i love the cat aesthetic in noragami the whole over arching theme is stray cats, yato and bishamon have cat eyes, hiyori has a tail, noras are likened to stray cats, and bisha has a freaking lion as a shinki. it’s showing how we all are stray but all want love and need families to return and belong to. yato and bisha lost their families but have done everything in their power to build themselves new ones, and when they look at someone they love their pupils dilate and become rounder and more human, but when they are most feral or on a killing spree their pupils become slits. Noragami means stray god, and both yato and bishamon were stray until they found their loves and were given family, kazuma for bisha and hiyori who influenced yato to accept yukine. in this essay i will
