Hello everyone. It’s been quite a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been on hiatus for over a month now, mainly because I didn’t really feel like uploading. I apologize for not updating on my leave, but please, be understanding. I sincerely apologize.
Anyways, on a more positive note, I will be starting a new series beginning today: The series review.
And the first entry into the review series, is a show I’ve just recently finished, (as you can see in the title, you know the name of it. But I’ll say it anyway) Bakemonogatari.
The monogatari series is truly unique. Not only in its style, but also its tone. If you don’t know, each line of episodes are separated into stories, such as the Hitagi crab and Nadeko snake stories for example. Each story features a different character, as well as an ever changing tone. Yet all of the stories seem to feature a very consistent, every present tone as well.
As a side note, there are different seasons and parts of the franchise I haven’t seen, as I have almost exclusively watched the Bakemonogatari part (and also the first Kizumonogatari movie. The chronologically first part of the entire franchise)
One thing I really admire that Bakemonogatari integrates into its story almost seamlessly, are its references. Because of the way the series is structured, it can fit in almost any reference it wants, very paradoxically to what the plot seems to limit itself to doing. It also carries out its overall message in each story extremely well, as well as leaving the audience to come to the overall conclusion of what each piece of symbolism means spread throughout each story by themselves, treating its audience with a respect that I’ve seen rarely replicated. (Sometimes, the series will even give little references to it’s overall plot in each story, however even if you spot all of the little intricacies, it will never directly state them, even at the end)
As for the characters, they could carry an entire blog by themselves, so I’ll go over them in a different post
Overall, the story is amazing, it’s themes and tone are brilliant, and it’s characters are a very spectacularly constructed, deconstruction of their archetypes.
I would give this part of the series, a: 9.1/10
I implore you to watch the series for yourself if you appreciate literature and love character dynamics.
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