Noragami Chapter 74

Hahh, this was a tough one since there was a LOT of dialogue, and a LOT of text-on-images, but I still managed to get it done in a day. Here’s your mostly silly chapter before it looks like all hell’s going to break loose again. The gag comics from Volume 18 are also attached at the end.

Chapter 75 comes out April 6th, which is a weekday so even if I get the raws for early translating like I have the past few chapters, I’m unlikely to be able to get it out the same day like I can on the weekends when I have the whole day (10 hours this time x_X) to work.

Translation notes below the cut



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Page 3

So, if Kamuhakari was November 21st as stated in chapter 57, then if less than a month has passed since then (which, if Fujisaki has been absent since then but everyone just thinks he has the flu, is likely), then that means that the date in Hiyori’s planner is November 27th, meaning if the anniversary is 2 days away, Yukine’s birthday is November 29th.

Page 8

EBISU WHY ARE YOU SO TINY?!



Page 11

This is Takemikazuchi’s hazing chapter before he gets accepted as part of the pack.

Page 12

The word “flash mob” in Japanese is just the phonetic English of “furasshu mobu”, written in katakana. Takemikazuchi says it here in hiragana, which usually indicates someone is sounding out a word but has no idea what it means. So I had him say something wrong but similar-sounding in English.



Page 17

Are we ever going to get an explanation of Hiyori’s magical dream adventure of convenient exposition that taught her about Sakura and GGS? The rest of the series goes out of its way to explain itself (like this entire scene), so the funky deus ex machina that was the Sakura story still feels weird.

Page 18

Tenjin literally just says “Bishamon-san didn’t use the hafuri, but rather the hafuri”, spelled two different ways, which is why I added the qualifiers. Spoken out loud I have no idea how anyone would know WTF he’s talking about.

Page 22

That weird moment when the creaking gate uses the same “kii/gii” sound effect as the Ayakashi.

Page 26

Dang, we’re flashing all the way back to chapter 3 here.

Page 29

Yato and Hiyori’s text was originally in English. I just left it.

Page 36

Yato has “noticed” that Hiyori is quite a bit too big for her old middle school uniform now (note the blush effect on his speech bubble)

Page 40

WTF

Omake-3

This whole exchange feels like it’s a reference to something but I wasn’t able to find anything. Anyone else get it?

Omake-4

Now THIS one on the other hand… hooo boy. Took me an entire day to track down the references in this one.

Most of the comic is a play on the term “ishikitakai-kei” (意識高い系), which is “a person who is desperate to appear interesting, especially online”.

Kiun’s Kinoko no Yama chocolates return from a previous gag comic.

The second half of the comic is made up of random dialogue from Studio Ghibli’s “Laputa: Castle In the Sky”. For some reason, despite being 20 years old, dialogue from this movie has made a modern resurgence in Japanese memes. So trying to explain it further would be like trying to explain “doge”. Just accept it for what it is.