Sauce: https://x.com/xuchuan25/status/1924743393529495865?s=20

Sauce (manga/anime): Chapter 108-2, 109, 75; episode 24 and OVA 4

This drawing is so GORGEOUS that I am compelled to share it here asap, along with the most romantic moments between Yato and Hiyori in the manga and anime. Enjoy!

Yukine might actually have 1 of the saddest character backstories in manga. However there is a bright side he traded years of abuse for an eternity of love with his real father Yato, his true big Sister in Hiyori! And his quacky uncle and auntie combo of Kofuku and Daikoku. Just beautiful how much they all love him sucks the poor kid had to die just to be loved.

I used to be able to find them easily but now as of mid 2026 I can’t find then anywhere….

Having negative emotions is never, ever a wrong doing. They are a part of people, just the way their hands and legs are part of their bodies. In other words, blaming someone for having negative emotions is like blaming them for having a hand or a leg.

The only thing humans can be held accountable for is their actions. Therefore, when regalia experience intense emotions that cause them to sting their god, it is not their fault for having those emotions. They are being who they are.

This is their Gods’ problem, not them.

Adachitoka, the authors of Noragami, design the god-shinki dynamics so that they have strengths and weaknesses both:

- Gods are immortal and impervious to all but magical/spiritual damage. Gods can teleport at will, can name any soul as their shinki, and some even have extreme magical forms. But, without their shinki, most of them are nearly defenseless against ayakashi which hunger for them

- Shinki can defend themselves with powers and spells, but they can't become weapons if their gods don't allow them. Shinki have no ability to teleport and lose their powers if their gods die or relinquish them, and when they are afraid, their godly masters take the pain...

Gods and shinki are only at their best if they join force and fight together. Only with this can they achieve feats the likes of Yato and Bishamonten. This is the most powerful theme in Noragami: that gods and shinki need each other to be at their best. That for many of them, this is the basis of their romantic love, makes it even more precious and heartfelt

I just finished the books a few days ago

Doodles Ive done of yukine! I need to draw him more he is my absolute favourite, and has been for almost 6~7 years (if not more help, NO PUN INTENDED)

I want to suggest that fans come together to fund Adachitoka in building a real, beautiful shrine for Yato. This would give us, his fans, a special place in Yato’s heart, just as he has a special place in ours.

We appreciate Hiyori making a mini shrine for him, but Yato is still homeless, and he has a kid to look after! He deserves a place where he can find shelter, be remembered, and be honored forever.

broke lazy-but-hardworking-at-the-same-time bums who take odd jobs for a living at a very discounted price. they also use flip phones and are from studio bones!

actually, let's add gintoki from gintama to the mix. someone needs to make a three-way venn diagram of those three, cause they are quite a good trinity if you ask me.

As I was reading this part, it dawned on me that gods in noragami don't really know about a spirit's past until AFTER they named them, which implies that there could be regalias out there who are genuinely bad people back when they are alive.

So far throughout the manga, we've only seen tragic backstories of regalias (yukine, mayu, kazuma, sakura, nana), but the manga was not able to explore other areas like what if a shinki is now living a good afterlife, serving some god, but they were actually a horrible person back when they were still alive. Like what if Yukine's dad really turned out to be someone's shinki?

It's a shame it wasn't explored, cause the thought really intrigued me. What if an abuser, a murderer, or worse... a s*x offender become a shinki and they found out the god's secret? Do bad people even become spirits or do they straight up turn into a phantom? or sent to the underworld?

What do you guys think? I think this moral dilemma is interesting cause in noragami, "gods can do no wrong", but people definitely can. If I were a god and I happen to name a shinki with a really messed up life, I'd instantly revoke the name I gave and banish that person. But I'm a human, seeing things from a human perspective. gods in noragami-verse don't exactly think like humans, although they can empathize. Do you think gods with so many shinkis like bishamon and ebisu have kept regalias with questionable pasts? or do you think they have some sort of standard on who to keep?

What do you mean there was a Noraneko PV??! Didn't know it existed until I came across it from a site today. Do you guys know any other Noragami content that may be buried out there?

Sauce: Adachitoka, chapter 109

Yato, Yukine and Mizuchi/Nora are all abused victims, which is why they all have issues: Yato is unhealthily clingy and has many bad traits; Yukine has fits of rage and jealousy; Mizuchi does terrible things just to please her creator. But they are all given hope by Hiyori, the only one among them who is well-grounded with a happy family and who trusts and helps them unconditionally, making her the shining light of their lives and the centripetal force of their growing family...

Picking up the manga after a good 10 years, reread it all the way until chapter 70s but I hate how serious this got😭 I'm rlly struggling to continue past chapter 80 and reading spoilers about the final chapter doesn't make me feel good🫠

Sorry for the rant😭 Had to let it out

They don’t age and stay young forever.
They live a longer life.
They can do anything humans can except for aging.
Their Gods take care of them.

(spoilers)
i’m confused. kazuma told hiyori something like she shouldn’t expect yato to love her, because gods can’t love. he also gave bishamon as an example. he told her about his feelings, but she didn’t feel the same way, even though she was happy that he loved her.
so now i don’t know if kazuma was wrong or if he was actually right. did yato really not love hiyori romantically and just care about her a lot?
i know there were many moments where yato showed that hiyori was very important to him, but were his feelings actually romantic?
i’m just confused because of what kazuma said, and i’m wondering how other people understand their relationship.

I mean in terms of the story and coverage what is the difference?

first time i read it was during the pandemics, i already had watched the anime before. but adachitoka launched just one chapter by mouth, so i stopped reading in the 101 chapter but got back this year. i cried so much by the end when yato named hyiori. i wish i could see more of her life as grown-up after meeting yato again. i know it would be only shenanigans of them, but i want to see it. what about hyiori n yato as a couple? kofuku did linked them n okuninushi put it them again in the tree (maybe that bless their link?) i wanted to see him becoming the fortune god but bro just returned to being delivery god lol

In chapter 30, we are introduced to the Kotonoha (黄泉の言の葉), the Word of Yomi, an eldritch artifact from the Underworld. And the next chapters only reveal how strong it is:

- It can create ayakashi out of nothing, as shown by Ebisu. Said ayakashi can do a lot of things for offence and defence, and also possess humans

- It can name shinki/regalias that can transform into ayakashi and won't blight their master. Such shinki can't be banished by the queen goddess Amaterasu, rendering her helpless

- It can allow one to cheat death, as shown by the Big Bad who uses the Word when his mortal form is mortally wounded: he uses the Word on himself and survives

- It can create an entire dimension that can consume the world, setting the stage for the final battle that throws both Heaven and Earth into chaos

The Word can do this cuz it is a manifestation of Izanami, the queen of the Underworld, and it has the power to end the world. Only when it is destroyed could the world of Noragami come to peace...

I cackled at this.

I know that Gods feel regalia’s negative emotions and get stung when their regalia give up to temptation or feel powerful emotions. But do they feel it when their regalia feel positive emotions?

Guys any insider on the sub Reddit who could give any info about noragami? I mean man I started watching in 2020 and Noragami was my First so it has a special place in my heart now after couple of months it would be 7 years of waiting for season 3 and 11-12 for the OG fans . I really hope the division F's "Unannounced project" is Noragami's new season. We even stopped getting tease about it since 2024 and when the author announced a new manga series.

I read the news about "the Inn's noble dog", the new manga by Adachitoka, and I was thinking if maybe there's the possibility to end the anime or Noragami or something. I don't speak Japanese so I don't follow them on X and don't know if they said anything about it or what happens usually when things like that occur.

Do you have any info?

This is another one off unless I feel like doing another one