> If Belldandy's father isn't Kamisama (and I don't think there's
> compelling evidence that he is, to date), then there's the interesting
> question of what happened to him and/or Belldandy's mother,
> that they are absent from the story.
>
> On the other hand, I might have said much the same thing about
> Keiichi's parents or Urd's mother, until a little while ago.
>
> We are having a practical deluge of parents, who's to say another
> parent or two might not show up?

Well the phrase "The Parents Arc" isn't specific as to the *number* of 
parents... :)

At this rate maybe Fujishima has decided to ship them all out the door.

Sam the man