#mizuchi

[2ghosts]

#hana awase #hana awase new moon #mizuchi #himeutsugi #my art

[natharien]

AU where Trash Dad dies very early (the better version) OR he and Sakura somehow agree on co-parenting or something (the worse but maybe more fun version).

Noragami is ending and I’m not ready for it :’(

#yato #yaboku #mizuchi #sakura noragami #noragami #nora noragami #I hope they'll stop calling her that in the last chapter otherwise I'll be pissed #my art

[bucketsofsalt]

this 2024, i'm doing a challenge called Living w/o Noragami where I try to make it every day of the rest of my life

#noragami #ノラガミ #NoragamiEnd #ノラガミ完結 #btw just because its over doesnt mean im gonna shut about them now #on the contrary i will be more annoying than ever #also takiun not getting much sleep after becoming dads #i knew adachitoka wouldnt let my takiun spiral into insanity be for nothing #if anyone wants to discuss the finale with me my PMs are open!!!!! #yato #yukine #mizuchi #ebisu #coo phone #hiyori #kofuku #daikoku #bishamon #kazuma #takemikazuchi #kiun #tenjin #tsuyu #tomone #mayu #kunimi #i drew everyone from memory 💀 #don't look too closely!!!

[usatei2011]

#mizuchi miyadeguchi #touhou #Mizuchi #reimu #Ringo #yuugi #satori #yukari #sagume

[nikkiredfox14]

You guys have no idea how much this means to me. I have waited for SO long to find out what would happen to Mizuchi. In abuse cases, it is VERY unlikely that the victim will disobey the abusive adult out of fear until they most likely die, in fiction and in reality. I'm so proud of Mizuchi but I've been really really scared for her. I can't believe they saved both Yukine and Muzuchi I'm so happy

#noragami #noragami spoilers #nora #yato #yukine #hiyori #mizuchi #father #manga #anime

[magician-hero]

mizuchi miyadeguchi redesign request

was a little bit stumped on how to redseign her because i don't know much about her. but i am not fond of her release colors so i had some fun playing around w/ them. btw i want to say her skull is a separate entity that talks and prints out paper dolls. this is canon i think

#touhou #touhou project #mizuchi miyadeguchi #mizuchi #touhou mizuchi #mizuchi touhou #touhou project mizuchi #mizuchi touhou project #touhou project mizuchi myadeguchi #mizuchi miyadeguchi touhou project #touhou mizuchi miyadeguchi #mizuchi miyadeguchi touhou

[spear-gsun]

Mizuchi 

#touhou #touhou project #mizuchi #mizuchi miyadeguchi #i really like to think that mizuchi's handcuff is made out of her own grudge #because the desires of vengeful spirits can turn into metals #mizuchi cool that is all

[derikisu]

#Chapter 77 #manga #manga cap #Noragami #Noragami Aragoto #Yukine #Nora #The Stray #Mizuchi #mangcap

[myosh-i]

Noragami has come to an end.

Im so grateful for this manga and i fell so happy for being a fan during all these 13years.

I love Noragami so much ! Is so difficult and so sad to say goodbye, Adachi is making me cry once again T----T

Thank you Adachi Toka, Noragami was a huge and an amazing experience.

#anime #manga #noragami 109 #noragamifinalchapter #noragami spoilers #noragami #yatogami #iki hiyori #yukine #mizuchi #kofuku #bishamon #kazuma #adachitoka

[justxaxstrayxkid]

My heart 🥺🥺

#noragami #mizuchi #yato #i need to see this in present time #fhey need to make up #not a want but a need #noragami spoilers #Noragami chapter 106

[kofuku46]

Hiyori realizes the Father's methods, Manga Coloring

Noragami, Chapter 49: Fight Without Quarter

#noragami #noragami aragoto #adachitoka #noragami manga #manga #manga coloring #yato #yatogami #yaboku #iki hiyori #hiyori iki #yukine #sekki #nora noragami #mizuchi #chiki #sakura noragami #noragami father #fujisaki kouto #manga edit #my edit #noragami spoilers #noragami edit #yatori

[yume-yato]

Noragami 105: Boundary World

“Take a good look. Mizuichi is a worm, Yukine is a beast, Yaboku is a kid. These are your inner selves laid bare. It’s inevitable that they’ll come to the surface.”

#yatothedeliverygod #yato #noragami spoilers #yatogami #noragami #god of calamity #shinki #yukine #kazuma #bishamon #sorcerer #mizuchi

[ninoseyasunori]

[Animal form dreamer] Mizuchi Miyadeguchi (Animal Form)

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#Art #mizuchi #Touhou #東方 #東方Project #东方

[dailydemonspotlight]

Mizuchi - Day 22

Race: Snake

Alignment: Neutral

April 19th, 2024

Serpentine monsters are a common sight in mythology; whether it be the great Dragons of yore, the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, the aboriginal Rainbow Serpent Yurlungur, or even the classical Ouroboros. However, Japan loves snakes in mythology. We've already covered one in Yamata-No-Orochi, but there are so many more, whether it be the adorable and hilarious Yokai Tsuchinoko, or, in the case of the demon we're covering today, the legendary water serpent, Mizuchi.

Mizuchi is rarely seen throughout the tremendous amounts of tales that make up Japanese mythology, only mentioned in the Nihon Shoki (the oldest still-remaining text of Japan's history, dating all the way back to the Yōrō era) as well as appearing in a single Man'yōshū poem. In spite of this, Mizuchi has been the topic of many scholarly debates, eventually being bastardized through history into everyone's favorite root-chakra destroying turtle, the Kappa.

Mizuchi, however, is not originally from Japan- its name is actually a transliteration from several Chinese glyphs, particularly several glyphs describing different dragons, serpents, and monsters of Chinese mythology. Admittedly, I don't know much about Japanese, but one of the kanji used to spell the name Mizuchi implies that it's a snake, but it first-and-foremost means "Water spirit." The word, in English, can be broken down into "Spirit-of-Water," as Mi- means water, -tsu- (the way that it is pronounced) effectively means 'of,' and -chi is a suffix that describes a spirit. Due to this, Mizuchi's origin as a Chinese myth makes it very, very hard to track down much of a solid origin for it, given that it originates from what was effectively a way to match how it sounds to how it's spelled.

Now, in terms of mythology, Mizuchi was first referenced in the Nihon Shoki- as the story goes, under the reign of Emperor Nintoku, there was a fork at a river that contained a great water serpent that would be a very deadly nuisance- it attacked random passersby, spat venom at anybody who came near, broke apart caravans, and was generally just a prick. Eventually, fed up with this, a man named Agatamori approached the spirit with a challenge- he tossed three Calabashes into the water and challenged the spirit to see if it could sink them. If not? Mizuchi would face a swift death. The dragon, perturbed, obliged, yet was unsuccessful, meeting a demise by the hands of the man.

Later on, Agatamori found his way to the fellows of the mischievous snake, and in a move as genocidal as it was unwarranted, slaughtered the entire clan of Mizuchi. The lake below was filled with their blood, later becoming the noted "Pool of Agatamori." However, in spite of how apocalyptic this may seem, it turns out that there are more recollections of Mizuchi in the mix, and this tale was but one of many.

The god of the river recorded in Nintoku 11 is also commonly seen as a Mizuchi. A dam being built along Yodo River was subject to an attack from an unknown force, completely breached. Confused, the Emperor commanded a rebuild of it, only for it to be breached yet again. This happened time and time again, and eventually, the Emperor saw a solution to his problem through a prophetic dream. Bringing two men to the riverfront, he offered them up to the River God, but one refused. Likely recognizing the circumstances, the man demanded to see the divinity of the snake by trying the age-old calabash trick, tossing a set into the river and daring the god to sink them. Unsurprisingly, the Mizuchi failed, and likely grew to resent calabashes for the rest of its life.

The last example of a Mizuchi in classical Japanese mythology comes from the Man'yōshū, a collection of ancient poems that have been passed down from generation to generation. In one of them, a poem composed by Prince Sakaibe, he describes a short and intriguing tale regarding a Mizuchi. In quote, "I could ride a tiger to leap over the Old Shack, to the green pool, to take down the mizuchi dragon there, if only I had a sword capable of doing just that." The story regards a mizuchi dragon as being almost common knowledge, bringing up as many questions as it does answers- however, the way it regards it in such a casual manner may play into why Mizuchi are so scarcely mentioned.

If everyone knew about mizuchi, then they wouldn't feel the need to record it, right? The casual cadence of the poem seems to give light to the idea that mizuchi were a common sight or concept in ancient Japan, and it may have to do with their later bastardization into Kappa. In some areas, kappa are given a name incredibly similar to a mizuchi, such as "Mizushi," "Medochi," or "Mintsuchi." Past this, a common trait in Kappa stories lies in their hatred of calabashes, something which is similar to the distaste Mizuchi have for calabashes in both stories they appear in. Some historians speculate that mizuchi and kappa were in the same general 'clique' of water dwelling monsters.

God, that was a lot. Mizuchi are confusing. However, in terms of the SMT series, there's a lot less to comment on; their appearance as a water spirit in the form of a snake is faithful, and their design is as simple as it is elegant. They appear to be made of clear water, almost like a rushing river in the form of a snake. Throughout the series, Mizuchi are a common sight in the early-mid game, even appearing as a boss in Nocturne. Their specialty in ice skills, the closest thing SMT has to water skills, is almost obvious. However, overall, there's elegance in simplicity, and Mizuchi is just that.

#shin megami tensei #smt #megaten #persona #daily #mizuchi #this thing was a HEADACHE. #probably the hardest demon so far to research #a lot of my stuff was taken directly from wikipedia #albeit reworded #and i feel a bit bad about it #but i can't read japanese!! #and almost all the primary and secondary sources are #lo and behold #in japanese. #however i do appreciate the challenge and i love looking into weird and obscure folklore!! #its just that this guy was way too much of a doozy. #never again. jesus h jimminy cricket.

[annamlynska]

Unwanted child

Despite appearances, the heroes in Noragami do not undergo any fundamental change of character, more than that, they change from what angle we, as readers, are allowed to look at them. But if there's a character that really changes profoundly and irreversibly, it's Mizuchi.

 Not because she wants to, but because she is forced to. When she is introduced to us at the end of the second volume, in her funeral kimono, with a ghost crown, her pale skin covered with dozens of names, she is disturbing and mysterious.

 The kimono, the crown and the names are like thick layers of paint through which nothing else can be seen. Always so calm, always smiling, Yato says about her the moment he releases her and the first crack appears on her perfect paint.

When she receives the name from him,  long ago, ages ago, hundreds of years ago, she has no layers on her. She is just Mizuchi, a good girl, obedient to  father, quiet and docile.

If it could be her choice, if she was ever allowed to choose, she would never want any of those layers.

But she can't vote. The father extols her qualities as a shinki, speaks highly of her future, and gives her to Yato to use. As a weapon, as a thing.

But then, when father praises them, Mizuchi is smiling again. Having names is a good thing because it makes her useful to  father. So Mizuchi collects name after name to make father happy.

But it's never enough, it's never good enough. When she later tells Yukine that she collected her names because she felt that something was missing, that something was always missing, she was talking about parental love.

Father is the only one she has ever truly served.

What she tells Yukine, after she comes to him crying, stripped of her names, about herself, about her past, is theater. As fake as her clear skin, carefully chosen words to make an impression and unlock Yukine's heart. It will work out, everything will turn out according to plan, but Nora is no longer perfectly calm and smiling, because she has recognized something that has been denied her until now. Treating her like a living human being, Yukine opens her up to a space where children play, learn, where people are kind to each other without asking for anything in return. In which the smile on the face is an expression of real feelings, not a false compliment. And we, at the end of the day, see Nora very lonely and pensive.

 Another crack is slowly appearing in the paint layer.

Then when father leaves her kneeling in the middle of the sidewalk without responding, the crack widens and a good chunk falls off. The girl stabbing her ghostly crown with desperate rage is more human, more emotional, more alive than she has been in centuries.

Mizuchi loses his layers and begins to discover who he really is. She shows compassion, gratitude, empathy, something she hasn't done in a very long time and who knows if ever. We find out what Mizuchi would be like if she was allowed to experience a normal life. What would she be, without her father's influence.

And then father calls her to fight for him and she obeys him because her father is everything to her, without him she is surrounded by darkness. Even though at the end of the fight she loses all her names, for real this time, except for one, even though father screams at her and she suffers, she finds the strength to tell father how much she loves him. 

Nora is gone. No more funeral kimono, no ghost crown, gone are the signs covering the skin. Only Mizuchi remains. Open, emotional, expressing her feelings. She wants to be not just a good girl, but his daughter. This is supposed to be her true personality, the one she chose for herself, instead of the layers that were forced on her and she lost them.

But she is not and never will be, because she is not a beloved daughter, not a real little girl, just an aborted child, as her father throws her in the face. If he stabbed her in the heart, he couldn't hurt more. 

Mizuchi can't go back to who she was and can't be what she dreamed of. She is at a dead end from which she will have to find some other way. Maybe she will succeed, through Yukine, who showed her that she can enjoy life, through Hiyori, who proved to her that people can take her seriously, through her brother, who protects her, despite everything that happened between them .

 But she will have to find that way herself

#noragami #chaper 104 #mizuchi #nora

[nyappytown]

Run: Hiyori, Mizuchi, and Living In The Shadow of Expectation.

I’m reading through the Hospital arc and… the parallelism between Hiyori and Masaomi and Mizuchi and Yato in regard to familial expectations is really hitting me in the chest this time around.

Hiyori, being in place of Mizuchi. She always admired her father; saw him as someone to idolize and look up to. They wanted to hold those things dear and be someone their fathers could be proud of.

Masaomi, being in Yatos place, got so tired of being told how to live, being held in this box of “you need to keep on the family business”, and having his future laid out for him. And just like Masaomi, Yato ran. He did everything he could to escape those expectations and ideals projected onto him by his father.

Hiyori, on the one hand, felt compelled to follow the family business, although her family insisted she follow her own path. She knew inside they still hoped she would take on the Hospital. These circumstances, of course, were heightened for Mizuchi.

She did EVERYTHING her father asked of her, in hopes he would praise her and love her. This tore at her to constantly try and yet see him so focused on Yato, who wanted to pursue his own path. He had “betrayed” Father time and again, while she just kept trying.

But Mizuchi finally came upon a breaking point. That moment of “What do I do? Who am I? I’ve tried so hard” and the person she ran to when the pressure came crumbling atop her, was Hiyori… Hiyori who had also reached a breaking point of her own.

And so, just like Yato and Masaomi… they ran. And as we later discover… so did Yuka.

This is a back-up of a Twitter thread. While I do have a lot more complex thoughts on this topic, and would also like to expand on this while adding in how Yuka was an integral part of helping Mizuchi fully comprehend her feelings and her place within her own family unit, for the sake of preservation, those thoughts will have to come at a different time!

#noragami #adachitoka #noragami analysis #mizuchi #hiyori iki #nora