I'm going to keep this short, because honestly, this isn't "psycho pass"; There is no need for an essay on why this show is good, or whether its worth your time.
This is an anime for people who want to watch something light, something akin to a fighting Shounen, but with a little more depth, far less length, and some cool characters to befriend on the way.
I personally hate Shounen, for the most part. Things with as many episodes as Bleach or Naruto don't need to exist, and honestly, they are basically like soap operas.
So, it was a nice suprise to find out that Noragami is actually quite short. Both the first and second season make up about as many episodes as one normal single season of this type of show. Shorter shows make it easier to jump in, as compared to longer running shounen that seem to have no end in sight.
Noragami also has an interesting, unique story, and even though the characters aren't as fleshed out as they could have been, they are all fairly unique, and undergo many changes throughout the course of these two seasons. (FYI: the manga fleshes out the characters perfectly, and has a far deeper, psychological backdrop.)
The show tackles things like coming of age, depression, and self-worth- so there is some depth and seriousness to the show. The fighting scenes often seem to be there, more than anything, to keep the story interesting and break up the scenes of the deep relationships between the characters.
This season actually seemed to have more fights and conflict then the last, and the extra darkness/ uncertainty fit in perfectly with the world building that occurred during the first season.
I don't know why, but I fell in love with the characters enough to look past the rushed anime ending, and the (compared to the manga) sometimes thin plot. But, at least it didn't try to outdo itself, only to be full of plot holes like many anime today.
This is a show that knew what it wanted to be, and it achieved just that- a lighthearted, world weary shounen about a stray god, looking for belonging, and his rag-tag group of friends and accomplices along the way.
Update:
After finishing the manga, I only wish that the show received more funding so that it could have fleshed itself out as well as the manga did. Sadly, it's been years since the last episode, so the chances of the story catching up to the manga and having a proper ending are slim to none.
It really is a shame, because Noragami's manga has such a great, life-affirming story, and the two women who write it under the joint pseudonym "Adachitoka" make such a wonderful team. They deserved better, and so did Noragami. Let's hope the anime industry stops churning out fast food garbage and stops cutting funding for shows before they have a chance to properly end. We see it too much these days...
