Monogatari Second Season: 1x26 "Hitagi End, Part Six" // Reaction and Discussion
Added 2025-10-30 00:05:36 +0000 UTC
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A large part of the fun of watching Monogatari is rewatching it :D
Milosz Skowronski
2025-11-08 16:47:21 +0000 UTCPeak cinema. It's difficult to talk about "the best" Monogatari arcs, because all of them are at the very least really good, but if someone put my nuts in a vice and threatened to twist the handle, I'd have to say Koimonogatari/Hitagi End is my personal favourite. So many great lines, plot twists and character building. Plus, I'm a sucker for meta-narrative, genre deconstruction, unreliable narrators, and hard-boiled/noir fiction. It just ticks all the boxes for me.
Milosz Skowronski
2025-11-08 16:45:07 +0000 UTCHonestly if y'all rewatch the show and decided to post it, I'd be down to watch it again + your new discussions based off things you've already known
Oisif
2025-11-08 12:45:48 +0000 UTCPure Kino.
davyjones
2025-10-31 00:51:38 +0000 UTCThey are doing crunchyroll order so Hanamonogatari is first yeah, also the fire sisters told em at the end of the episode that hanamonogatari is next for them basically XD
Vladi
2025-10-30 22:04:59 +0000 UTCLow-key suggestion, watch Hanamonogatari before Tsukimonogatari. It gives best-yuri-girl Kanbaru some well-deserved spotlight and sets up the mood perfectly for what’s next. And it even came out before Tsukimonogatari. Lesbian energy included
O B
2025-10-30 11:14:56 +0000 UTCBy the way, there is an actual 3 chapter manga u can read made by the Monogatari author NISIOISIN, "Kimi to Nadekko" https://mangadex.org/title/b88d8047-ff18-41b8-8054-6b711146eeec/anime-monogatari-series-heroine-book-4-sengoku-nadeko
Dominik Lux
2025-10-30 10:20:09 +0000 UTCIt didn't hit me right away, but the fact that Araragi showed up there is incredibly damning. If Kaiki had been successful with his original plan, then Araragi would have immediately blown it all up and likely gotten all his friends killed. That's how selfish Araragi is. He has to be the hero. If his non-involvement is better for someone, he would still rather be involved even if it risks the lives of him and his friends. He obviously didn't know the details, but surely Senjougahara would have told him that the situation was going to be solved without them, and that if he goes to the shrine then Nadeko would immediately kill them. Huge Araragi L.
Megatherium
2025-10-30 05:51:06 +0000 UTCThat execution pun was really good, got me rolling^o^
XIAOJUN ZHAO
2025-10-30 03:42:18 +0000 UTC"literary creations are inherently embarrasing, and dreams are not different" recontextualizes stuff like last episode's: " yeah, yeah, exactly, i'm actually a really nice guy, im the sort of kind-hearted guy capable of feeling that way... Don't tell anyone, though, its embarrasing" If you think about it, the whole "not saying the wish so it doesn't go unfulfilled" is pretty much just an aversion of embarassment, and what sengoku was basically doing during the whole story: is just not owning up to one's desires because of shame and even other factors like the established perception others have of you (her disliking being called "cute girl"), getting bitter towards those restrictions and scapegoating the blame of her actions towards those who restricted her , being fatalist regarding the type of person she "ended up being" so she doesn't have to confront the nitty gritty, mundane, "lame" stuff that actually has to do with living. Fatalism, escapism, shame, ressentment, and self absorption are what makes her arc, and what makes pretty much any living teenager, and establishes her as imo the best representation of one in the story and shows that even without tragedy-magnets personality traits like araragi's seflessness, and hitagi's and hanekawa's traumatics backgrounds, as in, even under "normal circumstances", one's life can easily be derailed. Kaiki was really the best person for the job since to understand her he just has to be self aware about what he is: a grown ass man that is constantly talking about how much of a liar he is, whose ambivalency and ironic distance from anything he says can be not only a tool to take advantage of others but also to protect oneself, and escape from the person he deep down actually is.
sip
2025-10-30 02:10:59 +0000 UTC
