Uknighted Manganime Life is too short to watch bad anime

Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student,
worrying about exams and trying to get the boy she likes to notice her. Then one day during lunch she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that she had become a goddess. Now all Yurie has to do is figure out what she’s supposed to do with her power.

ANN Synopsis

Well for once no one can complain about originality, an anime about a middle-school girl, thats also a god, sounds like nothing Ive ever heard before. But does it work? Can this anime take this concept beyond being some crazy thing dreamed up by a desperate writer?

Well, going on the first episode, YES! Not only does Kamichu have an interesting plot, there are loads more facets waiting to be appreciated.

The first thing that really blew me away was the incredibly realistic character movements. Whats that you ask? Well I mean how the detailed way Yurie looks out the window while she chews her lunch, and then puts her chopsticks in her mouth, or how she bumps her head on the ladder when she almost falls off it. This excellent wonderful art. I almost dont want to take my eyes off what is happening in order to read the subs!

Something you may be thinking about is how does being a god work? The first episode doesnt really go into that, but its not an instant power thing, an unlimited amount of wishes or something thats even very shocking ! Yurie has to figure out how to access her power, and the first episode is in a way about her trying to use it, and end up getting way more then she bargained for.

The 3d point I made was about this being surprising. No one seems that surprised that Yurie is a god, including her self. Puzzled, yes, but surprised no. I love the line at the end of the episode from a service person: “Yurie-chan, I heard you became a god”. I find this total nonchalance is hilarious.

Once the magic starts (or should I say, things go wrong) we are suddenly thrust into a Miyazaki type worked. This feels classic ghibli, exactly how I felt when watching Spirited Away or The Cat Returns. One moment everything is normal, the next moment you find out that you were actually in a completely different place then you thought you were, all along! You aint in Kansas anymore now!

Beautiful and strange creatures, sprites whose purpose can only be guessed out, some which seem obvious and others that are completely strange. Recall if you wall, back to Spirited Away, and then what happened when the first day was over, and night time began. This is a similar (though not on such a grand scale) as that.

Anyway, those are my initial impressions of this anime. I will definitely watching this series, and I have a feeling it will become a favourite.

“It needs to be mentioned (to those of the West) that when Yurie becomes a ‘god’, she does not become one of western or Greek gods, but rather she becomes one of the hundreds of Japanese Shinto Nature deities that exist in the Japanese culture. The smallest these deities might have ability over the flowers in a meadow, while the strongest influences earthquakes and tsunamis, and there are
hundreds of others credited with taking care of mountains, forests, villages and many other important magical points of nature. “
-stolen from here