Recap

Yato tries to solve his financial woes by seeing a fellow god named Kofuku. After accepting a job they come across a suicidal man and take the longest fall of all time.

Quite the strange episode we had this week. Once again this is basically an episode of two halves, it just so happens that both halves are comedies this time. There is just something really funny about Yato acting like a gold-digger to Kofuku. She’s another example of showing how the other side lives without making them all seem like total dicks. Sure, Kofuku has problems, but she doesn’t seem to hurt people out of malice. Still, I have to question why her Regalia is shown to be some weird pedophile. It did lead to some great reactions, but overall are we just supposed to accept that about his personality? And these are the people Yato wants us to trust.

The infinite fall later on was quite the gag. You gotta admit there’s something admirable about being able to make a guy jumping to his death look funny. It was pretty great at first, but as time went on the gag started to wear on me. Then after that, weird thing was that it somehow came back around to being funny again. I’m going to chalk the inanity of the sequence up to part of Yato’s powers. That’s the only way I can explain why he was also able to just gently fall to the ground after the job was done. It was cool to see that destroying demons isn’t the only thing in a Regalia’s repertoire. Definitely opens up for more of these enjoyable comedy affairs.. The line about how destroying bonds is usually hard, but it came natural to him, sounds like a window into what may have happened in Yukine’s life.

With the introduction of Nora and Yato’s past deeds, it seems like we’ll be diving back into drama after this week’s more farcical turn of events. I’m not quite sure what her power over Yato is, but considering the numerous Regalia marks on her body I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess she maybe collects them from killing other Regalia. It would explain Yato’s extreme reaction, and his warning to Hiyori. While I’m enjoying the slapstick quite a bit, Noragami has proven it can do action well, so I welcome a change of pace in the episodes to come.