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  • Crosses the Line Twice: Half of the comedic bread and butter is this. The protagonist having to run a literal cult in his second life after dying because of one in his first doesn't even begin to prepare you for the insanity, sexual humor and crass jokes galore.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Giant boar creatures keep showing up only to get sliced and blown into pieces by the protagonists. Due to their crude 3D portrayal in the anime, they've been rather popular among viewers.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Loki, the main antagonist of the series, desires to rule the world as its top god. An Archon who was a former human experimented on by the government, she served the Assembly, an artificial intelligence, for thousands of years. After ensuring that the Imperial City's population was regulated by enforcing the end-of-life system among other decrees, Loki tired of her servitude when she learned that humans once possessed free will. Upon learning of Yukito Urabe's intent to build a cult centered around the goddess Mitama, Loki disguises herself as a human male named Clem, infiltrating the cult, whilst simultaneously keeping her fellow Archon Atar preoccupied with slaying strange beasts when she was ordered to destroy the isolationist camp. Loki manipulates Yukito and Mitama into helping her destroy the Assembly and takes advantage of the city's decrepit state by implementing herself as its ruler. When the Archon Gaia threatens to flatten the Imperial City with Typhon, Loki secretly assists Mitama by giving her some of her followers as a means of narrowing the competition.
  • Moe: Mitama is an adorable deity who looks like an 8-year-old.
  • Narm Charm:
    • The animation itself manages to combine both pixel-based cutscenes found in 1990s video games and the 3d-based creatures plastered in a 2d anime worked in a So Bad, It's Good way. It earned its Fan Nickname Shitpost the Anime.
    • Roy's face shoddily transplanted onto a live-action clip of the harvesting of crops with a combine harvester. It's so blatantly obvious that the staff of the anime did this as a way to save time and money instead of actually trying to animate farm equipment that it loops right back to being funny.
  • So Bad, It's Good: From the infamous harvester scene and bad CGI monsters to the over-the-top plot, most fans have greatly enjoyed the anime adaptation in spite of its sub-par animation and bizarre stylistic choices.
  • Squick: Kamikatsu is sold in the same "Wild Heroes" label as Lisa Lisa-chan and Rosen Garten Saga, as well as Killing Bites and its borderline hentai zoophilia spinoff. So while it's not as out-there as the author's Shinigami Musume ha Peropero Shitai about body fluid-powered death goddesses, it's still a rather risqué series where a lot of its humor revolves around tropes common in hentai works and lolishota imagery.
    • Roy constantly lusts after Mitama, who looks like a child despite being a goddess. Even the other characters are disturbed by this, but it's still largely played for laughs.
    • Riche's Imagine Spot where she is sexually tortured by Yukito. You could hear her moaning like she had sex with him for the first time.
    • Gaia lusts after Mitama much like Roy, smelling her hair and comically smooching her whenever she can, and the other characters don't mind because she's short-looking and they're both girls. Summanus continues this theme by selling doujins that, although never shown in detail, are said to be porn of Atar. Yukito actually encourages this if it adds to the faith power of his cult. And yes, there are (unpopular) books about Mitama on the side too...
    • When Summanus is afraid that Yukito might be planning to kill her sister Jupiter, she threatens to sell doujins shipping him with Mitama, saying it'd be the most popular pairing ever and that she's already got sequels on their way. Mitama gets flattered by this and goads Yukito into killing Jupiter, but, even if mostly due to his resentment of Mitama, he just vomits in disgust and assures Summanus that he'll do no harm to her sister.
    • The Onee-chan spinoff revolves around Chiyomaru's obsession with marrying Yukito, who is her younger brother, and having children with him. Every picture of Yukito she has to show around happens to be of him as a baby or child for some reason, and she expresses her feelings in the most gross ways she can Once an Episode.
      "Who caused this in the first place was my brother. Then, it's my job as a sister to clean my brother's mess. If it's cute Yukito's butt... I'd lick it up, instead of wiping it. Lickinglickinglickinglicking... every inch of it. Gufufufu..."

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