In honour of the manga ending, there will be a Noragami reread in the lead up to Christmas starting December 1st.
The idea is to revisit the manga by reading one volume a day throughout the month of December, and share our thoughts and feelings as the manga pulls to a close on January 6th 2024.
You can tag anything during this as #GoodbyeNoragami.
Photo ID: Tweet from @noragamiwikia reading “Noragami will end with the next volume, Volume 27, to be released at the end of 2023. We have 3 and a half chapters left to be released, or around 7 monthly releases!”
Kazuma has done a lot of questionable things… but I think the interaction on these two pages is when I find myself the most “scared” by his actions in the series. The subtleties of his words, the subtext lying within the camellias importance to the scene and how Adachitoka uses it to lead us through said scene, is masterful.
Camellia symbolize love, but also noble death. It’s almost like Kazuma is commenting on both. He’s saying he see’s his decision as righteous and noble, because he didn’t sting Bisha over it (Father behavior). He loves Bishamon dearly, and he loved the Ma clan dearly. The Ma may have met their downfall by their own hand. But he, a member of the Ma, was responsible for releasing the final blow.
Like the camellia, the Ma beheaded themselves and it was un-ironically, for love. Though I think we’ve learned by now, any sort of nobility thought to come out of human sacrifice… is not noble at all and ignores the true feelings of the kami each sacrifice is meant to appease.
I imagine Kazuma could’ve said at that moment, “It doesn’t matter how much you love and care for those flowers in the garden. Weed them out if they become poison to your master.“
Just the first sentence and I am sold, sold, sold. "Kazuma has done a lot of questionable things.”
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