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Agent355
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I liked the contrast between the Underworld and CapyLand in ep 9. Manga readers spoiler[ kind of spoiled for me that the new guy is up to no good, otherwise I would actually route for him.] Fujisaki's cute and he seems to click with Hiyori, although that kiss was a bit premature.
Ebisu was less sinister than I expected, and the fight was fun to watch. Yato and Nora were interesting to watch this ep, too. Nora becoming like a protective stream of water around Yato in addition to a sword was very cool. I barely caught how Nora became a gun for Ebisu, it happened so fast! *She* didn't even remember being Ebisu's gun? And Ebisu seemed to only recall it in the heat of the moment? Strange. Also interesting: how Yato saw Izanami as a (very sexualized) Hiyori, and Ebisu saw her as a matronly restaurateur Gabriella did a great job explaining Japanese Shinto myth in the review. I suspected that Ebisu was actually Izanami's son since he called her "Mother", but I wasn't sure. I did know that Izanami & Izanagi were siblings and they had a bunch of god-kids. |
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mandisaw
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It was crazy-fast - I did a rewind on that one, couldn't figure out wth happened. Pretty sure Ebisu and Nora knew about their connection - they'd feel it, after all. They just chose not to enlighten Yato, to hilarious/nefarious effect. |
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meiam
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So how does controlling the phantom help anyone? Aren't they created from human pain and anguish or something like that? To control them you need to find them and put a mask on them, at that point might as well just kill them, no? Up to now almost all the phantom have been shown to be pretty weak.
Oh and isn't opening a hole out of the underworld a terrible idea? Won't a bunch of nasty stuff just leave into the human world from that hole? |
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lossthief
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We've seen the results of a vent before (in S1 when Kofuku interrupted Yato and Bishamon's fight) and while it's not /good/, it's not exactly world ending, and presumably if they escape with the Locution Brush they could easily corral the escaping Phantoms |
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Gina Szanboti
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That one kind of took me by surprise too, and I can't find reference to it anywhere under any of his bazillion names (can't even find any spider kami!). Maybe he picked it up in Hawai'i. 
But I did find out why Fukurokuju wears a stovepipe hat. 
At any rate, I'm looking forward to seeing if Okuninushi stops spiderampaging and heads into the Underworld. He would be a big help, having been there before... |
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mandisaw
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Awesome episode, good review, but this bit at the end is twisted-around, I think:
Yato shouted the plan for the escape-by-vent - basically if Izanami's sealed all the doors to/from the underwold, they're gonna *make* a door, albeit a temporary one. And Yato & Ebisu were both being sucked "up" into the vent, Wizard of Oz style, but something's gone awry, because they're going in opposite directions by the end.
They're both in pretty crappy shape, and their remaining shinki (Nora & Ebisu's "suit") aren't much better off at this point. Most vents are like tiny surface blowholes, meant to "let off steam" (tea kettle whistle), while I'd assume busting out with half of Hell chasing after you is more *energetic* (Yellowstone). They obviously have "Hero Circle of Protection" working on their side, otherwise they'd be toast by now, but still, they're in it pretty deep.
Phantoms/ayakashi seem to both be "pure" entities of pain, anguish, bad-feelings, as you mention, but also spirits of the dead who were themselves corrupted (like the little girl in S1, and shinki in need of absolution). As I understand it, the brush is awesome because it lets you both control *and* summon phantoms at will, from anywhere, for any purpose. So one could conceivably summon anything from tiny pixie-like servants to earth-shattering eldritch horrors, all with the flick of a calligraphy brush and an imaginative naming scheme. And even the tiny ones can spread fear, mayhem, and chaos via susceptible humans. In the right hands, given enough time & motivation one could summon all the ayakashi and cage them, en masse, "protecting" humanity in perpetuity (a bit like spooning out the Sahara). In the wrong hands, you could start a worldwide chain-reaction, ultimately corrupting the living, dead, and the gods themselves, until nothing was left but phantoms. |
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gedata
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There's 13 episodes for this season, so next week's is the third-last entry. |
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mandisaw
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Not much to say on ep11, since it is all setup, besides, "Welcome to the family, Bishamon & Ebisu"
Bishamon is the only one I can recall who is shown with Divine Garments (shinki whose "weapon form" is armor), but she is always awesome & badass in them I'm not into figure-collecting, and have yet to really find much in the way of Noragami merch, but I could see having a set of differently-outfitted Bishamon figs. They even draw her as fashionably dressed-down in street clothes at a few points. /end-costume-drooling/
And *this* to me, is the real emotional takeaway of the Ebisu arc, for Yato, at least. S1 makes Nora out to be the bad guy / psycho-ex, but she's as much trapped in Father's web of abusive "parenting" as Yato is. She loves Yato so much, it's not hard to imagine that under other circumstances, she'd be his exemplar and not a 'nora'. But if your only model for love is twisted & cruel, then that's all you've got to offer. Yato probably (definitely?) has a lot of complicated, conflicting feelings about Nora, plus that hero-voice that urges him to help people in need. But like a recovering addict who has to leave behind still-addicted friends, he's got to find some way to make peace with the idea that maybe he can't save Nora and still save himself. ------ So we've got two episodes left - any "things I'd like to see happen"? Me, I'd just like them to show Father. Even if we don't get a S3, that alone would make me a happy camper. |
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WashuTakahashi
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Did you forget about Ebisu after a single episode? One of his shinki were his gloves to help him fight, another was his coat, and I think 1 or 2 more were also clothing of a sort. |
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crosswithyou
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Man, if only Saber looked this awesome in a suit of armor.
 (Don't take it the wrong way-- Saber's cool, but Bishamon is awesome.)
So in Japan they didn't air Noragami this week and ep 11 is being aired next week. I wonder if the official stream will be delayed next week since they didn't delay it this week. |
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mandisaw
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Yes, yes I did forget.  Kind of an epic brain fart / memory lapse there. All 3 of the Shinki he had in Yomi were clothes, but the one that made it out is the primary Garment. He looked so sharp (at the beginning) too...
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killjoy_the
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I read it was just one channel delaying the episode, there are MBS raws on trackers, but no MX (I assume these are the channels) |
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crosswithyou
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You're right. I only saw the official tweet stating that it wasn't going to be aired on Tokyo MX, and assumed that it therefore wouldn't be aired on other channels. It did air on MBS as scheduled. So what'll happen with the MX broadcast now? =\ Ep 11 is airing this week which means Tokyo will be an episode behind when usually we get it first. =\ |
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Angel M Cazares
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Don't worry. I think many of us were also under the impression that it was ending this week. |
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myskaros
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1. Massive bonus points for Yato laying on top of Hiyori and no one freaking out about "amg male is on top of female! **SLAP**" Yes, it wasn't the moment, but I can still imagine other less-elegant anime pulling that scene anyway.
2. Bishamon did not come out "unscathed," you still see the wounds from Izanami's hair all over her. |
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