The World God Only Knows

Keima Katsuragi has made over 10,000 girls fall for him — all of them fictional. Known online as the 'God of Conquest,' he's a dating sim legend who can romance any 2D girl with surgical precision. Real girls, though? He wants nothing to do with them. Then he accidentally accepts a contract with Elsie, a bubbly demon from Hell, and suddenly his gaming expertise has real stakes. Turns out, escaped evil spirits are hiding inside the hearts of real girls, feeding on their emotional gaps. The only way to flush them out is to make these girls fall in love with Keima. If he refuses, the contract kills him. So now this guy who literally plays dating sims during class has to apply galge logic to actual human beings, and the show mines that disconnect for everything it's worth. Watching Keima analyze real conversations like they're dialogue trees is genuinely funny, and the romance arcs have more heart than you'd expect from the premise. It's a 12-episode TV series from Manglobe, adapted from the manga, and it moves through its arcs at a good clip. If you liked the sharp social commentary of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU or the rotating-heroine structure of Nisekoi, this scratches a similar itch but with a weirder, more self-aware angle. The comedy leans into otaku culture without being mean about it, and Keima is a surprisingly compelling lead — arrogant, brilliant, and slowly realizing the real world doesn't come with a walkthrough.