Im sure we all know that the monogatari series love to talk into the deeper meaning of things, logic (semantics, thought process of an adult vs children, the supernatural etc.), concepts, allusions, sayings and philosophical theories. When i say philosophical theories, i mean that this anime IS the first anime that i've watched so far that mention a well known philosopher or a Chinese Philosopher Mencius and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu). Tackling the idea of the main and other mature character that was presented within the story. And the way their dialogue works... just great. All of them follow an argumentative structure that goes by premise > body > conclusion and vice versa. But just to be clear, there're statement too. Not just a bunch of random or specifics arguments. This is why i enjoy watching it. Every argument are sound and valid. Some maybe vague, but it's just a way of thinking in a way that most skepticism believer does. Aside from that, the parodies and references to anime or different things are great too.
Story Rating And Character Rating: 8
Frankly, i dont really understand how the plot of this anime works. But the story indeed, is about "Ni-Se" (NISE-MONOGATARI). And when we translate "NISE" into english. It was defined as Bogus, or fake, not genuine. In which, this was the actually story line of this anime. Talking about things that aren't genuine and fake. And giving lessons to the viewers with their indirect and symbolical of the real world's talks and arguments or just a statement about it.
Bakemonogatari is an introductory series that presented different characters, but mostly female with Oshino being the only male aside from Araragi. Along with their way of thinking, personality, catch phrases, attitude, and behaviors. Most of the time, the anime talks about things.... When i say things. I mean alot of things, including the trivial matters, the supernatural being's traits based from mythologies, etc.
And Nisemonogatari focuses are on Araragi's intimate people in life (his sisters or Shinobu). And the character, just like in bakemonogatari are the same, repetitive, and unique at the same time. These characters other than Araragi will probably play a big role into developing Araragi into a better Character. But honestly, i see very little character development here lol. Despite all of that, the character are very interesting and unique. Not only that you can recognize them much easier. But you can see that each characters hold different logic and opinion. Thus, you can also compare it to people in real life who have similar opinion and logic as well, and based from those opinion and logic, the argument flow are similar to the actual thing that those people might behave or argue from their point of view of the characters.
Art Rating 9: Amazing, creative, hard work, beautiful, metaphoric, visually appealing, mixing both things from unreality (anime, drawing art) and reality (real life object, person 's pictures), implication of how this visuals are connected to a character's feeling, giving you differs vibes, and foreshadowing (ominous depicting environment, atmosphere, colours etc.)
Sound Rating: 9
There're great music being put on a specific part of the anime's story. Meeting a mysterious or abnormal entity, boom that's the perfect music vibe to give. And chilling or thinking kind of music are well fitted into the anime and the environment of the anime as well.
Overall Rating: 8
To be honest, the anime style is what i love about the series. But it wasn't that interesting. The story was more restricted into Araragi's family relationship than any other intriguing stuff that could've happen. It wasn't bad though, but i cant really find the right word to put as to why i felted this way.
