ONIMONOGATARI

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CAST

CHAPTERS

NOVEL ComedyOtorimonogatari
ANIME ComedyMonogatari Series: Second Season
NOVEL ActionKoimonogatari

REVIEWS

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  inspirashamul

  70/100
  Kissing isn't fanservice depending on who does it to whom.

  Ononoki kisses Araragi.
  Araragi kisses Shinobu.
  Shinobu Mayoi kisses Araragi.

  What is fanservice and what is important to the story? This tale and even every tale like Bakemonogatari throws the line away and claims that it is both important to the story and fanservice. With Hitagi and Araragi, it was a pivotal moment that encompassed the last shackle her body had under the night sky of what is precious to her and share it with the man she is in love with. Beautiful in both mediums (anime and LN) and even if I am very apprehensive to the 3 scenes in this singular Onimonogatari, they also serve both purposes as well.

  All of the kisses were a stolen moment. With Ononoki, it is justified in two folds: to wake Shionbu up as the step on the shadow didn't work and that Ononoki doesn't really understand common sense (I don't think that's the right term for it but I can't think of a replacement) with the excessive muscle touching. With Shinobu, it is justified? Araragi did it so we don't get 150 pages of Kizumonogatari promotion even though we did just a different slice of Shinobu's past. With Mayoi, it is justifies in three folds: she was half-asleep with Ononoki did it so that's where the idea probably originated from, the best "slip of the tongue" joke because it's the physicality that Araragi uses to reaffirm that Mayoi is still next to him throughout the arc, and the fact that Mayoi delayed the final encounter enough so that Araragi couldn't say goodbye until after the fact which is something that Mayoi knows well because of the various amounts of conversations they have had across the different entries thus far. But even with all these incredible moments, I am disgusted by it. There's no way around it, and the biggest reason I am so conflicted when it comes to Araragi as I love his dynamics but I also hate them. But that's not really important here I guess.

  Back with a reoccurring segment in these reviews which is the placement of this arc as the penultimate of Second Season. As the entry before was centered around lying to yourself and this one extends that. With Nadeko, she turned into something else which is fine. Araragi turned into a vampire. Hanekawa turned those memories into Black Hanekawa. By lying about turning into something is deadly and only for aberrations. Since humans lie to themselves and others all the time. Aberrations aren't allowed that privilege which is an interesting distinction to take. Even the fact aberrations can't tell their own stories as the narrator is an extension of that. But this is broken with the Short Stories that were released with Onimonogatari BDs. I don't have anything to comment this time on their relevance to the actual story because the format of this set of 8 stories (Tsubasa Board, Mayoi Castle, Shinobu Science, Suruga Palace, Nadeko Mirror, Hitagi Salamander, Yotsugi Future, Ougi Travel) where two characters talk about a book and I have only read like 2 of them in the past so I just added the others to my plan to read on Goodreads.

  But you see Koyomin, there's no such thing as an acceptable lie.

  This is a really interesting line because at the end of this tale, Araragi does not tell others who weren't involved that Mayoi is gone. Although it comes from this fear of letting go, it also fights against the absolutes that Izuko "establishes". I will end this review by telling you that I accidentally spilled water all over my copy and it has doubled in size and won't ever fit in the boxset again, but I gotta let that go too (and buy another copy I guess).

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