Title: Kamisama Dolls / 神様ドォルズ
Type: TV Series, 13 episodes
Genre: Science Fiction, Action
Themes: Mecha, Super Power
Year: 18.06.2011 till 28.09.2011
Plot: Kyouhei Kuga is a young man who has left his small hometown to escape from its anachronistic rules and traditions and try a new life at Tokyo as a simple university student. In the past he was a seki, title given to individuals who are able to control the mysterious kakashis. Considered as gods in the small Karakami village, the kakashi are ancient wooden wonders able to perform incredible feats. The escape of a seki named Aki Kuga, old friend of Kyouhei, from the provincial town abruptly brings to Tokyo a handful of other seki who are searching for him. Despite being so far away, Kyouhei is still haunted by the old laws and hatred between the two main families, the Kuga and the Hyuga.
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Review:
Kamisama Dolls produced by Brains Base who made Mazinkaiser, Spice and Wolf, Durarara!!, and Baccano. Those titles would make anyone watch anything produced by those guys without any second thoughts, and that’s what I did with Kamisama Dolls. When I watched the first episode I was like “hell yeah” this show looks cool. It starts with a boy (Kyouhei) dragging another boy (Aki) and carrying a girl (Mahiru) who was hysterically crying, and the whole surrounding was on fire while a devilish mecha was after them, it’s a weird dark scene which the kind I like very much. During the 13th episodes of the series, you’ll comprehend that unexplainable scene bit by bit, along with other things, which was done in a great sequence of events. Kyouhei was living a normal life in Tokyo as a college student away from all the weirdness of his hometown village (Karakami village), and then one day his worst nightmare came to reality when his rival Aki who was Kyouhei best friend came to Tokyo and confronted Kyouhei to fight him back. He refused to play along with Aki’s desire, but Kyouhei’s little sister (Utao) was there and she was a Seki (Seki is a person who has the ability of controlling a wooden mecha called Kakashi) she saved her big brother from Aki and his demonic kakashi. Utao came to Tokyo to warn her brother that Aki was able to escape from his prison and apparently by the help of an unknown individual or method. Kyouhei has a crush on a girl called Hibino Shiba who’s also a student in the same college that Kyouhei goes to, after that incident with Aki, Utao did save her brother but made a mess since she’s not mastering her kakashi (Kukuri) yet. After that, Hibino came to Kyouhei’s place and asked him to stay at her house along with her father, it was her father suggestion, who he was from the same village, the Karakami village and the elders asked him to take care of Kyouhei and Utao. So, eventually Hibino knew about the kakashis and the discreet Karakami village. The plot isn’t that great, the semi-mecha or the kakashis aren’t amazingly designed, the characters were fine, but there was something about Kamisama Dolls that kept watching it.
Aki threatening Kyouhei with his Kuramitsuha
The art was surprisingly good, I guess that was one reason, and the CG was there but fortunately hadn’t been over used like how Sacred Seven did, I believe the smooth flowing of the story and the well-organized sequence of events were the substantial factors. When I was at the middle of the series I was thinking of dropping it, but gave it a chance and glad I did, Kamisama Dolls does not have one huge material to get hooked up with but it’s been very well-made and I liked it with no apparent reason obviously.
How about a second season? I was snooping around anime forums and looked for any other official article about that matter, Kamisama Dolls season 2 wasn’t announced officially, and those 13 episodes consumed 7 volumes out of 9 volumes of the running manga, so if there will be any plans for season 2 it wouldn’t be possible to be made for the next season, and if there’s any plans to do so, I’d love to watch it.
Art: 8/10
Storyline: 7/10
Characters: 7/10
OP/ED: 8/10
