Name: Bakemonogatari - SPOILER FREE REVIEW
Series: Monogatari
Episodes: 15
Genre: Crab, Snail, Monkey, Snake, Cat, Vampire, Meme and Tsundere Romance with a touch of supernatural
Studio Head Tilts-- I mean Shaft.
Well I guess the Monogatari series require no real introduction. It’s well established with its own significant fan base. The story starts up with the main protagonist Arararagi-- sorry I stuttered, Araragi. Followed by him catching a falling Senjogahara, what is a Senjogahara you might be thinking? Well some people call it a Tsundere, some call it a Stationery on-the-go but it’s most commonly referred to as Best Girl, I quite like this title myself.
From there starts his not so normal interactions with mysterious girls, helping them in solving their problems with a supernatural degree assisted by some guy named Meme (Hope to see this dude in the Series more). The story was good; I mean it DID keep me interested until the end, liked the little twists and turns here and there. Character interactions especially Senjo x Araragi were lovely to watch, it’s always refreshing to see a character like Senjo, brutally blunt by that I mean having zero hesitation in shooting you down with witty words in a conversion, just ask Araragi, poor dude. I was told it gets dialogue heavy but honestly I didn’t mind that at all actually I enjoy stuff like this as it adds more to the characters and how they think (I kinda tend to focus more on the characters then the plot, call it a weakness if you will but it explains all my preferred anime except for a few exceptions).
Liked all the characters and that they were given their own arcs and Openings and had plenty of screen time so we could get familiar with them, one thing I liked was that they were still relevant till the last episode not some arc done character gone kinda thing that’s usually the thing I’ve seen. The little faster than light thoughts that pop-up during the show were fun to read and provided a little more to the situations in terms of understanding them, got used to them though it was a pain in the beginning and if you keep your eyes open you’d even find some references, I’m not talking some easy to catch over 9000 stuff here but some very subtle references many of which I would’ve definitely missed so I’d leave it to you to find them.
Liked the animation, it added more to the whole mysterious eerie vibe (which I am a fan of) in the story and was unique for me as it was the first time I had come across such animation and art style. I’ma be honest here I’m not so used to OSTs and stuff I sometimes miss them altogether so I won’t say much about it as I hardly remember any except for a few which I would describe them as Ok-ish. On that note liked some of the OPs, if I were to rank them then OP2>OP4>OP1>OP5>OP3 BUT the ED blows these out of the water; overall I’d pick the ED as my favourite. Been listening to it on repeat for a while now, still love it.
As for the RATING I’d give it a 8.2/10
PS, Note from me, I was expecting some weird stuff and some ecchi content as I had heard about it before starting it but to my surprise everything was pretty normal and nothing I’d label as overly ecchi just some fan service moments or maybe I’m just used to this stuff by now, In which case… Damn Bruh.