The Conceptual God at Home: A hilarious and tearful account of how an ordinary high school boy became a god’s personal caretaker, an expert in cleaning up supernatural incidents, and the director of a multiverse neighborhood committee.
Kobayashi Takashi only wanted to rent out a room to help with household expenses, but accidentally attracted a silver-haired girl named “Shiro,” a conceptual god who can pay rent in gold bricks, empty the fridge at breakfast, and comes with a “cosmic mute button.” From then on, his daily life became a matter of:
- Keeping the oven’s beep from triggering the goddess’s morning temper at breakfast, lest the kitchen fall into absolute silence;
- Taking this supreme being, who considers “mathematical rules inefficient,” to school and explaining why she wrote a philosophy essay on her exam;
- Always being ready to cover up her whimsically inspired “optimizations,” like making an escalator run backward or forcing the curry rice across an entire street to cool evenly.
But his troubles are only just beginning! Soon, the red-haired “God of Mischief” An Dai storms in with limited-edition cookies. The perfect girl Umaru, in her shut-in form, arrives to investigate with a game console in her arms. Even the little neighbor who can understand cats becomes a regular guest. When a dragon maid drags her tail through the kitchen and breathes fire while performing alchemy, and an ancient End Emperor suddenly tears open space to check in, Takashi finally realizes that his home has become the most absurd “center for the exchange of nonhuman beings” in all the planes.
Now Takashi has only one mission: survive his daily life surrounded by a god who can mute everything, a fire-breathing dragon, a little girl who communes with spirits, and a shut-in honor student, while praying that tomorrow the world won’t be accidentally “optimized” out of existence by some supreme being.
[God's Notes on Renting a House: Use the mute switch to make you laugh! This novel is simply Kobayashi Takashi's "disaster movie" - I wanted to rent out a room to earn some pocket money, but ended up attracting a silver-haired house god who paid the rent with gold bricks! From then on, his daily life changed: he was attacked by the gods with "efficiency first" while grabbing special offers in the supermarket, watched the haunted house at the cultural festival be purified into a healing place, and even the fireworks display could be turned into a world-famous painting by pressing the pause button. The author has played up the "conceptual god" setting to perfection, his mute ability is as good as the best to complain about, and the contrast between the noisiness of darkness and the cuteness of white collides to fill the screen with laughter. Seeing Gao Zhi repeatedly jumping on the edge of bankruptcy and working as a nanny for the gods, I just want to say: This landlord deserves a lot of money. After all, who can refuse a roommate who provides after-sales service (world repair), quietness (physical silence), and can also help you get perfect scores (invalidate test anxiety)? Hurry up and accept this God's card, which is a daily routine that is guaranteed to make you laugh until your Goddess collapses! [Note] As an author, it's not too much to give five stars [please pay attention]