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Owarimonogatari Volume 3 - Spoiler Question - What is Araragi really when he was...?

Monogatari Series: Final Season
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Jun 3, 2017 12:32 PM
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This was the reason that Gaen gave why Hachikuji did not come back alive.

“I’m sorry to say that Hachikuji-chan’s body was cremated—ahaha, if she’d been buried, we’d be looking at a much more grotesque image right about now. She’d be a zombie, or maybe a Jiangshi—in any case, her current state is just the same as when you first met her in this park. She’s a spirit. A ghost.”

If this does not make sense then Araragi returned as a human oddity (I just call it that because it is an oddity that completely mimics humans - no special skills whatsoever) rather than a normal human being. Remember, if this is possible, then you could bring to life anybody as long as they are not cremated.

Also note that Araragi's remains dispersed into the air in Koyomimonogatari. Meaning there is no physical body waiting for him when he returned from hell.

My guess is that he returned from hell as a GHOST then he was been revived using the Yume-Watari, which is a sword that revives ODDITIES (not HUMANS), as a human oddity. Gaen's reason just does not make any sense, she did mention why Hachikuji is still a ghost but she did not mention why Araragi is alive. In my opinion a rotten corpse is better than a vaporized body wherever you look at it and yet Araragi has a completely unharmed body.

So my choice is that he is a HUMAN ODDITY. An oddity whose existence is based on what people around him think he is. As long as someone remembers him, he will exist. He has more than enough people to strengthen his existence.
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Jun 3, 2017 12:42 PM
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Araragi is a plot device with the purpose of being a punching-bag and cramming more harem girls into the story.
Jun 10, 2017 8:23 PM
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You'll just have to wait and find out.
Jun 20, 2017 3:35 PM
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[spoiler] After his dead araragis and shinobus link got severed so after he was revived he became human again. I don't want to spoil to much but in the end gaen repaired that link so he became a vampire hybrid again [/ spoiler]
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Aug 11, 2017 8:42 AM
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Eromanga-sensei said:
[spoiler] After his dead araragis and shinobus link got severed so after he was revived he became human again. I don't want to spoil to much but in the end gaen repaired that link so he became a vampire hybrid again [/ spoiler]
It's more like, shinobu is willing to repair that link from what iirc.
Aug 15, 2017 1:58 AM
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In the last movie of kizu, very importantly, shinobu used heart span to split araragi in two separating his human side and his vampire oddity side. Heart span can only harm oddities. It's kind of a handwave explanation but presumably he essentially had two bodies so once his vampire body was destroyed he still had a normal one to be reborn into.

On the other hand, visual events in the series have been unreliable since the beginning. It's possible heart span did nothing to his actual body and we just saw it being destroyed visually to represent that who he was, was destroyed by heart span. Maybe they will clarify it at a later point but I can't really see the point of that scene in kizu if not to specifically set up for this moment.
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