Monogatari Series: First Season
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ----------------------------------------  Oh, she's not human anymore! Holy hell this episode, Hanekawa attacks!!! Ahh, that must of really hurt. Dat blood. Wow..Araragi-kun. Also, nice to see Shinobu again as well. Overall, 8/10 for this. It was brilliant. |
Stark700Dec 31, 2012 7:02 AM
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| overall a pretty good watch 8.5/10 bakemonogatari is still yet to be topped |
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That was quite a ride and I enjoyed every second of it. Reserving officially scoring until subs but for now 9/10 Shinobu saving the day was freaking sick and that OST was outstanding throughout the whole show. |
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| Certainly was a nice way to ring in the New Years. Man, I don't care if you can regenerate...getting sliced in half will hurt like a royal bitch. |
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mugimugi said: More like, the awful wait for the BDs =( This^ im gonna try and hold out for the BD's lol, gonna be tough... |
Akiyama said: ( ´∀｀)つhttp://www.monogatari-series.com/2ndseason/ キタアアアアアアア-!!! That was so great! I love the way all the elements of the story are connecting^^ |
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iLostReason said: I suggest you to check or search the News Discussion Board in MAL once in a while:Wait what.I don't understand something.It says Airing Date: 31 Dec.So why is it already finished? like 4 episodes on one day or what?. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=528818 |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| saw only the raw, but it was hilarious when araragi regenerated the lower body with also the clothes, that's how regeneration is meant to be xD |
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| i did read kizu, i just found it hilarious anyway :P |
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| One of the top 2 TV anime in my heart in 2012! 10/10 |
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| It feels so pretentious and shallow, yet why did I enjoy it? |
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| doesn't it feel like they kind of retconned it a little bit since bakemono? like in bakemono, they were out in the street when shinobu teleports out of nowhere to bite hanakawa. also, i thought shinobu stopped talking since the end of kizu all the way until nise where she decided to let past transgressions be and move on |
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| wow, amazing, and i was even more impresed by the short scenes of koyomi vamp thet appeared in the first ep "i wont fall in love you" i think sahara-san would be the happier woman in the world if she heard arararararagi-san said that to hanekawa and when the sword was gone, i kinda supcted he was going to do that, specially because he wasnt moving but..it actually surprised me when it happened, since i dont really remember the details of the original version |
| Being a fan is like having a penis. Its nice to be proud of it But don't pull it out in public and wave it in other's faces Kyurem Black. Kyurem White. Together they are Pretty Kyurem. |
| Monogatari never cease so amaze me. Nisio Isin is too good. The song "Kimi no shiranai monogatari" now feels like it's Hanekawa's feelings |
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| That was very decent. I liked it better than Bake AND Nise. What's Nekomonogatari Shiro about? |
VioLink said: That was quite a ride and I enjoyed every second of it. Reserving officially scoring until subs but for now 9/10 Shinobu saving the day was freaking sick and that OST was outstanding throughout the whole show. Damm shaft take my money...... The monogatari series never fail to impress me Ill better wait for BD for monogatari second season and Kizumonogatari even if its 2015!!!!!!!!!!!! or late 2014 -------____------ |
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| Can't wait for the second season. |
mugimugi said: Do you know the chronological order for all the novels after that?itsvero said: That was very decent. I liked it better than Bake AND Nise. What's Nekomonogatari Shiro about? Story takes place after Nise. Hanekawa is the narrator and encounters yet another problem which she has to solve on "her own" this time. The novel is probably the second best. Or at least in the top 3 with Kizu and Kabuki. |
| So I still don't get it. At one part he says he really loves Hanekawa and then goes on about how he doesn't. Whats the deal? It really seemed like he does love her so why is he saying he doesn't? |
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| Getting to understand Hanekawa better as a person and human being (who she really is) = awesome! Loved it! Just an amazing series, wish I could read the novels though... |
| 7/10 wasnt as good as i hoped. |
| FUCKKKKKKKKKK the preview at the end. SHAFT you teasing bastards. wow so bakemono begins right after this? arararararagi cant have downtime lol |
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| When, oh when, is Kizu coming? I really want to see Shinobu as she was in all her glory.... As usual this was a superb show. And that teaser at the end... |
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Ragingpie said: EcchiEcho said: So I still don't get it. At one part he says he really loves Hanekawa and then goes on about how he doesn't. Whats the deal? It really seemed like he does love her so why is he saying he doesn't? He loved the Hanekawa that was her created persona. While the persona is still a part of who she is and that part he did love, when he found out more about her he no longer loved her the way he did. So he doesn't see it as having fallen in love with Hanekawa because he didn't actual know her. So Ultimately he fell in love with someone, she wasn't who he thought she was and now he's got a broken heart over it. I suppose that means Hitagi picked him up on the rebound. This is a really really good explanation. However, I do believe that he never really fell in love in the first place. I mean, I think we all have experienced this quite a few times in our lives, but maybe not to this extent. You meet a new person, you find this person very exciting, you want to know more about this person etc. You might confuse these feelings for love. But in the end after spending quite some time with this person, you find out the he/she wasn't as you though at the very beginning and becomes a really great friend instead. |
| all dat fan service. holy. my body was not ready. |
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Ragingpie said: EcchiEcho said: So I still don't get it. At one part he says he really loves Hanekawa and then goes on about how he doesn't. Whats the deal? It really seemed like he does love her so why is he saying he doesn't? He loved the Hanekawa that was her created persona. While the persona is still a part of who she is and that part he did love, when he found out more about her he no longer loved her the way he did. So he doesn't see it as having fallen in love with Hanekawa because he didn't actual know her. So Ultimately he fell in love with someone, she wasn't who he thought she was and now he's got a broken heart over it. I suppose that means Hitagi picked him up on the rebound. Sounds like another anime that recently aired. Minus the broken heart. |
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| Didn't enjoy it as much as Nise and Bake, cause I don't really like Hanekawa. Still great though. 8.5/10 |
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| I didn't expect we will get such a convenient plot device called "Aberration Sword". I also didn't expect Araragi to threaten to kill Oshino. I also didn't expect Hanekawa to be in control with his own body. And Shinobu saves the day! We finally know the reason why she got her hat, it was given as a reward by Oshino for helping Hanekawa! And also the reason why Araragi isn't falling in love with Hanekawa. This prequel is good. Can't wait for new monogatari! |
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| This prequel was amazing. The ridiculously pretentious yet beautiful kitsch that is Shinbo's art direction is one of the biggest reasons why I find the Monogatari series both inspiring and addicting to watch. I am generally adverse to hentai and ecchi in anime, but if there's fantastic artwork, dialogue and plot alongside these factors, surely these will be cancelled out almost entirely. I really loved that witty one-liner coming from Karen and the awkward sisterly advice Tsukihi gave. Learning more about Hanekawa in general was interesting, too, especially when it came to the love dynamic between her and Araragi. So she was basically his first love, huh? I also felt I could relate to Hanekawa's desire to be the perfect "normal" girl. Seeing how she constantly bottled up her feelings all the time only to go berserk after approaching problems the wrong way was like a mirror of myself. I'm getting too mushy here, but I'm basically saying Nekomonogatari really hit home for me. The music was also a bonus; really can't wait to get my hands on the OST and opening. I assume the wait will be months from now, like it was for the Nisemonogatari OSTs, Agh, Shaft, why must you make us suffer like this? The teaser was also a horrible way to end things considering how hyped I already am for Kizumonogatari. Now I have two things I will jeopardize my sleeping hours with! The rest of Monogatari couldn't come any sooner!!! I must have dat OST. |
| Loved This Prequel although i love the 1st season more (Bakemonogatari) 9/10 for me and i just loved how they tied in Nekomonogatari's ending to Bakemonogatari beginning (^_^) |
Stuartxtr7 said: Didn't enjoy it as much as Nise and Bake, cause I don't really like Hanekawa. Still great though. 8.5/10 For me, Nise is the weakest link. Bake was the best. This lands somewhere in the middle. I hope the new season of Bake rocks my little socks off. |
| I'm so glad I've read Kizumonogatari before. Shinobu is way more awesome is this episode that it seems. |
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| Very solid adaption, a lot of dialogue was cut particularly the opening conversation but then again this is to be expected, heck the opening conversation felt like it could have been two episodes on the Tsukihi portion alone so cuts were obvious, they left out a few details but nothing worth nitpicking about, my only disappointment if you could even call it that is that they didn't animated Kizumonogatari first, i read the novel so i understood the references as well as the details concerning Shinobu but for those who didn't they are kinda missing out until Kizumonogatari finally gets its adaption, i wonder why its being pushed back when it was announced a while ago. Well regardless it was a very solid adaption and a enjoyable one, when reading Neko i got the same feeling that the anime gave me and that was that this entire sequence of events was crucial to explain how Araragi ends up with Senjougahara, because if one just went from Kizu to Bake and skipped Neko people would call BS on the transition considering the implications Kizu gave concerning Hanekawa, thus the purpose of Neko, well one of them anyway. Look forward to the future adaptions, anybody have any clue on which they are animating next? |
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| oh wow! Shinobu talks again!! the moment you know when she talks, something awesome is gonna happen! ^^ So after that will be the beginning of Bake huh? I wonder what's the new season they reveal after the credits. Ah... I miss all the other characters :3 |
| 9/10, I liked this very much just as expected ^^ Better than Bakemonogatari but worse than Nisemonogatari. Nekomonogatari Kuro was the only one of the novels that I hadn't read so I didn't have anything to expect. I liked how the things turned out with Hanekawa, Shinobu showing up to finish off sawari neko was awesome. Shinobu showing up is always awesome! xD Now I'll be looking forward to the best of all, Kizumonogatari :3 |
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| Considering that most people in this thread has already watched the 2 previous series, ranting about too much fan service makes zero sense(even the scenes are based on the original novel, so lolwut). Anyway, Nekomonogatari Kuro anime was really good, even better than the novel which had much crap and less pun/humour in both neko kuro/shiro. Another reason is that Nisemonogatari anime sucked TOO hard, so I find this one far more enjoyable. I'm looking forward to Otorimonogatari and Koimonogatari(this one is the best in the whole series) visualized, the rest episodes of 2nd season is just not that great. |
DawnJJan 4, 2013 5:57 AM
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| Oh common oshino we all know that you name her black hanekawa because of her underwear. but, overall not as good as bake and nise. but it's still good. |
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