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On the recommendation of a friend and coworker, thank you Taylor, I was able to read the first 2 volumes of Noragami. This introduction is pretty great as it has lots of humor, action, heart and a really quick reading pace. Yato is a relatively unknown, poor god who is hoping to earn enough money build his own shrine and gain more worshipers. He takes on fairly menial tasks from those looking for any sort of help. As a god for hire he needs a spiritual weapon to fight the various 'demons' that exist in between our world and, essentially, the world of the dead. A Shinki in this case is a spirit who can be called to transform into a weapon, but is otherwise generally annoyed at Yato.

This volume is a great introduction to the world because we learn enough to get a sense of what is happening, but not so much that we don't want to come back for more. It's a nice balance of humor and action that really helped the pacing and lead to some fun dialog from all the characters we meet without anyone having to do a giant exposition dump. I'm looking forward to volume 2!