“Homeless god Yato, deserted by his weapon, teams with soul-loose girl Hiyori to regain followers and fix her.”
Noragami
ノラガミ
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Synopsis
Homeless god Yato, deserted by his weapon, teams with soul-loose girl Hiyori to regain followers and fix her.
In times of need, if you look in the right place, you just may see a strange telephone number scrawled in red. If you call this number, you will hear a young man introduce himself as the Yato God. Yato is a minor deity and a self-proclaimed "Delivery God," who dreams of having millions of worshippers. Without a single shrine dedicated to his name, however, his goals are far from being realized. He spends his days doing odd jobs for five yen apiece, until his weapon partner becomes fed up with her useless master and deserts him. Just as things seem to be looking grim for the god, his fortune changes when a middle school girl, Hiyori Iki, supposedly saves Yato from a car accident, taking the hit for him. Remarkably, she survives, but the event has caused her soul to become loose and hence able to leave her body. Hiyori demands that Yato return her to normal, but upon learning that he needs a new partner to do so, reluctantly agrees to help him find one. And with Hiyori's help, Yato's luck may finally be turning around.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 249 sampled reviews
What 249 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.48 · some divergence
5.2 pts
Recommenders 8.6 · others 3.4
↓ 0.84
Running avg · Mar 2014 → Aug 2025
- 10 “It's one of the best animes I've seen. I think those who haven't seen it yet will love it because it has a good art style and the characters react appropriately to the problems that come their way,...”
- 10 “I ABSOLUTELY LOVED EPISODE 9, EVEN TO THIS DAY I KEEP RE-WATCHING IT, THE ABLUTION IS EXTRAORDINARY. The buildup to the ablution was excellent, I loved the process of searching for a Regalia....”
- 9 “Noragami follows a god named Yato through his struggle in finding a new partner a new shinki. Throughout this series he meets a lot of people like Hiyori a girl who actually saves Yato from getting...”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2014 – Mar 2014 Winter 2014
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-8263 catalog
Produced by
- Avex Entertainment Producer
- Dentsu Producer
- Shochiku Producer
- Kodansha Producer
- Movic Producer
- Ai Addiction Producer
- Lawson HMV Entertainment Producer
- A-Sketch Producer
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- Funimation Licensor