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Feb 4, 2012 9:23 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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It seems like Koyomi is about to turn Karen into Araragi Harem's newest member in the next episode. (and probably also Tsukihi later on)

Back to the serious side, I think Koyomi is trying to create some kind of vaccine to cure the "disease" by purposely transmitting Karen's curse into his vampire body, which could be disease-resistant by its nature. :P

Feb 4, 2012 9:26 AM
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( ゚∀゚)彡 YOSUGA! YOSUGA!
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Feb 4, 2012 9:37 AM
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Tons of stuff happened this episode. Mostly development on Kaiki, and on Karen. Numerous things got cleared up.

Really enjoying Nisemonogatari, especially the dialogue.

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mdz said:
New episode

Is this all you can say about this episode? Or is this some kind of placeholder? I thought this kind of stuff goes against the forum rules here. :S

Feb 4, 2012 9:53 AM
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Karen bites and has excellent taste in panties.


Feb 4, 2012 10:03 AM
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I'm starting to like this even more! I wonder if they omitted Hanekawa's reaction to seeing Koyomi's package. lol But it was a tempting offer, it reminded me of what Kanbaru mentioned earlier, that it was most likely that Henekawa would end up as his wife.
Feb 4, 2012 10:11 AM
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Since loads of Karen was featured, I have nothing to complain about. Knowing more about Karen is always good. Comedy wise, this was by far better than last episode. Karen's personality is a win once again. May edit later.

BTW GIFs with avatars of this episode done in the club:
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=398779
some really good stuff of Karen.
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Feb 4, 2012 10:13 AM
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What a Delicious BIG little sister.
Feb 4, 2012 10:20 AM
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How can a show top itself every single week?
Feb 4, 2012 10:25 AM
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From what I've understood Kaiki seems to be implying that he implanted the seed of doubt in Karen with the bee poison. I wonder if this was the reason why Karen didn't want to tell her brother about what happened to her or if it was just her pride preventing her from telling him.

What I found really interesting is that Koyomi tries to keep out Tsubasa of the whole situation. He deliberately lies to her when stating that the bee is just a low-level monster, a contradiction to what Shinobu actually said last week about the bee poison being life-threatening. Also, I'm intrigued why he doesn't approve of Tsubasa having closer contact with Karen even he recommend his sister to learn from her.

However, he shouldn't get mad at Karen for being so reckless as he really is in no position to talk. after all he got himself in quite a few risky situations as well with his kind-spirited but also daring attitude in order to help other people. As Tsubasa said they are not that different.

One more thing worth mentioning are the visuals which seemed to reach a whole new level this episode. Kaiki's office looked incredibly stylish and no matter how rotten he may be on the inside you've got to admit he has good taste when it comes to interior decoration. I also really liked how the art became super trippy during the imprecation:



On another note, I found Tsukihi's compassionate reaction towards Koyomi's "embarrassing confession" about only having five friends at the moment hilarious. She's definitely the kind of sister who would drive you crazy.
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Feb 4, 2012 10:45 AM

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So Hanekawa just saw Araragi naked and then he just walks her home while having the most casual conversation...
Koyomi is again trying to shoulder all the problems by himself, not sure how Hitagi might react to this though
huh?
Feb 4, 2012 10:47 AM

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Karen FTW.
''I'm going to kiss you now'' - Shurararagi-san, you just leveled up in my ranking xD

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How can a show top itself every single week?

I know right?...
Feb 4, 2012 10:49 AM

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Koyomi and Tsukihi are really quite similar. I don't know if Nisio Isin intended to do that but that's the vibe I'm getting.

Anyways, what better way to end this episode? Koyomi declaring to Karen that they'll kiss.

Feb 4, 2012 10:50 AM

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I liked how Karen was dressed this episode.
Feb 4, 2012 10:53 AM

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I approve of the following events wholeheartedly.
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Feb 4, 2012 10:57 AM

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Can somebody wake me up when something happens in this show?
Feb 4, 2012 10:59 AM
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Amazing episode. Amazing Karen.
Feb 4, 2012 11:00 AM

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Oh god, sweet Karen.

The next episode is beginning with a *SLAP!* I tell you!
Feb 4, 2012 11:17 AM

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Great episode,always nice watching a lot of Karen.

The first with Tsukihi was funny specially the friends part and ya....that is the kind of sister that will make anyone mad,STILL she is cute so i could handle it!

Well so Kaiki is just another bad guy that wants money and more money ...just like any human being ,still how there to poison my cute Karen-chan!

The highlight of the episode was of curse Karen cleaning sequence,she is not only sooo cute she also bites mmmmmmm,still nice to know more about Karen personality and way to see life.

Next episode let see what will be Karen reaction to the kiss.....i cant wait!!!
Feb 4, 2012 11:18 AM

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Meddigo said:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Can somebody wake me up when something happens in this show?


Karen's delicious body not exciting enough for you?


Feb 4, 2012 11:30 AM

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OK I got to like write this before I forget my mood. When Araragi/Hanekawa situation in the spoiler
happened. Along with the nice portrayal in the color pink in the spoiler
whom the letter means Ah literally or just A.

I was so like FALCON PUNCH HIM NOW! It would have been best to. Hilarious stuff really.

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Feb 4, 2012 11:46 AM
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It was stated in Kizumonogatari (grab the novel from Baka-tsuki) that vampires're weak towards poisons. This is probably the risk Shinobu was talking about. Well, it's not like I'm really expecting a delicious incest fanservice in the next episode.
Feb 4, 2012 11:53 AM

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Karen was pretty naive in the conversation with her brother thinking that people who do bad things for money are only part of manga.
Not to mention that she tried to make him stop with a approach that would not work from the start.
Then again Kaiki is the worst kind of trash injecting her with poison and then even stealing her money that guy really deserves punishment.

The cliffhanger came as a surprise i wonder what Karen will do.
Feb 4, 2012 11:57 AM

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I liked this episode but I still want to see more Shinobu
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Hoppy said:
Meddigo said:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Can somebody wake me up when something happens in this show?


Karen's delicious body not exciting enough for you?

Umm no. Middle school, no thanks.
Feb 4, 2012 12:12 PM

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ME GUSTA.

5/5
Feb 4, 2012 12:28 PM

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It's too cruel!
Feb 4, 2012 12:33 PM

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LOL at the beginning when Koyomi lost his towel while Hanekawa was watching. Lots of Karen to look at in this episode. Kaiki is an excellent example of the type of many people who are running Washington, D.C. in the USA. Crooked and only in for the money and power.
Feb 4, 2012 12:35 PM

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I wonder how hard will that poison be on Araragi-kun's body. That and big sis's reaction to the kiss. xD
Feb 4, 2012 12:36 PM

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Karen is so lovely, I love getting to know more about her. I can see why she's related to the bee in a way. I can't wait to see Tsukihi's episodes. Hanekawa seeing Araragi's stuff made me laugh!

Yep, this show really does top itself!
As it turns out, living was a punishment...
Feb 4, 2012 12:47 PM

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5/5 episode once again
I must have more Karen, More, MORE!!!

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great episode!!! Karen was great this episode, and her having her hair down was CUTE! >_<
Feb 4, 2012 12:57 PM

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In this ep Karen was more ...y than I though and
Koyomi was cool in this ep...
Feb 4, 2012 12:58 PM

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stevewiess01 said:
Back to the serious side, I think Koyomi is trying to create some kind of vaccine to cure the "disease" by purposely transmitting Karen's curse into his vampire body, which could be disease-resistant by its nature. :P
don't remember for sure, but poison is one of the weak points of vampires (but maybe not mortally, only weakening)

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Another awesome episode; Karen was really naive in both her conversation with Kaiki and Araragi, but i suppose its be to expected; i wonder how she will react next episode; all though i honestly doubt there will be any sort of kiss so it will be interesting to see how they remove the illness.

I think they will wrap up Karen's arc next episode otherwise it would be to uneven for the other sister's arc.

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5/5 episode once again
I must have more Karen, More, MORE!!!



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Nemochin please keep your spoilers in a "spoiler" tag
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...Can't see the picture


Fixed. Sorry about that, I just now figured out how to manually insert the spoilers and images :P
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Karen was pretty naive in the conversation with her brother thinking that people who do bad things for money are only part of manga.
Not to mention that she tried to make him stop with a approach that would not work from the start.
Yeah she very stupid. Who the heck taught her? WHO? Cause it really is pitiful. Her approach was good except that because her name implies "Radical" she never though of what would happen if she feared in.
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Then again Kaiki is the worst kind of trash injecting her with poison and then even stealing her money that guy really deserves punishment.

He even stole her change bastard. Kaiki should get Falcon punched for that by Araragi.
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The cliffhanger came as a surprise i wonder what Karen will do.
Probably nothing. Loads of people might get a kick of it but I already know that it's to exchange saliva from her so he absorbs it. Considering the poison may reside only in the saliva like snake poison resides in the blood so you need to inject yourself to live. As such I must say that it could be saliva/spiritual and he is just sucking out the bad poisoned spirit part of her. It could go either way but I don't see anymore than that.

Heck the fan service was even perfect! Excellent!. Panties and skin exposition with sweat. Not explicit and just enough. Really satisfied with this episode. Heck even Shinobu almost got MOE out of me but I won't get fooled by that. Almost did there.

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Feb 4, 2012 1:24 PM

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Seems like things are finally getting somewhere.......and Karen's body.

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mdz said:
New episode

Is this all you can say about this episode? Or is this some kind of placeholder? I thought this kind of stuff goes against the forum rules here. :S


Unfortunately placeholding, =l.
Feb 4, 2012 2:03 PM

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Well it's becoming more interesting again.

But this ep lacked Senjougahara ;A;
Feb 4, 2012 2:06 PM

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Nice :D after 5 episodes we finally start to get somewhere... so it was like 1/3 of last episode and 1/2 of this one
gooooood.... since it seems (?) that arc will end next week, we will have more events and less of meaningless talk
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Would really like Araragi to find Kaiki and kick his ass. But I suppose that's not necessarily the solution. For now I'm glad that he remained relatively calm and is focused on helping his sister. I wonder if Shinobu curses her fate sometimes, being tethered to this near suicidal kid. I don't imagine him taking in that poison is going to go well for him. Especially if even Shinobu says it's less than "prefered".

I wonder what he means too, when he tells his sisters to stay away from Hanekawa? I suppose something about her still worries him.

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I wonder how hard will that poison be on Araragi-kun's body. That and big sis's reaction to the kiss. xD


If she can muster the energy, she will beat him up before he has a chance to, although even if she was fully healthy, he is really still stronger.

In any case, next episode will be interesting....
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iLostReason said:

'Karen, 'I'm going to kiss you now'' - Shurararagi-san, you just leveled up in my ranking xD

Hoppy said:

Karen's delicious body IS exciting enough
Feb 4, 2012 2:17 PM
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A bit more backstory and now we see how Kaiki operates. Looking forward to seeing Araragi dealing with him.

No Senhougahara again though! Dissapointing.
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Feb 4, 2012 2:48 PM

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... Wait, is Shinobu living in Araragi's bathroom?
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KingGidora said:
How can a show top itself every single week?

because it is part of the monogatari series :)
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... Wait, is Shinobu living in Araragi's bathroom?
No and no. He can summon her anytime his shadow is visible.

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Meddigo said:
Hoppy said:
Meddigo said:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Can somebody wake me up when something happens in this show?


Karen's delicious body not exciting enough for you?

Umm no. Middle school, no thanks.


What?! Your age, grade, or (gender) shouldn't be impeding you from KNOWING that Karen's body is delicious.

And maybe your grade is restraining you from seeing the greatness in each one of these episodes >__>
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Karen fan service. But anyway, they really changed Hanikawa's looks. 100x cuter than the 1st season. Well, It's not like she can beat Hitagi.

Back to the episode - I think Koyomi can't kiss Karen. Or more like Karen will not let him.
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