Noragami Chapter 76

Phew! Even after getting called off by the realtor to sign a new counter-offer and getting an inspection scheduled, I still had time to finish the chapter tonight, despite it being so dialogue-heavy.



There wasn’t actually a color page this month despite what last month’s chapter said. This one says it’s coming next month.

As usual, feel free to redistribute and use as the base for non-English translations if you’re better with English than Japanese, but please refer to the notes because there were a few lines I had to modify or approximate to get them to work right in English.

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Translation notes below the cut

Sample pages:

Page 4:

The title is literally “Cannot be Discarded”, but I wanted to go with something that flowed better as a title than that and “Indispensable” pretty much literally means just that.

Page 10:

God, Ammy’s line here gave me the most headaches. She brings up the term “musuhi”, which is a Shinto term that basically encompasses “creation and the workings of the universe”. She says that the gods are “musuhi no kami”. The word “musuhi” comes from “umusu” which means “to birth”, and “hi” which is “spirit”. The word became overlapped with “musubi” which means “to bind”, which is why gods are associated with matchmaking. The intersection of musubi-musuhi is like “humans are brought together by the gods in a holy union so as to further creation.” But if what I’m parsing from her obscure vocabulary and grammar is right, she’s basically asserting that gods are supposed to be the keepers of the cycle of birth and death and someone diverging from that is a big no-no.

Page 11:

The term used for “return from the underworld” is “yomi-gaeri”, which is usually simply used to mean “to resurrect”. However, “yomigaeri” when used normally is typically written with its own character, whereas Amaterasu here uses the actual words for “return from the underworld (Yomi)” which are pronounced the same.

Page 13:

Ooharai is a purification ritual that takes place every 6 months on the 31st of December and the 30th of June. Since Kamuhakari was November 21st and we figured out from Hiyori’s notebook in chapter 74 that Yukine’s birthday was the 29th, since that was yesterday story-wise, Yato’s got a month.

Page 14:

Yato screams “TANOMOU!” into the mountains. “Tanomou” (not yelled) is a request to enter someone else’s house.

Page 17:

I’m not sure why Shiigun has a second name, Shiiho, since his weapon name is already Tsuiki. “Shiigun” may be an assigned nickname, as “gun” means “troops”.

Page 20:

Arahabaki: “So you know, while I’m not taking in orphans who were left in the cold to starve, I’m plowing snow for the elderly. So, what’d you come here for?”

Yato: “… shit.”

Page 21:



Nana: “I killed it with my…. BEAR HANDS! … Eeeeh? Eeeeeeeeeehhh?”

Page 25:

Wait, what? In just the last chapter Takemikazuchi quite clearly stated that he’d already released Eyami, but here he’s acting like she’s still got the name from him. I checked his line in chapter 75 to be sure I didn’t misinterpret him, but “オレはもう放った” is preeetty cut-and-dry. Since from this conversation it sounds like no one else but Kiun knew he had her, it could have just been a case of:

Yato: “Hey, Take, Nora’s been snooping your browser history. You cleared it, right?”

Take: “… Yes. Yes, I totally cleared my browser history.”

Yato: “Okay, good.”

Take: “(…. shit, gotta go home and clear my browser history)”

Page 28:

Kiun: “Master, are you implying I might have a crush on a girl?!”

Page 35:

What Nana actually says here is “It’s sure piling up”, however the word for “piling up” can also mean “to stow and transport cargo”, which is why Yato reacted that she was referring to snow, not to stuffing her down his pants and running off with her.

Page 37:

SHE HAS ELEVENTY BILLION SHINKI AND A FOOKIN’ LION, HOW IS THERE NO ONE WATCHING HER?!

Page 38:

Oh, hey, Kugaha, long time no see. Are you dead? Or just wide-eyed crazy still? Always so hard to tell.

Page 42:

Whose blood is it? Maybe Kazuma just murdered his own bear.

