| 1 | The characters of ''Manga/{{Noragami}}''. |
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| 5 | !Main Characters |
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| 7 | [[folder:Yato/Yaboku]] |
| 8 | !!Yatogami/Yaboku - God of Calamity |
| 9 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/HiroshiKamiya (Japanese), Creator/JasonLiebrecht (English) |
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| 11 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yato_anime.png]] |
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| 13 | The titular stray god and the main protagonist of the series. Yato is a seldom acknowledged god who wishes to raise enough money to build his own shrine, thereby clawing his way into fame and fortune as Japan's most revered. |
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| 15 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: What he views gods as, himself included. |
| 16 | * AbsurdCuttingPower: His Zan (rend) power gives him this, allowing him to cut so precisely that he can separate a person from their memories. It's unknown whether other gods can do it, because it seems to be a specialty of his that other gods have sought his assistance for. It should be noted that this ability is also partially dependent on his shinki. So far he's only been able to use it with Hiki (Nora) and Sekki (Yukine). However, in the anime, Bishamon also used it. |
| 17 | * AdoptivePeerParent: One could argue that him and Hiyori have become this for Yukine, acting as parental figures despite (biologically) being only a few years older than him. |
| 18 | * AfraidOfBlood: While he gets covered in blood too often for this to be true, there's an implication that in the past he's tried some kind of medical profession but couldn't handle the amount of gore involved, which makes him struggle to give Hiyori good advice because she's been pondering becoming a doctor. |
| 19 | * AmbiguousInnocence: When he was a child, Yato didn't understand what was wrong with killing people as he only knew it made his "father" happy. Sakura was the one who taught him the difference between right and wrong and shaped him up into who he is today. |
| 20 | * AntiAntichrist: Yato was created by his "father" to be a god of evil, calamity and disasters that would bring pain and destruction to the world. Yato, for his part, hates the idea, tries to stay away from his "father" and prefers to take jobs to help people in trouble. |
| 21 | * AntiHero: Yato tends to consider himself AboveGoodAndEvil and mostly does whatever is requested of him. He becomes more heroic after the Yomi arc, where he resolves to be like Ebisu and make people happy as a God of Fortune. |
| 22 | * TheAtoner: He tries to atone for his bloody past by taking odd jobs to help people. |
| 23 | * BadassInDistress: Played with. Nora and his father kidnap him and have him return to his old ways for a time, but his life isn't actually in danger since they want to keep him alive, and he realizes that if he just does as he's told for a while, he'll earn back his freedom and return to Yukine and company soon enough. Then he gets trapped in the underworld doing a job for 'father' and a rescue group of his friends need to come after him anyway. |
| 24 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He becomes very attached to Hiyori as she helps him several times and she gives him the emotional support and care nobody had offered him before. Also, she was the first person ever to make a shrine for him. |
| 25 | * {{Beergasm}}: He always enjoys his booze. |
| 26 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Hiyori. She uses wrestling moves on him when his rude and trollish behavior annoy her, yet they can't stop temselves from falling for each other. |
| 27 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: In spite of his goofy, irresponsible, and airheaded exterior, he is still a fully-fledged ''God of War and Calamity''. |
| 28 | * BigBrotherInstinct: His relationship with Yukine tends to flip-flop between this and ParentalSubstitute, with him trying his best to provide for the shinki. (key word being “trying”) |
| 29 | * BigEater: Doesn't come by much food very often, but when he ''does''... |
| 30 | * BigEgoHiddenDepths: Yato is introduced as an arrogant, nameless god with little to no followers who really wants money so he can build himself a shrine. Later on, however, the reason he wants a shrine is painted in a far more sympathetic light when we begin seeing his backstory and it's implied by Yato himself that nobody would ever build a shrine for him, so he wanted to build one himself. |
| 31 | * BigLittleBrother: Yato is technically Nora's younger brother and flashbacks show he originally was smaller than her, but he grew taller and she stayed looking like a little girl. |
| 32 | * BladeEnthusiast: So far, if his shinki don't form a sword, they seem to form knives. Tomone (Mayu) took a form of a dagger as Hanki. [[spoiler: It was also Sakura's form as Ouki.]] |
| 33 | * BookDumb: Subverted. When he takes over Hiyori's body, despite being a social disaster, he easily solves a math question in front of the entire class. In general he repeatedly proves to have a ridiculous amount of generic skills and information stashed in his head as a result of living through many eras. |
| 34 | * BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Underneath his goofy exterior, Yato hides a lot of melancholy and loneliness from hundreds of years of not having anyone who really cares about him. After meeting Hiyori, her kindness and support make Yato finally seek comfort from someone else. |
| 35 | * BumblingDad: He usually acts as the goofy, irresponsible dad that Yukine eventually comes to love, but not exactly respect. |
| 36 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He acts like a goof most of the time, but is good at what he does (severing ties between individuals) and actually has a host of other unrelated talents, like drawing and weaving clothing. |
| 37 | * ButtMonkey: Yato gets paid almost zero respect from anyone. His own shinki just barely tolerate him. |
| 38 | * ByronicHero: He's a charismatic, ambitious, self-centered, arrogant but ultimately good-natured man who is haunted by a dark past which involves him repeatedly committing murder and other dirty work. |
| 39 | * CainAndAbel: The Abel to Nora's Cain. Besides his shinki, she was his sister figure that was raised along with him, but their current relationship is complicated. |
| 40 | * CasualSportsJersey: He wears a tracksuit all of the time, to the point of it being lampshaded by other characters, who snipe at him as if he never washes it. |
| 41 | * CharacterDevelopment: After everything that happened with Ebisu, he finally is able to bring himself to cut his ties to Nora and by proxy his 'father', and is actively trying to reform. |
| 42 | * CharacterTic: His hands apparently get sweaty any time he fights, which his shinki complain about. |
| 43 | * ChildhoodFriends: He has known Nora since he was a child and they were raised together as siblings. |
| 44 | * ChivalrousPervert: He's grown to be highly offended by 'men who take advantage of vulnerable women' and discourages Yukine from having 'filthy thoughts', but Yato himself has a perverted streak, although he has largely confined it to Hiyori. It manifests in things like his side hobby of drawing erotic doujinshi and his fixation with Hiyori's clothing. |
| 45 | * ColorFailure: He comically loses his colors anytime someone disrespects him, which is often. |
| 46 | * CommonalityConnection: Yato adamantly refused to release Yukine even though it nearly killed him because he sympathized with Yukine's sad past, especially because it involved an AbusiveDad, something Yato deeply relates to. |
| 47 | * CooldownHug: He gives a hug to [[spoiler:Hiyori]] in order to stop her transformation into an ayakashi. |
| 48 | * CrazyJealousGuy: After he starts falling for Hiyori he becomes this, but as a comedic example. He casually threatens to use Sekki on any other boy Hiyori might know (calling it "pest control"). |
| 49 | * CreepyBlueEyes: On a bad day, they're outright GlowingEyesOfDoom with HellishPupils. You should start running then. |
| 50 | * CreepyCrossdresser: Yato develops a disturbing hobby of sneaking into Hiyori's closet and putting on her clothes. |
| 51 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He acts silly and easygoing most of the time, but is deadly when serious. |
| 52 | * CuteAndPsycho: As a kid he was, happily murdering people and keeping their ears as "souvenirs" like it was a fun game. Happens when your "father" is a psycho as well. He grew out of it because of Sakura. |
| 53 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He once made a living on wishes for killing people and even killed shinki in the past. Because of this he became infamous among other gods as having once been ruthless and violent. He also seems to be the reason why Nora became a stray in the first place though it's later shown it happened because Yato, as a child, was instructed to name Nora without knowing that she already had a name and what that meant. His first shinki other than Nora, Sakura, [[spoiler: was turned into a monster because of his father's manipulations and he was personally forced to kill her.]] |
| 54 | * DaydreamBeliever: He thinks the Capypa mascots are real animals instead of people in costumes, and he gets so horribly depressed at any indication otherwise that everyone around him feels inclined to keep it that way. |
| 55 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: At the end of the manga, [[spoiler:Yato doesn't get together with Hiyori and makes her forget about him instead, so she can live out her life normally. She does eventually remember him and is happy to see him again, leaving it up to interpretation what comes of their relationship next.]] |
| 56 | * DirtyKid: As a kid, he liked to grope Sakura's breasts and sometimes called her "boobs". |
| 57 | * DisneyDeath: In the manga finale, [[spoiler:Yato applies CPR on Hiyori's dying physical body to resuscitate her, but he starts to vanish in the process due to no longer having Father as his lifeline. The chapter reveals Yato is still alive and well because a photo of his torso crawling on the street went viral on the internet, allowing people to remember him in some way.]] |
| 58 | * DivineDate: He's an [[TheAgeless unaging]], centuries old god who is showing clear signs of falling in love with a mortal human girl. |
| 59 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He greatly dislikes being called Yaboku because that's the name his "father" gave him. He likes to be called Yato way better since Sakura was the first to call him that. |
| 60 | * DualWielding: His shinki, Yukine, eventually changes shape into two swords. |
| 61 | * EnergyBow: In addition for KatanasAreJustBetter function, Kazune/Rekki (Kazuma) can also become this trope by using scabbard as the bow's curve while the sword emits energy blasts that will follow its chosen target's location. |
| 62 | * ExperiencedProtagonist: While he often doesn't act like it, Yato has been alive for centuries and occasionally shows off that he does have the knowledge and wisdom to back it up. In many cases ''he'' has to be the one telling others what's going on. |
| 63 | * FreakOut: |
| 64 | ** Yato when working for his father with Nora, starts freaking out when he wonders how long it's been. Wondering if Hiyori has forgotten him. |
| 65 | ** It's even worse when [[spoiler:Yukine is shoved into a "bell" by Heaven]] and Yato can feel Yukine's terror of the dark and memories returning. |
| 66 | * FriendToAllChildren: Yato has proven to be very good with kids. Aside from becoming a parental figure to Yukine, he forms a similar relationship with the reincarnated Ebisu, and is even an effective babysitter. |
| 67 | * GoalInLife: He aspires to raise enough money to build his own shrine. His true goal is to never be forgotten. |
| 68 | * GodOfEvil: Formerly. To be precise, he was a 'god of calamity', an assassin-god tasked with carrying out evil wishes against others (which usually involved killing a whole lot of people). He prefers to distance himself from that for obvious reasons. |
| 69 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:After he kills Father, Yato's body starts disappearing from the waist down. In a strange turn of events, a photo of him as a living severed torso allows him to draw attention to himself enough to go viral on the internet and leave an impression on people's minds for the following years.]] |
| 70 | * HatesTheirParent: His father is an incredibly evil and sadistic AbusiveParent who treats him as a slave and wants to use him as a tool for carnage. Yato has every reason to hate his father the way he does. |
| 71 | * HellishPupils: His pupils slowly elongate towards cat-like slits when he's having a GlamourFailure. 'Hellish' fits because that usually means he's ''really'' pissed off, and you never want a god mad at you. |
| 72 | * HeroesPreferSwords: His known shinki so far have all been bladed weapons, prominently being Sekki and Hiki who are swords, but three of his former shinki were knives. |
| 73 | * HeroicVow: Once he accepts a job or responsibility, he sees it through and never backs out. [[spoiler: He later promises to stay with Hiyori and make her the happiest girl in the world.]] |
| 74 | * HiddenDepths: Yato is an unexpectedly talented artist, and a dab hand with multiple crafts including weaving and knitting. |
| 75 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: At his base, Yato is a serious and noble god, but he seems most happy when acting like an arrogant, fame-hungry buffoon. |
| 76 | * HitmanWithAHeart: When Nora returns and abducts him to do some jobs for father, it turns out Hiyori's influence has turned him into this, with Yato expressing much more reluctance when killing people. |
| 77 | * HomelessHero: Since he's a god very few know, Yato doesn't have a temple or a house of his own. He usually sleeps in the streets or crashes at Kofuku's place. PlayedWith when he officially gets his own shrine thanks to Hiyori and a plot of land to go with it, but because both are too tiny to actually live on he still stays with Kofuku. |
| 78 | * HotGod: If his fangirls are of any indication. He's a slender, attractive guy with IcyBlueEyes that ''everyone'' considers beautiful, and combine that with past!Yato, and you have a god that has a whole fandom drooling. |
| 79 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Explored. Yato chastises Yukine for bad behavior that he cheerfully engages in himself... because if ''Yato'' himself does it, it won't turn him into an EldritchAbomination. On the other hand, Yato's reluctance to practice what he preaches means that Yukine is not very interested in heeding his warnings, which leads to some pretty big consequences. |
| 80 | ** Yato encourages Yukine to be open with his feelings and tell him anything that's a bother, but Yato has a pretty bad habit of hiding important things on his end, particularly if it has something to do with his past, and ''everyone'' eventually has to call him out on this when the consequences start piling. |
| 81 | ** During a godly matchmaking event, Hiyori's plaque kept getting naturally drawn to people like homeless bums and gamblers. Yato distressedly scolds Hiyori for having such horrible taste... apparently not realizing at all that that also describes ''himself''. |
| 82 | * IcyBlueEyes: One of his most prominent features. His eyes are typically sharp and cool, especially in flashbacks before the events of the series. |
| 83 | * IdiotHero: Despite appearing to be one at first glance, his goofy nature conceals a very serious individual with a DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 84 | * IfIWereARichMan: Yato frequently fantasizes about life as a grossly wealthy god. He would drive around in a limousine, with countless worshippers and a harem of shinki. |
| 85 | * ImmortalImmaturity: He's at least over 400 years old, but Yato is often very playful to the point of annoyance, and isn't above doing silly and childish things such as throwing a tantrum on the floor when Yukine says he doesn't want to go with him to Capypa Land. ZigZagged because on the flipside he has his moments of acting as a more mature, guiding figure with good insights. There's a quite tragic justification for this behavior; Yato has spent the centuries of his life under the control of his AbusiveDad, who is hellbent on never allowing Yato to be independent from him. Other gods and shinki don't care about him and humans forget about him in no time, preventing him from developing emotionally through healthy relationships. While Yato has lived for hundreds of years, he's still an abused and lonely child craving for approval and affection. This explains why he acts like a dependent and attention-seeking kid around Hiyori even though she's centuries younger than him. |
| 86 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: In the beginning he's arrogant, and acts like he's high and mighty. But hides guilt over a horrid past. He grows out of the superiority part when Ebisu is killed. |
| 87 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He enthusiastically takes Hiyori to Capyper Land to cheer her up and have fun with her. What he doesn't know is that last time Hiyori was there, her SacredFirstKiss was taken from her, by Yato's Father none the less. While Yato can tell Hiyori is anxious about something from when they arrive at the amusement park, he keeps being pushy because he can only think about enjoying himself with Hiyori. He only realizes he went too far when Hiyori is about to cry after he forced her to watch the night parade with him, inadvertently triggering her bad memory of his father kissing her. |
| 88 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Literally and superficially. Yato maintains close relationships with many characters on equal ground despite physical and chronologic age differences. For example: |
| 89 | ** He's older than Daikoku, physically looks younger, and yet they both speak to each other about Yukine from parental perspectives. |
| 90 | ** He also has a play on this with Ebisu, where Ebisu is noted to reincarnate frequently and thus is technically 'younger' than Yato but his disposition is more mature and he serves as a healthier father figure to Yato than Yato's actual dad. And Yato quickly takes to befriending Ebisu again when Ebisu dies and is reincarnated as a child. |
| 91 | * InTheNameOfTheMoon: Anime only. |
| 92 | -->''"You, who would desecrate this land of the rising sun! With my advent, I, the God Yato, shall lay waste with the Sekki and expel thy vast defilement!"'' |
| 93 | * InsistentTerminology: He continues to address Mayu as Tomone even after releasing her. |
| 94 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Yato has something of a god-complex and is very self-centered. He expects Yukine to obey his every command and does not pay his opinions any mind. This trait eventually tones down considerably, though Yato still remains rather self-important. |
| 95 | * ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Yato becomes worried that Hiyori will always be in danger if she remains tied to him, and repeatedly considers cutting their ties and wiping her memory so that she can live a normal life. When it becomes clear that isn't something that would make her happy, he settles for self-exiling himself from seeing her. Ironically, it's ''Yato'' rather than Hiyori who gets most distressed by their time apart despite his decision. [[spoiler:After Hiyori is nearly killed by Father and is only revived by a miracle, Yato commits to his decision of not getting Hiyori involved with him anymore so she can live out her life in peace, even letting her forget him until their reunion ten years later.]] |
| 96 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:At the conclusion of the manga, Yato says he'll be satisfied so long as Hiyori has a happy full life as a normal human, even though it still makes him sad that he can't be a part of her life anymore to make that possible.]] |
| 97 | * IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: Hiyori is perplexed when she does an ImagineSpotting of Yato in the 80s wearing denim shorts and roller skates in his pursuit of becoming an IdolSinger. |
| 98 | * JackOfAllTrades: He advertises himself as a "delivery god," but he's basically this. Other than his more standard supernatural duties of slaying malignant spirits, he's also willing and able to do mundane jobs, such as finding a lost pet, fixing plumbing, and manning a cash register. He's also proven to be a pretty good artist and has in the past [[StarvingArtist authored some raunchy doujinshi]] about ''Bishamon'' -- which Kazuma has [[CovertPervert secretly bought and collected]]. It doesn't stop there either, as Yato proves to have a ridiculous amount of obscure skills in his arsenal, including how to make clothes from scratch, down to ''the cloth it's made from''. |
| 99 | * JerkassGods: Played with. Yato used to be a god of calamity, granted any wish made to him, especially the violent ones, but never really enjoyed it, only going along with it because he didn't see any other path than what his father chose for him. During the series Yato frequently states outright that anything a god does, no matter how destructive, is automatically correct, but his actions rarely coincide with his words. |
| 100 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's quite rude, full of himself, and can come off as greedy, but Yato really does want what's best for the people he helps, and cares for his friends. A prime example is Chapter 1, when Tomone/Mayu quits. Yato could have easily ignored her, forcing her to either be a Nora or stay with him. Instead he willing freed her despite being defenseless without her, and her being quite rude to him. |
| 101 | * KillTheOnesYouLove: |
| 102 | ** He was forced to kill [[spoiler:his first own shinki and older sister figure Sakura after she turned into an ayakashi because he revealed her true name.]] |
| 103 | ** Father tries to invoke this trope [[spoiler:between him and Hiyori by pushing her further into Ayakashi territory, but Yato manages to save her by talking her down.]] |
| 104 | * KissOfLife: [[spoiler:In the penultimate chapter, Yato resuscitates a dying Hiyori with CPR, although he almost disappears during the process.]] |
| 105 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: He and Hiyori tend to act like a married couple with Yukine as their surrogate child. |
| 106 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: |
| 107 | ** His relationship with Nora; they were raised together and she was basically his sister as much as she was his shinki. While Yato has shown he has some good memories of being with her, her manipulative personality has made him uncomfortable with her presence and so he actively tries to keep his distance. |
| 108 | ** He had a more genuine version of this with Sakura. She acted as a loving older sister who taught him good things about the world that his "father" wouldn't let him know. Sakura is the first person Yato truly had fun with, and made him start to care for others. |
| 109 | * LoserDeity: Yato is a minor god of calamity who is so hard up for followers that he's reduced to doing odd jobs in order to get by. |
| 110 | * LoveConfessor: In chapter 79, Yato tells a wasted, passed out Kazuma that he's in love with someone who is flat out shown to be Hiyori. |
| 111 | * MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Afraid that Nora may target her if he doesn't, Yato tells Hiyori to stay away from him and blocks all of her calls... and then proceeds to constantly pester her on Website/{{Twitter}}. |
| 112 | -->'''Hiyori:''' Does he want me to bother him or not!? |
| 113 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: With Hiyori. He is a several hundred years old god, while she is a human teenager. |
| 114 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: To horrific levels, and combined with ArrestedForHeroism. How does Heaven respond to his warning about "Father," which he's threatening his very existence to convey? [[spoiler: Summarily convict him of treason, and lock Yukine in a bell forced to experience his worst fears... for eternity. The only form of appeal requires three other gods coming forward and risking their sign-post Shinki in a deadly bet where either that signpost or one of Ameratsu's "sacred shinki" gets beheaded.]] |
| 115 | * NoSympathy: For people [[SuicideIsShameful who give up on life and commit suicide]]. Yato sees them as weak, and wasting a life a shinki would have loved to live. |
| 116 | * OccultBlueEyes: They're way too pale and bright. The show draws attention to them when it wants to underline just how ancient and inhuman he is. |
| 117 | * OddJobGods: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Yato is trying to change away from his past as a god of calamity, and advertising himself as a delivery god seemed like the obvious alternative. |
| 118 | * PapaWolf: Exhibits this more than a few times towards Yukine, refusing to replace him and generally trying to keep him out of harm's way when he isn't in sword mode. |
| 119 | * ParentalSubstitute: Yato, in many ways, grows into being a father figure towards Yukine and often talks of Yukine as being 'his kid' (to Yukine's embarrassment). He flip flops between this and being more like a brother. |
| 120 | * ParryingBullets: He can slice the bullets Bishamon fires at him in half. |
| 121 | * {{Patricide}}: Eventually, Yato resolves that his father is just too evil and dangerous to be allowed to live. With Kazuma's cooperation, Yato sets out to attempt murder his father, even though he might disappear if he succeeds. [[spoiler:In the end, he cuts down his father with the shinki he got from naming Hiyori, and the attack kills him permanently as it severs the spirit cord that allowed him to possess humans.]] |
| 122 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: |
| 123 | ** He lives his life in a cycle. At times, he'll be in public taking any job he can. But other times, he takes jobs from his Father with Nora. Those jobs usually entail this. |
| 124 | ** Yato cutting off Kugaha's hand was very brutal. But Kugaha ''did'' spend an entire arc being an unbearable monster. |
| 125 | * PerpetualPoverty: When you make only 5 yen per job, no matter how big, you're not getting rich anytime soon. Especially not if you keep splurging whenever you ''do'' get a decent amount of cash saved up. |
| 126 | * PetTheDog: |
| 127 | ** Yato coldly states that people who want to quit and die should do just that, but chooses to save a man from committing suicide so that Yukine wouldn't have to see it. |
| 128 | ** Another example is Yukine. When Yukine was still a major jerkass, everyone suggested that Yato disown him. Yato refused out of sympathy from Yukine's memories and the fact if Yukine didn't mature, he would become an ayakashi. |
| 129 | * PhysicalGod: Something he has to constantly remind people. |
| 130 | * PoorCommunicationKills: ZigZagged. Yato from early on values communicating with Yukine to ensure a good master-shinki relationship and serves as a positive foil compared to Bishamon and the well-intentioned but flawed system she has with ''her'' shinki. However, Yato ''completely'' clams up when it comes to anything regarding his past, and his inability to be forthcoming about information regarding his dangerous father eventually starts to have major consequences. It's Bishamon of all people who ends up calling him out on how much grief would have been avoided if he had explained things clearly from the start. Yato is aware of the problem and is ''slowly'' beginning to open up more to his friends, but its clear his past is still a major trauma for him and he admits that he's not quite ready to completely spill all the facts. |
| 131 | * ProfessionalKiller: He's is the supernatural version of this, or used to be as a God Of Calamity. Nora and his Father acted as his controllers who gave him the jobs, and had the habit of occasionally forcing him back into this job now and then, despite his attempts at retirement. |
| 132 | * RazorWind: He is capable of unleashing this while wielding Yukine. |
| 133 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: As a god, he has a long lifespan and has been around for centuries despite appearing to be in his late teens to early twenties. Naturally, his wardrobe has changed a lot to match the times, going from a yukata (pre-meiji era), to a hakama (meiji era), to denim (with roller skates!) (the 80's), and finally to his current tracksuit. |
| 134 | * RedBaron: |
| 135 | ** He is known as the Magatsuhinogami, the god of evil, calamity and disasters. |
| 136 | ** As of Chapter 72, the other gods have started calling him "He Who Rends Heaven". |
| 137 | * SamuraiPonytail: He had this in his past, although it was on the short side. After several arcs his hair seems to have grown and he's started occasionally wearing it like this again. |
| 138 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: He wears a white, slightly ratty one. For some reason. He sports a longer and neater one as Rekki (Kazuma), enough to cover some parts of his face. |
| 139 | * SequentialArtist: Yato has some skill as a doujinshi artist. He once sold ecchi works featuring Bishamon and when he's feeling anxious, Yato makes drawings of Hiyori in the nude. |
| 140 | * ShamelessSelfPromoter: Deconstructed. His desperation for clients is a result of an innate fear of [[CessationOfExistence disappearing]]. He has few believers and thus has a very unstable existence; [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly due to the way gods' existences work]], there's a very low chance he'd reincarnate if he were to die. Advertising himself as a "delivery god" is Yato's way of breaking away from his Father as well as his own past of killing others. |
| 141 | * ShipTease: Mainly with Hiyori. Sometimes with Bishamon in a PlayedForLaughs sort of way, to the in-universe frustrations of Yukine, Hiyori, and Kazuma. Even Bishamon and Yato lampshade it with their own gripes in chapter 62. |
| 142 | --> "You and me both, honey!! This is one ship that will never sail!!" |
| 143 | * ShootTheDog: |
| 144 | ** He is sometimes forced to slay innocent spirits after they are possessed by the ayakashi. He reasons that once a spirit is overcome, destruction is their only salvation. |
| 145 | ** Yato's killing of Bishamon's shinki was also a {{mercy kill}}ing. All of her shinki except for Kazuma were corrupted beyond saving, so his only option was to kill them or let Bishamon die. |
| 146 | ** [[spoiler:Yato's killing of Sakura, his first shinki was this as well.]] |
| 147 | * SiblingsInCrime: With Nora when they were children. They would go "play" by brutally slaying tons of people to keep their "Father" happy. That was until Yato met Sakura and stopped enjoying his "playtime" with Nora. |
| 148 | * SilentScapegoat: Earns Bishamon's wrath and lust for revenge for previously slaughtering majority of her shinki. It's later revealed that Yato did this at Kazuma's request due to Bishamon's shinki becoming corrupted and giving her the blight. |
| 149 | * SinsOfOurFathers: {{Subverted|Trope}}. When Ebisu learns his previous incarnation was set up by Yato's father to be his FallGuy, he doesn't blame it on Yato and assures him the previous Ebisu wouldn't have hated him either. |
| 150 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He's quite arrogant for a poor, mooching god with next to no worshipers. |
| 151 | * SmellsSexy: Hiyori finds Yato's scent very alluring, to her embarrassment. |
| 152 | * SmugSuper: Out of battle, he enjoys boasting about his god-like abilities and is extremely full of himself. |
| 153 | * StalkerWithACrush: Played for laughs, but he becomes this for Hiyori. He sends her text messages about every ten minutes and pesters her on twitter, and if she doesn't respond to those he'll also call her repeatedly. Hiyori has to have him blocked to make it stop. Aside from that, he's also developed some creepier habits like learning every obscure fact about her that he can, breaking into her phone, and sneaking into her room while she's asleep. He's still a sympathetic example to some extent because Yato does this out of fear that Hiyori will forget about him if they lose contact for a long time, which has been proven to be possible. |
| 154 | * StepfordSmiler: His happy-go-lucky, goofy demeanor hides a lot of pain and insecurities. |
| 155 | * StillBelievesInSanta: An extra chapter reveals that Yato, a young and seldom-acknowledged god, still believes in Santa. As it turns out, [[SantasExistenceClause Santa does exist]], and there's more than just one. The Santa that visits Yato and co. is a 32-year-old woman. |
| 156 | * SuicideIsShameful: He has NoSympathy for those who give up on life and are DrivenToSuicide. He sees them as wasting their lives, a Shinki (dead person soul turned into a weapon of god) could only have wished to live. |
| 157 | * SuperGullible: Has a horrible tendency to get swindled out of his meager savings by overpriced fad items and worthless "good luck" charms. |
| 158 | * SupernaturallyYoungParent: Yato is hundreds of years old and frequently portrayed as being a father figure to Yukine, but physically compared to Yukine, Yato only looks a handful of years older. Pointed out once when Yato tells one of his employers that he 'has a kid to take care of' and the response he gets is 'at your age!?'. |
| 159 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Daikoku regards Yato as this, and not without reason seeing as he definitely can’t afford rent. At some point he just accepts that Yato lives with them now, probably either because he can’t make him stay away or because he doesn’t want to force Yukine to have to live on the street with him. |
| 160 | * TearsOfJoy: He becomes overwhelmed when [[spoiler: Hiyori gives him a tiny shrine she made for him in chapter 26.]] |
| 161 | * ThemeNaming: The given names of his shinki all end with 'ne'. [[spoiler:This is most likely [[DeadGuyJunior in the memory of Sakura,]] whose real name was Tamano''ne''.]] |
| 162 | * TranquilFury: He becomes enraged during his fight with Rabou, but he does not lose his composure. |
| 163 | * {{Tykebomb}}: From the day he came into existence, Yato was raised by his evil "father" to slaughter humans indiscriminately. He only started to hate it after he named Sakura and she thought him why murder is wrong. Nowadays, Yato wants to stop being a killer god and become one who helps humans instead, but his "father" is hellbent on forcing Yato to return to his murderous ways. |
| 164 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Some of his antics may veer him in this direction, especially when there isn't a serious conflict going on in the storyline. Yato has a tendency to engage in outrageous behavior that ''really'' gives a feeling of him needing to be put on a leash and given a serious talking-to, particularly the levels his stalking of Hiyori can reach. |
| 165 | * VagueAge: Chronologically, physically, and mentally. We don't have an exact year count for how long Yato has existed, although we know it's been at least a few centuries. Physically, he is a young man in his late teens or early 20's. His mental age has the greatest amount of fluctuation, as he has vast amounts of knowledge and occasionally shows wisdom that reflects how long he's been alive. In other areas though, he's little better than a bratty, vulnerable child. |
| 166 | * VitriolicBestBuds: |
| 167 | ** With Yukine after the latter's CharacterDevelopment. While they keep bickering, fighting and insulting each other, Yukine is clearly his best friend and most reliable ally. |
| 168 | ** Also with Daikoku. Daikoku is constantly insulting him, but he's one of the few real friends Yato had from before meeting Hiyori and Yukine. |
| 169 | ** He slowly develops this relationship with Bishamon after she finds out he killed her shinki to save her life. Despite all their bickering they've come to solidly view each other as allies. Yato on his part specifically starts calling her his drinking buddy. |
| 170 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Yato eventually becomes Yukine's father figure of sorts. While Yato often acts like a total goofball, Yukine is more serious and snarky. |
| 171 | * WellDoneSonGuy: When he was a child, Yato did whatever horrific things his 'father' asked in order to get his praise. In the present day, Yato fully understands the evil sociopath his 'father' is, for which his approval is the last thing he wants. |
| 172 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Once, he and Nora were as close as family. Now, Yato just wants to avoid having to use her and see her as much as possible. |
| 173 | * {{Yandere}}: Shows some traits of this towards Hiyori, although it's always PlayedForLaughs. Among some other creepy stuff, he once cheerfully asks Hiyori to tell him the name of every other guy she knows... so he can do some "pest control". |
| 174 | * YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Angering Yato too much will have him regress to his former days as a God of Calamity, making him much more fierce and powerful in battle. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Hiyori Iki]] |
| 178 | !!Hiyori Iki - Half Ayakashi |
| 179 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English) |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hiyori_iki_anime.png]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | An [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary middle school girl]] who has the unusual ability to see Yato. After nearly dying while saving Yato, Hiyori is left on the border between the human world and the afterlife, with her spirit frequently leaving her body. Hiyori is the daughter of a wealthy family and is a passionate fan of pro-wrestling. As of chapter 25 she's entered high school. |
| 184 | ---- |
| 185 | * AchillesHeel: Hiyori's "tail," which anchors her spirit to the realm of the living. Should it be severed, Hiyori will die. It also causes excruciating pain if it is tugged roughly. |
| 186 | * ActionGirl: Thanks to the enhanced strength her spirit form provides her, Hiyori can put up a decent fight against the monstrous spirits. Eventually it's shown that she's started practicing moves in real life so that she can defend herself even when not in spirit form. |
| 187 | * AdaptationDyeJob: She has brown eyes in the manga, but they're pink in the anime. |
| 188 | * AdoptivePeerParent: She becomes an older sister/mother figure to Yukine who is only 1-2 years younger than her. |
| 189 | * AffectionateNickname: She's called "Hiyorin" by Kofuku. |
| 190 | * AmnesiacLover: {{Subverted|Trope}} in the [[spoiler:last chapter. Hiyori almost dies for real after Father severs the connection between her physical and spirit forms, but Yato resuscitates her through CPR. Afterwards, Hiyori loses her memories of everything related to the Far Shore, including Yato, but he's alright with it because he believes it's best Hiyori lives out her life without being involved with the supernatural anymore. Ten years later, however, Hiyori suddenly remembers Yato on her own and reunites with him.]] |
| 191 | * AnimalMotifs: |
| 192 | ** She represents herself with a little bird because in Japanese hiyo means chick. |
| 193 | ** Her ''Hanyou'' form and some cat-like mannerisms gives her a [[CatGirl cat motif]]. |
| 194 | * AsleepInClass: She often falls asleep in the middle of class and goes to play outside in her spirit form. |
| 195 | * AstralProjection: Her spirit form, essentially. She is completely invisible to humans, and is able to phase through objects like a ghost would, but there are also times when she can interact with her physical environment. |
| 196 | * AudienceSurrogate: As the ordinary girl being introduced to Yato's magical world, Hiyori is meant to be this. |
| 197 | * BaseBreakingCharacter: An interesting in-universe example. After Yato took over her body for a day, half of her school's student body loves her and the other half hates her. |
| 198 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Yato. Hiyori is constantly exasperated by Yato's antics and tends to use wrestling moves to punish him. Their attraction to each other is still obvious. |
| 199 | * BreakTheCutie: Yato's dad nearly did. He used controlled ayakashi to control patients in her father's hospital causing riots with her mom even getting hit in the head and damaging her father's career with Hiyori blaming herself for this. |
| 200 | * BringIt: She says it to Yato's dad. Unfortunately he decided to attack her family instead. |
| 201 | * BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Hiyori's kindness helps Yato face his hidden melancholy and loneliness and he soon starts to seek comfort in her. |
| 202 | * CallingTheOldManOut: She gloriously tells off Yato's "father" for abusing, enslaving, and sabotaging Yato. [[DisproportionateRetribution He responds by going after her family hospital, using an Ayakashi Storm to set off riots inside her father's hospital.]] |
| 203 | * CallingYourAttacks: She likes to announce the names of wrestling moves as she uses them. |
| 204 | * CannotSpitItOut: She downright refuses to admit she likes Yato as more than a friend. |
| 205 | * CatGirl: Her spirit form has a cat tail and she has some cat-like mannerisms. |
| 206 | * ChekhovsHobby: Hiyori mentions that she is a huge fan of pro-wrestling, so naturally she knows how to pull off some insane fighting moves. |
| 207 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: She throws herself in front of an oncoming bus to "save" Yato, a complete stranger to her, and insists on helping with every case Yato gets. |
| 208 | * ClingyJealousGirl: A mild example, she was not happy when Yato called Kofuku his "girlfriend". As well as gaining demon eyes when Yato sort of kissed Bishamon. |
| 209 | * CoolBigSis: She acts as a nice and caring older sister figure to Yukine, such as helping him study. |
| 210 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Hiyori asks Yato for future career advice because of her lack of knowing what to do, she rejects his suggestion that she become a professional fighter because 'it's too late for her to become number 1 in the world'. |
| 211 | * CovertPervert: Apparently has a book with pictures of naked wrestling men hidden under her bed. She does not appreciate that Yato knows about this. |
| 212 | * CuteBruiser: In her spirit form, Hiyori gains a lot of strength and can kick some serious ass. |
| 213 | * CuteMonsterGirl: She's basically a hanyou (half-ayakashi[=/=]{{youkai}} (basically what the English version calls "phantom") and refered to as such), and many found her [[spoiler:transformation into a full ayakashi]] very cute, some even found her sexy. |
| 214 | * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Hiyori reveals she is unsure of what she wants to do. While she doesn't ''mind'' becoming a doctor and her parents aren't putting any pressure for her to become one either, she remains uncertain if its a career she's truly interested in. [[spoiler:She later resolves to become a doctor to fix her family name damaged by Yato's father's actions]]. |
| 215 | * {{Determinator}}: If Yato or Yukine are in trouble, she will go to any lengths to save them, no questions asked. |
| 216 | * DevotedToYou: She eventually becomes the object of adoration to Yato, which (although PlayedForLaughs) can reach StalkerWithACrush levels. |
| 217 | * DisneyDeath: In the manga finale, [[spoiler:Father rips off her spirit form's tail, which should kill her for real, but Yato makes her into a shinki to save her soul. By applying CPR on her physical body, Yato manages to revive Hiyori.]] |
| 218 | * DivineDate: She's a mortal human girl who is showing signs of being in love with the god Yato. |
| 219 | * EasyAmnesia: In episode 12, she regains her lost memories of Yato and Yukine by smelling Yato. |
| 220 | * EducationMama: She gives private lessons to Yukine and makes sure he takes his education very seriously, even though he's, you know, dead and studying won't do anything for him. |
| 221 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: ''Everyone'' knows about her feelings for Yato. |
| 222 | * FanGirl: Of pro-wrestling. Her favorite wrestler is Touno and she [[LikeAGodToMe worships him like a god]]. |
| 223 | * FireForgedFriends: With Yato and Yukine. At first, she only follows them around so Yato could cure her spirit problem, but over time, she comes to care for both of them like family, and the three risk their lives for each other repeatedly. |
| 224 | * GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair this way when she's not at school. |
| 225 | * GirlyBruiser: A very girly and cute young lady who is also a surprisingly strong wrestler in her spirit form. |
| 226 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's quite feminine, but is also a huge fan of pro-wrestling and MMA. |
| 227 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Half-ayakashi/phantom, or as the gods in-series call her, hanyou, when outside her body in her tailed form. |
| 228 | * HasAType: Despite her denials, Hiyori seems to have a thing for worthless people. In chapter 58 when the gods were matchmaking humans together, her plaque would repeatedly get tied to people who turned out to be homeless hobos or gambling addicts. Curiously, as Yukine notices, [[ShipTease they all had a trait of Yato's.]] |
| 229 | * TheHeart: She acts as this for the main characters trying to defuse the harsh situations between them. |
| 230 | * HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: She claims Yato is just her friend to her brother, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt he was not fooled]]. |
| 231 | * TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:As one last final "fuck you" to Yato, "Father" draws Hiyori's spirit into his "Nation" and proceeds to sever her anchor to her body, killing her. He then tries to turn her into an Ayakashi with the Kota No Ha to punish Yato even further, only failing due to Yato tackling her away from him and quickly proceeding to name her ''himself'', turning her into his Shinki "Shirone".]] |
| 232 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Passing out at random and constantly being beset upon by monstrous ayakashi is not something Hiyori is terribly fond of. |
| 233 | * IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:After "Father" severs her anchor to her body, Yato is forced to turn her into a Shinki to save her spirit, naming her "Shirone". Doing so however means that all her memories as a human have been sealed away, Yato seeing them flash before his eyes as her iteration of "God's Greatest Secret".]] |
| 234 | * InASingleBound: Her jumping power is greatly increased in her spirit form. |
| 235 | * ItsAllMyFault: Hiyori blamed herself for [[spoiler:Yato's father attacking her families' hospital when she told him she would face him]]. |
| 236 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: |
| 237 | ** In the anime, Nora takes away her memories of Yato and later her memory continues to fade so she forgets Yukine. She manages to recover them. |
| 238 | ** In the manga she starts to forget about Yato due to not seeing him for a while due to how the far side works, it isn't till she sees Yukine again that she fully remembers. |
| 239 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: She and Yato tend to act like a married couple with Yukine as their surrogate child. |
| 240 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: She treats Yukine like a younger brother and he eventually comes to view Hiyori as an older sister figure he cares about a lot. |
| 241 | * LikeParentLikeSpouse: Or like sibling like spouse, in this case. Yukine notes that Yato and Hiyori's brother are very similar; they're both worthless, carefree guys who talk without thinking and don't want to be what their parents expect from them. |
| 242 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Yato becomes so dependent on Hiyori's emotional support that his two-month-long self-exile away from her nearly drives him insane, with his erratic behavior extending to ''wearing her old school uniform for comfort''. |
| 243 | * LoveEpiphany: In chapter 78, she realizes she's in love with Yato due to Kazuma interfering with her search for him and giving her a harsh warning that gods can never reciprocate love with humans. |
| 244 | * LustObject: |
| 245 | ** Yukine tends to have perverted thoughts about Hiyori, to Yato's dismay since shinki's impure thoughts bring pain to their master. After his CharacterDevelopment, he stops lusting after Hiyori and starts thinking of her as a sister figure. |
| 246 | ** Yato, hypocritically considering his attitude towards Yukine, seems to have directed all of his romantic and sexual energy onto Hiyori in some (if unconventional) way, like drawing nude pictures of her and buying her clothes and underwear. |
| 247 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: With Yato. She is a human teenager and he is a several hundred years old god. Yato's father berates Hiyori for making Yato rely on her when she'll die long before him. |
| 248 | * MistakenForProstitute: Because of Yato promoting himself in an indecent way when possessing Hiyori's body, the guys at Hiyori's school have the wrong idea of the kind of requests they can ask of her. |
| 249 | * NiceGirl: She's very kind and gentle, immediately trying to befriend Yukine during his initial confusion as Yato's shinki. |
| 250 | * NoAccountingForTaste: Yato seems to think so. To his dismay, every person Hiyori's matchmaking plaque at the Kamuhakari matchmaking event got tied to were people who were gambling addicts, homeless or easily tricked. Yukine noticed [[ShipTease there was a pattern]]. |
| 251 | * TheNoseKnows: She can track the scents of Gods while in her spirit form. |
| 252 | * ObliviousToLove: She does not seem to notice Yukine's crush on her, and treats him like a younger brother. Also seems to be unaware of the "effect" she seems to have on Yato in later chapters. |
| 253 | * {{Ojou}}: She comes from a well-off family of doctors. |
| 254 | * OrdinaryMiddleSchoolStudent: Just a normal middle school girl who one day encounters a god on the street and becomes a human-spirit hybrid after getting run over by a car to save him. |
| 255 | * PensieveFlashback: Hiyori somehow manages to slip into and view Yato's memories about his first shinki other than Nora, Sakura, and learn that a god inherits the human memories of their shinki, which they are forbidden to reveal lest their shinki go insane. |
| 256 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: When Yato is about to be forced to cut his ties with Hiyori, she begs him to not do it because she doesn't want to part ways with him. Hiyori's plea is more than enough to prevent Tato from cutting their ties, even if Hiyori will be in danger because of it. |
| 257 | * SacredFirstKiss: Her first kiss was stolen by Yato's "father". She didn't take it well. |
| 258 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: Anytime her spirit leaves her body, it is left asleep. Her spirit also leaves at random times, potentially leaving her collapsed right in public. |
| 259 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her mother and maternal grandmother possess the ability to sense the presence of beings from the Far Shore. Hiyori inherits this ability, as does her brother but it's more potent -- being able to actually ''see'' gods and shinki. |
| 260 | * SuperStrength: Only while in her spirit form. She displays strength and agility similar to Yato's. |
| 261 | * SupportingProtagonist: The story is told through Hiyori's perspective, though the tale is really Yato's. |
| 262 | * TeamMom: She acts as the loving and supporting, yet stern mother of the little "family" formed by her, Yato and Yukine. |
| 263 | * TraumaButton: Capyper Land, especially the night parade, becomes this for her because that was the place Yato's father stole her SacredFirstKiss. To make it worse, Yato, who knows nothing about it, tries to cheer her up by taking her to Capyper Land and Hiyori spends the entire day being reminded of her bad experience there. |
| 264 | * {{Tsundere}}: Sweet type. As sweet-tempered as she is, Hiyori has little patience to Yato fooling around and acting like a creepy stalker around her, frequently punishing him with wrestling moves. She also feels too embarrassed to admit the obvious fact that she's falling for Yato and can get violent with him to not think about it. |
| 265 | * UptownGirl: Her family is more than well-off, while Yato makes only 5 yen per job and usually has to sleep at the street. |
| 266 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Ayakashi are naturally drawn to her spirit form, wishing to corrupt her exposed soul. |
| 267 | * WistfulAmnesia: After being separated from Yato for a long time, Hiyori starts to lose her memories of him and Yukine. Hiyori can still sense she's forgetting about someone really important to her and it pains her that she can't remember who it was no matter how hard she tries. She can only remember everything until she meets Yukine again. |
| 268 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: She likes to mimic the special moves of her wrestling hero, Touno. |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Yukine]] |
| 273 | !!Yukine - Hafuri Vessel |
| 274 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/YuukiKaji (Japanese), Creator/MicahSolusod (English) |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yukine_anime.png]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | A young boy spirit who is enlisted as Yato's newest shinki (Divine Weapon). His weapon form is an odachi with a blade as white as snow dubbed Sekki. After becoming a Hafuri Vessel (Blessed Regalia), his weapon form has changed into a pair of katanas. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | * AbandonmentInducedAnimosity: [[spoiler: When Yato abandons Yukine for Kazune and goes out with him on what is essentially a murder-suicide mission, Yukine is ''beyond'' pissed and winds up letting himself be named by Father, becoming a Nora.]] |
| 281 | * AbsurdCuttingPower: His blade form is ridiculously sharp; sometimes cutting things that were in ''the general direction'' of Yato's swings. This sharpness can only be tempered by experience on the shinki's part. |
| 282 | * AdaptationalBadass: The team's confrontation with the Gods over Ebisu is much longer in the anime, [[spoiler: Yato has Yukine cut ''through'' the Gods' FantasticNuke, quartering their [[InstantRunes magic circle]] and scattering the clouds in the process!]] |
| 283 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: His initial {{Jerkass}} behaviour is slightly toned down in the anime. For example, he does not steal from Hiyori in the anime like he does in the manga. |
| 284 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: The adorable part starts to show more post-CharacterDevelopment when his dorkiness becomes more evident, like getting overly excited at making his first friend. |
| 285 | * AffectionateNickname: Kofuku calls him Yukki. |
| 286 | * {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler:After Yato's father makes him remember his dark past and turns into a Nora, Yukine becomes a half-ayakashi and gains the ability to transform into a large wolf-like beast.]] |
| 287 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: For most of the part, he acts like a troublesome and disrespectful younger brother to Yato. |
| 288 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's the youngest member of the main trio with Yato and Hiyori looking after him like he was their child. |
| 289 | * BadassAdorable: Thanks to Kazuma's training, he becomes an even more powerful shinki than Nora. |
| 290 | * BadLiar: "I found it..." |
| 291 | * BarrierWarrior: Like all shinki, Yukine is capable of putting up a "borderline" barrier that ayakashi spirits cannot pass through. |
| 292 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With [[spoiler:Nora.]] As they hang out together, Yukine realizes [[spoiler:Nora has the same envy Yukine used to have towards the living.]] |
| 293 | * BodyHorror: When Yukine sins so much that he begins shifting into an ayakashi, his back sprouts a mass of demonic eyeballs and he gradually becomes more monstrous-looking. |
| 294 | * BrattyHalfPint: He starts out as this, being an extremely rude, disrespectful troublemaker that abuses his abilities to steal and bring Yato trouble. He thankfully gets better thanks to CharacterDevelopment. |
| 295 | * BreakUpMakeUpScenario: After Yato begins using Nora again, Yukine becomes upset with Yato, but the two eventually make up. |
| 296 | * BrutalHonesty: He tends to say whatever's on his mind, usually to Yato's exasperation. |
| 297 | * BuriedAlive: It is revealed that [[spoiler:his death came about as a result of his father locking him up inside a refrigerator and leaving it buried in the snow deep in the mountains. Small wonder he's claustrophobic.]] |
| 298 | * CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: After Bishamon [[DisneyDeath kills him in his weapon form, he revives]] and evolves into twin blades due to his loyalty to Yato.]] |
| 299 | * CharacterDevelopment: When we first met Yukine, he was a total brat. He regularly stole and was just unpleasant to be around. After his punishment, he reformed. Although still quite mouthy, he cared for Hiyori and Yato. He worked to repay all that he stole, as well as becoming very loyal to Yato, [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to save Yato without a second thought]]. |
| 300 | * CharacterTic: Despite his name, Yukine gets cold and shivers rather easily. |
| 301 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: He can't handle enclosed spaces, especially if they're dark, having a FreakOut if left alone in one for very long. [[spoiler:Considering he died after being BuriedAlive, this is very much justified.]] |
| 302 | * ConflictBall: [[InvokedTrope Weaponized.]] [[spoiler:As Hagusa, he's capable of inciting conflict by making anyone he exerts his influence on be compelled against "injustice". While he sees this as humanity's natural inclination towards righteousness and willingness to judge the wicked, both "Father" and Yato independently conclude that it's more accurately just creating discord by compelling people to lash out at each other over what is considered "wrong", regardless of whether they would do so normally.]] |
| 303 | * CowardlyLion: He is intimidated by powerful adversaries like Bishamon, but fights to the best of his ability, regardless. |
| 304 | * CrazyJealousGuy: In a non-romantic way for Yato. He is always annoyed when it looks like Yato likes Nora better than him being more in line of a child wanting more attention from their parent. |
| 305 | * CrushBlush: He is attracted to Hiyori and blushes whenever she touches him. |
| 306 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: It's implied and eventually confirmed that his home life before dying was ''not'' particularly pleasant. [[spoiler:Born Tajima Haruki, he lived with his father, mother, and older sister. However, his father was an AlcoholicParent who abused his family. His sister, Yuka, tired of their father's abuse and their mother's subservience of him, tricked her mother into signing divorce papers thinking she too was just trying to protect herself. Their father however, realizing Yuka tricked his wife, forced Yuka and Haruki to split apart, Haruki remaining with him while their mother took Yuka. Haruki continued to be a victim of his father's physical abuse, and despite the siblings constantly trying to write letters too each other and Haruki's desire to escape, their mother intercepted the letters and gave Haruki's to their fathers to save her own ass, leaving the two to think neither cared about the other anymore. One day, his father confronted Haruki with the letters and beat him half to death in a rage. Thinking he actually killed Haruki, his father dumped his body in a fridge and abandoned it in the mountains, when in reality Haruki was not only still alive, but ''awake'', meaning he was left to suffocate to death and incapable of saving himself.]] |
| 307 | * DeadpanSnarker: He always seems to have a smart remark ready, usually at Yato's expense. |
| 308 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Yato, since Yato has doubts about his ability to change from a God of Calamity. |
| 309 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: At his core, Yukine is just a neglected kid who is in desperate need of a good parent who can make him feel safe and loved. |
| 310 | * EquippableAlly: He can shift into a sword form. |
| 311 | * EtTuBrute: |
| 312 | ** He feels betrayed by Kazuma after the latter casts a spell on him that forces him to reveal the information he knows about the Sorcerer. From then on, Yukine can only think of Kazuma as his enemy. |
| 313 | ** Later on, Yukine accuses Yato of betraying him for [[spoiler:going behind his back and making Kazuma into a Nora to kill the Sorcerer. Since Yato supposedly will die if the Sorcerer who created him dies, Yukihine interprets this as Yato trying to commit suicide and abandon him. Yukine is so enraged by this that he turns into an ayakashi and lets the Sorcerer name him.]] |
| 314 | * FirstFriend: Quite unexpectedly, Yukine ends up becoming the first person who shows Nora genuine friendship after her father apparently abandons her and Yukine decides to keep her company. |
| 315 | * FreudianExcuse: A lot of his initial {{Jerkass}} behavior [[spoiler:and eventual betrayal of Yato by joining the Sorcerer]] have a lot more sense after you know he had a very difficult and unhappy life involving an [[AbusiveParents abusive]] AlcoholicParent before he became Yato's Shinki. |
| 316 | * GhostAmnesia: He can't remember his past life before dying. Good thing considering what happens if he manages to remember it... |
| 317 | * TheGift: Yukine is said to have an exceptional talent as a shinki. He evolved into a Blessed Regalia after just a couple of months of serving Yato, even though it's supposed to be incredibly rare for shinki to achieve that. Kazuma, who has been a shinki for centuries, recognizes Yukine is near to surpassing him in power after less than a year of being Yato's shinki. |
| 318 | * GreenEyedMonster: A non-romantic example. He is not happy that Yato has a Nora and constantly compares himself to her. [[spoiler:Eventually, discovering that Yato made Kazuma into his Nora makes Yukine think Yato is replacing him. Yukine is so enraged by this that he seriously betrays Yato by letting the Sorcerer turn him into his Nora.]] |
| 319 | * HappilyAdopted: One could say that Yato and Hiyori are Yukine's surrogate parents due to his age and immaturity. With Yato himself calling Yukine his kid multiple time and with Hiyori acting like an EducationMama at times. From what we learn about Yukine's biological family later on, it's safe to say Yato and Hiyori have taken better care of Yukine and made him happier than his biological parents ever did. |
| 320 | * HatesBeingAlone: Yukine is ''terrified'' of being left alone. [[spoiler:It's a subconscious reaction to his evil father abandoning him to die in a refrigerator.]] |
| 321 | * HeelRealization: The point of being "punished," and Yukine does realize that his actions have hurt not only him, but Yato, Hiyori and everyone around him as well. |
| 322 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: His perverted thoughts about Hiyori tend to bring Yato pain. After he understands that not controlling his sexual urges means nothing but trouble for him and Yato, he quits it. [[spoiler:Nora kissing him has brought this back full force, though.]] |
| 323 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Despite Yato's many warnings and seeing what Yato's "father" did by attacking Hiyori's family's reputation, Yukine falls right into the manipulations of "Father", turns his back on Yato and Hiyori after everything they did to take care of him and goes so far as to be convinced "Father" is the only one who won't abandon him and is really kind to him, when "Father" obviously sees him as nothing but a strong weapon. |
| 324 | * HumanWeapon: He encounters this problem with Yato, who at times treats Yukine as nothing more than a weapon for his use. |
| 325 | * HyperCompetentSidekick: Yukine becomes one Post-CharacterDevelopment, as Yato is too incompetent to make money and handle himself without someone watching out for him. It becomes a RunningGag that Yato spends all of the money Yukine works to get on useless and frivolous trinkets. |
| 326 | * IHaveManyNames: Like all shinki, he possesses a name for his human form (Yukine) and his transformed form (Sekki). [[spoiler:After being taken in by "Father" however, he willingly becomes a Nora and renounces his old one, his new human name being "Hagusa", and his transformed state being "Yuuki". And then there's the name he had when alive: Tajima Haruki.]] |
| 327 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: He envies the living, wishing he could do normal things like go to school or play with friends. While he tries to move past this after he causes Yato to suffer the blight, [[spoiler:"Father" exploits this by making him question who he was before dying, slowly driving him to join "Father" so as to learn his past and the life he lost.]] |
| 328 | * ImmortalImmaturity: An unfortunate consequence of having died at age fourteen. He’s more than old enough to understand that he’s dead, but his brain lacks the emotional maturity needed to cope with that (and Yato isn’t much help initially, due to also being this trope), and he can’t really grow up in the psychological sense. As a result, he acts out and abuses his invisibility, reasoning that he can do what he wants since he’s dead and it doesn’t matter. Once the consequences pile up and he’s forced to go through an ablution, he sees the error in this. |
| 329 | ** And of course, he’s completely emotionally dependent on Yato, the closest thing he has to a parent, [[spoiler: so once Yato departs on a suicide mission to kill the Sorcerer, Yukine loses his ''mind''.]] |
| 330 | * InvisibleJerkass: He abuses being undetectable by humans to steal for his own benefit. He gets over with though. |
| 331 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Post-CharacterDevelopment. He still can be snarky and abrasive, but he's a really good guy who would readily sacrifice himself for his friends. |
| 332 | * KidSidekick: To Yato. He's his shinki while still being a kid in his early teens. This causes trouble due to Yukine's hormones and rebellious nature corrupting both of them until Yukine is forced to mature. |
| 333 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Hiyori. They form a close sibling-like relationship after his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 334 | * LittleBitBeastly: [[spoiler:After being taken in by "Father", he begins slowly taking on a more bestial form due to turning into an Ayakashi, initially stopping and reverting when given a new name, only to start transforming again whenever he gets worked up.]] |
| 335 | * LoveRevelationEpiphany: PlayedWith. Out of nowhere, Nora kisses Yukine and claims to love him. Yukine develops a crush on her, although knowing Nora, she was only toying with him. She later admits that she really hates him for being Yato's true Shinki, but Yukine still has feelings for her and decides to take care of her after The Sorcerer abandons her. [[spoiler:Even then though, she admits to somewhat BecomingTheMask after staying with him for a bit, and joins Hiyori in trying to save him.]] |
| 336 | * MeaningfulName: His name means "sound of snow," and his original spirit form resembled a tiny snowflake. It helps since Yato found him on a snowy night. |
| 337 | * TheMillstone: Yukine's delinquent behavior and emotional instability make him risky to have as a shinki early on and he almost gets Yato killed by nearly turning into an ayakashi. He does improve and tries to be a better shinki who can properly help and guide Yato. |
| 338 | * MoralityPet: Quite unexpectedly, he becomes this to [[spoiler:Nora]] of all people. [[spoiler:After she's seemingly thrown away by "Father", Nora has no option but to go to Yukine for help and he agrees as he can't bring himself to leave her alone. Yukine then befriends Nora as he watches over her in secret and she grows to honestly appreciate Yukine showing her kindness. After "Father" takes Yukine away, Nora realizes she did something terrible by helping "Father" corrupt Yukine and agrees to help Hiyori so they can save Yukine.]] |
| 339 | * MouthyKid: He doesn't pull his punches when it comes to expressing how pathetic he thinks Yato is. |
| 340 | * {{Mukokuseki}}: Yukine is a (presumably) Japanese kid with blonde hair and amber eyes. |
| 341 | * NamedWeapons: His weapon name is "Sekki." |
| 342 | * NobleWolf: [[spoiler:After "Father" decides to create a "Nation" out of the Far Shore and tries to strangle Yato to death, Yukine pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment and knocks "Father" aside, albeit now in the form of an ayakashi but with full control over his mental faculties. Contrasting his time as Hagusa, where he was a case of SavageWolves and colored black, his ayakashi form is now a ''white'' wolf and, aside from having EyesWhereTheyDoNotBelong still, a lot more noble and majestic in appearance.]] |
| 343 | * NumberTwo: Since he's Yato's only active shinki, Yukine is, by default, Yato's Guidepost: his most trusted aide. |
| 344 | * OddFriendship: Later in the manga, he develops an unusual friendship with Nora, coming to believe she isn't as bad as she makes herself out to be. |
| 345 | * OlderThanHeLooks: He was fourteen when he died, but he looks a bit younger due to being a little short. This leads to Hiyori's horror when she realizes that she invited someone close to her age to sleep in the same bed as her. There's a dark [[JustifiedTrope justification]]; [[spoiler:Yukine didn't grow up as he should because of the abuse and neglect of his AlcoholicParent. And even then, he's actually ''older'' than Hiyori, namely due to not having died recently like she suspected, but over 35 years ago.]] |
| 346 | * PaintItBlack: His blond hair turns black as [[spoiler:he starts letting himself be corrupted by Yato's "father".]] |
| 347 | * PlaguedByNightmares: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Yukine is having recurring nightmares due to the PTSD resulting from him regaining the memories of his human death, but he still has Yato at his side to comfort him.]] |
| 348 | * PowerTattoo: After being contracted, Yukine bears the kanji for "snow" on his collarbone. |
| 349 | * PrecociousCrush: He has one on Hiyori, at first. However, his feelings were based mostly on lust and sexual urges and once he starts to mature, he gets over his crush on Hiyori, coming to see her as an older sister/mother figure instead. |
| 350 | * PrimalFear: He is terrified of the dark. He sleeps with a desk lamp on and a table on its side between him and Yato to block the light on Yato's side of the room. [[spoiler: Yato must have noticed his fear due of his God's Greatest Secret.]] |
| 351 | * QuestForIdentity: After the Sorcerer deliberately triggers Yukine's interest in how he died, Yukine starts obsessively looking up into his identity to find out who he was before his death. Yukine hopes to discover his life as a human was a happy one and that he still has parents who miss him somewhere, but Yato knows that's unfortunately not the case. [[spoiler:"Father" uses this to tempt him into joining his side and turning on Yato, planning on driving Yukine, now Hagusa, to the very brink with how crappy his life really was, so that he'll have no choice but to rely only on him.]] |
| 352 | * RageAgainstTheMentor: [[spoiler:Yukine does NOT react well to Kazuma attempting to force him to spill what he knows about Father.]] |
| 353 | * ReformedCriminal: When starting as Yato's shinki, Yukine takes advantage of being almost InvisibleToNormals to repeatedly steal money and material goods from people, even from Hiyori (only in the manga). His crimes go so far that Yukine very nearly transforms into an ayakashi and almost kills Yato. He undergoes a purification ritual and, with the moral support of Yato and Hiyori, Yukine swears to stop stealing. Soon after, he starts working at Kofuku's store to earn the money to pay back what he stole. |
| 354 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:As Yato's "father" continues to poison Yukine's mind by making him remember how awful his life and death were, Yukine starts losing it and goes along with "Father"'s plan to make him kill his living family for abandoning him and killing him. It gets to the point that while attacking Yato, he doesn't see him ''as'' Yato, but instead as his father, and is confused when "Father" asks him where he fought Yato.]] |
| 355 | * SarcasticDevotee: He becomes this to Yato after his CharacterDevelopment. Yukine still likes to make fun of him and insult him, but he truly becomes extremely loyal to Yato to the point he won't hesitate to sacrifice himself for him. |
| 356 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He does not like hurting others, and has stated repeatedly that he does not want to fight Yato's battles. |
| 357 | * SkilledButNaive: Yukine is actually a really powerful shinki, but his lack of experience and immaturity makes it difficult to Yato to bring out his true potential. |
| 358 | * SourSupporter: Yukine initially dislikes the fact that Yato essentially forced him into servitude, though they eventually come to accept one another. |
| 359 | * StickyFingers: He developed into an opportunistic thief early on, swiping money from people if given the chance. He later outgrows this. |
| 360 | ** [[spoiler: This bad habit actually has very dark roots: as a human, it’s shown that his father would demand money from him and encourage him to steal in order to provide said money.]] |
| 361 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: A young shinki with amber eyes. |
| 362 | * {{Synchronization}}: As Yato's shinki, the two are connected on a spiritual level. Also, anytime Yukine performs a sin of any kind, Yato feels a sharp, stabbing sensation which gradually corrupts his soul and will kill him if unaddressed. |
| 363 | * TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: He repays Hiyori letting him reside in her home by stealing from her wallet and trying to grope her when she lets him sleep in her bed. |
| 364 | * TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:During the fight with Bishamon, she knocks him out of Yato's hands, but he “jumps” in front of him at the last second to take the blow, which ends up shattering him in two. Thankfully, this act of devotion is what saves his life, allowing him to become a Hafuri Vessel.]] |
| 365 | * TearsOfRemorse: As he confesses to all of his crimes during his "punishment." |
| 366 | * TeensAreMonsters: Deconstructed, as Yukine's spiral down illustrates what it takes for a confused youth to commit heinous acts. It helps since he died and still can communicate in a world where everyone and anyone will forget him. |
| 367 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yukine's animosity with Yato affects how effective he is in combat. The more frustrated Yukine is, the more dull his blade is. |
| 368 | * TemporarilyAVillain: [[spoiler:After he catches Yato using Kazuma to attempt to kill the Sorcerer, Yukine becomes furious because Yato is basically trying to sever his lifeline and leave Yukine behind. Yukine ends up becoming an ayakashi and in his desperation, accepts to let the Sorcerer to make him into his Nora. He stays an antagonist for most of the final arc, but after a fight with Yato, the two reconcile and join forces to fight the Sorcerer one last time.]] |
| 369 | * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:He is one of the few shinki to change shape. The only other one known is Kazuma.]] |
| 370 | * TookALevelInKindness: His bratty and rebellious behavior cause Yato to be stained and almost die. After his punishment and purification, Yukine is much nicer and forms a friendlier relationship with Yato after understanding how much he cares for him. |
| 371 | * TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After Suzuha died, he continued to tend to the Sakura tree that Suzuha used to.]] |
| 372 | * TragicVillain: Most of Yukine's faults can be traced back to one thing: that mentally he's still a scared child that just wants to live. He's so desperate to have a life and envious of the living for seemingly wasting their own that he ends up lashing out, unknowingly blighting Yato in the process. [[spoiler:"Father" turning him into Hagusa just takes it up a notch. He's finally learning the life he once had but lost was not a happy one, and that seemingly none of his family bothered to mourn his disappearance, unaware his sister Yuka had always hoped he was still alive. "Father's" machinations in turn slowly drive him more and more insane, to the point he attacks Yato in a frenzy while seeing him as his abusive father, and wants nothing more than to find said abusive father and ''kill'' him, hoping it will finally free him from his torment and give him answers. Yukine/Hagusa is ultimately just a scared kid lashing out against the world for the injustices it's done to him, something "Father" is all too happy to exploit so as to hurt Yato.]] |
| 373 | * {{Tritagonist}}: Of the three main characters, Yukine tends to have a support role when the narrative focuses on Yato or Hiyori. When he has the leading part in the narrative, it tends to focus on his struggles with being a shinki yet still having human desires, desires that unintentionally hurt Yato via the blight. |
| 374 | * {{Tsundere}}: He eventually becomes fond of Yato, but he doesn't like to show it and keeps his abrasive attitude towards him. Lampshaded by Yato in Chapter 45. |
| 375 | * UndyingLoyalty: Eventually becomes very devoted to both Yato and Hiyori. This is shown the best when [[spoiler:his shinki form evolves]] as a proof of his absolute loyalty to his master. |
| 376 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Yato after his CharacterDevelopment. They argue and fight like a pair of brothers, but there's no doubt Yukine is Yato's best friend. |
| 377 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: Develops this ability in the epilogue, where he gains the ability to shift in and out of his ayakashi form, which is that of a large wolf.]] |
| 378 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Yukine is far more serious and snarky than Yato, who eventually becomes Yukine's father figure of sorts. |
| 379 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: After becoming friends with another shinki, he feels this. And like Yato, he is scared that one day Hiyori will grow up and forget him. |
| 380 | [[/folder]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | !Tenjin and his Shinki |
| 383 | [[folder:Tenjin]] |
| 384 | !!Tenjin - God of Academics |
| 385 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ToruOkawa (Japanese), Sean Hennigan (English) |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tenjin_anime.png]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | The famous God of Academics. He is often sought out, or appears before Hiyori and Yukine when his wisdom is needed. |
| 390 | ---- |
| 391 | * TheCasanova: He's quite the womanizer despite his age. |
| 392 | * ChickMagnet: Believe it or not. He can literally have high school girls fawning over him after speaking with them for less than five minutes. |
| 393 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: Tenjin is the deified spirit of a government official named Sugawara no Michizane. In his human life, he was demoted because of the plot of a rival and died in exile. He originally was a VengefulGhost, spreading plague and death in the human world until the humans began worshipping him as a god to appease his rage. |
| 394 | * {{Foil}}: To Yato. Tenjin is essentially everything that Yato wants to be: beloved throughout Japan, with several successful shrines, and living the good life. Unlike Yato, Tenjin is calm and mature, rather than brash and foolhardy. He is well-respected and takes care of several shinki, whereas Yato can just barely handle Yukine. Tenjin is also a lot less merciful when it comes to handling shinki that act out of line. Yato, on the other hand, nearly died because he refused to turn his back on Yukine. |
| 395 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Although Tenjin is a very kind and honest god, he sets stern rules for himself and his shinki. One of them being that if a shinki betrays him, they are not given a second chance and are cast out. He also doesn't offer sympathy to stray shinki. |
| 396 | * GoodLuckCharm: Tenjin himself is one, bringing good fortune to those who pray to him in all things academic related. |
| 397 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In spite of his wise old master demeanor, he looks down on Yato and isn't above manipulating him, though he's still a decent fellow underneath it, and doesn't hate Yato like Bishamon does. |
| 398 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Due to the unfairness he suffered in his human life, Tenjin came to hate humanity and even after becoming a god, he still caused death and destruction in the human world. He has calmed down nowadays, but Tenjin stills holds contempt and distrust towards humans, which is why he has a plum spirit as his guidepost instead of a shinki. |
| 399 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his sage-like disposition, he loves to flaunt his wisdom and impress school girls. |
| 400 | * SharpDressedMan: When he's not wearing his god's clothes, he's dressed as this. |
| 401 | * ShippingTorpedo: He actively opposes to Yato and Hiyori having a close relationship and repeatedly demands them to cut their ties. He actually has a very good reason for this since Hiyori is a normal teenage girl with a future ahead of her and Tenjin is worried that getting too involved with Yato will get her wrapped up with the Far Shore and she could even die as a result. |
| 402 | * ThemeNaming: The given names of his shinki all end with 'yu.' |
| 403 | * WouldHitAGirl: In OVA 2, he beats the ever living crap out of both Bishamon and Yato after they call him a loser. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Tomone/Mayu]] |
| 407 | !! Tomone (Former)/Mayu - Shinki |
| 408 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/AsamiImai (Japanese), Creator/LeahClark (English) |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mayu_noragami_56796.jpg]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | Yato's former shinki, Mayu left him after feeling he was doing a poor job of being a god. She currently serves the academic god, Tenjin. While serving Yato she was "Tomone", but has since discarded this name after being released. Her weapon form under Yato's servitude was a dagger. Under Tenjin her form is a kiseru smoking pipe. |
| 413 | ---- |
| 414 | * BrutalHonesty: She doesn't sugarcoat her words when describing her former relationship with Yato. |
| 415 | * CoolBigSis: Towards Yukine, and most young people in general. |
| 416 | * DoNotCallMePaul: For justified reasons, Mayu dislikes the fact Yato insists on continuing to call her "Tomone" after he released her. Referring to her as "Tomone" would imply she still served under him, and as she is not a Nora, it comes across as an insult. |
| 417 | * DyingDeclarationOfHate: {{Subverted|Trope}}. For most of her life, Mayu's daughter was haunted by the memory of her mother telling her to "go" before she died in a fire, as she believed her mother was telling her to go away because caring for a child during a war was too hard for her. Thanks to Yato, Mayu's daughter finally understands her mother was telling her to live a long life for both of them. This was LostInTranslation because the verbs used for "go" and "live" are homophones in Japanese. |
| 418 | * HappilyMarried: In her former life before dying, although she does not remember it. |
| 419 | * HeroicSacrifice: When she was a human she was able to save her daughter's life from a raging fire at the cost of her own. |
| 420 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mayu gets into spats with Yato easily and scorns his impoverished state, but when Yato comes seriously close to dying, Mayu is one of the only people who comes forward to help him and she does so without hesitation, even though doing so puts her at risk. |
| 421 | * LastRequest: Before she died in a fire, she asked her daughter Kiyoko to live a long life on her behalf. |
| 422 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her bickering with Yato is perceived as this by Hiyori. |
| 423 | * LineInTheSand: When Daikoku asked for help to save Yato and Yukine, Mayu was the only one of Tenjin's shinki to step forward. |
| 424 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Demands Yato end his contract with her, unable to stand working with him. This left Yato weaponless until he met Yukine. |
| 425 | * SupernaturallyYoungParent: At one point, she meets her daughter Kiyoko who she has no memory of due to forgetting her human life. Since Mayu died during World War II, her daughter is an old woman while Mayu still looks like the young woman she was at the time of her death. |
| 426 | [[/folder]] |
| 427 | |
| 428 | [[folder:Tsuyu]] |
| 429 | !!Tsuyu - Tree Spirit |
| 430 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Creator/JamieMarchi (English) |
| 431 | |
| 432 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsuyuu_noragami_57316_9.jpg]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | Tsuyu is the spirit of a plum tree who has lived with Tenjin for 1,000 years. She is not a shinki, but rather stays with Tenjin out of a lasting love. |
| 435 | ---- |
| 436 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After Yato's side wins the "covenant" against Heaven, Tsuyu is resurrected]]. |
| 437 | * BodyguardCrush: She has served as a protector to her beloved Tenjin's shrine through the centuries they have spent together. |
| 438 | * CoolBigSis: She seemed to have gotten along very well with Sakura, and when she was troubled Tsuyu advised her. |
| 439 | * EternalLove: Has loved Tenjin for a really long, ''long'', time. |
| 440 | * FacialMarkings: She has a red mark resembling a plum blossom located on the middle of her forehead. |
| 441 | * HimeCut: The ideal hairstyle to match her {{miko}} attire. |
| 442 | * MarkOfTheSupernatural: Her eyes eyes are purple to show her nature as a tree spirit. |
| 443 | * MeaningfulName: The kanji characters of her name are comprised of the words 梅 - "plum", and 雨 - "rain". |
| 444 | * NatureSpirit: Instead of a shinki of a human soul, she's the spirit of a plum tree. |
| 445 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Gets beheaded by Amaterasu, during the "covenant" ritual.]] |
| 446 | * PlantPerson: Being the spirit of a plum tree she can communicate with other trees or plants. |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:The Tenjin Sisters]] |
| 450 | !!Moyu, Miyu (Former), Nayu, and Ayu - Shinki |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/temjinnomiko.png]] |
| 453 | |
| 454 | A group of miko who are actually his shinki. Initially four in number, they were reduced to three after one of them, Miyu, succumbs to an aftershock caused by Yukine's corruption, forcing her to undergo an ablution, be stripped of her name, and be banished from Tenjin's shrine. |
| 455 | ---- |
| 456 | * DespairEventHorizon: As a result of Yukine's corruption, Miyu suffers an aftershock and is DrivenToSuicide, blighting Tenjin in the process. Despite being put through an ablution and repenting, Tenjin still strips her of her name and banishes her. |
| 457 | * GirlishPigtails: Moyu has these. |
| 458 | * GossipyHens: They often gossip. |
| 459 | * HiddenDepths: They all have their stories. |
| 460 | * {{Miko}}: They all dress like this and care for Tenjin's shrine. |
| 461 | * PutOnABus: As a result of crossing the DespairEventHorizon and accidentally blighting Tenjin, Miyu is stripped of her name and banished from Tenjin's shrine. |
| 462 | * SamuraiPonytail: Ayu her hair like this. |
| 463 | * ThoseTwoGirls: The four of them were often seen together, until Miyu was banished. |
| 464 | * UndyingLoyalty: Towards Tenjin to the point they would let Yato and Yukine ''die''. |
| 465 | [[/folder]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | !Kofuku and her Shinki |
| 468 | |
| 469 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 470 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: Kofuku and Daikoku are both very good people, but due to being the Poverty God and her shinki, their abilities are basically to spread chaos and misfortune everywhere they go. |
| 471 | * BetaCouple: While not perfect, Kofuku and Daikoku act like a relatively happy married couple and they sure have it easier than Yato and Hiyori. |
| 472 | * CommonLawMarriage: Kofuku and Daikoku have been living together like a couple for centuries and spent several years taking care of a shinki child until they had to give him away. It's {{justified|trope}} since even if they wanted to legally marry, they really can't because they aren't human, but they're happy to be together nonetheless. |
| 473 | * EternalLove: Kofuku and Daikoku are as happy to be together as they were when they first met centuries ago. The only downside is that they can't raise a family when they never grow old. |
| 474 | * OppositesAttract: Whereas Kofuku is a GenkiGirl PersonOfMassDestruction, Daikoku is the OnlySaneMan and often has to keep her in line so she doesn't bring bad luck. Despite this, the two care for each other to point of basically being a CommonLawMarriage. |
| 475 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kofuku is the happy-go-lucky and carefree girl to contrast Daikoku's serious and grounded guy. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Kofuku]] |
| 479 | !!Kofuku - God of Poverty |
| 480 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/AkiToyosaki (Japanese), Creator/AlexisTipton (English) |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kofuku_anime.png]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | The bubbly and energetic, but naturally irresponsible God of Poverty. Though she goes by the name Ebisu, a famous God of Fortune, Kofuku just uses the moniker to conceal her status as a poverty god. |
| 485 | ---- |
| 486 | * AffectionateNickname: Kofuku (Little Luck) is later revealed to be a nickname given to her by Daikoku, since he found the name Binbougami (Goddess of Misfortune) to be too harsh. |
| 487 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a Poverty God, Kofuku has always been hated and scorned by humanity. Gods also try to avoid her because her bad luck can also affect them. The heavens also forbidden her to have a shinki, so Kofuku was all alone until she met Daikoku. |
| 488 | * TheAlmightyDollar: Inverted, since she's a god of poverty and misfortune. She was actually the one responsible for causing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades the Lost Decade]] to start by literally bursting the economic bubble. |
| 489 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: She caused the Lost Decade of Japan by literally bursting the economic bubble when she was partying with Kokki. Ebisu was ''pissed''. |
| 490 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: It can be hard to take Kofuku seriously with how childish she behaves most of the time. No one should forget she's the God of Poverty and she has the power to send the entire country into ruin if she wanted. When she hears someone wants to hurt one of her friends, she threats to use her bad luck against them, even if they're a major deity. |
| 491 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her thought process is rather odd, often disregarding consequences when making decisions. |
| 492 | * CuddleBug: Kofuku loves to get touchy-feely, especially with Hiyori. |
| 493 | * CuteLittleFangs: Occasionally visible. A reference to her immaturity. |
| 494 | * DeathSeeker: While not actively suicidal, its been repeatedly mentioned that Kofuku seems to have little regard for her own life. She knows that one of Daikoku's deepest desires was to have gotten the chance to be a father, and she regrets not being able to properly give him that. Therefore, she feels that her dying wouldn't be so bad because then Daikoku will get the chance to raise her reincarnation as a daughter. |
| 495 | * TheDitz: She isn't really smart and her own shinki calls her a helpless idiot. |
| 496 | * DudeMagnet: She can easily seduce guys. |
| 497 | * FirstNameBasis: Prefers to be called Kofuku rather than by titles. |
| 498 | * TheGadfly: She has a tendency of bring up subjects just to annoy her friends. Even sending Hiyori a photo of Yato kinda kissing Bishamon just to annoy her. |
| 499 | * GenkiGirl: She typically behaves in a child-like manner, and is energetic and playful. |
| 500 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: Binbougami was traditionally depicted as wizened old man. In this manga, Binbougami is a cute pink-haired girl. |
| 501 | * HotGoddess: She's very attractive and can easily seduce unwitting humans. |
| 502 | * IdiotHair: She always has one curly strand sticking up. |
| 503 | * ImmortalImmaturity: She is a goddess and Yato says she is way older than she appears, but Kofuku acts like an immature child that can't take care of herself and usually needs her shinki to babysit her. It's implied [[InvokedTrope she acts like this on purpose]] to be like the child Daikoku wants, but can never have. |
| 504 | * TheJinx: As a God of Poverty, Kofuku spreads bad luck onto anyone she meets. |
| 505 | * LadyLuck: She is a god of misfortune. |
| 506 | * LoveAtFirstSight: The moment she first saw Daikoku she thought he was really hot and made him her shinki. |
| 507 | * TheMillstone: While Kofuku is good friends with Yato's group, she's much more of an inconvenience than an ally because having the God of Poverty on your side is obviously not a good thing. They can't count on her for battle because she will unleash ayakashi for enemies and allies alike and even if she tries to help for little things, she will make everything worse. |
| 508 | * NiceGirl: By fair one of the most selfless individuals in the series. She lets Yato and Yukine crash at her residence for much of the manga and anime for starters. |
| 509 | * TheNicknamer: She calls Hiyori "Hiyorin", Yukine "Yukki", Bishamon "Bisha", etc. |
| 510 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Kofuku [[{{TheGlomp}} Glomps]] Hiyori only seconds after meeting her and likes to get uncomfortably close to people. |
| 511 | * NotQuiteTheRightThing: She tried to grant Daikoku's wish to have a family by bringing in a child Shinki so they could raise him together. While it went well at first, it went downhill as Daigo was too young to understand he's dead, won't ever grow up, and can't interact with the living. Not having the heart to explain any of that to Daigo caused Daikoku to almost turn into an ayakashi and Kofuku nearly died from the resulting Blight. Daikoku had to ask Yato to cut his bonds with Daigo to save himself and Kofuku. |
| 512 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Kofuku isn't quite as oblivious as she seems, and is actually capable of being serious when she wants to be. |
| 513 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Bishamon visits Kofuku, and asks if she knows where to find Yato and her history with him. Kofuku calmly says, that what happened between Bishamon and Yato is none of her business. She also threatens Bishamon by saying that she better watch her back if she even ''thinks'' about killing Yato. Even Daikoku was shocked by this serious threat himself. |
| 514 | --> '''Bishamon:''' I assume you're aware of my history with Yato. |
| 515 | --> '''Kofuku:''' Yep. '''But...''' it's none of my business, now is it? If anything happens to Yatty, '''I be ready for a serious storm if I were you.''' |
| 516 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Officially, Kofuku has no proper name, only being referred to as ''Binbougami'' due to her nature as a God of Poverty. Daikoku however began calling her Kofuku as an AffectionateNickname, and the name stuck for her and those close to her like Yato and Bishamon. |
| 517 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Her ability to summon hordes of ayakashi makes her extremely dangerous. The damage summoning gloom causes is enough that she can threaten Bishamon with it. |
| 518 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Her outfit is predominantly pink, and Kofuku is fittingly very girly. |
| 519 | * PowerIncontinence: Fittingly for a god of poverty and bad luck, she's extremely powerful, but has very little control over that power, and thus she tends to refrain from getting herself involved in combat situations unless its absolutely necessary. |
| 520 | * RoseHairedSweetie: A classic example, her hair being as sweet and bright and she is. |
| 521 | * ShipperOnDeck: A [=YatoXHiyori=] fangirl. She ties their plaques together during the matchmaking sessions for the gods. However, one must remember Kofuku is the God of Poverty and Daikoku was trying to stop Kofuku from playing matchmaker because any couple she puts together will be doomed to tragedy and unhappiness. |
| 522 | * ThemeNaming: All her shinki starts with "Dai". This is unusual, since all of the other god's shinki's clan names have been put at the end of their first name. It's possible this is in reference to the fact her own name also has a syllable most commonly used as a name-end suffix, "ko", at the front of her name. |
| 523 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the past, she took in a shinki child so Daikoku could be a father. This nearly caused Daikoku to turn into an ayakashi after he couldn't endure raising a child who didn't understand he was dead. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Daikoku]] |
| 527 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese), Creator/IanSinclair (English) |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daikoku_anime.png]] |
| 530 | |
| 531 | Kofuku's intimidating, but loyal shinki. His weapon form is an elaborate looking foldable hand fan. |
| 532 | ---- |
| 533 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Kofuku's. He frequently has to keep her out of trouble, or from causing trouble. |
| 534 | * CombatHandFan: His weapon form. |
| 535 | * CoolShades: He wears black sunglasses while in his "formal" attire. |
| 536 | * CrazyJealousGuy: A comedic example, he is noticeably annoyed if any male talks to Kofuku. He acts like her husband and even thinks of Yato as an adulterer, due to his "relationship" with Kofuku. |
| 537 | * EnemySummoner: His fan form is capable of creating gloom that summons swarms of ayakashi. A dangerous ability in the hands of someone as irresponsible as Kofuku. |
| 538 | * EquippableAlly: He can shift into a hand fan. |
| 539 | * FaceOfAThug: He's actually a decent guy when you get to know him, but he can be intimidating when he wants to be. |
| 540 | * FriendToAllChildren: Daikoku apparently has a soft spot for children, though everyone [[MistakenForPedophile makes him out to be a pedophile]]. |
| 541 | * IronicName: Daikoku’s name is derived from the Shinto god named Daikokuten, the god of wealth and one of the Seven Lucky Gods. Daikoku is the shinki of the Goddess of Poverty. |
| 542 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He might be rough, but is very reasonable, and despite what he says, he really does care about Yato. A good example is when Kazuma stays over as [[spoiler:Bishamon exiled him]], Daikoku threatens to hurt him, if Kazuma doesn't ... eat his fill. |
| 543 | * LawOfInverseFertility: Daikoku desires to be a father, but is unable to produce children as a shinki. |
| 544 | * MeaningfulName: In later chapters, we find out that he's named after Daikoku, one of the Seven Lucky Gods. This helps in her pretending to be Ebisu, as Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired together. |
| 545 | * MistakenForPedophile: Everyone makes him out to be a pedophile due to his fondness of children. |
| 546 | * OneHeadTaller: He tops Kofuku's height by a full head. |
| 547 | * ParentingTheHusband: A gender-reversed example with Kofuku. They are not actually married, but Daikoku is basically Kofuku's husband. However, her childish and ditzy attitude results in Daikoku also acting as her babysitter. It's implied Kofuku [[InvokedTrope does it on purpose]] to let Daikoku act like the father he always wanted to be. |
| 548 | * RealMenWearPink: Daikoku can be very intimidating but he wears a light pink shirt and does the majority of the housework such as cooking, cleaning, and gardening. |
| 549 | * RestrainingBolt: He tries to keep Kofuku from running amok and causing poverty. |
| 550 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: He curtly denies being Kofuku's husband when Hiyori asks about their relationship, despite it essentially being like this in nature. It's implied he only says this out of respect of Kofuku being his master, and because they aren't ''literally'' married. |
| 551 | * SmokingIsCool: Likes to unwind with a cigarette, and can pull off frightening faces with one in his mouth. |
| 552 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Daikoku means "Great Blackness," a reference to his ability of summoning gloom. |
| 553 | * TearsOfJoy: He gave big ones when Yato, Yukine and Hiyori return form Bishamon alive. |
| 554 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Kofuku, of course. |
| 555 | * VitriolicBestBuds: His relationship with Yato; he regularly insults Yato but honestly cares about him. |
| 556 | * WillfullyWeak: Daikoku doesn't want to be a blessed regalia like Kazuma [[spoiler:or Yukine]], because he fears that Kofuku getting even stronger would probably destroy the country. |
| 557 | [[/folder]] |
| 558 | |
| 559 | !Bishamon and her Shinki |
| 560 | [[folder:Bishamonten/Vaisravana]] |
| 561 | !!Bishamonten/Vaisravana - God of Fortune/War |
| 562 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Creator/ElizabethMaxwell (English) |
| 563 | |
| 564 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bishamon_anime.png]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | A [[WarGod God of War]], among which she is considered the most powerful. She holds a personal vendetta against Yato for killing her shinki in the past. |
| 567 | ---- |
| 568 | * AdaptationalSkimpiness: Her clothing/shinki armor in the anime is much skimpier than in the manga: the jacket cut much higher and open to expose more of her stomach, and her skirt much shorter. She's actually quite covered in the manga, at least if they were ordinary clothes and not ''armor''. |
| 569 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is platinum blonde in the manga, but the anime depicts her as a blonde. |
| 570 | * AffectionateNickname: Kazuma calls her "Veena", coming from Vaisravana, when they're in private. Bishamon was the one who asked him to come up with a pet name for her after hearing Daikoku call his goddess 'Kofuku'. |
| 571 | * BadassInANiceSuit: What she normally wears, when not using any of her shinki. It has become her default attire ever since she tried to get her life back on track after reconciling with Yato. |
| 572 | * BathingBeauty: Originally due her large number of shinki, she bathed in herbs to keep up her strength, after the death of the Ha clan she stopped doing this. |
| 573 | * BattleBallgown: She has a shinki that acts as powerful armor and a long, fancy skirt. |
| 574 | * TheBeastmaster: One of her shinki, Kuraha, takes the form of a lion. In the past she had a giant eagle and tiger, as well. |
| 575 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Kazuma. |
| 576 | * TheBerserker: In her second fight with Yato, she is so overcome with rage she loses any reason and just attacks him. |
| 577 | * {{BFS}}: A shinki of hers, Yugiha, is the size of the Buster Sword. |
| 578 | * BrokenBird: Losing her former shinki clan to Yato left her in quite a poor mental spot. |
| 579 | * ChainmailBikini: Tsuguha in her vessel form doesn't exactly cover much. Yato lampshades the ridiculousness of wearing what is effectively a bulletproof bikini and jacket. |
| 580 | * CharacterDevelopment: A major part of Bishamon's character arc is taking responsibility for her actions. She pushes herself into a corner by taking on more shinki than she can handle, and cannot bring herself to disown them despite the danger. When the 'Ma' clan was wiped out, she blamed Yato, and did not acknowledge her own failing. When she learns of Kugaha's betrayal, Bishamon finally accepts her responsibility. She maturely takes away the names of her shinki to protect them, exiles Kugaha peacefully, and the shinki that she couldn't protect are mercy killed, this time by her personally. |
| 581 | ** She also gradually re-evaluates her relationship with Yato, eliminating much of the petty vindictiveness which characterized interactions between both of them. Well, aside from [[SitcomArchNemesis comedic purposes anyway]]. |
| 582 | ** She even begins acknowledging her old FatalFlaw, namely the PoorCommunicationKills trap she fell into in the past and tries to go out of her way in avoiding it and trying to warn those around her away from it. |
| 583 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Deconstructed. Bishamon feels the need to save every single spirit she comes across and turns them into a Shinki, despite already bearing the burden of many. She does this as a way to cope with the death of her past shinki clan. The problem is that while Bishamon has the resources to give them all a nice home, the large numbers she acquires causes her to neglect the importance of looking after their emotional well-being as well, since its difficult to give them all individual attention. Eventually, Bishamon's shinki become corrupted through heartache and in-fighting, and this nearly results in her death. |
| 584 | * ConvenientComa: She ends up in a coma after she almost gets killed by Sekki splitting the Heavens during her failed attempt to take down the Sorcerer. [[spoiler:She finally awakens after Yukine joins "Father" and Kazuma willingly becomes a Nora to help Yato kill him.]] |
| 585 | * DarkIsNotEvil: {{Lampshaded}} by Bishamon herself when she points out the {{Stripperiffic}} she wears when using Nana makes her look like a bad guy. While she is breaking the laws of Heaven by using a shinki that tried to kill Amaterasu, Bishamon's only goal for using Nana is killing the evil Sorcerer. |
| 586 | * {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. In her second fight with Yato, she is even more corrupted than Yato was when Yukine was being punished, but continued to fight. However, that continued fight led to nothing but pain for her Shinki, made her oblivious to the slaughter of the rest of her clan at the hands of the Masked Ayakashi (she kept blaming Yato), as well as blind to Kugaha's manipulations. She still doesn't give up until Kazuma nearly sacrifices himself, forcing her to realize how much her pushing through has caused harm to the very people she wanted to save. |
| 587 | * DressedLikeADominatrix: Her normal attire in combat made of her shinki consists of an open coat that exposes her bra, a mini skirt, belt and gun holster, and long boots. One of her shinki even turns into [[WhipOfDominance a whip]] she carries in her belt. |
| 588 | * DumbMuscle: Has 'muscles for brains' according to an omake. While calling her ''dumb'' might be a stretch, perhaps fittingly for a God of War, she seems most comfortable in combat situations and struggles more in areas that require logic or sociability. |
| 589 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Skank, from Yato. To make it worse, Yato told the newly reincarnated Ebisu that is Bishamon's real name and only calls her that. |
| 590 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While she still has some residual annoyance with Yato, she's very unhappy with Kazuma when he tries to go and coerce information about Yato's dad from [[spoiler: Yukine using a spell]] and chews him out for it. She points out that while she understands he was doing it because he wanted to protect her, they don't have the luxury of causing a rift with someone who has now become an ally. |
| 591 | * FatalFlaw: Rage. Father exploits this when she finally meets him, goading her into creating a situation where Heaven will try to kill her rather than him. In episode 7, Kazuma calls her out on this because she acted out on a personal level. |
| 592 | * GunsAkimbo: She has a pair of shinki twins that transform into guns. |
| 593 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Aside from her grudge against Yato, she is very kind. [[spoiler:Fully becomes this when she lets it go.]] |
| 594 | * HellishPupils: Like Yato, has striking eyes with pupils that elongate to slits and appear to glow when she gets angry or ready to pick a fight. |
| 595 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Stated to be this among other gods following [[spoiler: the Kugaha incident and later Tsuguha's death due to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation her regaining her human memories]], something gods are expected to never allow to happen. Later she is seen as Heaven's enemy due to releasing a Hafuri Vessel that turned against Heaven to kill Yato's father]]. |
| 596 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: Bishamonten is traditionally depicted as a male in Japanese lore. In this manga, Bishamon is a very attractive HotGoddess. |
| 597 | * HotGoddess: She's one sexy WarGoddess, and the manga loves to remind you of it. |
| 598 | * {{Hypocrite}} She wants revenge on Yato for killing all of her shinki from the “ma” clan, but when she shatters Yukine during her fight with Yato, she’s rather uncaring and remorseless about the fact that she may have killed an innocent, thinking it’s simply a PayEvilUntoEvil situation. |
| 599 | * InSeriesNickname: Most simply call her Bishamon for simplicity rather than her full name. However, some characters have their own nicknames for her. |
| 600 | ** Yato often called her ''Skank'' for quite some time, primarily due to the {{Stripperific}} outfit she wore when using Tsuguha. |
| 601 | ** Kofuku calls her ''Bisha'' as a pet nickname. |
| 602 | ** Kazuma oft calls her ''Veena'', though only when they're in private. |
| 603 | * IneffectualLoner: To deal with the Sorcerer, Bishamon pushes her allies away and acts solo in order to protect her shinki from the God's Secret. Her actions result in her releasing a criminal Hafuri that once almost murdered Amaterasu, which marks Bishamon as a high traitor in the eyes of Heaven. |
| 604 | * ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After the Sorcerer destroys Tsuguha's name and transforms her into an ayakashi, Bishamon shuts herself off from her shinki out of fear the same will happen to them. This is especially harsh for Kazuma who wants to be helpful to her and is frustrated that she's pushing even him away, unaware that she's doing it so he doesn't remember his past. |
| 605 | * JeanneDArchetype: Aiha in her vessel form provides Bishamon a BattleBallgown that would not look out of place in an illustration of the famous French saint and warrior. |
| 606 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Intimidating and incredibly unpleasant if you're on her shit list, Bishamon is also one of the most honorable characters in the show and willing to learn from her mistakes when called out regarding them. Not to mention the large number of shinki she's taken in over the years who are devoted to her. |
| 607 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When she puts two and two together about Yato's Dad, her anger is less about spite and more about how Yato's horrific case of PoorCommunicationKills led to so much grief which could have been avoided. |
| 608 | * MamaBear: Deconstructed. Bishamon treasures her shinki like they were her family and if you kill even one of them, Bishamon will want you dead. However, her motherly protectiveness repeatedly leads Bishamon to act irrationally and recklessly, which is used against her more than once. After Yato killed the corrupted Ma clan, Bishamon spent centuries trying to kill Yato to avenge her shinki even though deep down she knew Yato saved her life. This almost lead to her demise when Kugaha planned to get her replaced by having her fight Yato to death. Later, Tsuguha turns into an ayakashi and is killed by Kazuma because The Sorcerer made her remember her death. To avenge her shinki, Bishamon turns into a criminal in the eyes of the Heavens by naming a forbidden Hafuri that attempted to assassinate Amaterasu. |
| 609 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler: She euthanizes her shinki that were corrupted thanks to Kugaha.]] |
| 610 | * AMotherToHerMen: She takes in helpless spirits as her shinki, even if they have no combat use. She provides for and protects them, even though having many shinki overtaxes her own soul since they were made by her own life. Even when her shinki of the 'Ma' clan corrupted to an assimilated ayakashi, she still begged Yato not to kill them, calling them good children. |
| 611 | * MsFanservice: Her normal outfit consists of an open coat that exposes her bra, and a mini skirt. She also has a lot of bath scenes in the manga. |
| 612 | * MysticalWhiteHair: In the manga, she has this. |
| 613 | * NeverMyFault: Since Bishamon insists on recruiting more Regalia than she could possibly handle, when it reached the point that they became corrupted, the only solution was to kill them. Deep down, Bishamon does know Yato saved her life by killing the Ma clan when they turned into an ayakashi. However, she still didn't want to accept her precious shinki were corrupted because of her own mistakes. Bishamon eventually admits that without Yato to project her anger onto, she'd be left with no one else to blame but herself. |
| 614 | * ParentsAsPeople: Bishamon does love every single one of her shinki as if they were her children, but the problem is that she can't stop herself from taking in more of them than she can handle. Most of her shinki end up feeling neglected by Bishamon and cope with it by suppressing their negative emotions because they know they will sting Bishamon if they ever express their dissatisfaction. After seeing the error of her ways, Bishamon tries harder to be more attentive to her shinki. |
| 615 | * PoorCommunicationKills: The root of her problems. She and her shinki put on happy faces to prevent the other from worrying, but this prevents any problems from being solved. She also brought this trope to Yato after she confronts him about his problems with that trope as well. After exiling Kugaha, to avoid this, she starts trading a diary with all of her shinki to keep in touch. |
| 616 | * {{Revenge}}: Her conflict with Yato is fueled by her thirst for vengeance. Yato killed an entire CLAN of her shinki, of which Kazuma was the only one left alive. She abandons this once Kazuma confesses he was the one who asked Yato to kill the corrupted shinki in order to save Bishamon's life. |
| 617 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Her hatred of Yato is so strong she becomes willing to endanger her shinki and her life to kill him. |
| 618 | * RevengeByProxy: Yato wouldn't put it past Bishamon to kill Yukine or Hiyori just because they are associated with him. He's proven right in chapter 16, when Yukine is accidentally transported to her home. Her first action is to shoot him. |
| 619 | * ShipTease: With mainly Kazuma. Sometimes with Yato in a PlayedForLaughs sort of way, which Yato and Bishamon themselves seem to be aware of and get annoyed with. |
| 620 | * SitcomArchNemesis: After she finds out he killed her shinki to save her life, Bishamon stops trying to kill Yato, but she still finds him annoying and gets into squabbles with him very easily. |
| 621 | * StepfordSmiler: Bishamon ''and'' her shinki (minus Kazuma), which is [[PoorCommunicationKills the cause of a lot of her problems]]. She constantly insists she's fine even when she's not, and deflects their concerns, while they hide their problems from her because they might physically affect her. |
| 622 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: |
| 623 | ** Her shinki Tsuguha becomes a combat outfit that leaves little to the imagination. She later starts to alternate between Tsuguha and Aiha, Aiha becoming an elaborate BattleBallgown. With Tsuguha's [[spoiler:death]] though, Bishamon is forced to use Aiha only. |
| 624 | ** While using Nana, she wears nothing more than a skirt, bindings around her chest, a cloak, and a mask. |
| 625 | ** {{Averted|Trope}} otherwise. While at her estate, she typically dresses in a suit ensemble, and when attending meetings as one of the Gods of Fortune, she wears a general-esque ensemble. |
| 626 | * SurvivorGuilt: When her shinki were corrupted, Kazuma had them killed in order to protect Bishamon's life, first the Ma clan and later Tsuguha. Bishamon is burdened with the knowledge that she's only alive because of the deaths of her shinki and laments she couldn't do anything to save them. |
| 627 | * ThemeNaming: The given names of all of her shinki end with 'ha'. She previously ended her shinki's names with 'ma'. |
| 628 | * ToBeLawfulOrGood: She chooses Good when she and the rest of the Seven Lucky Gods sided with Ebisu instead of letting Heaven punish him. |
| 629 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Yato, eventually. Despite all their bickering, they've come to solidly view each other as allies. |
| 630 | * WalkingArmory: She possesses multiple shinki, and can quickly alternate between weapons during battle. Her arsenal includes a whip, a pair of guns, a [[{{BFS}} giant sword]], and a lion, among others. |
| 631 | * WarGoddess: Like the Bishamon of mythology, she's a goddess of war and warriors. |
| 632 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 633 | ** She chews Yato out and then punches him for good measure when she realizes that he's known all along that his father has the ability to forcefully make a shinki remember their pasts by striking them, as she would have been more careful around him had she known. Yato's difficulty in talking about his past inadvertently causes the circumstances for Tsuguha to start mentally deteriorating, and Bishamon is devastated and rightfully pissed. |
| 634 | ** She calls out Kazuma on his KnightTemplar approach after finding out [[spoiler:he tried to force Yukine to tell him about Yato's father]], stating that in their [[HeroWithBadPublicity current situation]] they need to strengthen their ties to the people on their side instead of alienating them. Given that their enemies would include Heaven itself, she really needs all the help she could get now. |
| 635 | * WhipOfDominance: Kinuha, one of her shinki, takes the form of a powerful whip, which helps to complement her DressedLikeADominatrix design and fits her image as a stern and ruthless WarGoddess. |
| 636 | * WorldsBestWarrior: Considered to be the most powerful of the war gods. |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | [[folder:Kazuma]] |
| 640 | !!Kazuma - Hafuri Vessel, Kazune - Shinki |
| 641 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JunFukuyama (Japanese), Creator/EricVale (English) |
| 642 | |
| 643 | [[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kazuma_anime.png]] |
| 644 | |
| 645 | One of Bishamon's shinki. He can take the form of a cherry blossom earring that allows Bishamon to analyze her opponents. After Bishamon is left critically injured at the hands of the sorcerer, Kazuma embarks on a quest for revenge and willingly becomes a Nora for Yato, given the name Kazune. |
| 646 | ---- |
| 647 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: His extreme loyalty to Bishamon causes him to place her well-being above his allies'. |
| 648 | * AwesomeByAnalysis: It is shown that he also makes calculations for Bishamon's other shinki, greatly increasing their combat effectiveness. |
| 649 | * BadassInANiceSuit: He's always dressed professionally with a suit and tie. |
| 650 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Bishamon. |
| 651 | * BigBrotherMentor: Towards Yukine, whom he becomes a mentor to. |
| 652 | * BrokenPedestal: Yukine loses all respect and trust he had for Kazuma as his mentor after Kazuma uses a spell on him to force him to tell everything he knows about The Sorcerer who is Yato's father. After that, Yukine can only think of Kazuma as Yato's enemy. |
| 653 | * CainAndAbel: When he was alive, he was the Abel. |
| 654 | * ConflictingLoyalty: He has a duty as Bishamon's shinki, but also respects Yato. |
| 655 | * CooldownHug: He gives one to the blight-afflicted Bishamon after [[TakingTheBullet taking a strike meant for Yato]]. |
| 656 | * CovertPervert: He looks like a serious and composed man, but he secretly hoards photos of Bishamon, and has in the past purchased erotic doujinshi based on her from Yato. |
| 657 | * CrazyJealousGuy: PlayedForLaughs, when Yato showed up in front of Bishamon after he drunkenly 'kissed' her (long story), Kazuma had a knife ready. |
| 658 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: |
| 659 | ** When nearly every shinki of the 'ma' clan was beyond saving, he asked Yato to kill them to save Bishamon's life. Even worse, when accusations started flying between the members of the 'ma' clan, Kazuma's close friend and mentor Touma was falsely accused of causing the blight and killed by the other shinki as he watched. |
| 660 | ** His past before he died. He was the heir to his family's business despite being the second son. He fell in love with an apprentice who was a year older than him, but she got married off when he was 15 and he was left heartbroken. His older brother killed him at the age of 19 before his commemoration ceremony. |
| 661 | * DevotedToYou: As Kazuma himself states, he only exists for Bishamon's sake. |
| 662 | * DrowningMySorrows: Kazuma drinks himself silly after being a Nora because he felt like he betrayed Bishamon despite doing it to protect her. |
| 663 | * EnemyScan: His primary function is to track and size up Bishamon's enemy and make calculations on how effective her attacks will be. |
| 664 | * EquippableAlly: As a shinki, Kazuma can shift into an earring form. |
| 665 | * TheExile: After Bishamon learns that he has helped Yato, she cannot bring herself to take away Kazuma's name, but instead exiles him. After Bishamon exiled Kugaha, Kazuma rejoined Bishamon as her lead shinki once again. But he later leaves Bishamon again after the entire fight against Heaven to kill Yato's Father so he won't bother Bisamon again. |
| 666 | * HopelessSuitor: |
| 667 | ** At least, he believes this is to be the case. The one time he tried to express his feelings for Bishamon, he didn't get much of a reaction out of her and she kept treating him the same as always afterwards. This convinced Kazuma that gods can't fall in love with humans and it was meaningless to hope for a deeper relationship with Bishamon. |
| 668 | ** Before he died, he fell in love with a woman older than him, but was only left heartbroken after she married off to someone else. Poor guy never get what he wants when it comes to love, whether alive or dead. |
| 669 | * IOweYouMyLife: Kazuma deeply feels indebted to Yato for saving his and Bishamon's life through [[MercyKill mercy killing her corrupted former clan]]. Despite Bishamon wanting Yato's head on a pike, Kazuma has for centuries secretly helped Yato out through things like providing him with food and even humoring some of his harebrained business ventures. |
| 670 | * ImmortalImmaturity: An interesting case of this. He acts kinda mature, if he had been a teen-aged boy. Around Bishamon however can he act like a horny teenager who's in love with his HotTeacher. |
| 671 | * InsecureLoveInterest: He believes that loving Bishamon as a woman is a sin for someone as unworthy of her as him. |
| 672 | * ItsAllMyFault: Kazuma starts blaming himself for Suzuha's death, despite not being the cause. He even blames himself for the death of both Bishamon's shinki clans, calling himself a curse. |
| 673 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Kazuma begins committing increasingly dark actions, ranging from remorselessly killing Tsuguha after she turns into a Phantom, tricking Yukine into an interrogation in the hopes of learning Yato's relationship to the Sorcerer, offering himself to become a Nora to help Yato kill the Sorcerer and even ''attacking Hiyori'' and inflicting emotional pain upon her to stop her from going after Yato. Most of his actions would have given Bishamon the blight had he not rationalized it all as being for her sake. |
| 674 | * KnightTemplar: He starts veering into this when he kills Tsuguha (who had turned into an ayakashi due to regaining her human memories) and subsequently uses a spell to try to force information about Father out of Yukine, shattering their trust in the process. |
| 675 | * LikesOlderWomen: The woman he loves is centuries older than him and according to Yato, before Bishamon, Kazuma also liked a girl a year older than him in his human life. |
| 676 | * LoveHurts: He's in love with Bishamon, but knows he can never actually pursue a relationship with her since it would be sin. |
| 677 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: As the series progresses, his love and devotion for Bishamon start becoming dangerous with Kazuma being more and more willing to do morally questionable actions to ensure her safety. |
| 678 | * MeaningfulName: His name means 'omen', befitting of his status as a navigator to Bishamonten and Ha Clan's exemplar. Even Bishamon lampshaded of how she chose a befitting name to him when she used him for the first time. |
| 679 | * MrExposition: Skills, backstories, you name it, Kazuma can probably fill you in on it with great detail. |
| 680 | * NiceGuy: He is very compassionate and kind to pretty much everyone. |
| 681 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He was a serious character when he was first introduced. Later chapters say otherwise. |
| 682 | * NumberTwo: Of all Bishamon's shinki, Kazuma holds the most authority. |
| 683 | * OddNameOut: Kazuma's name ends with 'ma' rather than 'ha' like Bishamon's other shinki. This is because he's the SoleSurvivor of Bishamon's first shinki clan. Kazuma actually asked her why she didn't change his name after she started using the 'ha' for her new shinki. Bishamon said she wanted to leave Kazuma's name as a reminder of the Ma clan tragedy. |
| 684 | * TheParalyzer: He is capable of restraining and immobilizing an individual. This is actually a power all shinki have, as long as they know the name of the person/shinki they're targeting. However, his EnemyScan ability means he can use it against anyone, while most shinki can only use it against targets they are familiar with. This power is ineffective regarding strays as they have multiple names. |
| 685 | * PsychoSidekick: Kazuma's extreme devotion to Bishamon leads him to commit morally questionable actions. He has killed his own shinki clan companions because they became Ayakashi and almost killed Bishamon. Later on, he uses a spell to force Yukine to reveal information about Yato's father, which even Bishamon found concerning and extreme, but Kazuma always justifies himself by claiming it's all for Bishamon's sake. |
| 686 | * PsychologicalProjection: He drives Hiyori away from Yato by telling her gods can't fall in love with humans, despite all the blatant evidence that Yato is in love with Hiyori. This is linked to Kazuma's belief that Bishamon will never love him in the same way he loves her. |
| 687 | * ShockAndAwe: As Kazune, he can change into Rekki, taking the form of a katana and sheath. Said sheath can be transformed into a bow with which Yato fires his sword covered in electricity at his foes. |
| 688 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: The bespectacled Kazuma is Bishamon's trusted advisor, and his primary shinki function is making calculations. |
| 689 | * TheSpock: Very calm and calculating. |
| 690 | * SubordinateExcuse: He's deeply devoted to Bishamon as her shinki and Guidepost, but it's frequently hinted he harbors romantic feelings for her too. |
| 691 | * TakingTheBullet: He takes a blow from the raging Bishamon to save Yato. He survives. |
| 692 | * UndyingLoyalty: Kazuma's lifelong loyalty as a shinki is for Bishamon and Bishamon only. |
| 693 | * TheUnfettered: All of Kazuma's actions boil down to a single trait, his desire to both be with and protect Bishamon. Regardless of any moral quandary, if he feels it will help in protecting Bishamon, he will cross any lines he has too. Even going as far as to become a Nora, something he refused to do long ago, to help Yato in tracking down and killing his father. |
| 694 | [[/folder]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | [[folder:Kuraha]] |
| 697 | !!Kuraha - Shinki |
| 698 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Greg Dulcie (English) |
| 699 | |
| 700 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kuraha_anime.png]] |
| 701 | |
| 702 | One of the many shinki that serves Bishamon. He takes the form of a large lion for her to ride on. |
| 703 | ---- |
| 704 | * ButtMonkey: A bit of one. He's frequently subjected to being treated like a housepet and all that entails, including people being handsy with him because they want to pet him, and being told to do tricks. He also gripes that Bishamon has a habit of not reverting him out of his lion form even outside of combat. |
| 705 | * CoolOldGuy: Appears to have been elderly in the time of his passing. |
| 706 | * EyeScream: Sekki slices off his right eye. |
| 707 | * EyepatchOfPower: His human form wears an eyepatch to cover the eye he lost to Sekki. |
| 708 | * FriendToAllChildren: The children shinki love to climb on him and he sometimes gives them rides. He also lets [[spoiler: the child Ebisu]] pet and play with him. |
| 709 | * HandicappedBadass: Loses an eye in his introductory story, but can still kick ass in his subsequent appearances. |
| 710 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: Bishamon's preferred mount and method of travel. |
| 711 | * KingOfBeasts: His shinki form is that of a lion. |
| 712 | * ScarsAreForever: During a fight with Bishamon, Yato ends up cutting out one of Kuraha's eyes in self-defense. |
| 713 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: Shinki are only capable of transforming when their names are called by their gods, [[spoiler:so when Bishamon is rendered comatose after fighting "Father", Kuraha is left trapped as a lion until she eventually reawakens.]] |
| 714 | * TeamPet: In omakes, he's shown to be treated like a housepet for the other shinki. |
| 715 | * UndyingLoyalty: Fiercely loyal to Bishamon. |
| 716 | [[/folder]] |
| 717 | |
| 718 | [[folder:Tsuguha]] |
| 719 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/AriOzawa (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English) |
| 720 | [[quoteright:133:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsuguha_anime.png]] |
| 721 | |
| 722 | One of Bishamon's shinki who is a recent addition to her arsenal. She takes the form of the bikini battle attire. Her true name is revealed to be Yui Fukuhara. |
| 723 | ---- |
| 724 | * AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, her eyes are brown like her hair, but the anime made them blue. |
| 725 | * BespectacledCutie: She's a cute young bespectacled girl with an overall pleasant personality. |
| 726 | * BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Yato's father infects her while Bishamon is distracted in battle, causing memories of her life to begin surfacing.]] |
| 727 | * CorruptTheCutie: Yato's father infects her while Bishamon is distracted in battle, causing memories of her life to begin surfacing. Once she fully remembers her tragic death, Tsuguha curses her fate and transforms into an ayakashi, just like what happened with Sakura. |
| 728 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:While she lived a normal teenage life, she died from a suicidal man landing on top of her. The last thing she remembers are bystanders staring at her in shock rather than reaching out to help her.]] |
| 729 | * DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler:Tsuguha died from a suicidal man landing on top of her.]] |
| 730 | * EquippableAlly: She is a shinki who can become a ''God's Robe''. |
| 731 | * KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: She is given a MercyKill by Kazuma after remembering her death and turning into an ayakashi.]] |
| 732 | * MistakenForRomance: She seems to believe that the rivalry between Bishamon and Yato is due to sexual tension. |
| 733 | * NaiveNewcomer: A relatively new shinki of Bishamon's, so she serves as TheWatson for a lot of Bishamon's introduction. |
| 734 | * NeverBareheaded: After Aiha cuts her hair bun as a cruel prank, Tsuguha always wears a beret to hide her messy hair. |
| 735 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: Kazuma kills her after her transformation into an ayakashi and her remains immediately disintegrate. |
| 736 | * OffWithHerHead: Kazuma beheads her after she transforms into an ayakashi and nearly kills Bishamon. |
| 737 | * PrimAndProperBun: She initially wears her hair like this before Aiha cuts it off. |
| 738 | * SacrificialLion: She gets corrupted by the Sorcerer's Liberation and needs to be killed by Kazuma to protect Bishamon. Her death serves to establish just how big of a threat the Sorcerer is to shinki. |
| 739 | * ShipperOnDeck: She's enthralled by Bishamon's love-hate dynamic with Yato and has [[MistakenForRomance mistaken it to be a sign of romance]] much to Bishamon's displeasure. |
| 740 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Aiha's Girly Girl, due to her dressing more practical and transforming into an armor that allows Bishamon to manuever easily. |
| 741 | * TraumaticHaircut: Aiha forcibly cuts her hair bun out of spite. |
| 742 | [[/folder]] |
| 743 | |
| 744 | [[folder:Kinuha]] |
| 745 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Kanami Satou (Japanese), Creator/MallorieRodak (English) |
| 746 | [[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kinuha_character_design_4.png]] |
| 747 | |
| 748 | One of Bishamon's shinki who make up her go-to arsenal. She becomes a whip. |
| 749 | ---- |
| 750 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She doesn't hold back her words, such as when Kofuku is telling Bishamon where vents might be open and she tells the others that the former's bad luck is directly causing the vents to open where she says. |
| 751 | * EquippableAlly: Her shinki form is a whip that Bishamon uses to fight. |
| 752 | * InSeriesNickname: Kuraha and Akiha call her "Okinu", which is a pre-19th century way to address young noblewomen. |
| 753 | * SmokingIsCool: On her downtime, she can be seen smoking. |
| 754 | * TheStoic: She's usually in business mode at all times. Not even Kugaha stripping naked in front of everyone fazes her. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | [[folder:Kazuha & Karuha]] |
| 758 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/SatomiAkesaka (Japanese), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (English) |
| 759 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kazuha_and_karuha_character_design_4.png]] |
| 760 | |
| 761 | A pair of twin shinki who are part of Bishamon's go-to arsenal. Kazuha is the male twin and becomes a .45 caliber pistol. Karuha is the female twin and becomes a revolver. |
| 762 | ---- |
| 763 | * HalfIdenticalTwins: They look exactly the same outside of Karuha having slightly longer hair. |
| 764 | * TagTeamTwins: The two of them become a pair of guns for Bishamon. |
| 765 | * TagalongKid: They function as this in Bishamon's battle team. |
| 766 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: These two would be near identical if Kuraha didn't have a ponytail and skirt. |
| 767 | [[/folder]] |
| 768 | |
| 769 | [[folder:Aiha]] |
| 770 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/HisakoTojo (Japanese), Creator/MichelleRojas (English) |
| 771 | |
| 772 | [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aiha_anime.png]] |
| 773 | |
| 774 | One of Bishamon's shinki who is initially jealous of Tsuguha, which Kugaha takes advantage of. She becomes a battle armor outfit when called on and was part of Bishamon's go-to shinki team until Tsuguha joined and gave Bishamon an outfit with more mobility. |
| 775 | ---- |
| 776 | * AdaptationDyeJob: The skirt of her BattleBallgown form is red in the manga, but blue in the anime. |
| 777 | * BullyTurnedBuddy: Initially, she pulls cruel pranks on Tsuguha out of jealousy, such as subjecting her to TraumaticHaircut. After her purification ritual, Aiha stops picking on Tsuguha and becomes good friends with her. After Tsuguha becomes an Ayakashi and Kazuma needs to kill her, Aiha is the most distraught by Tsuguha's death. |
| 778 | * EasilyForgiven: Tsuguha forgives her very quickly. Subverted with the rest of Bishamon's shinki as her jealousy stung Bishamon and requires her to undergo the purification ritual. |
| 779 | * EquippableAlly: She can become a shin'i, or "god's clothes". In her case it's a set of armor with a long skirt. |
| 780 | * GreenEyedMonster: She became one when Bishamon stopped calling her name as often and replaced her with Tsuguha. She gets better once she's purified and Bishamon realizes she needs to pay more attention to her shinki. |
| 781 | * TheResenter: Aiha becomes bitter and resentful because of Bishamon choosing her new shinki Tsuguha's {{Stripperiffic}} garment as her preferred battle outfit over Aiha's BattleBallgown. After repenting, Aiha becomes friends with Tsuguha. |
| 782 | * RoseHairedSweetie: DoubleSubverted. She's introduced as a spiteful girl who bullies her fellow shinki Tsuguha out of jealousy. After repenting and getting purified, Aiha mellows out into a pink-haired sweetheart. |
| 783 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Her issues end up kicking off the entire arc about Bishamon and the "Ma" clan. |
| 784 | * TextileWorkIsFeminine: Aiha is really good at embroidery since she has been doing it as a pastime for over 50 years. |
| 785 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's the Girly Girl to Tsuguha's Tomboy, as she dresses more feminine and transforms into ornate armor with a long skirt. |
| 786 | * TookALevelInKindness: Once she comes clean and gets purified, she develops a friendship with Tsuguha. |
| 787 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her jealousy towards Tsuguha, which ends up stinging Bishamon, kicks off Kuraha's plans to kill Bishamon and take control of her next reincarnation. |
| 788 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: She only wants Bishamon to acknowledge her as a useful shinki. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Nana]] |
| 792 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nana_9.PNG]] |
| 793 | |
| 794 | Bishamonten's newest shinki, more commonly known as the infamous Hafuru-mono (はふる者; lit. "the entomber"), is the Blessed Regalia who was sealed away for committing "a grave sin in order to protect its master" (according to Kiun) a very long time ago, to the point of becoming partially mythical. She was released by Bishamonten, who then proceeded to give her her name, becoming her new owner. |
| 795 | ---- |
| 796 | * AndIMustScream: She was sealed away in a small stone box, where she remained conscious and incapable of dying for centuries. She had become so tormented that when Bishamon frees her, it doesn't take much convincing to join her because anything would be better than remaining stuck in her prison. |
| 797 | * BloodKnight: To the point that she is arguably fiercer than her wielder Bishamonten, who is a ''war goddess.'' When the sky before her gets filled with divine soldiers out for her blood, she looks upon it with ''utter glee''. This becomes {{downplayed|trope}} later on, as she becomes more relaxed. She still hunts bears for her own food, but while she is willing to go after the sorcerer, she won't do so unless she is given permission too. |
| 798 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Her former master was killed when he fought Heaven centuries ago. Despite her doing her best to protect her up to and including giving her life and coming back as a Blessed Regalia. When that happened her rage caused her to go on a rampage that killed untold numbers of Heaven's forces. Her rampage ended when she was sealed but not before injuring [[spoiler:Amaterasu who is the Highest Goddess period.]] |
| 799 | * DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: It takes her a while for her eyes to adjust to daylight after she's first brought out of a cave where she was trapped inside a box for ages. |
| 800 | * DeathSeeker: Intends to follow her former master into death, which is why she becomes Bishamon's shinki without any qualms, so she can take as many of heavens horde down with her as she possibly can. [[spoiler:Upon learning he's alive but unable to officially reclaim her however, she abandons her desire to die and rejoins her true master.]] |
| 801 | * {{Determinator}}: Possibly the most determined in the series, shown through her undying will to avenge her deceased master and her determination to see heaven burn. |
| 802 | * FacialMarkings: The name Bishamon gives her is on her left cheek. |
| 803 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: She was sealed inside a box for centuries. When Bishamon brings her to the outside world after so long, Nana is shocked by how human civilization has advanced in her absence. She gets particularly scared when she sees a train for the first time and mistakes it for a human-devouring monster. |
| 804 | * HeroicWillpower: For most shinki, being aware of their true name causes them to remember the circumstances of their death, which in turn drives them to madness and turns them into ayakashi. After being struck by Chiiki, she learned both her real name and the manner of her death, but was unaffected. This was because in her eyes, her death was nothing compared to the suffering of the others in her life. She survived learning God's greatest secret because she cares more about others than herself, and won't allow herself to succumb to despair. |
| 805 | * HonorableWarriorsDeath: Her human life ended when she joined the battlefield to avenge her father and a soldier killed her. She sees this as a ''good'' thing because she died trying to fight like a warrior. |
| 806 | --> ''I died fighting... good. I can't wait to do it again.'' |
| 807 | * LittleMissBadass: Looks like a young girl around the same age as Yukine, but she bears so a powerful grudge and is such a fearsome shinki that she had to be sealed away because ''no one could kill her''. |
| 808 | * NoSell: Takes a direct hit from the Sorcerer just like Tsuguha did. But unlike Tsuguha, Nana is able to bear the memories from her human life and continue fighting without going insane or getting corrupted. Instead, she takes clear pride in the fact that she died fighting. |
| 809 | * NotAfraidToDie: Bishamon notes how Nana has a unique lack of fear of death that she has never seen in a shinki before. This is in part what makes possible for Nana to withstand knowing how she died because a death in battle is something she aspires for. |
| 810 | * RageAgainstTheHeavens: Most definitely in both the past and present, as evidenced by one on the two selling points Bishamon gave her when asking her to be her Shinki was "heaven's head on a platter." |
| 811 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Officially, she died in the battle between Heaven, Bishamon, and the Sorceror. In truth, she's still technically one of Bishamon's shinki, [[spoiler:but has rejoined her former master and lives with him in secret.]] |
| 812 | * SealedEvilInACan: PlayedWith. Nana was sealed inside a box for an attempt to assassinate Amaterasu, which made Heavens deem her an evil Hafuri. When Bishamon frees her, Nana is indeed eager to take the heads of gods again, but her hatred for gods is the result of them attacking her village and separating her from her master. Bishamon soon understands Nana is far from evil. |
| 813 | * SheCleansUpNicely: After being freed, once she manages to clean herself up and get proper clothes, she looks like a regular preteen. |
| 814 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: After [[spoiler:reuniting with her former master and getting away from the issues of heaven]], Nana acts more like a kid her physical age, albeit, a very rough one. |
| 815 | [[/folder]] |
| 816 | |
| 817 | !Ebisu and his Shinki |
| 818 | [[folder:Ebisu/Hiruko]] |
| 819 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), Creator/JohnBurgmeier (English) |
| 820 | |
| 821 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ebisu_anime.png]] |
| 822 | |
| 823 | The deadpan God of Fishing and Commerce and one of the Seven Gods of Fortune. He has the highest reincarnation rate of any god due to his... unconventional hobbies. |
| 824 | ---- |
| 825 | * AntiHero: His dabbling in naming and controlling ayakashi has gotten him in lots of trouble with the heavens. But he does it because he believes it could benefit the mortal world and it's people. |
| 826 | * BornAgainImmortality: Ebisu has died many times in the past, far more than most gods, but has consistently been reborn thanks to his great number of worshippers. He is again killed for his pursuit of the forbidden mage art, and is subsequently reborn as a young boy with no memories of his past life. |
| 827 | * BornLucky: As a god of Fortune, Ebisu has incredible luck, as seen in chapter 52 where after walking across a street, he fell and a truck nearly runs him over but he survives with no injuries as he fell right under the truck. |
| 828 | * TheComicallySerious: As [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] as he is, his actions (such as provoking phantoms) and comments in the underworld and in flashbacks surely come off as rather silly. |
| 829 | ** In the anime, the stinger at the end of Episode 9 has him mention he forgot to take hand cream to Yomi, making it difficult to count paper money, much to the exasperation of Yato. |
| 830 | * {{Determinator}}: His will to become a mage and control ayakashi has caused him to die countless times, but he won't give up until he succeeds. |
| 831 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: He dies in Bishamon's arms. In the anime, Yato's. |
| 832 | * FallGuy: Yato's father sets Ebisu up so the Heavens become convinced Ebisu is The Sorcerer who is controlling ayakashi, which is very easy because Ebisu ''has'' been naming ayakashi to take control over them, but with genuinely good intentions in mind. Ebisu ends up getting killed under the accusation that he's The Sorcerer and Yato's father can continue his evil plans freely now that the Heavens are sure The Sorcerer is dead. |
| 833 | * AFatherToHisMen: While he can come off as aloof and uncaring, he really does care for his shinki's well being. Most, if not all, of his shinki are strays; He doesn't care about any of stigmas attached to their existence, or the stigma planted on him for keeping them. It's noted that many strays are made because either they outlived their master's or were abandoned by them without being properly released. Aware of how unfair this is, Ebisu, not that unlike Bishamon, gives a home to shinki that many other gods would reject. |
| 834 | * HandicappedBadass: As per his legend, Ebisu was born lacking limbs but eventually grew them from sheer force of will. But because of his original state, Ebisu effectively has a coordination disorder when not assisted by his shinki; unable to control his limbs well enough to do tasks like swim, ride a bike, or fight on his own. He even proves to have difficulties tying his shoes and feeding himself. But his good wits and incredible natural luck used in combination with his shinki render him decently good at combat. |
| 835 | * ImmortalLifeIsCheap: The Ebisu we first meet, and evidently several of his incarnations before him, were willing to throw their lives away to pursue a method to control phantoms due to having been raised with the knowledge that he'll never truly die and another version of him will always be reborn. It's not until Yato questions what the ''current'' version of Ebisu wants that he begins to consider the possibility of acting in self-preservation. |
| 836 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: With Yato. |
| 837 | * TheKlutz: Due to being born without limbs as per the original myth, Ebisu is incredibly clumsy to the point that he can't even tie his own shoes, thus needing Kunimi to direct his movements for him, especially in the midst of combat. To put this in perspective, simply running for a few seconds is enough to get him to trip on thin air and somersault before crashing on the ground in a heap. When Kunimi was first recruited and his ability was discovered, Ebisu's retainers wept with joy from witnessing their master have such good coordination for the first time ever in all of his lives. |
| 838 | * LeaveYourQuestTest: Ebisu tries to buy Yukine from Yato, seeing the potential young Yukine has, which Ebisu deems he's wasting by sticking with Yato. |
| 839 | * NonActionGuy: He himself is not a fighter, and his main shinki are clothes that control his movements when he needs to evade attacks and defend himself. |
| 840 | * NotAfraidToDie: Since he knows he will just be reincarnated again if he ever bites it. Subverted when he is fatally wounded, Ebisu realizes that he doesn't want to die. |
| 841 | * ParentalAbandonment: He is the son of Izanami, who cast him away due to a deformity like in the myths. It is the reason why he's so accepting to Noras, as he was abandoned like them. |
| 842 | * ParentalSubstitute: Gives off this vibe towards Yato. In any case, he's a better father figure to Yato than his real father ever was. |
| 843 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played with. As the God of wealth and commerce, he is comically portrayed as rejecting his overworked staff's repeated requests for vacation days. Nonetheless, they are still very loyal and grateful to him because many of them are actually strays who were abandoned by or outlived their original masters, and Ebisu was willing to take them in. A flashback shows one of Ebisu's earlier incarnations holding auditions for joining his team and specifying that he welcomes strays, with the only stipulation for becoming one of his shinki being the ability to form a barrier. |
| 844 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: As the god of wealth, he won't hesitate to throw his vast fortune around to get what he wants, including trying to buy off powerful shinki. The latter part may be subverted as he offered to buy Yukine in order to find out how easily tempted he and Yato were. |
| 845 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: |
| 846 | ** His offer to buy Yukine off of Yato also doubles as a test to see how easily tempted Yato and Yukine are by money. |
| 847 | ** When Kunimi was still a relatively new to Ebisu's team, Ebisu intentionally rode a bike into the ocean to test Kunimi's ability to direct Ebisu's body to swim, even if it risked his own life, just to see more of the things Kunimi could do. |
| 848 | * SharpDressedMan: Both he and his shinki wear suits. |
| 849 | * TheStoic: He shows next to no emotion at all times, regardless of what's happening around him. His reincarnation subverts this, being more inclined to show overt emotions like when he's happy or scared. |
| 850 | * SuperStrength: One of his shinki, Houki, takes the form of gloves which gives Ebisu enhanced strength and combat prowess. |
| 851 | * ThemeNaming: His shinki's given names all end with "mi". |
| 852 | |
| 853 | !!Reincarnated Ebisu |
| 854 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/YuikoTatsumi (Japanese), Creator/ApphiaYu (English) |
| 855 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reincarnated_ebisu_s2e13.png]] |
| 856 | |
| 857 | During the escape from the underworld, Ebisu is killed by the Pacification Ring. He gets reincarnated as a little boy with no memories of his previous life. Since he was born recently, this new Ebisu is a naïve and well-mannered kid. |
| 858 | ---- |
| 859 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Because of Yato lying to him about Bishamon's name, the new Ebisu calls Bishamon "Skank". |
| 860 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: To a tee. Although looking like a grade-school child, he has a strong understanding of Japan's economy and is extremely well-spoken, but is also still incredibly naive and innocent too. |
| 861 | * CheerfulChild: He's a very happy and adorable kid. |
| 862 | * NiceGuy: He's an extremely sweet and kind-hearted little boy who only wants to be helpful to others. Even when Yato reveals his father was responsible for his previous incarnation's death, Ebisu doesn't get angry at Yato because he can tell he isn't at fault for his father being evil. |
| 863 | [[/folder]] |
| 864 | |
| 865 | [[folder:Kunimi]] |
| 866 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Kanehira Yamamoto (Japanese), Brian Mathis (English) |
| 867 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kunimi.jpg]] |
| 868 | One of Ebisu's main battle shinki. He currently serves as Ebisu's lead shinki. He's technically a stray, though only through the circumstance of outliving his original master without having that name released, and so has great devotion toward Ebisu for being willing to take him in. |
| 869 | ---- |
| 870 | * BeleagueredAssistant: Due to [[spoiler: the child Ebisu]] having a habit of wandering off and getting lost, Kunimi has his job cut out for him. |
| 871 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: He is a rare possession-type shinki that takes control of Ebisu's movements and fights for him. |
| 872 | * NotSoStoic: He generally has a calm demeanor but in light of watching over [[spoiler: the child Ebisu]], his reactions tend to be more expressive, such as panicking when the latter gets lost or when [[spoiler: Ebisu won the most popular god]], he was clapping and crying tears of joy. |
| 873 | * NumberTwo: To Ebisu after [[spoiler: the previous head shinki, Iwani, was forced into exile.]] |
| 874 | * ParentalSubstitute: After [[spoiler: Ebisu's latest reincarnation as a child]], he acts as a protective parent rather than a servant. |
| 875 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Ebisu. He frequently worries about his master's safety and health. |
| 876 | [[/folder]] |
| 877 | |
| 878 | !Underworld |
| 879 | [[folder:Izanami]] |
| 880 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/HibikuYamamura (Japanese), Creator/RachelRobinson (English) |
| 881 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izanami_6.jpg]] |
| 882 | The Queen of the Underworld. |
| 883 | ---- |
| 884 | * CompleteImmortality: Izanami is stated to exist as long as life and death continues. |
| 885 | %%* CuteAndPsycho |
| 886 | * DemBones: Her true form is a decomposing living skeleton. |
| 887 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Whoever casts their eyes on Izanami sees her in the likeness of the person they feel most comfortable with. |
| 888 | * GreaterScopeVillain: ''She'' is the reason "Father" is even able to be a problem anymore. [[spoiler:After he initially died, she offered to give him one of her masks so that he could return to the living and wreak havoc on the Heavens in her name. He got spooked by seeing her real face though, and ran off in a panic, grabbing the Kota No Ha in the process. This allowed him to come BackFromTheDead and, after establishing two lifelines in the form of his grave turned shrine and several descendants, gained the power to keep returning from the Underworld no matter how many times he's killed.]] |
| 889 | * HatesBeingAlone: She hates ruling over the Underworld all by herself and when people come by, she will do anything to keep them from leaving. |
| 890 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Having to live alone in the Underworld, Izanami is desperate for friends and she will do anything to keep those she wants to befriend from leaving her. The very reason she created the brushes that control ayakashi was to have friends who would never leave her. |
| 891 | * NotGoodWithRejection: She does ''not'' take it well when people reject her "friendship" and try to escape. |
| 892 | * PrehensileHair: Izanami's hair appears to be her personal weapon while having some tracking capability. Her hair's grip affects not only gods, but also their shinki, leaving them unable to fight back. |
| 893 | * {{Yandere}}: If Izanami wants to befriend you, she won't take '''no''' for an answer. If you try to run away, prepare for hordes of flesh-hungry Yomi chasing after you. |
| 894 | [[/folder]] |
| 895 | |
| 896 | |
| 897 | !Takemikazuchi and his Shinki |
| 898 | [[folder:Takemikazuchi]] |
| 899 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Shinya Hamazoe (Japanese), Creator/JMichaelTatum (English) |
| 900 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noragami_volume_cover___17.png]] |
| 901 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as part of the Execution Squad]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takemikazuchi.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 902 | A god of thunder/swords. He was dispatched to kill Ebisu. |
| 903 | ---- |
| 904 | |
| 905 | * BadassAdorable: [[spoiler:His final (?) battle with Yato has him metaporically take the shape of a child to show him being a ManChild]]. |
| 906 | * BloodKnight: He is bored with the peaceful times heaven had and even thanked Ebisu for causing trouble because it made his "war god blood race." |
| 907 | * BornAgainImmortality: Like most gods [[spoiler:although his previous incarnation was [[MurderByCremation burned]] alive, and his shinki quickly told the new one that it was because of something [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming he did]]]]. |
| 908 | * BreakTheCutie: Happened when he was younger. |
| 909 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: The friendship part is arguable but after the Heaven arc, he and Kiun begin to participate in Yato's plans whenever he calls them up. |
| 910 | * GreenEyedMonster: Was jealous that Yato and Bishamon, a 'nameless god' and a 'foreigner', managed to attain a Blessed Regalia and he didn't. |
| 911 | * HiddenDepths: Despite him being a BloodKnight ManChild, Takemikazuchi has a surprisingly mature stance on his shinki having relationships; since he feels that it's only natural, he doesn't bar them from romantic pursuits, compared to Yato who insists Yukine is 'too young to date anyone'. This works in Take's favor since it means his shinki don't sting him whenever they might be interested in someone, whereas Yato suffers when Yukine has 'naughty thoughts'. |
| 912 | ** He has a surprisingly good memory, singing voice and can [[WarriorPoet write and recite Tanka]] because Kiun gave his current incarnation a classical education. It comes in handy when [[spoiler:they have to find the Sorcerer's shrine, which is hidden by a chanted poetic spell]]. |
| 913 | * InSeriesNickname: Some call him Take and Kofuku decides to call him Zucchi. |
| 914 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's an antagonistic prick who delights in his station as a popular god, taking every opportunity to insult people he sees as beneath him such as Yato and Ebisu. That being said, he ''does'' care for his shinki and seeks to atone for the perceived mistakes of his prior incarnation, and is a reluctant member of the "rebel" gods, [[spoiler:even volunteering to accompany Ebisu to Tamatsuki instead of letting the little kid go on his own.]] |
| 915 | * KickTheDog: He gleefully insulted Ebisu, referring to him as "spineless" and said it suited him since his mother had discarded him because he had no bones. |
| 916 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He's a handsome man with long black hair. |
| 917 | * MisterExposition: Starts to compete with Ebisu for the role of "high ranking god who explains the inner workings of Heaven to the audience" after being defeated by Yato. |
| 918 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Yato calls him to join in Yukine's birthday flash mob and he actually does show up, mostly because he thinks he'll learn how to turn Kiun into a Blessed Regalia from it. |
| 919 | * ParentalHypocrisy: His shinki tell him both to be like his past incarnation and stay away from his way of being as much as possible. |
| 920 | * PeltsOfTheBarbarian: He wears an obi made of what seems to be leopard fur (later altered to be tiger fur). |
| 921 | * {{Manchild}}: Due to being forced to grow up too fast is he very much an insecure child inside wanting to make his [[WellDoneDadGuy shinki proud]]. |
| 922 | * PuppetKing: [[spoiler:He's actually a puppet leader manipulated by his own shinki, who lied to him from birth to make him believe he was an evil master to them in his past life and he had to make up for it in this life. Takemikazuchi does whatever they tell him to do out of guilt.]] |
| 923 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red eyes and is a powerful god. |
| 924 | * ShockAndAwe: Takemikazuchi's shinki Kiun is a thunder blade that can take on the form of a dragon. Takemikazuchi uses Kiun to create lightning strikes and move at incredible speeds. |
| 925 | * SinsOfOurFathers: His previous incarnation killed people to be his shinki, this caused him to later be killed himself, and his newest incarnation taking the blame for it. [[spoiler:Not really. What really happened was that his shinki killed people, then they burned down his shrine with him inside when he found out. Then they raised his new reincarnation drawn straight from the remains of the previous incarnation, telling him that the kill-for-shinki was the previous' fault. And he had to do whatever they told him to do to make up for it.]] |
| 926 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Yato in chapter 68. |
| 927 | * SweetTooth: Loves chocolates according to an omake. |
| 928 | * ThemeNaming: All his shinki end up with the suffix "un". |
| 929 | * {{Tsundere}}: Acts bombastic and haughty most of the time to hide his insecurities, but when Kiun stands up for him, he positively melts. |
| 930 | * UnmanlySecret: He keeps a diary and writes his entries in a very flowery language. Naturally, Kofuku steals it and blackmails him into fixing her roof after he destroyed it. |
| 931 | * WellDoneDadGuy: To his shinki. Since he was told his previous incarnation was a horrible master who even killed people to be his shinki, Takemikazuchi wants to be good to his shinki this time and make them proud. |
| 932 | * WorthyOpponent: He views Yato as one after fighting with him. |
| 933 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Does a German suplex on Yato as a FunnyBackgroundEvent in chapter 68. |
| 934 | [[/folder]] |
| 935 | |
| 936 | [[folder:Kiun]] |
| 937 | [[quoteright:263:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kiun.png]] |
| 938 | Takemikazuchi's most trusted shinki. |
| 939 | ---- |
| 940 | * BigBrotherInstinct: For Takemikazuchi. |
| 941 | * CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Finally dares to stop [[EvilOldFolks Makiun]] from punishing Takemikazuchi in chapter 68]]. |
| 942 | * ChickMagnet: According to Take, many female Shinki find him attractive and ask him out. But because he's been around for so long, Kiun no longer has an interest in forming relationships. |
| 943 | * DarkSecret: Knows [[spoiler:what the other shinki did, but is too insecure to tell anyone about it]]. |
| 944 | * EveryScarHasAStory: It's not shown how he got his scar yet, but he didn't have it while the current Takemikazuchi was young. It's implied Kazuma is the one who gave it to him while defending Ebisu. |
| 945 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has longer hair than Hiyori and is very pretty. |
| 946 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: Clearly hates what he's doing, but doesn't dare to stop it. |
| 947 | * MysticalWhiteHair: Is a mystic, kind man with white hair. |
| 948 | * NiceGuy: Is a sweet guy. |
| 949 | * TheNicknamer: In an omake where he finally dares to ''think'' of nicknames for Takemikazuchi. |
| 950 | * PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: Has a huge scar over his nose, has also many psychological ones. |
| 951 | * ShockAndAwe: His ouki form. |
| 952 | * TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Of Takemikazuchi's old shinki.]] |
| 953 | * UndyingLoyalty: Towards Takemikazuchi. |
| 954 | [[/folder]] |
| 955 | |
| 956 | !Antagonists |
| 957 | [[folder:Nora]] |
| 958 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/LaurenLanda (English) |
| 959 | |
| 960 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nora_anime.png]] |
| 961 | |
| 962 | A mysterious shinki girl wearing burial clothes that has some sort of history with Yato. She is a stray shinki ("Nora"), or a spirit that has formed a contract with more than one master and therefore has multiple names. |
| 963 | ---- |
| 964 | * TheAgeless: Like all shinki, she doesn't age. While she and Yato were 'raised' together, Yato started out as a child smaller than her, but he grew up and she stayed the same. |
| 965 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Her actions are very malevolent and she's working for the Big Bad, but she has genuinely shown kindness towards Yato and seems more to be a victim of her upbringing rather than evil for her own reasons. |
| 966 | * AxCrazy: A far more sedate and calculating version than most, but yeah, Nora is definitely not playing with a full deck. |
| 967 | * BadassDecay: InUniverse example. After Yukine resoundingly fights her off, Nora loses her effectiveness, a fact not lost on "Father" who compliments Yato on choosing his shinki well. Even before that, Yato compares Yukine to Nora/Hiiro when Yukine successfully summoned a Boundary in just one try and his barrier is stronger than Nora's. |
| 968 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: After the Sorcerer supposedly abandons her, Yukine decides he'll take care of her and won't leave her alone like the Sorcerer and Yato did. Because of Yukine, Nora for the first time knows what it's like to have someone who treats her kindly and truly cares about her as a person instead of a tool. [[spoiler:After the Sorcerer takes Yukine away and makes him into a Nora like her, she agrees to help Hiyori to try and save Yukine.]] |
| 969 | * BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:She pretends that "Father" abandoned her so Yukine takes pity on her and blindly trusts her. In truth, "Father" sent her to help him in his plan to make Yukine interested in his past so he can corrupt him and make Yukine his Nora. Once the plan works, Nora realizes "Father" ''really'' abandoned her since he no longer needs her and she regrets manipulating Yukine when he was the first person to ever truly care about her. She then agrees to help Hiyori save Yukine from "Father".]] |
| 970 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: She can somehow, creepily, conjure these for herself. |
| 971 | * CainAndAbel: The Cain to Yato's Abel. They were raised as siblings and they were once very close. Nora still cares about him in a {{Yandere}} way, but she wants to get rid of anyone that gets in her way to Yato. |
| 972 | * ChildhoodFriends: Nora has known Yato since he was a child and they were more or less raised together. |
| 973 | * ClingyJealousGirl: To Yato. Nora shows signs of jealousy towards Yato's relationships with Yukine and Hiyori and she will do anything to get them out of the way. |
| 974 | * TheCorrupter: She repeatedly tempts Yato into returning to his former dark days, beckoning him to wield her once again and serve his "Father." |
| 975 | * CuteAndPsycho: She looks like a sweet and adorable young girl. Her personality is closer to that of a psychotic, horrible monster. |
| 976 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Unlike Yato, Nora is just as twisted and manipulative as their 'father'. |
| 977 | * DefusingTheTykebomb: Before he met Sakura, Yato murdered humans indiscriminately as his "father" ordered him to. Sakura's teachings were what made him understand why the lifestyle his "father" imposed on him was evil and she gave him a purpose to resist being a god of calamity. |
| 978 | * TheDragon: The loyal servant of Yato's "father" and the most prominent villain after him. |
| 979 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has short black hair paired with ghostly pale skin and every time she shows up the atmosphere becomes filled with creepiness. |
| 980 | * EtherealWhiteDress: She always wears a white kimono similar to a shinishozuku, the traditional Japanese clothes for corpses and stereotypical for yurei. |
| 981 | * EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: Nora isn't really a name; it's the Japanese word for stray as in stray cat. This is a title given to shinki who allow themselves to be named by more than one god. She has made clear she hates to be called that and prefers to be called by any of the names in her body. |
| 982 | * EvilCounterpart: To Yukine. Both are seemingly young shinki who have been named by Yato, with the ability to assume a katana form. Both are {{Jerkass}} too, especially towards Yato. Their personalities and motivations, however, are completely different. |
| 983 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She looks like a sweet and innocent young girl. She's anything but sweet and innocent. |
| 984 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Nora speaks to Yato as if she is an old, close friend of his. She also constantly makes his life a living hell. |
| 985 | * FetusTerrible: [[spoiler:Although she looks like a fully-grown ghost girl, Nora actually died before she could be born. Her true ayakashi form looks like a monstrous and horrifying fetus.]] |
| 986 | * ForcefulKiss: She kisses Yukine out of nowhere, which causes his suppressed sexual urges to go haywire. Although he still hates Nora, Yukine feels conflicted because part of him did like the kiss. |
| 987 | * FreudianExcuse: While Nora's personality and actions are extremely amoral, it's pretty clear that her mindset is, like Yato, a result of conditioning given to her by 'father', although she's embraced it rather than resisted it. |
| 988 | * GreenEyedMonster: Like Yukine, she too is jealous of the living despite denying it. |
| 989 | * TheHeavy: She shows up as a prominent antagonist in nearly all story arcs and usually takes more direct action than Yato's "Father". |
| 990 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In the last parts of the manga, Nora repeatedly flip-flops between remaining loyal to Father out of her fear of him and trying to aid Yato's group due to Yukine and Hiyori showing her true kindness. [[spoiler:At the end, Nora finally rebels against Father after realizing she hates him and leaves him to his death in favor of helping Yato and Yukine apply CPR on a dying Hiyori. The final chapter implies Nora is now on good terms with Yato and Yukine, since Father is gone for good and she longer has any reason to act evil.]] |
| 991 | * HoneyTrap: Nora goes to Yukine crying, claiming her "father" threw her away after Kazuma inflicted a curse in her. Seeing Nora acting so helpless, Yukine develops a crush on her and starts to take care of her. Of course, this is just part of another scheme of The Sorcerer to make Yukine into his Nora [[spoiler:and it works]]. |
| 992 | * IHaveManyNames: Her entire body is painted with countless names. As Yato's shinki, she was Hiiro/Hiki, [[spoiler:though he removes this name following Ebisu's death.]] As Father's shinki, she is Mizuchi/Chiki. [[spoiler:By the events of the Ooharai, she has lost all of her names ''but'' Mizuchi/Chiki thanks to Ameterasu removing them, only failing to remove her remaining name due to it being given not by a god, but by the Koto No Ha.]] |
| 993 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: "Father" and Yato are the closest thing to a family she has. "Father" treats her as a tool before anything and her relationship with Yato became strained after he began rebelling against "Father". Nora suggests that she kept letting gods name her because she wanted to feel she belonged somewhere. |
| 994 | * ImmortalImmaturity: Despite having been around for probably as many centuries as Yato, she's shown to be surprisingly childlike when she's not acting evil. When Yukine lets her take a bath in Daikoku and Kofuku's home, the tub is shown to be filled with toys and Nora is shown amusing herself with a shower cap that she thinks is also a toy. |
| 995 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: When she initially goes to Yukine [[spoiler:for help after "Father" supposedly throws her away]], she immediately takes off her kimono and exposes her bare back without shame [[spoiler:to prove that she's trying to shake off her Nora reputation by asking the gods to release her so that Yukine will help her]]. She doesn't seem to realize just how embarrassing it is for Yukine to see a girl undress in front of him. |
| 996 | * {{Jerkass}}: She's unrepentantly cruel towards nearly everyone. She even openly mocked Bishamon's trouble in front of Kazuma. Who just asked for help to save Bishamon and Yato agreed to his pleas. |
| 997 | * KickTheDog: |
| 998 | ** She sets ayakashi on Hiyori because she "doesn't deserve" to be associated with Yato. |
| 999 | ** She even sics them on Suzuha, whom we had only gotten to know, successfully killing him, seemingly without reason. |
| 1000 | ** She also besets Yato with ayakashi ''twice'' without explanation. So much for sibing love... |
| 1001 | * LackOfEmpathy: She does not comprehend why Yato cares so much for Hiyori, believing such sentiments are weak. |
| 1002 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: "Father" raised her and Yato together. However, the feeling is rather one-sided on Nora's part and her "affection" for Yato is really twisted. Yato, on the other hand, has good memories of being with her, but wants to keep his distance. |
| 1003 | * MakingASplash: She can summon and manipulate water as Hiiro/Hiki and Furuhime/Reiki. |
| 1004 | * ManipulativeBitch: She enjoys messing with people's minds. |
| 1005 | * MeaningfulName: Hiiro means 'crimson', befitting of her cruelty and her penchant to bloodshed, especially [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior depicted]] during her and Yato's youth that involves senseless killing. |
| 1006 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In the manga finale, [[spoiler:Nora realizes she hates Father for the awful way he has treated her and Yato, motivating her to betrays him for real. After Yato kills him, Nora refuses to help him and leaves him to his death.]] |
| 1007 | * TheMole: In a sense. She's become a pretty infamous Nora, proving to have a name under many of the major gods introduced thus far. Because of this, the cast is realizing that she's been able to source information from them and is probably part of how "Father" has been able to infiltrate the ranks of gods and cause discord among them, including the framing and execution of Ebisu. |
| 1008 | * MorphWeapon: Due to having multiple names, Nora can take the form of different weapons depending on which wielder uses her. |
| 1009 | ** Under Yato, her name was Hiiro and her form was a hiltless katana with a handle, and also had water manipulation powers. |
| 1010 | ** Under her "father", her name is Mizuchi and her form is a monk's staff. |
| 1011 | ** Under Ebisu, her name is Tsutsumi and her form is a handgun. |
| 1012 | * NoSell: Like Nana, Nora is a rare Shinki who didn't transform into an Ayakashi after learning about her human death. This is because Nora ''doesn't'' have memories of being a living human, as Yato didn't see anything when naming her. [[spoiler:It's later revealed she died as a fetus. Therefore, she can't be overcome with feelings of anger and bitterness over her death when she never knew the joy of being alive.]] |
| 1013 | * OddFriendship: She starts unexpectedly bonding with Yukine, even though [[spoiler:she only got close to him to let Father lure him into a trap and turn him into a Nora. Despite her initial devious motives, her fondness for Yukine is genuine.]] |
| 1014 | * OlderThanTheyLook: An exaggerated case. She already looks about the same age as Yukine, making her look rather young. [[spoiler:Chronologically however, she was named by "Father" ''before'' Yato was born, making her even older than Yato. Her true physical form also is that of an Ayakashi ''fetus'', due to being a TragicStillbirth, meaning she's one of the oldest characters in the principle cast despite biologically looking the youngest.]] |
| 1015 | * PetTheDog: Nora tells Yukine that studying is pointless for dead people. Once Yukine makes clear how much he hates to hear that, Nora gives him an honest apology. She also makes Yukine promise her not to look into his past while remembering what happened to Sakura out of sincere concern he might become an ayakashi. |
| 1016 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Hiyori notes her to be rather striking, and she has short black hair paired with pale skin. |
| 1017 | * TheRival: Essentially, she is Yukine's rival. Both want to be Yato's one and only shinki, and work tirelessly to prove their individual worth. |
| 1018 | * TheScapegoat: Whenever Yato did something wrong, she was punished in his place. Because of this, she began to slightly hate him when he began to rebel. |
| 1019 | * SiblingsInCrime: With Yato when they were children. They would go "play" by brutally slaying tons of people to keep their "Father" happy. |
| 1020 | * SnakePeople: Her ayakashi form turns the lower half of her body into a large snake tail. |
| 1021 | * SoftSpokenSadist: She always speaks in the same sweet tone while fully embracing the sadistic tendencies learned from "Father". |
| 1022 | * StepfordSmiler: She is almost always seen smiling. Her personality, however, is very twisted and starved for love because of the upbringing from her "father". |
| 1023 | * StoryBreakerPower: Her ability as "father's" staff borders on this because in that form, her simply touching other shinki ''once'' causes them to start remembering their human pasts, which the story reveals is a condition that usually drives them insane and turns them into ayakashi. |
| 1024 | * TattooAsCharacterType: Her body is covered with the tattoos of countless shinki emblems, hinting at her history of drifting and having had many wielders. |
| 1025 | * TookALevelInKindness: By the end of the manga, Nora has turned kinder thanks to positive influence from Hiyori. [[spoiler:She helps Yato and Yukine revive Hiyori after Father's attack leaves her close to death. In the last chapter, she also helps maintain Yato's existence by using her ayakashi form to draw attention to Yato when he's a vanishing torso, resulting in him going viral on the internet.]] |
| 1026 | * TragicStillbirth: Father reveals that [[spoiler:she never had the chance to be born. She died in the womb.]] |
| 1027 | * TroubledAbuser: Despite her treatment of Yato, she's just as much a victim of "Father" and his emotional manipulation, and it's clear a lot of her behavior comes from emulating him. [[spoiler:Even after he casts her aside in favor of Yukine as Hagusa and she realizes how little he actually cared about her thanks to talking with Hiyori, she can't help by shed TearsOfJoy when he calls her name again before rushing to his side, demonstrating just how much control over Nora he still has.]] |
| 1028 | * VillainTeamUp: She works as aid to several antagonists. |
| 1029 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: All Nora really wants is the approval of "Father", but no matter how much she obeys him, he only treats her like a weapon. |
| 1030 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Mostly on Yato's side, who is extremely wary of Nora. Nora's feelings towards Yato are much more complicated. |
| 1031 | * WhenSheSmiles: In chapter 78, she finally shows her true smile when Yukine shows concern for her and makes an embarrassed DeclarationOfProtection. |
| 1032 | * WomanScorned: She is ''NOT'' happy when Yato takes away the name he gave her. And especially when Yukine mocks her over how Yato chose him over her. |
| 1033 | * {{Yandere}}: She does love Yato, in her own twisted and sick way. She won't hesitate to literally throw Yato to the wolves if he ever tries to leave her and their "Father". |
| 1034 | [[/folder]] |
| 1035 | |
| 1036 | [[folder:Kugaha/Saku/Edachi]] |
| 1037 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/TakanoriHoshino (Japanese), Creator/PhilParsons (English) |
| 1038 | |
| 1039 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kugaha_anime.png]] |
| 1040 | |
| 1041 | One of Bishamon's shinki, and her team's medical physician. Though he presents himself as kind and loyal to his god, Kugaha is anything but, intending to overthrow Bishamon and take possession of the War God's power. To reach this end, Kugaha has enlisted the aid of Nora. |
| 1042 | ---- |
| 1043 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Yato manages to sever his right hand.]] |
| 1044 | * ArcVillain: His schemes serve to complicate the Yato vs. Bishamon story arc. |
| 1045 | * AttentionWhore: [[spoiler:Yato states the reason for his plan was he wanted more attention from Bishamon. Like a child wanting attention from their parent.]] |
| 1046 | * BreakThemByTalking: He is very good at this. His speech drove Suzuha to the DespairEventHorizon and nearly did the same to Bishamon. |
| 1047 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: He is eventually defeated by Yato and has his name revoked by Bishamon. However, rather than kill him, Bishamon chooses to teleport him away. He later reappears while Yato is stuck in the Underworld to challenge Yukine's skill as a shinki, and is eventually named and taken in by Tenjin, but as a captive.]] |
| 1048 | * ExactWords: In a last-ditch attempt to [[spoiler:convince Bishamon to believe him and do as he says, Kugaha swears on Bishamon’s name that he has never stung her. Everyone is incredulous that despite all he’s done, no blight or mark appeared on him, meaning he was telling the truth. The trick is that he ''wasn’t'' the one who actually stung her - Aiha did, though it was all on Kugaha’s orders specifically for this (and because he likely didn’t want to burden ''himself'' with blight). Bishamon believes him, but still releases him and exiles him from Heaven anyway]]. |
| 1049 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Kugaha usually presents himself as respectful and polite, all while wearing a faintly audacious smile. |
| 1050 | * HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: His plan to kill Bishamon fails, Yato cuts off his hand, gives him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, his name is stripped from him, and he is teleported away into the sky where he proceeds to [[DisneyVillainDeath free-fall back to earth.]]]] |
| 1051 | * {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:He hates how Bishamon takes so many shinki not useful in battle. But his form is a scale.]] |
| 1052 | * ManipulativeBastard: Kugaha is trying to ruin the greatest WarGod, he ''needs'' to be as sneaky and underhanded as possible. |
| 1053 | ** [[spoiler: His plots are indirectly responsible for exiling Kazuma.]] |
| 1054 | ** [[spoiler:He is able to play off a shinki's worries, giving him an absolute advantage in battles between shinki, even if the opposing shinki being stronger as shown in his battles with Kazuma and Yukine.]] |
| 1055 | * TheMedic: He's very skilled at creating herbal concoctions, which help ease Bishamon's pains. |
| 1056 | * ShamelessFanserviceGuy: He completely (and most unnecessarily) strips naked for everyone to see to confirm he is free of guilt markings. Kugaha has a surprisingly good figure. |
| 1057 | * SlasherSmile: When he knows he's winning, his crazy grin will show it. |
| 1058 | * SmugSnake: Kugaha is extremely arrogant and condescending, always looking down on others and never feeling unjustified. |
| 1059 | * TheStarscream: He intends to kill Bishamon and take control of the God of War when she is reincarnated, thereby claiming her power for himself. |
| 1060 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Kugaha's death came rather abruptly at the hands of Father, by complete accident. Father had intended to kill the comatose Bishamon due to seeing his face, but Kazuma foresaw this and convinced Iwami to hand over Kugaha to him, Kazuma proceeding to disguise and curse him. Before either can truly process whats going on, Kugaha bursts into LudicrousGibs.]] |
| 1061 | * UngratefulBastard: Even after Bishamon took him in and gave him a home and a name, he still betrays her without remorse. |
| 1062 | * VillainBall: [[spoiler: After Yato and Bishamon end their fight peacefully, Kugaha comes out and demands they keep fighting, apparently forgetting that Yato is still armed and angry.]] |
| 1063 | * VillainHasAPoint: For all his flaws, Kugaha is absolutely right when he points out that Bishamon's insistence on [[ChronicHeroSyndrome saving every spirit she comes across]] has made her weak and done nothing but fracture the Ha clan. It's such a point that even Bishamon is forced to acknowledge that he's right, in the end. |
| 1064 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Kugaha is the only thing keeping Bishamon's health in check, so naturally he commands a great deal of respect from Bishamon's other shinki. Little do they know Kugaha's true intentions. |
| 1065 | [[/folder]] |
| 1066 | |
| 1067 | [[folder:"Father"]] |
| 1068 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KaitoIshikawa (Japanese), Creator/CliffordChapin (English) |
| 1069 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/father_5.jpg]] |
| 1070 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see his true form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/father_pastmanga_infobox.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 1071 | An enigmatic entity known to Yato and Nora only as "Father." He holds great power over Yato. |
| 1072 | ---- |
| 1073 | * AbusiveDad: |
| 1074 | ** Of the emotional and verbal kind. He refuses to see Yato as anything else but a God of Calamity and puts him down when he tries to do good things. |
| 1075 | ** Flashbacks show Nora wasn't spared of his abusive treatment either, physically beating her whenever Yato wasn't behaving or feeling well, because 'gods can do no wrong' and so Yato's condition ''must'' be Nora's fault. |
| 1076 | * ArchnemesisDad: Yato loathes him and "Father" is hellbent on making life a living hell for him and his friends. |
| 1077 | * BerserkButton: Yato implies that his attempts to escape "Father's" influence is this for him. |
| 1078 | * BigBad: He's actively trying to take Yato and Yukine and is in conflict with the gods. |
| 1079 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: While acting polite in front of "friends" and strangers, he is actually sadistic and fickle, able to harm another human being without the flinch of an eye just to test out his abilities. |
| 1080 | * CantLiveWithoutYou: Yato believes "Father" is his lifeline. Since Yato was actually born from his father's wish, he fears that if his father dies, he might disappear too. [[spoiler:Subverted in the final chapter, where it's revealed Yato is able to keep existing even after his father is gone for good, because a photo of Yato's vanishing torso went viral on the internet.]] |
| 1081 | * CompulsorySchoolAge: He's older than the centuries old Yato, but since he's currently possessing a third-year high school boy, he goes to class to feign normalcy. |
| 1082 | * TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:He deliberately makes Yukine become curious about his past, particularly how he died, so he becomes more unstable and starts to distrust Yato for not sharing that information with him. Later, he takes the perfect chance to capture Yukine just as he's about to become an Ayakashi and makes him think Yato betrayed him, but he won't do that. Once Yukine lets himself be named by him, "Father" slowly makes Yukine discover how cruel and miserable his human life and death were. All this is part of his plan to send Yukine past the point of no return by motivating him to kill the family that abandoned and killed him.]] |
| 1083 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:His life as a normal human was harsh. He lost his family at a young age and the only human he cared about died in an accident, leading him to blame gods and humans for his own suffering and unhappiness.]] |
| 1084 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: As of Chapter 89.2 and 97.2, it's confirmed that he is no mere human but more akin to Tenjin – [[spoiler: a goryôjin – a human that was worshipped into godhood by followers. As his followers seem to be a single family and he hates the heavens, he never became a full god with a far shore body, but he has the other powers of gods, such as possession and naming of spirits.]] |
| 1085 | * DisproportionateRetribution: When Hiyori called him out on how he made Yato suffer, he conducts a colossal case of this [[spoiler: by destroying her father's career, nearly driving her to the point of madness and trying to force Yato to kill her]]. |
| 1086 | * TheDreaded: Yato fears his "Father" more than anyone else. |
| 1087 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Those of the Far Shore only call him "The Sorcerer". |
| 1088 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: For all his manipulation and dickery, he seems to be incapable of realizing Yato ''truly'' wants him dead, initially brushing off the idea Yato revealed his existence to Ameterasu, and trying to rationalize Yato attacking him the day of Ooharai as being an elaborate attempt at protecting him from Heaven. [[spoiler:He only finally realizes Yato's intentions after Yato threatens to decapitate him and [[EyeScream takes his eye]], prompting him to call Yato an UngratefulBastard and declare his intention to ''kill'' Yato.]] |
| 1089 | * EyesOutOfSight: In Yato's flashbacks, his eyes are covered by his hair. |
| 1090 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Dear Lord the man wears his contempt for those around him on his sleeve. Half his dialogue with Yato consists of slimy put-downs, oblique insults and a lot of mockery. |
| 1091 | * ForcefulKiss: He steals Hiyori's SacredFirstKiss. Hiyori seems relatively traumatized from it, and Yato is understandably pissed when he finds out. |
| 1092 | * ForTheEvulz: In chapter 60 he explains that he torments people "for fun" due to holding both gods and humans in contempt, and after living for centuries he has nothing better to do than troll them. However, it's subverted by the implication he does have a tragic reason to hate the gods. |
| 1093 | * FrameUp: He places illegal substances in the hospital of Hiyori's father to frame her family and ruin their reputation with a big scandal. Since he has supernatural powers, no normal human could see him at the hospital with Nora in staff form and only Hiyori's father is called to account for the events at the hospital. |
| 1094 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: He lost his entire family when he was young, leaving him an orphan given to the care of a monk who attemped a murder-suicide with him, all as the gods watched on yet did nothing to alleviate his suffering. The only person who mattered to him was a woman named Kaya, but after he got called back from the underworld and his personality got twisted, she became afraid of him, much to the wrath of his worshippers. When Kaya died crushed by a tree and people laughed at her "divine punishment", he decided to ruin gods and humanity for a chance to see Kaya again.]] |
| 1095 | * GoKartingWithBowser: The first meeting he has with Yato during the present day events of the manga is this in spades. He reintroduces himself to Yato in his new form, takes him to the apartment he's living in, and they play video games, with Father talking and Yato burning a red hot DeathGlare into the back of Fujisaki's neck. |
| 1096 | * HateSink: He horribly abuses his "son" Yato, tries to drive Hiyori away from Yato, plans to steal Yukine from Yato, and wants to see people in pain and dying for the hell of it. His main personality trait is being an unrepentant {{Jerkass}} and {{Troll}}, on top of it all. He pretty much exists to make everyone around him miserable and everything he does shows how absolutely despicable he is. |
| 1097 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: He despises the gods who abuse their power over mankind and the humans who he blames for the gods never getting punishments for their misdeeds. |
| 1098 | * HiddenVillain: He is mostly discussed by Yato and Nora, but never shown in person. It is not until much later that his physical appearance is shown, and even then, he's merely shown in the form of Fujisaki while his original appearance is hidden. When he finally reveals his true appearance in this present day, [[spoiler:it's when he's been pushed to a GodzillaThreshold and requires using Fujisaki as a lifeline to avoid dying to Yato.]] |
| 1099 | * HumansAreBastards: Just as contemptuous of mankind as he is of Gods. Chapter 50 is his attempt at using this to drive Hiyori to the point of madness. [[spoiler:He fails]]. |
| 1100 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He dares to accuse Hiyori of "corrupting Yato for her own selfish ends" when that's exactly what he has been doing since the day Yato was born. |
| 1101 | * {{Jerkass}}: When Hiyori finally detects him, he chews her out with barely restrained vitriol and takes troll like glee in mocking her relationship with his son. And that's not mentioning the asshole of a father he is to Yato. |
| 1102 | * KarmicDeath: In the manga finale, [[spoiler:his abused son Yato finally kills him by using a shinki made from Hiyori's soul to cut him down and sever his connections to his human hosts. Nora also leaves him to his death after getting fed up with his abuse, just like Yato.]] |
| 1103 | * KilledOffForReal: In the final battle, [[spoiler:Yato turns Hiyori into a shinki and uses her to cut down Father's true form. The attack is fatal and Father discovers Yato also severed the spirit cords tying him to his human hosts, giving him no means to revive himself anymore. His soul then disappears, presumably forever.]] |
| 1104 | * LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't usually give a toss about those around him, whether it be his son, daughter or [[spoiler: Hiyori and her parents, as he violently demonstrates in Chapter 50.]] |
| 1105 | * ManipulativeBastard: |
| 1106 | ** He manages to screw over the Gods and get Ebisu roasted by lightning in his place. But the main victim has to be his son who despite his best efforts, ends up as a pawn in many of his plots. |
| 1107 | ** His new target is Bishamon. Knowing that she wants him dead, when he's finally hunted down by her, he ensures the situation is choreographed in such a way that the Heavens declare Bishamon a traitor and try to kill her, all the while goading the war god towards her death. |
| 1108 | * MotiveRant: Gives a slightly smug one to Bishamon in Chapter 60, which then becomes bitter when he rages about how the gods get a free pass for their mistakes due to their worshipers forgiving them regardless of the scale of their misdeeds. |
| 1109 | ** Chapter 97 shows essentially his ultimate motive rant, which he delivers to no-one less but [[spoiler:Amaterasu]]'s face on the New Year's Ôharai, and it turns out that his motive is even pettier than that: [[spoiler:As a child, he escaped being murdered by a monk who wanted to meet Buddha so badly he would commit suicide – and take his companion with him. Understandably, "Father" did not agree and ended up tossing the man off the cliff, fell back, and cried in fury as he realised that the sun and the heavens above him, '''Amaterasu''' and the rest of the gods had done nothing but watch. In essence, he considers gods useless and uneccessary, no matter which of them opposes him.]] |
| 1110 | * OmnicidalManiac: His goal is to slay all of humanity because without humans, there will be no gods (beyond that of the nature kind). |
| 1111 | * ParasiticImmortality: He has survived for centuries by constantly changing bodies via a technique similar to divine possession. When he first appears in the present, he's inside one of Hiyori's classmates, Kouta Fujisaki. |
| 1112 | * PragmaticVillainy: For all the abuse he heaps on Yato, the man still wants him kept alive, and so when the heavens attempt to kill Yato and Bishamon, the latter who wants him dead, Father carefully uses a combination of goading and co-opting Hiyori in an attempt to keep Yato out of the fray while he still has a chance and lure Bishamon to a convenient death. |
| 1113 | * PsychopathicManchild: A major league one. At the end of the day, he's nothing but an overgrown brat who has fun bringing trouble to those around him and can't stand when things don't go his way. |
| 1114 | * RageAgainstTheHeavens: In Chapter 60, he lets his cheerful demeanor break for a moment and bitterly rants about how gods are able to get a free pass for their mistakes and misdeeds due to the willingness of their worshipers. |
| 1115 | * RelationshipSabotage: He does everything he can to break Yato and Hiyori apart because he knows Hiyori is a positive influence for Yato and he does ''not'' want that for Yato. His goal is to either make Hiyori miserable until she leaves Yato or make Yato feel so guilty about getting Hiyori in danger that he cuts ties with her. |
| 1116 | * {{Sadist}}: He's the embodiment of this trope. His one and only pleasure is to make other people suffer and fall into despair. The very reason he created Yato was to have a god that would bring people the suffering and destruction he enjoys so much. |
| 1117 | * SmugSnake: Incredibly arrogant and despicable. Every single being seems to be a mere plaything to him. |
| 1118 | * StartOfDarkness: Some of the MotiveRant he delivers in Chatper 60 suggests he suffered a bad experience when he was younger, which robbed him of faith in anything and turned him into the sociopath he is today. Chapter 98 later reveals that a monk he travelled with as a child [[spoiler:tried to commit suicide and take him with him "to meet Buddha". He ended up tossing the monk off the cliff to his death, crying out in fury as he realised that the sun and the heavens above him, '''Amaterasu''' and the rest of the gods had done nothing but watch as he'd suffered.]] |
| 1119 | * SupernaturallyYoungParent: He wished Yato into being several centuries ago. Thanks to surviving through constantly changing bodies, he currently has the body of a high school student that looks roughly the same age as Yato does. |
| 1120 | * {{Troll}}: Many of his actions mirror those of real-life internet trolls, from fake dating accounts to [+SWAT+]ing to malicious negative PR. |
| 1121 | * TrulySingleParent: Yato was born from his father's wish to create a calamity god. A mother wasn't needed. |
| 1122 | * UnnamedParent: He is only known as Yato's "father". |
| 1123 | * VillainHasAPoint: Given what his implied StartOfDarkness is, when Yato and company are brought before [[spoiler:Amaterasu]], Yato realizes just how flawed Heaven really is and that perhaps Father has a good reason for wanting to bring it down. |
| 1124 | [[/folder]] |
| 1125 | |
| 1126 | [[folder:Rabou]] |
| 1127 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/TakahiroSakurai (Japanese), Creator/MikeMcFarland (English) |
| 1128 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rabou_9556.jpg]] |
| 1129 | |
| 1130 | A mysterious and powerful God of Calamity. Rabou is said to grant dark wishes of people. His specialty entails killing ayakashi, people, and even Gods. He is one of the many Gods that employ Nora as a shinki. |
| 1131 | ---- |
| 1132 | * AxCrazy: He smiles disturbingly after killing people. |
| 1133 | * BeingEvilSucks: Rabou is perfectly aware of how his life is a dead end road. |
| 1134 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With Nora (called Furuhime when using her) in the anime. |
| 1135 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: When he absorbs ayakashi into his empty left eye socket, he gains a crimson eye with a completely black sclera. |
| 1136 | * BloodKnight: He seems to enjoy fighting and killing, and even smiles when Yato comes close to injuring him in battle. |
| 1137 | * CanonImmigrant: He's an anime-original character. While he doesn't appear in the manga, he does appear in a manga special. |
| 1138 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler:Absorbing ayakashi is logically a dangerous idea. However, Rabou sustained his God form by placing a life threatening curse on himself. Even if Yato had not killed him, he did not have much time left.]] |
| 1139 | * DeathSeeker: He pursues Yato in the hopes that his fellow God of Calamity will give him a wonderful fight to the death. [[spoiler: Rabou has pretty much given up on living after hundreds of years of being forgotten, and wishes to be killed by the only person who remembers him.]] |
| 1140 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: He used to be a human warrior, but after he was killed, those who feared him deified him into a God-like entity. |
| 1141 | * TheDreaded: The few people that know of Rabou fear him for his ability to carry out death wishes. |
| 1142 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He is incapable of understanding why Yato has cleaned up his act and is not a psychopathic killer like him. |
| 1143 | * EvilCounterpart: To Yato. Both are sword-wielding Gods of Calamity with obscure origins. Both have a history with Nora, but Yato has chosen to try turning over a new leaf and do honest work. Rabou continues to kill, and even thrives on it. |
| 1144 | * {{Eyescream}}: He's missing his left eye. |
| 1145 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Yato fulfills Rabou's death wish and kills him. Because no one will remember him, this ends Rabou's existence.]] |
| 1146 | * KnightOfCerebus: Him entering the fray fills Yato's heart with dread. |
| 1147 | * MakingASplash: He can manipulate water while wielding Reiki (Furuhime/Nora). |
| 1148 | * ThemeNaming: His shinki's given names end with "hime". |
| 1149 | [[/folder]] |
| 1150 | |
| 1151 | !Other |
| 1152 | [[folder:Sakura]] |
| 1153 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sakura_noragami.png]] |
| 1154 | Yato's first shinki other than Nora/Hiiro. Before serving Yato, Sakura was Tenjin's shinki until she was dismissed. She was the one who shaped up Yato's current character. |
| 1155 | ---- |
| 1156 | * BreakTheCutie: Poor Sakura broke ''bad'' when [[spoiler:Yato revealed her real name and she regained her memories of her past life and her death.]] |
| 1157 | * CherryBlossomGirl: She was a wandering human soul Yato named Sakura after he met her next to a cherry blossom tree. Yato mourns for her every time spring comes in for that reason. |
| 1158 | * TheConscience: She acted as Yato's moral compass given that The Sorcerer's upbringing gave him no sense of right and wrong beforehand. She scolded him for stealing and killing for no reason and taught him to help humans instead of hurting them. |
| 1159 | * CoolBigSis: She was this to Yato, acting as a loving sister while teaching him about the joys of life. |
| 1160 | * CorruptTheCutie: [[spoiler:Regaining her past life memories corrupted her soul and turned her into an ayakashi. Yato was then forced to kill her.]] |
| 1161 | * HeroicBSOD: She had a major one when [[spoiler:Yato used her to kill someone]]. |
| 1162 | * HimeCut: To go with her {{Miko}} attire and her background as a noblewoman, Sakura has parted blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and long straight hair. |
| 1163 | * KillTheCutie: She was a really kind and loving girl who Yato adored, but [[spoiler:after Yato was forced to reveal her true name, she turned into an ayakashi and he was forced to kill her.]] |
| 1164 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Yato. After her meeting with Tsuyu, she decided to act as a loving older sister figure to teach him the difference between right and wrong. |
| 1165 | * MoralityPet: To Yato. Before meeting her, he thought nothing of human life and only wanted to make his father happy. Sakura taught him the value of life and the best parts of his current self are thanks to her. |
| 1166 | * NiceGirl: She was very kind-hearted, polite and caring. |
| 1167 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:After revealing her true name, Sakura turned into an ayakashi and Yato had no choice but to kill Sakura with Nora.]] |
| 1168 | * PresentAbsence: It's been centuries since [[spoiler:her death]], but her positive influence on Yato remains to the present day. Yato still mourns her every spring when the cherry blossoms bloom, and [[spoiler:[[DeadGuyJunior all of his shinki are named in her honor]]]]. |
| 1169 | * RapeAsBackstory: Heavily implied. [[spoiler:Sakura was apparently raped by bandits before they killed her.]] |
| 1170 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Sakura's influence really made Yato have second thoughts about his murderous lifestyle. She had such a huge influence on his life that Yato sees Izanami as a mix of her and Hiyori. |
| 1171 | * ThemeNaming: [[spoiler: Since Sakura's death, all Yato's future shinki (Tomone/Mayu and Yukine) receive the 'Ne' clan name. [[DeadGuyJunior It is to honor her,]] in which her name when she was still alive was Tamano''ne''. Giving a loose soul a family name alongside a shinki's name is a first step of becoming a proper god, in which also begins Yato's dream to become a proper god outside being an evil god who uses a clanless-named Nora.]] |
| 1172 | [[/folder]] |
| 1173 | |
| 1174 | [[folder:Daigo]] |
| 1175 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daigo_3.png]] |
| 1176 | The ghost of a young child. He used to be Kofuku's Shinki, but she had to release him due to Daikoku not being able to handle Daigo's ignorance to their status as dead people. |
| 1177 | ---- |
| 1178 | * CantGrowUp: Being a shinki, he can't grow up since he's dead. Him not being able to understand that was a big source of grief for Daikoku. |
| 1179 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: The little dude doesn't even know what "death" is and he's very much unaware that he's dead but he's perceptive enough to know something ain't right. |
| 1180 | * DeathOfAChild: He died over 100+ years ago and he was really young when he passed away. |
| 1181 | [[/folder]] |
| 1182 | |
| 1183 | [[folder:Mutsumi]] |
| 1184 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/MikaelaKrantz (English) |
| 1185 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mutsumi_noragami.png]] |
| 1186 | A one shot char that shows up in the first chapter. |
| 1187 | ---- |
| 1188 | * DelicateAndSickly: From what's implied, she has health problems but it's not real clear what those are. |
| 1189 | * GirlishPigtails: She's a young girl with her hair tied into pigtails. |
| 1190 | * NoFullNameGiven: Her surname isn't mentioned. |
| 1191 | [[/folder]] |
| 1192 | |
| 1193 | [[folder:Yuka Miyaike]] |
| 1194 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuka_miyaike.png]] |
| 1195 | Yukine's older sister. She's currently middle-aged. |
| 1196 | ---- |
| 1197 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's unknown whether "Miyaike" is her mother's surname or her (Yuka's) married name. She doesn't have a ring on her finger, so it's possible she's using her mother's maiden name. |
| 1198 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She does feel some guilt at having [[spoiler: abandoning Yukki]]. |
| 1199 | * SatelliteFamilyMember: She doesn't have involvement in the plot beyond being Yukine's older sister. She's only introduced to expand on Yukine's backstory. |
| 1200 | * SolomonDivorce: When her parents divorced, Yuka went to live with her mother and her brother stayed with their abusive father. |
| 1201 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: She tricked her mother into signing divorce papers, thinking that their parents splitting would save them but this turned out to be the opposite, as their father made Yukki (then "Haruki") stay with him and made Yuka go with their mother. As y'all already know, their father wound up killing Yukki]]. |
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