Noragami

In times of need, if you look in the right place, you just may see a strange telephone number scrawled in red. If you call this number, you will hear a young man introduce himself as the Yato God.

Yato is a minor deity and a self-proclaimed "Delivery God," who dreams of having millions of worshippers. Without a single shrine dedicated to his name, however, his goals are far from being realized. He spends his days doing odd jobs for five yen apiece, until his weapon partner becomes fed up with her useless master and deserts him.

Just as things seem to be looking grim for the god, his fortune changes when a middle school girl, Hiyori Iki, supposedly saves Yato from a car accident, taking the hit for him. Remarkably, she survives, but the event has caused her soul to become loose and hence able to leave her body. Hiyori demands that Yato return her to normal, but upon learning that he needs a new partner to do so, reluctantly agrees to help him find one. And with Hiyori's help, Yato's luck may finally be turning around.

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Aside from the anime and manga there is a mobile game titled Noragami -Kami to Enishi-.

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Adaptation:	Noragami
Side story:	Noragami OVA
Sequel:	Noragami Aragoto
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Characters & Voice Actors

Yato

Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Yukine

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Iki, Hiyori

Main

Uchida, Maaya
Japanese

Bishamon

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Kofuku

Supporting

Toyosaki, Aki
Japanese

Kazuma

Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Nora

Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie
Japanese

Daikoku

Supporting

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Rabou

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Kuraha

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

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Furukawa, Shin

Producer

Amano, Naoki

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Terao, Yuri

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Opening Theme

"Goya no Machiawase (午夜の待ち合わせ)" by Hello Sleepwalkers

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Ending Theme

"Heart Realize (ハートリアライズ)" by Tia

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Apr 4, 2014

interconnected-

Recommended

All of us have seen that one series or show or book that didn't seem to know which direction in which it was going. Noragami, however, manages to pull off all of its elements perfectly without even batting an eye. Keep in mind that this is my first review so anything I’m about to say may be incredibly biased or just inexperienced as a whole. With that said, let’s begin.

Story: 9/10

The story of Noragami begins with Hiyori: an average high school girl who has a fated encounter with Yato, a homeless god, but we'll get to them later. Hiyori, being the angel of a person ...

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Apr 5, 2014

Aegair

Mixed Feelings

I, like most everyone on this planet, like things.

The things that I like come in many different shapes and sizes. One such thing that I like is the Winter 2014 show Noragami, a 'feels' shounen brought to you by Studio Bones, that brings together elements of shows like Soul Eater and Rurouni Kenshin to give you a 'family-centric' journey exploring what it means to be alive.

Or rather I wish it did. At its best you've got tear jerking moments of mortality, family, and the struggles of existence. You have a cast of characters you care about, the voice acting encapsulating each character almost perfectly, ... flowing between emotions and the changing tone beautifully. At its worse you have long 'bouts of 'struggle of the week'. Slow buildup to something with mediocre story telling until the conclusion. And foreshadowing that is either so obvious it hurts, or massively fascinating and never really answered.

This show's strengths are in its characters, mainly Yato - who consistently brings out the best interactions of the entire show, be it his sweetness or his harshness - and are the primary reason that I want more and more of Noragami. Don't get me wrong, the rest of the cast are all better than average. Certainly better than what I expect from a battle shounen. And when the show is being a harsh drama I am utterly entranced, fulfilled and cathartic.

But. When it is not being amazing. It is mediocre beyond belief. Slow pacing, which ,whilst forwarding the overall plot, could easily have been something else more in line with the show at its best. This is further exemplified by the animation quality which just seems disappointing. The art style deserves better than what it got. The art style on its solid and certain 'Phantoms' (The primary antagonistic beings for most of the series) just ooze awesome. Others look about as cool as a blue frog can look. And whilst I couldn't call the animation terrible, for the most part it does nothing good, the creepiness is not exemplified, the sadness is not exemplified, the little details are simply absent. I'm never impressed and at my worse I'm disappointed by how often the shounen “Power up to kill shit” is copy and pasted. Sure it is cool the first couple of times, but with the amount it is reused it loses its power quickly.

The soundtrack takes some interesting steps. Using more electronic and dubsteppy tracks than your standard rocky shounen. I personally found it kind of bland, but I can easily see others enjoying it far more as the tracks are not out of place and certainly match the moods of the scenes. Being unique in this regard should be applauded, but whether it really works or not is something we can question heavily.

However the biggest and most substantial flaw of this show is where the overall plot goes. This is a 12 episode series that does not buckle down and focus. Most of what fascinated me in the earlier episodes was not really built upon. Instead I have a Kenshin-esque fight scene and a re-establishment of the strange 'friend-family-esque' trio, which was only broken up an episode earlier. I want more exploration of Yato and Yukine's character depth and backstory. I want my weird romance subplot between a kinda human and a deity. I want the three main plot lines to be resolved.

But I don't have that. Instead I'm left here waiting and hoping for a season two that takes everything amazing about this show and continues, without the flaws of the first season. Which in itself is an issue, because the ending track is completely and utterly gorgeous. Easily amongst one of the best EDs, based on track alone, that I have had the fortune to listen to in my lifetime. But a single music track alone is not something most people will watch a show for.

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Dec 19, 2015

Dmitry_Scapelli

Not Recommended

This is my first review, so I’d be very happy if you had suggestions to help me improve. I’d like to point out that English is not my first language, which is in fact Portuguese, so be free to correct me if I mess up with the grammar. Let’s get started:

Story: 3

In my opinion, the “theme” of this anime is far from original. There are monsters, the phantoms or ayakashi, which are in fact dead human beings who are stalked by the negative emotions they had on their lives. This remembers me of the hollows of Bleach. There is also ... the fact that dead human beings can transform into weapons, which remembers me of Soul Eater.

Now comes the plot. This anime doesn’t really have a focus, it has comedy, action, and a little bit of drama. I’m not saying that this itself is bad, but I found every one of those boring. 1: The comedy is not funny. It only has weak tsundere jokes, and other jokes with Yato being a failure as a god. 2: The battles with the phantoms and the other gods were also boring, it lacks emotion and … action. 3: The drama with Yukine was the best of the worst, it was silly of Yato to let his shinki do things that would hurt them both. Again, the drama would be a lot better if their respective pasts were shown.

The story had four “arcs”: The first was the search for a way to help Hiyori and a shinki for Yato, the second was the Yukine arc, the third was the battle with Bishamon and the final one was the battle with Ebisu. For me, the Yukine arc was the best, it didn’t had any battles, but was the only one that managed to have character development.

Characters: 2

The characters simply weren’t developed, the unique exception would be Yukine, but his development was simply thrown away because he was deprived of attention during the final “arc” of the anime. I would also like to point out that the lack of information about the past of both Yukine and Yato is sad, because the viewer become curious during the course of the anime, but in the end they can just speculate what happened.
The problem with a 12 episode anime is that we don’t really have the time to like the villains or the support characters, we only get to really know the principal ones, which are also boring in this case.

Visual: 6

The animation was neither good nor bad, it was average. The movements of the characters during the battles wasn’t amazing but was fluid enough. I personally liked the phantoms, which were very colorful and had fluid movements.

Sound: 7

I loved the opening sound, I and started to watch the anime because of the opening. However, the ending was average and the OST didn’t had very much to offer, with the exception of the song Lurk. It simply didn’t had that moment in which you listen to a song and start to search for it on the OST. However, I have to admit that the songs are not that bad and fit on every moment of the anime.

Overall: 4,5

Noragami is not that good of an anime, and is overrated by many. I don’t recommend you to watch this show if you are looking for an action anime, nor if you are looking for a comedy one.

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