Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (Sunday Without God) - Review

Ai Astin looking out a window (Image taken from: imageshack.us)

So, today marked the first ending of one of the animes I've been following this season while it aired in Japan. Sunday Without God takes place in a... different world. Honestly, I'll most likely fail to clearly explain this, but here I go. In a very short sum-up, the dead live and gravekeepers must assist the dead to truly pass on, otherwise the dead walk amongst the living. The anime follows a 12-year old (and eventually 13) gravekeeper, Ai Astin, whom initially begins in a village where Hambart Hampnie wipes out the people who are living there. The twist? All those villagers were dead, and the very person who shot them to make them "temporarily past on" (<-- my take) is revealed as Ai's father. And that's only the first arc. After Ai moves along, she visits an organized city of the dead alongside Kiriko Zubreska and meets the princess of the city, Ulla. In the final arc, Ai is caught by a school that basically locks its students in as they have no active enrollment, thus they force it upon the kids they can catch. After a bit there, Ai and the rest of her classmates escape with help from Alis, their classmate who had been trying to escape somehow in the first place. After they all escape, Alis and Ai end up travelling together and wind up in Alis's past world trying to free his past classmates from a temporal loop. And that is the final arc, it ends after that.

Ulla, Princess of the city of the dead (Image taken from: animemage.com)

Okay, so, I'll admit I shed a tear or two at the end of this. This anime gets quite feelsy at points, though never to the extent of Clannad After Story or Angel Beats. Still, Sunday Without God was a fairly decent anime. At first I thought I'd trash it after episode 2 or 3 because Ai was just so childish and it just wasn't catching my interest, but by the time Ulla and Kiriko were introduced, I was on the ride for to the end. While I find this anime to be fairly low quality overall in comparison to others, there are still some very likable qualities of this anime. For example, in the last arc, there's a bit of a mystery introduced, even in the arc with Ulla and Kiriko had a mystery of its own. Even though my main favorite genre of romance was not heavily included, the light amounts with the bit of a mysterious feel at points kept my on track with this anime.

Alis after escaping the school-prison (Image taken from: balamiere.com)

Ruri's Rating: 8/10

Suggestions: Angel Beats, C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control, Gosick, Kokoro Connect, La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia