One thing I don't super-appreciate about #Noragami is it's classic Japanese media representation of "good women" being "good mothers".

The high schooler Hiyori, a badass astral fighter, spends most her time as a caregiver—including sitting with the Yukine (the Yato god's weapon) as he does his homework: about as 母もの ("mother thing") as you can get.

Even the supreme war deity Bishamon has a huge spirit family because she cannot abandon a lost soul.

See Ian Buruma's *Behind the Mask* for 🤯.