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Fridge Brilliance

  • Belldandy's unable to get drunk (at least with alcohol. Soda is another matter...), and even Urd, who we have seen drunk, can hold her liquor very well. Now, aren't Nordic divinities infamous for being heavy drinkers that take forever to get drunk?
  • Mara's declining level of danger doesn't come out of nowhere: aside from her Punch-Clock Villain status and past friendship with the goddesses keeping her from hurting them in ways allowed by the rules, they quickly discovered her weakness to lucky charms and then fortified the temple specifically against her (Banpei in particular started out as a devastatingly efficient anti-Mara guardian).
    • Indirectly confirmed during the Hagall Arc, when she cuts loose against all of Hagall's Earth-side minions and is a match for all of them together, with a squadron of demonic bulls being taken out in a single spell.
  • Belldandy's change in looks and Mara's increase of bustline aren't just the result of Art Evolution and Early-Installment Weirdness: gods and demons don't actually look human, they simply updated their human-like forms. Also hinted at by how Belldandy in flashbacks still looks like she looked as she first appeared (Art Evolution aside).
  • According to the author's notes, the sidecart attached to Keiichi's bike isn't a real model, but was created by the author based on a Harley Davidson model... And in-universe he must have made it himself starting from the shell of said Harley Davidson sidecart, as he didn't have to actually buy one. Also acts as Foreshadowing to Keiichi's mechanical skills, though not many would notice it.
    • It having been made by Keiichi himself may also explain why it was broken before the series and needed Otaki to fix it: being still unexperienced he got something wrong and didn't know how to fix it, but Otaki, being at the time his better, could do so easily.
  • During Hagall's coup, Hild's avatar was able to send the Norns and Keiichi to the Infernal Realm though a Gate she had put near the temple, though for safety said Gate was normally invisible, up in the air in a place where no flying vehicles passed by, needed to be crossed at exactly 80 kph, and non-Demons need the approval of three demons to cross it. Some rather specific conditions that at the right time Hild's avatar just happens to be able to fulfill (the Norns can fly at the right speed and Keiichi is given Gluhen Des Herzen to help him, and the approvals are given by her, Mara, and Welspar)... But knowing that she had planned for Hagall to usurp her and then retake the throne, it makes perfectly sense: she had selected the Norns and Keiichi as the ones who'd have to defeat Hagall at least as early as the Angel Eater Arc, and regulated the safeties on the Gate to be able to have them cross it at the right moment without Hagall and her accomplices being able to realize what was going on.

Fridge Horror

  • In an early chapter, Urd brews a Love Potion with the intent of tricking Keiichi into taking it to speed along his relationship. Although Urd swallows it by mistake, consider that the love potion would have been essentially a date-rape drug that might have made Keiichi try to force himself on Belldandy.

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