Nevertheless, the monogatari series in its entirety is actually connected through every events that happen in each of the monogatari stories, but Gaen Izuko's preach (or the author's voice) in the Owarimonogatari and Koyomimonogatari tells you more about it. It's pretty vague, ambiguous and complicated to understand (because it's a theory, a spiritual one that this story runs by, and allusion to order, and unity theory that the universe runs by irl). And the author wanted to present the story as an argument rather than just an ordinary anime story with visuals and words. That's why the story are compartmentalize and disorganize as if it's in incoherence but not actually is; it's just to make people view this as an anime with argumentation to the given prefix or premise of the story that will present those arguments. And btw, the reasons the author uses text that pops up periodically in each section of their original light novel. These text are the essential words of the character's voice, analogy, connection of the current ideas or talks topic with their past (like in monogatari second season where kaiki talks to Medusa Sengoku about the topic of love, and he allude that conversation to the person he used to love), their thoughts during the conversation, or even them talking to another character instead of voicing it. They decided to put it as a pop up text since it's much faster to progress the story. And the one thing that you might notice about these monogatari series is that they touches different series of ontology, epistemology and metaphysical ideology fashioned by the author himself, or with an allusion to other well known philosopher's, or trite and common sayings through his story that was told since the past. Yes im kinda glorifying this anime because the author of this anime actually implement these elements within his story and making it seems intellectual, while at the same time, introducing us to the oblivion things that we sees in today's life, mythology, and so forth.
And guess what, the story in this are compact with philosophy.
The first was the philosophical theory of personal identity, authenticity, the roman's sayings of "when you're in rome, do what they do", the idea that the existence of the universal/oddities/nature aren't entirely dependent on humans etc. To further elaborate on that existence theory/idea, to be without an observers (us humans), there's just nothing to observe thus humans are only neccesary in existence to observe them. But without them they aren't going to make other existing things that's not us to cease its existence or some shit like that. Or how pretending to be a person from another country doesn't makes one a person of that country. You're just doing it to coexist and nothing else. Plus, they uses this concept to connect this idea with Ononoki (the stoic doll girl) being able to adapt and acts like a human. She's only doing it to coexist, but not to essentially become a human. Or in this context of the country example, if you're from japan, and wanted to become an american by living within their country, talk like them, acts like them. That doesn't equalize to make you change your entire nationality, or inherent DNA that makes identify you, and prove to you that you are a descendant from the Japanese blood. And they also tackles how religion are very narrow minded, as to take things based from reality into their mythical creatures and the apperance of a godly, or a deity like angels, or demonic entity. And some of the religion, in this case Japan, consider almost the entire thing on the earth's surface as a composition that makes up the entirety of the specific god. Like, this snake represent the snake god, this crab represent the crab god, this rock represent or a part of the rock god etc. So why is that, why does religion takes things from reality into the inreality to represent their godly beings and mythical creatures within their stories. And so forth. This is the abstract in the overall sense of Tsukimonogatari. It requires you to watch with disinterest to be able to digest what the author is arguing, with points, references etc. And it was one of the best sounding abstract in an anime that i've heard so far, in many other animes that i have watched.
Other ones are there, but the ones that touches me the most in this monogatari series, or Tsukimonogatari is the arguments about whether life are control by fate or not. And how personal identity conflicts you with what you want to do, or to be. For instance, for the new character, or a specialist that specilize in dolls and collecting them in the sense of his own aesthetics. Present his argument in a way where it goes against the idea of dictatorship, covering the idea that our lives are predetermined and we have no where to decide or to change because it was redirected by fate etc. If you're into philosophy, arguments, comedy, creativity that will weird you out, aesthetics in nudity (that's what the author beliefs, in the medieval and old art we also sees aesthetics in nudity as well), plays with semantics, japanese puns, using several western's literature (like monkey paw, or shakespeares), common sayings, english words and so forth to create their conversation within their dialogue. Then this is one of the must watch anime for you. There's not much actions but the art are pretty enticing and beautiful as fuck. The erratical poses, or the character's head angle might may you go. WTF IS THIS SHIT?! HOW DO YOU DO THAT?! AND WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT OF DOING IT etc. Is just a common thing we sees in model show cases, or fashion show kinda thing, or posing for a picture. I guess SHAFT Studio find that this is pretty majestic and artsy kinda thing. So they just do it just for the art, or to represent their unique style of representing their aesthetics and shit. And that's the strength of this anime (dialogue, art, animation). And that's what attracts me the most about it as well when i first watch this anime. I drop it tho after watching bakemonogatari, then rewatch it again and fell in love with the series as i began to understands what this whole anime is all about. It's hard for westerners or foreigner to understands, since the brilliance of this anime can only be understood if you speak japanese, or know much about kanji and the puns that it progresses. The reasons that you might want to watch, the visuals and arts that will entice the viewer to go and check this anime out, and some of the bloody scene of the fight scene that you sees on the top 10 best anime best scene or some shit. Idk. Or seen it in an AMV.
To simplify, this anime is argumentative and philosophy/references heavy. With its unique art style and abundunce of background scenery and shit. This is prolly one of the msot addictive anime that i've seen so far. But for me, bakemonogtari is boring af. For this one, it's less boring, the music is not really that sleepy inducing, and there are less circling and more animation, pictures to keep us awake during the lengthy conversation between characters.
