imma be super honest about the ending ....
i don't like it.
point blank.
it feels too rushed, too good to be true. like the last few chapters didn't even matter at all. all the build-up, all the stakes, hiyori's death... for what?
what happened to father? what about the GGS? what about heaven? what about amaterasu? what about literally everything?
sure, hiyori gets to live. but this was an absolute ass-pull by adachitoka which completely disregards the whole theme of noragami as a WHOLE.
and they hinted at yato giving his everything to hiyori, giving up his life, just so she gets to live...
ONLY TO FUCKING SHIT ON HER BEING HIS LIFELINE BY MAKING HIM GO VIRAL VIA TWITTER? WHAT THE FUCK?>?????
this whole lifeline thing could've been resolved by twitter??? imean COME ON. come the fuck on. it's funny, yes, but completely ruins the whole problem of his lifeline like i was seriously ripping my hair out in agony bc it was so stupid.
ahghghhhh
don't get me wrong. i'm happy everyone gets their happy ending. but it just... doesn't sit right with me. it doesn't feel like noragami, the noragami that balances happy and tragic themes so well! but alas. it was a nice ride.
i will now go cry in disappointment under my sheets.
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I tried my hand at a Jasper and Steven fusion (Bull’s eye, becuz im incredibly simple like that)
these are very early designs so they most likely will be simplified if i happen to draw them again. (the way i coloured them made them look way too evil lookin lmao)
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They have a knight helmet, cuz i figured a shield and helmet would just make another helmet, but better i guess??
Whenever the fusion turns pink (cuz steven), Bull’s eye will have fire abilities (breathing fire, burning attacks, etc.), the hair would become fire like in this form.
They are able to shapeshift their corruption scars for their likings/needs, wolverine claws? alright! Giant thorny arms? Gotcha! more horns? Heck yeah! They do have to be careful though, being able to utilize corruption scars may open up past baggage, resulting in the fusion becoming unstable, either coming apart or... the corruption consumes them (its not permanent! its like steven’s kaiju moment, where its technically shapeshifting. The fusion can overcome the corruption if their component’s wills are strong enough).
Personality may also be changed a bit, but my initial thoughts were that they are very focused when it comes to situations that call for brute strength (which is what i imagine the biggest reason this fusion would exist, prolly not the only circumstance of course). If they are determined to do something, they will do their best to achieve it. But like sugilite, they can get carried away.
Jasper having been corrupted once, and with whatever steven had, theres a risk (ie the rambling i did about the corruption scars and stuff, though that doesnt have to be the only trigger, there can be other reasons, like if they get too carried away in fights). Both components must work together to keep the fusion stable.
Due to the components of the fusion, Bull’s eye can be very calm one minute, and then hyper the next if certain buttons are pushed. Though if the circumstances are just right, you might find them playing in fields, watching birds fly and observing flowers.
The fusion can also be very encouraging to others (reserved for people they are familiar with of course), albeit sometimes, in ways that are subtle. Weirdly enough, I picture this fusion to not be very talkative, in fact very silent if no one is actively having a conversation with them, even then however, they say very little in response (in battle they talk a little more however, becuz man the catch phrases). Most of their thoughts and plans are thought out internally, what you see on the outside of course is just :) ]
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i've been bitching about the ending non-stop so i sat down and thought about how i would've ended it, so here are my thoughts (unhinged)
first and foremost: hiyori's death
how i would have done it: she had an unique status as an half-ayakashi. a few chaps back, when she was almost sucked into that hole, i wholly believed adachitoka was planning for her to go to the underworld to meet izanami. i'd have loved to see her meet the goddess of death, somehow get the info on how to break the koto no ha (as izanami is surely still mad at father), making a promise to her to bring father to her and then return to the near shore (as she's half-human) to kill father without having to die for the melodrama of it all.
and to make her return to her body, yato'd have had to cut their ties once and for all, making her forget about him (this would have been just as emotional and dramatic as her death!)
second: the whole heaven arc
i would've shown at least SOMETHING about heaven (like a covenant) officially pardoning bishamon and co. and amaterasu announcing that heaven had to change their ways in order to never let anything like this happen again. amaterasu saw first-hand what corruption could lead to and an insight into her mind, her thoughts and learnings all brought to her by yato would've resolved at least some of the loose threads from the heaven arc.
third: god's greatest secret
this wasn't resolved at all by adachitoka. kazuma and yukine have been touched by GGS and lived! nice, but what about the secret as a whole? honestly, all gods should be deadly afraid of them bc of this and not allow their shinkis to hang with them at all lol.
the whole point of GGS was that the painful, regretful death of their past lives would corrupt a shinki. the solution to this whole thing, in my eyes? break the taboo as a whole. not sure how exactly i'd have handled this, but if all shinkis knew their past lives, they could start healing each other together, playing back into the famous quote that ,,only humans can help humans'', which shinki are. ofc, this would need like a whole arc of itself so the ending in the manga is fine, i guess. they just don't rly talk about it lol.
fourth: father
OOOH what wasted potential! he was so complex and then they went ''haha, bad guy go blubblub'' which i honestly don't even mind at all. but i'd have added at least one scene of him meeting izanami back in the underworld, with her wearing kaya's face once again. he'd hear kaya's words ''to let it go'' one last time before he accepts his death and failure, embracing izanami and meeting his end therem eternal limbo. it'd have been a deserved death, bc he was (comically) evil and did terrible things but with some more context and depth to his character (which he always had!).
fifth, yato's lifeline (the most important one)
the literal plotpoint of the manga was yato being recognized as a god by the people. the whole twitter debacle was funny, yeah, but oh so cheap.
i personally would've loved for him to realize, after saving hiyori, that he actually wasn't disappearing at all, making him realize that there were people believing in him (like masaomi). they could've cut back to the little boy with his cat, who still thought about yato as his saviour, or to the girl he saved in chapter 1, who remembered a god that had brought her happiness. he'd have realized that, while bringing calamity, he had also been a god of fortune to them all the time. would've been such a nice, full circle and such a good pointe to this whole lifeline thematic and another realization that father had been lying to him all along. BUT NO. TWITTER SAVED HIM. hsuiahfsdufhudzshf
and lastly, the timeskip:
honestly? i liked this about the chap. showing hiyori as a doctor, her thriving, i was so happy! i would've kept that.
also i like the fact that yato hid her diary from her, in order to let her live her life after cutting their ties, peak drama, mwah!
of course, she remembers him, i loved how his name formed on her lips and boom, there he was, on the tree
i would've added a convo, something, anything!!! they haven't talked in yrs (real-time!) so they should've exchanged words, a hug, WHATEVER, accepting their love for each other, accepting that she has to live on on the near shore, as much as it dooms their relationship. some frigging acknowledgment of their feelings for each other, come on!
also, yatorine reunion, before we cut to the end page where hiyori writes in her diary about yato.
the rest? i was fine with. take has a good end, bishamon has a good end, nora especially won! i liked these points but like… everything else i pointed out? too sad we're left with these threads hanging loose, i guess :(
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