Noragami
Noragami: Stray God

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Well, this is the end of one of my favorite mangas... what should I say?
If you give it a chance you may got yourself into a story about:
- A charismatic, funny and eloquent "calamity" god in sweatpants who gave his best to be remembered by people and protect what he loved the most.
- An energetic, empathic and perceptive girl whose life completely changed the day she "saved" a sweatpants guy.
- A youthful, kinda rebel but good boy spirit whose personal development was stunning.
These three main characters bond made me laugh, worry, and almost cry through the story. I'm thankful to experience it and ... invite you to experience it too.

In general, I consider this great manga will fulfill elements like:
- Memorable characters. Most of the characters, not only the main, were awesome. The way their past stories are revealed to understand why they are the way they are help me to connect with them. I'm aware that not for all the characters their actions are justificable but at the end the deity and human mix of elements made the story work with this flexibility and change of morals and variety of personalities.
- Interesting story. If you like supernatural elements and/or japanese folklore I think you may enjoy this story. Especially this story propose that deities can "adopt" spirits in order to gave them a second chance. For sure, this "second chance" will depend on the deity because them theirselves have their own concepts of good and evil. Though the story we accompany the deities to discover "human concepts" and also realize the fickleness of humanity as well as they reconsider their own actions and way of thinking.
- Amazing art. The art in each panel is enjoyable, the way the personality of each character is designed and expressed is great. Also, facial and body expressions are cool. Especially when they gave us battle panels and detailed equipment associated to the shinkis.

For sure I would recommend people to gave it a chance. ;)

ending was ass.

Started this in middle school and now I'm in college and I loved this series until the last maybe five or four chapters.
It really felt like lost potential. Noragami was sooo much fun, art was beautiful, and the story was so different. Problems were complex and made you wonder how everything was going to get solved. Now I'm thinking the author themselves didn't know how to solve them. Characters were all interesting, full of personality, and lovable. But character development dissipated into the air like gas with the brainless solution to all the problems they were facing at the end and ... japan really needs to ban the [minor spoiler--------!!!] amnesia/forgetting everything trope. It's a cheap cop out. I see people trying to justify the ending and yeah, maybe it wasn't horrible, but I had high expectations because the story was that good.

Now if you don't care about how stories end, this series is for you.

this manga has rated PG-13 but believe me this is A TOTAL massacre manga. After starting with slow this is going to kill each and every character.

As disgusting as it is , the MC is shown OVERPOWERED power-freak who doesn't have his mind on the right place and goes massacre without a thought. he is a puppet. I mean each and every character doesn't stand a chance against the MC whether it's someone with higher power or whatever. and the gaudy character of the MC who doesn't respect a single person and call them "bitch" is unacceptable for a "god" character. It all makes me ... hate to the MC. Such selfish delinquent doesn't deserve to be a god and worshiped. and there is a whole lot dissatisfaction toward the story.