Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou
Working for God in a Godless World

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TLDR: This manga is very promising and I recommend picking this up if you want a manga for some laughs in a unique setting and enjoy useless goddesses.

Story - 6
The story, though not done yet, is not very impressive by itself, nor are the conventions of said storytelling. The writing style has generally shifted from an episodic format to a more serialized format with an increasing focus on Yukito's schemes on expanding his cult and defeating the archons. This shift in storytelling does make the narrative as a whole more intriguing overall. Given that the manga's focus is on comedy, being light on story ... is forgivable, though I think am intrigued as to where the author will take the story narratively going forward.

Characters - 6
Overall the characters are rather one dimensional and they generally serve the story rather than driving it. Yukito is really the only mover in the main cast with his goals being to expand the cult and to protect the people of the village. Other movers, the various antagonists, do move the story somewhat and often leaving Yukito reacting to events rather than causing them and finding ways to deal with them. I find the current arrangement satisfactory though others may not. Other characters in the main cast are really funny, but there isn't a significant amount of chemistry between each other.

Art - 10
While not Avant-garde by any span of the imagination, the artist often goes above and beyond what is needed for what could be considered a gag manga. Both battles and the magnitude of them are quite impressive. It is genuinely unfortunate that some panels from the manga could not always be translated to the anime due to tremendous budget constraints. The art of the artist is improving chapter by chapter and I think the artist of the series has some serious potential.

Comparing the manga to the anime, I think that the anime unfortunately is forced to adapt the chapters in an odd fashion and sticks to closely to the manga panels instead of either cutting off redundant establishing shots, inherited from the monthly release of the manga, or reordering the order of events slightly. This also means that the anime starts arcs in the middle of an episode harming it's pacing. The anime does show some initiative in this and I think that the anime adapts certain aspects to enhance the comedy and for that I think it deserves commendations for it's very unique ways of adapting scenes. I do believe that the manga is the original vision for the story, but I also believe that the anime is such a genuinely different experience from the manga, that you are not missing out watching and reading both.

The manga actually starts really well. But it keeps relying on plot conveniences too much. Important information is not revealed to MC/viewers on purpose for "shock", but our MC despite being smart overlooks bizarre things in this world.


Plot
MC sacrificed by his father('s cult). MC wishes for a world without religion/god and gets transported into isekai village. all good for a while, until FMC and other villagers are forcefully being murdered in a "end of life" system by kingdom. MC tries fighting, and summons goddess Mitama sama (cult's god), who wipes the floor with the guards and successfully goes back to village. Mitama sama needs followers ... to store magical power and MC is trying to introduce her as a goddess while establishing a new religion.

Honestly speaking, the main problem is the lack of bare minimum curiosity from MC and the plot conveniently hiding crucial information. Hiding Information is not the same as "Mystery".

1. MC, despite seeing the public hanging (end of life ritual) in capital doesn't enquire more from fellow villagers.
2. MC sees the villager being discriminated in capital, but doesn't question WHY.
3. Goddess Mitama is omniscient (all-knowing) and yet doesn't tell MC the truth about this world until chapter 11. In fact, she apparently knows everything, and yet doesn't reveal basic stuff to MC.

The second problem is the rapid shifting of moods. The manga starts with comedy like cult sacrifice, becomes a relaxing comedy isekai during village arc, suddenly changes to serious mode (major character is hanged/dead) where MC almost dies, back to comedy again with our Goddess and suddenly shifts genres into sci-fi post-apocalyptic mystery battle royale at chapter 11. chapter 11 is a real turning point which makes the plot complexity explode and tbh, i just could not care at all :D about all the reveals/mysteries being setup.

Comedy is where this manga shines. If we ignore the forced "plot", we actually have a wonderful setting with Mitama-sama who is hilarious and MC trying to use his father's cult skills to establish a religion for our loli goddess.

The only character worth caring about is our useless Goddess Mitama. She is chaotic and her presence is the core hook of this manga. Imagine a loli version of Aqua from konosuba. MC is pro-active, but doesn't have much personality.

Overall
I would only recommend this if you can ignore the serious plot stuff. Honestly, just read until chapter 11 where we finally enter the main story. If you still don't like it, just drop this. I am only reading this for Mitama, and will continue reading until i run out of patience.