About gods and ethics

[kinlyu]

I was reading Paul Varley’s Japanese Culture, and discovered a basic part of the ancient Shinto belief to relate very closely to the youkai in Noragami.

"Shinto has little concept of the ethical as a means to measure human behaviour, but instead considers the misdeeds of people […] to be essentially visitations from without that must be handled by

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[analineblue]

Ooh, this is really interesting! *_* I LOVE Noragami - the world and the characters are all so interesting, and somewhere in the back of my mind I'd wondered if there was any tie-in to established religious traditions and stuff like that... Have you read the manga at all, btw? I'm generally not a huge manga reader, but I'm thinking about picking this up, because the anime feels like it's going to be way too short! ;_;

[kinlyu]

It is right? :D I've read what's been scanlated so far, and it's great! I even prefer the manga over the anime, because there is much more depth to Bishamonten and Kazuma etc~ (you actually learn why she hates him so much and... feels and everything)

I've placed an order to get vols 1-10 in Japanese even, haha xD But I've seen that there will be an official English version coming out in fall~ Either way, I would suggest you try the manga! The anime is definitely gonna be too short D:

[analineblue]

Yeah, I really feel like they're just sort of scratching the surface here with the anime - I think I'm definitely going to have to check out the manga.

Sadly, my Japanese skills probably aren't up to attempting the Japanese? So I'll probably have to look for scans to tide me over before the official release ^_~

[kinlyu]

Yup! But the scanlation group has started uploading new chapters faster since the anime started so that's great! <3
It's really good~ If you already like the anime, I think you'd love the manga!

I'm not sure about buying the Japanese manga yet cause I kinda don't have money for it, but I can get the set for about 4,5€ per volume including shipping so that's a pretty good deal xD