Those "what if" memories

Seeing Shichimiya's feelings slowly overwhelming her was just painful to watch, even from the sidelines. And I do think that after all these while, the "love triangle" has finally been formed but however in a different way since by the pace of the series progress, there will almost be no chance for a "let's have a fair fight" or anything similar to that since the 2nd season was already set up for Yuuta and Rikka to be together as a couple.

Back when Shichimiya was introduced, it was kinda surprising to see how her character interacted with the rest of the group. It wasn't like she came back filled with feelings for Yuuta but instead, she was trying her very best to remain just a friend to Yuuta and not interrupt the relationship between Rikka and Yuuta. I was almost quite certain this new character addition would trigger some sort of romantic conflict between the 3 but I guess I was only half correct and for the latter, we didn't quite actually see a conflict but a depressing realisation of her own feelings right as the series is coming to a close. ( Only 2 episodes to go! :( )

Honestly, it was both painful and depressing to watch as Shichimiya came to regret her own actions of not confessing to Yuuta back when she actually had feelings for him, until one day she decided to shut it out and follow her Chuunibyou ways. It was that action, however, that made her regret her decision after seeing how Rikka and Yuuta can still become a couple even with the chuunibyou syndrome still remaining for the both of them (well, perhaps not for Yuuta). To Shichimiya, she believes that it would be difficult for both her and Yuuta to become a couple with the duo still having their chuunibyou in the past but now when she sees that it was possible, all her past feelings of regret started to overwhelm her, and that, knowing all along that she will defintiely be on a losing end and yet she just had to have those feelings coming back to her at this moment when Yuuta's only got eyes for Rikka now.

Everything was pretty normal, slowly seeing Rikka and Yuuta developing their relationship, until the 4th last episode where they decided to drop a "depression" bomb, showing all the regrets of Shichimiya where she imagined a different outcome if she had taken Yuuta's hand in the past. So far for all the series that I've seen, childhood friends seem to have a role to play in the romance stage of these male protagonist, just that things just wasn't planned to work well for Shichimiya, it was just a pity that she'd missed her own chance and seeing how her "supposed happiness" was taken away from her and there wasn't anything much she could do about it (furthermore with Yuuta amplifying all that "damage" on Shichimiya), it just shows how one person can regret so much in the future, after looking back and thinking that "hey, perhaps the outcome would've been different if I had chose a different course of action". For normal situations, it would have been just bad, but for her which is a romance case, it turns out to be twice as bad. 2 more episodes to go, and we'll just have to see how things work out in the end...

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Depressing as how Chuunibyou has been, things haven exactly went well in Noragami as well, especially after all those trouble of finally saving Yukine and having both Yato and him patched up at the end. Sure it was suggested that Yato should sever his ties with Hiyori if he was attempting to help her and stop letting her transform into a half ayakashi. But in Yato's eyes, Hiyori was more than just a friend, I don't actually see the "romance" theme developing between Yato and Hiyori but seeing how desperate Hiyori was in trying to save him and Yukine and all those things that she has tried to help even though she was a human and they were not, Yato regards her just much more than a friend and can't bear to sever her ties with him.

And turns out that the "ties" was indeed severed, just not by Yato's own hands but by Nora instead. We did see a desperate attempt for Yato to try and bring back her memories of him, but later when he realises it was for the greater good, for Hiyori since it would mean that she would most likely not transform into a half-ayakashi any longer and would have her own problems solved. But Yukine wasn't about to give up, until Nora removed another piece of memory from Hiyori, making the point of "saving her" come into play and the duo head to face Nora and the god of calamity.

What just confuses me is what exactly is Nora's goals? What we do know is that she was a shinki that Yato had previously used before and she was one who has multiple owners, making her existence rather "unwanted", so now as Yato has Yukine, what does she actually want from Yato? Does she want his death for abandoning her and choosing Yukine who she thinks is much more inferior compared to her? It was rather straightforward for her to target Hiyori since she was so important to both Yato and Yukine but I just can't exactly pinpoint her purpose. Not many episodes are left for Noragami, and it just feels like the characters just weren't developed enough. Sure Hiyori had turned into a half ayakashi due to her attempt to save Yato, but that focus was quickly shifted away to Yukine after that, and it took them rather long before returning to the main issue, where by the time the plot caught up with her, more characters are introduced and even their backgrounds are totally revealed. Like Bishamon and Yato's past. Sure enough this series was pretty good, but it does lack a little on their plot development. The characters just didn't have much of that impact and the plot too is varying too much in their humour and serious counterparts.

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And here we have another song under Project Diva again which was featured too in Magical Mirai 2013: