Monthly Archives: February 2021

Set immediately after the events of Noragami, with Hiyori on the cusp of starting high school, this series builds on the tension between Bishamon and Yato while throwing light on Yato’s past hinted at it in the first season. The artwork is brilliant and the character development in the middle and later parts of theContinue reading “Noragami Aragato(2016)”

“The Stray God” depicts how a likeable enough teenage girl Hiyori Iki gets pulled into the low fantasy world filled with gods, their acoytles and phantoms when she tries to rescue a hobo from a bus only to find herself reduced to a semi-phathom state in the presence of Yato. Unusually for a shonen theContinue reading “Noragami(2014)”

Log Horizon II picks up from the beginning of a plot by the mysterious Westlandia Empire against the Free Cities and the Round Table. While the first arc has some solid storytelling, the juniors traveling arc turns out to be a bit too reminiscent of the Journey  arcs in shounen like Naruto. While the plotContinue reading “Log Horizon(2015)”