too much away, the plot consists of the usual isekai protagonist being trasported to another world (this time Truck Kun is innocent) and arrives into a harmless village in the middle of nowhere. Up to this point, your typical isekai format...however soon enough everything starts deviating from the usual isekai template, What you can expect is: -Good2D animation (it reminds me of Prison School).

-A lot of Dark Comedy (it makes fun of deep topics such as religion and fascism).

-A lot of parody of the Isekai Genre (Lolis, Fan Service, the worst CGI i have ever seen which i think is purposely bad)

-An Edgy Kazuma-like protagonist.

-A story that somehow starts getting serious later (and it works!).

All in all, i strongly recommend you give this show a chance. The comedy is great, the story gets better and better and the isekai parody is excellent.

Help me. HELP ME. Sometimes I really wonder why I'm doing this. I write reviews as a hobby, I make Youtube videos out of those reviews hobby-wise (subscribe to me lol) but then at some point there comes a stage where all the fun I have writing, recording video and editing absolutely cannot compensate at all for the agony I had while watching the anime. And often I still watch the series through - but not this time. And the anime starts so promisingly - a guy is supposed to become the next leader of a cult and has been prepared for it all his life, sohe was tortured, so to speak. Accordingly, he has no interest in religion at all, especially when he is to be drowned in a final ritual. However, he wakes up in a strange, medieval world, only to get the strangest handjob ever and subsequently be castrated.

Up to this point, the series could still be quite funny. It's a bit ridiculous, but with the right humor, even a story like this could be funny! No, no it wasn't.

And I honestly don't know where to start.

First of all, it's noticeable that the animations are very reminiscent of a visual novel - later they use really poorly edited, real footage. This - let's call it nice unusual graphics - you may still endure if you are interested in the story. But it was annoying to the maximum from the beginning.

At first we have no idea where the story is going. Actually, we watch the protagonist all the time as he repeatedly falls flat on his face and embarrasses himself, even though everyone is actually always laughing with him, I really had to be ashamed of his stupidity. But then this stupid, illogical, funny little anime takes such a dark turn that I almost spit my drink in front of the screen. In the process, the entire atmosphere, the genre is completely turned on its head, completely killing the little bit of charm that this goofy, little, funny, silly anime managed to somehow build up after all. And the whole thing happens again later.

Without spoiling much, the goddess that his father's sect worshipped now appears. She really exists and now the real plot of the anime begins: The protagonist wants to protect his newly won friends, who are now threatened by the nation. To do this, however, he must bring religion into a world that knows no gods, sacred, religion or miracles, so that his goddess becomes more powerful, because only she can save the village and thus his friends! He tries different approaches and does it in the end with a very nasty way that I personally would celebrate if the anime wasn't already completely dead to me and most importantly, he does it with a lot of timeskips. I hate timeskips.

Let's move on to the two nice plot twists I mentioned earlier. How do I say that without spoiling? It turns out twice that nothing is as it seems and that the world is actually much darker than the anime has led you to believe so far - you know what I hate even more than timeskips? A "the world is so nice and colorful and great and silly and happy (doom music (but in bad) kicks in) END OF THE WORLD; DEPRESSIONS; DYSTOPY" - why start out so silly and then suddenly think you have to make everything completely brutal and gloomy and sad?!

In addition, all explanations are missing - even if an explanation seems to be in the offing, it then suddenly turns out that it was just a recap episode and actually the biggest twist of the series (so far) remains completely unexplained - at least at first, I was so fed up afterwards that I abandoned it.

In conclusion, I'll just say that the anime started out only to turn into exactly the type of series with all the elements I hate. These include:

- Timeskips

- missing/stupid explanations

- plot twists that turn the entire concept of the series on its head

- fanservice, which is not appropriate for such a dark storyline

- stupid deaths (in this case suicides)

- dystopias

I didn't explain all of this in the review, but I wouldn't have been able to without telling the two twists completely.

Overall, this series is really godless - godless bad. 1 out of 10 sacred sites.

So Kamisama took me by surprise. I expected some unhinged dirty over the top humor and it surpassed my wild expectations. Here is what needs to be understood about the show. It wastes a lot of effort on Ending scenes of the show, making lots of different endings from 8bit art style to PSOne era 3d graphics and keeps shifting them nearly every episode. With that amount of effort it uses shit (and I mean shit) CGI as part of gags or hilariously bad edited videos of farming machines being used a couple of times, or 3d made monsters. In other scenes they would drawa proper kei truck well animated in 2d but that makes it fun.

I haven't read Manga but now I would like to, because with immature humor, lots of ecchi and cruel scenes on top of that it tells a great story and explores different topics at the same time. I watched the show literally in one go and never got bored, as they keep one upping the level of ridiculous scenes and moments. It feels fresh compared to more typical shows and ideas and I can't wait for next Season.

Being forced into trying to help his new found friends in a world MC was reborn in, been at a loss of options, MC makes his last wish to his god he doesn't believe in, to fix that situation and it works out. As he understands that this world won't live him alone he decides to create a religion in order to make his god powerful by using every dirty trick in the book, which ends up him fighting other artificial deities with similar interests for power. Obviously it has harem underlining and a lot of sexual fantasies involved pushed as far as it can be done without going hentai.

I welcome dirty sexual humor in an era when sex became some weird form of taboo in media, while we have porn everywhere.

With all the jokes and overall stupidity it raises nice questions and explores the characters and their reasons in a proper manner. While Konosuba as a comparison had less of a story and worked more with gags between the cast, this show works because of the story and the cast compliments it.

Somebody give them more budget for next season please, let them rip it.

I will keep it short. CGI is bad, yeah, I know. I know but this anime is okay. It's isekai but it's theme is different from other isekai animes. Writing is fine, the characters are hilarious and the comedy overall is not bad. Let's be real, if it was not for "that" scene this anime's rating would be much, much better than this. I mean some people may think it would deserve less if they can't do better than 2005 technology, and they could be right according to some outlooks, but it also could be unfair to the people who may actually like it verymuch but would not watch it because of one scene. You can agree to either opinion, I personally am on the side of the second and therefore on the side of giving it a high ranking.

Kamikatsu is my ideal mix of fan service, action and plot. A genuinely fun and unique isekai. If you can make it past the awful CGI, you’ve got something very special on your hands with this one. Kamikatsu sets itself apart from other fantasy shows in a couple ways. For one it doesn’t have an OP MC. Yukito has to use his wits and ability to manipulate people like pawns to get ahead and survive in this new world. Fans of Tomodachi Game and You Zitsu will find similarities in all three protagonists methods. Additionally, the setting of the story is something I’ve never seenin the medium. Instead of being a generic fantasy world with magic, adventurers and other JRPG elements, it’s a grim and eerie mix of futuristic technology and medieval.

The connection between religious followers and power in the world is actually not too far removed from reality. We know that historically those with the most followers have been in control of society for better or worse. I really loved seeing Yukito and company try to expand their influence and establish a religion in this godless society. It’s something that you just don’t see in this medium. Yes, your traditional fan service tropes are there , so if you’re squeamish about that, you’ll probably have a bad time here. I’m not, and it only enhanced my experience.

Mitama, Yukito and all the characters are great in this. It’s genuinely one of the funniest anime I’ve ever seen. I’d rate it slightly below Konosoba on a hilarious scale. There’s also a surprisingly complex level of characterisation for several characters in the show. It may not be Fate level writing, but it’s good enough to make them more than just cardboard cutouts.

The world is packed full of mystery or every week I had more and more questions about how society in the series came to be what it is. Every week we got more answers, but also new questions were created. The backstory and lore here is actually the biggest selling point for me. Yea, I love waifus and fan-service stuff, but to really hook me you have to have a decent story. This has it. The backstories with the Archons were also really interesting.

Now, as I mentioned, truly enjoying this show requires getting over the God awful CGI that they have going on here. I genuinely could not tell you why they chose that style. I’ve heard some people say it was supposed to be a reference to early 2000s video games? Which doesn’t really make sense to me, but whatever the reason, it’s bad. It’s janky, not pleasant to look at and is really jarring as it’s often used in conjunction with the standard drawn 2D art. When they’re not doing the CGI, the show actually looks like. The characters are drawn really well, the fights have surprisingly good animation, etc.

Depending on my mood and the time of day you ask me, Kamikatsu was my 2nd or 3rd fave show of the season. I loved it. It made Wednesdays such a joy to look forward to and I’m really sad it’s over. It’s one of the more original fantasy stories, has a chad MC and some really good fanservice. A no brainer must watch imo.

Kamikatsu gets 10/10.

Lets be frank. The only redeeming quality of this show is its strong story. Other things are either just average or sucks, be it direction or character development. The most horrendous thing about this anime is its art & animation. It just sucks. What the hell the studio was thinking with such a crappy background art, character art & worse of all CGI. Even the animation wasn't smooth & feel off some time which is bad considering when its released. Had this animation in an anime launched in early 2000s or even 2010s, then it would make bearable but not now. The character development is just average & directionis not great as well.

The sound department is inconsistent. Sometimes its good but other times it just lacks impact.

If not for the story itself, the show would proved to be a junk.

Starts with MC sob story of his life, then isekai depicts wonders of alcoholism. Drink to forget your problems and miserable existence while having fun. That story mostly ends with excellent first episode (spoiled by MAL synopsis, do not read it). After that it continues as a nice story about how to build a Cult and live a peaceful life in otherworld. As MC tries to pull it off in hostile environment, his peaceful life is in constant danger of destruction by "Capital". Main antagonist society structure reminds of some kind of absolute extreme utilitarian tyranny with no explicit parallels to human history (well, you willsee what you hate most). There is quite a few turns in story. The way author foreshadows some twists and hides others is excellent.

Few negative things:

- ugly 3d animals. Thankfully they showed rarely and in few episodes. Amount of work in them is bare minimum.

- at times story flow feels off and nonlinear. Story doesn't care much about logistics, distances and time. Often times you spot missing part (for example missing B thing in A -> B -> C logical sequence), which partially invalidates story from logical standpoint. Not critically though.

Anime have sizable amount of fanservice, little bit of loli and whole arc with god of love.

Definitely worth to watch.