Noragami Chapter 57

Noragami chapter 57 is now available in English. As always, feel free to use it as the base for non-English scanlations, image edits, and redistribution.

Chapter 57

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Page 3:

Yato tells Yukine that to get Kiun to leave he should have “offered him the bubu-zuke”. In Kyoto, there’s a peculiarity where if someone is loitering for too long in a restaurant, the owner will kindly offer the customer the “bubu-zuke”, which is a made-up dish. It is meant as a passive-aggressive suggestion that an unwanted person leave. Since it would have taken too long to explain in-chapter, I adapted it to “tell him we’re closing in five minutes”, which is the closest English equivalent to the same situation I could think of.

Page 6:

Kiun refers to Amaterasu as “Miya-sama”, which is one way people refer to the imperial family. However, because this is an uncommon term, I adapted it to “her majesty” (assuming Amaterasu didn’t get a gender change in this the way Bishamon did. Most people are pretty sure the young girl goddess who appeared while Yato was trapped in Hell was her)

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Yato literally says “I have no intention of becoming a bull’s ass”. I originally interpreted this as “poke a bull’s ass”, since the word is the same, and thought he was referring to “waking a sleeping giant”. But on further research, there’s a saying “better to be the beak of a chicken than the rump of a bull”, meaning it’s better to be in a high position of something small than a low position of something big. Later on page 10 when Yato does a sudden 180, Hiyori and Yukine shout “You just became a bull’s ass!”

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Ningyouyaki are pretty much the same thing as taiyaki, except instead the shape of a fish, they’re in the shape of other characters.

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No real note here, just lucky that I left “hafuri” alone in my translations so I didn’t have to backpedal here. :P

