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time to rewatch/catch up with the entire monogatari series

it is peak but it does begin with a panty-shot and only gets worse from there. for better or worse

god shaft anime are so pretty

everyone feels slightly off-model in bake

who drew all these friends so dear to me so strangely incorrectly

don't worry about it

ARE GA DENEBU ARUTAIRU BEEGA

senjougahara hitagi one of the oomfs of all time

it has been nine years since i last saw hitagi crab (excepting the time a few months back where i tried to show someone the first episode)

bakemonogatari episode 2 is quite something

snail time

oh, so that particular iconic autistic off-model hitagi is from bake ep3

i mean of course this one, though this is not by any means her most iconic pose from this episode, there are too many

hachikuji mayoi was so ahead of her time

i love the almost hypnotic soundtrack of bakemonogatari, it makes it a lot easier to get lost in the series

just learned about this shit from bakemonogatari ep4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg thank you fire sisters

when i die i will return to the shaftworld

alas... it's peak

hey you know whose arc is up next? that's right

(but i must attend to other things for the time being)

she's...

wait she DOES actually say "yuri" i'm goi ng to die

the distorted electric guitar that is the cry of the heart in this scene...

average reaction of a girl to oshibo shibobu

snake time

oh hey it's the most legendarily moe anime opening of all time (sen~no!)

it's been too long since i saw this, i had forgotten just how much character stuff happens inside other characters' arcs, not least of which for kanbaru and araragi's friendship and araragi and senjougahara's relationship

when i find ur monogatari collection

kanbaru suruga saved my life

this part is so heavy

bakemonogatari walked so hanamonogatari could run

If we're trying to ground this in "reality," then I'd say it's a kind of multiple personality disorder.

whoa it's that episode my friend made an amv of up next

honestly if you go into monogatari with your irony-brain switched off and your barriers down it's really not that perverted of a show, but you really have to be able to put yourself in the character's shoes rather than being like Be Consumed Of Media And Get Opinion Of Thing

i keep being surprised at how Little happens in it relative to how i remembered it, and that's because what's changed is my relationship to the work and to media in general, the emphasis in my memories was all the work of a more squeamish past self in denial about liking the show

bakemonogatari episode 12 is something special

das oomf

as a certified senjougahomu enthusiast i can confirm

my life an anime (bakemonogatari)

monogatari, there's really nothing like it, the way it's fucking written

stratocasters spotted

the shaftworld is real i actually just wander around talking to people against atmospheric sky backdrops. my friends can confirm this

this space gives me tremendous déjà vu

i'm kind of like hanekawa tsubasa

leaked promo shot of the shaft band anime

finished rewatching bakemonogatari

monogatari's still the greatest to ever do it and bake is a masterpiece

wish i could give post less superficial commentary but that's twitter as a medium for you, that's why i don't do play-by-plays any more

deeply meaningful, beautiful work

bakemonogatari

okay, next up is something new (to me): kizumonogatari. i've never watched this before! time to finally watch it. excited

i watched the first (of three) kizumonogatari, holy shit this rocks

hard to overstate how much of a tonal shift it is if all you've seen is the tv anime

what an experience

i'm not even going to post pictures, i took exactly one screenshot during watching it and did not feel the urge to take more, it's better that way!

something surreal really in finally seeing the story of what happened with araragi koyomi and kiss-shot acerola-orion heart-under-blade and hanekawa tsubasa during golden week, the murky outlines of which have been in the background of my mind for a decade, in such visceral form

i can't really recommend taking such absurdly long breaks between watching things to anyone else, but these things really do hit different when you watch them... like this

i think the most shocking thing about kizumonogatari coming from the other monogatari series adaptations is how egoless it is, and that's what makes it really hit you

kizu 2 time

audience erupts into rapturous applause

a thing that keeps taking me out of the experience a little is that the frame pacing is fucked whenever there's a panning shot or similar. i am surely used to what 24fps on a 60Hz monitor looks like by now, so i'm suspecting something's gone wrong elsewhere, oh well

finally the monogatari baseball episode!!!

kiss-shot is so oomfie

some of kiss-shot and araragi's screams and whimpers and so on so far have been frightfully realistic, the VAs did an incredible job because they force me to confront the suffering whether i like it or not

i finished the jazz one. i guess, after another break, i'll get to the final one

time for the third and final kizumonogatari

kiss-shot, i'm so sorry

araragi koyomi is going to be an important character to me, huh

next up, time to rewatch nisemonogatari. excited to see my old friend kaiki deishuu again

what do you mean they actually say this in the dialogue ;_;

they were selling love. at the convenience store. for 298 yen

oh god this episode has so many iconic hachikuji quotes

「阿良々木先輩、それは燃えるがゴミじゃない。腐ってはいても必要な物だ。」

listen to her wisdom

i'm two episodes into rewatching nisemonogatari and so far it really is the monogatari season where nothing happens

but it's also just in an awkward place for me because it's sort of the one i'm most familiar with, or to put it better, overfamiliar with

"you'd make a great wife, araragi-senpai" - kanbaru suruga

despite her disaster status kanbaru is remarkably perceptive about many things that fly over araragi's head

deep strings part starts playing

best girl has arrived

oshibo shibobu got tired of sulking

oh my god i didn't expect shinobu to be the first to say the line (audience cheers)

fear her

one of the beautiful things about japanese is that there are many, many ways a particular name you've heard might be spelled, so people have to explain the spelling with reference to compound nouns, and the particular choice of compounds says a lot about their personality

judging by how many times this has happened so far in bakemonogatari and nisemonogatari when someone introduces themselves, i think nisioisin particularly enjoys writing these. his character names are delightful. kanbaru suruga and kaiki deishuu's are personal favourites

i think calling kaiki deishuu a villain would not be unfair, but he's such an interesting one because he exists on neutral ground, he's not cartoonishly evil, he's a very mundane evil and the show lets him explain himself

completely unrelated thought: i'm still reeling from just how much, well, seeing kizumonogatari changes how bakemonogatari and nisemonogatari feel. i almost wonder if my "ideal watch order" would have someone watch bakemonogatari twice, but that seems... fanciful

ARARAGI DOES A FAKEOUT IN THE NARRATION???

senjougahara about to have a yahata umiri moment

i'm six episodes in and apparently Karen Bee isn't over yet, wow

kaiki is a dreadful character, and i mean that as praise. nobody who goes in too confident in themselves survives contact with his, to most people he encounters, alien value system

if you know me it probably won't shock you that i agree with kaiki deishuu's musings about smartphones at the end of nisemonogatari episode 7

platinum time

seeing the way araragi koyomi treats his younger sisters can make me squirm a bit because it's too familiar

im the president of the fanclub. its me

千枚通し ("awl") is such a cool word. literally "[tool that] stabs through one thousand pages". thank you araragi tsukihi for saying this cool word

kagenui is a name i have not heard in a long time

僕はキメ顔でそう言った

the scene where araragi koyomi spits out his coffee...

happy oshino shinobu graces your timeline

(whispering to a friend) "does she... you know... have a thing for immortal creatures?"

nisioisin likes cutting off characters' hair so much that he gives multiple characters the supernatural trait of hair that grows far too quickly

phew, i've finally rewatched nisemonogatari

rewatching that was fairly tedious for me. i expect that once i'm done with (re)watching the whole series it'll still be the low point of it for me. but it's still good to have done it... better than it existing to me as pure osmosis

it's really making me regret my screenshot-hoarding habit, if you have looked over screenshots of things you've seen, rather than actually rewatching them, even if unintentionally, it distorts your memory

apparently i finished watching nisemonogatari the first time sometime in 2016, the same year that i saw bakemonogatari. it was then a long, long time until i seriously picked up the series again. perhaps nisemonogatari was responsible for me losing interest for so long. tragic

time to blast through nekomonogatari kuro again. how long has it been, uhh checks eight years? i am too old

you know i think my nuclear take might be that the sex scenes in subahibi are a lot more contextually palatable than araragi's constant antics in monogatari but they'd crucify me for saying that

wait was the scene where araragi finds out hanekawa's wound on her face is from her father hitting her adapted twice?? this definitely came up in kizu and now it's in neko kuro, but maybe the former was a flashback, but i don't feel like it was...

shinobu donut time :)

shinobu age regression... wouldn't you if you were a sulky smol half-vampire

i'm really impressed with araragi's on-the-spot completely adlibbed bullshit strategy to get the fire sisters to not go out hunting for the monster cat at night

hmm, so there's a distinction between 人格 and 性格 huh

HIS CLOTHING TELEPORTS WHEN REGENERATING TOO???

i finished rewatching nekomonogatari kuro. bake -> kizu -> nise -> neko kuro is a kind of disorienting watch order but chronological order would be weird so

resuming the monogatari re-watch/catch-up thing.

we recently rewatched koimonogatari on a whim: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01K3R5RC653A9XZZ3V534R3ZST

i think we'll rewatch neko shiro, lest we leave nekomonogatari unfinished and then skip straight to hana, because i (kanbaru) really need to rewatch it tbh

in these last two months i have also rewatched suruga monkey again at least twice. in a sense that's why i need to rewatch hana, otherwise i'm stuck in the past etc. i rewatched because i'm kanbaru. if it wasn't obvious, the koimonogatari rewatch was for senjougahara-senpai.

may as well link this little thread about a funny moment from suruga monkey too, i think it was a good thread: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01K53XH33P13BMZ7W6HJ38STT1

“My story as Hanekawa Tsubasa is not one that I can tell.”

ah, nekomonogatari shiro begins with hanekawa talking about her not conceptualising her own name as belonging to her; how she's not a god to be put on a pedestal; how she's “cat, tiger, and only human”; and then: “Now, the time has come to awaken from this nightmare.”

…familiar

「眠り姫はね 王子のキスを
待っているだけでは だめだと」

“it wouldn't do for the sleeping beauty to just lie there waiting for her prince's kiss”

oh goddamnit they're gonna kill us

“Well, I was just wondering if you were expecting Araragi-kun to help you without you having to ask.”

oh man, we've been missing this highschool

senjougahara and hanekawa are a little bit… you know…

(i do remark upon this at some point to araragi and he's totally oblivious, somehow)

the way senjougahara looks at hanekawa when she “suggests” taking a shower together…

the way senjougahara acts towards hanekawa in the first episode of nekomonogatari shiro is far more romantic than even the most manic kanbaru suruga's daydreaming could ever be

jesus christ i had completely forgotten the

“don't get the wrong idea, i'm not like kanbaru. [rot13]nyy v jnag vf gb frr lbh anxrq”

should i feel honoured or insulted? senjougahara-senpai, what did you mean by this…

monogatari arc “Hitagi Pout”

god there's a whole bit in nekomonogatari shiro episode 2 where the tiger tells black hanekawa (cat) that “oddities' [怪異] characteristics are not something that can be suppressed. the people who see us reap what they sow. your master saw me. nothing else matters”

…yea

“i have already begun.”

this scene from nekomonogatari shiro episode 2, where senjougahara figures out hanekawa has no taste in a broad sense, is very necessary watching.

“Don't you think having things you hate is just as important as having things you like?”

good lord, the scene at the start of the following episode, where senjougahara explains that hanekawa is different from araragi in that she acts as if she doesn't even realise being goodhearted is dangerous, is even worse. “you're too white[hearted]”.

oh right the OP is called 「chocolate insomnia」. it's funny because we're resuming the rewatch right now to help us sleep. our brain has been too nerded-out and it's bad because we're presently ill and we'll drive ourselves mad with strange thinking loops like this.

this is in fact exactly what meeting me irl is like

that particular clip happens to be a particularly good way to demonstrate how bsky's video uploads sound godawful because it compresses the dynamic range to hell: https://bsky.app/profile/hikari.noyu.me/post/3lz36qdxn522i

senjougahara-senpai in the most un-subtle manner possible successfully baiting karen-chan into doing exactly what she wants is hilarious

this little clip from Nekomonogatari Shiro ep3 is one of the most plural things we've ever seen. we do not just mean the obvious Black (cat) Hanekawa thing. the entire sequence, including the way Shinobu shows up

[Nekomonogatari Shiro episode 4]

Araragi's mom: [~“don't get used to staying here OK, we can't be your family”]

Hanekawa: Sorry I made you worry. But my family circumstances aren't as complicated as you think. There's just a little discord right now. That's all.

Araragi's mom:

The entire Araragi family is Just Like That, huh.

Gaen Izuko is terrifying.

Of course the Tiger uses わがはい as its first person pronoun. Of course. Is this another reference to that Natsume Souseki book.

The ending of Nekomonogatari (Shiro) is an incredibly moving thing.

i guess we'll rewatch Kabukimonogatari

i feel somehow obligated to post a clip of most of the opening scene of Kabukimonogatari, where Ougi discusses the meaning of stop lights with Araragi, as a metaphor for how people aren't sufficiently cynical about the world

why is oshibo shibobu so blasé about time travel

the MTBB full-season batch of monogatari is good in many ways but man we do not like some of these translation choices. i think a lot of it is commie's fault. like come on you can't turn “shota koyomi” into “little koyomi” you're removing the flavour in what shinobu actually said

we do respect in theory the concept of trying to avoid sounding like a weeb when translating, but the problem with that is that the monogatari series is fundamentally otaku media, the characters constantly make otaku culture references, they should sound like weebs you know!

also we prefer “aberration” as a translation of 怪異 [kaii] over “oddity”, but we are really nitpicking here, the translation is overall very very good, you know

the final episode of kabukimonogatari…

otorimonogatari rewatch let's go

ougi shows up

oh man that voice. we've missed that voice

and she and somehow knows nadeko's name, also also about hachikuji, and we happen to know she also has access to things araragi owns

oh is he. is she. is it. are they. is ougi like. you know

if koimonogatari was “well, it doesn't feel like a story about the supernatural, it feels like a story about mental illness”, otorimonogatari (which we ought to have rewatched first) is ……… uncomfortably even moreso

oh god otorimonogatari contains a direct reference to the famous “Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths”

nisioisin loves writing conversations where one character tries to bait another into a particular emotional response huh

tsukihi's takedown of nadeko in the third episode of otorimonogatari is still one of the most brutal things

i love it when, on august 15, sengoku nadeko became trapped in the kagerou daze

“Oddities and gods only exist within each individual's mind to begin with.”

otorimonogatari was a brutal rewatch

araragi-senpai and his stupid ass fucking yellow car and his stupid ass fucking kirito outfit

I've been marathoning Hanamonogatari in the small hours of this morning because I've been needing it. Your girl is… well, whether she's Kanbaru Suruga そのもの, or just hikari the kinnie… definitely someone with a special relationship to this anime series, to put it one way.

the car scene is making me fucking cry

this is a much more comforting watch this time (we watched hanamonogatari for the first time 3.5 years ago). it feels like home in a way we were still somewhat trying to resist at that time

yeah, hanamonogatari will forever be the peak of monogatari second season to us

I'm going to let myself have a Hanamonogatari layout and profile pic for a bit… It'll be fun to not be faceless on Twitter for a while again, but it will of course stop being fun the moment it's not me talking, so I expect we'll have to swap pfp again later…

A close friend remarked to us that Hanamonogatari is remarkably lonely compared to the rest of the series, and I think that's a big part of why it's so affecting for us. That kind of lonely, brooding solitude is … something that feels intrinsic to me (as Kanbaru Suruga).

local Kanbaru Suruga fictive struggles with the inherent circularity of her own emotional gnosis when trying to explain why Hanamonogatari's depiction of her is on-point

Rewatching Onimonogatari now, to finish our Second Season rewatch…

This backdrop is very Mirror's Edge…

This too.

Average Monogatari fan after watching Kizumonogatari:

Araragi-kun confirmed Italian.

“a ghost of a ghost girl”, huh…

finished Onimonogatari, and with that, we've finally rewatched all of Second Season

phew

we were not intending our bake/nise/neko + second season rewatch (+watching kizu for the first time) to take five months

but you know, Otorimonogatari Suruga Edition happened in the middle

we've reached the part of our “monogatari series rewatch and catchup” where we've rewatched everything we had seen before, so it's finally time for new content

according to the directory structure of these mkv files that fell off the back of a truck, next is “tsukimonogatari”

and so after nearly ten years of knowing about the monogatari series and at least half of that time being uhh profoundly influenced by it, we are finally going to watch the “final season” that aired checks notes roughly when we started watching bakemonogatari the first time ^^;

i am sure the effect is intentional but the first half of the first episode of tsukimonogatari is a pressure cooker that makes you want to die

man monogatari final season is going to be an incredibly uncomfortable watch one way or another

how did Araragi-senpai get iOS running on her very non-Apple phone… I'm envious

that killing blow of a final line from tsukimonogatari episode 2… i knew it

tsukimonogatari feels like a direct continuation of onimonogatari, thematically

SENJOUGAHARA-SENPAI CAN DO A FLUTTERSHY YAY??? this is a groundbreaking development

gonna watch koyomimonogatari episode 1 and then sleep

THEY'RE REUSING AN OPENING THEME????

oh my god i think there's an intentional reversion to first season's visual style too

wow it's like we're watching bakemonogatari again this is so cool

…that first episode feels like some kind of prank. excited to find out what kind

(watching koyomimonogatari ep2) oh god are they going to keep on reusing OPs like this. is this the Monogatari Series Nostalgia Season

considering koyomi means “calendar” I wonder if this is going to end up being an anthology thing

I figured out the punchline to Koyomimonogatari episode 3, Koyomi Sand, way in advance. sometimes, I am less of an idiot than Araragi-senpai :)

OUJI SURUGA OUJI SURUGA OUJI SURUGA

the Karen Bee OP will forever be remembered by us as “that time Shaft decided to torture video encoders”. that's one way to sell Blu-rays

oh now we're getting “spoiled” on a future monogatari opening (with ougi in it) I suppose? watch orders are a funny thing

koyomimonogatari is interesting in how it starts as pointless little stories, more or less slice-of-life in a way, and then at the end it's back to occult research club (or whatever it's called) shenanigans again? was this nisoisin trying to hook people for the next novel or

time to start watching owarimonogatari (at long, long last)

oh god this is going to be something

ナァゾでぇすねぇ

owarimonogatari episode one has me… enthralled

watching owarimonogatari, a series that as far as we know heavily features oshino ougi, is hazardous when your brain works like ours does and you are wearing this amount of black clothing

owarimonogatari

(this is an old edit we didn't make: https://twitter.com/IncorrectNisio/status/1328840420126842880)

oh so THAT'S who says the “Up until that moment, I believed something like truth or justice existed.” line

devastating

god, the second episode too…

You may ignore Oshino Ougi.

oh geez

Oikura Sodachi hates Araragi Koyomi
Araragi Koyomi cannot hate Oikura Sodachi

we are definitely much more like him than her. I sense this is going to be painful to watch

who put the Monty Hall problem in my monogatari

そだチルノ

owarimonogatari is a lot

You may ignore Oshino Ougi.

the twist in owarimonogatari episode 7 is worse than the one in hanamonogatari. god this is so bleak

granted i'm not sure how hard-hitting that latter twist is at this point to someone who is not… you know

shinobu arc OPs are something special

I look so happy here………

owarimonogatari episode 8 was a lot more kanbaru and a lot more action-packed than expected…

which is to say it is giving me a lot of feelings

he's carrying me ;_;

there is a lot of kanbaru athletics in owarimonogatari…

I send Araragi-senpai off to buy a single yaoi book and look what happens, the immortal twinks show up! And they're gonna fight!

man

…why on earth does Owarimonogatari S1 have the wrong episode count on MAL

Owarimonogatari S1 was a lot

new layout

I really like this pfp + banner combination, pity we probably won't be able to stick with it

owarimonogatari s2 time i think

…how many goddamn arcs is the snail girl gonna get

Oh no. Araragi Koyomi has ended up in Sweden.

the visuals in hell are fantastic

“a pitch-black kind of righteousness” 「真っ黒の正しさ」 huh…

our habitual curiosity about what japanese words characters are actually saying is constantly revealing just how much is lost by translating monogatari into english. for example, araragi uses an idiom coming from kabuki (茶番) and tadatsuru responds another in kind (十八番)

nisioisin is the kind of writer who seemingly has an autistic fixation on writing itself, everything is wordplay, all the time… it's not like this with a more “normal” series

Oshino Ougi is such a lovable Moriarty

true

finished owarimonogatari

kamen rider koyomi

finally!

Araragi Koyomi's mirror-world adventure in Zoku Owarimonogatari is amazing but I don't want to tweet anything because it'd all be spoilers...

the end of the second-to-last episode and the beginning of the last episode of zoku owarimonogatari had me losing my shit. I can't believe it

and with that, it's finally over. we've finished watching monogatari, and only... 6.5 years late. the series that's been haunting us for an entire decade now, the series that I can't convey myself without reference to...

man.

(yes we know about off&monster season. another time)