I watched "Noragami" under the Amway of Ah Zhong (a tx fan friend). The first season aired in 2014, and the second season, aragoto, was launched in 2015. It's a compliment, the score at station B is more than 9 points, the bones and voice actors are strong, Kao is a big helper, Runrun, Empress Kamiya's match with Yedoushuai is only three seconds'.', Yuki Kaji's match Okay?, after all is a troll) Iwasaki Fukuoka's soundtrack is so cool! The infrastructure is quite solid, and the characters, plot, and core ideas built on it are still pretty good (wipe a tear from the corner of your eye).
The core protagonists are "Ketsujin" Yato, "Sacred Tool" Yukine and "Half Demon" Hiyori (originally normal humans). (Similar to Baba Mama and... Goose?) Between Yato and Xueyin is a contractual relationship between gods and artifacts, and Yato and Hiyori are the symbiotic relationship between this side and the other side .
The origins and changes of the two relationships, and the entanglement between Yato and Bishamonten supported the development of the first season. The theme of the subsequent second season can be summarized as the relationship being challenged and the beginning of the exploration of the "Yellow Spring" big boss (the follow-up development should be to unlock the identity of the big boss and the specific past of Yedou.)
The core of the contradiction in the relationship between the three is mainly reflected in two aspects, namely uniqueness and memory .
The contract between Yukine and Yato
As Yato's artifact, Xueyin has always been eager to get Yato's attention and become his only artifact. Divine Artifact, as the name suggests, is the weapon of God. God will become more powerful when using Divine Artifact to slay demons. But the origin of the artifact is different from that of God. Gods are born from the wishes of people, and artifacts are the dead souls of human beings chosen by gods, and the dead souls that have not been contaminated by monsters. The two complement each other and are a contractual relationship. And the way the contract is established is that God gives the artifact a name. As Abe Seimei said, the name is the only spell .
Even though Yebu has a contractual relationship, what Xueyin hopes to get from Yedou is uniqueness. Because Yedou has existed for more than a hundred years, it is impossible that he has not possessed divine tools before, so he naturally gave names to other souls. Just like the true metaphor at the beginning, but because he disliked Yato for being too poor, he asked Yato to take back the name given to her so that she could find a new owner.
From this, the name of the artifact should be unique, that is, there is only one owner. Only after the previous owner rescinded the contract with himself, can the next owner be found. And if there are artifacts with multiple god-given names on them, they will be spurned and called Nora . Likewise, the god who used Nora as an artifact was despised by other gods. It just so happens that Yato is a god of Arino. This has always been the core of the conflict between Yukine and Yato. (How come the more I write, the more like my girlfriend is entangled in the mess between her current boyfriend and ex-girlfriend =_=)
Because of the only pursuit, Xueyin needs to bear the fear. This kind of fear may not be because of the other party, but because of yourself. It is doubt about oneself, distrust of the other party, and jealousy of not participating in the other party's past. Although this feeling is often used to describe "love", I think that as long as there is attachment to someone, this exclusivity will appear either explicitly or implicitly. In the relationship between Yato and Xueyin, the issue of uniqueness was magnified to be dealt with and became the core of the relationship contradiction .
In the end, the solution to this problem was very simple, that is, in the end, Yato took back the name "Hi" that he had given Nora, and Yukine became Yato's only artifact. At this time, Xueyin was determined to become Yato's "beacon". Although Xueyin had been willing to block the "name" before, that is, the soul to protect Yato, but that kind of confusion would occasionally stick out her claws and scratch it twice, and then be shaken.
But in fact, this solution is very rude, it is very similar to the act of showing loyalty to a boyfriend, similar to deleting ex-girlfriend WeChat? (After all, this manga is indeed very girly "I think") The name is the form, it is very important, but it is not everything. The root of the problem was Yukine, but it was Yato who tried to solve the problem. Quite a move to please the female audience.
In addition, this "uniqueness" in the play is one-way . That is, an artifact can only have one god, but a god can have multiple artifacts. For example, Bishamonten (I like the slutty sister too much, and I have a picture for myself) ^=^ I can't fu suck
The Symbiosis of Hiyori and Yato
Helping each other and getting to know each other, God helps people, but Hiyori on this side "saved" Yedou on the other side.
The first time I saw it, Yato was almost hit by a truck, and Hiyori was in distress to save him. In return, Yato keeps Hiyori alive. However, Ri He's physique changed and he became a half-demon. After he found out, he hoped that Yato would heal his physique, so he had more intersection with Yato. For the first time in modern times, Yato has a recorder of "This Shore". It's like sweetness. After one bite, you will think about the second bite, afraid of losing it. So Yato worries that Hiyori will gradually forget him like everyone else. Therefore, it will appear in front of her frequently, looking for a sense of existence. ( Too girly.... is it necessary...)
have. "out of sight, out of heart." In the second season, when Yato was taken to "Yitou" by "Hi", Hiyori began to slowly forget about Yato. ( md! The part of going to the park was too cruel to bear. But at the end of the second season, it was indicated that it might be the big BOSS.) What impressed me deeply was that when Hiyori saw Yukine, he thought of Yato. Later, when she looked at her diary at Xiaofu's house in the future, she said, "I wrote so many people's things before," but she might still forget it. To forget is to disappear in another sense.
The junction of the symbiosis between Sun and Yato is memory. About the fight against amnesia, love it. In the first season, in order to be able to "compete" for Yato, Nora takes the memory of her and Yato for Hiyori. Not only this episode, but in the confrontation with forgetting, there is always a kind of "tragic hero" behavior , because it is impossible to "don't forget", just like "amnesia", a stubborn immortal, or someone who thinks that the other party should remember him, To say "Who are you?" is always rude.
When I was writing a weekly newspaper, I saw something about the wayback mechanism, and I thought it was a good thing, and it was very important. The First Amnesia of My Life", only then did I understand why memory is important, both for the individual and for the race. Whether it is a Weibo account that will be bombed at any time, or a post bar cleaning, Internet memory may not be as reliable as we think.
But I just switched from handwriting to electronic records. (remember to backup)
Speaking of this episode, as mentioned above, once human beings forget, God will disappear. In the play, Hiyori and Yato's promise is one of the reasons why Yato continues to exist and one of the reasons for his transformation. (Although he didn't meet Hiyori before, he was fine, just not better.)
Another description of memory in the play is Yato's apology to the young Ebisu. Yato said to the "new" Ebisu, "I know the only one Ebisu." God does not die, but God dies After that, it will only be reborn again, but unfortunately the memory will not. The predecessor Ebisu, the Ebisu who fought together with Yato, exists in Yato's memory. (Suddenly thought of watching Kazuo Ishiguro's "Don't Lose, Don't Forget")
The story between the other characters in the play is also very interesting. For example, as a god, can Bishamonten save all the people she wants to save? A balance of responsibility ethics and competence? Well Kaz (forgot his Chinese name :-) ) Is the "concealment" of the truth really "bad"? "Hi"'s feelings for Yato's "common fall", Ebisu's use of demon spirits, etc.
Of course, "Noragami" is not a masterpiece, because the plot is too cute and cheap, and the plot starts to get tired and really girly. There are three ⭐, one of which is specially for the op/soundtrack. But overall not bad.
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