No good deed goes unpunished, they say, and so does friendship and lowering your intensity as a human, they dont sayalas, for all his literally painful hustle and inveterate need to save others, our brave fool of a hero ends up in hell, a conc...
From the best selling novel series comes the latest book of the final season of the Monogatari Series. Before we witness the series' climactic showdown in the third volume of the End Tale--each part of which forms its own cohesive whole--narrator Araragi...
In this latter half of Calendar Tale, a set of journeys into the past that have been revisiting the "case files" feel of the series' origins starts to catch up to the present moment until we are violently spliced back into the overarching...
Circling back to a middle school girls apotheosis, if we can call it that, in Otorimonogatari, and the mortal threat it poses to the hero and his girl, this Season Two finale is narrated, for the first time in the series, by a grown-up...
It, like the dark that makes up most of the cosmos, is not an aberration. Nonbeing can swallow you whole, yet if anything, its the anti-aberration. Darkness, in fact, is the Law, an executioner from whom a mark can try to run and hide, but only for...
A certain middle school girl has a fondness for hats, which serve as a line of defense against eye contact along with the overlong bangs shes worn ever since she was little. Speaking in fits and starts when she doesnt fall completely silent,...
How far does one go to help a lost child? In the case of returning narrator Araragi, the answer is too far, across the veil of time. Dutifully (if unknowingly) following up on Hachikujis cheeky foreshadowing, he concerns himself with his young lady...
Our sorry hero, his reformed girlfriend, and the amnesiac class president have all graduated from their high school out in the boondocks, and self-described Sapphist and ex-basketball ace Kanbaru, retired by reason of an "injury," is starting...