Audience reviews
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SakamakiKoyatsu
Probably a second release of a monogatari series of episodes of anime, that focuses actually on Araragi Koyomi, but this time in retrospect where he is confronted with what would be theoretical in the minds of those who have already enjoyed the monogatari series and that is a flipping, an inversion, and a reorganization of all character backstories, aspects, and realities on its head. The implementation of which, generally, without spoilers has been characterized as a series of surprises, logical expectations, and relays of feelings of fantasy.
What we see are not only reversals, but new experiences of relations and character dynamics not having been realized before to which(not to spoil) but in a vague way, a different history and a different outcome of events according a flipping of the…
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I am not the biggest fan of the Monogatari series. It's a series that is never gonna be the most relatable thing in the world, and it's fanservice scenes will forever stop me from loving it more. What I will say, is that it holds one of greatest written characters depicting the coming of age in fiction ever, with an incredibly well written side cast very few anime have. The way this ends in Zoku is the most mature and important message to give to a teenager and their outlook on life. It really is special and can be life-affirming to so many. When you put this together with amazing visuals, presentation, music integrated into an unbelievable adaptation, you get one of the greatest stories of all time.
I will say it again, I am not the biggest fan of the Monogatari series. It's a series tha…
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Dude, 4 years have passed and there is no new season. Imagine a kid going to college and I was watching anime before that kid was born. And this is the only thing I've been stuck on for all these years that I never want to end. Please release a new season. My damn heart can't handle this anymore, I need to at least know the end of the story. And I don't want anyone in the harem to end up with anyone other than Araragi, especially if you make my Shinobu and Hanekawa unhappy, I will haunt you in hell.
Read at the sourceLost_Hearts
"I have no idea what is going on"
That is what you're going to be saying to yourself around the 10-minute mark of episode 1. Zoku has a very elaborate and complex story, which is great and all, except the writer uses ambiguous metaphors to explain things and nonchalantly breaks the fourth wall.
"If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
"If you can't be the medicine, be the poison; otherwise you're just plain water"
Those are two examples of complicated quotes from the anime that you can, stop, and spend hours trying to interpret just one of the quotes. I promise you that all the other whack things that come out of these guy's throats can have you bewildered and have you wondering what the hell they meant. But if you can get over an anime that is ambiguous, philosophical,…
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Even though the main story of this series have come to an conclusion nisioisin managed to write a story on par with his previous best works in my opinion. I will never be able to give any of the monogatari seasons/movies a complete 5/5 because of the amount of sexualisation and weird stuff that is totally unnecessary and only makes the story for some unbearable to watch, I don't have a huge problem with it in this movie as it was mostly in the beginning and did not ruin the big moments or conclusions like it did with a certain other arc of the series.
I won't either be going into the story or how the writing in this is as I think that one of the most enjoyable parts is to experience this for yourself and form your own opinions.
I will probably never get tired from watching any of the mon…
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I mean, if you're going to write what is, essentially, an epilogue to the Monogatari series, this is a pretty genius way to do it. The presentation of this final push into Araragi's adulthood was, I thought, pretty amazing. The concept of this film (Araragi getting trapped in an inverted world) is such a powerful medium to explain Araragi's feelings about his past and his future, and within that, every character gets a tiny bit of development. In fact, Araragi's relationship with himself and Senjougahara also get a bit of development throughout this story. As a bookend to this massive series (even considering the post-series, like the Off and Monster seasons), I don't think Zoku Owarimonogatari could have done much better than touching on everything that Araragi went through throughout his…
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After all the episodes, movies and ONA's from this series I believe I'm ready to finally give it a review. I decided to do a combined review of everything I watched instead of reviewing each part individually (makes it easier on myself, haha!). Let's get right into the anime basics.
Story; Araragi Koyomi has a tendency to get involved with apparitions, oddities, gods and the unknown in his small town and school. You watch him in his every day life as he tries to get himself and his tight-knit group of friends out of all sorts of troubles. Discover the crab, snail, monkey, snake, bee, cuckoo, doll, the power of loving math and why it's better to stay out of fates way. Art; You ether started this anime because of word of mouth OR the snippets of the animation you saw on tic-tok looked SICK.…
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8/10. I already treated Owari S2 as the finale and it was an extremely apt epilogue. I’d treat Zoku Owari as an extra side story that adds to the fantastic end of the main series. If you’ve already watched most of the monogatari series, then definitely watch this too, and if you haven’t, what’re you doing?! Go search up the latest watch order and come back after you’re done with Owari.
Zoku Owari still shines with the classically innovative Ishin style to tell stories in a fun and original way and will not fail to intrigue and entertain. Araragi is given further development from his hopeful conclusion in Owari S2, and we see him leap to the next step in his life during an awkward phase of title-less-ness? - between high school and college. You’ll see what I mean.
The themes are optimis…
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I've seen enough anime with great setup and no payoff by now to not get my hopes up, but I'm still sorry to say that my biggest initial response to Zoku Owarimonogatari is disappointment, the gradual revelation that there was nothing behind the curtain. I suppose the theme that youth is full of disappointments and loose ends that will never truly be resolved isn't totally uninteresting, but that point was already made more succinctly and elegantly in Nisemonogatari.
As always, I find myself tempted to give Nisio more credit than he probably deserves by positing that the fact that there's nothing behind the curtain is part of the point, but...why spend three hours on it, then? Just to troll the audience? (And why bother finally introducing one of the most important and consequential chara…
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Zoku Owarimonogatari is the unnecessary yet enjoyable enough epilogue to the Monogatari series. The story concerns Koyomi entering a strange mirror world where all of his friends are 'reversed'. Or that's how it appears at first anyway, but there might be a little more to it. Personally I thought that the ending of Owarimonogatari Second Season was the perfect way to end the series, but Zoku kept my interest until the end either way. At the very least it did not go and ruin anything.
But like I said, this epilogue feels largely pointless. Many of the revelations that Koyomi has in the mirror world are things that could have easily been already inferred just based on the previous seasons. This feels like an author trying to over-explain their own work rather than letting the reader interpr…
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I finally did it, I completed all of Monogatari Series. It took me a good few months of pretty regular watching, but I did it. Zoku Owarimonogatari is a little epilogue that continues the story after Araragi faces, and then saves, himself. It was mostly just a small little story without any super amazing parts, but it was still a nice little continuation.
The arc for Zoku Owarimonogatari was one of the weaker ones in my opinion, it didn't have the depth or intrigue that the other arcs had. It was still fairly enjoyable, and it had a nice message when all was said and done.
The sort of "mirror world" take on the characters of Monogatari were sort of interesting, but it wasn't anything really crazy. Most of the things revealed by these characters was stuff I had already known or inferred.…
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tl;dr: An epilogue that’s mostly just having fun but that manages to end on a pretty powerful note.
Zoku Owarimonogatari is an epilogue to Araragi’s story, and thus all of Monogatari so far really. I know that there are quite a few novels after this, but they’re unlikely to get an adaptation, and it isn’t completely clear whether the novels will be translated either, so for now I’m just going to consider this as the ending of Monogatari. Everything that had been building up it had been resolved in the previous arc, and there was no necessity to build up things for the future either, so this arc is pretty much just a self contained arc that’s playing around.
The premise is simply Araragi in a mirrored world where character’s are very different from how they normally are and Araragi explor…
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Toda a moral dessa parte da história baseia-se no primeiro monólogo dado pelo protagonista, um monólogo sobre a incerteza do rumo de sua vida a partir de agora, visto que, diferente de quando Araragi Koyomi era um aluno do ensino médio, ele não tinha nada planejado de sua vida adiante
A história começa com o Araragi sendo absorvido pelo espelho na sua primeira manhã como graduado doensino médio, por conta de algo de incomum em seu reflexo; o que mais tarde é explicado como o abandonodo seu "eu" anterior, visto que ele planejava deixar para trás tudo no qual ele se arrepende de ter não ter feitono passado. Zoku Owarimonogatari então, apropria-se de uma moral semelhante, mas não igual, a Owarimonogatari
Araragi Koyomi não conseguiu se desfazer dos seus arrependimentos do passado. Ao i…
Read at the sourceZeppeliGo
I really liked how these episodes are structured, It feels like something new.
It's really intersting discovering how is the behaviour of each character in the mirror world. Seeing every different aspect for each single one made me very happy and curious.
It was also interesting meeting Kanbaru mom.. kinda dope tbh XD. Araragi could take advantage in the bath lul.
I was really curious too see how could be Senjougahara, but they decide to not show her.
My final vote could be around 8.5 since it's a reallt nice part after the conclusion in Owarimonogari 2.
Just one comment: I really wanted to see Kiss shot.. not behind the curtains. Of course it was done due to the story (kinda extreme but ok ahaha)
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Did we really need this movie? Honestly I would say no, but as a fan of this series, I am glad it happened! I was wondering how would they continue after such a amazing conclusion to the series? But man... they pulled it off with a brilliant idea. Worth a watch for fan of the series and just wanted to see more.
It doesn't really add anything to the main story beside just little things here and there. Mainly adding to their character development and relationship... especially to emphasize why Senjougahara is the best girl for our main boy. Not saying she's best girl overall, that still belongs to our Vampire Queen.
As for this story, it adds a unique element to it. Can't really review this without spoiler because it would make no sense at all how this will continue the series or add any…
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*THIS REVIEW DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS*
The monogatari series has always delivered on everything: action, comedy, shock; it pretty much has everything you could ever ask for. You would think that after 11 TV shows that it would drop in quality but i would actually say that the last few shows (including this one) are better than Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari on certain aspects.
STORY:
The story of the monogatari series is like a big sea and the different stories are like rivers flowing into it, slowly making it bigger and more beautiful.
Long story short, the story is an amazing because it sets the stage for the different characters to be different and express themselves. But ,like some of the characters say: "This is a silly premise". That is true, we have seen the character going i…
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Zoku Owarimonogatari is a mindbending filler-yet-not-filler, psychological-yet-not-psychological mystery that serves as an endcap, and an excellent one, to the 94 episodes and 3 movies that came before it. And, before you even think about watching this one, yes, you DO have to watch all of those to follow what's going on here; aside from the three prequel movies (which you should watch anyway; they're great), every single bit of the Monogatari series preceding this builds towards this one conclusion, this one story that really doesn't change a single thing, and yet is still an essential watch.
The story is simple-- Koyomi Araragi falls into a mirror world that looks and sounds like his own, with all the same familiar (entirely female) faces, but with each of them being altered in bizarre…
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Zoku Owarimonogatari is an unseemingly fitting epilogue to Owarimonogatari Second Season. Whereas Owarimonogatari Second Season focused on wrapping up the plot of the Monogatari Series, Zoku Owarimonogatari focused on wrapping up the themes and feelings of the Monogatari Series.
From a visual standpoint, do not expect Kizumonogatari visuals even though Zoku Owarimonogatari is a movie. Zoku Owarimonogatari looks and sounds just like a regular, high-quality Monogatari Series Arc. The notable thing missing is the sporadic flashing walls of text. I don’t know for sure if no other arc has completely taken them out like this, but this is the first time I’m noticing it. Before I get any angry comments about the flashing walls of text at the end, I wouldn’t count those. Fight me.
Zoku Owarimon…
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!!! ATTENTION: THIS REVIEW IS NOT AS IN DEPTH AS I WOULD HAVE LIKED BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEAVE OUT ANY SPOILERS. !!!
Before getting into this review, I think you need to understand something. That something is: that a majority of the love for this film comes from a love of the series. It comes from a love of the directing style, the character dynamics, and the eccentric plot. If you don't love these things about Monogatari, then you won't love Zoku Owari, the ultimate Monogatari.
Zoku Owari is the ultimate Monogatari. Why is it the ultimate Monogatari? Because it's the most Monogatari, Monogatari. Everything from the wacky artistic direction down to the stupid mannerisms is exactly what Monogatari is to me.
In my personal experience, watching any Monogatari just once is never enough. I f…
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So the only part I actually enjoyed where the last 5-10 minutes with Senjougahara. The problem is that:
1. they miss the whole thing that made Monogatari a cult anime: the mystery, the puzzle, the interesting interjections. There is none of that. It is all so boring that you feel the dread and want for it to be over
2. All the "reveals" are already well known by both us and Araragi from the previous installments but he seems to have forgotten them for no reason
3. The ending made absolutely no sense and made Araragi way too powerful
In a word the show looks like a bad fanfic . There are times when story tellers lack inspiration and try to fake it. They produce a lot of low quality material like this one. A similar thing can be said for Stephen King recent novels.
Basically if you are the…
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