Kamisama Kazoku: God Family

[Munsu]

First episode released by some group called Kamisabu!:

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-01%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent

"Kamiyama Samataro, a sophmore in high school, is the eldest son of family of Gods. He is living with his father who is God, mother who is a goddess, his sisters who are candidates for goddesses, and a help, Tenko, who is his childhood friend and an angel. They are living in a house built 25 years ago in Setagaya. The reason why they live in the human world is because they make Samataro study human world in order to become God.

His parents make miracles without intention and everything goes as he wants. Therefore, he becomes languid and dull, and always scolded by Tenko. One day, he encounters a mysterious transfer student, Kumiko, and falls in love with her. He makes up his mind to make her his girl friend by himself."

http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/kamisama/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6548
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4147
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3624,rkmhxv,kamisama_kazoku.html

[Kraco]

I actually read about this series sometime ago, somewhere. It could have some slight potential. Especially since "harem" doesn't seem to be in its classification. It's not like I'd need any more current series - I'm watching enough as it is - but with series like Noein having quite a slow release schedule and some recently finished, like Karin, I think I could fit some into my plans. Might as well have a look at this. I'll report back when I've had time to dl and watch it.

The main character should have a decent voice actor, at least, if memory serves. Although Da Capo wasn't actually my favorite series, so I can't say I really remember the voices of the characters that well...

Edit: Well, it was a very light-weight series, but I suppose that was pretty much to be expected. Hardly anything original was presented, either, but it did have some funny moments. Most certainly this is one of those series where much comedy is based on inherently bizarre or comical characters, that is, characters written so that they only serve to be comedic.

[NeoBear]

Ep:2

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-02%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent

[Kraco]

The second episode was much better than the first one. There were plenty of hilarious scenes. The humour isn't actually anything really novel, but it was executed very well. And the idea behind this series is running quite smoothly now. Not bad at all.

[Church]

Don't know if anyone still cares, but episode 3 is out
http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/822.html

[NeoBear]

I like this show but in episode 3 what I was hoping would not happen showed up all to well. I’m talking about watching Samatarou go after Kumiko while craping all on Tenko. I have seen this way to many times however, there looks to be a light at the end of the tunnel as they showed that next episode he may be losing Tenko. Watching him deal with that would be interesting cause I don’t want watch Tenko get kicked in the face for 12/24 episodes.

[Kraco]

I completely agree. The first two episodes showed more promise than the third one. Still, Samatarou's character does show the kind of attitude a dude who has always been given everything could normally display. That he wants to get the girl by himself shows the little bit of real character that's perhaps growing inside him. However, he's ultimately very immature as he can't see anything besides his simple desire.

The core fun factor of this series were the tricks the god and goddesses pulled, and now it looks like Samatarou wants to get rid of all of that. If that indeed happened, wouldn't this series turn right into one of those comedy series you find 13 in a dozen?

[Kraco]

Well, week went by, and this series had seemingly fallen into the blissful abyss of oblivion. I happened to spot the first four forgotten episodes lurking in the dark, dusty recesses of my HD, and encouraged by mostly fuzzy memories I went and checked if more episodes had been released. And indeed they had:

Episode 3 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-03%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 4 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-04%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 5 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/%7Eadtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-05%5BKamisabu%21%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 6 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-06%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 7 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-07%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 8 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-08%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)

In my honest opinion this series has gotten a lot better after episode 3 (which was the weakest, if I trust the post made in this thread so long ago). There has been lots of good in the recent episodes, including some originality. The humour has been less artificial, as well. With two thirds of the series past, there is certainly much hope in the vicinity that this series will end nicely. Although in the next ep an old ghost will again surface... But time will tell what happens.

[saman]

i've been following this series regularly as well. i'm really glad it didn't turn into a girl-pines-away-for-guy-while-guy-obliviously-follows-other-girls type of series.

[Kraco]

Seems like a revert to the first episodes, but let's hope they will come up with something new or something conclusive at least, this time.

Episode 9 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-09%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)

Nevertheless, this continues as quite a decent series. Last only for 4 more episodes, though.

[saman]

does it? that's sad. i like this series. but, well, if it only lasts for four more episodes, then they kinda need to come up with something conclusive.

somebody needs to slap kumiko. coming back like that and ordering samatarou to go out with her after the way she acted with him before she left... *walks away grumbling*

[Kraco]

I would probably have forgotten this series already if I didn't regularly see the folder containing the episodes so far on my HD nearly every day (the subfolder being located under my main utorrent download folder). Thus I somehow remembered this series and what was going on. Somehow...

Episode 10 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-10%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)

Whilst what was said before is true: This series seemed to revent back to the old theme of Samatarou negletting Tenko and adoring Kumiko, at least there was some background of Kumiko revealed, and such a background it was that it could actually lead to something interesting. I'm not really sure what role the archangel (if it is such) is playing, and if that whole deadline is just the uber traditional plot element of making a character realise something with a knife on his throat.

[Kraco]

This small series is also closing in on the finish line.

Episode 11 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-11%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 12 - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-12%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)

These two episodes offered some nice surprises and actually reformed some of the major points of what had been going on since the beginning of the series. It was quite a nice twist, and honestly much better than what I had begun to expect from this series. I'm actually looking forward to the last episode with much anticipation.

[Kraco]

And here we are: Past the finish line:

Episode 13 Final - Kamisabu! (http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Kamisama_Kazoku-13%5BEND%5D_%5BKamisabu!%5D.mkv.torrent)

[saman]

hmm. well, the end of the episode was good enough. the rest of it was just...kinda bizarre.