One thing you have to know about the monogatari series is that :
Every character is based off of a well-known anime trope, only to be later becoming much more of a developped character later in the series.
If we take Senjougahara for example :
She originally seems like a Tsundere or a Yandere for some people. A lot of People then got confused about her personnality because she becomes more and more kind towards Araragi, which isn't how a Tsundere works, and neither a Yandere does. Even her personnality from Koimonogatari, which is an entry that happens much later in the series, is completely different from her original personnality seen in bakemonogatari.
So now that we established how this so-called "character deconstuction" happens in the series with Senjou, let's now do the same but with the 2 lolis seen in Bakemonogatari :
Mayoi Hachikuji seem to be another random loli which the MC is completely obsessed with, but then you get extremely emotionnal scenes with her in Onimonogatari. The more you watch, the more you understand that the entire purpose of Hachikuji's sexual harrassement by Araragi is only used for comedic effect ( you can judge for yourself if this is a satire about most loli-related romance shows like Eromanga sensei). And the more you progress in the story, the less you get those moments until you hit Onimonogatari, and after that you won't see that "Fan-service" for a long time.
You kinda start missing the sexual harrassement.
This show, made me miss a 30 seconds gag which is pure sexual harrassement.
I'm absolutely not mad about it, i'm just impressed.
The story is also completely told by Araragi's perspective, which makes sense about why there are so much fan-service ( because he's a horny 17-year-old who is also part vampire ).
If Araragi is the one telling the story, then he tells his story *the way he wants*, so as a 17-year-old, he obviously would put some Fan-service in his own story. You might be thinking it's a poor excuse, but i'm seriously not kidding when i say "he tells his story THE WAY HE WANTS". That means that he can stretch the story the way he wants, how he wants.
On the other hands, i can't talk about that much about Nadeko Sengoku's character because it would spoil Otorimonogatari, which i don't want to.
This is just a quick text about character deconstuction and "unreliable narrators" in the monogatari series.
If you wanna have more detailed stuff about the greatness of the monogatari narration, check out this playlist ( might have some spoilers on other monogatari series btw ) : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQoVKoEXurCuRBNDtUVtnBnV1X36otzCH |