Campione!

カンピオーネ！～まつろわぬ神々と神殺しの魔王～ (Campione! Matsurowanu Kamigami to Kamigoroshi no Maou)

6.9(220,973)

MAL Score

Ranked #5329

Popularity #658

Action
Comedy
Ecchi
Romance
Supernatural
Harem
Mythology

Episodes: 13
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Jul 6, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Gods aren’t distant legends in *Campione!*—they walk the world in secret, clashing as “Heretic Gods” whose battles are mistaken by ordinary people for unexplained natural disasters. Their wars leave destruction in their wake, even as humanity remains largely unaware of what’s truly happening.

Sixteen-year-old Godou Kusanagi travels to Italy at his grandfather’s request to deliver a certain tablet for safekeeping, only to be swept into a confrontation between two Heretic Gods alongside Erica Blandelli, a self-proclaimed witch determined to protect others. Against all expectations, Godou defeats the god of war in mortal combat and inherits the title of Campione, a “God Slayer” tasked with opposing Heretic Gods for the sake of mankind.

With his new status comes constant attention: deities eager to test him and a growing circle of devoted allies—mostly women—ready to support him in the battles ahead. Godou’s days quickly become a string of myth-soaked duels as conflicts between Heaven and Earth spill into the human world.

Otaku Consensus

Campione! earns its cult following by letting Keizou Kusakawa’s direction treat ecchi harem escalation and mythological combat as the same engine, giving the 13-episode run a brisk, incident-heavy rhythm. The common reservation is adaptation compression: even positive viewers often describe the anime as enjoyable but thinner than Jou Taketsuki’s light novels, with the romance-and-power fantasy landing better than the larger lore.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Campione! if you want a 2012-era battle harem that goes straight for divine-scale conflict, assertive heroines, and supernatural rules without the long training arcs that slow down many action romances. It scratches a similar itch to High School DxD in its mix of myth, flirtation, and sudden power displays, but with a more compact 13-episode structure and a noticeably Mediterranean-flavored opening stretch. The appeal is not subtle character drama; it is the pleasure of seeing a high-concept urban fantasy burn through gods, magic factions, swordplay, and romantic rivalry at TV-anime speed. Viewers who like harem casts where the girls actively drive scenes rather than orbit silently around the lead will get the most out of it.

Key Characters

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Erica Blandelli(VA: Youko Hikasa)
Erica is the show’s signature spark: a confident, theatrical witch whose forwardness turns the harem dynamic into open provocation rather than passive teasing.
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Godou Kusanagi(VA: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)
Godou stands out among battle-harem leads because the series constantly measures his reluctance against a status that forces him into mythic-level confrontations.
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Liliana Kranjčar(VA: Eri Kitamura)
Liliana gives the cast its disciplined kuudere counterweight, playing especially well against Erica’s flamboyance and the show’s more chaotic romantic energy.
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Yuri Mariya(VA: Kana Hanazawa)
Yuri brings a more restrained supernatural presence to the main group, balancing the louder harem comedy with a gentler, ceremonial atmosphere.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Diomedéa’s TV adaptation keeps the character designs clean and consistent, a quality singled out in home-video coverage that praised the clear image, sharp presentation, and fluid-enough animation.
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The series is structurally aggressive: 13 episodes aired across a single Summer 2012 cour, which gives the show its fast harem-action tempo but also feeds the frequent criticism that the light novel material feels compressed.
3
Jukki Hanada handled series composition, a notable credit because Campione! has to fuse romantic comedy beats, ecchi timing, and mythology exposition into the same episode-to-episode engine.
4
Tatsuya Katou’s music and Yoshikazu Iwanami’s sound direction support the show’s mythic action identity, giving the divine battles a bigger ceremonial feel than the school-harem framing would suggest.
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The AniList tag profile is unusually explicit about the show’s priorities: Female Harem at 95%, Magic at 85%, Mythology and Gods both at 80%, and Urban Fantasy at 79%.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Campione! is based on Jou Taketsuki’s light novel series, with original character designs credited to Sikorsky and anime character designs by Masakazu Ishikawa.
Fun fact 2: Masakazu Ishikawa served in two key visual roles on the anime: character designer and chief animation director, helping keep the cast’s look unified across the short run.
Fun fact 3: Yui Ogura performed the ending theme, adding a notable anisong and voice-actress credit to a staff list otherwise dominated by action-fantasy production roles.
Fun fact 4: The show’s reception has remained split but visible: it holds a 6.9 MAL score from over 220,000 votes, while IMDb lists it at 6.7 from about 1,700 ratings.
Fun fact 5: AniList records 876 favorites for Campione!, which helps explain why it remains discussed as a dedicated-fanbase title despite its mid-range aggregate scores.