You should (Not) watch Monogatari
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Should you watch the Monogatari Series? It's a classic contender for the title of Greatest Anime of All Time. It's also really weird and "problematic". Is this anime an artistic masterpiece or just pretentious garbage? Yes. So definitely watch it. Or don't. That is my definitive recommendation. The conclusion to this review.
Honestly, I'm just making this video because Monogatari Off & Monster Season are coming out. Or am I lying? Who can say... At the very least, I'll keep this one spoiler free.
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all i know about this series is Kanbaru is a cutie and a friend of mine loves it
Monogatari is my shit. It's a series that actually makes me think about and pay attention to what the characters are saying. One thing that I think helps with that is the active distance I place between myself and Araragi. He's not like other main characters. Whether it be the self-insert protags of certain series or characters that you're supposed to at least see yourself in, to some extent. Araragi is not that at all. While you can feel the emotions that he feels in some scenes, it almost feels more like connecting to another person than what you typically do with a main character. It's just one of the many things that makes Monogatari different from other stories
At this point, I feel like I understand where all those girls Cultured Crusader dated in college are coming from. I get a little excited when I see him, but then I see the short length that he has to offer and then feel nothing but profound disappointment.
You're actually the reason I started monogatari. I saw one of your tomboy tuesday posts on twitter where you used Kanbaru as the picture, reversed image searched for it, found out it was from monogatari and without any knowledge about what it was decided to watch it.
Dang it, I've only seen Monogatari through once. I've been meaning to watch it again for the last 4 years. With the new season coming out, it seems like the best time to watch it again.
For me at least, I'd sum up monogatari as an anime about growing up from childhood to adulthood. Characters that first look well rounded are in fact flawed, delusional liars, core ideas of the protagonist shatter as he realizes things can't go his way, he has to learn and embrace his mistakes and flaws to find a way out of things, realising in the process that you can't just fuck around and expect consequences to be non existant. In this anime every character also has to get their shit together and deal with the stuff they've always pretended wasn't there in order to grow past it and prospere in life. I watched this show in high school and man was it an eye opening lesson on life, this will forever remain my favorite show too
Holy shit! You actually did make that Monogatari video. I was trying to be funny, last video.
Bro rolls off Araragi Koiyomi and flubs Monogatari pronunciation. Jokes aside, you did a great job explaining this anime. I love the puns and word play that is persistent in the show. You definitely need to know a bit of Japanese to get some of it unfortunately, the world play is such a big part of it. Having it dubbed or reading the subtitles you kind of miss some of the comedy of the show. Even with as little Japanese as I know I bet there are still some world play jokes that I missed unless they really emphasized them when they said them. Monogatari is practically its own genre as far as I'm concerned. There really isn't anything else that I've ever seen that compares to it.
Don't forget the music... unforgettable tunes
I clicked on this for the obscure anime, I stayed for the fact that I saw the college I graduated from in the very first frame. What's up Florida Poly Gang?!
“Do I mention the scene with tooth secks with his sister”
After I finished monogatari, I could not watch just any other show for like half a year. I craved something else like it and I just couldn't find it.
I've always called Monogatari a "button-pushing machine". You HAVE to go in wanting to be disgusted, horrified, titilated, angered, bored, shocked, confused and more or else it's going to be a bad time
This video encapsulates all the reasons why I love this show so much. Cheers.
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I started this series when I was around 50 anime complete also, but I had paused it around after Nisemonogatari. Really glad I came back to it a few months later because it's been my favorite series ever since. Totally agree with what you said about recommending it to others. There's such a high benchmark for getting through this series, and the material in it definitely isn't suitable for friends that just watch shonen like most of mine. I'm just glad this series introduced me to Akiyuki Shinbou and his schizo directing style, excited for the new season(s)!
I remember getting into Monogatari because of an amv using Into The Labyrinth by Kraddy, it was just so amazing looking, and i liked the design of the characters, and i think because i just watched The World God Only Knows, which i believe do have the same designers?? Or just have very similarities. Once i went down the Monogatari rabbit hole i just went deeper and deeper. And it was just when Second Season was starting to air, so that was like 11 years ago, which dang. And i have mostly been on the internet using this name for majority of my accounts cuz i just really liked Araragi, i dont necessarily live and breathe Monogatari, but it is always on my radar of like having to get into when new things come up which is why for me as an anime only Off and Monster season was my hype for the year. I am collecting the manga as well, and i have the light novels, i did read Kizu right before the movies came out as that was the first light novel released.
Happy to see you talk about the series, i love all your references to it in your other videos.
YES I totally agree with you on the kizu watch order .. Love watching kizu after koyo it just feels right and the fact that from nise all the way to koyo is shrouded with the mistery between the relationship between shinobu and araragi is just the icing on top of the whole monogatari series
yo thanks for the content dog, keep up the stuff. Also those longer videos are really awesome!