WARNING: the following contains spoilers for Episode 5 of The Day I Became a God, now streaming on FUNimation.
Yota Narukami's life was turned upside down when he met the young Hina "Odin" Sato, who arrived with a dire warning: that the entire world will end in just 30 days. So, why not grant Yota a few wishes and make him happy in these precious remaining days? And it's not only Yota who's getting wishes granted.
Some of Yota's friends and classmates are struggling with their own problems, and Odin isn't going to leave anyone lacking. She and Yota team up to put a smile on everyone's faces, and even helped turn around a failing ramen shop. But next is a bigger challenge: Yota's longtime crush, the gloomy Kyoko Izanami.
It is soon made clear that not all is well in the Izanami household, despite that family's divine-sounding name (a name that Odin envies). Kyoko's beloved mother died ten years ago, and Kyoko herself keeps urging her father to visit the family grave to pay respects to his late wife. However, Mr. Izanami has become a partial shut-in, working from home and refusing to visit the grave or meet women. He has been struggling to process his grief, and Kyoko is quietly frustrated with it all. When Yota and Odin catch a whiff of this problem, they set out to try and fix it by any means necessary.
While Kyoko is out and about, Yota and Odin visit the Izanami household, and after a few false starts, convince Mr. Izanami to come out and go on a little shopping trip with Yota and Odin to find a 17th birthday gift for Kyoko. Mr. Izanami is mopey at first, but he cheers up when he tries out all kinds of cheese-based snacks and lunches at the market square, even having a little wine. He also explains that his wife had left a series of video messages for the family, and he's seen most but not all of them. And Kyoko hasn't seen any of them yet. This could be Yota and Odin's big break.
Yota's mother has a few videos starring the Izanami and Narukami households, and one of them includes Kyoko's mother, who is talking cheerfully with her young daughter. This gives Odin a voice sample of what Mrs. Izanami sounded like in life, and somehow, Odin will mimic Mrs. Izanami's voice over the phone, taking advantage of the fact that telephones obscure a voice's true sound. Yota approaches Kyoko the next day and shows off his cell phone, claiming that it's a magic phone that can connect to the deceased and receive their voices. Kyoko humors Yota and accepts a call from her mother, and through a pay phone, Odin informs Kyoko of those video messages and encourages her to go home and watch them. Kyoko agrees.
At home, Kyoko and her father watch the videos, where a hospitalized Mrs. Izanami wishes Kyoko a happy birthday on each of her upcoming birthdays (7th, 13th, 18th, etc), and finally, they watch the last video, which Mr. Izanami has never seen. In it, Mrs. Izanami puts on a little show, pretending to be a wizard casting a happiness spell on her husband and daughter. That's her parting gift, and she wants her family to erase all the videos after watching them, so they can move on.
Mr. Izanami is reduced to tears and, at last, he's ready to do what his life wife asked him to, and gets ready to move on. Kyoko finds inner strength that she didn't know she had, and she uses it to take a few steps forward in her own life, finally releasing some of her trademark gloom. She is once again the energetic and happy girl she once was, and she visits the Narukami household to thank Yota for helping. Odin planned to use this as a big romantic gesture so Yota could win Kyoko's heart, especially since the last few attempts failed. Yota tells Kyoko "you're welcome" but fumbles the romantic part, and perhaps it's for the best. Telling her "I love you" might have been a bit manipulative after helping Kyoko so much. The big romance scene can wait for another day.
