Bakemonogatari – Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student, manages to survive a vampire attack with the help of Meme Oshino, a strange man residing in an abandoned building. Though being saved from vampirism and now a human again, several side effects such as superhuman healing abilities and enhanced vision still remain. Regardless, Araragi tries to live the life of a normal student, with the help of his friend and the class president, Tsubasa Hanekawa. When fellow classmate Hitagi Senjougahara falls down the stairs and is caught by Araragi, the boy realizes that the girl is unnaturally weightless. Despite Senjougahara’s protests, Araragi insists he help her, deciding to enlist the aid of Oshino, the very man who had once helped him with his own predicament. Through several t.
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Vertical Demographic Magazine Original run March 14, 2018 – present Volumes 3 Other Monogatari ( 物語, lit. 'Story') is the general name for a series of Japanese written by Japanese novelist and illustrated by Vofan. Has published 24 novels since November 2006 under their, with at least five more novels planned. The story centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survived a attack, and finds himself helping some girls involved with all kinds of apparitions, deities, ghosts, mythological beasts, and spirits. Has animated the Monogatari series multiple times since 2009.
Its first season consists of 3 with 30 episodes produced from 2009 to 2012. The second season contains 6 arcs across 28 episodes animated between 2013 and 2014. The third and final season, which is still ongoing, contains 5 arcs with 42 episodes produced from 2014 to 2019.
An anime was also produced starting in 2016. A adaptation by began serialization in Kodansha's in 2018. See also: The Monogatari series revolves around Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who is almost human again after briefly becoming a vampire. One day, a classmate of his, the reclusive Hitagi Senjōgahara, falls down the stairs into Koyomi's arms. He discovers that Hitagi weighs nothing, in defiance of physics.
Despite being threatened by her to keep away, Koyomi offers his help and introduces her to Meme Oshino, a strange middle-aged man living in an abandoned building, who cured him of being a vampire. Once Koyomi helps solve Hitagi's problem, she decides to become his friend. As the series progresses, Koyomi finds himself involved with other girls, each afflicted by different 'oddities', including the ghost of a child called Mayoi Hachikuji; his underclassman Suruga Kanbaru; Nadeko Sengoku, a friend of his sisters; his classmate Tsubasa Hanekawa; and his own younger sisters Karen and Tsukihi. To deal with the spectres, Koyomi relies on guidance from Oshino and, later, from Shinobu, the same vampire who attacked him, now with the appearance of an eight-year-old girl.
Most heroines have an item that symbolises their spectres, such as Hitagi's stapler (the claw of a crab), Mayoi's backpack (the shell of a snail), Suruga's arm (the arm of a monkey), Nadeko's hat and jacket (the head and skin of a snake), and Karen's (the colors of a bee). Although incorporating elements of fantasy, horror, and action, it primarily focuses on conversations between characters, containing parodies of other series, as well as 's trademark. Media Light novels. Main article: The anime adaptation of Bakemonogatari aired between July 3 and September 25, 2009 on. The series is part of Kodansha's Nisio Isin Anime Project and is produced by, directed by with assistance from Tatsuya Oishi, written by Fuyashi Tō and featuring a by based on Vofan's original concepts. The music for the series is produced by under the supervision of Yota Tsuruoka.
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The series was scheduled to be 15 episodes long, but only the first 12 episodes were broadcast. The remaining three episodes were distributed on the official website between November 3, 2009 and June 25, 2010. At 2012, announced that they had acquired Bakemonogatari for a North America release. The series was released in North America on on November 20, 2012.
An 11-episode anime adaptation of Nisemonogatari aired from January 8 to March 18, 2012, produced by the same staff as Bakemonogatari. A four-episode anime television series adaptation of Nekomonogatari (Kuro) ( 猫物語(黒), 'Cat Story (Black)') aired back-to-back on December 31, 2012. Two Blu-ray and DVD compilation volumes were released: the first on March 6, 2013 and the second on April 3, 2013. A 26-episode anime television series titled Monogatari Series Second Season, spanning five of the six novels from Nekomonogatari (Shiro) ( 猫物語(白), 'Cat Story (White)') to Koimonogatari, aired between July 7 and December 29, 2013. A five-episode anime television series, adapting the remaining novel of the second series, Hanamonogatari, aired as a marathon on August 16, 2014, and a four-episode adaptation of the first novel of the third series, Tsukimonogatari, which falls chronologically between Monogatari Series Second Season and Hanamonogatari, aired in a marathon on December 31, 2014. A 12-episode anime television series adapting two more novels of the third series, titled Owarimonogatari, aired between October 3 and December 19, 2015. A series of adapting the prequel novel Kizumonogatari were produced, with the first one, Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu, premiering on January 8, 2016, the second film, Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu, premiering on August 19, 2016, and the third and final film, Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu, premiering on January 6, 2017.
A web anime series adapting Koyomimonogatari became available for download on the and from January 9, 2016. A seven-episode anime television series, an adaptation of the third Owarimonogatari novel, aired on August 12 and 13, 2017. An adaptation of Zoku Owarimonogatari was released in theaters on November 10, 2018 and will be released as two Blu-ray and DVD volumes on February 27, 2019 and March 27, 2019. It will air on TV as six episodes between May 18 and June 22, 2019. Manga On January 10, 2018, NisiOisin announced via that Bakemonogatari would receive a adaptation. On February 13, 2018, revealed three pieces of character art and opened a contest for Twitter users to guess the identity of the artist who would illustrate the series. On February 28, 2018, it was announced that manga artist would be illustrating the series.
The manga launched in the 15th issue of Kodansha's magazine on March 14, 2018. The special edition of the first volume contained a short prose story by NisiOisin and a short manga titled 'Bake 'mono' gatari' ( 化“者”語) by Oh! The manga will be released in North America by in October 2019. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN 1 June 15, 2018 ( SE) 2 August 17, 2018 ( SE) 3 November 16, 2018 ( SE) Other media A titled Original Drama CD Hyakumonogatari ( オリジナルドラマCD 佰物語, Orijinaru Dorama Shīdi Hyakumonogatari), a reference to the parlor game, was released on August 3, 2009. The script was written by Nisio Isin and is bundled with the CD.
A titled Bakemonogatari Portable ( 化物語 ポータブル) developed by was released on August 23, 2012. Has made several petit figures for the series, releasing them as separate sets. The first set contains the characters Koyomi Araragi, Hitagi Senjōgahara and Tsubasa Hanekawa. The second set contains Suruga Kanbaru, Mayoi Hachikuji and Nadeko Sengoku and the third set contains the Araragi sisters Karen and Tsukihi, as well as Shinobu Oshino. The company also made a line of separate, 1/8 scale figures of Hitagi Senjōgahara, Suruga Kanbaru, Nadeko Sengoku, Tsubasa Hanekawa, Mayoi Hachikuji, Karen Araragi, Tsukihi Araragi, Shinobu Oshino, Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade (from ), Nadeko Sengoku in her Medusa form, and Yotsugi Ononoki. They have also made figures of several of the characters: Koyomi Araragi, Hitagi Senjōgahara, Mayoi Hachikuji, Suruga Kanbaru, Nadeko Sengoku, and Tsubasa Hanekawa.
They have planned to make the Araragi sisters, Karen and Tsukihi. Alter, Bandai, Kotobukiya, and others have made figures of some of the other characters as well. Reception The light novel series ranked sixth in the 2009 issue of 's light novel guide book. It later went on to rank as high as second in 2010. Koyomi Araragi ranked sixth in the Best Male Character in 2009, second in 2010, seventh in 2011, third in 2012, and sixth in 2013. Meanwhile, Hitagi Senjōgahara ranked seventh in the Best Female Character in 2009, fourth in 2010, eighth in 2011, and seventh in 2012. The anime adaptation won the Users' Special Award in the 2nd annual DEG Japan Awards/Blu-ray Prizes.
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