History Fridge / TheWorldGodOnlyKnows

* Look at [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v09/c086/3.html Tsukiyo's poker card]]. [[spoiler: In the background is Luna, apparently standing up. Something that a normal doll wouldn't be able to do.]]

** As we know, after [[spoiler: Keima is summoned again, the Goddess shows off its true power and destroys the mobile colossi, but we aren'r shown what happens to the ultimate weapon of Satyr that had special. If Satyr wants to try using the power of the Goddess to break the shell of Old Hell, they must first acquire power to subdue and force the goddesses to do so, so we can assume that Elsie is stronger than all of the goddesses. But despite all that, Satyr failed and was defeated. Why? Because Elsie betrayed them; and instead of fighting the goddesses, she stops time to meet Keima and retcon the universe]]. Indeed, she ''is'' FinalBoss worthy, but her arc had passed when the final arc concluded.

* Why does [[spoiler: Elsie]] say that she's the FinalBoss when she doesn't seem to be so at all? Take a look again; her capture is the hardest because it spans 266 chapters, with Keima unaware that she has to capture her. All of the arcs are actually buildup for this final battle so [[spoiler: when she is summoned once again, she will no more be a mindless walking apocalypse but be a world-loving maiden that can never again be used to destroy in war.]] Yes, Keima's ultimate capture is to make [[spoiler: Elsie love the world so much that she can't be used by Satyr to destroy it]].

* Why [[spoiler: Elsie]] says that she is the FinalBoss when she is not a FinalBoss at all for Keima? As in, a FinalBoss should be the hardest capture for Keima and be a very challenging final arc but it didn't. Actually, she is indeed a FinalBoss after all! And her capture is the hardest because it spans for 266 chapters and Keima doesn't even know that she has to capture her. All of the arcs actually is building for the final battle so [[spoiler: when she is summoned once again, she will no more be a mindless walking apocalypse but be a world-loving maiden that can no more be used to destroy another in a war.]] Yes, Keima's ultimate capture is to make [[spoiler: Elsie loves the world so much she can't be used by Satyr to destroy it]] As we know, after [[spoiler: Keima is summoned again the Goddess show off its true power and destroys the mobile colossi, but it wasn't shown what happens to the ultimate weapon of Satyr that is hyped for chapters ago. If Satyr wanna try to use the power of the goddess to break the shell of Old Hell, they must power first to subdue and force the goddesses to do that, so we can assume that Elsie is stronger than all of the goddesses. But satyr failed and defeated. Why? Because Elsie betrayed them and instead of fighting the goddessed she stops time to meet Keima and retcon the universe]] Indeed, she is the FinalBoss but her arc has passed when the final arc concluded.

* Why [[spoiler: Elsie]] says that she is the FinalBoss when she is not a FinalBoss at all for Keima? As in, a FinalBoss should be the hardest capture for Keima and be a very challenging final arc but it didn't. Actually, she is indeed a FinalBoss after all! And her capture is the hardest because it spans for 266 chapters and Keima doesn't even know that she has to capture her. All of the arcs actually is building for the final battle so [[Spoiler: when she is summoned once again, she will no more be a mindless walking apocalypse but be a world-loving maiden that can no more be used to destroy another in a war.]] Yes, Keima's ultimate capture is to make [[Spoiler: Elsie loves the world so much she can't be used by Satyr to destroy it]] As we know, after [[Spoiler: Keima is summoned again the Goddess show off its true power and destroys the mobile colossi, but it wasn't shown what happens to the ultimate weapon of Satyr that is hyped for chapters ago. If Satyr wanna try to use the power of the goddess to break the shell of Old Hell, they must power first to subdue and force the goddesses to do that, so we can assume that Elsie is stronger than all of the goddesses. But satyr failed and defeated. Why? Because Elsie betrayed them and instead of fighting the goddessed she stops time to meet Keima and retcon the universe]] Indeed, she is the FinalBoss but her arc has passed when the final arc concluded.

* In Jun Nagase's flashback, she can be seen with a basketball jersey with the number eleven. In Tarot Arcana this represents "strength," which says a lot about her personality. Specifically, the strength arcana is Portrayed the Strength Arcana symbolizes an imagery beyond the Beast And Beauty and is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. In tarot readings, it can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized."

* In Jun Nagase's flashback, she can be seen with a basketball jersey with the number eleven. In Tarot Arcana this represents "strength," which says a lot about her personality. Specifically, the personality description is: "Strength Arcana is a recurring arcana. Portrayed as a young woman holding up a terrifying beast (more often a lion), the Strength Arcana symbolizes an imagery beyond the Beast And Beauty, and is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. In tarot readings, it can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized."

** In Jun Nagase's flashback, she can be seen with a basketball jersey with the number eleven. In Tarot Arcana this represents "strength," which says a lot about her personality. Specifically, the personality description is: "Strength Arcana is a recurring arcana. Portrayed as a young woman holding up a terrifying beast (more often a lion), the Strength Arcana symbolizes an imagery beyond the Beast And Beauty, and is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. In tarot readings, it can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized."

** In jun nagase's flash back she can be seen with a basket ball jersey with the number eleven which in tarot arcana is stength which says alot about her personality the arcana personality description for strength is:Strength Arcana is a recurring arcana. Portrayed as a young woman holding up a terrifying beast (more often a lion), the Strength Arcana symbolizes an imagery beyond the Beast And Beauty, and is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. In tarot readings, it can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized.

** In jun nagase's flash back she can be seen with a basket ball jersey with the number eleven which in tarot arcana is stength which says alot about her personality the arcana personality description for strength is:Strength Arcana is a recurring arcana. Portrayed as a young woman holding up a terrifying beast (more often a lion), the Strength Arcana symbolizes an imagery beyond the Beast And Beauty, and is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. In tarot readings, it can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized. Gameplay-wise, the Personae of the Strength Arcana are commonly Personae excelling in Physical attributes.

** Keima should have realized that Chihiro didn't have a goddess before the Mai-High festival, because she was the one who invited him to be her date to the bonfire. According to Keima's own analysis, whenever a heroine takes the initiative, it's a poison flag.

* More on the buddy system. The reason devils are supposed to let their human partners deal with the spirits directly is so that if something goes wrong and the spirit is able to possess someone new, it ends up controlling a weak human instead of a magic-slinging devil with a Celestial Robe. [[spoiler:Like what happened with Haqua]].

* The way human-devil partnerships are set up may seem random at first glance, as evidenced by Keima/Elsie and Haqua/Yukie. But when given a fair amount of thought, it makes perfect sense. The impatient Haqua, who wants to do things quickly, gets partnered with the middle aged Yukie, who takes things slowly but surely, to teach Haqua to take things slowly. The bubbly and friendly but highly inefficient Elsie gets Keima, the epitome of efficiency, but lacks social skills, is intended on training Elsie to be a more competent individual while at the same time, teach Keima to open up to the real world. Even the partnership of the dominating Demon Nora and her submissive human buddy Ryou makes sense, given their personalities. Whoever was setting these partnerships up must have intended them to be that way.

* The reason why Katsuragi's teacher has a choker on? [[spoiler: She's partnered up with an undercover devil!]] In fact, the majority of keen — or just [[GenreSavvy experienced]] — readers suspected her choker to be the [[spoiler: [[ExplosiveLeash guillotine collar]]]] from earlier on in the series. But after the picture of her in her high school years revealed she didn't have the choker then, it was simply regarded as a fashion accessory. It is a simple, yet cunning, ruse set up by Wakaki-sensei to confuse the most savvy readers. Or... is the choker really a fashion accessory, though she is [[spoiler: supposedly an elite devil?]]
** [[spoiler:SHE'S DOKURO. Her choker is meant to be iconic so that when Keima meets the past Dokuro and they part when their missions go separate ways, it foreshadows the now startingly apparent similarities between the past Dokuro and Nikaido when past Dokuro puts on a choker herself.]]

* Elsie's introduction of herself as Keima's sister was at school, also conveniently being enrolled in the same class, but at that point, she has yet to meet Keima's mother, so how did she get enrolled? [[spoiler:Nikaido-sensei, under chief Dokuro's orders, arranged things for her.]]
** [[spoiler: Nope. It was Shoutarou arranged for Elsie and Nikaido. As revealed in Flag 256.]]

* The reason why Katsuragi's teacher has a choker on? [[spoiler: She's partnered up with an undercover devil!]]
** A cut above brilliance. The majority of keen — or just [[GenreSavvy experienced]] — readers suspected her choker to be the [[spoiler: [[ExplosiveLeash guillotine collar]]]] from earlier on in the series. But after the picture of her in her high school years revealed she didn't have the choker then, it was simply regarded as a fashion accessory. It is a simple, yet cunning, ruse set up by Wakaki-sensei to confuse the most savvy readers. Or... is the choker really a fashion accessory, though she is [[spoiler: supposedly an elite devil?]]
** By the same token [[spoiler: Akari's scarf never comes off.]]

* When Keima is teaching girls in chapter 55, Kanon comes rather close to him before asking to join. It looks as if she had problems with being near-sighted, but the truth is that [[spoiler: she remembers her conquest, loves Keima, and wanted to be close to him even for a short moment because she thought he had forgotten about it and didn't want to force him into a relationship]]. Talk about heartwarming.
** [[spoiler:At that point, she doesn't remember her conquest, she just has the same inexplicable attraction to him the other capture targets have. She doesn't remember until "recently" as of almost 60 chapters later.]]
* Apollo and her host [[spoiler:Kanon]]. [[spoiler:It is apt that Kanon has Apollo for a Goddess, seeing as how Apollo was patron god of the Sun, the brightest object in our sky, as well as healing and music.]] Also Mercury and her host [[spoiler:Ayumi]]. [[spoiler:Though Ayumi has always been an extremely fast runner, it is only appropriate that she have Mercury. When Chihiro asked Ayumi how the latter found out about her confessing to Keima, she said that she heard it from whispers in the wind. Note that Mercury is the Roman equivalent of Hermes, the fastest among the gods, and their messenger.]]

* Speaking of Chihiro, she has quite a lot of this, despite being the average girl among Keima's conquest targets. Mainly because she is actually one of the few capture targets who fell in love with Keima's real personality, making her more unique than she may realize. YMMV on whether or not this counts as "brilliant."

** Chihiro was also the only girl who openly acted against his conquest, saying that she wasn't someone he would pay attention to. Just like nobody she ever confessed to paid attention to her during her conquest and before it. [[spoiler: That's because she was in love with Keima for some time (even before her conquest happened), and started confessing to people once she realized she probably won't be able to get Keima.]]
*** ...or the fact that [[spoiler: she has, at some point, fallen for the least popular guy in their school. (She did state that she fell for him one Spring time ago, way before the events of her conquest.)]]

* Keima constantly refers to reality as "a shitty game," not worth playing. However, we've ''seen'' his reaction to a shitty game--play it anyway, for the sake of the girls. His slow CharacterDevelopment and feelings for the capture targets makes a lot more sense from that perspective. As he himself puts it, "There are no bad heroines, just bad games."
** In chapter 251 he actually lampshades that.

** According to Haqua, human hosts of weak runaway spirits can manifest the spirit's powers; thus explaining the reason why Kanon turned invisible whenever she felt she's being ignored or Kusunoki having a LiteralSplitPersonality. Then we remember Shiori, who managed to memorize every book she read in the library, which Keima attributed to the runaway spirit possessing her at that time. [[spoiler: Fast forward to several hundred chapters alter, we find out she is the host of the goddess Minerva. Connect two and two together, and we get Shiori's ability stems not from the runaway spirit possessing her, but from the goddess inside her. It also helps that Minerva is the roman goddess of wisdom, so she would naturally be drawn to places of knowledge, hence why Shiori's usual place was at the library.]]