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ああっ女神さまっ [Aa! Megami-sama] #27
Oh My Goddess! Vol. 27
Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the four literal young goddesses Belldandy, Urd, Skuld - and, like an occasional vowel, Peorth - to live in college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! The demonic angel created by Hild and sanctified by Belldandy found a temporary host in Keiichi, but how long can his mortal form bear the burden? Keiichi has a notion of how to shift its presence to a more suitable host body, but Velsper may not like the transfer. Come to think of it, neither may Keiichi! Plus nine "Adventures of the Mini-Godddesses" strips, notes and commentary, and your letters!
168 pages, Paperback
First published November 21, 2003
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Kosuke Fujishima
479 books90 followersKōsuke Fujishima (藤島康介, born July 7, 1964) is a Japanese manga artist.
Born in Chiba, Japan, he first came to public attention as an editor of Puff magazine, his first job after completing high school. Fujishima originally intended to be a draftsman, but took the editorial role after failing to get a drafting apprenticeship. He later became assistant to manga artist Tatsuya Egawa in the production of the Making Be Free! manga, and in 1986 began his first original manga series You're Under Arrest. His second manga series Oh My Goddess!, also translated as Ah! My Goddess, is extremely popular and has made Fujishima a household name in Japan. In addition, he is also well known as the character designer for several games in the Tales RPG video game series and Sakura Wars.
He is known for his love of automobiles and motorcycles, and several of his series and their characters reflect this, such as in éX-Driver and Oh My Goddess!.
Born in Chiba, Japan, he first came to public attention as an editor of Puff magazine, his first job after completing high school. Fujishima originally intended to be a draftsman, but took the editorial role after failing to get a drafting apprenticeship. He later became assistant to manga artist Tatsuya Egawa in the production of the Making Be Free! manga, and in 1986 began his first original manga series You're Under Arrest. His second manga series Oh My Goddess!, also translated as Ah! My Goddess, is extremely popular and has made Fujishima a household name in Japan. In addition, he is also well known as the character designer for several games in the Tales RPG video game series and Sakura Wars.
He is known for his love of automobiles and motorcycles, and several of his series and their characters reflect this, such as in éX-Driver and Oh My Goddess!.
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November 2, 2017
Keiichi Morisato is an engineering undergraduate at the Nekomi Institute of Technology when his overbearing upperclassmen stick him with watching the all-male dorm over a holiday weekend. (It’s not like it’s going to interfere with his social life.) Getting hungry, Keiichi tries to order delivery, but each restaurant he tries is closed. In a fit of frustration, Keiichi punches random keys on the phone–and is connected to something called the Goddess Help Line.
The voice on the other end says that an operator will be with him shortly, and it turns out they meant physically. A beautiful goddess named Belldandy (after Verthandi, the Norse Norn of the present) offers a single wish to Keiichi. Lonely and with no luck with women due to being short, the dumbstruck Keiichi wishes for “a girl just like you to stay with me forever.”
The wish is granted by forcing Belldandy to stay on Earth with our young protagonist. The returning upperclassmen kick the couple out of the dorm (“all-male” and they mean it) so Keiichi and Belldandy move into an abandoned shrine that Belldandy shines up with her powers. Not too long after, Belldandy’s sisters Urd and Skuld show up…and never go away. Our young couple is finding themselves truly falling in love, but will they ever get enough peace and quiet to fulfill it?
This seinen (young men’s) manga series (Aa! Megami-sama in Japanese) ran monthly from 1988 to 2014, a total of 48 volumes! It’s been immensely popular over the years, spawning a set of OAVs, three anime series (one a gag spin-off), a theatrical movie and a novelization. The relatively chaste nature of the series (Keiichi and Belldandy seldom do more than hold hands for most of the run) made it a good choice to show new anime fans in the U.S.
This is one of those series that showed marked artistic improvement over the years as Fujishima mastered his craft. (The animated versions use the later character designs even when covering the early events.)
This is very much male wish-fulfillment. A beautiful girl falls in love with our outwardly schlubby hero because she’s not fooled by his unimpressive looks and can see the true nobility of his inner nature. While the course of true love seldom runs smooth, it’s almost always interference coming from outside, and Keiichi seldom has to actually work at building and maintaining the relationship. Plus, Belldandy is in many ways the positive stereotype of the traditional Japanese housewife, kind, efficient, competent at all things feminine and ready to follow Keiichi’s lead.
Also irritating to some readers is that the main relationship plateaus early on as the creator realized what a cash cow he had and determined to milk it as long as possible. It’s not until the final volume that Keiichi and Belldandy finally move past “grade-school sweeties who live in the same house”, and then the long stall is turned into a plot point.
All that said, they are cute together and most of the characters are likable.
In the volume to hand, #27, shenanigans have turned a former demon’s familiar partway into an angel. (Angels are bond creatures to gods as familiars are to demons.) Without a god or demon to bond to, the new “angel” will die. Keiichi, being the kindhearted and steadfast fellow he is, has volunteered to host the critter in his body temporarily. This is killing him as the volume begins.
Keiichi disappears, and the goddesses look for him, only to find him in the most likely place. Then the crew realizes there’s one being in the neighborhood that could host the bond creature–Velsper, the demon who’s been trapped in the form of a cat to curb his powers, and doesn’t have his own familiar. There’s a smack of homophobic humor, but all ends well (if embarrassing for Velsper.)
Then Urd, Skuld and Peorth (an unrelated fourth goddess who’s also staying at the temple because reasons) get into a rubber band war that escalates far beyond just flicking office supplies at each other. Silly and inconsequential.
The volume is rounded out by a story in which we meet the Machiners, one of the many races that share Earth with the humans–at a slight angle. The Machiners are machine people that come in various sizes and shapes, and sometimes need repairs. It’s a good thing that Belldandy and Keiichi are good at machine repair, Belldandy due to her supernatural nature, and Keiichi because he loves machines. This is a “sense of wonder” story that stands well on its own.
There are also a few Mini-Goddesses gag strips, and the first chapter of the novel First End, which posits a scenario in which Keiichi dies.
This series is now being reprinted in omnibus volumes, and those may be easier to find than the older ones.
The voice on the other end says that an operator will be with him shortly, and it turns out they meant physically. A beautiful goddess named Belldandy (after Verthandi, the Norse Norn of the present) offers a single wish to Keiichi. Lonely and with no luck with women due to being short, the dumbstruck Keiichi wishes for “a girl just like you to stay with me forever.”
The wish is granted by forcing Belldandy to stay on Earth with our young protagonist. The returning upperclassmen kick the couple out of the dorm (“all-male” and they mean it) so Keiichi and Belldandy move into an abandoned shrine that Belldandy shines up with her powers. Not too long after, Belldandy’s sisters Urd and Skuld show up…and never go away. Our young couple is finding themselves truly falling in love, but will they ever get enough peace and quiet to fulfill it?
This seinen (young men’s) manga series (Aa! Megami-sama in Japanese) ran monthly from 1988 to 2014, a total of 48 volumes! It’s been immensely popular over the years, spawning a set of OAVs, three anime series (one a gag spin-off), a theatrical movie and a novelization. The relatively chaste nature of the series (Keiichi and Belldandy seldom do more than hold hands for most of the run) made it a good choice to show new anime fans in the U.S.
This is one of those series that showed marked artistic improvement over the years as Fujishima mastered his craft. (The animated versions use the later character designs even when covering the early events.)
This is very much male wish-fulfillment. A beautiful girl falls in love with our outwardly schlubby hero because she’s not fooled by his unimpressive looks and can see the true nobility of his inner nature. While the course of true love seldom runs smooth, it’s almost always interference coming from outside, and Keiichi seldom has to actually work at building and maintaining the relationship. Plus, Belldandy is in many ways the positive stereotype of the traditional Japanese housewife, kind, efficient, competent at all things feminine and ready to follow Keiichi’s lead.
Also irritating to some readers is that the main relationship plateaus early on as the creator realized what a cash cow he had and determined to milk it as long as possible. It’s not until the final volume that Keiichi and Belldandy finally move past “grade-school sweeties who live in the same house”, and then the long stall is turned into a plot point.
All that said, they are cute together and most of the characters are likable.
In the volume to hand, #27, shenanigans have turned a former demon’s familiar partway into an angel. (Angels are bond creatures to gods as familiars are to demons.) Without a god or demon to bond to, the new “angel” will die. Keiichi, being the kindhearted and steadfast fellow he is, has volunteered to host the critter in his body temporarily. This is killing him as the volume begins.
Keiichi disappears, and the goddesses look for him, only to find him in the most likely place. Then the crew realizes there’s one being in the neighborhood that could host the bond creature–Velsper, the demon who’s been trapped in the form of a cat to curb his powers, and doesn’t have his own familiar. There’s a smack of homophobic humor, but all ends well (if embarrassing for Velsper.)
Then Urd, Skuld and Peorth (an unrelated fourth goddess who’s also staying at the temple because reasons) get into a rubber band war that escalates far beyond just flicking office supplies at each other. Silly and inconsequential.
The volume is rounded out by a story in which we meet the Machiners, one of the many races that share Earth with the humans–at a slight angle. The Machiners are machine people that come in various sizes and shapes, and sometimes need repairs. It’s a good thing that Belldandy and Keiichi are good at machine repair, Belldandy due to her supernatural nature, and Keiichi because he loves machines. This is a “sense of wonder” story that stands well on its own.
There are also a few Mini-Goddesses gag strips, and the first chapter of the novel First End, which posits a scenario in which Keiichi dies.
This series is now being reprinted in omnibus volumes, and those may be easier to find than the older ones.
May 23, 2025
This volume offers a great mixture of comedy and emotion which really has an impact on the reader. From a rubberband battle which gets out of hand, we are treated to some great growth for Keiichi. He is finding a way to come into his own despite having a literal goddess as a girlfriend. I'm looking forward to seeing where the series takes this new element.
July 8, 2017
This volume features an all out rubber band war waged by the goddesses and a robotic race called the Machiners who take a liking to Keiichi. All in all, this one has almost no plot aside from wrapping up the arc where Keiichi has his own angel - sort of.
May 17, 2020
Pretty great manga, really great art/Character development and pretty good story 😁❤️
February 26, 2016
The Great Earth Search: Skuld, Peorth and Urd try to find where Keiichi and Belldandy has gone.
Kiss Me Goodbye: Vesper, the cat, can help, but he and Keiichi need to kiss. The ex-familiar transfers, but there is a side effect for Vesper.
Shoot or Die!: Peorth and Urd have a major battle involving rubber bands.
Horseshoes and Handgrenades: Skuld joins the rubber band wars with a tank made of wood. Keiichi wants to join the war but things have gone slightly too far.
Is Here She?: An odd creature shows up at the shop. It's called a machiner and it knows Belldandy. The next day three more show up needing repairs.
That Flying Entity: A flying machiner can't land and Keiichi helps it.
Sign of Gratitude: Keiichi is able to get the flying machiner to fly again. Keiichi has been given a special tool by the machiners since 'his hands are loved by machines as well.'
More adventures of the mini-goddesses. There's also a preview of a Oh, My Goddess novel.
Kiss Me Goodbye: Vesper, the cat, can help, but he and Keiichi need to kiss. The ex-familiar transfers, but there is a side effect for Vesper.
Shoot or Die!: Peorth and Urd have a major battle involving rubber bands.
Horseshoes and Handgrenades: Skuld joins the rubber band wars with a tank made of wood. Keiichi wants to join the war but things have gone slightly too far.
Is Here She?: An odd creature shows up at the shop. It's called a machiner and it knows Belldandy. The next day three more show up needing repairs.
That Flying Entity: A flying machiner can't land and Keiichi helps it.
Sign of Gratitude: Keiichi is able to get the flying machiner to fly again. Keiichi has been given a special tool by the machiners since 'his hands are loved by machines as well.'
More adventures of the mini-goddesses. There's also a preview of a Oh, My Goddess novel.
November 18, 2008
in this 27th book of the oh my goddess series keiich and belldandy escapes but not that far. the familier angel has been transported from kechii to this demon cat from a kiss!know everything was solved. then urd and skuld has a rubber band fight that leads the last goddess into the fight because her favorite food was destory and she wants pay back. these are no ordinary rubbber band fights urd uses a strong sprit, skuld uses those machine cars, and the last on teo rubber bands at a time with two vines i think and they're strong. they end up destoryng the whole house. when the rubber band was about to hit keiich belldandy just blocks it with a smack. those rubber bands were thick ones.
169 pages johanna ma
169 pages johanna ma
June 19, 2011
This one is alright. A mix of different stories and a hint of something to come with a new race of creatures.
November 1, 2019
Edición española, tomo 27.
Colección Cómic Manga.
Colección Cómic Manga.
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