As an audience, I love every god and every artifact in the story. Because their existence is beyond ordinary people, everyone is kinder and more brave than us. They exist to protect each other and to protect humanity.
Recently, I always find solace in the old fanfic, first "everyone who has seen it says it's good" - "Ping Pong", and then "Noragami" which amazes me.
Noragami is produced by Bone Club, which will never disappoint. The stable and brilliant painting is first of all a highlight, and the night fight at the end of the first season is often selected as a selection of wonderful paintings.
But it's the settings part that fascinates me the most.
The first is the setting of the world view. There are many stories about people and ghosts, such as "Natsume's Book of Friends" and "Firefly Forest", which are melancholy and fresh, and "Dorolo" and "Hell Girl", which focus on karma and reincarnation. It is very difficult to bring forth new ideas, but Noragami can be said to be between the two, showing us a new type of human-god relationship with a strong caring heart.
"The world of gods is as fiercely competitive as the world of humans! Yato, the desolate god who has no shrine to enshrine (company) and lacks incense (capital), because of his personality flaws, his artifact (employees) have changed jobs. Admiring this great dream, he had no choice but to wander between this bank and the other bank, bowing his waist for the five-dollar sesame oil money (five buckets of rice), and accepting various entrustments ranging from slaying demons and demons to repairing the east and the west... A new story of gods that is very close to the real world!"
At the beginning of the story, our frustrated little god, Yato, was chased by demons, and his artifact had just abandoned him to find another job. In front of the demon, Ye Dou didn't show the aura of a god blocking and killing a god or a Buddha blocking and killing a Buddha, because "a god without an artifact is weaker than a demon." If it wasn't for Xueyin who was a human undead by chance, the outcome might have been unpredictable. . As an artifact, Xueyin used to be a human. Humans have many desires, and evil desires will stab the owner of the artifact, and the artifact itself will hardly feel pain.
From this point of view, "God" is the weakest character in this work. They are very dependent on artifacts, are easily damaged by artifacts, and cannot perform abilities without artifacts. The relationship between gods and artifacts has become a fascinating focus of this discussion. It can be said that an artifact is born as a human being, and it is impossible to have no desires, but as long as you indulge your desires a little and cross the "line", you will be bewitched by demons and become demons. First hurt the master, and then hurt yourself. 80% of the first part is about Yato and Xueyin, how they went from being strangers to relying on their lives, and how Xueyin tempered her mind and overcame her desire to become an artifact.
Such a worldview discusses the question of "what is God?" From ancient times to the present, since the birth of mankind, countless beliefs have been born. Every nation and culture has its own gods. Gods are generally considered to be omnipotent and responsive. Even if you cannot get blessings in this world, you will benefit future generations of people in future generations. The gods in this work are born incomplete, and only with the addition of artifacts can they be complete. The birth of the gods stems from people's wishes. There are good and bad wishes, but as long as there is a desire, there is a god. The desire disappears, and the gods are not there. The relationship between faith and God is the second focus of this discussion.
The gods here are not born perfect and powerful, but need to be tempered and perfected by the divine tools. It also requires the beauty of adulthood and the suffering of loneliness. It is necessary to overcome all kinds of desires and to have love for human beings. They cannot fail, and if they fail, they will face life-threatening. They dance on the edge of a knife every day, suffering from the wishes of themselves and others.
As an audience, I love every god and every artifact in the story. Because their existence is beyond ordinary people, everyone is kinder and more brave than us. They exist to protect each other and to protect humanity.
They are phoenixes who have been reborn from the ashes, and their existence has brought the humanistic care of this work to a pure and noble state.
We are so lucky to be protected by them!
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