‘Bye bye yandere ;(‘ — Bakemonogatari 02

Because Aizen and me both seem to equally like Bake­monogatari (and because I wanted to make a first-impressions post but was too late) we decided to team blog the series. Maybe not always though.

After the second arc of Bake­monogatari I still hold to everything I said and thought about it — great that is. I can’t find a bad thing to point at. Merely, what should be spoken with a rather con­fused smile: What’s up with all the f***ing staplers (Unknow­ing strangers don’t know how right I am form­ing it like that)? To me, the staplers were funny.

SHIT, HAVEN’T YOU EVER WATCHED SOMETHING CALLED PORN?!

Arar­agi is sad and lonely.

No mat­ter how I look at it, des­pite Hitagi’s nud­ity dur­ing half the time, I can’t call it fan ser­vice. Fan ser­vice is when a female char­ac­ter shows her­self in a sug­gest­ive and attract­ive way to us — Hitagi was naked because of the fact she weights 5kg and clothes are simply too heavy for her; it’s more like a part of the story. A nice part. The talk­at­ive plot line is OK and also the fanser­vice Hitagi dis­plays (screw you for not call­ing it fanser­vice :>). But what really dis­turbs me is that she said “STDs from hook­ers are con­ta­gious.” Now, this is either say­ing that Arar­agi is con­sidered a hooker OR that she’s the hooker. As I’m an ima­gin­at­ive fuck, I say she’s say­ing she’s say­ing she’s the hooker. In other words, she might have really screwed a bunch of guys try­ing to cure her prob­lem ;..; Plus the fact that mis­trust is all over her mind.

The “dumb” accus­a­tions are start­ing now…

ZOMG!

NOSRSLY?

Call me slow if you want but I’ll say that the voice actor (seiyuu, I believe) of Arar­agi soun­ded really famil­iar to a many other Anime I’ve seen. It was by “Hiroshi Kam­iya” or some­thing like that. Well, the sad thing was that I haven’t seen a lot of Anime with that seiyuu — except Say­on­ara Zetsubo Sen­sei. And I really doubt that that hypo­chon­driac soun­ded like Arar­agi. Well, maybe he does a little whenever he whines.

I’ll try and believe that she didn’t lose her vir­gin­ity — as she wasn’t raped by that dude from that cult her mother joined. Ser­i­ously though, this was mostly an ‘all talk’ epis­ode. Really little to no action. But I thought it was a happy end­ing as every­one got what they wanted and was happy. Lit­er­ally, when Hitagi and the two other guys were in the shrine, I thought a gan­grape was going to start. Plus there was alco­hol — which could have had some drugs in it. But eh, it didn’t. Any­ways, Hitagi’s past was pretty crappy but all was well after she asked the crab to return her bloody feel­ings for her. I guess she wasn’t raped after all, but even an attempt is already a scar for life and the explan­a­tion of her mis­trust paranoia.

Little action and much talk­ing is not always bad. Spice and Wolf, which I may call my all-time favour­ite, was built almost entirely on dia­logues — well, and Horo. Any­way, action aside, as object of enter­tain­ment this epis­ode was excel­lent. An inter­est­ing storyline itself, and a sad and mov­ing mini-story. At last but not least, the yandere became a friendly, smil­ing girl again — in one epis­ode (!). I praise that change, and that didn’t take half a series as in other anime. Bye bye yandere ;(

So I’ll assume that Hitagi isn’t the main char­ac­ter. And if she is, she might as well be the girl­friend of Arar­agi. I mean ser­i­ously, she’s hot and Araragi’s the main char­ac­ter. It would be per­fect. But as Bake­monogatari doesn’t seem like a romance Anime, I doubt any­thing like that will hap­pen. What I want to see more of is, actu­ally, Araragi’s two sis­ters. They’re pretty hot and cute if you ask me :3 Here I com­pletely agree with Aizen. Iron­ic­ally, I once drew an art­work with exactly the same set­ting — a girl wak­ing up her onii-chan. (That art­work was my birth­day present for tflops by the way).

How I men­tioned on Twit­ter, I think that Bake­monogatari is most prob­ably this season’s best show, my favour­ite, and def­in­itely exceeds Eden of the East. I wouldn’t know or com­pare as I don’t watch too much Anime now’a-days. But if it can keep me enter­tained, I like it.

BROWN IS AIZEN, NOT GARGRON (+ the screen captions)