Noragami Chapter 65

Chapter 65 of Noragami is now available in English. Feel free to redistribute and use as the base for non-English scanlations. Chapter 66 comes out May 6th. Translation notes below the cut.



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The “vessel” character (器) used in the word “shinki” (神器) more generally just means any container object, like a dish, bowl, or, vase. So, more smoothly Fujisaki is saying she “broke too many dishes”, but the fact that he’s referring to shinki wouldn’t be as apparent with that translation.

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The title of this chapter isn’t even a word, but rather “kajitsu” (カ日), which is a numeric ending to count days, either “x days before” or “x days after”. In typical usage it would have a number in front of it. It’s often used in terms of counting the number of days since someone died.

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Yato calls Takemikazuchi “Haramaki”, which is the tiger-print wrap he wears around his waist. This is similar to how people often refer to Yato as just “Jersey”.

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The poem Kazuma uses is a real poem from the Shinkokinshu, number 1861. The literal translation is “When I have capriciously complete the deed the people wish of me, I merely part the clouds and rise.” The poem was to signify that the gods can grant anyone’s wishes, and owe no loyalty to those in power.

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Kazuma calls him “Hono Kagutsuchi” (ホノカグツチ), even though his full name is more commonly given as “Hino Kagutsuchi”. “Hono Kagutsuchi” is still a valid, though less common, name for him.

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Sprinkles calls Fujisaki a “Yasa-otoko” (優男), which is a gentle-mannered man.

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So it looks like the “Aya-sama” from before is possibly just an old dialect for “father”. Most of the commenters on 2ch didn’t know what it meant, either, but it had a furigana footnote here.



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Sprinkles’ real name is hidden behind Bishamon’s speech bubble. The only character that can be made out in its totality is “su”, however the character following it pretty much has to be “ne”, as no other katakana character looks like it from the top. The character preceding it could be a couple of things, from “no” to “so” to “tsu” to “fu”, since the bottom parts of those all look similar. There may be more characters before and after those, too.

