The World God Only Knows - Goddesses Arc - Episode 12 [END]
Vintage and the Loose Souls Team square off as Katsuragi tries to awaken the goddess in Ayumi. Chihiro looks on and offers advice. Mercurius awakens, the goddesses use their power to destroy the monster souls Vintage was creating. The live concert at the school festival ends the arc.
It's too bad the anime did not have time to have some funny scenes with the awakened Mercury, because it looks like she would have been the sleepy, slow talking straight man to Katsuragi's outrageous reactions. I also took note that the usual rush of emotions that awakens a goddess happens during a kiss, but with Ayumi, it happened after the kiss, while looking into Katsuragi's eyes. Just a further exclamation point on what she wanted him to know before the "conquest" would become complete - she chose to fall in love with Katsuragi. Like a regular girl. Like Chihiro did.
Chihiro's band played the song she wrote, and it was a fitting title for this show: The Memory of My First Love. During the song, we had a nice montage of all the girls Katsuragi has conquered over the past few seasons, knowing they don't have memories of their first loves. The girls with goddesses in them remember, and the only one who fell in love with Katsuragi for real, Chihiro. Aww.
Overall, a fun season with the right amount of laughs and schmaltz. I appreciated that each of the girls had different storytelling direction to fit their personalities. By far the funniest, and most adorable, was the chapter with the librarian girl, Shiori. There seemed to be too much story for only 12 episodes, but not enough for 24, since this show isn't really a battle manga. Only Negima could pull that off, but also failed in its anime adaptations. Still, the scenes they showed were enough to tell the story, and it was still entertaining. The story in other media continues, so you'd better keep practicing Katsuragi. These girls are going to start chasing you pretty soon.
Bonus gif - who's supposed to be doing the conquering here?
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