Kamisama Dolls - 4/10
Had so much promise but delivered so little.
There's this village located in the arse-end of nowhere, right, that has wooden robo-gods into which a compatible person transfers part of their soul. The robo-gods can then be controlled by that person. Why this village has these robo-gods and for what purpose, I do not know. Either the series completely failed to elaborate on this point, or I missed it (entirely possible since I spent most of the show drifting in and out of consciousness).
We spend the show following the bland male lead, a university student who hails from the village and used to control a robo-god before some bad **** went down and he passed the mantle to his little sister. In the first episode an old friend/psychopath from the village tracks him down and attacks him and his little sister, who's gone to live with onii-chan (and has a brother complex OF COURSE). Why is he doing this? Because some bad **** went down. We don't find out what all this bad **** is until episode 7, and while the best episode by far, the events that take place are hackneyed and OTT.
The show has no direction at all. It keeps throwing characters into the mix, goes off on tangents, is tonally inconsistent, and wastes episodes on nothing of consequence. Worst of all, it doesn't even end. The only reason I stuck with this show was for the little sister character, whose repertoire of amusing facial expressions, pouting, and tsundere tantrums were by far the most entertaining thing about Kamisama Dolls. That, and the useless female love interest's ridiculously and inappropriately oversized bosom.
Plain character designs, pedestrian direction, and a surprisingly rough artistic effort from Brain's Base just compound the pain. Like my thoughts, this show is a jumbled, nonsensical mess.