Kamisama to Tobenai Tsukai (The God and the Flightless Messenger)

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Japanese: 神様と飛べない使い

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 7

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 28, 2018 to Jun 28, 2019

Genres: Boys Love, Fantasy

Serialization: Canna

Authors: hagi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.63¹ (scored by 1,734 users)

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Ranked: #2199²

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Popularity: #6528

Members: 3,567

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A messenger's job is to support the gods, maintain their purity, and protect them from any potential threat. Shin has always desired to serve a god, but despite being a messenger, he is unable to get assigned to one. In addition to being a notorious troublemaker, Shin possesses extremely tiny wings which render him flightless and therefore unfit for the role.

After causing a ruckus at the summit, Shin is finally appointed to a god; however, this particular one lives the farthest from the main mountain residing on "Mountain 32." Nonetheless, he is happy to have found a master and—upon arrival—immediately begins serving the giant, seemingly immobile god.

However, while Shin carries out his duties, the disappearances of other gods and messengers are slowly alarming the rest of the area's inhabitants. Shin is unaware of his vanishing companions, but does his god know something?

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Kamisama to Tobenai Tsukai was published digitally in English as The God and the Flightless Messenger by Tokyopop under the Love x Love imprint on October 23, 2020, and in print on December 8, 2020.

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Baku

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Shin

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Water Goddess

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Yatsude

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Nushi-sama

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Sanzashi

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Dec 14, 2021

cakefluff

Recommended

I'm surprised by how little I've heard of this manga. I'm still new to reading BL, but I know the most recommended titles and this manga isn't usually brought up.

==Story (8)==
Two words to describe this manga is that it's simple and wholesome. Don't expect anything deep or serious. Even when there's conflict, it's resolved rather fast or not as big of a deal as it's shown at first. Which can be amusing. The fantasy setting was fun to read through enough and you'll get enough info to understand how the manga's world works. The mangaka mentioned they've never thought of fantasy plot before and ... I say they did a nice job.

The one issue I had with the story is the romantic development between our two leads. This is a bit of a spoiler: this is a childhood friend type of romance. Which isn't really my fav, but can like it if handled right. Though, in this story, it uses the past memories of the two as children as romantic development (tho on the MC's side). Of course, we certainly do get cute moments between present MC and the love interest and their childhood memories was pretty cute, but it was like their romance/realized feelings only happened because of their childhood memories rather than it blossoming as adults. Though, without spoiling too much, I understand why the love interest still loves the MC for a long time, but the MC only knew the love interest as a child and didn't grow up with him. I wouldn't say the romance was bad tho, it's more like I'd like to see the two develop their romance in their present time!

==Art (9)==
Incredibly lovely! This art style is very soft and the character designs were nice to look at too! It even managed to make a giant ball of fluff or mini fluff balls expressive and adorable. I would give this a 10 if there was a bit more variety in the backgrounds cause I noticed the backgrounds are either mostly blank or filled with leaves/trees.

==Character (8)==
Pretty great! Again, this isn't a deep manga so don't expect deep characters either. Tho, for what we got in a short time, I liked all the characters. They each had their own personality and had a good chunk of spotlight. The MC himself, Shin, was cute and so was the love interest Baku. Though, we don't get too much of Baku's personality as he's silent most of the time (but expressive at least). Interestingly enough, the mangaka wanted to include a bit more of Yatsude and his lady God but couldn't. I would've loved that addition! The story kinda hinted a romance between the two, but it showed mostly lady God being interested and Yatsude just being overprotective (tho I assumed that's just him acting as the messenger at first). So, it would be nice to see a little background of the two.

==Enjoyment (9)==
I'm so glad I bought this manga during a sale! It was so cute and heartwarming. Too bad it's short. I would've loved a bit more of this!

==Overall (8)==
I highly recommend this manga if you want something short and sweet. If you're in the mood for manga shopping, I recommend buying this when you can! It's nice to have a manga that doesn't include deep issues or melodrama.

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Jan 28, 2024

hanabi_kou

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Personally, I loved this manga for all the reasons I'll explain below:

-It has a simple but well-crafted drawing style. In other BL works, I've noticed at least a couple of panels where characters are poorly proportioned, perhaps due to the rush of publishing times, but it's something quite noticeable that detracts from quality and even feels cringey. Here, I didn't notice anything similar, and I think it's a big plus.
-The story features many winged and some furry characters. The author has a remarkable ability for drawing these kinds of things because everything looked very angelic and soft.
-One of the two main characters is ...

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