Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru

神様はじめました「神様、幸せになる」

8.2(37,221)

MAL Score

Ranked #499

Popularity #2909

Comedy
Romance
Supernatural
Mythology

Episodes: 1
Duration: 12 min
Aired: Dec 20, 2016
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Nanami Momozono has settled into her role as the land god of Mikage Shrine, with the devoted fox familiar Tomoe at her side. After everything they’ve overcome together, a new dilemma arises when the wealth god Ookuninushi offers to grant Tomoe’s wish to become human—an answer that comes with a steep trade-off, requiring Nanami to give up her divinity and return to an ordinary human life.

With graduation from high school drawing near, Nanami and Tomoe look back on their shared journey while trying to imagine what a future together would truly mean. Whatever choice lies ahead, their bond remains the one constant through shifting roles and uncertain paths.

Otaku Consensus

Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru is regarded less as a bonus episode than as the emotional capstone that makes the anime feel unusually complete for a shoujo adaptation. Its strongest qualities are the clean romantic payoff, the Tomoe-focused culmination built up across the second season, and TMS Entertainment’s steady handling of the series’ comedy-romance-supernatural balance; the main criticism is that its one-episode format works best for already-invested fans and has little patience for viewers outside the shoujo mythological romance niche.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want supernatural shoujo romance with actual closure instead of endless reset-button teasing. Kamisama Hajimemashita scratches a similar itch to Fruits Basket in the way it treats emotional healing as romance’s foundation, while its youkai and shrine-mythology texture gives it a lighter, flirtier cousinship with InuYasha. This OVA is especially rewarding for viewers who followed the two TV seasons and want the relationship, divine-world stakes, and high-school coming-of-age thread to land in one concentrated farewell. It is not the entry point for action-first fantasy fans; it is for viewers who want banter, devotion, mythological rules, and a heroine-led romance that remembers how much its characters have changed.

Key Characters

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Nanami Momozono
Nanami’s appeal comes from watching a shoujo heroine become more decisive without losing the comic vulnerability that made her easy to root for in the first place.
T
Tomoe
Tomoe remains the series’ central romantic draw: a proud fox familiar whose sharp-tongued restraint makes every small emotional concession feel earned.
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Ookuninushi
Ookuninushi brings the mythological hierarchy into the romance, functioning as the kind of divine figure whose offers turn feelings into irreversible choices.
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Mikage
Mikage’s importance lies in how his absent-but-defining presence frames the shrine as more than a setting: it is the institution that shaped Nanami and Tomoe’s bond.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
This is a single-episode finished-airing OVA released on December 20, 2016, so its structure is closer to a finale epilogue than a side-story detour.
2
TMS Entertainment carries over the anime’s established shoujo-comedy rhythm, keeping the supernatural material accessible rather than turning the ending into lore-heavy fantasy exposition.
3
The episode represents the anime’s rare sense of completion, a point repeatedly highlighted in fan commentary around Kamisama Kiss compared with many romance adaptations that stop mid-manga.
4
Its reception is notably strong for a late franchise installment: it holds an 8.17 MAL score from 37,221 votes and an AniList score of 81/100, with 338 AniList favourites.
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The appeal is sharply genre-specific: AniList’s Youkai, Shoujo, and Female Protagonist tags capture exactly why the special works for its core audience and why it may not convert viewers uninterested in romance-forward supernatural stories.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Julietta Suzuki is credited as the original creator, tying the OVA directly to the manga source rather than positioning it as an anime-original spin-off.
Fun fact 2: Hanae is credited for theme song performance, maintaining the series’ soft romantic identity in a format with only one episode to reestablish its mood.
Fun fact 3: On MyAnimeList, the OVA ranks at #499 by score while sitting at #2909 in popularity, a split that suggests a smaller but highly satisfied audience.
Fun fact 4: Reviewer commentary around the franchise often calls Kamisama Hajimemashita a complete supernatural romance, which is one reason this final OVA carries more weight than a typical extra episode.
Fun fact 5: Critical fan writing frequently singles out the second season for giving Tomoe more focus and making the romance heavier, setting up why this installment lands as payoff rather than mere continuation.