Anime: Kamisama ni Natta Hi 2py4w

Jun Maeda is a director who got a lot of praise for his work on datesim adaptations during the mid 2000s with Clannad being his crown achievement. After that he was stumbling from one failure to another, unwilling to it he was not making good use of the amount of episodes he had available. Like a spoiled child he was constantly threatening to quit if people kept telling him he fell from grace. This anime is proof of that since it’s actually his worst work. Instead of learning from his mistakes and becoming better with time, he got worse to the point he created a trainwreck by the name The Day I Became a God.

The premise is about a typical male teenager having a girl at his place that claims to be a goddess that can see into the future. This is how she knows the world will be destroyed in 30 days, thus he has to help as many people as he can, while also confessing his love to the girl he likes before it’s too late. This countdown towards the apocalypse is supposed to make everyone to be on their toes the whole time, as well as time pressure regarding what the two of them can do in a limited amount of time. But that’s the thing, there is zero existential horror over the supposed apocalypse. Nobody cares about knowing they will die soon, so the premise doesn’t really mean anything. It’s just an excuse to have a generic self-insert meeting up with a manic pixie dream girl and going on silly adventures together.

Two-thirds of the show are spent in an episodic format where the two of them are helping someone with his or her first world problems. This portion of the story is supposed to be a buildup towards a tragic finale, where the secondary characters we’ve spend all this time on will have a tragic send off or something. Only thing, it doesn’t feel tragic at all since the atmosphere is super cheerful, nobody cares about the apocalypse, and the protagonist is essentially behaving like in a datesim where he helps out girls and adds them to his platonic harem.

Then the big reveal comes in the last third of the show and everything goes up in smokes. There is no end of the world, there is no goddess, there is no future vision, and all the episodes we’ve spent on getting to know the characters that are supposed to die in the end amount to nothing besides them filming a silly movie. That fake goddess was lying the whole time; she had a terminal disease and just wanted to help people and live her life before it’s over for her. That’s nice and all, but she did it by lying to the audience and allowing nothing of what was promised to happen. Also, none of those characters ended up being important in the finale, so they truly were filler.

Not even the girl’s tragic finale was handled well, since Maeda had this ridiculous idea to throw in an organization looking for a super computer and kidnapping the girl or some nonsense. This subplot was treated like an afterthought, since none of the characters cared about it and it didn’t really amount to anything. Also, the protagonist fell in love with the fake goddess in the finale without ever spending any time on showing it earlier, so not even that made any sense. In fact the whole show doesn’t make any sense and it’s just a big troll that fooled those who were emotionally invested for nothing. It also had lots of weird concepts that were infodumped in 2 episodes and went nowhere. This is what Jun Maeda, the guy who wrote Clannad, has devolved into. A complete idiot who can’t even write a basic plot to save his career and who ended up quitting because people were telling him he fell off. Which by the way, is the truth.

As much as I wanted to like this series I have to say it's a total waste if time. I knew from the start that Maeda is not good in writing for anime, but this series has worse pacing than Charlotte.First episode is actually good, even if a bit typical for a Key series. But definitely sets up the story, shows the mystery (although maybe somewhat too early), and introduces main characters. The comedy in this episode is also in just right amount - enough to keep it entertaining, but not much enough to be annoying. Sadly it crumbles down right away in the next episodes.After the nice start the anime hints at some sort of the story, but then sets off into few episodes of stupid comedy unrelated to the main plot. It would be nice as a common route in the game, but it just doesn't fit anime format at all. It's much, much later when we see a bit of the story again. And then it suddenly rushes forward, only to settle down on a depressed MC scenes for a bit too long.The strong side of this series would be a memorable character designs and personalities, as well as really good BGM. The story itself also is not all bad, but combined with the pacing and the fact it's so similar to earlier Key works makes this anime not worth watching in my opinion.

really wasted my time on this one:

Story unexplained, mix from daily highschool life to cyber stuff and some drama....
Dont waste ur time with it im super disapointed.
Not peaking in action or tragedy or mystery, just a random mesh from different genres it feels like...

What else can i say to this one... in the start its catching you with "WTF is she talking about? How does she know?"
over time it gets clear (like after 9 EPs boring storythen smth will be explained and a big change occurs...)
and you get more and more disapointed.
Specially the ending is cutted down, feels like the artist didnt want to finish it and just putted any weird ending in...

Basically the animations were pretty ok and watchable. Just some (in my opinion) good standard nowadays.
The music i cant really , so that means it was nothing special. I think many times it was not really fitting to the scenery.

But still... no real char dev, no real story progression more like a tape which cutted together different ideas...