sigh, i looved this story but the climax was haphazard. yato's fight with his father was dragged out, it rehashed their philosophies in derivative ways; the gods were honestly really useless, and hiyori was sidelined and mostly irrelevant (she was severely underutilized for most of the story relative to yukine and yato). the pacing was horrendous, and the plot unfolded conveniently. nora's character development was done a huge disservice imo. she served as an antagonist for the majority of the story, was a dangerous, beautiful doll on the father's side for hundreds of years, so it's completely understandable that she will ignore the sliver chance of redemption and rejoin her father. there was a slight change in her personality, but she continued to love him and inflict damage, and it wasn't until he started cruelly verbally abusing her that the story decided she needed to be treated with kid gloves. When she finally realizes she hates her father, it's treated as the end of her growth. No processes of guilt or reflections abt her actions or sorrys. her personality does a 180; she suddenly goes from a child lacking in emotions/morals to a kid with a full set of emotions and morals. Her finally saying "no" to her father is treated as sufficient redemption. unlike viina and the thunder god, she's not given the time to adjust and gradually integrate herself as an ally and gain the trust/friendship of yato and the rest, she just easily melds in seamlessly, even tho she was claiming she hated yato less than 10 chapters earlier. and it happens less than 5 chapters left. In the end she's not given any judgment at all for her actions; it's swept under the rug bc she's a brainwashed kid, and if she had received love ("name") from parents, she never would've turned out that way. unlike her, viina and thunder god had legit reasons to oppose yato and when they do become allies, they kept their personality and had time to solidify their relationship/role as his ally/friend, so it sucks that one of the main side characters' development was so rushed. Anyway, yukine's development during this arc was only done marginally better than hers, but it was also just messy. It's also disappointing that overall heaven didn't go thru a systemic change. Devastation occurs in the human realm, the older gods are still self-important and callous to god-induced human suffering, but it's a happy ending bc the main antagonist died. also if the issue of yato's disappearance was resolved that easily, why did we need to go thru all that angsty drama with yato leaving hiyori and yukine and yukine falling into evil and hiyori almost dying? also if drawing the eye on his face with that brush was that powerful (with no repercussions at all) why didnt the father do it earlier? wasted all his time fighting yato
sigh, i looved this story but the climax was haphazard. yato's fight with his father was dragged out, it rehashed their philosophies in derivative ways; the gods were honestly really useless, and hiyori was sidelined and mostly irrelevant (she was severely underutilized for most of the story relative to yukine and yato). the pacing was horrendous, and the plot unfolded conveniently. nora's character development was done a huge disservice imo. she served as an antagonist for the majority of the story, was a dangerous, beautiful doll on the father's side for hundreds of years, so it's completely understandable that she will ignore the sliver chance of redemption and rejoin her father. there was a slight change in her personality, but she continued to love him and inflict damage, and it wasn't until he started cruelly verbally abusing her that the story decided she needed to be treated with kid gloves. When she finally realizes she hates her father, it's treated as the end of her growth. No processes of guilt or reflections abt her actions or sorrys. her personality does a 180; she suddenly goes from a child lacking in emotions/morals to a kid with a full set of emotions and morals. Her finally saying "no" to her father is treated as sufficient redemption. unlike viina and the thunder god, she's not given the time to adjust and gradually integrate herself as an ally and gain the trust/friendship of yato and the rest, she just easily melds in seamlessly, even tho she was claiming she hated yato less than 10 chapters earlier. and it happens less than 5 chapters left. In the end she's not given any judgment at all for her actions; it's swept under the rug bc she's a brainwashed kid, and if she had received love ("name") from parents, she never would've turned out that way. unlike her, viina and thunder god had legit reasons to oppose yato and when they do become allies, they kept their personality and had time to solidify their relationship/role as his ally/friend, so it sucks that one of the main side characters' development was so rushed. Anyway, yukine's development during this arc was only done marginally better than hers, but it was also just messy. It's also disappointing that overall heaven didn't go thru a systemic change. Devastation occurs in the human realm, the older gods are still self-important and callous to god-induced human suffering, but it's a happy ending bc the main antagonist died. also if the issue of yato's disappearance was resolved that easily, why did we need to go thru all that angsty drama with yato leaving hiyori and yukine and yukine falling into evil and hiyori almost dying? also if drawing the eye on his face with that brush was that powerful (with no repercussions at all) why didnt the father do it earlier? wasted all his time fighting yato