Touge Oni is really an excellent manga. It is, at this point, a bit episodic: the protagonists visit a sequence of gods (kami) on various missions. However, a larger, very clever plot involving time travel is beginning to coalesce.
I particularly liked chapters 3.5 and 6.5, which step back from the story to focus on the story's first villain. The author deftly humanizes a character who seems in the first chapter to be unambiguously cruel and monstrous. I expect to see more of this subtle characterization as the story progresses.
The story's art is, in general, just satisfactory. One bright spot are the kami, which are massive
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