Reviews

Many people who gave this monogatari series or owarimonogatari a lower than average rating, let me say this. The meaning of "owari" or the prefix name of this monogatari means the resolution or the end of something. By this sense, many of the monogatari that we saw with its prefix name tells you, and predetermine what you are about to see, within those monogatari series that will entails as its main theme or topic of the anime's discussion or introductory standpoints, until it meets it resolution or the end of that specific monogatari series. And if you notice something about this owarimonogatari series. Both shinobu's problem and Araragi problem are resolved when the story meet its ending or the last episode of the owarimonogatari. For Araragi it's the realization or understanding about his forgotten past. In which later helps him to deal with his contemporary problem with Oikura Sodachi (not spoiling, it's what he planned to do when she returned and was exposed in episode 1).

Is it out of context of the story? No. Is it not related to the main arc? No. Is it meaningless to the development of the story? No, liked i said before. It helps with Araragi's understandings to unravel and resolve his past problem with the way he does or thinks things logically, to his contemporary time's problems with Oikura Sodachi.

A filler episode tend to have no meaning to further the progression of a story and holds no relevance towards the goal of achieving it. Conversely, the not really a filler or rather the detective game that Ougi tries to resolve or rather helps Araragi to resolve it, are just a style of the author's story telling where you, the audience can think and theorize along the points that were given visually or verbally through its dialogue and visuals, about the answer or the act of using deduction by Ougi to further the understandings related to the happenings at the current topic of discussion or whether or not. With your guess or theory is being right or wrong at Ougi's deduction about the case of rationalism in human's actions and causation of it. That's the whole point of a detective game in Owarimonogatari or deducing points or rationalizing the reason for each character's actions with its possibilities in mind. By this sense, it was an extremely a well done job for Nisio Isin (the author) to organized and formalize these argumentative ways of deduction and rationalizing assumptions in this monogatari series. Incidentally, in some cases, Ougi ask Araragi to give an ending statement on the very near end of the episodes to shows the end of the deduction in theorizing Oikura Sodachi's reasons for her particular actions. If you go to law school or study philosophy or any argument related subject then you'll get how it's done.

My enjoyment for this is 9, the sound is 9 (Oikura Sodachi voice acting was top notched lmao) with a fitted OST for a specific scene or talks in the anime, while the story is a subjective matter whether you like this kind of story with its premise given in the prefix of the "-monogatari" while ending the show with the conclusion of how the prefix it, is exactly what it's. But i'll give it a 9 since I enjoy it hella lot. And i like how they make the random text that usually pops up sporadically alot more noticeable and easy to read thanks to the cool and slightly bit slow transition into those random texts, so you have enough time to read all of them or possibly pauses it. Despite the shorter amount of dialogue for this. There are plentiful of westerner's references like "monty hall" (and some other ones) and uses of english words like, "field work", " Do your best" etc. And some indication of the fallacy that the character is committing like the ,"red herring" that was mentioned by either Ougi or Araragi in a certain Episode. The cutted in short dialogue did a hell lot of job for the audience to follow onto the story and understanding the happenings much easier than the previous monogatari series. Plus, their ways of smooth talking through the same topic or premise over and over again, while adding new info in over the extended period of their dialogue is pretty interesting as well. It's kinda clever to see this around. Nevertheless my overall is a 9, It's the best monogatari series so far in my subjective opinion.