#noragami thoughts

[h0estar]

i'm crying. how are these panels so different yet so similar at the same time <//3

they evoke sm emotions in me that i just cannot put into words. it's so beautiful and gut-wrenching how both gods are calling their hafuri's names over and over again...and both hafuris finally responding to their call :')

my thoughts are all over the place man. my heart aches bc i love them sm. someone do an analysis of this plz my dumbass cant put my thoughts into words </3

seeing yukine in yato's arms and kazuma in bisha's make me want to run laps and scream fr. they make me so happy and sad :sob:

[sleeping-phoenix]

What Yato really wants

There is something bothering me since the last chapter (103-1)... Yato wants to die...

He doesn't have the strength or will to get up and fight for his life anymore. And he's not wishing for someone to save him before it's too late either. He is wishing for a quick death, not to be saved. He doesn't seem to have a will to live anymore. I read this panels in shock. Yato is the character that time after time has shown an unbreakable love for life and the strongest will to keep existing. The Yato we knew has always wished to live no matter what. He taught Ebisu to appreciate his life, to clung to life and not want to be replaced by reincarnating.

If a reason to make him want to die now existed, what would that be? What could possibly have changed that could make him want to die?

It's not because of his past. Sure he has always been haunted by his past and there's so much he regrets but he lived more than a thousand years with those regrets and never wanted to pay for them by dying, dispites he believing that's what he deserves.

This time he hasn't once think about what would feel like to get out alive and be reunited with Hiyori and Yukine like he has envisioned other times before when his life was in danger. This time he has envisioned himself so many times as a reincarnated child that is like he wants to be replaced by a younger version of him. Like if that was the best possible outcome for everyone. Better for whom exactly?

After he decided to kill Father to put an end to the calamity to protect everyone specially Yukine and Hiyori, he thinks about how a new gentler version of himself would be good for Yukine.

But that's not it either. That thought was after he already decided to go on a suicide mission. He was doing the aftermath of his decision that's all.

The real reason why he made the decision was because he read Hiyori's journal, we already know that much. While he read it, blushing, he had to realize that Hiyori is in love with him.

Hiyori herself acknowledge that her feelings are evident from what she wrote. Of course this made Yato really happy. But why instead of make him hopeful and wishing to return to her side like he wished in the yomi arc, he's now wishing for a quick death? He made the promised to Amaterasu before to risk his life and go kill Father but he wasn't intending to die. Hiyori's words not only give them the strength and motivation he needed to do what he had to do but completely change the way he regarded his own life.

He has shown during this arc that he doesn't care what happens to him anymore but the last chapter even make it seems like he does wants to die. He's literally thinking "Yeah that sounds good. Hurry up and finish me off"

Why is he not fighting for his life anymore? Why is he giving up and accepting death? Could reading Hiyori's thoughs and learning about her feelings make him not only want to risk his life but actually wanting to die and reunite with them after reincarnating?

Is it possible some part of Yato wants to die for Hiyori's sake?

The thing is, Yato doesn't want to robe Hiyori from his human life. He has change and mature a lot as a God since the first failed marriage proposal. He rejected her in the hospital arc saying he couldn't take her with him to the far shore until she's an old woman. He tried to find her a suitable match in Kamuhakari, a good man to tie her plaque with. He never intended to tie his plaque with Hiyori's like Kofuku did.

His feelings have evolved from "I'll make Hiyori the happiest person in the world" (chapter 27) to "I'm going to make sure she's happy" (chapter 82.5) Meaning he'll not be the one to make her happy. Going so far as to say that she's going to have dozens of grandchildren and marry an up-standing, self-sufficient man, then starts drunk crying at the thought of Hiyori getting married.

He is so in love with her and protective of her that he won't allow to take Hiyori for himself, not only because he considers himself to not be worthy of her but because they belong to different worlds. Yato wants the best for Hiyori, he wants her to experience and have a full human life, that she have the opportunity to become whatever she wants to become and have things he can't be or give her... children, grandchildren, a husband that would provide for her family, that at least won't be a burden to her economically and socially, that can keep her company, be seen by humans and grow old with her. He can't be someone that can provide her with a fulfilling human life. He is a God, it is his job to make sure she appreciates and seizes her life to the max.

Therefore, the fact of knowing her feelings makes things more complicated for her to have a normal human life. If the feelings were only on his side, he already committed to push down his feelings (the best he can) so he wasn't going to get in her way. But by the feelings being mutual it'd be far more complicated to ignore them and keep away from each other. So maybe he's considering himself, his current memories and feelings an obstacle for Hiyori's life and thinks it'd all be solve if he reincarnates. His feelings would go away and he we'd be destroying any romantic connection by turning himself into a child. Maybe he thinks he'd even be saved from the pain of seeing the woman he loves marrying another man.

Honestly I can't see them being together while Hiyori is alive because of Yato's strong wish that she has a happy fulfilling life to honor the gift she was given, to honor the opportunity she has that was robbed from Yukine, Sakura and all other shinkis.

After all Adachitoka have always tried to express through Yato the importance of appreciating the life we were given. Hiyori's death now would be a punch to the stomach to that principle so I believe Hiyori will survive and die of old age. Yato and Yukine will always protect her. And I'll be in my corner crying as hard as Yato will cry when Hiyori gets married T-T

[eulaties]

im so proud of adachitoka honestly like this is HUGE. they created such a beautiful story for us and im so glad i got to witness their journey 🥹💗

[eerna]

Adachitoka's one final reminder that Noragami and I are married and will forever be married was that they decided to speak through me when I designed the @noragamitarotzine cover

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

so kofuku matching yato-hiyori led to hiyori's death and yato disappearing from existence after kissing her

and ōkuninushi blessing them with happiness is going to lead to hiyori bringing yato back into existence and be happy together

[kofubisha]

OH MY GOD EVERYONE SAY IT

THANK YOU DOCTOR IKI!!!!!!!!!!!!

[herstrayskies]

"It's alright don't be afraid. Even if you stumble and loose your way, I'll call your name. It's something more precious than any material gift and because I love you I'll call it all the time. So stay here with me forever. Yukine, here you are and..."

Noragami Chapter 74 Gift & 104 Nation

[swatato]

I refuse to believe a damn thing I’m seeing thanks <3

[cache-pau]

Adachitoka have foreshadowed Hiyori turning into a shinki since at least chapter 2. We saw the signs, but some of us didn't believe it would actually happen after reading the hospital arc.

At the same time, Yato has been warned repeatedly to cut ties with Hiyori. Yet he couldn't bring himself to do it, and she also couldn't bear to forget him and Yukine. So what happens now that she has completely crossed over to the far shore, with no memories of either of them?

Theory: Since Yato, Hiyori, and Yukine defeated the sorcerer, Amaterasu will intervene so that they will survive. But, Yato will need to finally cut his ties with Hiyori. She's a risk to the shinki who knew her and who could be exposed to the gods' greatest secret. She will lose her memories of Yato and Yukine, but will get to pursue a normal life, in a normal body — her request from the beginning of the manga, right?

I think Noragami was never meant to have a fairytale ending, so whatever happens, I'll be crying.

[kurisus]

Chapter 107-2 snaps. Who wants to jump off a cliff with me? ❤️

[echodrops]

I am thinking very hard about the fact that Noragami is called Noragami.

[h0estar]

he's so cute ☹️☹️☹️☹️

[kiun]

lmao what the actual fuck

way to go against one of the most important themes in your own manga

the hospital arc was literally about hiyori staying alive and living her life to the fullest potential away from the far shore, it was a realization both yato and hiyori had. there was a whole thing about when yato would finally cut her ties to the far shore because everyone, including yato, wanted her to stay alive and be a human being living out her life in full. the manga has had for ages this theme of shinkis being people whose lives and potential were cut short because they died too soon and the gods giving them another chance at living in the after life. hiyori was supposed to be different from this!!!!!!

only for all of this to literally be turned on its head because they just had to make her yato's shinki for some angst that's not even hitting right because the entire last arc has been too drawn out and shoddily written. this was the worst case scenario for hiyori's story to end, the absolute worst and they actually did it lmao

[eulaties]

it was a happy ending after all 🥲🫶

[eerna]

YATO SURVIVING BECAUSE HE, YUKINE AND NORA MADE USE OF EVERYONE BEING ABLE TO SEE THEM BY TERRIFYING THE FUCK OUT OF A CITY SO HE WOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN..... ADACHITOKAAAAAAAAAAA

[chouhatsumimi]

Words from Noragami, ch. 45

Words in bold are particularly relevant to the story, and words in italics seem like they’d be worth remembering outside the context of the manga. Bold and italic together means they’ve probably appeared somewhere in Noragami more than once. [Though it's been a kajillion years (okay three actual years) since I read it so I can't promise I can highlight them well anymore...]

暇, 閑, 遑 ひま, いとま, ヒマ spare time, free time, leisure, time (e.g. time it takes to do something), time off, day off, vacation, holiday, leave, quitting (one's job), firing someone, divorcing (one's spouse), (being) inactive, (of one's business) slow, leaving, departing / tiempo libre 果報者 かほうもの lucky fellow / persona dichosa, persona afortunada 父君 ふくん, ちちぎみ father / padre 経, 歴 ふ to pass, to elapse, to go by, to pass through, to go through, to experience, to go through 穿る ほじる, ほじくる to dig up, to dig out, to pick (nose, teeth, etc.), to clean (ears), to pry into, to examine closely, to dredge up / escarbar, hurgar, rebuscar ひん剥く, 引ん剥く, ひん剝く, 引ん剝く ひんむく to strip, to peel, to tear off / pelar, mondar, descortezar 尻子玉 しりこだま, しりごだま mythical ball inside the anus that is sought after by kappa 無作法, 不作法 ぶさほう ill-mannered, rude 逸らかす はぐらかす to dodge (e.g. a question), to evade, to sidestep, to give (someone) the slip / esquivar, evadir, escabullir 幼気 いたいけ young and sweet, adorable, cute, tender, innocent, pitiful, touching, pathetic, helpless 童 わらべ, わらんべ, わらわ, わっぱ child / niño, crío, bebé 手管 てくだ wiles, trick, artifice, coquetry, lover (male) (esp. of a prostitute) 使い魔 つかいま familiar (spirit or otherwise magical creature which aids a magician or sorcerer), familiar spirit 斯う こう in this way, thus, such, uh… / de esta manera, así, tal, pausa verbal 縛め いましめ bonds, bondage, binding / atadura, amarradura, ligadura 斯 シ / か, こう, か.く, この, これ, ここに this, thus, such, verbal pause [this is written as 'saku' in the manga] 死に際, 死にぎわ, 死際 しにぎわ verge of death, brink of death / postrimerías, últimos momentos de la vida 溺れる おぼれる to struggle in the water, to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe, to (nearly) drown, to indulge in, to lose one's head over something, to be addicted, to wallow in / ahogarse, zozobrar, abandonarse

- Ch. 44 || Ch. 46 -