The World God Only Knows, Volume 23 (The World God Only Knows #223-233)

The Urara arc ends in this volume but this doesn’t mean the whole past arc is resolved. Despite all the mysteries surrounding Urara’s grandfather, and his immense power, the truth is pretty ordinary and something we have already seen before within the series. Keima naturally wins the conquest and captures the runaway spirit and the next step of his plan proceeds. Dokurou finally finds the opportunity to explain the situation to Keima and his ultimate objective, finally putting to light what the whole point of this exercise was. It sounds neat, correcting the past to align with the future, but doesn’t really explain the mechanics of why it was like this, and throws away the cause and effect nature of time travel. The second half of the volume introduces a new sub arc which gets even more exaggerated than what we have already seen. Having the story focus on little kids isn’t as good as when they were high schoolers but still have plenty of chances for humor and drama.