After the surprisingly good Hitagi End arc of the Second Season, we're left with this trite piece of...something. I'm loathe to call it art.
Hanamonogatari continues the show's long running gag of placing power point slides in the narrative that move too fast for most people to read. There are words there, but you'll never read them. Other times it'll be a black frame or red frame with the words "black frame" or "red frame" on them. This is just in case the viewer is too stupid to figure out what it really is. Hanamonogatari really stretches it by showing the viewers the elusive pink frame, however. Is that a plus? I'm not sure.
This show follows the character of Suruga, or something of the sort. I don't know. I forgot her name after she failed to kill Araragi all the way back in Bakemonogatari. Had she succeeded the quality of the show would have increased dramatically. But she didn't so I'm going to hold that against her. She's remiss when her arch-nemesis from jr. high shows up.
It reminds me of a story that one of my friends told me when I first met him in high school. He previously went to a private Catholic school. However, you cannot go to a private high school in my state. His dad taught at my school so naturally he went there. Anyway, he too had an arch nemesis in the form of a Greek kid named Kosta Fantidas. He used to tell me about how much he hated this kid and what a drag on his life he was.
Turns out that Surugu talks her nemesis to death and then defeats her in a game of basketball. Da fuq? My friend's nemesis probably grew up to be a villain in a Bond movie just to contrast.
Near the end this series pulls out all the stops on being offensive and reintroduces Araragi. I was sincerely hoping I wouldn't have to see this guy in this show because seeing him negatively affects the quality of my life. I am worse off for knowing that Koyomi Araragi is a character in a show.
Araragi spends the last 10 minutes of the show talking about how much he wants to molest his sister. Also he was being a creep and watching Surugu sleep in the nude. That was after he entered her house uninvited. Seriously though, Hitagi volunteered to be this idiot's girlfriend. He should be getting enough sex from her to get over his deviant sexual behavior. Guess I'm too optimistic, though.
It will probably take no less than 3 hours of spamming Guile's theme for me to feel better about myself as a person after having viewed this show.
