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This is my first review, so I’d be very happy if you had suggestions to help me improve. I’d like to point out that English is not my first language, which is in fact Portuguese, so be free to correct me if I mess up with the grammar. Let’s get started:

Story: 3

In my opinion, the “theme” of this anime is far from original. There are monsters, the phantoms or ayakashi, which are in fact dead human beings who are stalked by the negative emotions they had on their lives. This remembers me of the hollows of Bleach. There is also ... the fact that dead human beings can transform into weapons, which remembers me of Soul Eater.

Now comes the plot. This anime doesn’t really have a focus, it has comedy, action, and a little bit of drama. I’m not saying that this itself is bad, but I found every one of those boring. 1: The comedy is not funny. It only has weak tsundere jokes, and other jokes with Yato being a failure as a god. 2: The battles with the phantoms and the other gods were also boring, it lacks emotion and … action. 3: The drama with Yukine was the best of the worst, it was silly of Yato to let his shinki do things that would hurt them both. Again, the drama would be a lot better if their respective pasts were shown.

The story had four “arcs”: The first was the search for a way to help Hiyori and a shinki for Yato, the second was the Yukine arc, the third was the battle with Bishamon and the final one was the battle with Ebisu. For me, the Yukine arc was the best, it didn’t had any battles, but was the only one that managed to have character development.

Characters: 2

The characters simply weren’t developed, the unique exception would be Yukine, but his development was simply thrown away because he was deprived of attention during the final “arc” of the anime. I would also like to point out that the lack of information about the past of both Yukine and Yato is sad, because the viewer become curious during the course of the anime, but in the end they can just speculate what happened.
The problem with a 12 episode anime is that we don’t really have the time to like the villains or the support characters, we only get to really know the principal ones, which are also boring in this case.

Visual: 6

The animation was neither good nor bad, it was average. The movements of the characters during the battles wasn’t amazing but was fluid enough. I personally liked the phantoms, which were very colorful and had fluid movements.

Sound: 7

I loved the opening sound, I and started to watch the anime because of the opening. However, the ending was average and the OST didn’t had very much to offer, with the exception of the song Lurk. It simply didn’t had that moment in which you listen to a song and start to search for it on the OST. However, I have to admit that the songs are not that bad and fit on every moment of the anime.

Overall: 4,5

Noragami is not that good of an anime, and is overrated by many. I don’t recommend you to watch this show if you are looking for an action anime, nor if you are looking for a comedy one.