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Owarimonogatari 1/Formula Ougi/ Sodachi Riddle/ Sodachi Lost:

Surreal.

The premise is intelligent and greedy, because it presents a new character at the time of 45 seconds — even with the arc coming a bit before the start of the Second Season.

The run begins, someone is shown and someone that has already been shown must be presented as a beginner now. Really interesting, the mysterious mood, the subtle air, it’s all part of a little mystery’s set that hasn’t even been mentioned before and that it's now featured — or so it has seemed.

The insertion of said Ougi, the memory of said Oikura. It’s mentioned like a dichotomy, ... or rather, “convergence”, even if both of them havn’t ever met, they had a relationship in common, the said protagonist.

However, in a courageous way, Oikura is inserted in the story, having, until then, the weapons to be a character of weight, which she doesn’t only accomplishes to become one in the end, with the vague idea of a return (which has already been confirmed), as she have a very solid representation in the protagonist.

The pace isn’t slow, isn’t weak, isn’t without desire. It’s intense, gradual and even ominous.

The said formula it’s a practical lecture of human relationship, the majority rule, the pure representation of mankind’s ugliness as an inventor.

The said riddle, as insinuated, it’s a solid question, the warning in the end saying to check the beginning again, the pure representation of human forgetfulness, of its ugliness as a defect.

The said lost one, the mystery, the engaged, the prideful promise of a closing to the whole riddle, to the whole formula; it’s indeed a truth about human frustration.

In the end, Owarimonogatari 1 it’s a promise of mystery, which only tends to grow and become better, where the end it’s satisfactory and surreal, where the three works as one and three at the same time, therefore, it’s great (9.0 in a whole).

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Owarimonogatari 2/Shinobu Mail:

End, the closing of said arc, what’s there to say about it? What can really be said about it?
In a cruel way, the word “boring” could be used in a brutal and even condescending way, but, this would be said just envisioning the usurpation of the arc’s focus to one character in particular, and that would be unjust.

Being that way, no, because it is that way, it’s necessary to quote the divergences and convergences until the end — or rather, from the start.
Beginning with a suggestive presentation of the plot, the tale, passing through a roller coaster of quality, goes from the momentary fun to the cumulus of tedium, but not in a sequential order, of course.
With the apparition of a new character, the interesting Seishirou, the first oddity-slayer, the first servant, the first love, maybe? The relationship between he and the said iron-blooded, hot-blooded and cold-blooded vampire, Kiss-shot, it’s indeed intriguing. In certain point, it’s understood that the exchange of feelings between the two it’s almost the opposite. In the end, their relationship it’s like any other, of any kind, therefore, it’s something good.

The closing events, like the duel, the devouring, the consolation, everything fulfill a emptiness of almost three 1/5 of the arc, which occults it with a speech that’s even irritating.

Even so, the end, the said summary, the pay-off it’s really beautiful, therefore, it’s something good. The connected dots and the ones that are left at the end of the protagonist’s report to the coadjuvant Ougi are really well-made; more so with the collaboration of the “chat” between said protagonist and the said coadjuvant Yotsugi.

In the end, Owarimonogatari 2, Shinobu Mail, it’s a well-presented arc that screw its way to its beautiful end, which leaves a great tip and close other ones. We can catalog everything as a whole as being great (8.5-9), but, the bad use of explanations in the filling of this cake leaves it tasteless, therefore, good (7.5-8.0 for the end).

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Owarimonogatari/As an anime altogether.

Good adaptation, great display of scenes and metaphors from the book in form of frames, frameworks and even the ending.

If both parts are to be divided, like in the books, it would be a 9 and a 7 in sequence, but, as they’re put together, I risk myself at giving it a 9.

There’s no meaning in despise the first part for the slouch of the second one.