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Log 10月2日
『 Koyomimonogatari 7【 Koyomi Tea 】 』
Rumors are never-ending in this material world. They circulate around us every day ranging from superstitious beliefs to our own little findings in even the smallest communities. For the seventh Koyomimonogatari episode entails our platinum ally of justice, Tsukihi, as she revolves around a circulating rumor in her tea ceremony club that rattles about in her conscience, and how rumors and such continue to revolve around our lives and even our conscience.
Koyomi Tea falls under October, also dubbed as Month of the Gods (coincidence for the upcoming logs? I think not 😏). Like in the previous Koyomimonogatari log, this doesn’t have a specific date and the most I’ve only researched so far was that it generally happened in October. I watched it today, October 2nd.
The episode starts with Tsukihi facing Koyomi on her tragic question, “Do you believe in ghosts?”. While this question has been drifted away with Koyomin’s great assumptions, then yes, Tsukihi did hear about rumors about a ghost circulating in her tea ceremony club.
While rumors are normally supported by “evidence”, oddly enough there was none according to Tsukihi, no evident traces and not even a single story, so can you conclude that there’s simply no ghost in the story? She even said it might be a mysterious “eight member” circulating around their club.
However, it was the polar opposite Tsukihi was trying to discuss.
While logically, Tsukihi also agreed with Koyomi about there’s virtually no ghost at all and trying to prove it to her clubmates that there’s objectively no ghost at all, not even a trace or evidence, her clubmates seem to disagree.
In this episode of Koyomimonogatari, the essence and value of the Fire Sisters brim up once again that was shown by Tsukihi. Despite the disagreement of her clubmates, she still strived to look deeply into evidences, facts, relations, and conclusions, but it was useless in the end as her clubmates still disagree with her no matter how big her evidences are. To add on top of that, she expected a binary “yes or no” answer from Koyomi about the question earlier, “Do you believe in ghosts?”
Let’s resolve another flaw with the Fire Sisters, specifically the part where Tsukihi expects a binary answer from her infuriating question. From the wise words of Koyomin, not all problems in the world are solved by a “yes” or “no”. We always go by rough explanations and proper conclusion with all of our problems, not just a simple binary answer. That’s why Tsukihi was puzzled about Koyomi looking concerned and doubtful to answer her question earlier. It’s one of the flaws the Fire Sisters need to learn, they still are childish tho :`)
So we go back to the ghost story with Tsukihi. Everyone has their own way of seeing who’s correct, true, or speaking the truth. I think this episode of Koyomimonogatari entails about how do we challenge our own truth from others, how do we harmoniously accept our own true knowledge from others. We should never be ashamed of our own little truths and stay true to our own correctness, not letting others change your fates and twists of your mind. This is yet another flaw with the Fire Sisters brimming heart of Tsukihi, as she doesn’t want to leave that justice aside, not wanting to ignore something that’s right.
So was Tsukihi’s doubts resolved? Probably… not? Is the mystery about this “eight person” or ghost circulating around? Perhaps…
In the end, rumors might actually be more than just a way to entertain, enlighten, or make the material world more exciting, it can also be for the sake of others. A red string of fate pertaining to one’s belief of a rumor or a belief per se. As humans, we are fond of sacrificing for the sake of others, even a group for one thing/person. I think that’s the beauty of integrity between groups of people, not to say that it’s all bad and nimbus. From that fragile red string of sacrificial truth turns into the normal one person always seems to be. Sometimes, it’s fun to deceive, but not for in all situations. In the end, they’re still in middle school, and Tsukihi is in the middle of her ever-so burning passion for justice. For Koyomin, that looks like a child’s play for her phoenix little sister.
That concludes my log! Koyomimonogatari logs twice in a row? That sounds like a first! But don’t worry, the wait is nearly over, as I spicily near the journey of Owarimonogatari and Otorimonogatari in twenty days! Stay tuned for the next log, Ougi Formula, the latter parts of Owarimonogatari coming around late October!
『 Koyomimonogatari 7【 Koyomi Tea 】 』
Rumors are never-ending in this material world. They circulate around us every day ranging from superstitious beliefs to our own little findings in even the smallest communities. For the seventh Koyomimonogatari episode entails our platinum ally of justice, Tsukihi, as she revolves around a circulating rumor in her tea ceremony club that rattles about in her conscience, and how rumors and such continue to revolve around our lives and even our conscience.
Koyomi Tea falls under October, also dubbed as Month of the Gods (coincidence for the upcoming logs? I think not 😏). Like in the previous Koyomimonogatari log, this doesn’t have a specific date and the most I’ve only researched so far was that it generally happened in October. I watched it today, October 2nd.
The episode starts with Tsukihi facing Koyomi on her tragic question, “Do you believe in ghosts?”. While this question has been drifted away with Koyomin’s great assumptions, then yes, Tsukihi did hear about rumors about a ghost circulating in her tea ceremony club.
While rumors are normally supported by “evidence”, oddly enough there was none according to Tsukihi, no evident traces and not even a single story, so can you conclude that there’s simply no ghost in the story? She even said it might be a mysterious “eight member” circulating around their club.
However, it was the polar opposite Tsukihi was trying to discuss.
While logically, Tsukihi also agreed with Koyomi about there’s virtually no ghost at all and trying to prove it to her clubmates that there’s objectively no ghost at all, not even a trace or evidence, her clubmates seem to disagree.
In this episode of Koyomimonogatari, the essence and value of the Fire Sisters brim up once again that was shown by Tsukihi. Despite the disagreement of her clubmates, she still strived to look deeply into evidences, facts, relations, and conclusions, but it was useless in the end as her clubmates still disagree with her no matter how big her evidences are. To add on top of that, she expected a binary “yes or no” answer from Koyomi about the question earlier, “Do you believe in ghosts?”
Let’s resolve another flaw with the Fire Sisters, specifically the part where Tsukihi expects a binary answer from her infuriating question. From the wise words of Koyomin, not all problems in the world are solved by a “yes” or “no”. We always go by rough explanations and proper conclusion with all of our problems, not just a simple binary answer. That’s why Tsukihi was puzzled about Koyomi looking concerned and doubtful to answer her question earlier. It’s one of the flaws the Fire Sisters need to learn, they still are childish tho :`)
So we go back to the ghost story with Tsukihi. Everyone has their own way of seeing who’s correct, true, or speaking the truth. I think this episode of Koyomimonogatari entails about how do we challenge our own truth from others, how do we harmoniously accept our own true knowledge from others. We should never be ashamed of our own little truths and stay true to our own correctness, not letting others change your fates and twists of your mind. This is yet another flaw with the Fire Sisters brimming heart of Tsukihi, as she doesn’t want to leave that justice aside, not wanting to ignore something that’s right.
So was Tsukihi’s doubts resolved? Probably… not? Is the mystery about this “eight person” or ghost circulating around? Perhaps…
In the end, rumors might actually be more than just a way to entertain, enlighten, or make the material world more exciting, it can also be for the sake of others. A red string of fate pertaining to one’s belief of a rumor or a belief per se. As humans, we are fond of sacrificing for the sake of others, even a group for one thing/person. I think that’s the beauty of integrity between groups of people, not to say that it’s all bad and nimbus. From that fragile red string of sacrificial truth turns into the normal one person always seems to be. Sometimes, it’s fun to deceive, but not for in all situations. In the end, they’re still in middle school, and Tsukihi is in the middle of her ever-so burning passion for justice. For Koyomin, that looks like a child’s play for her phoenix little sister.
That concludes my log! Koyomimonogatari logs twice in a row? That sounds like a first! But don’t worry, the wait is nearly over, as I spicily near the journey of Owarimonogatari and Otorimonogatari in twenty days! Stay tuned for the next log, Ougi Formula, the latter parts of Owarimonogatari coming around late October!
Log 10月2日
『 Owarimonogatari【 Ougi Formula 】 』
This is the story of our beta vampire,
the story of the ever-so lineage of the past.
For this installation, Owarimonogatari puts forth about how our past is still connected to our doubts, fears, and ideologies,
about how the past might’ve shaped us to what we are today,
and without it, how much variation is there to presume?
All entailed in a story about mathematics.
For the first arc of this installation, all of the events of Ougi Formula fell on the 24th of October as a two-parter or a full-fledged 40-minute or so tale, however, the concluding minutes of the arc happened on the 25th. I watched the entirety of the arc today, October 24th.
Just like Shinobu’s misery about her past, accepting it and uniting her past with her present self, and inevitably for her future, back in [i]Shinobu Mail[i], it’s Araragi’s turn to brim the spotlight of his past, and how that contributed to his sequence of changing himself and his ideologies. Finally, we are greeted with the debut of Ougi Oshino, Meme’s niece, the one who doesn’t know anything but Koyomi. We are entailed with the origins of Koyomi’s [i]“The more friends you have, the lesser the intensity of your humanity is.”[i].
It all started in his mundane first-year class,
it all started with a funky study session,
it all started on finding a culprit and ultimately,
it all started with someone ever-so passionate about mathematics and justice.
There meets Koyomi’s archnemesis, never pro-justice, always finding justice around the corner against him, and always pro-mathematics.
I think the past is just as precious, memorable, and important as the present and the future. It is never inferior, but we somehow make it inferior to ourselves. It’s probably the least talked subject coming from us, aside from Mathematics of course. We always blabber about our present and the sweet future, but seldomly the past.
We would somehow run away from the past, hide from the past, protect the past, even if it denies the fact that it already happened, even if it means that little past might’ve been an exponential growth to what we are now.
I think that’s just how great and expansive our decisions back then are.
As for Koyomin, he seemed a little troubled about his past, as early as gaining remnants from it. We’d be troubling ourselves if we say “I forgot about the past” years from now, but no such phenomena exist. The past remains in our own living and never fades away, it just sits dormant within us until someone eventually triggers the silver bullet of reminiscing those moments.
This is where Ougi comes into play, challenging Koyomi’s inner elements including his memories and the reluctant past, leading a trap to a classroom stiffed in time and space, with the halted classroom having similar properties as what Koyomi had his tragedy back in his days as a first-year: the eerily familiar time that’s static on the clock, the familiar view from outside, and where he seated when told to do so, as Ougi tries to hear Koyomi out, letting him garden his dry past with consciousness and the advert of the ignorance of his life. Sometimes, a wise saying goes that it’s better to leave things the way they should be, but Ougi’s the polar opposite for this one.
If we say that our past is blurry, lost its pristine detail, or saying “I forgot” about it, then we might not get to resolve our pasts at all. After a few years of leaving it unresolved, both of our characters had no choice but to rethink and reassemble such events, without all the panicking and pressure from Koyomi’s instance two years ago. While Koyomi’s past was blurry, Ougi eventually pointed out contingent elements from that classroom Koyomi was locked in along with the whole class back then, in an effort to find the culprit. They came to a resolve and conclusion knowing that a variable outside of the classroom was the actual cause and skepticism, and so our characters finally escaped that classroom halted in space and time, knowing that in the end, it doesn’t actually exist in the building and floor plans, just like what Ougi foreshadowed at the beginning.
[i]Ougi Formula[i] not only paved for the essence and fruitfulness of the past, but our burning sensation for justice and truth, and how the majority of us can alter that into thinking that it is the truth.
At some point in our lives, we long for justice, we seek for it, and we ask for it. We sometimes demand the truth, and like justice, they can be pretty crucial and destructive if a certain population alters it in a socially majority manner. It just goes to show how frail human assumption is.
The arc foreshadowed and concluded that majority votes are one of the ugliest formulas we ever made. It was socially vulnerable on both parties, the worst last resort anyone might ever encounter even if it brings a benefit or hazard to the opposing party or both parties. Remember the conflict I mentioned above about Koyomi and his entire first-year class locked up, all eyes on Sodachi Oikura that’s skeptical on who’s the culprit?
Well, that was the unresolved conflict with Koyomin’s past.
The class yearning for justice, yearning to finally go home, turned to outrage on the entire classroom. Mouths out of control, as one longs to finally walk out of that depressing special class meeting just because of Sodachi’s selfishness and envy, presuming that someone rigged the Math examinations, looking for justice, a fake one, as she scored lower and thought someone’s behind it, especially the one who aced the examination, Koyomi himself.
Ougi Formula is another building ground full of present-day flaws, this time it laid eyes on the ever-so expanding doubts and connections of our pasts, the justice we build from envy, selfishness, and ambiguity, the truth that we frame from our vulnerable circles and make it so that it becomes the fake truth on top of the real deal, the grudges that leave a depressing highlighter in our lives, and longing for ourselves, to save ourselves, by resolving it. It is quite a twisty arc circulating how we deal with our time and place, that it certainly leaves a trace no matter how much we try to run into vagueness and silence. It saturates the values I’ve taken and discussed back in Kabukimonogatari and Shinobu Mail about leaving traces and the value of the past. That building ground will eventually make up for Koyomi’s decisions now.
Unlike Shinobu that had her resolve quickly, our Koyomin’s not done yet with his resolve, that’s just a third of the way. It’s up to our Koyomin whether to take that resolve further to action or leave it boiling in the furnace.
What will Koyomin find out next? What will he do now that his past is completely structured? Will he finally settle the unsolved piece of the formula, like the visible variables on that first-year class, like Sodachi, like the puzzly Math examination, like the variation in those scores? Perhaps it’s up to our beta vampire to decide.
Having read the English light novel adaptation of the first part of Owarimonogatari, there were notable differences, such as the sequencing of events are hugely different between the anime adaptation and the novels; the novels are purely chronological in sequencing, but the anime adaptation had it scattered all over the place (for emphasis and less confusion?). There were very few cut-offs or differentiated elements in these episodes that are different but shouldn’t be that shabby and frustrating. This is almost the same package as you’ll be getting from the novels.
And so with our constants that we know, we cruise through those uncertain and cloudy resolutions, with Sodachi Riddle and Sodachi Lost in the coming days, in the coming logs. Truly a tale of Mathematics it is.
『 Owarimonogatari【 Ougi Formula 】 』
This is the story of our beta vampire,
the story of the ever-so lineage of the past.
For this installation, Owarimonogatari puts forth about how our past is still connected to our doubts, fears, and ideologies,
about how the past might’ve shaped us to what we are today,
and without it, how much variation is there to presume?
All entailed in a story about mathematics.
For the first arc of this installation, all of the events of Ougi Formula fell on the 24th of October as a two-parter or a full-fledged 40-minute or so tale, however, the concluding minutes of the arc happened on the 25th. I watched the entirety of the arc today, October 24th.
Just like Shinobu’s misery about her past, accepting it and uniting her past with her present self, and inevitably for her future, back in [i]Shinobu Mail[i], it’s Araragi’s turn to brim the spotlight of his past, and how that contributed to his sequence of changing himself and his ideologies. Finally, we are greeted with the debut of Ougi Oshino, Meme’s niece, the one who doesn’t know anything but Koyomi. We are entailed with the origins of Koyomi’s [i]“The more friends you have, the lesser the intensity of your humanity is.”[i].
It all started in his mundane first-year class,
it all started with a funky study session,
it all started on finding a culprit and ultimately,
it all started with someone ever-so passionate about mathematics and justice.
There meets Koyomi’s archnemesis, never pro-justice, always finding justice around the corner against him, and always pro-mathematics.
I think the past is just as precious, memorable, and important as the present and the future. It is never inferior, but we somehow make it inferior to ourselves. It’s probably the least talked subject coming from us, aside from Mathematics of course. We always blabber about our present and the sweet future, but seldomly the past.
We would somehow run away from the past, hide from the past, protect the past, even if it denies the fact that it already happened, even if it means that little past might’ve been an exponential growth to what we are now.
I think that’s just how great and expansive our decisions back then are.
As for Koyomin, he seemed a little troubled about his past, as early as gaining remnants from it. We’d be troubling ourselves if we say “I forgot about the past” years from now, but no such phenomena exist. The past remains in our own living and never fades away, it just sits dormant within us until someone eventually triggers the silver bullet of reminiscing those moments.
This is where Ougi comes into play, challenging Koyomi’s inner elements including his memories and the reluctant past, leading a trap to a classroom stiffed in time and space, with the halted classroom having similar properties as what Koyomi had his tragedy back in his days as a first-year: the eerily familiar time that’s static on the clock, the familiar view from outside, and where he seated when told to do so, as Ougi tries to hear Koyomi out, letting him garden his dry past with consciousness and the advert of the ignorance of his life. Sometimes, a wise saying goes that it’s better to leave things the way they should be, but Ougi’s the polar opposite for this one.
If we say that our past is blurry, lost its pristine detail, or saying “I forgot” about it, then we might not get to resolve our pasts at all. After a few years of leaving it unresolved, both of our characters had no choice but to rethink and reassemble such events, without all the panicking and pressure from Koyomi’s instance two years ago. While Koyomi’s past was blurry, Ougi eventually pointed out contingent elements from that classroom Koyomi was locked in along with the whole class back then, in an effort to find the culprit. They came to a resolve and conclusion knowing that a variable outside of the classroom was the actual cause and skepticism, and so our characters finally escaped that classroom halted in space and time, knowing that in the end, it doesn’t actually exist in the building and floor plans, just like what Ougi foreshadowed at the beginning.
[i]Ougi Formula[i] not only paved for the essence and fruitfulness of the past, but our burning sensation for justice and truth, and how the majority of us can alter that into thinking that it is the truth.
At some point in our lives, we long for justice, we seek for it, and we ask for it. We sometimes demand the truth, and like justice, they can be pretty crucial and destructive if a certain population alters it in a socially majority manner. It just goes to show how frail human assumption is.
The arc foreshadowed and concluded that majority votes are one of the ugliest formulas we ever made. It was socially vulnerable on both parties, the worst last resort anyone might ever encounter even if it brings a benefit or hazard to the opposing party or both parties. Remember the conflict I mentioned above about Koyomi and his entire first-year class locked up, all eyes on Sodachi Oikura that’s skeptical on who’s the culprit?
Well, that was the unresolved conflict with Koyomin’s past.
The class yearning for justice, yearning to finally go home, turned to outrage on the entire classroom. Mouths out of control, as one longs to finally walk out of that depressing special class meeting just because of Sodachi’s selfishness and envy, presuming that someone rigged the Math examinations, looking for justice, a fake one, as she scored lower and thought someone’s behind it, especially the one who aced the examination, Koyomi himself.
Ougi Formula is another building ground full of present-day flaws, this time it laid eyes on the ever-so expanding doubts and connections of our pasts, the justice we build from envy, selfishness, and ambiguity, the truth that we frame from our vulnerable circles and make it so that it becomes the fake truth on top of the real deal, the grudges that leave a depressing highlighter in our lives, and longing for ourselves, to save ourselves, by resolving it. It is quite a twisty arc circulating how we deal with our time and place, that it certainly leaves a trace no matter how much we try to run into vagueness and silence. It saturates the values I’ve taken and discussed back in Kabukimonogatari and Shinobu Mail about leaving traces and the value of the past. That building ground will eventually make up for Koyomi’s decisions now.
Unlike Shinobu that had her resolve quickly, our Koyomin’s not done yet with his resolve, that’s just a third of the way. It’s up to our Koyomin whether to take that resolve further to action or leave it boiling in the furnace.
What will Koyomin find out next? What will he do now that his past is completely structured? Will he finally settle the unsolved piece of the formula, like the visible variables on that first-year class, like Sodachi, like the puzzly Math examination, like the variation in those scores? Perhaps it’s up to our beta vampire to decide.
Having read the English light novel adaptation of the first part of Owarimonogatari, there were notable differences, such as the sequencing of events are hugely different between the anime adaptation and the novels; the novels are purely chronological in sequencing, but the anime adaptation had it scattered all over the place (for emphasis and less confusion?). There were very few cut-offs or differentiated elements in these episodes that are different but shouldn’t be that shabby and frustrating. This is almost the same package as you’ll be getting from the novels.
And so with our constants that we know, we cruise through those uncertain and cloudy resolutions, with Sodachi Riddle and Sodachi Lost in the coming days, in the coming logs. Truly a tale of Mathematics it is.
Log 10月25日
『 Owarimonogatari【 Sodachi Riddle 】 』
This is a story of our beta vampire,
The longing story of an ever-lineage, flexible, and selfish past.
Koyomi, having his forgotten, unstable, mistaken past,
now coming into resolute, acceptance, and the revelation of his flaws.
Knowing the past, should also know what you truly are?
Still, here entailed in a lovely tale of mathematics, a deep formulated one.
Sodachi Riddle spans from October 25th until the 26th, and it continues the events that ended from Ougi Formula, all the events happened on the 25th, but just like last time, the concluding minutes of the arc happened on the 26th. I watched the entirety of it today, on the 25th.
With our Koyomin having his past reconnected, remembered, and revved up, it’s time that the past should be visually revisited. It wasn’t Koyomi’s end yet, he is yet to reevaluate the past and saturate his forgotten and miserable, foolish past.
They say nostalgia hits once you hear or see it again, so let’s begin.
Sodachi Riddle paves the way to debut the best Euler, Sodachi Oikura, The face of the class Koyomi was in when he was still in first-year, the proclaimed Euler, and the one who's deeply devoted to loving Math. Shifted by the circles of the class as calling her “How Much” rather than Euler herself, shifted by society about truth and justice, shifted by Koyomi for shame and corrupt.
And still, after a few years, Sodachi still has flame eyes on Koyomi...
Why is that?
Who’s right?
Who’s in the right sense of justice?
Why did she remain as a constant, while Koyomi didn’t?
This arc once again emphasizes justice, more on siding who is right and who is wrong. Koyomi and his trusted peers, Hanekawa and Senjougahara themselves siding onto the person devoid of truth and openness of his past and the change he significantly had for years, versus Sodachi, a constant figure, still spurting hate on Koyomi from that special class meeting they had two years ago. Three versus one, I’m sure Koyomi’s party obviously wins right?
No.
And that’s why there’s the past to prove that, the oblivion and the raw truth of the past, will reveal the true sense of justice and truth Sodachi been trying to prove.
So let’s find the missing variable of her unsolved problem.
With our spooky “detective”, Ougi, and our main coefficient, Araragi, ventures on a desolate and melodramatic nostalgic trip, it wasn’t any like a happy and fun nostalgic trip, heck even calling it “nostalgic” from the beginning...
It was a trip down memory lane, in order to find justice again, in order to find the truest of truths,
in order to find the answer to the equation.
Sometimes, once we know about the past, we say that we already vividly “remember” it. While Koyomi is gaining more and more of his past with Ougi, he frequently bumps into doubts and mistakes of his “remembered” past. We always mistook the past, but what makes it challenging for us is to accept it alongside our truths, or betray the truth we’ve been believing as a replacement for the truth in our eyes, in our memories.
It’s always easier said than done.
Planning for the future is just as hard as accepting the past.
I think acceptance is what we always deem to struggle at certain points in our lives.
As Koyomi regained his true past slowly but surely, with the help of Ougi to clear off skepticism and the remains of the unknown variables around his past, it was truly dark and melodramatic for our Koyomin might’ve been as dark as Shinobu reminiscing and knowing more of her past. The past was enough for Koyomi to hurtfully admit his ultimate flaw in his living, just knowing about what he has gone through with his blind bare hands and routes.
This is where Sodachi enters the big picture, while she wasn’t able to express herself properly with anger and justice front and center on that controversial first-year class meeting she had, along with Koyomi, it was blindly expressed with what both of our characters had five years down the pipeline.
It all started back in Koyomi’s middle school days, in the shoe locker with three envelopes, it all started with a Monty Hall problem until Koyomi eventually arrived at an abandoned house, there meets his one of the most important influences in his life for that whole summer, then that summer ended with an empty envelope.
Perhaps one little decision we make now can have an exponential and huge difference in the future. It was a crucial summer for Koyomi, as it was the credible summer where it prevented him from hating Math or becoming a delinquent. The little math fairy girl who has been teaching mathematics all summer long with Koyomi helped him learn and love math. It was the summer that paved certain insurance into him admitting for Naoetsu High, his current high school along with Hanekawa, and later on his girlfriend, Senjougahara.
Sure, teaching something as complicated and boring as mathematics sure is unmemorable and lifeless,
but not for Koyomi, this math fairy girl he had been with for that summer helped him pave the way for his smooth sailing in life.
That one summer changed him altogether
And knowing that, made Koyomi realize how much he has been through a period of change and a smooth-sailing life for five years.
Koyomi continued to be changing through numerous variables,
but what about our math heroine?
She remained a constant.
Sodachi Riddle gives saturation on selfishness, dependence, ignorance, and compensation alongside the main theme of the past.
“I hate water that thinks it boils by itself, I hate people who don’t understand why they’re happy, I hate the ones that don’t know what makes them who they are.” is one of the pinnacle sayings from Sodachi, the sizzling goosebumps fates on you the moment you realize your ignorance, alongside the need for dependence on another. While Sodachi, our math fairy, has been teaching math to Koyomi all summer long, she too also wanted compensation for that which Koyomi absently didn’t realize in the end, that she also longed for Koyomi to share his own thoughts and learnings the math fairy itself.
And that’s where Koyomi’s golden summer ended,
it ended with an empty envelope,
showing how empty he truly is, despite the fairy offering the building blocks for his smooth sailing life,
all of that teaching was nothing for Sodachi, but something crucial for Koyomi,
it built polarity between the two, the successful and smooth-sailing Koyomi with a girlfriend and a certain university and the constant degrading Sodachi with nothing.
And all along before that summer, Koyomi was nothing, and now with all of that Math taught by our math fairy and the influence he gained from that knowledge, from the goodness Sodachi taught him, Koyomi himself was left with the confusion of his own elements, he doesn’t know what he is and doesn’t know what he is made of.
Koyomi was lost in himself, indirectly running away from the truth and despair of himself.
His life was in happiness, not knowing why, fading into unknowingness.
He was happy and full of himself, not understanding why he was.
It was the justice and truth our Euler wanted to disclose.
Selfishness is more than just a direct resurgence of our conscience, it can be an indirect pleasure or a decoy silently killing into our wellbeing, to the point we lost the value of compensation to the ones we should be thankful for.
Knowing all of those hard truths that are difficult to admit and accept, Koyomi finally found his place and position in his life. Opening a door that was once hidden, inside of it that hasn’t been solved. With our law-abiding and heroic vampire, I’m sure it’s the Koyomi we know. It’s time that our Koyomin finally accepts both the past and his flaws, and solidifies his composition.
It’s time Koyomi will finally give his compensation.
It’s time Koyomi will cover acceptance, concede a sense of defeat.
It’s time that he will break that constant free.
It’s his turn to be that fairy.
All entailed in a deep-cut yet impactful story about mathematics.
Stay tuned for Sodachi Lost! 🐍💕
『 Owarimonogatari【 Sodachi Riddle 】 』
This is a story of our beta vampire,
The longing story of an ever-lineage, flexible, and selfish past.
Koyomi, having his forgotten, unstable, mistaken past,
now coming into resolute, acceptance, and the revelation of his flaws.
Knowing the past, should also know what you truly are?
Still, here entailed in a lovely tale of mathematics, a deep formulated one.
Sodachi Riddle spans from October 25th until the 26th, and it continues the events that ended from Ougi Formula, all the events happened on the 25th, but just like last time, the concluding minutes of the arc happened on the 26th. I watched the entirety of it today, on the 25th.
With our Koyomin having his past reconnected, remembered, and revved up, it’s time that the past should be visually revisited. It wasn’t Koyomi’s end yet, he is yet to reevaluate the past and saturate his forgotten and miserable, foolish past.
They say nostalgia hits once you hear or see it again, so let’s begin.
Sodachi Riddle paves the way to debut the best Euler, Sodachi Oikura, The face of the class Koyomi was in when he was still in first-year, the proclaimed Euler, and the one who's deeply devoted to loving Math. Shifted by the circles of the class as calling her “How Much” rather than Euler herself, shifted by society about truth and justice, shifted by Koyomi for shame and corrupt.
And still, after a few years, Sodachi still has flame eyes on Koyomi...
Why is that?
Who’s right?
Who’s in the right sense of justice?
Why did she remain as a constant, while Koyomi didn’t?
This arc once again emphasizes justice, more on siding who is right and who is wrong. Koyomi and his trusted peers, Hanekawa and Senjougahara themselves siding onto the person devoid of truth and openness of his past and the change he significantly had for years, versus Sodachi, a constant figure, still spurting hate on Koyomi from that special class meeting they had two years ago. Three versus one, I’m sure Koyomi’s party obviously wins right?
No.
And that’s why there’s the past to prove that, the oblivion and the raw truth of the past, will reveal the true sense of justice and truth Sodachi been trying to prove.
So let’s find the missing variable of her unsolved problem.
With our spooky “detective”, Ougi, and our main coefficient, Araragi, ventures on a desolate and melodramatic nostalgic trip, it wasn’t any like a happy and fun nostalgic trip, heck even calling it “nostalgic” from the beginning...
It was a trip down memory lane, in order to find justice again, in order to find the truest of truths,
in order to find the answer to the equation.
Sometimes, once we know about the past, we say that we already vividly “remember” it. While Koyomi is gaining more and more of his past with Ougi, he frequently bumps into doubts and mistakes of his “remembered” past. We always mistook the past, but what makes it challenging for us is to accept it alongside our truths, or betray the truth we’ve been believing as a replacement for the truth in our eyes, in our memories.
It’s always easier said than done.
Planning for the future is just as hard as accepting the past.
I think acceptance is what we always deem to struggle at certain points in our lives.
As Koyomi regained his true past slowly but surely, with the help of Ougi to clear off skepticism and the remains of the unknown variables around his past, it was truly dark and melodramatic for our Koyomin might’ve been as dark as Shinobu reminiscing and knowing more of her past. The past was enough for Koyomi to hurtfully admit his ultimate flaw in his living, just knowing about what he has gone through with his blind bare hands and routes.
This is where Sodachi enters the big picture, while she wasn’t able to express herself properly with anger and justice front and center on that controversial first-year class meeting she had, along with Koyomi, it was blindly expressed with what both of our characters had five years down the pipeline.
It all started back in Koyomi’s middle school days, in the shoe locker with three envelopes, it all started with a Monty Hall problem until Koyomi eventually arrived at an abandoned house, there meets his one of the most important influences in his life for that whole summer, then that summer ended with an empty envelope.
Perhaps one little decision we make now can have an exponential and huge difference in the future. It was a crucial summer for Koyomi, as it was the credible summer where it prevented him from hating Math or becoming a delinquent. The little math fairy girl who has been teaching mathematics all summer long with Koyomi helped him learn and love math. It was the summer that paved certain insurance into him admitting for Naoetsu High, his current high school along with Hanekawa, and later on his girlfriend, Senjougahara.
Sure, teaching something as complicated and boring as mathematics sure is unmemorable and lifeless,
but not for Koyomi, this math fairy girl he had been with for that summer helped him pave the way for his smooth sailing in life.
That one summer changed him altogether
And knowing that, made Koyomi realize how much he has been through a period of change and a smooth-sailing life for five years.
Koyomi continued to be changing through numerous variables,
but what about our math heroine?
She remained a constant.
Sodachi Riddle gives saturation on selfishness, dependence, ignorance, and compensation alongside the main theme of the past.
“I hate water that thinks it boils by itself, I hate people who don’t understand why they’re happy, I hate the ones that don’t know what makes them who they are.” is one of the pinnacle sayings from Sodachi, the sizzling goosebumps fates on you the moment you realize your ignorance, alongside the need for dependence on another. While Sodachi, our math fairy, has been teaching math to Koyomi all summer long, she too also wanted compensation for that which Koyomi absently didn’t realize in the end, that she also longed for Koyomi to share his own thoughts and learnings the math fairy itself.
And that’s where Koyomi’s golden summer ended,
it ended with an empty envelope,
showing how empty he truly is, despite the fairy offering the building blocks for his smooth sailing life,
all of that teaching was nothing for Sodachi, but something crucial for Koyomi,
it built polarity between the two, the successful and smooth-sailing Koyomi with a girlfriend and a certain university and the constant degrading Sodachi with nothing.
And all along before that summer, Koyomi was nothing, and now with all of that Math taught by our math fairy and the influence he gained from that knowledge, from the goodness Sodachi taught him, Koyomi himself was left with the confusion of his own elements, he doesn’t know what he is and doesn’t know what he is made of.
Koyomi was lost in himself, indirectly running away from the truth and despair of himself.
His life was in happiness, not knowing why, fading into unknowingness.
He was happy and full of himself, not understanding why he was.
It was the justice and truth our Euler wanted to disclose.
Selfishness is more than just a direct resurgence of our conscience, it can be an indirect pleasure or a decoy silently killing into our wellbeing, to the point we lost the value of compensation to the ones we should be thankful for.
Knowing all of those hard truths that are difficult to admit and accept, Koyomi finally found his place and position in his life. Opening a door that was once hidden, inside of it that hasn’t been solved. With our law-abiding and heroic vampire, I’m sure it’s the Koyomi we know. It’s time that our Koyomin finally accepts both the past and his flaws, and solidifies his composition.
It’s time Koyomi will finally give his compensation.
It’s time Koyomi will cover acceptance, concede a sense of defeat.
It’s time that he will break that constant free.
It’s his turn to be that fairy.
All entailed in a deep-cut yet impactful story about mathematics.
Stay tuned for Sodachi Lost! 🐍💕
Log 10月27日
『 Owarimonogatari【 Sodachi Lost 】』
This is a story of Japanese itself this time.
With the story of Mathematics already in resolution, we need qualitative answers, quantitative ones aside.
It’s a wonderful story of alphanumeric shame, blindness, and values intertwined.
We don’t need to remain in the past, we don’t need to remain swallowed in the darkness of time.
Sometimes, we just overlooked way too far, forgetting about the simplest flicks and laws of life.
Sodachi Lost spans from October 27th till the 28th, and it continues what was left hanging from Sodachi Riddle. The events happened a day after the events of Sodachi Riddle. I watched the entire arc today on the 27th, as all events happened on that day, with Araragi’s epilogue in the final concluding minutes of the arc happening the next day.
Koyomi’s just about less than a mile away from breaking free from the tunnel full of doubts and the fright of the past, as he finally walks down to the present, the time before his very eyes as it ticks, and eventually took justice and forgiveness, and laid eyes on the enemy that never was: Sodachi Oikura.
You might think that Sodachi was on the right around this slew of misunderstandings and the rough past between the two, but eventually, she was on the same page as our Koyomin.
Being just right alone wasn’t enough to make much of her justice.
It lacked strength and good conviction.
Maybe her flaming justice on the blame to Koyomi made herself quite evil.
And thus, Euler was in the same boat as our beta vampire.
Stuck in the past, remaining in the past, doubting about the past.
It felt like Sodachi is also Lost around herself.
While Sodachi made use of the past to keep brimming her flame around Koyomi, the past to keep ourselves in pleasure with what we’re always pointing fingers at, and the past to keep the integrity of our own justice, she was to the point of losing herself, alienating away from her identity and away from what she is.
From straying too close to her past, she even forgot about the past. Well, she does remember what happened with her back then, but just like Koyomi, she mistaken the past, not forgotten or misunderstood about it.
If the earlier arcs were to express Koyomi’s grave and depressing past, Sodachi Lost also entails about Sodachi’s grave and depressing past. Maybe the past is the aberration here, who knows?
Sodachi’s past mainly involves inside her bloodline: her family. It was a tragedy behind her back and behind her love for Math.
Inequality is inevitable, even in mathematics. We’ve all felt the feeling of experiencing bizarre things or possessions that someone has, but in the end, it was normal for them. We sometimes feel missing out on one of the best times in this or that time period of our life, like childhood or even in your entire life when you’re still with your family.
Sometimes, it’s a big ratio for you, but not for them, and that’s what Sodachi was experiencing for most of her lifetime, the envy of family and the envy of happiness, to the point she has completely lost herself, her conscience wandering about the void of uncertainty and doubts.
Sodachi Lost reveals more of Sodachi’s depressing time of her lifetime. It wasn’t a perfect and smooth-sailing life for our math fairy growing up, and even worse, it does hit and focus more on her own family, rather than affairs from someone else. Like Koyomi’s resolve by Ougi to reveal and correct most of his past, Sodachi’s past was also to be corrected, and be unmistaken by our neko heroine and the vampire hero as Koyomi goes into ultimately finding resolve with Sodachi.
The arc also ultimately capsules the entirety of how the past shapes us entirely. Both of our characters have something in common as they journey back into the past, looking for answers and resolving their doubts: overlooking. Other than Koyomi just plain forgetting events from the past, both characters also didn’t seek the opportunity to look at their past properly because of the big major puzzle pieces in front of them, that being the entire fiasco of that special class session of finding the culprit who rigged their only memorable Mathematics examination.
Letting all these little variables come to a union, Sodachi eventually peaks at her inner anger and irresistible regrets and ambiguity, causing her to remain constant for as long as she lives, no longer able to infiltrate the vast future, as she dwells continuously deeper into her unknowingly depressing past, to the point that she no longer encompasses happiness into her life, leaving no space for self-esteem and inner-happiness.
Happiness varies from person to person, and its experience and impact will never be the same for the masses. Because of Sodachi that she is stuck dwelling in the past, oversaturating the past and prioritizing the past over the present and future that compasses boundless happiness and opportunities, she envies the normal happiness that Koyomi has for the past couple of years. If Koyomi describes his happiness as normal for him, Sodachi describes his happiness as blinding and blazing, happiness that’s impossible for anyone to reach, happiness that’s only possible with the right family.
I think we all have a common difference, it’s not uniform across the board and will never be a constant for everyone. We pursue and find happiness in different ways, so don’t ever think you’ll be left behind by the happiness of others, because it’s all up to your heart to seek that very joyful meaning.
Sodachi Lost teaches us about the value of forgiveness, truthfulness, the openness of happiness, and the ultimatum of how valuable and vulnerable the past is for anyone. The arc concludes with our Koyomin expressing how there are a million ways on how to be happy, a stark contrast in Sodachi’s envy about how not only smooth-sailing Koyomi’s life is, but how abundant the happiness he gets, unlike her where she’s stuck in the misery and quarrel of her family, not having an opportunity to try and regain the happiness that she wanted. With Koyomi stating the conjecture of Sodachi’s hurtful past in an effort to find her mother, divided by the past of her ever-quarreling and problematic family, she was able to accept and be adept of the truth.
Both characters came to a resolution at the end of the arc in an anticlimactic manner, but Koyomi was able to promise the same as it was five years ago: to study, learn, become better people, hone their intelligence, be limitless fools, but change the fact that they’ll pursue happiness together, hold a study session together. Unfortunately, Sodachi was informed of moving away from that apartment she had due to subsidy changes. Both of them were able to talk after their resolve, perhaps it’s a fun conversation? But as our vampire said, everything just flew, to think that many things happened in just two days.
Sodachi Lost also sparked skepticism of Ougi by our class president of all class presidents, Tsubasa Hanekawa. It kinda paved the way for how vulnerable Koyomi is in terms of trust and the sense of ambiguity. While Ougi was able to help Koyomi on journeying back to his past, Tsubasa was doubtful about her sudden appearance and business with Koyomi. There were numerous foreshadowing on this and the earlier arcs about Ougi’s character, especially the lines “I don’t know anything, you’re the one who knows, Araragi”. Nonetheless, Hanekawa was able to clear the mist of her existence and cater to Koyomi’s help as a more trustable and well-known friend, for now.
The arc ended with Koyomi having an envelope taped under his table, a trace, and a truly nostalgic move from the one and only Euler he knows best. What was written in the contents inside the envelope?—These were the concluding lines of the arc, does curiosity really itch from the foolish vampire we all know and love?
That concludes this wonderful story of Mathematics and Japanese, all in the season of Halloween.
『 Owarimonogatari【 Sodachi Lost 】』
This is a story of Japanese itself this time.
With the story of Mathematics already in resolution, we need qualitative answers, quantitative ones aside.
It’s a wonderful story of alphanumeric shame, blindness, and values intertwined.
We don’t need to remain in the past, we don’t need to remain swallowed in the darkness of time.
Sometimes, we just overlooked way too far, forgetting about the simplest flicks and laws of life.
Sodachi Lost spans from October 27th till the 28th, and it continues what was left hanging from Sodachi Riddle. The events happened a day after the events of Sodachi Riddle. I watched the entire arc today on the 27th, as all events happened on that day, with Araragi’s epilogue in the final concluding minutes of the arc happening the next day.
Koyomi’s just about less than a mile away from breaking free from the tunnel full of doubts and the fright of the past, as he finally walks down to the present, the time before his very eyes as it ticks, and eventually took justice and forgiveness, and laid eyes on the enemy that never was: Sodachi Oikura.
You might think that Sodachi was on the right around this slew of misunderstandings and the rough past between the two, but eventually, she was on the same page as our Koyomin.
Being just right alone wasn’t enough to make much of her justice.
It lacked strength and good conviction.
Maybe her flaming justice on the blame to Koyomi made herself quite evil.
And thus, Euler was in the same boat as our beta vampire.
Stuck in the past, remaining in the past, doubting about the past.
It felt like Sodachi is also Lost around herself.
While Sodachi made use of the past to keep brimming her flame around Koyomi, the past to keep ourselves in pleasure with what we’re always pointing fingers at, and the past to keep the integrity of our own justice, she was to the point of losing herself, alienating away from her identity and away from what she is.
From straying too close to her past, she even forgot about the past. Well, she does remember what happened with her back then, but just like Koyomi, she mistaken the past, not forgotten or misunderstood about it.
If the earlier arcs were to express Koyomi’s grave and depressing past, Sodachi Lost also entails about Sodachi’s grave and depressing past. Maybe the past is the aberration here, who knows?
Sodachi’s past mainly involves inside her bloodline: her family. It was a tragedy behind her back and behind her love for Math.
Inequality is inevitable, even in mathematics. We’ve all felt the feeling of experiencing bizarre things or possessions that someone has, but in the end, it was normal for them. We sometimes feel missing out on one of the best times in this or that time period of our life, like childhood or even in your entire life when you’re still with your family.
Sometimes, it’s a big ratio for you, but not for them, and that’s what Sodachi was experiencing for most of her lifetime, the envy of family and the envy of happiness, to the point she has completely lost herself, her conscience wandering about the void of uncertainty and doubts.
Sodachi Lost reveals more of Sodachi’s depressing time of her lifetime. It wasn’t a perfect and smooth-sailing life for our math fairy growing up, and even worse, it does hit and focus more on her own family, rather than affairs from someone else. Like Koyomi’s resolve by Ougi to reveal and correct most of his past, Sodachi’s past was also to be corrected, and be unmistaken by our neko heroine and the vampire hero as Koyomi goes into ultimately finding resolve with Sodachi.
The arc also ultimately capsules the entirety of how the past shapes us entirely. Both of our characters have something in common as they journey back into the past, looking for answers and resolving their doubts: overlooking. Other than Koyomi just plain forgetting events from the past, both characters also didn’t seek the opportunity to look at their past properly because of the big major puzzle pieces in front of them, that being the entire fiasco of that special class session of finding the culprit who rigged their only memorable Mathematics examination.
Letting all these little variables come to a union, Sodachi eventually peaks at her inner anger and irresistible regrets and ambiguity, causing her to remain constant for as long as she lives, no longer able to infiltrate the vast future, as she dwells continuously deeper into her unknowingly depressing past, to the point that she no longer encompasses happiness into her life, leaving no space for self-esteem and inner-happiness.
Happiness varies from person to person, and its experience and impact will never be the same for the masses. Because of Sodachi that she is stuck dwelling in the past, oversaturating the past and prioritizing the past over the present and future that compasses boundless happiness and opportunities, she envies the normal happiness that Koyomi has for the past couple of years. If Koyomi describes his happiness as normal for him, Sodachi describes his happiness as blinding and blazing, happiness that’s impossible for anyone to reach, happiness that’s only possible with the right family.
I think we all have a common difference, it’s not uniform across the board and will never be a constant for everyone. We pursue and find happiness in different ways, so don’t ever think you’ll be left behind by the happiness of others, because it’s all up to your heart to seek that very joyful meaning.
Sodachi Lost teaches us about the value of forgiveness, truthfulness, the openness of happiness, and the ultimatum of how valuable and vulnerable the past is for anyone. The arc concludes with our Koyomin expressing how there are a million ways on how to be happy, a stark contrast in Sodachi’s envy about how not only smooth-sailing Koyomi’s life is, but how abundant the happiness he gets, unlike her where she’s stuck in the misery and quarrel of her family, not having an opportunity to try and regain the happiness that she wanted. With Koyomi stating the conjecture of Sodachi’s hurtful past in an effort to find her mother, divided by the past of her ever-quarreling and problematic family, she was able to accept and be adept of the truth.
Both characters came to a resolution at the end of the arc in an anticlimactic manner, but Koyomi was able to promise the same as it was five years ago: to study, learn, become better people, hone their intelligence, be limitless fools, but change the fact that they’ll pursue happiness together, hold a study session together. Unfortunately, Sodachi was informed of moving away from that apartment she had due to subsidy changes. Both of them were able to talk after their resolve, perhaps it’s a fun conversation? But as our vampire said, everything just flew, to think that many things happened in just two days.
Sodachi Lost also sparked skepticism of Ougi by our class president of all class presidents, Tsubasa Hanekawa. It kinda paved the way for how vulnerable Koyomi is in terms of trust and the sense of ambiguity. While Ougi was able to help Koyomi on journeying back to his past, Tsubasa was doubtful about her sudden appearance and business with Koyomi. There were numerous foreshadowing on this and the earlier arcs about Ougi’s character, especially the lines “I don’t know anything, you’re the one who knows, Araragi”. Nonetheless, Hanekawa was able to clear the mist of her existence and cater to Koyomi’s help as a more trustable and well-known friend, for now.
The arc ended with Koyomi having an envelope taped under his table, a trace, and a truly nostalgic move from the one and only Euler he knows best. What was written in the contents inside the envelope?—These were the concluding lines of the arc, does curiosity really itch from the foolish vampire we all know and love?
That concludes this wonderful story of Mathematics and Japanese, all in the season of Halloween.
November 2020 Logs
2020年11月
2020年11月
Log 11月1日
『 Koyomimonogatari 8【 Koyomi Mountain 】 』
How do you define change?
Change is objectively reshaping of what we had in the past, and carrying it on to the present, but is there any way to redefine change, derailing from what we know and see change as something beyond the boundary; the feeling of change inside, but not on the outside?
As Koyomi and our spooky detective Ougi trekking up to the mountain, to the ruins of the North Shirahebi Shrine, we’ll know what it means to redefine change for him.
iKoyomi Mountain spans from November 1st to the 2nd, and its events infixes and coheres with Nadeko Medusa. All of the events fell on the night of the 1st, junctioning with the events from the second episode of Nadeko Medusa.
The episode starts with both Koyomi and Ougi climbing up to the ruined shrine they vividly know in a misty evening as they journey on. We are entailed how mountains are usual spots where gods or deities reside, or how mountains itself are similar to oddities.
In the past, the mountain and the shrine were completely irrelevant and incompatible to begin with. Everything was peaceful and dandy until the shrine completely composited the summit of the mountain. A wise saying goes that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, and that’s what completely went opposite with both the peaceful mountain and the moving shrine; it brought conflict, it brought imbalance.
Koyomi Mountain brought forth about how snakes are on the level of gods, despite not showing godlike properties. It was over the fence because snakes symbolize immortality or rebirth, it focuses more on the properties of snakes such as shedding their own skin. The amount of knowledge in this episode paved way for heavy pre-profiling and foreshadowing later in Nadeko Medusa, hence the very name of this shrine: Shirahebi, white snake.
This is one of those episodes where we narrowly go beyond human intelligence and spirituality, going beyond the conveyors of truth and order. One of those values that we find doubts and answers is change itself.
The episode concluded with Nadeko and Koyomi talking in his room after the events from the second episode of Nadeko Medusa, as Koyomi relayed his experience in the shrine that night. While the original shrine was from a different location, not the mountain that Koyomi visited, all of his doubts about the minimal construction of the relocation of the shrine despite the path not even existing before its rise were solved.
Nadeko romanticized the minimalist change and construction in the shrine, citing that the lumber they cleared up in the space for the shrine on that summit was used instead to “relocate” the shrine, instead of transferring the original shrine from a location far away from that mountain. While Koyomi was still skeptical on how that still considers as a “big change” for the shrine and not even close to relocation, Nadeko instead sympathizes with how the ongoing energy of faith circulating that shrine will never change, even it means building “another” shrine that has the same name. No matter what else changed, at least that wouldn’t change, even if it means enshrining a god on top of that mountain brought imbalance.
While we sometimes become too proactive to foresee something like change, in the end, nothing has changed. Like the shrine, no matter how different or how many times the building has been rebuilt freshly from the ground up, the faith that brought to the shrine will never change. I think the same goes as no matter how many times you tried to change your personality, your routines, or the gags in you, the very inside of you will never change. No matter how effective and populous you mask your true self with, your very true self will never change.
That’s why,
faith and oddities continue to thrive and circulate within us and our circles.
No matter how brute the theories you form, or how sensible your logic is.
And I think that what makes life beautiful and interesting to keep on asking why and how.
『 Koyomimonogatari 8【 Koyomi Mountain 】 』
How do you define change?
Change is objectively reshaping of what we had in the past, and carrying it on to the present, but is there any way to redefine change, derailing from what we know and see change as something beyond the boundary; the feeling of change inside, but not on the outside?
As Koyomi and our spooky detective Ougi trekking up to the mountain, to the ruins of the North Shirahebi Shrine, we’ll know what it means to redefine change for him.
iKoyomi Mountain spans from November 1st to the 2nd, and its events infixes and coheres with Nadeko Medusa. All of the events fell on the night of the 1st, junctioning with the events from the second episode of Nadeko Medusa.
The episode starts with both Koyomi and Ougi climbing up to the ruined shrine they vividly know in a misty evening as they journey on. We are entailed how mountains are usual spots where gods or deities reside, or how mountains itself are similar to oddities.
In the past, the mountain and the shrine were completely irrelevant and incompatible to begin with. Everything was peaceful and dandy until the shrine completely composited the summit of the mountain. A wise saying goes that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, and that’s what completely went opposite with both the peaceful mountain and the moving shrine; it brought conflict, it brought imbalance.
Koyomi Mountain brought forth about how snakes are on the level of gods, despite not showing godlike properties. It was over the fence because snakes symbolize immortality or rebirth, it focuses more on the properties of snakes such as shedding their own skin. The amount of knowledge in this episode paved way for heavy pre-profiling and foreshadowing later in Nadeko Medusa, hence the very name of this shrine: Shirahebi, white snake.
This is one of those episodes where we narrowly go beyond human intelligence and spirituality, going beyond the conveyors of truth and order. One of those values that we find doubts and answers is change itself.
The episode concluded with Nadeko and Koyomi talking in his room after the events from the second episode of Nadeko Medusa, as Koyomi relayed his experience in the shrine that night. While the original shrine was from a different location, not the mountain that Koyomi visited, all of his doubts about the minimal construction of the relocation of the shrine despite the path not even existing before its rise were solved.
Nadeko romanticized the minimalist change and construction in the shrine, citing that the lumber they cleared up in the space for the shrine on that summit was used instead to “relocate” the shrine, instead of transferring the original shrine from a location far away from that mountain. While Koyomi was still skeptical on how that still considers as a “big change” for the shrine and not even close to relocation, Nadeko instead sympathizes with how the ongoing energy of faith circulating that shrine will never change, even it means building “another” shrine that has the same name. No matter what else changed, at least that wouldn’t change, even if it means enshrining a god on top of that mountain brought imbalance.
While we sometimes become too proactive to foresee something like change, in the end, nothing has changed. Like the shrine, no matter how different or how many times the building has been rebuilt freshly from the ground up, the faith that brought to the shrine will never change. I think the same goes as no matter how many times you tried to change your personality, your routines, or the gags in you, the very inside of you will never change. No matter how effective and populous you mask your true self with, your very true self will never change.
That’s why,
faith and oddities continue to thrive and circulate within us and our circles.
No matter how brute the theories you form, or how sensible your logic is.
And I think that what makes life beautiful and interesting to keep on asking why and how.
Log 11月2日
『 Otorimonogatari【 Nadeko Medusa 】 』
This is a story of more than just her twister game because it’s gonna be twisty from here on out.
Once again, a story that may have aspired, invigorated, wow'd people.
Once again, a person that a hundred percent correlates with me.
And it’s the very sole reason why I still preach my love to her, even up to this day.
Nadeko Sengoku,
a twisted, delusional, mysterious girl with bangs, lost in the midst of delusions,
lost in the power of love,
very lost to the point that enthralls the “end” of her life.
Once again, writing this very confusing yet lovely log from my heart, from experience, from relativity, and from the love that this person found what was lost to me.
Thank you Nadeko.
Nadeko Medusa spans from October 31st till November 2nd. I watched the first and second episodes on the 31st, but the second episode already happened on November 1st, then the third and fourth episodes happened on the 2nd, with the last few minutes of the last episode happening beyond the timeline.
In the pillars of the Second Season, I call this very arc the “pillar” of existence, longing, self-awareness, jealousy, delusions, and transgressions.
With the flexibility of our society now, it’s very easy to mistake yourself as a victim, wrongdoer, or the culprit. You can choose to be sticking in the wrong, in the suspected, or in the morally good. Sometimes, you can easily flip the switch from being a victim to becoming the culprit.
I think that’s just how vulnerable our society is.
You can be anyone, be anything.
While anyone can be as flexible as that, Nadeko is one of the very minority that’s lost in herself, itinerant from her place in society. She’s partly lost with the snail and part trying to pursue what life has to offer.
We’ve all at one point frozen in time, frozen in what the masses brought to us undeterred of their influence on us. It’s natural to say that the outside world shapes us, but to think that it saturated that the world shapes us makes us wonder, what are we to do in this world, what’s our purpose here in this world?
Nadeko is lost and stuck in that endless mist of delusions and doubts, wondering how to be independent and assured that she’ll be strong in herself.
Nadeko Medusa saturates the importance of your very own existence, knowing that society won’t twist your very own fate and dreams, but you. It invertedly shows how you, frozen in the hands of society, frozen in your own growth, can affect how you shape yourself now and for the inevitable future.
Because of your frozenness in society,
you’ll be forever a victim yourself, like Nadeko.
This arc also romanticized how monophonic the outside world can get, leading to countless transgressions and the lack of trust and harmony. Because of the trauma, most of the youth got from the charms of Kaiki months ago, it led to a collapse of trust between your circles, and eventually others. Realizing how monophonic the society gets, it becomes too oversensitive of truths, to the fact that we even spell truth as a doubt itself. It emphasized the value of nuance and attestation of oneself, how that strength would eventually end a doubtful and untrustworthy world, like the class where Nadeko’s in, 2-2.
For a normal person, Nadeko seemed to be fine and dandy, albeit cute too. However, she possesses the inability to be self-aware and self-conscious, leaving herself in the hands of the elements and the ever-varying community. She counters the mist of society by her most powerful weapon: her bangs.
Nadeko’s bangs symbolize how close-hearted she is, to the point that she’d protect it more than her panties. Whenever she is confronted by something that demands an answer or seems intimidating for her, she usually looks down, protecting the varying elements outside her bubble with her long and opaque bangs, or say the words “I’m sorry.”.
She dismisses the outside world and would like to keep everything to herself, despite herself wanting and grueling for more things outside her bubble.
While she dismisses the outside world, she’s also the heart of restraint and stress of what she had in school. Her silence, fake confidence, and frozen state let society handed so many responsibilities to the point that she kept it in herself, stressing herself, and let be weighed by society.
Yes, we’ve all have been selfish at one point, but to think that you’ll be selfish while closing down yourself against the outside world is bringing constraint and stress to yourself.
And that’s what Nadeko’s all been doing for the past few months.
One of the things she longed for, constraining herself in her bubble,
is love.
We’ve all longed for love, especially in the shining days of our youth, but it’s a nightmarish challenge for Nadeko to restrain her ongoing positive relationship with Koyomi. With her nature of being frozen in the world that changes overnight, she lacks motion in herself. Because she’s completely standstill amid the world revolving and rotating for the last six years, things might’ve already changed for Koyomi. Nonetheless, she continued what was abrupt and “sane”, effortlessly trying to win his heart.
While Nadeko continued longing for him for six years, it’s impossible to turn back now, yet she always views him at the same level as heroes or stars on television.
It’s never a good idea to stay silent and frozen when the world revolves around you, when ideologies change around you when love continues to complicate around you.
Tsukihi emphasized Nadeko’s very flaw of her existence: her cuteness.
It’s very hard to deny factual settings set by the majority of the society,
Nadeko blinded by herself, blinded by the pointy fingers around her,
it’s hard to defend yourself, ironically.
With the problem arising about her composition, her problem about how the world shapes her instead of herself, her problem about the massacre of snakes she have done in an effort to separate herself from the aberration she had in June, and the fact that her lovey-dovey relationship is currently in the downward trends of rumbling anytime soon, Nadeko was hopelessly lost, perplexed by how fast the world has revolved around her for the past months and for the past years.
She chose to atone it,
and it’s no other than Kuchinawa-san.
The dismissal of Nadeko’s own freedom and pleasure in life led her to the dwindling of Kuchinawa-san’s schemes.
It led her more into living the life of others,
It led her more into a freezing point in her life,
to the point that the world decides for her, not herself.
Was Nadeko sad that she gave up her life for something fated and shaped by the world?
On top of that, was Nadeko even shocked and regretful when she found out that she massacred a lot of snakes?
No.
She was absent-minded in herself, open-minded to the world, partly to heart and for Koyomi.
What makes her keep going is her unrequited love for Koyomi,
even if it’s true that she already has Hitagi,
she’s always back to square one; perplexed.
And to think that all of this story is a decoy (otori 囮) behind Nadeko’s schemes, it’s kind of fascinating to see how evil we can get.
It goes to show how we can also be blinded by someone, be blinded by faith, and how we can be blinded by ourselves, to the point that we didn’t even see ourselves being a culprit, from being a victim itself.
It’s easy to hide, to be a victim, to be a culprit, in this vulnerable and happy space.
Was Nadeko’s cuteness a decoy in order to bring faith to an aberration?
Nothing was ever right or wrong, how much more for justice to emphasize that?
Nadeko Medusa concludingly gives the absence of perplexion by others, but gives polarity to a party or individual, like Nadeko, and is naturally dismissed or absent for everyone else. Like Meme once said, “Only you can save yourself.”. This arc also gives emphasis on the roles of a victim and a culprit, and how your selfishness and pettiness can bring about yourself to interchanging with these two roles. With the negative motivation of our heroine, her brimming energy for unrequited love, she was then turned into the culprit of the act. She was no longer forever a victim but stepped up to be the culprit.
She gave polarity to her innocence, she wasn’t sure of her own innocence, just like how she wasn’t sure of her cuteness, her motives, her part in society, and eventually herself. She doubted the world, the truth, to the point that she desired everything.
Doubting the world, she’s forever in a delusional express.
It’s easy to blind someone, even yourself, with just about anything.
I think that’s the reason why I love Nadeko, what she ironically taught me not to be drowned in delusions.
It’s a cynical message to say that your life is worth more than anything, to the point that you shouldn’t separate it from you and take it for granted.
『 Otorimonogatari【 Nadeko Medusa 】 』
This is a story of more than just her twister game because it’s gonna be twisty from here on out.
Once again, a story that may have aspired, invigorated, wow'd people.
Once again, a person that a hundred percent correlates with me.
And it’s the very sole reason why I still preach my love to her, even up to this day.
Nadeko Sengoku,
a twisted, delusional, mysterious girl with bangs, lost in the midst of delusions,
lost in the power of love,
very lost to the point that enthralls the “end” of her life.
Once again, writing this very confusing yet lovely log from my heart, from experience, from relativity, and from the love that this person found what was lost to me.
Thank you Nadeko.
Nadeko Medusa spans from October 31st till November 2nd. I watched the first and second episodes on the 31st, but the second episode already happened on November 1st, then the third and fourth episodes happened on the 2nd, with the last few minutes of the last episode happening beyond the timeline.
In the pillars of the Second Season, I call this very arc the “pillar” of existence, longing, self-awareness, jealousy, delusions, and transgressions.
With the flexibility of our society now, it’s very easy to mistake yourself as a victim, wrongdoer, or the culprit. You can choose to be sticking in the wrong, in the suspected, or in the morally good. Sometimes, you can easily flip the switch from being a victim to becoming the culprit.
I think that’s just how vulnerable our society is.
You can be anyone, be anything.
While anyone can be as flexible as that, Nadeko is one of the very minority that’s lost in herself, itinerant from her place in society. She’s partly lost with the snail and part trying to pursue what life has to offer.
We’ve all at one point frozen in time, frozen in what the masses brought to us undeterred of their influence on us. It’s natural to say that the outside world shapes us, but to think that it saturated that the world shapes us makes us wonder, what are we to do in this world, what’s our purpose here in this world?
Nadeko is lost and stuck in that endless mist of delusions and doubts, wondering how to be independent and assured that she’ll be strong in herself.
Nadeko Medusa saturates the importance of your very own existence, knowing that society won’t twist your very own fate and dreams, but you. It invertedly shows how you, frozen in the hands of society, frozen in your own growth, can affect how you shape yourself now and for the inevitable future.
Because of your frozenness in society,
you’ll be forever a victim yourself, like Nadeko.
This arc also romanticized how monophonic the outside world can get, leading to countless transgressions and the lack of trust and harmony. Because of the trauma, most of the youth got from the charms of Kaiki months ago, it led to a collapse of trust between your circles, and eventually others. Realizing how monophonic the society gets, it becomes too oversensitive of truths, to the fact that we even spell truth as a doubt itself. It emphasized the value of nuance and attestation of oneself, how that strength would eventually end a doubtful and untrustworthy world, like the class where Nadeko’s in, 2-2.
For a normal person, Nadeko seemed to be fine and dandy, albeit cute too. However, she possesses the inability to be self-aware and self-conscious, leaving herself in the hands of the elements and the ever-varying community. She counters the mist of society by her most powerful weapon: her bangs.
Nadeko’s bangs symbolize how close-hearted she is, to the point that she’d protect it more than her panties. Whenever she is confronted by something that demands an answer or seems intimidating for her, she usually looks down, protecting the varying elements outside her bubble with her long and opaque bangs, or say the words “I’m sorry.”.
She dismisses the outside world and would like to keep everything to herself, despite herself wanting and grueling for more things outside her bubble.
While she dismisses the outside world, she’s also the heart of restraint and stress of what she had in school. Her silence, fake confidence, and frozen state let society handed so many responsibilities to the point that she kept it in herself, stressing herself, and let be weighed by society.
Yes, we’ve all have been selfish at one point, but to think that you’ll be selfish while closing down yourself against the outside world is bringing constraint and stress to yourself.
And that’s what Nadeko’s all been doing for the past few months.
One of the things she longed for, constraining herself in her bubble,
is love.
We’ve all longed for love, especially in the shining days of our youth, but it’s a nightmarish challenge for Nadeko to restrain her ongoing positive relationship with Koyomi. With her nature of being frozen in the world that changes overnight, she lacks motion in herself. Because she’s completely standstill amid the world revolving and rotating for the last six years, things might’ve already changed for Koyomi. Nonetheless, she continued what was abrupt and “sane”, effortlessly trying to win his heart.
While Nadeko continued longing for him for six years, it’s impossible to turn back now, yet she always views him at the same level as heroes or stars on television.
It’s never a good idea to stay silent and frozen when the world revolves around you, when ideologies change around you when love continues to complicate around you.
Tsukihi emphasized Nadeko’s very flaw of her existence: her cuteness.
It’s very hard to deny factual settings set by the majority of the society,
Nadeko blinded by herself, blinded by the pointy fingers around her,
it’s hard to defend yourself, ironically.
With the problem arising about her composition, her problem about how the world shapes her instead of herself, her problem about the massacre of snakes she have done in an effort to separate herself from the aberration she had in June, and the fact that her lovey-dovey relationship is currently in the downward trends of rumbling anytime soon, Nadeko was hopelessly lost, perplexed by how fast the world has revolved around her for the past months and for the past years.
She chose to atone it,
and it’s no other than Kuchinawa-san.
The dismissal of Nadeko’s own freedom and pleasure in life led her to the dwindling of Kuchinawa-san’s schemes.
It led her more into living the life of others,
It led her more into a freezing point in her life,
to the point that the world decides for her, not herself.
Was Nadeko sad that she gave up her life for something fated and shaped by the world?
On top of that, was Nadeko even shocked and regretful when she found out that she massacred a lot of snakes?
No.
She was absent-minded in herself, open-minded to the world, partly to heart and for Koyomi.
What makes her keep going is her unrequited love for Koyomi,
even if it’s true that she already has Hitagi,
she’s always back to square one; perplexed.
And to think that all of this story is a decoy (otori 囮) behind Nadeko’s schemes, it’s kind of fascinating to see how evil we can get.
It goes to show how we can also be blinded by someone, be blinded by faith, and how we can be blinded by ourselves, to the point that we didn’t even see ourselves being a culprit, from being a victim itself.
It’s easy to hide, to be a victim, to be a culprit, in this vulnerable and happy space.
Was Nadeko’s cuteness a decoy in order to bring faith to an aberration?
Nothing was ever right or wrong, how much more for justice to emphasize that?
Nadeko Medusa concludingly gives the absence of perplexion by others, but gives polarity to a party or individual, like Nadeko, and is naturally dismissed or absent for everyone else. Like Meme once said, “Only you can save yourself.”. This arc also gives emphasis on the roles of a victim and a culprit, and how your selfishness and pettiness can bring about yourself to interchanging with these two roles. With the negative motivation of our heroine, her brimming energy for unrequited love, she was then turned into the culprit of the act. She was no longer forever a victim but stepped up to be the culprit.
She gave polarity to her innocence, she wasn’t sure of her own innocence, just like how she wasn’t sure of her cuteness, her motives, her part in society, and eventually herself. She doubted the world, the truth, to the point that she desired everything.
Doubting the world, she’s forever in a delusional express.
It’s easy to blind someone, even yourself, with just about anything.
I think that’s the reason why I love Nadeko, what she ironically taught me not to be drowned in delusions.
It’s a cynical message to say that your life is worth more than anything, to the point that you shouldn’t separate it from you and take it for granted.
Log 12月1日
『 Koyomimonogatari 9【 Koyomi Torus 】 』
When was the last time you trusted someone?
I think with the vast amount of what Koyomin has been through for the past few months, it’s time that he’ll need some learning curve over it, with donuts. Trust is like dust that doesn’t blow off easily, it imbues within ourselves longer than we thought.
He’ll start over with the core, with Shinobu, to uncover and lighten the darkness shrouded over by the lackluster of trust.
Who knows, maybe this is actually love after all…
Koyomi Torus falls in December, and like the earlier Koyomimonogatari logs, this one doesn’t have a definite date for when it happened, presumably watching it today, December 1st.
Koyo-koyo’s back with some donuts, and Shinobu’s eagerness to scout these donuts are never a miss! Not only Shinobu was shocked that there was something different about the design of these designs, but also for a fact that they were made by Hitagi!
While Shinobu was amazed by these donuts, she suddenly felt an urge to examine these mysterious and foreign donuts. Koyo-koyo was then tempted to say that he lost his trust for her or the other way around, as Shinobu lost her trust for his girlfriend.
Koyomi Torus brings about the bridging of trust, secrecy, and faithfulness, all of these three, into our livelihoods. I can personally call these three values a basic unit of what makes us tick, and without these three incorporated into our lives, how much more beauty is there in our own connections?
As much as love is complicated, trust is complex. We build trust not only within ourselves, but our trust for others, and others trusting us. Like how we built it with all our hardships and security, demolishing it is as memorable as it was built. Like a building shredded in fragments from its destruction, it leaves an everlasting and prolonged exposure and memory to us; that’s trust. Trust is difficult to simply blow away like dust, it’s something that we ought to sweep for ourselves.
That impacted Koyomi at first, brought about by the criticism of Shinobu of how he should’ve handled the events last month better than he did. The talisman was hidden in a place as easy as a spicy magazine? I think we can all think better—maybe at one point, we’ve always presumed that we thought of a better idea than someone else’s.
Secondly brings the sense of secrecy, a trial of distrust and a foresee in bonds inhibits secrecy.
Everyone’s bound to hide something away from someone at one point, it’s inevitable. You could say we’re good hiders of practically anything,
but it doesn’t have to be anything physically,
it can also be that we’re hiding.
Can it be that we’re hiding something for a good cause, or it’s because that we hide our bad deeds? It’s like saying that white lies would be good for the coming future, in return could be a black lie for someone else.
Yeah, the world truly is a complicated cavern of ourselves.
With trust and secrecy inherits one’s faithfulness, we value faith in trusting others. Sometimes, we’ve gone selfless enough to entrust it to the faithfulness of the person that we love, at the risk of your own life. As much as trust is a powerful thing, so does one’s faithfulness.
In Koyomi Torus, all of this was demonstrated with the help of Shinobu, and the donuts representing their medium of understanding. Like earlier, while Koyomi has been skeptical of Shinobu’s schemes of examining all of these donuts and hiding them in various places, only to conclude in himself that she’ll just eat all of them. Shinobu kept her promise to do what’s just and concise. The fact that this two-man cell that has an everlasting relationship with one another still bears trust on one another is what makes it tick for Koyomi to understand the very basic meaning of it, despite him going through a lot of difficult circumstances especially what happened a few months ago, a closure of the torus that Koyomi may have been circulating in a radius he hasn’t noticed.
With all of these wonderful yet hideous values, our Koyomin was able to realign his perspective on how he secures his trust and faithfulness after a big tragedy, with Shinobu being his prime example and the frontline of all things. At the end of the episode, Hanekawa was able to conclude that all of this pertains to complete selflessness. While Koyomin’s skepticism about Shinobu eating the donuts instead of hiding them for five minutes. Hanekawa contrasted his belief that in its objective, Shinobu was able to abandon her personal advantage and motives, stick to the premises of her thrall, and become completely selfless in regards to embedding trust and faithfulness. Sometimes, we just lean more into skepticism rather than recalling our trust and faithfulness to someone, leaving those two basic units blinded about. While rules set our freedom, we should never forget how we set our trust, and that’s Shinobu’s little trial towards our Koyomin.
Wonderfully, inculcating and valuing trust in ourselves, while we wane our secrecy and balance it, and harmonizing it with faithfulness can be said to be love, according to Hanekawa that is.
With all of these, I think one day we’ll know why such torus does even circulate around in our lives, but one day we’ll know for sure how every circle will always be punctured one way or another.
『 Koyomimonogatari 9【 Koyomi Torus 】 』
When was the last time you trusted someone?
I think with the vast amount of what Koyomin has been through for the past few months, it’s time that he’ll need some learning curve over it, with donuts. Trust is like dust that doesn’t blow off easily, it imbues within ourselves longer than we thought.
He’ll start over with the core, with Shinobu, to uncover and lighten the darkness shrouded over by the lackluster of trust.
Who knows, maybe this is actually love after all…
Koyomi Torus falls in December, and like the earlier Koyomimonogatari logs, this one doesn’t have a definite date for when it happened, presumably watching it today, December 1st.
Koyo-koyo’s back with some donuts, and Shinobu’s eagerness to scout these donuts are never a miss! Not only Shinobu was shocked that there was something different about the design of these designs, but also for a fact that they were made by Hitagi!
While Shinobu was amazed by these donuts, she suddenly felt an urge to examine these mysterious and foreign donuts. Koyo-koyo was then tempted to say that he lost his trust for her or the other way around, as Shinobu lost her trust for his girlfriend.
Koyomi Torus brings about the bridging of trust, secrecy, and faithfulness, all of these three, into our livelihoods. I can personally call these three values a basic unit of what makes us tick, and without these three incorporated into our lives, how much more beauty is there in our own connections?
As much as love is complicated, trust is complex. We build trust not only within ourselves, but our trust for others, and others trusting us. Like how we built it with all our hardships and security, demolishing it is as memorable as it was built. Like a building shredded in fragments from its destruction, it leaves an everlasting and prolonged exposure and memory to us; that’s trust. Trust is difficult to simply blow away like dust, it’s something that we ought to sweep for ourselves.
That impacted Koyomi at first, brought about by the criticism of Shinobu of how he should’ve handled the events last month better than he did. The talisman was hidden in a place as easy as a spicy magazine? I think we can all think better—maybe at one point, we’ve always presumed that we thought of a better idea than someone else’s.
Secondly brings the sense of secrecy, a trial of distrust and a foresee in bonds inhibits secrecy.
Everyone’s bound to hide something away from someone at one point, it’s inevitable. You could say we’re good hiders of practically anything,
but it doesn’t have to be anything physically,
it can also be that we’re hiding.
Can it be that we’re hiding something for a good cause, or it’s because that we hide our bad deeds? It’s like saying that white lies would be good for the coming future, in return could be a black lie for someone else.
Yeah, the world truly is a complicated cavern of ourselves.
With trust and secrecy inherits one’s faithfulness, we value faith in trusting others. Sometimes, we’ve gone selfless enough to entrust it to the faithfulness of the person that we love, at the risk of your own life. As much as trust is a powerful thing, so does one’s faithfulness.
In Koyomi Torus, all of this was demonstrated with the help of Shinobu, and the donuts representing their medium of understanding. Like earlier, while Koyomi has been skeptical of Shinobu’s schemes of examining all of these donuts and hiding them in various places, only to conclude in himself that she’ll just eat all of them. Shinobu kept her promise to do what’s just and concise. The fact that this two-man cell that has an everlasting relationship with one another still bears trust on one another is what makes it tick for Koyomi to understand the very basic meaning of it, despite him going through a lot of difficult circumstances especially what happened a few months ago, a closure of the torus that Koyomi may have been circulating in a radius he hasn’t noticed.
With all of these wonderful yet hideous values, our Koyomin was able to realign his perspective on how he secures his trust and faithfulness after a big tragedy, with Shinobu being his prime example and the frontline of all things. At the end of the episode, Hanekawa was able to conclude that all of this pertains to complete selflessness. While Koyomin’s skepticism about Shinobu eating the donuts instead of hiding them for five minutes. Hanekawa contrasted his belief that in its objective, Shinobu was able to abandon her personal advantage and motives, stick to the premises of her thrall, and become completely selfless in regards to embedding trust and faithfulness. Sometimes, we just lean more into skepticism rather than recalling our trust and faithfulness to someone, leaving those two basic units blinded about. While rules set our freedom, we should never forget how we set our trust, and that’s Shinobu’s little trial towards our Koyomin.
Wonderfully, inculcating and valuing trust in ourselves, while we wane our secrecy and balance it, and harmonizing it with faithfulness can be said to be love, according to Hanekawa that is.
With all of these, I think one day we’ll know why such torus does even circulate around in our lives, but one day we’ll know for sure how every circle will always be punctured one way or another.
Posted by Tubasas | Oct 26, 2020 3:13 AM | 0 comments
October 9th, 2020
Tuba's Little Recommendations
Anime Relations: Aria the Animation, Bakemonogatari, Hanasaku Iroha, The iDOLM@STER, Nagi no Asu kara, Non Non Biyori, Tsuki ga Kirei
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Hey'o! This is a blog post dedicated to my heartful recommendations for people needing some spice to watch, someone who needs a different taste, or someone who's just about to begin some anime action and need some beginning picks! Sections will be divided into genres or themes, so I hope you get some picks from me and enjoy it along the way!
Perfect for anybody who wants a little soothe and relaxation from a long and stressful day, iyashikei, meaning healing-type, is a sub-genre that correlates viewers into the little flicks and values of life, emphasizing the goodness and fruitfulness of it with the intent to soothe and "heal" the viewer
Coming-of-age highlights the growth of our little protagonists as they progress through the elements and hardships in life. Our characters under this genre tend to have more pronounced characterization and relation to the viewer, a reflection of how truly hard it is to live or to connect with emotions.
Literally meaning magic, this genre would mostly consist of mahou shoujos (magical girls) that scale from its traditionality to new twists in the modern century. Magical girls aside, this genre might contain dark elements and our heroes/heroines growing up from their mistakes, save the world, or show how hard it is to trade your life with magic. Other genre elements such as romance, coming-of-age, suspense, and drama may also correlate with this genre as well.
Love puzzling twists, deep symbolism, and supernatural wonders within realism? This genre may be for you. These are usually mixed with deep elements, hidden and indirect symbolism hard to spot, and mysteries that will blow your mind.
Classic, romantic flicks ready to beat your heart. This genre consists of our lovey-dovey duo getting ready to set forth their relationships, with cues of comedy and maybe a twist of drama here and there. Get ready to relate, or break out some feelings!
Under Construction!
Hey'o! This is a blog post dedicated to my heartful recommendations for people needing some spice to watch, someone who needs a different taste, or someone who's just about to begin some anime action and need some beginning picks! Sections will be divided into genres or themes, so I hope you get some picks from me and enjoy it along the way!
Perfect for anybody who wants a little soothe and relaxation from a long and stressful day, iyashikei, meaning healing-type, is a sub-genre that correlates viewers into the little flicks and values of life, emphasizing the goodness and fruitfulness of it with the intent to soothe and "heal" the viewer
Coming-of-age highlights the growth of our little protagonists as they progress through the elements and hardships in life. Our characters under this genre tend to have more pronounced characterization and relation to the viewer, a reflection of how truly hard it is to live or to connect with emotions.
Literally meaning magic, this genre would mostly consist of mahou shoujos (magical girls) that scale from its traditionality to new twists in the modern century. Magical girls aside, this genre might contain dark elements and our heroes/heroines growing up from their mistakes, save the world, or show how hard it is to trade your life with magic. Other genre elements such as romance, coming-of-age, suspense, and drama may also correlate with this genre as well.
Love puzzling twists, deep symbolism, and supernatural wonders within realism? This genre may be for you. These are usually mixed with deep elements, hidden and indirect symbolism hard to spot, and mysteries that will blow your mind.
Classic, romantic flicks ready to beat your heart. This genre consists of our lovey-dovey duo getting ready to set forth their relationships, with cues of comedy and maybe a twist of drama here and there. Get ready to relate, or break out some feelings!
These are my recommendations that never found itself to be any of the above-mentioned categories!
* Will update and add more later!
* Will update and add more later!
Posted by Tubasas | Oct 9, 2020 4:47 AM | 0 comments
August 14th, 2020
Monogatari Circulation January - April 2021
Anime Relations: Monogatari Series: Second Season
Target Span: March 25, 2020 - April 21, 2021
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『 Koimonogatari【 Hitagi End 】 』
A tale of delusions,
tangling with deceptions.
A love (koi) tale (monogatari),
Brimming with everlasting winter.
That very winter freezes the life and flow of a human,
that is no longer human as she chooses to remain unrequited with the spin of the world;
a tale of a frozen, closed world.
Koimonogatari entails a love story that isn’t obviously a typical romantic story,
but undeterred, couples love for self, and the world around you, perhaps, even enemies too.
Hitagi End spans the whole month of January until February 1st, with the first episode happening on January 1st, the second episode happening on the 2nd, the third happening on the 3rd, and the fourth on the 4th. The fifth episode seems to drift from the fourth until it reaches the 1st of February, that too for the sixth episode. I watched the first, second, and third episode on the 2nd, and the remaining ones today, on the 3rd of January.
The events where Nadeko Medusa left off two months ago continues on with this arc, with Nadeko continuing to obliterate reality for tragedy, her life deteriorates as the winter freezes her overall sanity and comfort of oneself. Lost in the blizzard of what it is to be human, and the inner confusion of ever having an opportunity as a deity.
In the pillars of the Second Season, I call this arc the “pillar” of self-loving, self-worth, deceptions, consciousness, and dreams.
Despite the wintery focus on our “protagonist”, Hitagi, it actually stars “best girl” Kaiki for the majority of this arc. While remaining to be a danger for Hitagi, repulse is an exception for both of these characters, for now.
Firstly, it polarizes the frozen captivity of our negative relationships, like with Hitagi and Kaiki, you could call it a secret operation that is enclosed in their own bubble, with both parties having an advantage; Hitagi in an effort to save someone, and Kaiki in an effort to expand his boundaries.
Hitagi End spotlights the very world of Kaiki that is apparent to the events in Nisemonogatari as if deceiving was his everyday routine while maintaining a rough and inevitable journey of the problem he’s facing in the story. If Nadeko’s weapon were delusions, Kaiki’s counterattack was to deceive. This story further climaxed and saturates both of these forces that were otherwise building up and are slightly unheard of in the earlier arcs.
Deceiving is as neutral as justice and evil, while we normally think of it as an evil act or value, like with politics and evilness, deception can sometimes turn the tables and make it good or necessary, hence such things as “necessary evil” exists, and that justice has a lot to define than a human mind, which is mainly abundant in Nisemonogatari. While Kaiki’s former agendas were obviously evil to the general public, it is a brand new scheme for him this time around while at the same time, an unexpected miraculous kindness for Hitagi, which is repulsive towards the con artist, that is not a con artist for this winter.
With the circulation of Kaiki’s alter rendition of his schemes; deceiving actually turning into kindness, sometimes, outside forces just can’t accept it and still view it as inappropriate or impulsive, Gaen for instance not liking his idea and an effort to halt his operation with millions of money. While Kaiki would normally take the materialistic route, he chose not to and went over his inevitable scheme. I guess curiosity can also be a powerful lingering effect on us, which makes us soar into new heights while making those heights with the blocks you built brittle and crack as you change atmospheres.
Secondly, the value of trust is completely fragmented and twisted in the course of the story. Our Koyomin has been ruled out in the fixture of Nadeko’s wellbeing, especially that he’s a great opposing factor to Kaiki. Hitagi, on the other hand, has an interesting case of trust in this arc, as she chose to rely on a vulnerable and lower third-party, even worse, someone who’s a negative figure to her, rather than someone in a higher relationship.
The lesson that I carried out on my Nadeko Medusa log about self-worth continues to be saturated in the background of our tale here. While it is indirect and one of those scenarios where “unless you know where to look and you know it’s coming”, Nadeko continues to snub her existence and relationships, even as close as her own ordinary law-abiding parents. She continues to shrink her already shut-in bubble from the world, delusions of Koyomi-onii-chan and herself in a utopian romantic outlook.
She was completely shut off from the world,
filled with the everlasting brim of winter symbolizing her eventual freeze.
Was being a god all it took?
Did gaining her such a title was her dream?
Talk about dreams, why this dream in barely any sunlight?
Hitagi End also saturates the value of what it means to be human and what it means to love yourself, in the hope that you’d eventually realize your self-worth and eventually, come to love the world as a whole realizing there’s plenty of opportunities and goals out in the wild, not just love alone.
It all circulates in the vulnerability of Nadeko alone, closing her world, closing her self-esteem, no longer smiling because of losing one out of a million ways to be happy: Koyomi-onii-chan. Because the person she loves is out of reach now that she has another, Nadeko crumbled in the mask of a happy-go-lucky deity and will continue to crumble as time flies, even though her status as a deity will ebb and flow throughout time.
This is what Kaiki feinted,
Once what was a con artist, just for this time,
Valued opportunity with the power of money.
Finally, Kaiki took the lead of a lecture and realization to others that while we have mishaps in life, and go by saving yourselves—like Meme’s wise words, He valued the very moment after such mishap, that we can stand up and move on, as we discover a plentiful more opportunities and scopes after pursuing one that we failed. It was what was absent from Nadeko; the strength to stand up after such failure and move on.
Out of all the values presented in this arc, it ultimately paves the value of being human itself, and how loving yourself is the thing only you can do in this world. Nothing is irreplaceable, just so as you are irreplaceable in this world. Nobody can achieve the dream you’re pursuing but you. Despite the countless times you might’ve said to yourself that you’re a nobody and that you’re worthless in this world, you are worth more than any material in such an imperfect and materialistic world. There are things that you can do that others can’t, and vice-versa, that makes each and every one of us unique in our own little ways.
And since it values what it’s like to be human, we are bound to be creative and embarrassed by our own dreams or work. Aside from self-love, dreams are also a big emphasis from Kaiki himself. It saturates the value of creation and dreaming where embarrassment is part of what makes us learn, where it’s an obstacle we need to overcome ourselves. Everyone has been there, and it’s something not to belittle and give up, because we’ve all been there pursuing our dreams with those obstacles, and society will surely cheer and support you on instead of using your embarrassments.
Romance isn’t everything, love isn’t the only thing that pumps people, there are other ways to be happy and a plethora of opportunities for you out there. Nobody said you’re stuck with one failure alone, you can always jump from one opportunity to another. I think the very message of this arc is to pursue something you love, whatever it takes.
This is what Nadeko realized, all of it that was absent in her vocabulary.
And thus, in the end, being a human was a viable and best choice for her.
Perhaps the ultimate moral that was presented in this arc is that we just simply enjoy living despite the mishaps and difficulties in the inevitable future. Despite the world full of obstacles, unfortunate outcomes, and the embarrassment we witness, it still makes the world a beautiful place—perhaps you too, that makes it beautiful in the end. Don’t let one thing, let it be a thing, a person you admire the most, a goal, drown you into helplessness and a loss of hope. There’s a lot of opportunities and goals up there, even after you failed.
Only you can be you,
only you can save yourself,
only you can make your dreams come true.
Pursue your adolescence, treat it with love, pursue it with love, because in the end there are so many things, there are so many people waiting for you out there.
All entailed in a unique love tale, once a wintery galore of frozen loss of hope, now encompassed by hopes of sunshine.
『 Koimonogatari【 Hitagi End 】 』
A tale of delusions,
tangling with deceptions.
A love (koi) tale (monogatari),
Brimming with everlasting winter.
That very winter freezes the life and flow of a human,
that is no longer human as she chooses to remain unrequited with the spin of the world;
a tale of a frozen, closed world.
Koimonogatari entails a love story that isn’t obviously a typical romantic story,
but undeterred, couples love for self, and the world around you, perhaps, even enemies too.
Hitagi End spans the whole month of January until February 1st, with the first episode happening on January 1st, the second episode happening on the 2nd, the third happening on the 3rd, and the fourth on the 4th. The fifth episode seems to drift from the fourth until it reaches the 1st of February, that too for the sixth episode. I watched the first, second, and third episode on the 2nd, and the remaining ones today, on the 3rd of January.
The events where Nadeko Medusa left off two months ago continues on with this arc, with Nadeko continuing to obliterate reality for tragedy, her life deteriorates as the winter freezes her overall sanity and comfort of oneself. Lost in the blizzard of what it is to be human, and the inner confusion of ever having an opportunity as a deity.
In the pillars of the Second Season, I call this arc the “pillar” of self-loving, self-worth, deceptions, consciousness, and dreams.
Despite the wintery focus on our “protagonist”, Hitagi, it actually stars “best girl” Kaiki for the majority of this arc. While remaining to be a danger for Hitagi, repulse is an exception for both of these characters, for now.
Firstly, it polarizes the frozen captivity of our negative relationships, like with Hitagi and Kaiki, you could call it a secret operation that is enclosed in their own bubble, with both parties having an advantage; Hitagi in an effort to save someone, and Kaiki in an effort to expand his boundaries.
Hitagi End spotlights the very world of Kaiki that is apparent to the events in Nisemonogatari as if deceiving was his everyday routine while maintaining a rough and inevitable journey of the problem he’s facing in the story. If Nadeko’s weapon were delusions, Kaiki’s counterattack was to deceive. This story further climaxed and saturates both of these forces that were otherwise building up and are slightly unheard of in the earlier arcs.
Deceiving is as neutral as justice and evil, while we normally think of it as an evil act or value, like with politics and evilness, deception can sometimes turn the tables and make it good or necessary, hence such things as “necessary evil” exists, and that justice has a lot to define than a human mind, which is mainly abundant in Nisemonogatari. While Kaiki’s former agendas were obviously evil to the general public, it is a brand new scheme for him this time around while at the same time, an unexpected miraculous kindness for Hitagi, which is repulsive towards the con artist, that is not a con artist for this winter.
With the circulation of Kaiki’s alter rendition of his schemes; deceiving actually turning into kindness, sometimes, outside forces just can’t accept it and still view it as inappropriate or impulsive, Gaen for instance not liking his idea and an effort to halt his operation with millions of money. While Kaiki would normally take the materialistic route, he chose not to and went over his inevitable scheme. I guess curiosity can also be a powerful lingering effect on us, which makes us soar into new heights while making those heights with the blocks you built brittle and crack as you change atmospheres.
Secondly, the value of trust is completely fragmented and twisted in the course of the story. Our Koyomin has been ruled out in the fixture of Nadeko’s wellbeing, especially that he’s a great opposing factor to Kaiki. Hitagi, on the other hand, has an interesting case of trust in this arc, as she chose to rely on a vulnerable and lower third-party, even worse, someone who’s a negative figure to her, rather than someone in a higher relationship.
The lesson that I carried out on my Nadeko Medusa log about self-worth continues to be saturated in the background of our tale here. While it is indirect and one of those scenarios where “unless you know where to look and you know it’s coming”, Nadeko continues to snub her existence and relationships, even as close as her own ordinary law-abiding parents. She continues to shrink her already shut-in bubble from the world, delusions of Koyomi-onii-chan and herself in a utopian romantic outlook.
She was completely shut off from the world,
filled with the everlasting brim of winter symbolizing her eventual freeze.
Was being a god all it took?
Did gaining her such a title was her dream?
Talk about dreams, why this dream in barely any sunlight?
Hitagi End also saturates the value of what it means to be human and what it means to love yourself, in the hope that you’d eventually realize your self-worth and eventually, come to love the world as a whole realizing there’s plenty of opportunities and goals out in the wild, not just love alone.
It all circulates in the vulnerability of Nadeko alone, closing her world, closing her self-esteem, no longer smiling because of losing one out of a million ways to be happy: Koyomi-onii-chan. Because the person she loves is out of reach now that she has another, Nadeko crumbled in the mask of a happy-go-lucky deity and will continue to crumble as time flies, even though her status as a deity will ebb and flow throughout time.
This is what Kaiki feinted,
Once what was a con artist, just for this time,
Valued opportunity with the power of money.
Finally, Kaiki took the lead of a lecture and realization to others that while we have mishaps in life, and go by saving yourselves—like Meme’s wise words, He valued the very moment after such mishap, that we can stand up and move on, as we discover a plentiful more opportunities and scopes after pursuing one that we failed. It was what was absent from Nadeko; the strength to stand up after such failure and move on.
Out of all the values presented in this arc, it ultimately paves the value of being human itself, and how loving yourself is the thing only you can do in this world. Nothing is irreplaceable, just so as you are irreplaceable in this world. Nobody can achieve the dream you’re pursuing but you. Despite the countless times you might’ve said to yourself that you’re a nobody and that you’re worthless in this world, you are worth more than any material in such an imperfect and materialistic world. There are things that you can do that others can’t, and vice-versa, that makes each and every one of us unique in our own little ways.
And since it values what it’s like to be human, we are bound to be creative and embarrassed by our own dreams or work. Aside from self-love, dreams are also a big emphasis from Kaiki himself. It saturates the value of creation and dreaming where embarrassment is part of what makes us learn, where it’s an obstacle we need to overcome ourselves. Everyone has been there, and it’s something not to belittle and give up, because we’ve all been there pursuing our dreams with those obstacles, and society will surely cheer and support you on instead of using your embarrassments.
Romance isn’t everything, love isn’t the only thing that pumps people, there are other ways to be happy and a plethora of opportunities for you out there. Nobody said you’re stuck with one failure alone, you can always jump from one opportunity to another. I think the very message of this arc is to pursue something you love, whatever it takes.
This is what Nadeko realized, all of it that was absent in her vocabulary.
And thus, in the end, being a human was a viable and best choice for her.
Perhaps the ultimate moral that was presented in this arc is that we just simply enjoy living despite the mishaps and difficulties in the inevitable future. Despite the world full of obstacles, unfortunate outcomes, and the embarrassment we witness, it still makes the world a beautiful place—perhaps you too, that makes it beautiful in the end. Don’t let one thing, let it be a thing, a person you admire the most, a goal, drown you into helplessness and a loss of hope. There’s a lot of opportunities and goals up there, even after you failed.
Only you can be you,
only you can save yourself,
only you can make your dreams come true.
Pursue your adolescence, treat it with love, pursue it with love, because in the end there are so many things, there are so many people waiting for you out there.
All entailed in a unique love tale, once a wintery galore of frozen loss of hope, now encompassed by hopes of sunshine.
February 2021 Logs
2021年2月
2021年2月
Log 2月6日
『 Koyomimonogatari 10【 Koyomi Seed 】
What do you think is the hardest thing to find?
Or rather, the easiest thing to find?
What does it take to find something or someone?
Maybe the host doesn’t need to find the latter, but perhaps...
The latter needs to find the host.
Koyomi Seed happened two times around the timeline, with the basis from the light novel, the first four chapters happening on January 14th which happened during the course of Hitagi End while the fifth, assuming that it’s the epilogue, happened somewhere in February. I watched the episode on the 3rd of February.
This chapter of Koyomimonogatari serves as a turning ground, leaning towards the very core of Koyomi Araragi with the aid of Yotsugi. It seems like the events from Nadeko Medusa all the way from Hitagi End made our Koyomin lose his spirits and drown in doubt and reverie. Will Koyomi continue to drag down himself? If so, will he recover eventually? We’re just on the tip of the iceberg, so things for Koyomi will go downhill from this point on. Being the turning ground of the entire timeline as it spotlights on Koyomi, there were numerous foreshadowing here that points to Tsukimonogatari and Owarimonogatari: Ge.
While Koyomi lingers around town covered in snow, concealed from the events of Hitagi End, here begins Yotsugi’s about-to-be big debut.
This episode emphasized the value of finding oneself, feinted by Yotsugi towards our Koyomin roaming around town that makes something stand out. At the beginning of the episode, Koyomi already felt conscious about his vampire abilities after almost a year of acquiring them, as he told it towards Yotsugi.
Being the kind Koyomin we all know, he felt the gravity of the events that was handled by the help of Hitagi alone—heck even best girl Kaiki, and regret befalls upon him, perhaps insecurity led him to recount and reflect on the seeds he had sown.
By making Yotsugi find something with Koyomi uncertain, it was certain that Yotsugi was shredding his exposure to a maximum, perhaps letting him experience the cruelty and density of the world full of aberrations and mystery again. Turning the tables for Koyomi to look at himself again, find himself again, regain himself again,
Uplift himself again from drowning.
Purposely making Koyomi’s exposure in town to a maximum prevented the con man from ever appearing behind.
Behind all of this, Koyomi Seed entails the core of Meme’s saying, “People can only be helped by themselves” which circulated around everyone’s ideologies by now, saying that it’s impossible to achieve in accordance to Hanekawa, and this is what Yotsugi is trying to portray in this episode despite her personality continued to be googly and aloof for Koyomi to notice. A sown seed can’t live alone, it needs soil and water to propagate and nurture; just like what’s purposely shown in this episode, where Yotsugi captivated the seed to prevent it from molding, in this case, Koyomi shielded from Kaiki’s who-knows-what schemes.
While Koyomi’s character continues to cripple in the month of affection, February, he’ll surely understand later in the series that helping yourself doesn’t apply to everything, just as not knowing everything but knowing what you only know. I guess it’s ironic that Tsukimonogatari will surely tackle about loving yourself with the aid of others in this wonderful month.
For now, we are reminded that you, as a seed, are still seen by water droplets, the soil, the sun, everything in nature, just like you have a place in everyone’s heart. Everyone will find everyone that they love, all in the midst of nothingness and the lack of a material plane.
『 Koyomimonogatari 10【 Koyomi Seed 】
What do you think is the hardest thing to find?
Or rather, the easiest thing to find?
What does it take to find something or someone?
Maybe the host doesn’t need to find the latter, but perhaps...
The latter needs to find the host.
Koyomi Seed happened two times around the timeline, with the basis from the light novel, the first four chapters happening on January 14th which happened during the course of Hitagi End while the fifth, assuming that it’s the epilogue, happened somewhere in February. I watched the episode on the 3rd of February.
This chapter of Koyomimonogatari serves as a turning ground, leaning towards the very core of Koyomi Araragi with the aid of Yotsugi. It seems like the events from Nadeko Medusa all the way from Hitagi End made our Koyomin lose his spirits and drown in doubt and reverie. Will Koyomi continue to drag down himself? If so, will he recover eventually? We’re just on the tip of the iceberg, so things for Koyomi will go downhill from this point on. Being the turning ground of the entire timeline as it spotlights on Koyomi, there were numerous foreshadowing here that points to Tsukimonogatari and Owarimonogatari: Ge.
While Koyomi lingers around town covered in snow, concealed from the events of Hitagi End, here begins Yotsugi’s about-to-be big debut.
This episode emphasized the value of finding oneself, feinted by Yotsugi towards our Koyomin roaming around town that makes something stand out. At the beginning of the episode, Koyomi already felt conscious about his vampire abilities after almost a year of acquiring them, as he told it towards Yotsugi.
Being the kind Koyomin we all know, he felt the gravity of the events that was handled by the help of Hitagi alone—heck even best girl Kaiki, and regret befalls upon him, perhaps insecurity led him to recount and reflect on the seeds he had sown.
By making Yotsugi find something with Koyomi uncertain, it was certain that Yotsugi was shredding his exposure to a maximum, perhaps letting him experience the cruelty and density of the world full of aberrations and mystery again. Turning the tables for Koyomi to look at himself again, find himself again, regain himself again,
Uplift himself again from drowning.
Purposely making Koyomi’s exposure in town to a maximum prevented the con man from ever appearing behind.
Behind all of this, Koyomi Seed entails the core of Meme’s saying, “People can only be helped by themselves” which circulated around everyone’s ideologies by now, saying that it’s impossible to achieve in accordance to Hanekawa, and this is what Yotsugi is trying to portray in this episode despite her personality continued to be googly and aloof for Koyomi to notice. A sown seed can’t live alone, it needs soil and water to propagate and nurture; just like what’s purposely shown in this episode, where Yotsugi captivated the seed to prevent it from molding, in this case, Koyomi shielded from Kaiki’s who-knows-what schemes.
While Koyomi’s character continues to cripple in the month of affection, February, he’ll surely understand later in the series that helping yourself doesn’t apply to everything, just as not knowing everything but knowing what you only know. I guess it’s ironic that Tsukimonogatari will surely tackle about loving yourself with the aid of others in this wonderful month.
For now, we are reminded that you, as a seed, are still seen by water droplets, the soil, the sun, everything in nature, just like you have a place in everyone’s heart. Everyone will find everyone that they love, all in the midst of nothingness and the lack of a material plane.
Log 2月14日
『 Tsukimonogatari【 Yotsugi Doll 】 』
What makes you, you?
What is your role in society?
Perhaps someone average, someone who only knows what they know, or someone who knows everything?
How do you define yourself, what do you do nowadays, how do you change your world with your habits?
We now enter the realm of the third season, stories where it starts to end, and ends to start,
with Koyomi’s renaissance and resolve of his existence and nature to be tackled.
Yotsugi Doll spans from February 13th to the 14th, with all four episodes happening on the 13th, while the epilogue in the fourth episode happened on the 14th. I watched the entirety of it today, on the 14th of February, so I was a day behind for most of the part.
Tsukimonogatari serves as an ebb and flow introduction to the third season of the series, as well as nurturing the balance and integrity of our main protagonist, Koyomi Araragi. In this chapter of the season, Tsukimonogatari brings focus about the perseverance of our protagonist, how he should be reminded about his humanity, how he should also learn and revisit to love himself and not just others; quite a sweet memoir from when this event happened a day before Valentine’s Day, February 14th.
While our other protagonists that spanned the second season were undergoing a resolve for the past several months, most of which were done with the help of our Koyomin, which involved his vampiric nature to accomplish.
Much like Nadeko from Otorimonogatari believed in reaping what she sows and atoning for her mistakes and immorality, that fate was passed on to Koyomi in this arc.
Yotsugi Doll also mainly features and debuts Yotsugi Ononoki, one of the necessary evil-sided of the series along with Yozuru Kagenui which were prominent in the latter half of Nisemonogatari, makes a comeback and deters—perhaps, save Koyomi from a silent killer he inherited last March: to dwell more into his vampire nature and lose his humanity, which he agreed with Meme in Kizumonogatari that he’ll live a life very close to a human and shut his vampiric nature to a minimum.
Early in the arc, Yotsugi was described with underestimating factors, such as lack of empathy, conviction, nuance, and many more factors that what would be considered as human, but in the end, it was Koyomi who actually began to lack and deform his humanity masked with kindness and resilience for the past several months.
Perhaps in this arc, Meme’s saying of “People can only be helped by themselves” can also be heavily contrasted with this arc, along with the past Koyomimonogatari log that I logged a few days ago; Koyomi’s efforts of hindering his vampire nature to thrive his humanity would be a far-away solution without the help of his peers. While it’s revealed that there’s no way of reversing or stopping his vampiric nature to progress more into himself, the necessary evil duo went into the scene of helping our Koyomin live a longer life as a human.
Yotsugi Doll ultimately contrasts and expounds the value of resilience, self-love, and unity over division, and an emphasis of a multitude of ideologies that were all baffled towards Koyomi all at once, how a stronger defense of resilience may actually turn back at you as a self-attack of resilience which was all interconnected with his abundance of kindness and selflessness. Importantly, this arc also valued our protagonist growing up at the cost of many things, and losing many things, how maturity changes our ideologies altogether, how it’s sometimes okay to not become ‘proper’ and make our own unique paths that we see as our own ‘proper’ and ‘what’s right’.
While Koyomi has also shown quite a little excess of reliance on the power of others, Yotsugi was the air gap of that leakage between his kindness.
Aside from the main factor of this arc, there were numerous foreshadowing and connections that later point out to the second season of Owarimonogatari, and with Ougi’s spooky character, as her prominent and mysterious aura begins to gradually inflate from this point on, including a point in this arc where he chooses to put the things in the past and problems aside first. While the 10th episode of Koyomimonogatari serves as an entry to this arc, Tsukimonogatari serves as the application of reaping what you sow, knowing that every origin in our lives is eventually picked up by other equations around us; those representing other people around us. It’s never forgotten or a lost art but perhaps, maybe as memorable as preserving a half millennia-old painting.
Like I said in the beginning, this was Koyomi’s renaissance of his resolve as he lives on double-sided as a vampire and a human, and this arc serves as a checkpoint in his life if he was drawn closer to an aberration nature or a human nature. While the first wave struck in Kizumonogatari, a second yet hinted wave in Nisemonogatari, this third wave points here about the intensity and variation that he has gone through as he went through a couple of months being a helping hand, the kind Koyomin we all know to our protagonists a season ago.
In the end, while Koyomi still chooses to live closer to human life than a vampire’s, he didn’t know how his powers and abilities he gained were already slowly becoming a part of him, like how normal it is to drink an energy drink, and this arc serves as a cutter to a rope that’ll eventually rip. Perhaps not everything in the world is free, including loving yourself that society influenced you; Koyomi witnessing an aberration. Perhaps sometimes, we should reevaluate if we love and care for ourselves nowadays because we keep looking anywhere that ironically, we sometimes forget to look at ourselves once in a while. We can’t normally see ourselves that we tend to forget that you, yourself, is the oldest, best friend that’ll last until the end of time. If that isn’t enough, perhaps call a friend, just like how Yotsugi was able to console and relate to our Koyomin, because with our own bare hands, we can’t help ourselves, but with people, maybe there’s strength and hearts in numbers.
Love, look, look for any resolve in yourself. Maybe there’s a crack that needs to be sealed. Happy Valentine’s Day.
『 Tsukimonogatari【 Yotsugi Doll 】 』
What makes you, you?
What is your role in society?
Perhaps someone average, someone who only knows what they know, or someone who knows everything?
How do you define yourself, what do you do nowadays, how do you change your world with your habits?
We now enter the realm of the third season, stories where it starts to end, and ends to start,
with Koyomi’s renaissance and resolve of his existence and nature to be tackled.
Yotsugi Doll spans from February 13th to the 14th, with all four episodes happening on the 13th, while the epilogue in the fourth episode happened on the 14th. I watched the entirety of it today, on the 14th of February, so I was a day behind for most of the part.
Tsukimonogatari serves as an ebb and flow introduction to the third season of the series, as well as nurturing the balance and integrity of our main protagonist, Koyomi Araragi. In this chapter of the season, Tsukimonogatari brings focus about the perseverance of our protagonist, how he should be reminded about his humanity, how he should also learn and revisit to love himself and not just others; quite a sweet memoir from when this event happened a day before Valentine’s Day, February 14th.
While our other protagonists that spanned the second season were undergoing a resolve for the past several months, most of which were done with the help of our Koyomin, which involved his vampiric nature to accomplish.
Much like Nadeko from Otorimonogatari believed in reaping what she sows and atoning for her mistakes and immorality, that fate was passed on to Koyomi in this arc.
Yotsugi Doll also mainly features and debuts Yotsugi Ononoki, one of the necessary evil-sided of the series along with Yozuru Kagenui which were prominent in the latter half of Nisemonogatari, makes a comeback and deters—perhaps, save Koyomi from a silent killer he inherited last March: to dwell more into his vampire nature and lose his humanity, which he agreed with Meme in Kizumonogatari that he’ll live a life very close to a human and shut his vampiric nature to a minimum.
Early in the arc, Yotsugi was described with underestimating factors, such as lack of empathy, conviction, nuance, and many more factors that what would be considered as human, but in the end, it was Koyomi who actually began to lack and deform his humanity masked with kindness and resilience for the past several months.
Perhaps in this arc, Meme’s saying of “People can only be helped by themselves” can also be heavily contrasted with this arc, along with the past Koyomimonogatari log that I logged a few days ago; Koyomi’s efforts of hindering his vampire nature to thrive his humanity would be a far-away solution without the help of his peers. While it’s revealed that there’s no way of reversing or stopping his vampiric nature to progress more into himself, the necessary evil duo went into the scene of helping our Koyomin live a longer life as a human.
Yotsugi Doll ultimately contrasts and expounds the value of resilience, self-love, and unity over division, and an emphasis of a multitude of ideologies that were all baffled towards Koyomi all at once, how a stronger defense of resilience may actually turn back at you as a self-attack of resilience which was all interconnected with his abundance of kindness and selflessness. Importantly, this arc also valued our protagonist growing up at the cost of many things, and losing many things, how maturity changes our ideologies altogether, how it’s sometimes okay to not become ‘proper’ and make our own unique paths that we see as our own ‘proper’ and ‘what’s right’.
While Koyomi has also shown quite a little excess of reliance on the power of others, Yotsugi was the air gap of that leakage between his kindness.
Aside from the main factor of this arc, there were numerous foreshadowing and connections that later point out to the second season of Owarimonogatari, and with Ougi’s spooky character, as her prominent and mysterious aura begins to gradually inflate from this point on, including a point in this arc where he chooses to put the things in the past and problems aside first. While the 10th episode of Koyomimonogatari serves as an entry to this arc, Tsukimonogatari serves as the application of reaping what you sow, knowing that every origin in our lives is eventually picked up by other equations around us; those representing other people around us. It’s never forgotten or a lost art but perhaps, maybe as memorable as preserving a half millennia-old painting.
Like I said in the beginning, this was Koyomi’s renaissance of his resolve as he lives on double-sided as a vampire and a human, and this arc serves as a checkpoint in his life if he was drawn closer to an aberration nature or a human nature. While the first wave struck in Kizumonogatari, a second yet hinted wave in Nisemonogatari, this third wave points here about the intensity and variation that he has gone through as he went through a couple of months being a helping hand, the kind Koyomin we all know to our protagonists a season ago.
In the end, while Koyomi still chooses to live closer to human life than a vampire’s, he didn’t know how his powers and abilities he gained were already slowly becoming a part of him, like how normal it is to drink an energy drink, and this arc serves as a cutter to a rope that’ll eventually rip. Perhaps not everything in the world is free, including loving yourself that society influenced you; Koyomi witnessing an aberration. Perhaps sometimes, we should reevaluate if we love and care for ourselves nowadays because we keep looking anywhere that ironically, we sometimes forget to look at ourselves once in a while. We can’t normally see ourselves that we tend to forget that you, yourself, is the oldest, best friend that’ll last until the end of time. If that isn’t enough, perhaps call a friend, just like how Yotsugi was able to console and relate to our Koyomin, because with our own bare hands, we can’t help ourselves, but with people, maybe there’s strength and hearts in numbers.
Love, look, look for any resolve in yourself. Maybe there’s a crack that needs to be sealed. Happy Valentine’s Day.
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『 Koyomimonogatari 5【 Koyomi Wind 】& Nisemonogatari【 Tsukihi Phoenix 】 』
Karen da ze!
Tsukihi da yo~!
Watashi tachi, Faiyā shistāzu!
And the toothbrush episode sure makes me satisfied everytime 👌
Gosh this line and the Fire Sisters never gets old…
Another spice of Koyomimonogatari with the fifth episode, Koyomi Wind! This episode happens around Early August until August 14th since the sources have no idea when did this happen, but it junctions with scenes from Nisemonogatari’s Tsukihi Phoenix, so it makes sense that this episode ends on August 14th? It was said that this happened after the events of Koyomi and Hitagi’s meeting with Kaiki.
After the horrible days of Kaiki, the Sneky Snek Nadeko pays Koyomi a visit to his house, as a sort of mini-party. Nobody in the house just like last time? Sounds like Nadeko will play Twister with Koyomi again!
It’d look like a party, but both of them relayed information regarding in the case of Kaiki scheming around town. It’s an episode about the philosophy of lies and rumors and how society acted upon these puny words; rumors in the wind, everyone said. They talked about how rumors, words and even lies through society can spread like an ideal virus would.
I love the circulating confusing madness about knowledge is said in this episode, especially from Kaiki, about how something’s popular, then something else isn’t. It’s the simplest things we know but we can’t bake into our heads, because why would Kaiki begin his schemes while a rumor about a certain blonde-haired vampire is still across the wind? It’s not just about the environment but also the mentality of the society that pumps its efficiency. When a rumor about a certain vampire circulated around the youth, including Hanekawa, then Kaiki had a headstart which to target who, basically humans without a surplus in their hearts.
Remember Kaiki’s charms? Remember from my last log that there was actually nothing fishy or evil going on from him? Because human relations were deteriorating, they proceeded to material belongings, which are the charms. Which concludes that it’s their fault for getting tricked, at least I agree with Kaiki and Hitagi on that ideology. That’s how complex we are.
We love to mingle with what’s popular and the episode concludes with Kaiki saying ”If ‘something completely incomprehensible’ starts getting popular, doubt your generation”
Very deep words there, since generations get enveloped by darkness, no wonder why he’s called best girl ❤
Moving on to the second half of [i]Nisemonogatari[i], Tsukihi Phoenix! I’m platinum happy to jot down this log today too! 😊
Tsukihi Phoenix spans from the 8th episode until the 11th episode of the Nisemonogatari installment. These episodes fall from August 14th until August 15th and I had no problems getting offset with time, as I watched all four episodes on August 14th, and they all happened on that date. Surprisingly, Koyomi’s epic epilogue is absent from this one since there’s nothing related about August 15th when I watched all of it. So I guess it’s only present on the novels?
Moving from the bee, let’s head on to our best phoenix, Tsukihi Araragi!
Well, this arc starts with the infamous toothbrush episode, a psychological testament examination for meeting up with Suruga’s standards still bestowed to physicians, psychologists and the entire field of Science regards to that.
—Truth be told that entire episode is dedicated to that puny little toothbrush 😂
Moving on to the Fire Sisters, if Karen possesses blood of justice pumping right down to her heart, Tsukihi does not and doesn’t really have interest in justice as Karen does. Tsukihi represents the good and truth of the Fire Sisters, more like a Cold War-kind of thinking than brute force. Despite being the youngest in the family, she’s conscious and monitors her siblings that they’re unaware of.
While she likes--loves justice, Tsukihi doesn’t have a clear inner image of it, no matter how much Karen spits out her words of justice, it doesn’t affect Tsukihi in a way that makes it enticing. In other words, her justice is fake.
Tsukihi is kind of a vulnerable person, taking part on the Fire Sisters because of their influence of whatever evil forces that has been hitting their way for some time now.
This arc also paves way for the debut of Kagenui Yozuru and Ononoki Yotsugi, and the continuation of the developments behind Kaiki. Beginning with a circulation of a woman with bob cut hairstyle and an unusual girl of wonderful clothing that seem to have knowledge about the oddity of the town Koyomi knows, it would seem like there’s another fishy scheme going on.
While I enjoyed how they tried to enumerate the Nise of Nisemonogatari from Karen Bee, this one escalates it to the next level and just plain nailed the definition of fake as the installment concludes. From how I understand it, this installation solely focuses on the ideologies of fakeness, beliefs, values and beliefs. It’s very twisty, but very intriguing and can even leave a lesson in your heart, I did ❤.
Two new unusual women circulating around the town and asking directions of Koyomi’s cram school that he knows and loves well, describing Karen as a hornet and Mayoi as a snail as they left and thanked Koyomi for directions, it’s another one of those “Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
It has the same aura back in Karen Bee, where Kaiki’s scheme didn’t actually pose a problem in reality, the Fire Sisters acted as if it was a problem—theoretically this is the same aura now menacing around Koyomi’s humanity, and for the fate of his family which is circulating with his fake sisters.
I actually forgot to mention this in my Karen Bee log, but I kind of noticed that Nisemonogatari is a sentimental reflection of Koyomi’s growth as his character and for the weight and path he’ll take further into the latter installments of the Monogatari series. It is very indirect but I can feel like this is some sort of indirect test towards Koyomi’s intensity as a human and how both his humanity and vampirism will throttle towards the series.
Knowing that Kagenui and Ononoki are guilty to be the “good guys” that exterminates immortality and supernatural that twists the nature of human, the actual good of the series, the necessary evil needed to achieve what it’s like to be good.
Actually this just best describes the entire installment, the Fire Sisters as the fake justice and both Kagenui and Ononoki as the real, true and good justice.
We turn our attention to the value of human beliefs, a debate between truth. No matter how much Koyomi tries to believe in himself that Tsukihi was NOT a fake sister, another face of truths decline, especially if that particular person might know everything. It’s a very twisty kind of analysis, but I love how Koyomi almost lost his humanity for the sake of that declaration of fake. Beliefs are sacrificial, it’s like fighting over which scientific constant is right and accurate.
Necessary evil kicks in to how grave Tsukihi’s existence is according to Kagenui. A very unusual seedling in the face of humanity, an immortal being where scars heal instantly and leave no trace, where illnesses are not even a problem. The need to remind how Tsukihi’s infestation with an immortal cuckoo can affect Koyomi’s family’s sanity and slowly, even the entire town. Fighting over total reality over subjective reality, something Koyomi, for what I think, struggles to believe which is for the better, and that is the big challenge he has to face as he grows and matures throughout the series.
And undeterred, this arc also paved way to ultimately solidify Koyomi’s relationship with her sisters as a whole, gaining trust through knowing their inner justice selves in face of the challenges they had to face earlier in the series with a bee and phoenix. It also emphasized Shinobu’s raison d'être as he lives on with Koyomi, conscious that she’s never a tool to be used to begin with, knowing she has a life Koyomi himself entrusted and promised to her which faded into his mind as he saw his sister in a kimono threatened by an unlimited rulebook. Knowing that they’re a two-man cell, each having worth and reason for living, and willing to die with one another. I’m glad these reconciliations were made, especially with the Fire Sisters.
Above all of these, the very interesting moral of this installment is that there is no such thing as a right thing, no matter how much you solely believe it yourself or try to face justice to it. Kudos to Kaiki ❤
Here concludes my log, we’re done with another installment of the series along with Bakemonogatari, Nekomonogatari: Kuro and Kizumonogatari! Once again, I’ll miss Nisemonogatari. I love it so much than the last time I first watched and rewatched it, the second rewatch made more sense ❤. Also, I wish Tsukihi had more of a back story or a story much more closely related to her aberration, maybe hope for the Off and Monster Seasons 🤔? Sadly, the Fire Sisters will be back to episode previews shortly as I journey through the flaming balls of the franchise, the Second Season, and that includes 4 arcs colliding with each other shortly in August.
Jikai, Mayoi Jiangshi so no ichi, bound for August 21st !😸
『 Koyomimonogatari 5【 Koyomi Wind 】& Nisemonogatari【 Tsukihi Phoenix 】 』
Karen da ze!
Tsukihi da yo~!
Watashi tachi, Faiyā shistāzu!
And the toothbrush episode sure makes me satisfied everytime 👌
Gosh this line and the Fire Sisters never gets old…
Another spice of Koyomimonogatari with the fifth episode, Koyomi Wind! This episode happens around Early August until August 14th since the sources have no idea when did this happen, but it junctions with scenes from Nisemonogatari’s Tsukihi Phoenix, so it makes sense that this episode ends on August 14th? It was said that this happened after the events of Koyomi and Hitagi’s meeting with Kaiki.
After the horrible days of Kaiki, the Sneky Snek Nadeko pays Koyomi a visit to his house, as a sort of mini-party. Nobody in the house just like last time? Sounds like Nadeko will play Twister with Koyomi again!
It’d look like a party, but both of them relayed information regarding in the case of Kaiki scheming around town. It’s an episode about the philosophy of lies and rumors and how society acted upon these puny words; rumors in the wind, everyone said. They talked about how rumors, words and even lies through society can spread like an ideal virus would.
I love the circulating confusing madness about knowledge is said in this episode, especially from Kaiki, about how something’s popular, then something else isn’t. It’s the simplest things we know but we can’t bake into our heads, because why would Kaiki begin his schemes while a rumor about a certain blonde-haired vampire is still across the wind? It’s not just about the environment but also the mentality of the society that pumps its efficiency. When a rumor about a certain vampire circulated around the youth, including Hanekawa, then Kaiki had a headstart which to target who, basically humans without a surplus in their hearts.
Remember Kaiki’s charms? Remember from my last log that there was actually nothing fishy or evil going on from him? Because human relations were deteriorating, they proceeded to material belongings, which are the charms. Which concludes that it’s their fault for getting tricked, at least I agree with Kaiki and Hitagi on that ideology. That’s how complex we are.
We love to mingle with what’s popular and the episode concludes with Kaiki saying ”If ‘something completely incomprehensible’ starts getting popular, doubt your generation”
Very deep words there, since generations get enveloped by darkness, no wonder why he’s called best girl ❤
Moving on to the second half of [i]Nisemonogatari[i], Tsukihi Phoenix! I’m platinum happy to jot down this log today too! 😊
Tsukihi Phoenix spans from the 8th episode until the 11th episode of the Nisemonogatari installment. These episodes fall from August 14th until August 15th and I had no problems getting offset with time, as I watched all four episodes on August 14th, and they all happened on that date. Surprisingly, Koyomi’s epic epilogue is absent from this one since there’s nothing related about August 15th when I watched all of it. So I guess it’s only present on the novels?
Moving from the bee, let’s head on to our best phoenix, Tsukihi Araragi!
Well, this arc starts with the infamous toothbrush episode, a psychological testament examination for meeting up with Suruga’s standards still bestowed to physicians, psychologists and the entire field of Science regards to that.
—Truth be told that entire episode is dedicated to that puny little toothbrush 😂
Moving on to the Fire Sisters, if Karen possesses blood of justice pumping right down to her heart, Tsukihi does not and doesn’t really have interest in justice as Karen does. Tsukihi represents the good and truth of the Fire Sisters, more like a Cold War-kind of thinking than brute force. Despite being the youngest in the family, she’s conscious and monitors her siblings that they’re unaware of.
While she likes--loves justice, Tsukihi doesn’t have a clear inner image of it, no matter how much Karen spits out her words of justice, it doesn’t affect Tsukihi in a way that makes it enticing. In other words, her justice is fake.
Tsukihi is kind of a vulnerable person, taking part on the Fire Sisters because of their influence of whatever evil forces that has been hitting their way for some time now.
This arc also paves way for the debut of Kagenui Yozuru and Ononoki Yotsugi, and the continuation of the developments behind Kaiki. Beginning with a circulation of a woman with bob cut hairstyle and an unusual girl of wonderful clothing that seem to have knowledge about the oddity of the town Koyomi knows, it would seem like there’s another fishy scheme going on.
While I enjoyed how they tried to enumerate the Nise of Nisemonogatari from Karen Bee, this one escalates it to the next level and just plain nailed the definition of fake as the installment concludes. From how I understand it, this installation solely focuses on the ideologies of fakeness, beliefs, values and beliefs. It’s very twisty, but very intriguing and can even leave a lesson in your heart, I did ❤.
Two new unusual women circulating around the town and asking directions of Koyomi’s cram school that he knows and loves well, describing Karen as a hornet and Mayoi as a snail as they left and thanked Koyomi for directions, it’s another one of those “Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
It has the same aura back in Karen Bee, where Kaiki’s scheme didn’t actually pose a problem in reality, the Fire Sisters acted as if it was a problem—theoretically this is the same aura now menacing around Koyomi’s humanity, and for the fate of his family which is circulating with his fake sisters.
I actually forgot to mention this in my Karen Bee log, but I kind of noticed that Nisemonogatari is a sentimental reflection of Koyomi’s growth as his character and for the weight and path he’ll take further into the latter installments of the Monogatari series. It is very indirect but I can feel like this is some sort of indirect test towards Koyomi’s intensity as a human and how both his humanity and vampirism will throttle towards the series.
Knowing that Kagenui and Ononoki are guilty to be the “good guys” that exterminates immortality and supernatural that twists the nature of human, the actual good of the series, the necessary evil needed to achieve what it’s like to be good.
Actually this just best describes the entire installment, the Fire Sisters as the fake justice and both Kagenui and Ononoki as the real, true and good justice.
We turn our attention to the value of human beliefs, a debate between truth. No matter how much Koyomi tries to believe in himself that Tsukihi was NOT a fake sister, another face of truths decline, especially if that particular person might know everything. It’s a very twisty kind of analysis, but I love how Koyomi almost lost his humanity for the sake of that declaration of fake. Beliefs are sacrificial, it’s like fighting over which scientific constant is right and accurate.
Necessary evil kicks in to how grave Tsukihi’s existence is according to Kagenui. A very unusual seedling in the face of humanity, an immortal being where scars heal instantly and leave no trace, where illnesses are not even a problem. The need to remind how Tsukihi’s infestation with an immortal cuckoo can affect Koyomi’s family’s sanity and slowly, even the entire town. Fighting over total reality over subjective reality, something Koyomi, for what I think, struggles to believe which is for the better, and that is the big challenge he has to face as he grows and matures throughout the series.
And undeterred, this arc also paved way to ultimately solidify Koyomi’s relationship with her sisters as a whole, gaining trust through knowing their inner justice selves in face of the challenges they had to face earlier in the series with a bee and phoenix. It also emphasized Shinobu’s raison d'être as he lives on with Koyomi, conscious that she’s never a tool to be used to begin with, knowing she has a life Koyomi himself entrusted and promised to her which faded into his mind as he saw his sister in a kimono threatened by an unlimited rulebook. Knowing that they’re a two-man cell, each having worth and reason for living, and willing to die with one another. I’m glad these reconciliations were made, especially with the Fire Sisters.
Above all of these, the very interesting moral of this installment is that there is no such thing as a right thing, no matter how much you solely believe it yourself or try to face justice to it. Kudos to Kaiki ❤
Here concludes my log, we’re done with another installment of the series along with Bakemonogatari, Nekomonogatari: Kuro and Kizumonogatari! Once again, I’ll miss Nisemonogatari. I love it so much than the last time I first watched and rewatched it, the second rewatch made more sense ❤. Also, I wish Tsukihi had more of a back story or a story much more closely related to her aberration, maybe hope for the Off and Monster Seasons 🤔? Sadly, the Fire Sisters will be back to episode previews shortly as I journey through the flaming balls of the franchise, the Second Season, and that includes 4 arcs colliding with each other shortly in August.
Jikai, Mayoi Jiangshi so no ichi, bound for August 21st !😸
Log 8月20日
『 Kabukimonogatari【 Mayoi Jiangshi 】 』
Oi, Puraragi-san!
We now penetrate the Second Season territory, starting with Mayoi Jiangshi of Kabukimonogatari!
The timeline for Mayoi Jiangshi spans from August 20th until August 21st and it does overlap with the first few scenes (or the first episode) of Nekomonogatari: Shiro. I watched everything today, on the 20th, considering a margin of error on the very last few minutes of the last episode that shifted to the 21st.
If you didn't know, I recently read the actual light novel, Kabukimonogatari, right in this post. It's pretty much what I'll be saying here, but in this log, I will tackle more deeply and thoroughly through what's in this arc. That post is more like my impressions of light novels at first.
Sometimes, you just wanted to change things. Maybe because you regretted a choice earlier, or because your love life's not so great right now. Maybe you wanted to go back in time to prevent someone's death, or go back in time so that you can have more time finishing the summer homework you haven't done for the whole vacation. Maybe you need to change what happened in life, maybe a little tilt (傾) in the world.
And that's what exactly is this arc all about that will also entail its consequences and effects on changing such destinies and sanity of the world.
Kabukimonogatari is one of the five arcs in the Second Season that what I'd like to call the five pillars of Araragi's humanity. This "pillar" is specifically about Araragi's selfishness and decisiveness, and how that will connect that a 1° tilt of the horizon can affect more than just what you imagine. It's like an indirect testament as to how selfish you are and to sacrifice for others or even everyone. Every degree of an angle matters, and that's what this arc is more or less what it's about.
The monstrosity of this arc all started when Koyomi simply wanted more time to complete the summer homework that he hasn't done for the whole vacation, maybe 12 hours back so that he can finish it? Anyway, he has a few hours left before tomorrow and probably will get yelled at by Hanekawa or Senjougahara for such laziness.
And you know where we're getting at, so I'll stop here so that I won't spoil the fun.
In the end, sometimes it's best not to just turn things around, but sometimes it can be an unexpected yet an expansionary journey that you've gone out of your bubble in exchange for something deadly—more like sacrificial joy.
Kabukimonogatari sees numerous spotlights in our characters, Mayoi's character and worth is much more pronounced here and pronounces mainly driven importance to Koyomi. We also get more of Koyomi's true colors as he reveals his downsides, such as his selfishness and rough decisions. I mean at the very least we get to see Koyomi's worry of other people and how he can't forget about unsolved problems in one of his peers.
This arc also paved the way for the continued polishment of the relationship of our two-man cell, Shinobu and Koyomi, specifically more on exposing Shinobu's weak and vulnerable attitude and how it has been affecting her for the past 5 months. Nonetheless, Koyomi accepted her for what she is despite her ultimate flaw in emulating humanity in her now minuscule state and worried about her low self-esteem or confidence especially of what both of them did in this arc, mainly Shinobu taking part of it. Koyomi repeated to her about how they would die for one's sake, about that it's okay that it happened in the past and that she continued to change positively for him since their reconciliation in Nisemonogatari. This is one of the arcs they have to face their resilient and special relationship that will later be negatively exposed as they journey on through their lives, and how they'll resolve to each. For this, it's about Shinobu's fear of combating trust with Koyomi, including her selfishness and childishness. I'm sure their relationship will keep getting closer as time goes on. More like one of the sayings "More than a friend, but less than a lover." Their relationship is like no other in this world.
Having read the light novel, remember when I said in one of my Kizumonogatari logs that there's a heavy loss of context from its adaptation? I take that back. This is by far the WORST degradation of detail I've seen. I might even go as far as to say that you might miss out on a few big and small nice details about this arc. There is a very heavy loss of detail and comprehension cues from adapting this light novel into a mere four-episode series. I find this weird when as far as I know having read Neko: Shiro, Otorimonogatari, and Koimonogatari, there is a moderate to little sacrificial changes related to its individual story and little details when these three were adapted. But this one just sticks out if you managed to both read and watch Kabukimonogatari. If you want more of this, I suggest you might want to give the light novel a go, as it's a thick and fun read too!
Ah, that's the end of this log! I've been trying to moderate little spoilers here and there since I think I did way too much in my last few logs, hence the shorter log today. But you know the saying, sometimes, more is less 😺!
Stay tuned for Shinobu Time of Onimonogatari tomorrow!
Also, by the way, Neko: Shiro will also start to overlap with this arc. Though I'll still write it up on the 24th, I'll keep you guys up to date as to what order it'll be done tomorrow. Ja nee! 👋
『 Kabukimonogatari【 Mayoi Jiangshi 】 』
Oi, Puraragi-san!
We now penetrate the Second Season territory, starting with Mayoi Jiangshi of Kabukimonogatari!
The timeline for Mayoi Jiangshi spans from August 20th until August 21st and it does overlap with the first few scenes (or the first episode) of Nekomonogatari: Shiro. I watched everything today, on the 20th, considering a margin of error on the very last few minutes of the last episode that shifted to the 21st.
If you didn't know, I recently read the actual light novel, Kabukimonogatari, right in this post. It's pretty much what I'll be saying here, but in this log, I will tackle more deeply and thoroughly through what's in this arc. That post is more like my impressions of light novels at first.
Sometimes, you just wanted to change things. Maybe because you regretted a choice earlier, or because your love life's not so great right now. Maybe you wanted to go back in time to prevent someone's death, or go back in time so that you can have more time finishing the summer homework you haven't done for the whole vacation. Maybe you need to change what happened in life, maybe a little tilt (傾) in the world.
And that's what exactly is this arc all about that will also entail its consequences and effects on changing such destinies and sanity of the world.
Kabukimonogatari is one of the five arcs in the Second Season that what I'd like to call the five pillars of Araragi's humanity. This "pillar" is specifically about Araragi's selfishness and decisiveness, and how that will connect that a 1° tilt of the horizon can affect more than just what you imagine. It's like an indirect testament as to how selfish you are and to sacrifice for others or even everyone. Every degree of an angle matters, and that's what this arc is more or less what it's about.
The monstrosity of this arc all started when Koyomi simply wanted more time to complete the summer homework that he hasn't done for the whole vacation, maybe 12 hours back so that he can finish it? Anyway, he has a few hours left before tomorrow and probably will get yelled at by Hanekawa or Senjougahara for such laziness.
And you know where we're getting at, so I'll stop here so that I won't spoil the fun.
In the end, sometimes it's best not to just turn things around, but sometimes it can be an unexpected yet an expansionary journey that you've gone out of your bubble in exchange for something deadly—more like sacrificial joy.
Kabukimonogatari sees numerous spotlights in our characters, Mayoi's character and worth is much more pronounced here and pronounces mainly driven importance to Koyomi. We also get more of Koyomi's true colors as he reveals his downsides, such as his selfishness and rough decisions. I mean at the very least we get to see Koyomi's worry of other people and how he can't forget about unsolved problems in one of his peers.
This arc also paved the way for the continued polishment of the relationship of our two-man cell, Shinobu and Koyomi, specifically more on exposing Shinobu's weak and vulnerable attitude and how it has been affecting her for the past 5 months. Nonetheless, Koyomi accepted her for what she is despite her ultimate flaw in emulating humanity in her now minuscule state and worried about her low self-esteem or confidence especially of what both of them did in this arc, mainly Shinobu taking part of it. Koyomi repeated to her about how they would die for one's sake, about that it's okay that it happened in the past and that she continued to change positively for him since their reconciliation in Nisemonogatari. This is one of the arcs they have to face their resilient and special relationship that will later be negatively exposed as they journey on through their lives, and how they'll resolve to each. For this, it's about Shinobu's fear of combating trust with Koyomi, including her selfishness and childishness. I'm sure their relationship will keep getting closer as time goes on. More like one of the sayings "More than a friend, but less than a lover." Their relationship is like no other in this world.
Having read the light novel, remember when I said in one of my Kizumonogatari logs that there's a heavy loss of context from its adaptation? I take that back. This is by far the WORST degradation of detail I've seen. I might even go as far as to say that you might miss out on a few big and small nice details about this arc. There is a very heavy loss of detail and comprehension cues from adapting this light novel into a mere four-episode series. I find this weird when as far as I know having read Neko: Shiro, Otorimonogatari, and Koimonogatari, there is a moderate to little sacrificial changes related to its individual story and little details when these three were adapted. But this one just sticks out if you managed to both read and watch Kabukimonogatari. If you want more of this, I suggest you might want to give the light novel a go, as it's a thick and fun read too!
Ah, that's the end of this log! I've been trying to moderate little spoilers here and there since I think I did way too much in my last few logs, hence the shorter log today. But you know the saying, sometimes, more is less 😺!
Stay tuned for Shinobu Time of Onimonogatari tomorrow!
Also, by the way, Neko: Shiro will also start to overlap with this arc. Though I'll still write it up on the 24th, I'll keep you guys up to date as to what order it'll be done tomorrow. Ja nee! 👋
Log 8月23日
『 Onimonogatari 【 Shinobu Time 】 』
Oni no onii-chan, nani sore wa?
Okay so we rescued our best snail from time, now we got darkness to follow, so let’s begin.
Shinobu Time of Onimonogatari spans its timeline from August 21st till the 23rd. Tsubasa Tiger also overlaps with this arc even after this arc concludes, noting that there are several junctions between these arcs. I watched the first and second episodes alongside the first episode of Nekomonogatari: Shiro on the 21st, the third episode on the 22nd, as well as the second episode of Neko: Shiro. Finally, I watched the fourth and last episode on the 23rd alongside the third episode of Neko: Shiro, and the first episode of Shinobu Mail. All of the dates fall accordingly and had no problem with time differences.
As for the pillars I mentioned in the last log, this “pillar” of the second season is all about trust, belief, lies, regrets & acceptance. Law is everywhere whether it be natural, artificial, or an unsaid rule. It can never be averted, it is neither an aberration, and neither can be resolved.
The conclusion of Mayoi Jiangshi continues with this arc after the huge catastrophe Koyomi was able to revert. After Koyomi was able to be happy with having Mayoi once more, they met darkness. After the catastrophe of time, this snail is now followed by darkness, the invalidity of the sanity of the world, the invalidity of an excuse to continue wandering around the streets as a lost cow.
We first arrived at Shinobu’s potential hint at this cause, traversing through her backstory 400 years ago. Back then, she was even considered as a good-for-nothing demon, a fake, something that’s supposed to be something but was something else as she enjoyed her disguised life as a god.
This arc also paved way for Shinobu’s first and original servant she used to be with (the second now being Koyomi) that was blurrily mentioned first in Kizumonogatari, and their relationship with each other.
During her time in Japan, Shinobu witnessed what might’ve been the darkness Koyomi and Mayoi witnessed. Swallowing both Kiss-Shot and her minion because of her fake arrival as a lake god and the servant’s belief that Kiss-shot is a “god” along with others who believed in Japan, she jumped off Japan only to have her now-dead servant’s hand and wrist. Kiss-Shot stuck in a deserted ice sheet with no one in sight, begging for pleasure and love, her heart weakening second by second like a rapid heartbeat from a fear of heights where that significant other is no longer by her side. Because of that starvation of having no significant other, she sucked the remains of his hand and wrist together, like what she did to Koyomi back in March.
As planned, she was able to bring her servant back to life…
…but it didn’t play well when he finally retaliated against his “god”, blaming Kiss-Shot for his vampiric nature in exchange for his humanity, he also ultimately blamed her for “scheming” what she did back in Japan; pretending to be a god than a demon and “serving” the people. Her minion also accused her of the cause of the darkness.
And undeterred, Shinobu gaining trust on others was severed for the unforeseeable future. She swore to herself not to suck blood ever again other than nutrition. An exchange of joy for severing relationships with people and yourself, until when she encountered Koyomi 6 months ago, a 400-year gap of trust, how sad is that?
Shinobu’s disappearance followed that is another trench of their relationship cracked, the two-man cell that should’ve been is now separated. Speculation of disappearance or swallowed by the darkness? Who knows? These events are canon to Tsubasa Cat for this part, as it plays another role for Shinobu in Tsubasa Cat.
This arc also paved way for the debut of Gaen Izuko, the one who knows everything.
Assumingly knowing about the darkness and knowing their remote escape from the darkness in the mountains, Koyomi had to give up his freedom of himself by taking three favors from Gaen. That includes the curiosity of Gaen about Suruga Kanbaru.
From her intel, the darkness does indeed act as a law against aberrations. It is something that can’t be defeated, retaliated nor eaten. The darkness scouts for any aberration that strays their path from being an aberration. Similarly, if you lose your path in humanity, society will find a way to leave you astray. Speculation of whether or not Shinobu was targeted is found to be false, as she was raced by the darkness along her minion caused her to leave her godly vacation and jump off Japan, and brought back her “path of aberration” by the revival of her minion, not forgetting about her vampiric nature. Thus, the darkness no longer sees her as an invalid aberration.
So what is the darkness targeting?
No surprise, it was the “lost cow” snail after all.
Remember way, way back in Bakemonogatari when Mayoi’s aberration within her is the lost cow? What did it do to both Hitagi and Koyomi while they were searching for her destination together? They were lost all along right? A lost cow, that’s the “purpose” of her aberration, what it should’ve been, what it should be doing.
Like Shinobu 400 years ago leaving her vampiric nature in exchange for a godly vacation in Japan, Mayoi, despite fulfilling her destiny of finding her way home, gave up her nature to lead Koyomi into the right direction in certain scenarios, like in Bake and Nise whenever he’s speculating or feeling down, she’d come into play and lead him right in life. Have you noticed that Koyomi wasn’t really lost with her for the past 5 months, especially walking with her? I just noticed it too, even I was puzzled why he’s not lost all along!
So why wasn’t the darkness coming after them after they jumped off to a remote mountain? While Mayoi was unconscious, Koyomi and Yotsugi were lost all night.
To top it all off, Mayoi has a witness of her not being a lost cow of her aberration, after all, it’s Araragi, much like with Shinobu where she has a lot of witnesses, people praying to her as a fake god, much like Araragi not getting lost with Mayoi.
The arc concludes with Mayoi confessing her wrongdoings to Araragi, even though Araragi defended her at all costs against Gaen’s true words. It was also the moment Araragi lost his humanity in exchange for Mayoi, that humanity meant to give up all of his loved ones in exchange to be in alienation with Mayoi for eternity. Unfortunately, it was her sorrowful final ascent, as she has to do after fulfilling her destiny 10 years ago.
So where is Shinobu? Who knows?
The relationship between Koyomi and Mayoi is somewhat complicated but lovey-dovey. They’re like two hobos who would talk every day drunk in a nearby bar. It showed how much Koyomi also loved Mayoi despite not being true lovers but as someone else beside him in comfort and guidance. As for Shinobu’s now severed relationship…. we’ll get to that very later on, they’re on a steep spike for this one.
In the end, lies can be pretty powerful and can take advantage of yourself. It may be so powerful you can live as another person out of the nature that you dislike. Most likely, you wouldn’t even notice it because of how we perceive pleasure and comfort as front and center. Belief is a powerful thing in the end, it makes good and bad superior no matter what, it can change society; people who believed Kiss-shot as a “god” caused her to leave her vampiric nature astray and Araragi who believed in Mayoi’s supposedly good deeds caused her to leave her lost nature behind.
Add up these powerful lies and beliefs and you’ll get a hard acceptance in the end. How can you accept living with Mayoi when law (darkness) dismisses her lying nature? As the believer party (Araragi) even has a harder time accepting truth over pleasuring lies, even to an extent of sacrifice to balance the already worsening lie. Finally, all good things must come to an end, that includes your life under lies, so learn to accept the way you are, even though people will mistake you into the wrong path. Lies last longer than truth, they will be found eventually, no matter how sure you are.
That concludes today’s log! I kind of promised this in the 21st, but there weren’t any harsh timeskips after all so I followed the time of events loyally. Though I haven’t read the light novel yet, I believe this has somewhat of a degradation, most likely the part Shinobu relays her past to Araragi. Pretty much with every arc in the Second Season, I very well enjoyed this than my initial watch, and shed some tears here and there 😢. Now I’m curious for the light novel!
Stay tuned for Shinobu Mail on the 24th, along with Nekomonogatari: Shiro! What, two logs in one day?! Nyahahahaha! 😸❤
『 Onimonogatari 【 Shinobu Time 】 』
Oni no onii-chan, nani sore wa?
Okay so we rescued our best snail from time, now we got darkness to follow, so let’s begin.
Shinobu Time of Onimonogatari spans its timeline from August 21st till the 23rd. Tsubasa Tiger also overlaps with this arc even after this arc concludes, noting that there are several junctions between these arcs. I watched the first and second episodes alongside the first episode of Nekomonogatari: Shiro on the 21st, the third episode on the 22nd, as well as the second episode of Neko: Shiro. Finally, I watched the fourth and last episode on the 23rd alongside the third episode of Neko: Shiro, and the first episode of Shinobu Mail. All of the dates fall accordingly and had no problem with time differences.
As for the pillars I mentioned in the last log, this “pillar” of the second season is all about trust, belief, lies, regrets & acceptance. Law is everywhere whether it be natural, artificial, or an unsaid rule. It can never be averted, it is neither an aberration, and neither can be resolved.
The conclusion of Mayoi Jiangshi continues with this arc after the huge catastrophe Koyomi was able to revert. After Koyomi was able to be happy with having Mayoi once more, they met darkness. After the catastrophe of time, this snail is now followed by darkness, the invalidity of the sanity of the world, the invalidity of an excuse to continue wandering around the streets as a lost cow.
We first arrived at Shinobu’s potential hint at this cause, traversing through her backstory 400 years ago. Back then, she was even considered as a good-for-nothing demon, a fake, something that’s supposed to be something but was something else as she enjoyed her disguised life as a god.
This arc also paved way for Shinobu’s first and original servant she used to be with (the second now being Koyomi) that was blurrily mentioned first in Kizumonogatari, and their relationship with each other.
During her time in Japan, Shinobu witnessed what might’ve been the darkness Koyomi and Mayoi witnessed. Swallowing both Kiss-Shot and her minion because of her fake arrival as a lake god and the servant’s belief that Kiss-shot is a “god” along with others who believed in Japan, she jumped off Japan only to have her now-dead servant’s hand and wrist. Kiss-Shot stuck in a deserted ice sheet with no one in sight, begging for pleasure and love, her heart weakening second by second like a rapid heartbeat from a fear of heights where that significant other is no longer by her side. Because of that starvation of having no significant other, she sucked the remains of his hand and wrist together, like what she did to Koyomi back in March.
As planned, she was able to bring her servant back to life…
…but it didn’t play well when he finally retaliated against his “god”, blaming Kiss-Shot for his vampiric nature in exchange for his humanity, he also ultimately blamed her for “scheming” what she did back in Japan; pretending to be a god than a demon and “serving” the people. Her minion also accused her of the cause of the darkness.
And undeterred, Shinobu gaining trust on others was severed for the unforeseeable future. She swore to herself not to suck blood ever again other than nutrition. An exchange of joy for severing relationships with people and yourself, until when she encountered Koyomi 6 months ago, a 400-year gap of trust, how sad is that?
Shinobu’s disappearance followed that is another trench of their relationship cracked, the two-man cell that should’ve been is now separated. Speculation of disappearance or swallowed by the darkness? Who knows? These events are canon to Tsubasa Cat for this part, as it plays another role for Shinobu in Tsubasa Cat.
This arc also paved way for the debut of Gaen Izuko, the one who knows everything.
Assumingly knowing about the darkness and knowing their remote escape from the darkness in the mountains, Koyomi had to give up his freedom of himself by taking three favors from Gaen. That includes the curiosity of Gaen about Suruga Kanbaru.
From her intel, the darkness does indeed act as a law against aberrations. It is something that can’t be defeated, retaliated nor eaten. The darkness scouts for any aberration that strays their path from being an aberration. Similarly, if you lose your path in humanity, society will find a way to leave you astray. Speculation of whether or not Shinobu was targeted is found to be false, as she was raced by the darkness along her minion caused her to leave her godly vacation and jump off Japan, and brought back her “path of aberration” by the revival of her minion, not forgetting about her vampiric nature. Thus, the darkness no longer sees her as an invalid aberration.
So what is the darkness targeting?
No surprise, it was the “lost cow” snail after all.
Remember way, way back in Bakemonogatari when Mayoi’s aberration within her is the lost cow? What did it do to both Hitagi and Koyomi while they were searching for her destination together? They were lost all along right? A lost cow, that’s the “purpose” of her aberration, what it should’ve been, what it should be doing.
Like Shinobu 400 years ago leaving her vampiric nature in exchange for a godly vacation in Japan, Mayoi, despite fulfilling her destiny of finding her way home, gave up her nature to lead Koyomi into the right direction in certain scenarios, like in Bake and Nise whenever he’s speculating or feeling down, she’d come into play and lead him right in life. Have you noticed that Koyomi wasn’t really lost with her for the past 5 months, especially walking with her? I just noticed it too, even I was puzzled why he’s not lost all along!
So why wasn’t the darkness coming after them after they jumped off to a remote mountain? While Mayoi was unconscious, Koyomi and Yotsugi were lost all night.
To top it all off, Mayoi has a witness of her not being a lost cow of her aberration, after all, it’s Araragi, much like with Shinobu where she has a lot of witnesses, people praying to her as a fake god, much like Araragi not getting lost with Mayoi.
The arc concludes with Mayoi confessing her wrongdoings to Araragi, even though Araragi defended her at all costs against Gaen’s true words. It was also the moment Araragi lost his humanity in exchange for Mayoi, that humanity meant to give up all of his loved ones in exchange to be in alienation with Mayoi for eternity. Unfortunately, it was her sorrowful final ascent, as she has to do after fulfilling her destiny 10 years ago.
So where is Shinobu? Who knows?
The relationship between Koyomi and Mayoi is somewhat complicated but lovey-dovey. They’re like two hobos who would talk every day drunk in a nearby bar. It showed how much Koyomi also loved Mayoi despite not being true lovers but as someone else beside him in comfort and guidance. As for Shinobu’s now severed relationship…. we’ll get to that very later on, they’re on a steep spike for this one.
In the end, lies can be pretty powerful and can take advantage of yourself. It may be so powerful you can live as another person out of the nature that you dislike. Most likely, you wouldn’t even notice it because of how we perceive pleasure and comfort as front and center. Belief is a powerful thing in the end, it makes good and bad superior no matter what, it can change society; people who believed Kiss-shot as a “god” caused her to leave her vampiric nature astray and Araragi who believed in Mayoi’s supposedly good deeds caused her to leave her lost nature behind.
Add up these powerful lies and beliefs and you’ll get a hard acceptance in the end. How can you accept living with Mayoi when law (darkness) dismisses her lying nature? As the believer party (Araragi) even has a harder time accepting truth over pleasuring lies, even to an extent of sacrifice to balance the already worsening lie. Finally, all good things must come to an end, that includes your life under lies, so learn to accept the way you are, even though people will mistake you into the wrong path. Lies last longer than truth, they will be found eventually, no matter how sure you are.
That concludes today’s log! I kind of promised this in the 21st, but there weren’t any harsh timeskips after all so I followed the time of events loyally. Though I haven’t read the light novel yet, I believe this has somewhat of a degradation, most likely the part Shinobu relays her past to Araragi. Pretty much with every arc in the Second Season, I very well enjoyed this than my initial watch, and shed some tears here and there 😢. Now I’m curious for the light novel!
Stay tuned for Shinobu Mail on the 24th, along with Nekomonogatari: Shiro! What, two logs in one day?! Nyahahahaha! 😸❤
Log 8月24日
『 Owarimonogatari【 Shinobu Mail 】 』
They say the past is past right? But sometimes, we didn't get past the past yet.
Here we are entailed how the past is still connected to our flaws today,
so let's begin.
Shinobu Mail of Owarimonogatari spans from August 23rd until the 24th for episodes 7 to 12 of the Owari installment. I watched the first episode on the 23rd and the following day, the second till the fifth episode, connecting with Tsubasa Tiger slides in its fourth episode, then the final episode of Shinobu Mail, concluding that day with also the final episode of Tsubasa Tiger.
Shinobu Mail is the continuation of events from Shinobu Time, how our two-man cell of the series had their relationships severed by the darkness, and are forced to face with themselves alone on their problem.
As we learned in Bakemonogatari, we knew that Hitagi despises lurking with her past and wanted to change for a living, a new life after an old life.
Well, Shinobu Mail is the exact polar opposite of Hitagi's perspective,
We are going to lurk with the past, to connect with the past, to resolve with the past, to finalize with the past.
Continuing with the rising conflict leftover from Shinobu Time, Shinobu Mail comprises of Shinobu's entire field of flaws and imperfection as a whole amid the connection with her past. Her hidden perfection is no longer as with every person. I think this is the arc where Shinobu finally resolves her entire being and be with both reconciliation and change.
This arc ultimately pronounces more of Gaen Izuko's purpose and support throughout this arc. We see more of Gaen's "resemblance" with Meme in terms of being a balance between such conflicting parties and at the same time, the woman who knows everything.
Remember in Kabukimonogatari that even though you try so hard not to be in contact with anyone else in a time travel to avoid such paradox, and in the end, everyone eventually sees your traces in such route? This is the same ideology in terms of the past; Kiss-shot left traces as she first wandered in this town, and attracted such aberrations.
The past is a very nostalgic powerful momentum to your present self, some say it's even a learning curve for you.
For Shinobu Mail, it entails about resolve with the unsolved past, how can the past mark traces in your future, and cause problems in the far future.
In Shinobu Time, Shinobu finally clears up the mystery of her first kin and conveyed her past with that samurai to Koyomi, followed by the darkness that severed their link. Now, the severed link left Shinobu wandering about whisps of her first kin that were probably spilled by Gaen. It's the struggle of Shinobu even thinking about him in the first place, struggling to think about meeting up with him comes into mind, just like Hitagi not even thinking about her grave past.
Remember when they were unsatisfied with each other, then split up, only to find out the wandering Kiss-shot landed in Japan and where Koyomi's humanity meet to a close? Her first kin who committed suicide turned into ashes, wandering the world, reviving, death, repeat for a mere 400 years, only to find out that it was slowly crawling into Kiss-shot's steps into Koyomi's town, and yes, that broken-down shrine on top the mountain is support for her kin to revive. Why? Spiritual energies. This also explained the shrine's reason why it turned into ruins, as it's the cause of the parasitic food cycle of her kin in ashes, now into his slow revival.
At the same time, Gaen mentioned a surprising pattern happening through Koyomi's life in 6 months under her near-human nature.
She pointed out how Koyomi's life was being gradually surrounded by aberrations as time goes on, from the crab to the phoenix.
There were numerous mentions of such coincidence, noting that they happened after the ashes of Shinobu's first kin finally found its breeding ground. She also speculates the reason why all the specialists (Kaiki, Meme, Yozuru, the real "good" guys) were popping up in town,
it's because all of those aberrations popping up into Koyomi's existence is an incubation period for Shinobu's first kin--to wait for the right time.
If you remember Shinobu visiting the shrine flesh, blood, and truly present in Kabukimonogatari that was also her first time visiting the place, that signaled motivation for her kin--it boosted his status as an aberration.
Leaning back to the lurk of the past, Shinobu finally reveals her inner conflict not only to herself but for her kins, and probably her future ones. Her confidence and overall character were ultimately downed by a high school girl, Kanbaru Suruga.
In this arc, we finally know about Shinobu's remains of her harsh and sacrificial character and her emulation of humanity.
Sometimes, we despise revisiting the past, but if it still has a brimming problem, it's not a problem to resolve it anytime, but it's a problem not to resolve it for eternity. This sparked Shinobu's ultimate flaw in her being, clearly drawn to her face that she's still afraid.
Sometimes, we don't want to face truth despite admittingly we made it ourselves. Sometimes, we don't want to see a harsher truth behind the truth we don't want to face, it's like when you slapped your friend, you're ever afraid of them slapping back to you that's more powerful.
Finally, sometimes we are afraid to make choices for these eerie problems to the point we don't want to address it, either because these choices now require sacrifice; to leave something in exchange for something better, or these choices, or to even make a choice, might expose your negativity towards other people.
These were the words of a high-school monkey sex slave girl to a highly iron-blooded, hot-blooded, and cold-blooded vampire.
In the end, it's okay to resolve these problems even though we'll meet a deadly event in the end. It's normal to face rivalry and finally redeem your negativity in the opposing party. It's normal to admit defeat not only in victory but also in your humanity.
In the revival of Shinobu's first kin in town meets Koyomi's deadliest days to date. However, he has a parallel resolve to Shinobu, the repent of his wrongdoings to Kiss-shot despite over 400 years have come.
A change of heart is a hit or miss, it's like you said sorry for your teacher for not sharing your intriguing answer in class. In Shinobu's first kin's case, he regretted his harsh words towards her after she had him relive as a vampire. It's a bittersweet time for her first kin, to want to reconcile with Shinobu and reunite, leaving Koyomi out of the bubble, but then for 400 years is a very long time to have your hands on hope to repent.
Or actually, enough time for the whole face of the Earth to forget him and start fresh again that assumingly includes Shinobu.
Forgiveness is a good complication of life, but sometimes we should learn to accept, or acceptingly deny it.
Finally, both Koyomi and Shinobu's first kin came to a duel, with Koyomi having a more constraint on his end. The junction with Tsubasa Tiger and Hanekawa's current problem with a certain tiger (and also Hitagi's probable danger on life) causes Koyomi to choose among the three including Shinobu. The events of Tsubasa Tiger were marked by Gaen once more, and now it's up to Koyomi to decide. Luckily, our Koyomin thinks smart and sends the supporting trust to Kanbaru.
It was the duel of trust and link, concluding with Shinobu finally facing the truth in front of her eyes, walking up to her kin that was severed by Koyomi's clever talisman and spoke to him. Her tears of vulnerability and insecurity rush down as she finally meets a resolve between her and her first kin, talk about that she miss her first kin alot, later known as Shishirui. Finally, she accomplished Shishirui's eternal purgatory and attempt of suicide.
In the end, we should know how to face our resolves, even if it lasts a thousand years, or be met with a sorrowful ending. The past is the past, but if we don't know how to deal with a problem sticking out in your past, then I'm sure that it wouldn't be dormant there forever. This arc tells us the value of acceptance and exposure of our negativity, together maybe we can even make more resolves if you decide to speak up. Lastly, you have the power of decision, never let the past or any force of logic or society hinder you to decide. It is in your own heart to decide for the best, not the logic of philosophy but the integrity of your heart and soul.
Thank you for reading--wait did I say today's gonna be two logs? Yep, I haven't forgotten about Nekomonogatari: Shiro! That's what I'm gonna write next, so stay tuned, shortly! 😸
『 Owarimonogatari【 Shinobu Mail 】 』
They say the past is past right? But sometimes, we didn't get past the past yet.
Here we are entailed how the past is still connected to our flaws today,
so let's begin.
Shinobu Mail of Owarimonogatari spans from August 23rd until the 24th for episodes 7 to 12 of the Owari installment. I watched the first episode on the 23rd and the following day, the second till the fifth episode, connecting with Tsubasa Tiger slides in its fourth episode, then the final episode of Shinobu Mail, concluding that day with also the final episode of Tsubasa Tiger.
Shinobu Mail is the continuation of events from Shinobu Time, how our two-man cell of the series had their relationships severed by the darkness, and are forced to face with themselves alone on their problem.
As we learned in Bakemonogatari, we knew that Hitagi despises lurking with her past and wanted to change for a living, a new life after an old life.
Well, Shinobu Mail is the exact polar opposite of Hitagi's perspective,
We are going to lurk with the past, to connect with the past, to resolve with the past, to finalize with the past.
Continuing with the rising conflict leftover from Shinobu Time, Shinobu Mail comprises of Shinobu's entire field of flaws and imperfection as a whole amid the connection with her past. Her hidden perfection is no longer as with every person. I think this is the arc where Shinobu finally resolves her entire being and be with both reconciliation and change.
This arc ultimately pronounces more of Gaen Izuko's purpose and support throughout this arc. We see more of Gaen's "resemblance" with Meme in terms of being a balance between such conflicting parties and at the same time, the woman who knows everything.
Remember in Kabukimonogatari that even though you try so hard not to be in contact with anyone else in a time travel to avoid such paradox, and in the end, everyone eventually sees your traces in such route? This is the same ideology in terms of the past; Kiss-shot left traces as she first wandered in this town, and attracted such aberrations.
The past is a very nostalgic powerful momentum to your present self, some say it's even a learning curve for you.
For Shinobu Mail, it entails about resolve with the unsolved past, how can the past mark traces in your future, and cause problems in the far future.
In Shinobu Time, Shinobu finally clears up the mystery of her first kin and conveyed her past with that samurai to Koyomi, followed by the darkness that severed their link. Now, the severed link left Shinobu wandering about whisps of her first kin that were probably spilled by Gaen. It's the struggle of Shinobu even thinking about him in the first place, struggling to think about meeting up with him comes into mind, just like Hitagi not even thinking about her grave past.
Remember when they were unsatisfied with each other, then split up, only to find out the wandering Kiss-shot landed in Japan and where Koyomi's humanity meet to a close? Her first kin who committed suicide turned into ashes, wandering the world, reviving, death, repeat for a mere 400 years, only to find out that it was slowly crawling into Kiss-shot's steps into Koyomi's town, and yes, that broken-down shrine on top the mountain is support for her kin to revive. Why? Spiritual energies. This also explained the shrine's reason why it turned into ruins, as it's the cause of the parasitic food cycle of her kin in ashes, now into his slow revival.
At the same time, Gaen mentioned a surprising pattern happening through Koyomi's life in 6 months under her near-human nature.
She pointed out how Koyomi's life was being gradually surrounded by aberrations as time goes on, from the crab to the phoenix.
There were numerous mentions of such coincidence, noting that they happened after the ashes of Shinobu's first kin finally found its breeding ground. She also speculates the reason why all the specialists (Kaiki, Meme, Yozuru, the real "good" guys) were popping up in town,
it's because all of those aberrations popping up into Koyomi's existence is an incubation period for Shinobu's first kin--to wait for the right time.
If you remember Shinobu visiting the shrine flesh, blood, and truly present in Kabukimonogatari that was also her first time visiting the place, that signaled motivation for her kin--it boosted his status as an aberration.
Leaning back to the lurk of the past, Shinobu finally reveals her inner conflict not only to herself but for her kins, and probably her future ones. Her confidence and overall character were ultimately downed by a high school girl, Kanbaru Suruga.
In this arc, we finally know about Shinobu's remains of her harsh and sacrificial character and her emulation of humanity.
Sometimes, we despise revisiting the past, but if it still has a brimming problem, it's not a problem to resolve it anytime, but it's a problem not to resolve it for eternity. This sparked Shinobu's ultimate flaw in her being, clearly drawn to her face that she's still afraid.
Sometimes, we don't want to face truth despite admittingly we made it ourselves. Sometimes, we don't want to see a harsher truth behind the truth we don't want to face, it's like when you slapped your friend, you're ever afraid of them slapping back to you that's more powerful.
Finally, sometimes we are afraid to make choices for these eerie problems to the point we don't want to address it, either because these choices now require sacrifice; to leave something in exchange for something better, or these choices, or to even make a choice, might expose your negativity towards other people.
These were the words of a high-school monkey sex slave girl to a highly iron-blooded, hot-blooded, and cold-blooded vampire.
In the end, it's okay to resolve these problems even though we'll meet a deadly event in the end. It's normal to face rivalry and finally redeem your negativity in the opposing party. It's normal to admit defeat not only in victory but also in your humanity.
In the revival of Shinobu's first kin in town meets Koyomi's deadliest days to date. However, he has a parallel resolve to Shinobu, the repent of his wrongdoings to Kiss-shot despite over 400 years have come.
A change of heart is a hit or miss, it's like you said sorry for your teacher for not sharing your intriguing answer in class. In Shinobu's first kin's case, he regretted his harsh words towards her after she had him relive as a vampire. It's a bittersweet time for her first kin, to want to reconcile with Shinobu and reunite, leaving Koyomi out of the bubble, but then for 400 years is a very long time to have your hands on hope to repent.
Or actually, enough time for the whole face of the Earth to forget him and start fresh again that assumingly includes Shinobu.
Forgiveness is a good complication of life, but sometimes we should learn to accept, or acceptingly deny it.
Finally, both Koyomi and Shinobu's first kin came to a duel, with Koyomi having a more constraint on his end. The junction with Tsubasa Tiger and Hanekawa's current problem with a certain tiger (and also Hitagi's probable danger on life) causes Koyomi to choose among the three including Shinobu. The events of Tsubasa Tiger were marked by Gaen once more, and now it's up to Koyomi to decide. Luckily, our Koyomin thinks smart and sends the supporting trust to Kanbaru.
It was the duel of trust and link, concluding with Shinobu finally facing the truth in front of her eyes, walking up to her kin that was severed by Koyomi's clever talisman and spoke to him. Her tears of vulnerability and insecurity rush down as she finally meets a resolve between her and her first kin, talk about that she miss her first kin alot, later known as Shishirui. Finally, she accomplished Shishirui's eternal purgatory and attempt of suicide.
In the end, we should know how to face our resolves, even if it lasts a thousand years, or be met with a sorrowful ending. The past is the past, but if we don't know how to deal with a problem sticking out in your past, then I'm sure that it wouldn't be dormant there forever. This arc tells us the value of acceptance and exposure of our negativity, together maybe we can even make more resolves if you decide to speak up. Lastly, you have the power of decision, never let the past or any force of logic or society hinder you to decide. It is in your own heart to decide for the best, not the logic of philosophy but the integrity of your heart and soul.
Thank you for reading--wait did I say today's gonna be two logs? Yep, I haven't forgotten about Nekomonogatari: Shiro! That's what I'm gonna write next, so stay tuned, shortly! 😸
Log 8月24日
『 Nekomonogatari: Shiro 【 Tsubasa Tiger 】 』
I think this is it.
The moment I'm going to talk
about the girl that
found me.
The girl that a hundred percent resembles me
and the character nobody can replicate her absolute vulnerability.
I'm writing the entirety of this log wholely from my heart and the raw rush of my tears.
Thank you, Hanekawa Tsubasa.
She has a special place in my heart, and I love her for that.
Tsubasa Tiger has its timeline spanning from August 21st till the 24th. It has numerous overlapping with the prior three arcs I logged a few days ago, Mayoi Jiangshi, Shinobu Time, and Shinobu Mail. I watched the first episode on the 21st, its first scenes junctioning the time before the events of the first episode of Mayoi Jiangshi. The second episode on the 22nd, where numerous events are canon to Shinobu Time then the third episode on the 23rd that continued to connect Shinobu Time and Shinobu Mail, and finally on the 24th with the fourth and fifth episode, as well as the concluding episode for Shinobu Mail.
Tsubasa Hanekawa may be a role model to all, a perfect example to everyone, a girl fit for all, but deep down, Hanekawa has some deep problems trenched inside of her that many wouldn’t know.
In the pillars of the Second Season, I call this “pillar” of reliance, acceptance, impurity, and most importantly, change, not only to Koyomi but also to Hanekawa.
When I say that Hanekawa is different, she is and will be pouring her true colors more into her arc. Instead of the usual helpful, knowledgeable, the one who knows everything girl we all know, deep down is more problematic and unknown for her. Even down to the core of her name “Tsubasa Hanekawa” is even a problem, posing confusion and unreliability to her name.
Speaking of her unreliable name, she connects it with the precarious relationship she has with her “parents”. Her house is huge, but this girl who you’d think she’s as luxurious as her house is no longer, she sleeps on the floor and doesn’t even have her own room.
The unstable relationship with her parents is apparent when there’s a lot of kitchen utensils in there, three microwaves, three sinks, three everything, but that’s because their instability led them not to share anything with anyone in the house.
Hanekawa is a person whose very white, pure white, whitest of all whites in her character and life. It affects her overall being, growth, and interaction with her social connections. Because of how pure white her character is, she follows rules because they’re rules and should be, she accepts everything and anything that comes into her way. That proves it that in the long run, she’ll be very vulnerable from society in the future. She lacks preference, detest, and let life decide for her, and that summed up her crumble with her supposed relationship with Koyomi.
Hanekawa is a lost person from the start, and yes she only knows what she knows. She had a lot of firsts with her stay at Hitagi’s house, saying goodnight other than to Roomba, taking a bath with another girl, eating with someone, and many more of what a normal girl should be experiencing. She lacked change and maturity. She doesn’t want to change for the worse, leading her to change only for the good and get herself stuck in her very unusual living that lacked change. Yes, I know she "changed" and cut her hair to signify her reconciliation with Black Hanekawa, but that’s just the aberration, what about her innings of herself? Hanekawa also lacks trust and doesn’t breaking out of her bubble from time-to-time, like never letting anyone get inside her “room” or haven’t hanged out with anyone outside of school.
Without knowing, she waited, and waited, and waited for the world to change.
She kept on waiting, until the moment Koyomi found her love. She kept on waiting for anything to happen, until the moment she envied Hitagi for winning her heart.
And that’s where the tiger kicks in, burning wherever she slept in, that includes herself burning inside of her envy for her and Koyomi.
While Black Hanekawa represents Hanekawa’s stress, the Tiger represents Hanekawa’s envy.
<<Envy for Koyomi’s heart taken by Hitagi, so why can’t she make her envy towards Hitagi and unleash her envy by burning down where she sleeps?>>
Hanekawa bears so much whiteness that she's a failure in the wild, a failure to live with the world changing ever so quickly.
She doesn’t want to change especially for Koyomi and that includes her perfectly white role model character.
In the return of Episode, a person you might hate for what he had done to her in Kizumonogatari, he mentions that Hanekawa is too normal, another factor of her embedded whiteness in her. Even added that the eerie glare Episode had on her disappeared in a whim.
Your vulnerability and problems cannot be resolved by anyone other than you, like the wise Meme said "Only you can save yourself, not others" or something along the lines of that. Proven once more by the woman who knows it all, Gaen Izuko. She noted Hanekawa's idiocy for how she's relieved by the phrase you-know-everything, a toxicity she bears.
In an ever new intel to pop up for what Hanekawa's new aberration is the superior of all tigers due to just how pure white she is.
It was the moment Hanekawa Tsubasa is now going on a turning point in her life.
Knowing the feeling of jealousy is very new to her, which caused her to sum up more fire in her heart, which explains the existence of the tiger.
Here, Hanekawa Tsubasa was able to reconcile with Black Hanekawa, leaving with her last duty to convince the tiger to come back as family to their master (Hanekawa).
Sometimes, we get our emotions lost all over the place. We might be lacking to other people once they figured it out, in this case, Episode pointing out to Hanekawa's excess normalcy. For Hanekawa, this is her sight to see how much she lost and converted into a very, very normal person of society that can be exploited by others. She is lost from the start, and it's up to herself to save herself. A revolutionary turning point in her life to reconciling with all of her emotions and that meant to finally able to let her pure whiteness be tarnished with any impurity in mind. A sacrifice for the better, a feeling of sorrow in the end. The arc concludes with the reconciliation Hanekawa and Koyomi had, with Hanekawa very happy that it was resolved, but left Hanekawa to absorb the envy and fire, and accept it into her heart now that Koyomi has someone else now. She finally understood about change and will be doing so in the exchange to end all of her pure whiteness, let there be impurities that will haunt her later in life. And I wasn't kidding when I cried along with her, it was reality in my eyes now waiting for me to witness the sorrowful ending of it.
People sometimes say they don't want us to change because you're a saint or a good friend and they don't want you to change to a bad person because of it, but that leaves you to be behind of the world changing ever so quickly, and slowly open up your vulnerability to the wild. Koyomi relayed it to Hanekawa that it's alright to change, even though it might be embarrassing and unfitting for the future. A change needed so you can also change your world.
Finally, Hanekawa was able to restore her true normal, her true humanity. Wiping out the very purities she kept locked on her heart and made her white being ready to be slowly impurified by the wild.
It's alright to change, it's okay to be in impurity for a while, as long as you continue to redefine your "good" in a lot of ways, I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad kind of change.
In all of the arcs of the franchise, this is the closest one to my heart and soul. I very well relate to the same problem Hanekawa has in this arc, and that includes her pure whiteness. I already know that I'm very vulnerable and a failure in the wild. I'm a person too afraid to change, to be extraordinary in the wild. Like Hanekawa's failure in love, I did too just wait for the princess' response (oh yeah, the OP is a whole foreshadowing of this premise).
This is why I admire and love Hanekawa so much, for trying to keep all of that stress and envy to herself. This will be forever in my heart as an improvement of my ever so whiteness. I am however trying to gradually open up with friends.
For the contrast of degradation between its light novel counterpart, not much. This is almost the same package you'll witness which is nice.
Thank you for reading what might've been the best log I've written, for me. The franchise is now set for another long hiatus until late September with a new rise of Koyomimonogatari, then some more spicy Owarimonogatari in October! Ja nee~ 👋
『 Nekomonogatari: Shiro 【 Tsubasa Tiger 】 』
I think this is it.
The moment I'm going to talk
about the girl that
found me.
The girl that a hundred percent resembles me
and the character nobody can replicate her absolute vulnerability.
I'm writing the entirety of this log wholely from my heart and the raw rush of my tears.
Thank you, Hanekawa Tsubasa.
She has a special place in my heart, and I love her for that.
Tsubasa Tiger has its timeline spanning from August 21st till the 24th. It has numerous overlapping with the prior three arcs I logged a few days ago, Mayoi Jiangshi, Shinobu Time, and Shinobu Mail. I watched the first episode on the 21st, its first scenes junctioning the time before the events of the first episode of Mayoi Jiangshi. The second episode on the 22nd, where numerous events are canon to Shinobu Time then the third episode on the 23rd that continued to connect Shinobu Time and Shinobu Mail, and finally on the 24th with the fourth and fifth episode, as well as the concluding episode for Shinobu Mail.
Tsubasa Hanekawa may be a role model to all, a perfect example to everyone, a girl fit for all, but deep down, Hanekawa has some deep problems trenched inside of her that many wouldn’t know.
In the pillars of the Second Season, I call this “pillar” of reliance, acceptance, impurity, and most importantly, change, not only to Koyomi but also to Hanekawa.
When I say that Hanekawa is different, she is and will be pouring her true colors more into her arc. Instead of the usual helpful, knowledgeable, the one who knows everything girl we all know, deep down is more problematic and unknown for her. Even down to the core of her name “Tsubasa Hanekawa” is even a problem, posing confusion and unreliability to her name.
Speaking of her unreliable name, she connects it with the precarious relationship she has with her “parents”. Her house is huge, but this girl who you’d think she’s as luxurious as her house is no longer, she sleeps on the floor and doesn’t even have her own room.
The unstable relationship with her parents is apparent when there’s a lot of kitchen utensils in there, three microwaves, three sinks, three everything, but that’s because their instability led them not to share anything with anyone in the house.
Hanekawa is a person whose very white, pure white, whitest of all whites in her character and life. It affects her overall being, growth, and interaction with her social connections. Because of how pure white her character is, she follows rules because they’re rules and should be, she accepts everything and anything that comes into her way. That proves it that in the long run, she’ll be very vulnerable from society in the future. She lacks preference, detest, and let life decide for her, and that summed up her crumble with her supposed relationship with Koyomi.
Hanekawa is a lost person from the start, and yes she only knows what she knows. She had a lot of firsts with her stay at Hitagi’s house, saying goodnight other than to Roomba, taking a bath with another girl, eating with someone, and many more of what a normal girl should be experiencing. She lacked change and maturity. She doesn’t want to change for the worse, leading her to change only for the good and get herself stuck in her very unusual living that lacked change. Yes, I know she "changed" and cut her hair to signify her reconciliation with Black Hanekawa, but that’s just the aberration, what about her innings of herself? Hanekawa also lacks trust and doesn’t breaking out of her bubble from time-to-time, like never letting anyone get inside her “room” or haven’t hanged out with anyone outside of school.
Without knowing, she waited, and waited, and waited for the world to change.
She kept on waiting, until the moment Koyomi found her love. She kept on waiting for anything to happen, until the moment she envied Hitagi for winning her heart.
And that’s where the tiger kicks in, burning wherever she slept in, that includes herself burning inside of her envy for her and Koyomi.
While Black Hanekawa represents Hanekawa’s stress, the Tiger represents Hanekawa’s envy.
<<Envy for Koyomi’s heart taken by Hitagi, so why can’t she make her envy towards Hitagi and unleash her envy by burning down where she sleeps?>>
Hanekawa bears so much whiteness that she's a failure in the wild, a failure to live with the world changing ever so quickly.
She doesn’t want to change especially for Koyomi and that includes her perfectly white role model character.
In the return of Episode, a person you might hate for what he had done to her in Kizumonogatari, he mentions that Hanekawa is too normal, another factor of her embedded whiteness in her. Even added that the eerie glare Episode had on her disappeared in a whim.
Your vulnerability and problems cannot be resolved by anyone other than you, like the wise Meme said "Only you can save yourself, not others" or something along the lines of that. Proven once more by the woman who knows it all, Gaen Izuko. She noted Hanekawa's idiocy for how she's relieved by the phrase you-know-everything, a toxicity she bears.
In an ever new intel to pop up for what Hanekawa's new aberration is the superior of all tigers due to just how pure white she is.
It was the moment Hanekawa Tsubasa is now going on a turning point in her life.
Knowing the feeling of jealousy is very new to her, which caused her to sum up more fire in her heart, which explains the existence of the tiger.
Here, Hanekawa Tsubasa was able to reconcile with Black Hanekawa, leaving with her last duty to convince the tiger to come back as family to their master (Hanekawa).
Sometimes, we get our emotions lost all over the place. We might be lacking to other people once they figured it out, in this case, Episode pointing out to Hanekawa's excess normalcy. For Hanekawa, this is her sight to see how much she lost and converted into a very, very normal person of society that can be exploited by others. She is lost from the start, and it's up to herself to save herself. A revolutionary turning point in her life to reconciling with all of her emotions and that meant to finally able to let her pure whiteness be tarnished with any impurity in mind. A sacrifice for the better, a feeling of sorrow in the end. The arc concludes with the reconciliation Hanekawa and Koyomi had, with Hanekawa very happy that it was resolved, but left Hanekawa to absorb the envy and fire, and accept it into her heart now that Koyomi has someone else now. She finally understood about change and will be doing so in the exchange to end all of her pure whiteness, let there be impurities that will haunt her later in life. And I wasn't kidding when I cried along with her, it was reality in my eyes now waiting for me to witness the sorrowful ending of it.
People sometimes say they don't want us to change because you're a saint or a good friend and they don't want you to change to a bad person because of it, but that leaves you to be behind of the world changing ever so quickly, and slowly open up your vulnerability to the wild. Koyomi relayed it to Hanekawa that it's alright to change, even though it might be embarrassing and unfitting for the future. A change needed so you can also change your world.
Finally, Hanekawa was able to restore her true normal, her true humanity. Wiping out the very purities she kept locked on her heart and made her white being ready to be slowly impurified by the wild.
It's alright to change, it's okay to be in impurity for a while, as long as you continue to redefine your "good" in a lot of ways, I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad kind of change.
In all of the arcs of the franchise, this is the closest one to my heart and soul. I very well relate to the same problem Hanekawa has in this arc, and that includes her pure whiteness. I already know that I'm very vulnerable and a failure in the wild. I'm a person too afraid to change, to be extraordinary in the wild. Like Hanekawa's failure in love, I did too just wait for the princess' response (oh yeah, the OP is a whole foreshadowing of this premise).
This is why I admire and love Hanekawa so much, for trying to keep all of that stress and envy to herself. This will be forever in my heart as an improvement of my ever so whiteness. I am however trying to gradually open up with friends.
For the contrast of degradation between its light novel counterpart, not much. This is almost the same package you'll witness which is nice.
Thank you for reading what might've been the best log I've written, for me. The franchise is now set for another long hiatus until late September with a new rise of Koyomimonogatari, then some more spicy Owarimonogatari in October! Ja nee~ 👋
Log 9月26日
『 Koyomimonogatari 6【 Koyomi Tree 】 』
Hey’o welcome back, it’s been more than a month since I logged, and damn I miss logging for quite a while now! Today is another episode with our ally of justice, Karen, and her never-ending love for any scale of justice!
Koyomi Tree falls in Late September, and I wasn’t able to find a particular date for when these events happened, the most I can find is that it happened later in September. I watched it today on the 26th of September.
This episode starts with our ally of justice interrupting Koyomi due to a weird “ominous” anomaly she found in her dojo grounds, along with her colleagues and even her master. It was a living tree. They were all against it because it disrupts their environment for their own need; to continue dojo without that tree.
We have slow attention spans or consciousness of the things around us, and this is what happened exactly in this episode, about a humongous living tree just noticed by everyone in dojo grounds. Even as big as that tree can go unnoticed for a long time. As soon as they all found out about the odd tree that appeared out of nowhere brought to its destruction, but Karen says otherwise. As humans, we love to be curious and we love curiosity as a whole. I think curiosity is still humanity’s most effective weapon against everything. Curious as it gets, the tree was thought of an omen or seemed ominous, so most voiced their thoughts about cutting it down. The moment we put curiosity front and center, we lose our sympathy or feelings for something or someone, such as when this tree is still living, it would be sad to chop it off when it’s still living, right?
It tackles more on how once noticed, it cannot be unseen. When that particular tree went noticed, the level of how noticeable it is exponentially growing, it becomes more noticeable. This is to justify again, on how powerful our curiosity is, to the point we’d go about and assume rumors and all of that stuff, thinking that this thing brings bad luck and the like. Simply enough, it has to put the mass-pandemic-like spread of rumors about this tree into a stop, rather than a way of stopping it, it’s more like a way for it to stop.
In the end, the tree Karen doesn’t want for it to chop down that everyone wanted it to was put to a stop. It doesn’t have to be intervened by people like us to stop it, rather it’s up to its fate to arrive at its destination, then stop. Sure, the tree somehow didn’t arrive at the conclusion where people wanted it to be cut off yet, but simply we just need to wait and extend that goal for that particular thing to reach its destination, then it stops there, a little drop of reverence over curiosity if you will. Trivially, the wood from the tree is the same as the infrastructure in the dojo grounds right now. Knowing that Karen found the tree at first is her duty, as an ally of justice, to protect it.
In short, this episode of Koyomimonogatari is about how things can go and live without us humans, where if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, just like the tree who still has life to spare and will eventually fall into its natural decay for years to come. It didn’t need to be chopped off by us, significantly reducing its lifespan. I also absorbed the value of sympathy and the power of curiosity, about how destructively creative we can get. Creativity doesn’t only bring goodness but also inner hidden evil we are unfortunately lax about it, and it can be our own rumors or stories we spread.
That concludes my log! September sure looks like a dandy and chill month, but the hiatus is nearly over, as I’m going to cover the rest of Owarimonogatari next month, with Ougi, Sodachi, and the spiciest moment of Sneky Snek Nadeko 🐍💕! I even read Owarimonogatari Part 01 months ago, so I have a beefy head start for these lovely arcs. Stay tuned for Koyomi Tea around the start of October, ja nee! 😺👋
『 Koyomimonogatari 6【 Koyomi Tree 】 』
Hey’o welcome back, it’s been more than a month since I logged, and damn I miss logging for quite a while now! Today is another episode with our ally of justice, Karen, and her never-ending love for any scale of justice!
Koyomi Tree falls in Late September, and I wasn’t able to find a particular date for when these events happened, the most I can find is that it happened later in September. I watched it today on the 26th of September.
This episode starts with our ally of justice interrupting Koyomi due to a weird “ominous” anomaly she found in her dojo grounds, along with her colleagues and even her master. It was a living tree. They were all against it because it disrupts their environment for their own need; to continue dojo without that tree.
We have slow attention spans or consciousness of the things around us, and this is what happened exactly in this episode, about a humongous living tree just noticed by everyone in dojo grounds. Even as big as that tree can go unnoticed for a long time. As soon as they all found out about the odd tree that appeared out of nowhere brought to its destruction, but Karen says otherwise. As humans, we love to be curious and we love curiosity as a whole. I think curiosity is still humanity’s most effective weapon against everything. Curious as it gets, the tree was thought of an omen or seemed ominous, so most voiced their thoughts about cutting it down. The moment we put curiosity front and center, we lose our sympathy or feelings for something or someone, such as when this tree is still living, it would be sad to chop it off when it’s still living, right?
It tackles more on how once noticed, it cannot be unseen. When that particular tree went noticed, the level of how noticeable it is exponentially growing, it becomes more noticeable. This is to justify again, on how powerful our curiosity is, to the point we’d go about and assume rumors and all of that stuff, thinking that this thing brings bad luck and the like. Simply enough, it has to put the mass-pandemic-like spread of rumors about this tree into a stop, rather than a way of stopping it, it’s more like a way for it to stop.
In the end, the tree Karen doesn’t want for it to chop down that everyone wanted it to was put to a stop. It doesn’t have to be intervened by people like us to stop it, rather it’s up to its fate to arrive at its destination, then stop. Sure, the tree somehow didn’t arrive at the conclusion where people wanted it to be cut off yet, but simply we just need to wait and extend that goal for that particular thing to reach its destination, then it stops there, a little drop of reverence over curiosity if you will. Trivially, the wood from the tree is the same as the infrastructure in the dojo grounds right now. Knowing that Karen found the tree at first is her duty, as an ally of justice, to protect it.
In short, this episode of Koyomimonogatari is about how things can go and live without us humans, where if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, just like the tree who still has life to spare and will eventually fall into its natural decay for years to come. It didn’t need to be chopped off by us, significantly reducing its lifespan. I also absorbed the value of sympathy and the power of curiosity, about how destructively creative we can get. Creativity doesn’t only bring goodness but also inner hidden evil we are unfortunately lax about it, and it can be our own rumors or stories we spread.
That concludes my log! September sure looks like a dandy and chill month, but the hiatus is nearly over, as I’m going to cover the rest of Owarimonogatari next month, with Ougi, Sodachi, and the spiciest moment of Sneky Snek Nadeko 🐍💕! I even read Owarimonogatari Part 01 months ago, so I have a beefy head start for these lovely arcs. Stay tuned for Koyomi Tea around the start of October, ja nee! 😺👋
Posted by Tubasas | Aug 14, 2020 3:06 AM | 0 comments
June 15th, 2020
Monogatari Circulation
Anime Relations: Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen, Nisemonogatari, Nekomonogatari: Kuro, Monogatari Series: Second Season, Hanamonogatari, Tsukimonogatari, Owarimonogatari, Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen, Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen, Koyomimonogatari, Owarimonogatari 2nd Season, Zoku Owarimonogatari
Target Span: March 25, 2020 - April 21, 2021
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Originally a post series I regularly log to Kitsu, now porting here to my MAL profile!
From the master post:
Little history, my first contact with the Monogatari Series was in November 17, 2018 under the release order, Bakemonogatari. This was recommended to me by @Monogatari-Teller(Kitsu, MAL)(not too-tad sure, but @ThomVD(Kitsu, MAL), @Yuissi(Kitsu, MAL) and probably @Noote(Kitsu, MAL) too). Back then, I was one of those people who complained about those flashy dramatic texts on screen that you have to pause to read them (not really, but others were way much into this method…). I placed the series on-hold after Nadeko’s arc on the 24th of the same time period, saying to myself “I’ll get back to this series later, hopefully”.
The next year, in the season of Summer (May) 2019, I was motivated to run through back to the series with Hanekawa’s arc.
But all ended in me not even absorbing knowledge from the series.
Nonetheless, I continued on to Nisemonogatari after watching it and still the same problem of me having difficulty understanding the series. There, I have the help of @Monogatari-Teller(Kitsu, MAL). Before moving on to the Second Season of the series, I had to rewatch the entirety of Bakemonogatari since I feared there are points in Bake that are later linked or are important to the Second Season. There began my absolute, lovely, Monogatari-y journey until it was concluded on June 30th, 2019 with Zoku Owarimonogatari. I didn’t expect that I’ll be completing a jack-tonne of arcs, and reaching to the end ached my heart of how I deeply love this franchise.
Several months later, I was thinking of rewatching the series in an obscure chronological order. I started planning, knowing the risks and taking information on the vast chronological timelines of each arcs as accurately and precisely and possible. Some really told me “Hey man you should at least take this deadly bloody challenge with someone to handle the frustration of this.”
I did not take their advice and chose to do it alone. I figured your raw understanding and knowledge is still the best to understand and love a story.
The challenge arrived, March 25, 2020, and now I embark on to this lovely journey again on another phase. After 6 logs of this marathon, I very much well love how things are going to be (wildly) arranged chronologically. This is my first time watching something in loyal and chronological order.
The next year, in the season of Summer (May) 2019, I was motivated to run through back to the series with Hanekawa’s arc.
But all ended in me not even absorbing knowledge from the series.
Nonetheless, I continued on to Nisemonogatari after watching it and still the same problem of me having difficulty understanding the series. There, I have the help of @Monogatari-Teller(Kitsu, MAL). Before moving on to the Second Season of the series, I had to rewatch the entirety of Bakemonogatari since I feared there are points in Bake that are later linked or are important to the Second Season. There began my absolute, lovely, Monogatari-y journey until it was concluded on June 30th, 2019 with Zoku Owarimonogatari. I didn’t expect that I’ll be completing a jack-tonne of arcs, and reaching to the end ached my heart of how I deeply love this franchise.
Several months later, I was thinking of rewatching the series in an obscure chronological order. I started planning, knowing the risks and taking information on the vast chronological timelines of each arcs as accurately and precisely and possible. Some really told me “Hey man you should at least take this deadly bloody challenge with someone to handle the frustration of this.”
I did not take their advice and chose to do it alone. I figured your raw understanding and knowledge is still the best to understand and love a story.
The challenge arrived, March 25, 2020, and now I embark on to this lovely journey again on another phase. After 6 logs of this marathon, I very much well love how things are going to be (wildly) arranged chronologically. This is my first time watching something in loyal and chronological order.
Good luck to me, to a series I very well love dear into my heart. This is a master post which will be a hub to all my logs I’ve done so far. The timeframes per each arc are found on each log
You are on the March-July 2020 Trajectory
Tubasas is currently on February 2021!
Due to MAL's character limitation of 50K characters per blog post, this has now been split into date ranges. This is very flexible and will change from time to time due to fluctuating character counts between each individual log. See the complete chronological timeline at the very bottom of this page for a summary on which logs goes where.
Tubasas is currently on February 2021!
Due to MAL's character limitation of 50K characters per blog post, this has now been split into date ranges. This is very flexible and will change from time to time due to fluctuating character counts between each individual log. See the complete chronological timeline at the very bottom of this page for a summary on which logs goes where.
March 2020 Logs
2020年3月
2020年3月
Log 3月25日
Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-Hen
My first log of my chronological rewatch progress with the Monogatari Series! Oh boy, this is gonna be a tough year all-round ride (even I have to design that calendar scale for 30 minutes because this is going to be a fun mess!)
Starting off with the first movie of the Kizumonogatari trilogy, it brings me back with just how I miss this series overall. I did take a read of the light novel around late December to early January, so this would be the third time I journeyed along with this story. After watching the first movie, I already have too much sharpness of 1/3rds of Kizumonogatari.
I was able to get a hands on a higher quality of my copy of Kizumonogatari, and the art is something to be mixed on upon the community. For me, you can’t find this art or animation style they had on this movie anywhere else, yet. The art style really feels… jazzy? It feels fluid and really good, the colors and animation really blend to just how the trilogy will haunt about.
This is the first time I’ve watched any anime (series) in chronological order, and what I can say is it’s very intriguing considering you’re on the same time frame with your favorite series– or to be precise, your favorite characters 😏. While watching it, I find it really comfy that the time, ambiance and the season really match with the present.
This is the start of a journey I cannot end. Considering that this is chronological order, I have to wait for April so that I can proceed with the latter of the trilogy, which faced a challenge in my impatience (I always have the urge to binge…).
Overall, I had fun rewatching even just a third of Kizu despite the oversaturation of knowledge and understanding rambling in my head, next log’s on the next month! also Hanekawa ur so precious I wished you were my soulmate but I have Sneky Snek Nadeko so that’s all good too
Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-Hen
My first log of my chronological rewatch progress with the Monogatari Series! Oh boy, this is gonna be a tough year all-round ride (even I have to design that calendar scale for 30 minutes because this is going to be a fun mess!)
Starting off with the first movie of the Kizumonogatari trilogy, it brings me back with just how I miss this series overall. I did take a read of the light novel around late December to early January, so this would be the third time I journeyed along with this story. After watching the first movie, I already have too much sharpness of 1/3rds of Kizumonogatari.
I was able to get a hands on a higher quality of my copy of Kizumonogatari, and the art is something to be mixed on upon the community. For me, you can’t find this art or animation style they had on this movie anywhere else, yet. The art style really feels… jazzy? It feels fluid and really good, the colors and animation really blend to just how the trilogy will haunt about.
This is the first time I’ve watched any anime (series) in chronological order, and what I can say is it’s very intriguing considering you’re on the same time frame with your favorite series– or to be precise, your favorite characters 😏. While watching it, I find it really comfy that the time, ambiance and the season really match with the present.
This is the start of a journey I cannot end. Considering that this is chronological order, I have to wait for April so that I can proceed with the latter of the trilogy, which faced a challenge in my impatience (I always have the urge to binge…).
Overall, I had fun rewatching even just a third of Kizu despite the oversaturation of knowledge and understanding rambling in my head, next log’s on the next month! also Hanekawa ur so precious I wished you were my soulmate but I have Sneky Snek Nadeko so that’s all good too
April 2020 Logs
2020年4月
2020年4月
Log 4月2日
Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-Hen
Ah yes, my shoes back on Kizumonogatari as it’s now April 2020! Finally waited for the second movie of the trilogy, I guess respecting chronological orders means lots of patience and that taught me the value of patience I think?
While not really mentioned in the last movie, this movie finally had datestamps across the board. I can’t find any source online on when these dates fall for each movie. While watching, I realized that I was two days behind, as the second movie continues on to March 31st. It continues to span from that date to April 1st until April 4th. The trilogy falls until April 8th, so I’ll assume that the median (April 7th) will be the next and the closest range to all the dates the third movie will cover.
Dates aside, while watching the series, I noticed that the direction is slowly going down the pipes (but not too lethal to the point it’s trash) and I’ve been considering rating this movie from 9.5 to a 7.5 or 8. As someone who read the novels, there’s a noticeable heavy loss of characterization and comprehension cues from the novel, which is obviously “normal” of adapting a series of books/novels into an anime, but by far this is the worst degradation of detail I’ve seen. Even each “chapter” (or from a non-novel basis, a scene) felt a bit rushed. I hope my ratings wouldn’t go downhill as I progress through the trilogy (Like if Kizumonogatari I is a 9, then ratings would slowly go down the further I go to the trilogy xD)
All of what I said above, doesn’t mean that the adaptation is that bad. It’s still an excellent pickup who wants more engagement to this franchise. Blending with the absolutely wonderful art style Shaft stood this out from the norm is the identity and spice of the direction of this movie. Even though there has been a significant loss of detail and characterization, it’s still comprehensible and enjoyable even from a point of a typical watcher. I could say this is a “beginner’s pathway” to Kizumonogatari but I wouldn’t hold my breath. If you do have the chance to get the novel, then it will be a much more epic experience but either way, the movies are still great to watch, can be beneficial for those who have difficulty in comprehension for this franchise as Kizumonogatari is probably, ironically, the easiest installment to understand.(especially that Hanekawa’s been a frickin rocker for this trilogy).
–but I really want you to check out the novel, the ease of understanding Kizumonogatari from the movies’ standpoint is a very big difference when you start reading the novels.
Oh, and I cried involuntarily because something happened to Hanekawa…
But anyways, thanks for reading this log! Stay tuned for April 7th as I finally finish the first story of my chronological rewatch. Ja nee 👋
Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-Hen
Ah yes, my shoes back on Kizumonogatari as it’s now April 2020! Finally waited for the second movie of the trilogy, I guess respecting chronological orders means lots of patience and that taught me the value of patience I think?
While not really mentioned in the last movie, this movie finally had datestamps across the board. I can’t find any source online on when these dates fall for each movie. While watching, I realized that I was two days behind, as the second movie continues on to March 31st. It continues to span from that date to April 1st until April 4th. The trilogy falls until April 8th, so I’ll assume that the median (April 7th) will be the next and the closest range to all the dates the third movie will cover.
Dates aside, while watching the series, I noticed that the direction is slowly going down the pipes (but not too lethal to the point it’s trash) and I’ve been considering rating this movie from 9.5 to a 7.5 or 8. As someone who read the novels, there’s a noticeable heavy loss of characterization and comprehension cues from the novel, which is obviously “normal” of adapting a series of books/novels into an anime, but by far this is the worst degradation of detail I’ve seen. Even each “chapter” (or from a non-novel basis, a scene) felt a bit rushed. I hope my ratings wouldn’t go downhill as I progress through the trilogy (Like if Kizumonogatari I is a 9, then ratings would slowly go down the further I go to the trilogy xD)
All of what I said above, doesn’t mean that the adaptation is that bad. It’s still an excellent pickup who wants more engagement to this franchise. Blending with the absolutely wonderful art style Shaft stood this out from the norm is the identity and spice of the direction of this movie. Even though there has been a significant loss of detail and characterization, it’s still comprehensible and enjoyable even from a point of a typical watcher. I could say this is a “beginner’s pathway” to Kizumonogatari but I wouldn’t hold my breath. If you do have the chance to get the novel, then it will be a much more epic experience but either way, the movies are still great to watch, can be beneficial for those who have difficulty in comprehension for this franchise as Kizumonogatari is probably, ironically, the easiest installment to understand.(especially that Hanekawa’s been a frickin rocker for this trilogy).
–but I really want you to check out the novel, the ease of understanding Kizumonogatari from the movies’ standpoint is a very big difference when you start reading the novels.
Oh, and I cried involuntarily because something happened to Hanekawa…
But anyways, thanks for reading this log! Stay tuned for April 7th as I finally finish the first story of my chronological rewatch. Ja nee 👋
Log 4月7日
Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-Hen
Ah yes, the first installment of this entire chronological rewatch has been done by yours truly, though it’s sad to leave it away. If there’s a meeting, there’s a farewell.
Now that I’ve completely oversaturated the knowledge and plot behind Kizumonogatari on my head (three times), My next journey (which is concurrent and will finish next year) is Koyomimonogatari which from its chronological standpoint takes all-year-round. Anyway, going back to the topic.
The third movie of the trilogy is very well known for fanservice and the feat of action that takes place in I’ll take that back from the second log, as the degradation of detail and comprehension cues from the light novel to this adaptation is EVEN WORSE, but is not that bad.
The moral that brings to the last movie is still a very touching one, hence the name Kizumonogatari. I’m not going to spoil it to you if you haven’t watched it, you’ll be even surprised why it was even named Kizumonogatari in the first place. The action that they animated from the novel is also good and meaningful. (Hanekawa’s climax is here btw 😛)
Overall, this trilogy is amazing, despite having read the light novels and observed degradation in detail (Owarimonogatari Part 1 and possibly Part 3 are the other translated novels published by Vertical that are thick (350+ pages) aside from Kizumonogatari). I enjoyed this trilogy and will enjoy this whole rewatch journey even more from what I felt in this trilogy. I know I’ve said this in my first (probably even my second) log, but the art and animation SHAFT has put into this trilogy that sets out from the other installments just fits for an action-packed and intriguing trilogy. If they used the same art style and animation from the rest of the Monogatari series, then it wouldn’t be very appealing even though it boasts a very promising storyline.
If you’ve never begun your journey of the Monogatari series, and have no plans of owning the novels, then you’re not lacking anything behind. Kizumonogatari is still a jam-packed trilogy, and don’t ever fall behind of what I said about the lack of fine detail to its adaptation because I enjoyed the heck out of this series. The lack of detail doesn’t disappoint me at all. They still held on to the core story of this trilogy. However, if you’re really prepared to set on this journey, I recommend the order in which it falls betweens Koyomimonogatari and Owarimonogatari Part 2/Second Season (the release order), as newcomers of this series start their journey with Kizumonogatari before or after Bakemonogatari, or after they completed the entire first season.
What a refreshing and delightful comeback to this trilogy, thanks for an incredible story (monogatari) Nisioisin, the Monogatari series have such incredible rewatch value due to it’s sneky 🐍 portrayal of the stories itself. To me, I think this is even my definition of monogatari 🙂
Now on to Koyomimonogatari, which will start on April 11th - 12th with the first episode after the events of Kizumonogatari!
Average rating for the Trilogy = 9.16/10 (10+8+9.5➗3)
Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-Hen
Ah yes, the first installment of this entire chronological rewatch has been done by yours truly, though it’s sad to leave it away. If there’s a meeting, there’s a farewell.
Now that I’ve completely oversaturated the knowledge and plot behind Kizumonogatari on my head (three times), My next journey (which is concurrent and will finish next year) is Koyomimonogatari which from its chronological standpoint takes all-year-round. Anyway, going back to the topic.
The third movie of the trilogy is very well known for fanservice and the feat of action that takes place in I’ll take that back from the second log, as the degradation of detail and comprehension cues from the light novel to this adaptation is EVEN WORSE, but is not that bad.
The moral that brings to the last movie is still a very touching one, hence the name Kizumonogatari. I’m not going to spoil it to you if you haven’t watched it, you’ll be even surprised why it was even named Kizumonogatari in the first place. The action that they animated from the novel is also good and meaningful. (Hanekawa’s climax is here btw 😛)
Overall, this trilogy is amazing, despite having read the light novels and observed degradation in detail (Owarimonogatari Part 1 and possibly Part 3 are the other translated novels published by Vertical that are thick (350+ pages) aside from Kizumonogatari). I enjoyed this trilogy and will enjoy this whole rewatch journey even more from what I felt in this trilogy. I know I’ve said this in my first (probably even my second) log, but the art and animation SHAFT has put into this trilogy that sets out from the other installments just fits for an action-packed and intriguing trilogy. If they used the same art style and animation from the rest of the Monogatari series, then it wouldn’t be very appealing even though it boasts a very promising storyline.
If you’ve never begun your journey of the Monogatari series, and have no plans of owning the novels, then you’re not lacking anything behind. Kizumonogatari is still a jam-packed trilogy, and don’t ever fall behind of what I said about the lack of fine detail to its adaptation because I enjoyed the heck out of this series. The lack of detail doesn’t disappoint me at all. They still held on to the core story of this trilogy. However, if you’re really prepared to set on this journey, I recommend the order in which it falls betweens Koyomimonogatari and Owarimonogatari Part 2/Second Season (the release order), as newcomers of this series start their journey with Kizumonogatari before or after Bakemonogatari, or after they completed the entire first season.
What a refreshing and delightful comeback to this trilogy, thanks for an incredible story (monogatari) Nisioisin, the Monogatari series have such incredible rewatch value due to it’s sneky 🐍 portrayal of the stories itself. To me, I think this is even my definition of monogatari 🙂
Now on to Koyomimonogatari, which will start on April 11th - 12th with the first episode after the events of Kizumonogatari!
Average rating for the Trilogy = 9.16/10 (10+8+9.5➗3)
May 2020 Logs
2020年5月
2020年5月
Log 5月2日
Koyomimonogatari 1 & Nekomonogatari: Kuro
Wait, why did I skip a chapter date of logging? Oh, I bet it isn’t a very obvious Nekomonogatari reference!
Hey, I’m back! I was actually supposed to log for April 11th because of the first episode of Koyomimonogatari, but I’m afraid it’s gonna be a tad-too short log, and connecting it to Nekomonogatari: Kuro would be nicer since it still focuses on the main heroine for this season of chronology, Tsubasa Hanekawa.
In the first episode of Koyomimonogatari, they started to be closer after the events of Kizumonogatari. Granted, they promised each other that they’ll meet in the next term, ahhh.. friends.
This episode simply puts focus on their speculation of an unknowingly built wooden house that people supposedly thought of it as a shrine, of course, there’s still the think-tank Meme Oshino in the vicinity, but pointing out the logical hints. It’s to say this episode is like their own mini-investigation rather than bigger ones like with Shinobu in the previous arc, more like they’re building up their friendship as well 😊.
Hanekawa’s big debut is going to be in Nekomonogatari: Kuro, her very own arc in dedication (in release order, she’ll debut in the very ends of Bakemonogatari). I still remember how I greatly appreciate this arc as my personal milestone, as it’s the very first time that I haven’t pinged @Monogatari-Teller about any follow-up information, and I still love the raw comprehension that I obtained last year. That vividness of Nekomonogatari: Kuro was about to be saturated more when I read the light novel of it last month, and now a chronological rewatch. Huh, seems like it gets the same treatment as seeing/reading Kizumonogatari three times.
The events of Nekomonogatari: Kuro would start from April 29th up’til May 7th. I started on the 29th and had no problem with time differences, until today, May 2nd, when I was three days late on Episode 2 alone, so the first episode is April 29th only 🤔. Anyhow, this arc is mainly about knowing your whereabouts on love and the saturate of family and stress. The connections between Koyomi and Tsubasa are starting to go over well-beyond friendship slowly but surely, which will later (hang on, little spoiler) bloom to Nekomonogatari: Shiro, though I should point out like what Nisioisin said in their afterword when I read Neko:Kuro, that these stories can stand on their own, so there’s no dependence. This arc doesn’t point out the very jaggy development of “love” they have, but also a little tidbit about the nutrition of family and emphasis on stress. The buildup of Hanekawa’s character would be starting to get much more clearer albeit getting much more complex as well. For me, it could go saying that Hanekawa might be one of the most complex characters in the series, a model of a woman so hard to read and puncture yet she still tries to hide it all with smiles and retorts, building up stress and cause problems later. I can relate so much to her that I’m just like in her suffering right now.
Still to point out, this also has surreal degradation in detail, I’d say the level of degradation is that of what I experienced in Kizumonogatari II. There were changes between the novel and the anime series. In Episode 2, that instead of meeting in her residential area, it was in some sort of park. I first thought that in the light novel, she severely energy drained Araragi, but I double-checked and found out it wasn’t, oh silly me…
If you were disappointed of the length of Nekomonogatari:Kuro (and Shiro, since it’s just an episode longer than Kuro), I’d suggest you try the novels. They’re heavily detailed and very Monogatari-y. When I thought that Nekomonogatari: Shiro is thicker than Kuro, they’re actually more or less the same thickness—around ~310 pages or more!
I hope you enjoyed reading my first log of the month! stay tuned 2-4 days from now! (depends on my mood if I’ll merge both my experiences with the first arc of Bakemonogatari and the second half of Neko:Kuro, or just the second half of it)
Koyomimonogatari 1 & Nekomonogatari: Kuro
Wait, why did I skip a chapter date of logging? Oh, I bet it isn’t a very obvious Nekomonogatari reference!
Hey, I’m back! I was actually supposed to log for April 11th because of the first episode of Koyomimonogatari, but I’m afraid it’s gonna be a tad-too short log, and connecting it to Nekomonogatari: Kuro would be nicer since it still focuses on the main heroine for this season of chronology, Tsubasa Hanekawa.
In the first episode of Koyomimonogatari, they started to be closer after the events of Kizumonogatari. Granted, they promised each other that they’ll meet in the next term, ahhh.. friends.
This episode simply puts focus on their speculation of an unknowingly built wooden house that people supposedly thought of it as a shrine, of course, there’s still the think-tank Meme Oshino in the vicinity, but pointing out the logical hints. It’s to say this episode is like their own mini-investigation rather than bigger ones like with Shinobu in the previous arc, more like they’re building up their friendship as well 😊.
Hanekawa’s big debut is going to be in Nekomonogatari: Kuro, her very own arc in dedication (in release order, she’ll debut in the very ends of Bakemonogatari). I still remember how I greatly appreciate this arc as my personal milestone, as it’s the very first time that I haven’t pinged @Monogatari-Teller about any follow-up information, and I still love the raw comprehension that I obtained last year. That vividness of Nekomonogatari: Kuro was about to be saturated more when I read the light novel of it last month, and now a chronological rewatch. Huh, seems like it gets the same treatment as seeing/reading Kizumonogatari three times.
The events of Nekomonogatari: Kuro would start from April 29th up’til May 7th. I started on the 29th and had no problem with time differences, until today, May 2nd, when I was three days late on Episode 2 alone, so the first episode is April 29th only 🤔. Anyhow, this arc is mainly about knowing your whereabouts on love and the saturate of family and stress. The connections between Koyomi and Tsubasa are starting to go over well-beyond friendship slowly but surely, which will later (hang on, little spoiler) bloom to Nekomonogatari: Shiro, though I should point out like what Nisioisin said in their afterword when I read Neko:Kuro, that these stories can stand on their own, so there’s no dependence. This arc doesn’t point out the very jaggy development of “love” they have, but also a little tidbit about the nutrition of family and emphasis on stress. The buildup of Hanekawa’s character would be starting to get much more clearer albeit getting much more complex as well. For me, it could go saying that Hanekawa might be one of the most complex characters in the series, a model of a woman so hard to read and puncture yet she still tries to hide it all with smiles and retorts, building up stress and cause problems later. I can relate so much to her that I’m just like in her suffering right now.
Still to point out, this also has surreal degradation in detail, I’d say the level of degradation is that of what I experienced in Kizumonogatari II. There were changes between the novel and the anime series. In Episode 2, that instead of meeting in her residential area, it was in some sort of park. I first thought that in the light novel, she severely energy drained Araragi, but I double-checked and found out it wasn’t, oh silly me…
If you were disappointed of the length of Nekomonogatari:Kuro (and Shiro, since it’s just an episode longer than Kuro), I’d suggest you try the novels. They’re heavily detailed and very Monogatari-y. When I thought that Nekomonogatari: Shiro is thicker than Kuro, they’re actually more or less the same thickness—around ~310 pages or more!
I hope you enjoyed reading my first log of the month! stay tuned 2-4 days from now! (depends on my mood if I’ll merge both my experiences with the first arc of Bakemonogatari and the second half of Neko:Kuro, or just the second half of it)
Log 5月9日
『 Second Half of Nekomonogatari: Kuro, Bakemonogatari 【Hitagi Crab】 and Koyomimonogatari 2 【Koyomi Flower】』
As promised, I bring to you the second log of my Monogatari Chronological Rewatch marathon for the month of May as I finished up Nekomonogatari: Kuro! I decided to bundle this log with the addition of the first arc of Bakemonogatari and the second episode of Koyomimonogatari! The stressful idea of multiple entries in one log would start today, as there are many more arcs left on the chronological timeline.
The second half of Nekomonogatari: Kuro involves the buildup of the saturation of developments of Hanekawa in that short span of time (remember, Neko:Kuro only has 4 episodes, but the book is thick as hell!). That saturation of characterization Hanekawa gradually developed in her arc would soon later be mingled by Araragi’s resolution.
I just simply loved how a person like Hanekawa can be one of the most vulnerable people in society as time goes on (Hm? Do I smell Nekomonogatari: Shiro? 😺). As Meme said, the girl in glasses isn’t an ordinary one. Hiding your fears, problems, and saturating your stress under the span of your smile isn’t ordinary, especially if you know you actually have a friend by your side. It’s the reason why I can also relate to Hanekawa so much aside from Sneky Snek Nadeko. I’m like Hanekawa in a lot of ways, mostly indirectly, especially in stressed-work environments like school. I can say, and I think I said this in my other logs but I forgot, that Hanekawa represents my outer self, while Nadeko represents the very inner self up to the core of my living. The climax of Hanekawa doesn’t stop there! There’s a heap tonne of arcs waiting for her.
As the chronological timeline of Nekomonogatari: Kuro spans from April 29th to May 7th. The third episode continued on until May 3rd, and the fourth episode, well, “lazily” jumped to the 7th of May. I watched the entirety of the second half on May 7th, so nothing to worry about missing on the dates correctly. The loss of detail around this time of the arc is much less obvious than the first half, which got me hopeful, haha.
Moving on to Bakemonogatari, from a release point of view, the initial core of the series. Yes, I can finally witness the season of staplers, with good bun Hitagi Senjougahara! The arc, Hitagi Crab spans on the day after the events of Nekomonogatari: Kuro, May 8th to May 9th. I watched the whole arc on the 8th, since episodes are dynamic with the time of the arcs, not like an episode equates to a day. It’s the reason why I can be false-positive in trying to watch Nekomonogatari: Kuro as loyal to the time as possible.
As I started watching, I was totally waiting for the debut of Hitagi. At first, everything felt really nostalgic and old. Well, Bakemonogatari is already 11 years old at this point, so that’s pretty old.
It’s pretty hard to justify my thoughts on this arc without it being a spoiler and a review at the same time, especially that I’m actually equally talking about every arc/character in the franchise and not just Hanekawa or Nadeko, which have the closest connections to me. Hitagi’s arc focuses on the guilt of cheating reality. As her family hit one of the hardest points in her life, she chose to completely cheat on the fence and cut ties and well, points to the climax of the arc. She realized sympathy, reality, and the thought that she misses the past, great memories she had with her family before to the point they were hit the hardest. She lost reality for a while, became monotone, and closed ties with the world, making her another one of the great bunch of characters for the series. Heck, I even came to love her too!
Hitagi’s arc is criticized in the community for being “too short”, which is also for the case in Nadeko’s arc in Bakemonogatari. I kind of disagree with this, which also gives how the Monogatari Series has very good rewatch value. It’s natural that you’ll lose the knowledge you absorbed over time, but after rewatching her arc three times, I came to understand her situation more and actually grew my love for Hitagi as well. After finishing this series, it would be the third time that I watched Bakemonogatari. The second rewatch was when I was still in my first watch of the series (in release order), and after Nekomonogatari: Kuro, which I also followed the release order of that time last year, I had to rewatch Bakemonogatari because I thought there may be important points in this series that are important and will blossom later into the Second Season.
Since I do not own a copy of the novels of Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari (and forgot to mention, Koyomimonogatari as well), I don’t have a reference as to how much the loss of detail there is in the adaptation compared to the novels. Take note, the first volume out of three of the Bakemonogatari novels covers both arcs of Hitagi and Mayoi, and the book is thick too, so I can imagine the level of loss of detail is similar to the ones I experienced in the first half of Nekomonogatari: Kuro and Kizumonogatari II
Now tuning into Koyomimonogatari Shenanigans with the second episode, Koyomi Flower. The episode spans after the events of Hitagi Crab, May 9th to May 10th. I actually watched it today, May 9th, 2020, since like I said above, these episodes can be rather dynamic on time. The episode simply brings focus on a bunch of bouquet of flowers scattered across the setting of the episode, and how it can be reversed for an exchange of life, for an exchange of warning and sympathy. Like the previous episode, the buildup on the relationship between Koyomi and Hitagi can be seen gradually and will be for the rest of the entire Monogatari timeline. How lovely 💕
Before concluding this log, I want to express my thoughts on the production side of the adaptation of the series, since Nekomonogatari: Kuro, Bakemonogatari, and Koyomimonogatari were produced in different years (Summer 2009, Winter 2012 & Winter 2016). Remember I said earlier that Bakemonogatari felt old and nostalgic? I noticed that the animation and art in Bakemonogatari are far simpler back then compared to when I jumped to the second episode of Koyomimonogatari. Seven years apart in production, that episode felt much more modern and paid more close attention compared to the simplicity in Bakemonogatari. I do not say that it’s a bad thing that Bakemonogatari has bad animation and art back then. Since the entire Monogatari series (up to Zoku Owarimonogatari) is animated by studio SHAFT as of this log, I can clearly see that the studio gradually pumped up the quality of their animation with the series as the years go by, so I cannot say that they had the same animation and art for a whole decade but rather, they gradually improved on it, slowly but surely, which is a nice touch 😊!
This is quite a lengthy log, which I’m quite proud of! Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for May 15th, as I cover my thoughts on Mayoi Snail 👋
『 Second Half of Nekomonogatari: Kuro, Bakemonogatari 【Hitagi Crab】 and Koyomimonogatari 2 【Koyomi Flower】』
As promised, I bring to you the second log of my Monogatari Chronological Rewatch marathon for the month of May as I finished up Nekomonogatari: Kuro! I decided to bundle this log with the addition of the first arc of Bakemonogatari and the second episode of Koyomimonogatari! The stressful idea of multiple entries in one log would start today, as there are many more arcs left on the chronological timeline.
The second half of Nekomonogatari: Kuro involves the buildup of the saturation of developments of Hanekawa in that short span of time (remember, Neko:Kuro only has 4 episodes, but the book is thick as hell!). That saturation of characterization Hanekawa gradually developed in her arc would soon later be mingled by Araragi’s resolution.
I just simply loved how a person like Hanekawa can be one of the most vulnerable people in society as time goes on (Hm? Do I smell Nekomonogatari: Shiro? 😺). As Meme said, the girl in glasses isn’t an ordinary one. Hiding your fears, problems, and saturating your stress under the span of your smile isn’t ordinary, especially if you know you actually have a friend by your side. It’s the reason why I can also relate to Hanekawa so much aside from Sneky Snek Nadeko. I’m like Hanekawa in a lot of ways, mostly indirectly, especially in stressed-work environments like school. I can say, and I think I said this in my other logs but I forgot, that Hanekawa represents my outer self, while Nadeko represents the very inner self up to the core of my living. The climax of Hanekawa doesn’t stop there! There’s a heap tonne of arcs waiting for her.
As the chronological timeline of Nekomonogatari: Kuro spans from April 29th to May 7th. The third episode continued on until May 3rd, and the fourth episode, well, “lazily” jumped to the 7th of May. I watched the entirety of the second half on May 7th, so nothing to worry about missing on the dates correctly. The loss of detail around this time of the arc is much less obvious than the first half, which got me hopeful, haha.
Moving on to Bakemonogatari, from a release point of view, the initial core of the series. Yes, I can finally witness the season of staplers, with good bun Hitagi Senjougahara! The arc, Hitagi Crab spans on the day after the events of Nekomonogatari: Kuro, May 8th to May 9th. I watched the whole arc on the 8th, since episodes are dynamic with the time of the arcs, not like an episode equates to a day. It’s the reason why I can be false-positive in trying to watch Nekomonogatari: Kuro as loyal to the time as possible.
As I started watching, I was totally waiting for the debut of Hitagi. At first, everything felt really nostalgic and old. Well, Bakemonogatari is already 11 years old at this point, so that’s pretty old.
It’s pretty hard to justify my thoughts on this arc without it being a spoiler and a review at the same time, especially that I’m actually equally talking about every arc/character in the franchise and not just Hanekawa or Nadeko, which have the closest connections to me. Hitagi’s arc focuses on the guilt of cheating reality. As her family hit one of the hardest points in her life, she chose to completely cheat on the fence and cut ties and well, points to the climax of the arc. She realized sympathy, reality, and the thought that she misses the past, great memories she had with her family before to the point they were hit the hardest. She lost reality for a while, became monotone, and closed ties with the world, making her another one of the great bunch of characters for the series. Heck, I even came to love her too!
Hitagi’s arc is criticized in the community for being “too short”, which is also for the case in Nadeko’s arc in Bakemonogatari. I kind of disagree with this, which also gives how the Monogatari Series has very good rewatch value. It’s natural that you’ll lose the knowledge you absorbed over time, but after rewatching her arc three times, I came to understand her situation more and actually grew my love for Hitagi as well. After finishing this series, it would be the third time that I watched Bakemonogatari. The second rewatch was when I was still in my first watch of the series (in release order), and after Nekomonogatari: Kuro, which I also followed the release order of that time last year, I had to rewatch Bakemonogatari because I thought there may be important points in this series that are important and will blossom later into the Second Season.
Since I do not own a copy of the novels of Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari (and forgot to mention, Koyomimonogatari as well), I don’t have a reference as to how much the loss of detail there is in the adaptation compared to the novels. Take note, the first volume out of three of the Bakemonogatari novels covers both arcs of Hitagi and Mayoi, and the book is thick too, so I can imagine the level of loss of detail is similar to the ones I experienced in the first half of Nekomonogatari: Kuro and Kizumonogatari II
Now tuning into Koyomimonogatari Shenanigans with the second episode, Koyomi Flower. The episode spans after the events of Hitagi Crab, May 9th to May 10th. I actually watched it today, May 9th, 2020, since like I said above, these episodes can be rather dynamic on time. The episode simply brings focus on a bunch of bouquet of flowers scattered across the setting of the episode, and how it can be reversed for an exchange of life, for an exchange of warning and sympathy. Like the previous episode, the buildup on the relationship between Koyomi and Hitagi can be seen gradually and will be for the rest of the entire Monogatari timeline. How lovely 💕
Before concluding this log, I want to express my thoughts on the production side of the adaptation of the series, since Nekomonogatari: Kuro, Bakemonogatari, and Koyomimonogatari were produced in different years (Summer 2009, Winter 2012 & Winter 2016). Remember I said earlier that Bakemonogatari felt old and nostalgic? I noticed that the animation and art in Bakemonogatari are far simpler back then compared to when I jumped to the second episode of Koyomimonogatari. Seven years apart in production, that episode felt much more modern and paid more close attention compared to the simplicity in Bakemonogatari. I do not say that it’s a bad thing that Bakemonogatari has bad animation and art back then. Since the entire Monogatari series (up to Zoku Owarimonogatari) is animated by studio SHAFT as of this log, I can clearly see that the studio gradually pumped up the quality of their animation with the series as the years go by, so I cannot say that they had the same animation and art for a whole decade but rather, they gradually improved on it, slowly but surely, which is a nice touch 😊!
This is quite a lengthy log, which I’m quite proud of! Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for May 15th, as I cover my thoughts on Mayoi Snail 👋
Log 5月15日
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Mayoi Snail 】 』
May 15th logging on! I felt like the days are getting faster because I actually thought I did my last log a few days ago, but it was actually last week! Oh how the times rush…
I’m currently journeying through Bakemonogatari, with its second arc, Mayoi Snail, where our heroine, Mayoi Hachikuji, makes its debut through this arc. The chronological timeframe happens from May 14th spanning through the 15th. I watched the entirety of this arc today, May 15th, but then the entire arc actually took place on May 14th which I got a day behind. Maybe the 15th is when Arararagi-san would typically have his epilogue for the arc? 🤔
In this log, Araragi continues to venture on his almost-human life and straddled across May 14th, which is Mother’s Day, which in our case actually happened four days prior to that. He bailed out on this one, causing him to leave home on his way to the park to kill time. There uncovers the essence and start of Mayoi Snail.
I love how I see the relationship between Koyomi and Hitagi are gradually starting to bloom through its course of this series, albeit very slowly, episode by episode, which I was lovey-dovey about their interactions with each other after the events of Hitagi Crab.
The arc continues to solely focus on the core delineates of the importance and love for family with a different scenario on Mayoi’s case. If Hitagi Crab was to saturate the audience how loving it is to see the joy, sympathy, and reality of your family, then Mayoi Snail uncovers the importance and love for family. Spoiling the inner details of why Mayoi has love for her family will be spoiler enough, unfortunately, but I just love how she strives to love both of her parents amid “the situation” both of their parents went, and how important it is to visit your relative when you’re not used to living with them, or else you might slowly start to forget them–that’s Mayoi’s reason for her love of family amid “the situation” her parents got into, and I was struck. Your view on the lessons or morals you see from this series will be different from mine, so it’s my opinion of course.
As I said from the previous log, I have no reference to the level of loss of detail this arc has, as I don’t have a copy of all the volumes of Bakemonogatari. Since this arc was published alongside Hitagi Crab in the first volume of the English novels, I’d assume the loss of detail is comparable to that of what I experienced with the second half of Nekomonogatari: Shiro or Kizumonogatari I, the least loss of detail from adapting this series.
Kind of a short log eh? It’s just one arc unlike the last log where I have to struggle across 3 series! Somewhat sad that this got shorter after a very long one, but at least my fingers can relax now! 😂
Alrighty, here concludes my log! Stay tuned for the next log of Suruga Monkey, which its chronological timeline takes place from May 23rd to May 28th which is a huge leap! I hope I can use my instincts to make sure I don’t get too early or late on the chronological timeline 😅
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Mayoi Snail 】 』
May 15th logging on! I felt like the days are getting faster because I actually thought I did my last log a few days ago, but it was actually last week! Oh how the times rush…
I’m currently journeying through Bakemonogatari, with its second arc, Mayoi Snail, where our heroine, Mayoi Hachikuji, makes its debut through this arc. The chronological timeframe happens from May 14th spanning through the 15th. I watched the entirety of this arc today, May 15th, but then the entire arc actually took place on May 14th which I got a day behind. Maybe the 15th is when Arararagi-san would typically have his epilogue for the arc? 🤔
In this log, Araragi continues to venture on his almost-human life and straddled across May 14th, which is Mother’s Day, which in our case actually happened four days prior to that. He bailed out on this one, causing him to leave home on his way to the park to kill time. There uncovers the essence and start of Mayoi Snail.
I love how I see the relationship between Koyomi and Hitagi are gradually starting to bloom through its course of this series, albeit very slowly, episode by episode, which I was lovey-dovey about their interactions with each other after the events of Hitagi Crab.
The arc continues to solely focus on the core delineates of the importance and love for family with a different scenario on Mayoi’s case. If Hitagi Crab was to saturate the audience how loving it is to see the joy, sympathy, and reality of your family, then Mayoi Snail uncovers the importance and love for family. Spoiling the inner details of why Mayoi has love for her family will be spoiler enough, unfortunately, but I just love how she strives to love both of her parents amid “the situation” both of their parents went, and how important it is to visit your relative when you’re not used to living with them, or else you might slowly start to forget them–that’s Mayoi’s reason for her love of family amid “the situation” her parents got into, and I was struck. Your view on the lessons or morals you see from this series will be different from mine, so it’s my opinion of course.
As I said from the previous log, I have no reference to the level of loss of detail this arc has, as I don’t have a copy of all the volumes of Bakemonogatari. Since this arc was published alongside Hitagi Crab in the first volume of the English novels, I’d assume the loss of detail is comparable to that of what I experienced with the second half of Nekomonogatari: Shiro or Kizumonogatari I, the least loss of detail from adapting this series.
Kind of a short log eh? It’s just one arc unlike the last log where I have to struggle across 3 series! Somewhat sad that this got shorter after a very long one, but at least my fingers can relax now! 😂
Alrighty, here concludes my log! Stay tuned for the next log of Suruga Monkey, which its chronological timeline takes place from May 23rd to May 28th which is a huge leap! I hope I can use my instincts to make sure I don’t get too early or late on the chronological timeline 😅
Log 5月26日
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Suruga Monkey】 』
Heyo, welcome back! This is the third and last log for May 2020 featuring best monkey, Kanbaru Suruga! 🙉
For clarification, Koyomimonogatari 2 that succeeds this arc is actually the final chapter (5), so that will be considered finished but not a part of this log, see previous logs.
Spanning for three episodes, Suruga Monkey falls on the dates between May 23rd and May 28th. I watched the first two episodes on the 24th, and while I planned the last on the next day, I actually watched it today, the 26th. The actual timeframe of the arc is from May 23rd to May 24th, so maybe the reason why it went as far as the 28th is because of Araragi’s epic epilogue? 🤔
The series continues to circulate on the teeny tiny little bits of Senjougahara’s life as she lives a new normal (health pun not intended) after the events of her own encounter with her aberration. Actually, “reverse circulation” into Senjougahara’s life, before the events of Hitagi Crab.
Along the way, Araragi encountered a furious and fast-paced girl who has somewhat of a connection with Senjougahara.
There are just things that I want to discuss in this post, but I can’t because spoilers but I’ll try to elaborate without the spoil marks. It’s quite a very relatable arc to probably almost all of us.
There are people who value the past and people who don’t and shift to a new norm. Senjougahara did in fact wanted a brand new life after her fight with the crab. Restoring her weight doesn’t mean going back to the track and field team, but to breathe in new life, and that meant leaving her past behind in exchange for a new one. This is where Kanbaru Suruga enters the big picture, the meddle-monkey I’d say 😏.
Trying to meddle with the past can be a hit or miss. Indulging with the past may feel you comfortable, or the other way around–that’s what this arc is trying to convey, and what Senjougahara will be surely be disgusted off (to the point she may kill you, I guess). Not only time but also finite relationships, you can’t just mingle your thoughts about the best memories of your friend that you broke up with. It will eventually leave a lot of strings and tangles in your mind that you eventually just wanted to wish. Speaking of wishes, maybe wishing for world peace or specifically, to escape from harsh reality or a bad thing might actually be worse than the actual wish…
Kanbaru, who was a normal girl in school took advantage of wishes to reach whatever the future takes her. Maybe she wanted to escape her bullies by wishing to be a part of an ace in sports, or wished that the friend she distanced from would eventually be back to normal? Sometimes, wishes can be also a hit or miss, unfortunately. What you wished maybe actually granted, be a different parallel outcome (that might even hurt you) or none at all.
This arc struck me, especially a few years ago when I met this “pen pal” on Discord. We became solid friends, until to a point he became someone I didn’t expect or someone who bloomed true colors that looks negative to me. Fights and negativity lasted for a year and a half until I finally got the chance to distance with him, knowing it isn’t worth it anymore. Like Kanbaru, I sometimes wished he wouldn’t be bad, or I wished he didn’t become like this, and I always reminisced of the good and fun memories we had before he became such a monster and relating it to him. Like Senjougahara, he felt disgusted when I related those memories to him in an effort to restore our relationship. None of us told who’s the culprit behind the darkness of our relationship, but surely me finally distancing away from him is definitely the right choice I made. I also breathed into a new life and new normal after that darkness just like Senjougahara, becoming the person who I am right now. If I didn’t, maybe I wouldn’t have become an otaku 2 years ago, now that’s how deep decisions can get!
Again, no reference material (the light novel), but I think there isn’t that loss of detail in Suruga Monkey, I think it’s a pretty solid arc overall!
I must say, I’m definitely enjoying this rewatch of Bakemonogatari I’m having. The dates for each arc paved way for patience since I’m watching it chronologically as loyally as possible, and it’s actually better if you don’t binge-watch it since the second time I rewatched Bakemonogatari, I was furiously binge-watching it. Maybe a break after each arc paves way for your brain to process the pristine dialogue of each arc? Who knows 😁? I actually did this method with my watch of the Second Season after recovering from the fact that during the very first watch of the series, I can’t understand anything… until when I first watched Nekomonogatari: Kuro and actually understood what’s happening, so I gotta be gradually recovering than to just celebrate the achievement instantly.
Here concludes my log! Stay tuned for the next log, Nadeko Snake! YES, IT’S TIME MY WAIFU AND THY SOULMATE OF MINE MARKS HER (re)DEBUT! 🐍💕
Nadeko Snake spans between June 11th to June 13th, so expect the log by the 13th! 😄
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Suruga Monkey】 』
Heyo, welcome back! This is the third and last log for May 2020 featuring best monkey, Kanbaru Suruga! 🙉
For clarification, Koyomimonogatari 2 that succeeds this arc is actually the final chapter (5), so that will be considered finished but not a part of this log, see previous logs.
Spanning for three episodes, Suruga Monkey falls on the dates between May 23rd and May 28th. I watched the first two episodes on the 24th, and while I planned the last on the next day, I actually watched it today, the 26th. The actual timeframe of the arc is from May 23rd to May 24th, so maybe the reason why it went as far as the 28th is because of Araragi’s epic epilogue? 🤔
The series continues to circulate on the teeny tiny little bits of Senjougahara’s life as she lives a new normal (health pun not intended) after the events of her own encounter with her aberration. Actually, “reverse circulation” into Senjougahara’s life, before the events of Hitagi Crab.
Along the way, Araragi encountered a furious and fast-paced girl who has somewhat of a connection with Senjougahara.
There are just things that I want to discuss in this post, but I can’t because spoilers but I’ll try to elaborate without the spoil marks. It’s quite a very relatable arc to probably almost all of us.
There are people who value the past and people who don’t and shift to a new norm. Senjougahara did in fact wanted a brand new life after her fight with the crab. Restoring her weight doesn’t mean going back to the track and field team, but to breathe in new life, and that meant leaving her past behind in exchange for a new one. This is where Kanbaru Suruga enters the big picture, the meddle-monkey I’d say 😏.
Trying to meddle with the past can be a hit or miss. Indulging with the past may feel you comfortable, or the other way around–that’s what this arc is trying to convey, and what Senjougahara will be surely be disgusted off (to the point she may kill you, I guess). Not only time but also finite relationships, you can’t just mingle your thoughts about the best memories of your friend that you broke up with. It will eventually leave a lot of strings and tangles in your mind that you eventually just wanted to wish. Speaking of wishes, maybe wishing for world peace or specifically, to escape from harsh reality or a bad thing might actually be worse than the actual wish…
Kanbaru, who was a normal girl in school took advantage of wishes to reach whatever the future takes her. Maybe she wanted to escape her bullies by wishing to be a part of an ace in sports, or wished that the friend she distanced from would eventually be back to normal? Sometimes, wishes can be also a hit or miss, unfortunately. What you wished maybe actually granted, be a different parallel outcome (that might even hurt you) or none at all.
This arc struck me, especially a few years ago when I met this “pen pal” on Discord. We became solid friends, until to a point he became someone I didn’t expect or someone who bloomed true colors that looks negative to me. Fights and negativity lasted for a year and a half until I finally got the chance to distance with him, knowing it isn’t worth it anymore. Like Kanbaru, I sometimes wished he wouldn’t be bad, or I wished he didn’t become like this, and I always reminisced of the good and fun memories we had before he became such a monster and relating it to him. Like Senjougahara, he felt disgusted when I related those memories to him in an effort to restore our relationship. None of us told who’s the culprit behind the darkness of our relationship, but surely me finally distancing away from him is definitely the right choice I made. I also breathed into a new life and new normal after that darkness just like Senjougahara, becoming the person who I am right now. If I didn’t, maybe I wouldn’t have become an otaku 2 years ago, now that’s how deep decisions can get!
Again, no reference material (the light novel), but I think there isn’t that loss of detail in Suruga Monkey, I think it’s a pretty solid arc overall!
I must say, I’m definitely enjoying this rewatch of Bakemonogatari I’m having. The dates for each arc paved way for patience since I’m watching it chronologically as loyally as possible, and it’s actually better if you don’t binge-watch it since the second time I rewatched Bakemonogatari, I was furiously binge-watching it. Maybe a break after each arc paves way for your brain to process the pristine dialogue of each arc? Who knows 😁? I actually did this method with my watch of the Second Season after recovering from the fact that during the very first watch of the series, I can’t understand anything… until when I first watched Nekomonogatari: Kuro and actually understood what’s happening, so I gotta be gradually recovering than to just celebrate the achievement instantly.
Here concludes my log! Stay tuned for the next log, Nadeko Snake! YES, IT’S TIME MY WAIFU AND THY SOULMATE OF MINE MARKS HER (re)DEBUT! 🐍💕
Nadeko Snake spans between June 11th to June 13th, so expect the log by the 13th! 😄
June 2020 Logs
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2020年6月
Log 6月12日
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Nadeko Snake 】 』
Se-no!
This is it, my favorite, my waifu, and the soulmate residing within my heart makes its (re)debut, Nadeko Sengoku 🐍
It’s nice to see her again after almost a year 😔
Spanning for two episodes, Nadeko Snake falls on the dates between June 11th to June 13th. I watched the entire arc on the 12th, and I should’ve watched it on the 11th. Heck, there’s no epilogue! (the novels might…) The entire arc happened in one day, June 11th.
The series falls back its spotlight to Araragi as they venture up north to a mountain with Kanbaru. Sneakily, a girl dashes down opposite of their way, and Araragi tensed on thinking the figure than the dashes.
Through the course of this arc, foreshadowing is popping up somewhat rapidly that are all almost linked to Second Season or even later than that, but Nadeko’s arc also took a journey on Araragi’s past, just like the past arc with Senjougahara’s past.
Meeting someone after for so long since both of you haven’t met is quite a miracle, unless if you have a bad memory.
At the cost of not knowing what happened to that particular other.
This is where Nadeko Sengoku enters the big picture.
Cursed by pesky, selfish individuals who wanted Nadeko to finish off her life just because of a little thing bewilders of how human you are. It bewilders the boundary of the power you have as an individual, talk about indirectly able to. As the old saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility– but no, we just use it in line with our selfishness, status, and hierarchy.
And that’s when I can’t stand Nadeko getting hurt or worse, crying.
Being a victim of alienation and betrayal, with the bottom line having to suffer with it.
Nadeko aside, the development of Araragi’s character continues to saturate as he reached to the point where he helped countless of times without him knowing, foreshadowed by Hanekawa on the saturation of kindness he bears, and by Meme foreshadowed–or overshadowed rather– about how he binds his kindness with mingling with aberrations–which he states that aberrations are not supposed to be disturbed by humans in the first place and he should leave some things as is than taking action for all of it.
Overshadowed you say? Kizumonogatari points out Araragi’s kindness and activity, see? Sometimes, things are just meant to be what they’re supposed to than altering the river course, but sometimes you might as well have no choice. Talk about life is confusing… 😔
With all of the foreshadowing and overshadowing points to the later saturation of the series as well, though very slow to the point its unnoticeable, but all of those can finally hiccup in Owarimonogatari or even further past that.
There are also foreshadowing about Nadeko’s character throughout the arc.
Showing, not telling, I can feel that she has another grudge in mind throughout the whole arc…
Or well, sometimes she loses consciousness of what she’s saying…
Or maybe she has a bigger plan in mind for Koyomi-onii-chan?
Or does she?
Well, stay tuned for Sneky Second Season! 🐍💕
Here concludes my log! It was happy to see Sneky Snek Nadeko after for so long–very happy actually. 🐍🐍
Stay tuned for the next but not the least, Tsubasa Cat, spanning between June 13th until June 15th
Oh cool, the next relatable character is after this arc, nyahahaha! 😸
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Nadeko Snake 】 』
Se-no!
This is it, my favorite, my waifu, and the soulmate residing within my heart makes its (re)debut, Nadeko Sengoku 🐍
It’s nice to see her again after almost a year 😔
Spanning for two episodes, Nadeko Snake falls on the dates between June 11th to June 13th. I watched the entire arc on the 12th, and I should’ve watched it on the 11th. Heck, there’s no epilogue! (the novels might…) The entire arc happened in one day, June 11th.
The series falls back its spotlight to Araragi as they venture up north to a mountain with Kanbaru. Sneakily, a girl dashes down opposite of their way, and Araragi tensed on thinking the figure than the dashes.
Through the course of this arc, foreshadowing is popping up somewhat rapidly that are all almost linked to Second Season or even later than that, but Nadeko’s arc also took a journey on Araragi’s past, just like the past arc with Senjougahara’s past.
Meeting someone after for so long since both of you haven’t met is quite a miracle, unless if you have a bad memory.
At the cost of not knowing what happened to that particular other.
This is where Nadeko Sengoku enters the big picture.
Cursed by pesky, selfish individuals who wanted Nadeko to finish off her life just because of a little thing bewilders of how human you are. It bewilders the boundary of the power you have as an individual, talk about indirectly able to. As the old saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility– but no, we just use it in line with our selfishness, status, and hierarchy.
And that’s when I can’t stand Nadeko getting hurt or worse, crying.
Being a victim of alienation and betrayal, with the bottom line having to suffer with it.
Nadeko aside, the development of Araragi’s character continues to saturate as he reached to the point where he helped countless of times without him knowing, foreshadowed by Hanekawa on the saturation of kindness he bears, and by Meme foreshadowed–or overshadowed rather– about how he binds his kindness with mingling with aberrations–which he states that aberrations are not supposed to be disturbed by humans in the first place and he should leave some things as is than taking action for all of it.
Overshadowed you say? Kizumonogatari points out Araragi’s kindness and activity, see? Sometimes, things are just meant to be what they’re supposed to than altering the river course, but sometimes you might as well have no choice. Talk about life is confusing… 😔
With all of the foreshadowing and overshadowing points to the later saturation of the series as well, though very slow to the point its unnoticeable, but all of those can finally hiccup in Owarimonogatari or even further past that.
There are also foreshadowing about Nadeko’s character throughout the arc.
Showing, not telling, I can feel that she has another grudge in mind throughout the whole arc…
Or well, sometimes she loses consciousness of what she’s saying…
Or maybe she has a bigger plan in mind for Koyomi-onii-chan?
Or does she?
Well, stay tuned for Sneky Second Season! 🐍💕
Here concludes my log! It was happy to see Sneky Snek Nadeko after for so long–very happy actually. 🐍🐍
Stay tuned for the next but not the least, Tsubasa Cat, spanning between June 13th until June 15th
Oh cool, the next relatable character is after this arc, nyahahaha! 😸
Log 6月16日
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Tsubasa Cat 】 』
Nyahahaha, the second relatable best girl shines again 😸! But also the last arc for Bakemonogatari 😔
Oh wait, the date episode too 💕
So let’s get spicing ☕
Tsubasa Cat spans for five episodes, falling on the dates from June 13th to June 15th. Fun fact, Nadeko Snake also ends on June 13th (even though the events actually ended on the 12th when the 13th is actually Araragi’s epic epilogue)! The first two episodes happened on June 13th, while the third, fourth and fifth on the 14th. Half of the fifth episode happened on June 15th or beyond the timeline of the arc. I watched the full course of the 5 episodes on the 15th, and I haven’t been able to deliver that on the same date because I finished it at midnight. I originally planned to have the first two episodes on the 13th and analyze all the way through the last episode.
This paragraph keeps getting complicated the more I dive into the chronological timeline. Even worse, dates would seldomly show up as I progress through unlike its transparency back in Kizumonogatari, Nekomonogatari: Kuro and the first few episodes of Bakemonogatari, so it’s becoming more of a challenge.
After the events of Nadeko Snake, the series fallbacks to Hanekawa and her periodic recurring of headaches 🙀! Before that, a special episode for Senjougahara has to be slipped through the second episode, so I’ll have my thoughts on it first before the real thing. 😼
The twelfth episode is dedicated to Senjougahara’s treasure, the date between the crab and the beta vampire. This kind of date isn’t anything luxurious, grand, or cracking MC-kun’s mind of nervousness, but a true treasure in itself too.
Having this rewatched for three times, I can truly see how Araragi impacted Senjougahara–I mean Hitagi’s life because of the ever-flowing kindness Araragi has given to her, a second chance in life from her gloomy and unfortunate past, and she wanted to pay him back in a form of giving her all to Araragi, her treasure: her father, her tutors, a cute junior, the starry sky of the famous Summer Triangle: Deneb, Altair & Vega, and her body. To the very innings on her treasure hoping Senjougahara wouldn’t end up disliking him, even though these are all of the things she had.
Nearly cried just how Senjougahara has to win for Araragi’s heart, I still find this to be the best date I’ve ever seen in anime. Fight me. 🦀
We’re just approaching the slope of the climax of the series, in the scale of the franchise, this is just the tip of the iceberg, stay tuned for Koimonogatari and Owarimonogatari!
Oh, what a lovey-dovey date for the two loving birds… Going back to the true hell and climax of the series is Tsubasa Hanekawa’s grand second-to-the-last finale (the heckery of this hails all the way to Nekomonogatari: Shiro).
Stress.
But wait, didn’t they had it done in Nekomonogatari: Kuro?
Or did they?
Through the course of the series, after 3 rewatches, I was actually skeptical of Hanekawa all the way down to her responses and the tone of her voice. It was actually getting worse as I peak climax on the last few episodes it has to offer.
There were some signs of foreshadowing before the climax peaked, like Hachikuji wondering why Araragi chose Senjougahara over Hanekawa and calling it a weird decision and even as far back into Hitagi Crab, where Senjougahara asked Araragi’s thoughts on Hanekawa, turning out to be the same as in Kizumonogatari: Friends.
While the events in Nekomonogatari: Kuro had incubated through Hanekawa’s life for 17 years, the reoccured incident in Tsubasa Cat only took months.
Explaining it right through here would outright be a spoiler to the point you can just outright done with it and move on.
As the series peaked its final showdown to Hanekawa’s life, her character still continues to be really complicated, and it doesn’t stop there, which makes it more interesting yet a hollow street to dive down to her character. The fact that this woman is very good at being stealthy at herself, making too sure that her problems wouldn’t hesitate or worry someone like Araragi. She’s a woman very hard to read unless you know what’s going on or you’re well enough to be skeptical and analyze her situation. Quite a tough mask separating her true self.
And I guess that’s the reason why I still love her alongside Nadeko. I can’t choose between the two, but the exposure Hanekawa showed to me also made me see through my own character as well, revealing the hypocrisy I might have from time to time, while Nadeko continues the traces of Hanekawa ended in my living up to the inner core of my heart. She’s a very complicated and a character constructed with stress as well, an almost excellent character too. I’m very excited for what Second Season brings the journey of Hanekawa to.
The arc has given attention to how a lack of consciousness to other people can sometimes be a hidden sneaky problem later in life. Oh yeah, it also pointed out to Araragi by Black Hanekawa about aberrations and humans aren’t supposed to be intertwined, and how stupid Araragi is for not noticing the gradual feelings Hanekawa has for Araragi and was later defended by Araragi that he can’t literally see it through her because like I said earlier, she’s a person very hard to read. Even I might get into a situation like that later in life. I’m also very hard to be read by other people, I act differently in school and at home. I’m very flexible in my mood as well to the point it’s just easy as butter to hide your feelings and feel like you can handle this all by yourself without bothering other people.
Aaand that’s it for Bakemonogatari 😿! It’s been 4 months since I started this marathon, and I still love it dearly, especially to challenge yourself further by narrowing down to when they happen in real-time! I kind of wanted to adjust my rating of Bakemonogatari from 9.5 to 10 😸.
I don’t know how to express my very absolute love for Bakemonogatari, it’s just a wholesome experience.
I’ve now completed 3 series of this franchise, and it’s still a long spicy journey for me! This is still a journey not getting tired of. Still, can’t wait for more Hanekawa in the upcoming dates falling on Nekomonogatari: Shiro 😺!
This concludes my log! The events of Nisemonogatari are a month and a half from now, maybe the Bee and Phoenix are still flying around like crazy 🤔?
I hope you enjoyed this another lengthy read, the last one was the second half of Nekomongatari: Kuro, the start of Bakemonogatari and Koyomimonogatari 2. So arcs can be as lengthy as that one 🙀? Scary, but a fun write!
Stay tuned for Koyomimonogatari 3 【 Koyomi Sand 】on the 19th of June! 😺
『 Bakemonogatari 【 Tsubasa Cat 】 』
Nyahahaha, the second relatable best girl shines again 😸! But also the last arc for Bakemonogatari 😔
Oh wait, the date episode too 💕
So let’s get spicing ☕
Tsubasa Cat spans for five episodes, falling on the dates from June 13th to June 15th. Fun fact, Nadeko Snake also ends on June 13th (even though the events actually ended on the 12th when the 13th is actually Araragi’s epic epilogue)! The first two episodes happened on June 13th, while the third, fourth and fifth on the 14th. Half of the fifth episode happened on June 15th or beyond the timeline of the arc. I watched the full course of the 5 episodes on the 15th, and I haven’t been able to deliver that on the same date because I finished it at midnight. I originally planned to have the first two episodes on the 13th and analyze all the way through the last episode.
This paragraph keeps getting complicated the more I dive into the chronological timeline. Even worse, dates would seldomly show up as I progress through unlike its transparency back in Kizumonogatari, Nekomonogatari: Kuro and the first few episodes of Bakemonogatari, so it’s becoming more of a challenge.
After the events of Nadeko Snake, the series fallbacks to Hanekawa and her periodic recurring of headaches 🙀! Before that, a special episode for Senjougahara has to be slipped through the second episode, so I’ll have my thoughts on it first before the real thing. 😼
The twelfth episode is dedicated to Senjougahara’s treasure, the date between the crab and the beta vampire. This kind of date isn’t anything luxurious, grand, or cracking MC-kun’s mind of nervousness, but a true treasure in itself too.
Having this rewatched for three times, I can truly see how Araragi impacted Senjougahara–I mean Hitagi’s life because of the ever-flowing kindness Araragi has given to her, a second chance in life from her gloomy and unfortunate past, and she wanted to pay him back in a form of giving her all to Araragi, her treasure: her father, her tutors, a cute junior, the starry sky of the famous Summer Triangle: Deneb, Altair & Vega, and her body. To the very innings on her treasure hoping Senjougahara wouldn’t end up disliking him, even though these are all of the things she had.
Nearly cried just how Senjougahara has to win for Araragi’s heart, I still find this to be the best date I’ve ever seen in anime. Fight me. 🦀
We’re just approaching the slope of the climax of the series, in the scale of the franchise, this is just the tip of the iceberg, stay tuned for Koimonogatari and Owarimonogatari!
Oh, what a lovey-dovey date for the two loving birds… Going back to the true hell and climax of the series is Tsubasa Hanekawa’s grand second-to-the-last finale (the heckery of this hails all the way to Nekomonogatari: Shiro).
Stress.
But wait, didn’t they had it done in Nekomonogatari: Kuro?
Or did they?
Through the course of the series, after 3 rewatches, I was actually skeptical of Hanekawa all the way down to her responses and the tone of her voice. It was actually getting worse as I peak climax on the last few episodes it has to offer.
There were some signs of foreshadowing before the climax peaked, like Hachikuji wondering why Araragi chose Senjougahara over Hanekawa and calling it a weird decision and even as far back into Hitagi Crab, where Senjougahara asked Araragi’s thoughts on Hanekawa, turning out to be the same as in Kizumonogatari: Friends.
While the events in Nekomonogatari: Kuro had incubated through Hanekawa’s life for 17 years, the reoccured incident in Tsubasa Cat only took months.
Explaining it right through here would outright be a spoiler to the point you can just outright done with it and move on.
As the series peaked its final showdown to Hanekawa’s life, her character still continues to be really complicated, and it doesn’t stop there, which makes it more interesting yet a hollow street to dive down to her character. The fact that this woman is very good at being stealthy at herself, making too sure that her problems wouldn’t hesitate or worry someone like Araragi. She’s a woman very hard to read unless you know what’s going on or you’re well enough to be skeptical and analyze her situation. Quite a tough mask separating her true self.
And I guess that’s the reason why I still love her alongside Nadeko. I can’t choose between the two, but the exposure Hanekawa showed to me also made me see through my own character as well, revealing the hypocrisy I might have from time to time, while Nadeko continues the traces of Hanekawa ended in my living up to the inner core of my heart. She’s a very complicated and a character constructed with stress as well, an almost excellent character too. I’m very excited for what Second Season brings the journey of Hanekawa to.
The arc has given attention to how a lack of consciousness to other people can sometimes be a hidden sneaky problem later in life. Oh yeah, it also pointed out to Araragi by Black Hanekawa about aberrations and humans aren’t supposed to be intertwined, and how stupid Araragi is for not noticing the gradual feelings Hanekawa has for Araragi and was later defended by Araragi that he can’t literally see it through her because like I said earlier, she’s a person very hard to read. Even I might get into a situation like that later in life. I’m also very hard to be read by other people, I act differently in school and at home. I’m very flexible in my mood as well to the point it’s just easy as butter to hide your feelings and feel like you can handle this all by yourself without bothering other people.
Aaand that’s it for Bakemonogatari 😿! It’s been 4 months since I started this marathon, and I still love it dearly, especially to challenge yourself further by narrowing down to when they happen in real-time! I kind of wanted to adjust my rating of Bakemonogatari from 9.5 to 10 😸.
I don’t know how to express my very absolute love for Bakemonogatari, it’s just a wholesome experience.
I’ve now completed 3 series of this franchise, and it’s still a long spicy journey for me! This is still a journey not getting tired of. Still, can’t wait for more Hanekawa in the upcoming dates falling on Nekomonogatari: Shiro 😺!
This concludes my log! The events of Nisemonogatari are a month and a half from now, maybe the Bee and Phoenix are still flying around like crazy 🤔?
I hope you enjoyed this another lengthy read, the last one was the second half of Nekomongatari: Kuro, the start of Bakemonogatari and Koyomimonogatari 2. So arcs can be as lengthy as that one 🙀? Scary, but a fun write!
Stay tuned for Koyomimonogatari 3 【 Koyomi Sand 】on the 19th of June! 😺
Log 6月19日
『 Koyomimonogatari 3【 Koyomi Sand 】 』
Muraragi-san? Is it time for another log?
I’ve been honestly drained from making the log of Tsubasa Cat 😸
Or should I say energy-drained? 🥁
Let’s head on to the third episode of Koyomimonogatari!
The events of Koyomi Sand fall on June 19th. I watched it on the same exact date and had no problems getting offset on the time/date.
After the events of Tsubasa Cat with the seemingly unknown disappearance of Meme, nothing seemed to be apocalyptic happening around Araragi! Another encounter on that day happens to be Hachikuji, who tries to “sell” some weird oddities and ghost stories to Araragi, especially this one involving a creepy sandbox. Fun fact, this episode/event marks the start of short-haired Hanekawa ♥
As Araragi tries to cope up with the unexpected independence of Meme, he tries to take in his position and fix the problems of our heroines with the capability he’ll try to push, including the speculation of Hachikuji in this episode and the sandbox she pointed out.
Sometimes, we always look, investigate, or judge visually to translucency. But this episode paved the way to how we can always draw conclusions beyond the boundary of what’s visually happening in front of you. Maybe the obscure phenomenon you saw on that particular object is actually just a natural phenomenon caused by environmental factors or time, or basically any law of the universe. If two possibilities are out of the question, there’s always room for a third. The third or a hidden possibility might actually be beyond the object or scenario you’re trying to find about.
With this discovery, it helped Araragi to pave more room for more investigation later in the series (chronologically), especially that Meme disappeared, losing self-esteem and hope.
Or will he?
Maybe this part of the series will be all about coincidences? 🤔
That concludes this log, which probably will be the shortest of all logs (which is kind of sad)! This is the 10th log of my Monogatari Chronological Rewatch post series 😮! No wonder I’ve come so far ahead, so there’s no turning back now… 😛
Stay tuned for the log of Karen Bee which is going to be on July 31st! Oh boy, I can’t withstand waiting another month of urging to watch Monogatari again 😢 (after waiting a month to get to Nadeko Snake)…
The fourth episode of Koyomimonogatari will be merged with that log, so stay tuned! Thanks for reading 😺
『 Koyomimonogatari 3【 Koyomi Sand 】 』
Muraragi-san? Is it time for another log?
I’ve been honestly drained from making the log of Tsubasa Cat 😸
Or should I say energy-drained? 🥁
Let’s head on to the third episode of Koyomimonogatari!
The events of Koyomi Sand fall on June 19th. I watched it on the same exact date and had no problems getting offset on the time/date.
After the events of Tsubasa Cat with the seemingly unknown disappearance of Meme, nothing seemed to be apocalyptic happening around Araragi! Another encounter on that day happens to be Hachikuji, who tries to “sell” some weird oddities and ghost stories to Araragi, especially this one involving a creepy sandbox. Fun fact, this episode/event marks the start of short-haired Hanekawa ♥
As Araragi tries to cope up with the unexpected independence of Meme, he tries to take in his position and fix the problems of our heroines with the capability he’ll try to push, including the speculation of Hachikuji in this episode and the sandbox she pointed out.
Sometimes, we always look, investigate, or judge visually to translucency. But this episode paved the way to how we can always draw conclusions beyond the boundary of what’s visually happening in front of you. Maybe the obscure phenomenon you saw on that particular object is actually just a natural phenomenon caused by environmental factors or time, or basically any law of the universe. If two possibilities are out of the question, there’s always room for a third. The third or a hidden possibility might actually be beyond the object or scenario you’re trying to find about.
With this discovery, it helped Araragi to pave more room for more investigation later in the series (chronologically), especially that Meme disappeared, losing self-esteem and hope.
Or will he?
Maybe this part of the series will be all about coincidences? 🤔
That concludes this log, which probably will be the shortest of all logs (which is kind of sad)! This is the 10th log of my Monogatari Chronological Rewatch post series 😮! No wonder I’ve come so far ahead, so there’s no turning back now… 😛
Stay tuned for the log of Karen Bee which is going to be on July 31st! Oh boy, I can’t withstand waiting another month of urging to watch Monogatari again 😢 (after waiting a month to get to Nadeko Snake)…
The fourth episode of Koyomimonogatari will be merged with that log, so stay tuned! Thanks for reading 😺
Log 7月31日
『 Koyomimonogatari 4【 Koyomi Water 】& Nisemonogatari【 Karen Bee 】』
Due to Kitsu's character limitation, this log on Kitsu has been split into two parts.
Oh boy, for the first time in this journey,
There’s going to be a two-parter.
And I know things are going to get wild, especially when we hit mid-August.
Have fun! 🐍💕
After a month and a half, I’m back! And you know how terrifying is it to finally wait for this moment after a month and a half of waiting? I waited a month for Nadeko Snake back in June, and now this catastrophe for more than a month!
Oh well, now the wait’s over and the circulation is back! And as promised, the 4th episode of Koyomimonogatari will be merged into this log which includes our furious bee of justice, so let’s get moving!
The fourth episode of Koyomimonogatari, Koyomi Water, falls around July 17th (as further as my research were, it was uncertain so they stated “July 17th?”, assuming that’s the nearest point in the timeline). I watched it on July 17th… well I did watch before starting my Nisemonogatari rewatch on the 29th because the gap was simply too long I might’ve even forgotten what to write on this log about it.
The premise of Koyomi Water is the ongoing gag but developing a positive relationship between Koyomi and Suruga, especially after the events of Suruga Monkey all the way back from Bakemonogatari. As the name of the episode suggests, water, it can sometimes create sophisticated images and reminisce from its ripples and waves. Think about looking into the water when you take a bath, as the ripples gulf around, maybe it’ll create another image? 🤔
Maybe an image of your fated lover, or someone else? It could be a coincidence once you meet your lover and sort of realized that it’s the same image you see at your bathwater for years and years. The moment you realized it, it’s the very certain same image as you, atom by atom. Without realizing it, you no longer see the image you keep on mesmerizing your bathwater.
However, thinking that the image you saw on the bathwater and thought ”Hmm, well this is just like me, but my fated lover” might actually mean that people prefer their partners to be as the same as them? That’s just one of Senjougahara’s theories, but it could be true. We can’t deny that we all have expectations or “standards” to any crushes or love interests we desire, but most especially maybe you wanted your love interest to be identical to you spiritually and even emotionally.
Because of how long this log is, it’s split into two parts!
Karen da ze!
Tsukihi da yo~!
Watashi tachi, Faiyā shistāzu!
Moving on to the next big installment of the series is Nisemonogatari, starting with Karen Bee. This part of Nise spans from the first up to the seventh episode. The timeline for Karen Bee spans from July 27th to July 31st, with the first three episodes happening on the 27th, but the third episode went to the 28th halfway through. Half of the third until the seventh episode happened on the 29th however, the last few minutes of the seventh episode happened on the 30th. For the first time, I haven’t had any problems being too early or late per each episode, so I guess my prediction for when each episode happens on what day improved a lot? 🤔
Coming across another installment of the series, it was packed with another ton of stuff to uncover through their never-ending dialogues filled with complexity. The first three episodes alone paved way for A LOT of foreshadowing towards the Second Season. Dubbing Nisemonogatari as the fanservice part of the franchise might not seem like that at all if you managed to let your mind ooze through the complexity and monstrosity (in a good way) of this series.
This is the series where the Fire Sisters makes their big debut and no longer those weird finicky 4-koma previews at the end of each Monogatari episode, the spotlight’s all on them for this one!
As a child, sometimes we wanted to idolize our heroes and heroines in those comics we read and cartoons we watch, and we love them saving the world. They here to declare justice, or be an ally of justice, one way or another. Sometimes, we want to save people from villains and help them, a furious move to becoming an aid of town—that’s the Fire Sisters.
But to emphasize, that’s 99% Karen Araragi for you.
Unlike the past installations or arcs, Karen Bee packs a tonne of things to be discussed, so I apologize if everything is all over the place.
Karen Araragi is the very fiery and symbol of justice here in the series. She always admired those cool looking heroes found in manga. Like Koyomi, she has kindness aside from her blood of justice. Of course, once you deny claims to someone who’s pumped with the blood of justice, it’ll of course pump with more justice.
Remember when I said that sometimes, we want to save people from villains and help them? Well, that’s kind of where the boundary ends. If you happen to notice the Mandela effect here then congratulations, you’re supposed to save people from enemies than villains! Confusing right? Villains and enemies are pretty different, synonymous but different, but not antonyms? That’s where the Fire Sisters fall into their fake reputation, hence the name of this very installation, Nisemonogatari.
Like Araragi said, Justice is certainly a good thing, but you can’t fight with being right alone because you need strength, alongside good conviction. Justice becomes quite evil if you’re in a 100% territory of being right. Remember when all of these comic heroes say along the lines of “We’re doing what is right”? That’s exactly the motto of the Fire Sisters.
This part of Nisemonogatari ultimately challenges on who’s right and who’s wrong. If you think about it, the Fire Sisters are actually doing a very good job at trying to keep the entire city free of villains, but if you think about it in a bad way, it wouldn’t be healthy for what their doing is a hundred percent right that lacks conviction and strength and thinking that everything is a reason aside. It’s very complicated if you ask me, but that’s my view of it mentioned here. Even though Karen caught a high fever and just decided to save the city for another day thinking nothing happened isn’t healthy for me.
So why the Fire Sisters are very furious at this time? Remember Nadeko being one of the worst-hit middle-school victims? They’re all over the place at this time now. As the Fire Sisters gained a reputation around town, it paved the way to link another debut of the series which is also dubbed as best girl, Kaiki Deishuu.
Kaiki Deishuu, one of the most sophisticated con artists in town, is now scamming around children, precisely around middle-school, and who are you going to call? The Fire Sisters… but it didn’t go way to well into the first wave. Karen being hit by one of Kaiki’s schemes despite pumping blood of justice and ready to kick his face.
Now, this is where knowledge fuzzles around the place. Why did Kaiki come into town? Why did he specifically scheme around children? Why was the Fire Sisters deemed a failure from this one man who lacked strength?
First, remember that I told you that the Fire Sisters has redeemable quality for kindness beside their emblem for justice? Kindness isn’t only bound to good deeds, it can be bound for something else. That’s where Kaiki enters the picture, using their kindness for other people where they gained their reputation, kind of like parasitism; without the kindness of the Fire Sisters, his business will be a total failure.
Second, why did he specifically scheme around children? Let’s go back to Senjougahara. She ultimately admitted it that children nowadays are at their own fault for falling through Kaiki’s schemes and tricks, so why is she’s like on Kaiki’s side? Not exactly, she admitted she’s an enemy of evil. Not gonna lie, I’m going to agree on Senjougahara, children are very curious so it’s the best audience to lure people in and are vulnerable to doing anything, which is a very sad reality when used for evil tactics.
Third, why did the Fire Sisters failed their mission from this conman who lacked strength in looks? Simple, remember when I said that the Fire Sisters have their full eyes on being right and true?
That’s their ultimate weakness. In the belief of totally making right alongside justice sacrifices the ability to doubt others. Kaiki was never right and despises right, that’s where the Fire Sisters had an ultimate backdoor and weak spot. He only wanted money, to make money as a conman, that’s literally it.
Speaking of Kaiki, remember that he’s been scheming around children? Well, that’s kind of fake, a good fake. With the help of the Fire Sisters made it looked like a problem than something that doesn’t exist. There’s just an obscure number of fakes presented here in Karen’s arc, which is surprisingly cool. Kaiki’s debut revealed that they’ll never be paired with Koyomi in any way, worse than water and oil, but Rubidium and H20.
Behind the scenes of planning to meet up with Kaiki, Senjougahara was met again with revisiting the past, which she doesn’t like to dwell into. This arc also showed the growing relationship between Hitagi and Koyomi, most notably on trust and paying back deeds between each other. Hitagi facing the battle between Kaiki left Koyomi no choice but to face him alongside Hitagi, though she was another met with another wave of untrust and still armed with sharp tools is still a challenge Koyomi faced.
Aside from Karen’s situation, this part of the series also paved way for Shinobu’s reconciliation with Koyomi after 3 months, connecting the past events and outcomes all the way back in Kizumonogatari and summed it all up in front of Koyomi, well in a peaceful way. This happened after Koyomi was overwhelmed with Karen’s situation, leaving Shinobu with no choice but to speak it up to himself how his stress can be also carried over to her. She also emphasized their bound ties to each other despite the wounds they caused for one another, hence the reconciliation, hoping for Shinobu that they can live anew.
PHEW! That was a lot to discuss! Speaking of degradation of content from adapting the light novel, there might be virtually less than normal. Oh and remember when I said that there were A LOT of foreshadowing here in Nise that points to the Second Season? You go figure it out around the first three episodes, it’s cool to grab a hitch of them but I won’t spoil them for you just for funsies 😊
There’s a lot of lessons to cover in this arc, my most favorite being “Sometimes, the fake can be even more real than the real thing” or something along the lines of that. I very well enjoyed this part of Nisemonogatari despite being the least comprehended of the entire franchise. This is the most rewatched installation I had on my list, this being the third rewatch just because I can’t understand it on my last rewatch, but now I do. I think I idolize Karen now ironically because I do have the same sense of justice pumping inside her too. Heck, I’m getting the English translation of the novel pretty soon!
Thank you for reading, Hasta la vista! Stay tuned for Aug. 15th!
『 Koyomimonogatari 4【 Koyomi Water 】& Nisemonogatari【 Karen Bee 】』
Due to Kitsu's character limitation, this log on Kitsu has been split into two parts.
Oh boy, for the first time in this journey,
There’s going to be a two-parter.
And I know things are going to get wild, especially when we hit mid-August.
Have fun! 🐍💕
After a month and a half, I’m back! And you know how terrifying is it to finally wait for this moment after a month and a half of waiting? I waited a month for Nadeko Snake back in June, and now this catastrophe for more than a month!
Oh well, now the wait’s over and the circulation is back! And as promised, the 4th episode of Koyomimonogatari will be merged into this log which includes our furious bee of justice, so let’s get moving!
The fourth episode of Koyomimonogatari, Koyomi Water, falls around July 17th (as further as my research were, it was uncertain so they stated “July 17th?”, assuming that’s the nearest point in the timeline). I watched it on July 17th… well I did watch before starting my Nisemonogatari rewatch on the 29th because the gap was simply too long I might’ve even forgotten what to write on this log about it.
The premise of Koyomi Water is the ongoing gag but developing a positive relationship between Koyomi and Suruga, especially after the events of Suruga Monkey all the way back from Bakemonogatari. As the name of the episode suggests, water, it can sometimes create sophisticated images and reminisce from its ripples and waves. Think about looking into the water when you take a bath, as the ripples gulf around, maybe it’ll create another image? 🤔
Maybe an image of your fated lover, or someone else? It could be a coincidence once you meet your lover and sort of realized that it’s the same image you see at your bathwater for years and years. The moment you realized it, it’s the very certain same image as you, atom by atom. Without realizing it, you no longer see the image you keep on mesmerizing your bathwater.
However, thinking that the image you saw on the bathwater and thought ”Hmm, well this is just like me, but my fated lover” might actually mean that people prefer their partners to be as the same as them? That’s just one of Senjougahara’s theories, but it could be true. We can’t deny that we all have expectations or “standards” to any crushes or love interests we desire, but most especially maybe you wanted your love interest to be identical to you spiritually and even emotionally.
Because of how long this log is, it’s split into two parts!
Karen da ze!
Tsukihi da yo~!
Watashi tachi, Faiyā shistāzu!
Moving on to the next big installment of the series is Nisemonogatari, starting with Karen Bee. This part of Nise spans from the first up to the seventh episode. The timeline for Karen Bee spans from July 27th to July 31st, with the first three episodes happening on the 27th, but the third episode went to the 28th halfway through. Half of the third until the seventh episode happened on the 29th however, the last few minutes of the seventh episode happened on the 30th. For the first time, I haven’t had any problems being too early or late per each episode, so I guess my prediction for when each episode happens on what day improved a lot? 🤔
Coming across another installment of the series, it was packed with another ton of stuff to uncover through their never-ending dialogues filled with complexity. The first three episodes alone paved way for A LOT of foreshadowing towards the Second Season. Dubbing Nisemonogatari as the fanservice part of the franchise might not seem like that at all if you managed to let your mind ooze through the complexity and monstrosity (in a good way) of this series.
This is the series where the Fire Sisters makes their big debut and no longer those weird finicky 4-koma previews at the end of each Monogatari episode, the spotlight’s all on them for this one!
As a child, sometimes we wanted to idolize our heroes and heroines in those comics we read and cartoons we watch, and we love them saving the world. They here to declare justice, or be an ally of justice, one way or another. Sometimes, we want to save people from villains and help them, a furious move to becoming an aid of town—that’s the Fire Sisters.
But to emphasize, that’s 99% Karen Araragi for you.
Unlike the past installations or arcs, Karen Bee packs a tonne of things to be discussed, so I apologize if everything is all over the place.
Karen Araragi is the very fiery and symbol of justice here in the series. She always admired those cool looking heroes found in manga. Like Koyomi, she has kindness aside from her blood of justice. Of course, once you deny claims to someone who’s pumped with the blood of justice, it’ll of course pump with more justice.
Remember when I said that sometimes, we want to save people from villains and help them? Well, that’s kind of where the boundary ends. If you happen to notice the Mandela effect here then congratulations, you’re supposed to save people from enemies than villains! Confusing right? Villains and enemies are pretty different, synonymous but different, but not antonyms? That’s where the Fire Sisters fall into their fake reputation, hence the name of this very installation, Nisemonogatari.
Like Araragi said, Justice is certainly a good thing, but you can’t fight with being right alone because you need strength, alongside good conviction. Justice becomes quite evil if you’re in a 100% territory of being right. Remember when all of these comic heroes say along the lines of “We’re doing what is right”? That’s exactly the motto of the Fire Sisters.
This part of Nisemonogatari ultimately challenges on who’s right and who’s wrong. If you think about it, the Fire Sisters are actually doing a very good job at trying to keep the entire city free of villains, but if you think about it in a bad way, it wouldn’t be healthy for what their doing is a hundred percent right that lacks conviction and strength and thinking that everything is a reason aside. It’s very complicated if you ask me, but that’s my view of it mentioned here. Even though Karen caught a high fever and just decided to save the city for another day thinking nothing happened isn’t healthy for me.
So why the Fire Sisters are very furious at this time? Remember Nadeko being one of the worst-hit middle-school victims? They’re all over the place at this time now. As the Fire Sisters gained a reputation around town, it paved the way to link another debut of the series which is also dubbed as best girl, Kaiki Deishuu.
Kaiki Deishuu, one of the most sophisticated con artists in town, is now scamming around children, precisely around middle-school, and who are you going to call? The Fire Sisters… but it didn’t go way to well into the first wave. Karen being hit by one of Kaiki’s schemes despite pumping blood of justice and ready to kick his face.
Now, this is where knowledge fuzzles around the place. Why did Kaiki come into town? Why did he specifically scheme around children? Why was the Fire Sisters deemed a failure from this one man who lacked strength?
First, remember that I told you that the Fire Sisters has redeemable quality for kindness beside their emblem for justice? Kindness isn’t only bound to good deeds, it can be bound for something else. That’s where Kaiki enters the picture, using their kindness for other people where they gained their reputation, kind of like parasitism; without the kindness of the Fire Sisters, his business will be a total failure.
Second, why did he specifically scheme around children? Let’s go back to Senjougahara. She ultimately admitted it that children nowadays are at their own fault for falling through Kaiki’s schemes and tricks, so why is she’s like on Kaiki’s side? Not exactly, she admitted she’s an enemy of evil. Not gonna lie, I’m going to agree on Senjougahara, children are very curious so it’s the best audience to lure people in and are vulnerable to doing anything, which is a very sad reality when used for evil tactics.
Third, why did the Fire Sisters failed their mission from this conman who lacked strength in looks? Simple, remember when I said that the Fire Sisters have their full eyes on being right and true?
That’s their ultimate weakness. In the belief of totally making right alongside justice sacrifices the ability to doubt others. Kaiki was never right and despises right, that’s where the Fire Sisters had an ultimate backdoor and weak spot. He only wanted money, to make money as a conman, that’s literally it.
Speaking of Kaiki, remember that he’s been scheming around children? Well, that’s kind of fake, a good fake. With the help of the Fire Sisters made it looked like a problem than something that doesn’t exist. There’s just an obscure number of fakes presented here in Karen’s arc, which is surprisingly cool. Kaiki’s debut revealed that they’ll never be paired with Koyomi in any way, worse than water and oil, but Rubidium and H20.
Behind the scenes of planning to meet up with Kaiki, Senjougahara was met again with revisiting the past, which she doesn’t like to dwell into. This arc also showed the growing relationship between Hitagi and Koyomi, most notably on trust and paying back deeds between each other. Hitagi facing the battle between Kaiki left Koyomi no choice but to face him alongside Hitagi, though she was another met with another wave of untrust and still armed with sharp tools is still a challenge Koyomi faced.
Aside from Karen’s situation, this part of the series also paved way for Shinobu’s reconciliation with Koyomi after 3 months, connecting the past events and outcomes all the way back in Kizumonogatari and summed it all up in front of Koyomi, well in a peaceful way. This happened after Koyomi was overwhelmed with Karen’s situation, leaving Shinobu with no choice but to speak it up to himself how his stress can be also carried over to her. She also emphasized their bound ties to each other despite the wounds they caused for one another, hence the reconciliation, hoping for Shinobu that they can live anew.
PHEW! That was a lot to discuss! Speaking of degradation of content from adapting the light novel, there might be virtually less than normal. Oh and remember when I said that there were A LOT of foreshadowing here in Nise that points to the Second Season? You go figure it out around the first three episodes, it’s cool to grab a hitch of them but I won’t spoil them for you just for funsies 😊
There’s a lot of lessons to cover in this arc, my most favorite being “Sometimes, the fake can be even more real than the real thing” or something along the lines of that. I very well enjoyed this part of Nisemonogatari despite being the least comprehended of the entire franchise. This is the most rewatched installation I had on my list, this being the third rewatch just because I can’t understand it on my last rewatch, but now I do. I think I idolize Karen now ironically because I do have the same sense of justice pumping inside her too. Heck, I’m getting the English translation of the novel pretty soon!
Thank you for reading, Hasta la vista! Stay tuned for Aug. 15th!
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December 10th, 2019
Profile Banner History
Anime Relations: Cardcaptor Sakura
This includes banners that I created not only from MyAnimeList profile but also for my Kitsu and AniList profiles
Poppin' Colors
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First Variant – May 1, 2019
Second Variant – May 2, 2019
Added Ui and Madoka to the party!
Added Ui and Madoka to the party!
Third Variant – May 3, 2019
Added Reina to the party, Kumiko takes centerstage!
Added Reina to the party, Kumiko takes centerstage!
Fourth & Final Variant – May 17, 2019
Incorporated into a wider canvas to better support a lot of screen sizes that view my profile once in a while. Being the final variant, I also refer to it as the Millennial Colors.
Added Shinobu, Yui, Hanekawa, Konata and Haruhi to the party!
*This is also the banner I used for the longest time.
Incorporated into a wider canvas to better support a lot of screen sizes that view my profile once in a while. Being the final variant, I also refer to it as the Millennial Colors.
Added Shinobu, Yui, Hanekawa, Konata and Haruhi to the party!
*This is also the banner I used for the longest time.
World of Frames
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Endless interactions and reactions of everyone through the frames filled with their dominancy
*Inspiration from one of the Konosuba Movie teaser posters
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Endless interactions and reactions of everyone through the frames filled with their dominancy
*Inspiration from one of the Konosuba Movie teaser posters
First Variant – May 2, 2019
Second Variant – May 23, 2019
Shifted away from freehand drawing of the frames.
Added Manaka, Madoka and Yuno to the party!
Shifted away from freehand drawing of the frames.
Added Manaka, Madoka and Yuno to the party!
Third & Final Variant – May 23, 2019
Extended the world of frames east and west.
Added Konata, Yotsugi, Haruhi, Hanekawa, Shinobu and Yui to the party!
Extended the world of frames east and west.
Added Konata, Yotsugi, Haruhi, Hanekawa, Shinobu and Yui to the party!
Unity Cubes
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The equity of everyone through the bonds and distribution of cubes in a plane.
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The equity of everyone through the bonds and distribution of cubes in a plane.
First Variant – July 27, 2019
Kyoto Animation Cubic Unity Variant – August 12, 2019
Characters shown in each cube are from the works of Kyoto Animation to commemorate for the Kyoto Animation arson attack that happened 4 weeks prior in the making of this banner.
Characters shown in each cube are from the works of Kyoto Animation to commemorate for the Kyoto Animation arson attack that happened 4 weeks prior in the making of this banner.
Third & Final Variant – August 22, 2019
Added Aladdin, Haruhi, Holo, Renge, Konata and Akko to the party!
Added Aladdin, Haruhi, Holo, Renge, Konata and Akko to the party!
Facelift
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A revive from the past Poppin' Colors banners with a twist of modern mix and a breath of colors.
Sodachi was added to this party.
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A revive from the past Poppin' Colors banners with a twist of modern mix and a breath of colors.
Sodachi was added to this party.
First Variant – August 2, 2019
Halloween Variant – September 14, 2019
Framed Wonders
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The renaissance of both the Poppin' Colors from Kitsu and World of Frames merged into one and is merely the polar opposite of the color schemes found in Poppin' Colors.
Rikka, Holo and Tooru were added to the party.
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The renaissance of both the Poppin' Colors from Kitsu and World of Frames merged into one and is merely the polar opposite of the color schemes found in Poppin' Colors.
Rikka, Holo and Tooru were added to the party.
September 7, 2019
Realicover
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The bond of 2D mashed together with 3D creates unity, interaction and depth.
Only a select characters were added due to how extreme this approach is (including the masking of these characters behind grass)
> Kitsu
The bond of 2D mashed together with 3D creates unity, interaction and depth.
Only a select characters were added due to how extreme this approach is (including the masking of these characters behind grass)
October 28, 2019
Christmas 2020
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The girls get a cute mashup of a santa hat!
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The girls get a cute mashup of a santa hat!
November 24, 2019
2019-ALL☆SPLASH SunRise
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Compilation of all my design motifs as well as one of the best characters I've run to in 2019
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Compilation of all my design motifs as well as one of the best characters I've run to in 2019
January 5, 2020
Sunshine!!
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Banner title nod to Love Live, it's a new breath of 2020 with the headstarters of anime I love for the first quarter of the year!
*First banner to consist of characters from seasonals
22/7, Kotoko and Chika were added to the party!
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Banner title nod to Love Live, it's a new breath of 2020 with the headstarters of anime I love for the first quarter of the year!
*First banner to consist of characters from seasonals
22/7, Kotoko and Chika were added to the party!
February 29, 2020
Monogatari Circulation
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Banners to commemorate for my ongoing Monogatari Circulation chronological rewatch marathon spanning from March 2020 until April 2021!
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Banners to commemorate for my ongoing Monogatari Circulation chronological rewatch marathon spanning from March 2020 until April 2021!
March 1, 2020 — September 22, 2020 - MAL Variant
March 15, 2020 — August 5, 2020 - Kitsu Variant
August 5, 2020 — September 22, 2020- Kitsu Second Season Variant
Relatable Strokes
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Strokes of paint that resembles your marked and permanent footsteps in your life
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Strokes of paint that resembles your marked and permanent footsteps in your life
September 22, 2020 - MAL Variant (Light)
September 22, 2020 - Kitsu Variant (Dark)
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