Bakemonogatari

More of a review than a discussion :( Just turned out that way when I was done typing xD Sorry.





As it stands I am loving, simply loving the animation! Your probably going "Love it? You been bitching about it in your post!" well animation I love :) them having live clips I don't love :)

I love you to hon. I edited it to try and keep the hate at a minimum. I would think people would rather read that then know why exactly I didn't like the episode.

Also I in no way stated I was giving it the same treatment as Eden of the East. You found them similiar :P Mainly I was skipping through episodes 1-5 is that I wanted to reach the latest episode. From reading the replies, what is said in earlier episodes doesn't hold much in the episodes to come.

Also I wrote no wall of text. I'm seperating all my thoughts with [Enter] :)

Ya know what Zero. I just noticed what I do. I don't discuss the show... I review it. From this point on I won't review the show I'll just discuss whats going on. I never noticed thats what I do until now since normally I don't edit my posts and nobody has mentioned it.

Episode 6:
I'm confused how the episode is progressing. That is to say the scene being teleported to another location every sentance is making it hard for me to tell whats real and what isn't.

So the loli just doesn't like other girls...? ...or is it she can't materialize around other people? I guess she materialized infront of that other girl but she is 'special' I suppose xD Guess I'll just have to wait for the explanation. Also this is all refering to her leaving when that other girl jumps over the guy.

Skipping ahead to the tutor scene, don't you think shes kinda dropped her original character? Always being paranoid and what not carrying weapons around ect. ect. I suppose its possible after the crab was removed from her person who personality was returned to her but I wouldn't think she'd drop all of the paranoias she had found. Also is she really in love with him? She did say "I love you" and they were holding hands but is she really in love or was that part of the priests plan. I was wrong it would seem. She hasn't dropped her personality though that smile of hers makes her seem like a whole different person.

Well at first I had assumed that the cloaked figure was one of the people from the initial scene mainly because I've watched it so many times. The thing that keeps me from saying its that basketball pro is thats to obvious and this seems like the kinda show that'd want to be mysterious ALSO ALSO nevermind haha one part when they show the entire cloaked body I mistook those bandages for hair so yeah I think it is actually that girl.


Episode 1, Initial Scene:
Going back to ep. 1 the initial scene where they showed limbs being cut off and fighting I'm starting to wonder if that will ever occur. This show does very often show images that are... not really related to whats going on and I wouldn't be surprised if that initial scene was just that. I'd love it if it did but I don't know if it will.

Also talking about that initial scene... All the characters in that seem to be real. Besides the blonde women and a faceless girl wearing a cap (All you could see was her hat) we've been introduced to all the characters in that scene. Hell that blonde women could be the girl we saw at the start when we were first introduced to the priest. I noticed she actually had quite the bust (Wasn't a loli) though I could be wrong. This actually makes a lot of sense... I just rewatched that initial scene and the part in which it shows the blonde girl for the first time shes in a room that looks like the one shown where they first met the priest. Also the priest could be 'evil' for all we know. ...or to cure the girl she had to do something evil. Also not all characters have been introduced as I said initially there are three other men shown which I assume are going to be the villians of the show.

YA KNOW WHAT?! I just went back to watching ep. 6 and the blonde girl from the initial scene looks a lot like that girl! The one who was attacked by the crab. That would explain why in the initial scene the two of them exchange a look of love (Though they were cutting off each others limbs before that)


Another point: My thoughts are all over the place so I decided to make this one last thought... The initial scene shows a girl that looks much like the girl in the initial meeting with the priest. The one whos shadow was broken or something sitting in a pool of blood. From the later parts of the initial scene you see her eating a corpse so its possible to assume that she made another kill...

AH! I just saw something big. In the initial scene at :55 the main character is at a fork in the road. One way is a huge man later shown (he has wild hair) and the other shows a man who looks oddly like the priest who is holding a huge cross xD It seems like they're both enemies so maybe the priest is evil as I've stated before and eventually tries to kill the main character or the main character is evil and the priest has to kill him. Also if you continue the scene you'll see this exact scene (Him ain't the fork in the road) showing whats behind him which is another man who again looks a lot like the priest. This makes me doubt myself since I said one of the men looks like the priest before. Moving on in the scene they all run at him the main character and it shows the priest.

Alright I rewatched that part and paused it every two seconds. I was wrong again. I've rewatched this so many times and I keep seeing something different which is more accurate this time I have it pinned down. The two men down the street from him are a wild man and a man we have yet to seen. We can't tell whether or not they wear a cross. The man behind him looks just like the priest we were introduced to and even wears a cross like him. Are they part of the same organization?

Well after all that they fight and the priest we know jumps in apparently blocking the attacks of the wild man and maybe the other man but I can't tell exactly since only the wild mans face is shown. It seems like the priest wasn't able to stop the other guy because in the next scene the man (main character) with clean hair throws his cross at him and a mist comes out of his body just like the mist that came out of that girl who got attacked by a crab. Maybe she didn't slip on a banana afterall but was attacked by this same group of people.


Moving on we swap to the glasses girl hiding behind a pillar. Though its most unlikely maybe shes watching the fight as its going on though it seems like these are two different scenes. I'll skip what happens next with the glasses girl since it doesn't really matter.

The next scene shows the priest holding a beating human heart in his hand. Maybe he needed it to cure the shadowless girl. Well in the next scene we see a blonde girl over a pile of bones and blood. I thought "maybe its the priests body" but the corpse has a boot while the priest wears sandals. The next scene is the same blonde girl fighting the main character which is followed by them looking at each other in lovey-dovey eyes. Now the blonde girl and the girl attacked by the crab look alike so I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same people. It would seem that the blonde girl is wearing the same outfit everytime shes there and the crab girl says she'd wear a different outfit everyday for some reason so yeah.


Well I'm done.

MORE MORE MORE
Well I was reading what I wrote about saying the pycho blonde girl seemed like the girl from the initial meeting with the priest and I noticed I have yet to actually check. I found a video which translated the starting text and it seems like all the misfortune he faces (the main character) is all a result of meeting that girl (the crab attacked one) One thing I don't understand is it says
this is all refering to the girl who got attacked by the crab girl


this is refering to her being alone in school

where exactly is here? all of this text about her goes on while we she glimpses of the blonde women who is always drenched in blood everytime we've seen her thus far. it says she isn't here so has she died? did something happen to her or is this just clever talk which holds no real importance to the story.

The girl, Oshino Shinobu (Heart under blade), who is seen in ep. 1 at 18:29 during our first meeting of the priest, Oshino, are connected shown in 00:46-01:39. If you go to 18:54 and 00:53 you'll see the two of them look identical. It'd be naive of me to say that they are the same people but I am completely sure that they connected and I THINK they same people

Now the question remains what happened? Why is the priest holding such a girl and what is her connection to the guy as they are seen fighting (cutting each others limbs off)

Comment: Zero where is your avatar from? I love it.

I have decided not mention when I skip a part to avoid conflict. You might be now or you might be going "Fuck Harmonian I'm not reading his retarded text" but could you reply to what I said in my latest reply?



When I said I skipped bits I skipped the chatter. I skipped them talking about getting food and skipped her talking about why she hates kids the useless conversations that make me want to quit the series because all I want is for the mystery to be unraveled and this chatter ain't going nowhere :P

Theres a manga? Well I won't read it. Typically when I read the manga while I'm watching the anime I find the anime is horrible afterwards.

As it stands there is no reason to watch this series. I am hating it. I hope that it will get better and resemble what was shown in the first five minutes of ep. 1 but if it doesn't this show will surely crash and burn.