Yukine deserves the world

Another short-ish chapter segment this month, meaning that either 108 will be divided into 3 parts, or 109 will be the end. I'm still banking on 108 being the final chapter due to the number's significance in Eastern religions.

Next chapter comes out 11/6/23.

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Yato: Come... Hakki

Finally able to share this piece I did for @millenniumzine a Noragami 10 year anniversary charity zine! It was an honor and my first ever zine project!

Adachitoka:

I don't think this development goes against what's happened. It's supposed to highlight the tragedy of the circumstances. Yes both Hiyori and Yato agreed that she needed to live a long life even if that meant he & Yukine wouldn't be a part of it. However, we always always had reminders that being connected would bring danger. Tenjin repeatedly told Yato AND Hiyori. And despite knowing these dangers, they both still chose to be connected even after the Hospital arc. Even though they both tried going back to a life without the other, they still came back together in the end.

So, rather than this going against the lesson learned in the Hospital arc, it's more like follow through. They decided to still be connected. Hiyori decided to follow Yato & Yukine despite knowing it would mean not seeing her family again. Yato could not bear to see Trashdad corrupt her or mess with her like he did with Yukine & Hiiro, so he decided to make her his shinki.

But we knew it would not end with a happy ending, and here we are. We are left with the tragedy of this situation. Hiyori felt such love for Yato that she willingly put her life on the line, but now, as a Shinki, she won't be able to remember any of it. That is if she becomes a standard Shinki. Yato, if he survives, will have to live with the fact that his attempts to defeat his father, which stemmed from his desire to protect Hiyori and Yukine from Father, ended with the one he loved dying. Even if he knows now she loved him & willingly did it, he cannot address her as Hiyori or act the same as before.

The impossible happened. They are forever tied together. But it came at a cost, and a pretty big one. There were only ever two options: Hiyori & Yato had to cut their ties, or she would become a denizen of the Far Shore. I hate it, but this story had a tragedy tag for a reason.

Think about it the other way, what if hiyori was the one who went on a suicide mission, wouldn't yato too risk his life to bring her back?

What happened was not expected by neither hiyori nor yato.

Now we're left with the consequences of what shitty father has done.

My honest desire for how this story should end.. i want father to realize that the world can never be free from gods and their shenanigans as he dies by yato's hand. As for yato, hiyori and yukine... i think it would actually be better for yato to disappear. I'm not sure yato can live as he is with the guilt.

But with noragami ending very soon i wanted to share my thoughts about these past how many years lol.

I was like 15 when i bought the first two volumes that were on shelves in 2014/2015 at a barnes and noble on a trip back from seeing my family.

The covers drew me in, i had never read manga before and i barely knew what it was, but the watercolor style made me stop and pick up the first volume and i read the first few pages and i look back on it fondly, it has a silly start, but what got me was, there's this god and hes powerful but no one likes him and hes kinda annoying lol but actually the more i read, i discovered Hiyori, someone who liked him.

And for a lonely kid like me that got me, i could instantly relate, heres this lonely god and he tries and tries to be noticed, looking for someone to acknowledge him, and at the end of the first chapter, you know someone has.

Noragami did and does give me hope, especially when i needed it and when i need it now, it tells stories of people who are dead and shouldn't have hope, it gives them hope.

I’m crying so much right now

How could Adachitoka do this to us