Next Koymoi meets Mayoi Hachikuji, the ghost of a child carrying a huge backpack, who claims to be a lost snail. Instead he offers to help her regain her missing weight, and learns from Oshino that it was taken by a crab demon or “weight god”, representing the absence of Hitagi’s mother in her life. As a reward, Hitagi staples Koyomi in the mouth so he’ll keep quiet.
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The series is split into mini-arcs – each with its own bespoke opening theme song and credits – in which Koyomi, with assistance from Oshino and a small vampire girl named Shinobu, helps girls confront the demons burdening their lives.įirst off, Koyomi catches classmate Hitagi Senjōgahara as she falls down the stairs, noting she is weightless.
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This actually happened before the main story begins and is not fully revealed until episode four, making the confusing prelude to the first episode designed to get us up to scratch on a story that hasn’t actually begun even more baffling. To expand a little on the plot, Koyomi was attacked by a vampire during the school holidays but rescued and reverted back to human by Oshino, although he still has some lingering side effects like being able to see in the dark and can heal abnormally quickly. If you think you’ve seen it all in shows like FLCL or Mawaru Penguindrum then think again, with this title arguably likely to prove to be more contentious than these two combined. The plot may be simple, hence the vague outline above, but the content and presentation takes the surreal and esoteric manifesto to new and often baffling and obnoxious levels of mind jarring.
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Based on the light novels by Isio Nisin, the title is a portmanteau of the words “bakemono”, meaning ghost or monster, and “monogatari” meaning story – so it’s a “ghost story” if you will. Koyomi Aragari is a high school boy and former vampire destined to help the girls of his school deal with the various demonic apparitions that blight their lives, with the help of the mysterious hippy like Meme Oshino.įor the first time in my six years as an Anime reviewer I am actually stumped as to what to write, such is the perplexing and abstract nature of Bakemonogatari. Bakemonogatari Part 1 (Episodes 1-8) (Cert 15) 2 Discs (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 193 minutes approx.