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Originally Posted by Sackett

Spoiler for Comparison to the manga:

I think the pacing works here. Keima is under the gun and rushed in story, so the fast pace of the episode helps communicate that.

Plus, finally they show the awesomeness of Keima. While I didn't mind the first couple seasons taking a slower pace, they did cause a lot of the potential audience to think that the main motivation to watch/read The World God Only Knows is for the girls.

I know that was never true for me (nor for most of the manga fans I know). It was always about watching Keima act like an awesome shounen hero as he (deliberately) acts out the most hilarious of the common anime romance/dating sim tropes in order to SAVE THE WORLD! (and his precious games.)

Definitely the alpha geek.

Spoiler for Comparison to the manga:

I agree on the pacing, though even as an anime-only watcher it might just be a little too fast. But it's still in the acceptable range, but it is noticeably & significantly faster than the first season. But it worked fine this episode. This type of pace would grate a little, however, it they kept it up the entire series.

But the pacing does fit and it does fit Keima. They even pointed out this issue in the Preview, hehe.