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Bakemonogatari

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Bakemonogatari	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Monogatari Series is a franchise of Light Novels and associated media projects, with the original novels written by NisiOisiN and illustrated by VOFAN.The series follows Koyomi Araragi, an initially mundane, if introverted, high school student who encounters a vampire just before his senior year. The experience draws him, and eventually, his family and friends, into the supernatural world of "aberrations", spirits who prey upon the emotional turmoil of humans, and the "specialists" who study and hunt them.Much like the rest of Nisio Isin's work, Bakemonogatari parodies or otherwise examines a number of Japanese fiction tropes, particularly those typical to the Harem Genre. Each chapter focuses on a different girl and the affliction that ails them, each one an examination of a different anime girl stereotype. For example, main girl Hitagi is a Tsundere (or so she says), Hanekawa is the Bespectacled Cutie, and so on. Araragi himself is an Unreliable Narrator, so much of his opinion of who these girls are can bleed into their portrayal in the series, making it so that we often learn more about Araragi at the same time we learn about the girls.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Monogatari Series contains the following titles:
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Bakemonogatari / int_118bba4	comment	Non-Indicative Title: Monogatari Series Second Season. While it covers content from the novels' "second season", it's actually the third season of the anime discounting the specials. "Mayoi Jiangshi" is particularly deceptive. Koyomi and Shinobu travel back in time to avert Mayoi's death, but this is just a pretense to explore what would have become of Kissshot if she hadn't been saved by Koyomi's friendship. There are also no proper jiangshi to be found, although conceptually similar "vampire zombies" do appear, and at one point the attempt to undo Mayoi's death is compared to reviving a corpse. "Shinobu Time" has Mayoi returning the favor to Shinobu. Though Shinobu's past experience is important for Info Dump purposes, it ultimately is Mayoi's fault the Eldritch Abomination is around. "Hitagi End" is not actually the end of the series, although Hitagi's end (i.e. her death) is an immediate concern. Final Season: It's not the final season, since Isin went on to append an "off season" and a "monster season" afterward. Final Season wasn't even chronologically "final" when it was coming out—that was Second Season's Hanamonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_136d170b	type	Unreadably Fast Text
Bakemonogatari / int_136d170b	comment	Unreadably Fast Text: Episodes open with excerpts from the novels that start off a little too fast and rapidly become totally impossible to read.
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Bakemonogatari / int_14098d74	type	Fake First Kiss
Bakemonogatari / int_14098d74	comment	Fake First Kiss: Tsukihi is upset and Koyomi tries to calm her down with a kiss. Tsukihi (who doesn't know she's not his sister) is naturally Squicked out about her Sacred First Kiss being stolen by her brother. He tells her don't think of it as a "real" first kiss because he's just a pervert.
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Bakemonogatari / int_14450636	type	Debut Queue
Bakemonogatari / int_14450636	comment	Debut Queue: Most of the main cast is introduced in Bakemonogatari, and with the exceptions of Tsubasa and Shinobu, who are present from the start and are elaborated upon later, each girl is neatly introduced one at a time with a whole story arc dedicated to her before moving on to the next one. This applies less so to later books in the series, but due to the fiercely enforced Minimalist Cast trope, more than two characters are never introduced at a time anyway.
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Bakemonogatari / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Bakemonogatari / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Hitagi and Koyomi begin dating shortly after he restores her weight. This receives some Deconstruction, however: Hitagi is troubled by the thought that she would have fallen for whoever ended up saving her, while Koyomi feels he may be taking advantage of her weakness. To Hitagi's credit, she also believes that even if Koyomi didn't help her, she would've fallen for him anyway if she simply observed him rescuing others.
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Bakemonogatari / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Bakemonogatari / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Sodachi Riddle and Sodachi Lost are arguably the darkest stories of the series (with Kizumonogatari close behind) since there are no aberrations involved merely one very messed up abused and traumatized girl, and the family situation that is behind her circumstances. The implications there, especially the twist in Sodachi Lost are horrifying.
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Bakemonogatari / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
Bakemonogatari / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Suruga, in that distinctly Japanese way: sure, she talks dirty and smacks Koyomi around (and more), but she still looks very feminine and caters directly to those with a bicycle short fetish.
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Bakemonogatari / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Bakemonogatari / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The "staple stable" opening features staplers in what appear to be rough approximations of sex positions. During the car ride in Episode 12, Senjogahara runs her fingers along Koyomi's thigh. Cue cut to the gas meter dinging empty. It's augmented by her whispering obscene words to him and sensually biting his ear while he's fidgeting and whimpering "St-stop it." It's all wrapped up by seeing his hair that once stood pointed and firm, turn all flaccid. At this point, it's not even subtext. Not at all sexual and probably highly disturbing, when Koyomi has Shinobu drink his blood so he can regain some amount of a vampire's abilities, the scene is highly reminiscent of a mother nursing an infant. He even pats her back to get her to let go. The scene where Koyomi touches Suruga's monkey arm. He even lampshades it by yelling at her for making weird noises. The scene in "Tsukihi Phoenix" where Koyomi brushes Karen's teeth and everything leading up to it is effectively PG rated sex.
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Bakemonogatari / int_15e48c8b	type	Yonkoma
Bakemonogatari / int_15e48c8b	comment	Episode 9 has a shot of Suruga and Koyomi recreating the Gaijin 4koma reaction.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Bakemonogatari / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Subtle, but present. The way characters are presented changes significantly depending on the current viewpoint; whenever the viewpoint shifts away from Araragi, the female characters become significantly less sexualized, for example. The anime takes a distinctly visual approach to adapting the spirit of the novels' first-person narration. For instance, Male Gaze is extremely prevalent while Araragi narrates but less present with other narrators; to Araragi, Senjogahara is often scary but is simply a bit odd when Hanekawa is the narrator. To all the school-age narrators, the world is entirely devoid of people except for the few characters necessary to the plot, reflecting a teenager's exaggerated concern with their immediate social circle while ignoring the world at large. These artistic choices are thrown into sharp relief by Kaiki, the only adult narrator, whose world is still focused on certain people but will at least allow the depiction of random passers-by on the street. There are several occasions in Nekomonogatari (Shiro) where the chapters skip numbers, representing Black Hanekawa taking over.
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Bakemonogatari / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Bakemonogatari / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The titles of the various novels are portmanteaux that would never come up in a normal conversation, but occasionally there will be a title drop by splitting a portmanteau into its components. For example, in Nisemonogatari: "Tsukihi Phoenix": Likewise, Kabukimonogatari (twisted tale) has Shinobu respond to Araragi's claim that he can change the story by saying that it is a "kabukimonogati".
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Bakemonogatari / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Bakemonogatari / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The first trailer for the Bakemonogatari anime implied that the series would also cover material from Nisemonogatari and Kizumonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
Bakemonogatari / int_1b8ff67c	comment	In episode 13, Hanekawa theorizes that the reason Koyomi keeps attracting pretty girls is a trace remnant of the vampire's ability to charm humans with a glance. This idea is shot down by black Hanekawa when Koyomi tries to use it as a reason for ignoring Hanekawa's attraction to him. He's nowhere near powerful enough to have vampiric charisma.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1ba34641	type	The Glomp
Bakemonogatari / int_1ba34641	comment	The Glomp: Pretty much everytime Koyomi sees Mayoi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Bakemonogatari / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: Kizumonogatari will be adapted to three films.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1c712be8	type	Yaoi Fangirl
Bakemonogatari / int_1c712be8	comment	Yaoi Fangirl: Suruga.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Bakemonogatari / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: At the very end of Koimonogatari, just as Kaiki leaves the city, implied to have learned a valuable lesson himself after helping everybody else solve their own issues of the story, he is beaten with a baseball bat by the guy from "Nadeko Snake" who had the curse reflected back on him. Fortunately, he survives. The whole sequence lasts less than a minute and is incredibly brutal, shocking, and effective. Though, it was mentioned that he was being followed it still seems to come out of nowhere.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Bakemonogatari / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Invoked indirectly in episode 9, 20:20. Interestingly enough, the above line came straight from the original novel. This is also the reason why Oshino is often seen with a cigarette, but never with a lighted one. From the novels: And in Tsubasa Tiger: Tsubasa is conscious of the skipped chapters. Of course, there's also this gem:
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Bakemonogatari / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Bakemonogatari / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The aberrations of Nisemonogatari are a phoenix and a flame-wreathe bee. As in, the birds and the bees.
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Bakemonogatari / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Bakemonogatari / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Kizumonogatari and its adaptation are extremely violent, even by the series standard. This is especially notable with the movies, which have so much blood it often borders on Gorn. Special note goes to the final fight between Araragi and Kissshot which sees them tear each other's heads off within the first minute, and it only gets crazier from there.
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Bakemonogatari / int_22a65646	type	Not Brainwashed
Bakemonogatari / int_22a65646	comment	Not Brainwashed: Hanekawa in Nekomonogatari Black. The Meddlesome Cat might have helped but all of the actions taken were from Hanekawa.
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Bakemonogatari / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Bakemonogatari / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Discussed in Nisemonogatari episode 6, where Hitagi speculates that the telescope Koyomi bought her as a gift will factor into the story's climax somehow.
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Bakemonogatari / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Bakemonogatari / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In Nisemonogatari episode 2, Kanbaru tells Koyomi "Stop struggling! It makes it harder to remove your underwear!", exactly what Koyomi told Mayoi in episode 1. He even looks like Mayoi in a Wild Take while screaming. He even acknowledges it by saying he won't molest Mayoi again (at least not when he's starting a conversation).
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Bakemonogatari / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Bakemonogatari / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Nisemonogatari starts with Koyomi held captive in chains with Hitagi coming for an exchange that doesn't explain much about what happened. Following the scene, Koyomi is shown spending his day, ultimately arriving at the scene from the beginning (by 3rd episode in anime adaptation).
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Bakemonogatari / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Bakemonogatari / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: A trippy version in Episode 8 (courtesy of SHAFT, obviously). Somehow the constantly-changing colors and completely white background make it even worse. There's just something about coughing up pastel blue, yellow, and pink paint. Intentionally done to avoid censorship because the images are REALLY brutal. Having his entrails ripped from his belly and used to swing him around the room until they tear off sets a new standard in brutality. The uncensored Blu-Ray version of it is even worse. And another in Nisemonogatari episode 11, Yodzuru beats the living hell out of him.
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Bakemonogatari / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Bakemonogatari / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Specialists from Oshino Meme's circle have personalities and ethics of younger characters taken to the extreme. Kagenui Yodzuru is a grown-up version of Fire Sisters, Gaen Izuko is a grown-up version of Hanekawa and Kaiki Deishuu in later arcs is revealed to be a grown-up version of Araragi. In one of the short stories Tsukihi even reprimands Araragi for acting like a con artist.
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Bakemonogatari / int_285f34c7	type	World of Symbolism
Bakemonogatari / int_285f34c7	comment	World of Symbolism: During the opening for Suruga Monkey arc Kanbaru can be seen running after Senjougahara across a field of huge floating lilies.
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Bakemonogatari / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Bakemonogatari / int_2a090d00	comment	The scene where Koyomi touches Suruga's monkey arm. He even lampshades it by yelling at her for making weird noises.
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Bakemonogatari / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Bakemonogatari / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: All the automobiles in the animated adaptation are white Datsun Fairlady roadsters (except the Senjougaharas' SUV).
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Bakemonogatari / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Bakemonogatari / int_2ae29c0d	comment	Shinobu's current childlike behavior is partly due to the fact that Koyomi, being the only person she regularly interacts with, expects her to act that way. This is an interesting case, since there are still plenty of people and aberrations out there that regard her as The Dreaded.
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Bakemonogatari / int_2b67e083	type	Bust-Contrast Duo
Bakemonogatari / int_2b67e083	comment	Bust-Contrast Duo: The leading ladies are the slender, willowy and borderline-homicidal Senjougahara, and Hanekawa, whom the protagonist notes as having the largest breasts in his class, and with whom he's on more generally friendly terms.
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Bakemonogatari / int_2d266580	type	Face Fault
Bakemonogatari / int_2d266580	comment	Face Fault: Although played oddly realistically—in one example, Hitagi says something and Koyomi's legs are in the air in his next shot; in another, Koyomi simply slowly falls backward in reaction to a remark by Suruga.
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Bakemonogatari / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Bakemonogatari / int_2e6a41e0	comment	This is less Gratuitous English and more Surprisingly Good English, since the line is delivered with little trace of an accent.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3033b958	type	Giant Enemy Crab
Bakemonogatari / int_3033b958	comment	Giant Enemy Crab: A crab god, who takes away weight. Must've been some crab.
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Bakemonogatari / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Bakemonogatari / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Hitagi and Suruga say something to Koyomi about being able to identify a woman just by her hips. Three of the girls are fascinated by lame jokes from the same radio show, leading Koyomi to suspect they were the people who called in the jokes to begin with.
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Bakemonogatari / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Bakemonogatari / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Quite a few people think Araragi should get with Hanekawa instead of Senjougahara, with Kanbaru even thinking he'll end up marrying her.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits The Bakemonogatari end credits start off as a static drawing of Hitagi by Vofan. Eventually it's replaced by a fully animated sequence featuring all the major characters, but it's still Hitagi-centric. During "Nadeko Snake" and "Tsubasa Cat" the intro to the first half changes and the whole second half focuses on Nadeko and Tsubasa, respectively. The Nisemonogatari opening starts out as a charcoal silhouette of Hitagi surrounded by brightly-colored floating text. After giving Karen's opening a turn, it returns in episode 3 with Hitagi drawn in full detail, with both her and the floating text in pastel colors. The Nisemonogatari ending starts off as an extended version of what turns out to be a minor asset in the finished ending, which debuts in episode 4. The ending also changes to keep up with the characters' changing hairstyles and new characters being introduced.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3346eb29	type	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank
Bakemonogatari / int_3346eb29	comment	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Lots of it in Episode 8 and a geyser in 15. It's a good thing Koyomi's sort of undead at the beginning of the series because the way it's going, he'd be dead-dead without it.
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Bakemonogatari / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Bakemonogatari / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Hanekawa's lengthy soliloquy at the end of Nekomonogatari White is about her coming to terms with her own shortcomings and acknowledging that she must spur herself into growing as a person, while at the same time finally realizing that her guardians are abusive and that this isn't her own fault. The anime leaves out this last bit. In Onimonogatari, Yotsugi evaluates a shirtless Koyomi like a hunk of meat because, well, she is literally thinking about him as a hunk of meat. The punchline is left out in the anime, which alters the joke into Yotsugi being surprisingly sexually aggressive. However, a similar joke appears in Tsukimonogatari, where even in the anime Yotsugi makes clear in what way she hungers for Koyomi. In an adapted-out segment in Otorimonogatari, Araragi rushes in due to Nadeko's scream when Tsukihi cuts her hair, has Karen take Nadeko to another room, and is implied to molest Tsukihi as punishment. Throughout the entire series, a hole can be seen in the roof of the abandoned cram school. In the Kizumonogatari novel, we learn that this hole was created by a fully-restored Kissshot after Araragi gets all her limbs and her heart back, because there was no way up to the roof otherwise. Not only was this scene entirely removed in the movie adaptation, but in direct contrast to the novel, Araragi is seen clearly using a staircase when he leaves.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3456f3c5	type	Good Thing You Can Heal
Bakemonogatari / int_3456f3c5	comment	Good Thing You Can Heal: Koyomi's Martyr Without a Cause behaviour means he gets a lot of mileage out of part-vampire Healing Factor. Hitagi states she's frightened that he'd do the exact same things even if he couldn't rely on his healing.
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Bakemonogatari / int_35499a79	type	Title-Only Opening
Bakemonogatari / int_35499a79	comment	Title-Only Opening: The Onimonogatari/"Shinobu Time" arc in the anime uses these, since Maaya Sakamoto doesn't perform Image Songs.
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Bakemonogatari / int_355bc288	type	Lingerie Scene
Bakemonogatari / int_355bc288	comment	Lingerie Scene: 9 minutes out of 23 minute episode! And it is actually (sorta) justified by the plot! Hooray!!! In the first episode of the 2013 season. We get another one.
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Bakemonogatari / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Bakemonogatari / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Koyomi and Hitagi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Bakemonogatari / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Kanbaru takes this approach to the relationship between Senjougahara (who she is in love with) and Araragi. After beating Araragi to death several times over via disembowelment, she got over it and became good friends with the two.
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Bakemonogatari / int_38b98a5e	type	Dancing Theme
Bakemonogatari / int_38b98a5e	comment	Dancing Theme: Discussed by Hachikuji and Araragi in episode one of Nisemonogatari, although the trope is not actually implemented—the episode doesn't have an ending theme, and when the ending actually does appear in episode two, there's no dancing to be found. Straight example with the opening to the "Tsukihi Phoenix" arc, which features Tsukihi performing Japanese dance.
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Bakemonogatari / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Bakemonogatari / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: At the end of "Nadeko Medusa"'s stinger, Nadeko makes a lame pun and claims, "No pun intended!", much like Kagami Yagami (also voiced by Kana Hanazawa).
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Bakemonogatari / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Bakemonogatari / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: One of the first things Kizumonogatari tells you is that the story doesn't end happily for anyone. Araragi isn't human anymore, Kissshot doesn't get to die and loses her name and Hanekawa's problems begin. Guillotinecutter is dead.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Bakemonogatari / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In "Shinobu Time", Izuko Gaen helps Araragi on the condition that he and Suruga do something for her. Next thing we know, Araragi shows up at the end of "Tsubasa Tiger" with his clothes in shreds. Whatever Gaen's request actually was has yet to be divulged. Said incident has now been explained as the plot of Shinobi Mail.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
Bakemonogatari / int_3cb17a19	comment	Hanekawa attempts to do this when faced with Koyomi's relationship with Senjougahara. Her Superpowered Evil Side objects.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3d0dbb7e	type	JiangShi
Bakemonogatari / int_3d0dbb7e	comment	"Mayoi Jiangshi" is particularly deceptive. Koyomi and Shinobu travel back in time to avert Mayoi's death, but this is just a pretense to explore what would have become of Kissshot if she hadn't been saved by Koyomi's friendship. There are also no proper jiangshi to be found, although conceptually similar "vampire zombies" do appear, and at one point the attempt to undo Mayoi's death is compared to reviving a corpse.
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Bakemonogatari / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Bakemonogatari / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Kizumonogatari would generally be read as something like 'wound story' but when you near the end you learn it also means something like 'deflowering story'. Creating a subordinate instead of just consuming a person entirely is explicitly a rather sexual act and something that Kissshot had only done once, with a man implied to be her former lover, though it turns out he wasn't.
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Bakemonogatari / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Bakemonogatari / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Maybe. Araragi's anger when Hanekawa reveals that her stepfather hit her in a fight kind of loses its effect when you realize that Araragi earlier in the series not only beat up, but proceeded to "shamelessly molest" a fifth grader he had just met that day. But it was funny when he did it. It should be noted that even when Koyomi beat up Mayoi, Tsubasa reprimanded him-it's abuse if you hit a child without giving a reason.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Bakemonogatari / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: In "Hitagi Rendezvous", Hitagi and Koyomi begin using their given names with each other, which is portrayed as romantic and a huge step forward in their relationship. In "Ogi Dark" it's also revealed that Hitagi and Tsubasa also use their given names with each other.
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Bakemonogatari / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Bakemonogatari / int_40bb59d0	comment	In the novels, Koyomi's insistence that he is definitely not a pedophile.
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Bakemonogatari / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Bakemonogatari / int_40c57041	comment	Hanekawa at first seems like a very sweet and shy bookworm. However, later on it's revealed that she has a much darker side, and is entirely capable of being a Manipulative Bastard—she's just too dedicated to being a good person to do it. Even Senjogahara actively fears her.
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Bakemonogatari / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Bakemonogatari / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs/Visual Pun: In the "Ambivalent World" opening, Suruga jumps around a bunch of giant floating lilies. "Yuri" is actually the word for "lily," which started picking up lesbian connotations.
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Bakemonogatari / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Bakemonogatari / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In contrast to the happy endings of the other arcs, the end of Nadeko Snake in the anime has Koyomi unable to defeat the Snake Constrictor. While he does manage to save Nadeko, Koyomi feels guilty knowing that the snake will attack the person who originally placed the curse. Nadeko Medusa is just as bittersweet and just avoids being a Downer Ending thanks to Hitagi making a deal with Nadeko to delay her killing Koyomi and the rest.
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Bakemonogatari / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Bakemonogatari / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Pretty common, but the prevalence of Medium Blending and overall visual weirdness helps make it feel less out of place. Special mention goes to the Mini Cooper in episodes 3-4 of Owarimonogatari S2. Which is completely CGI inside and out.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Bakemonogatari / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Hilariously subverted in episode 9 of Nisemonogatari where Karen just unceremoniously snaps off her iconic ponytail and throws it in the trashcan since it's being troublesome at the moment. Played straight with Hitagi and Hanekawa.
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Bakemonogatari / int_46f464b	type	Well, Excuse Me, Princess!
Bakemonogatari / int_46f464b	comment	Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Araragi and Senjogahara, constantly.
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Bakemonogatari / int_47fec0dd	type	Faceless Masses
Bakemonogatari / int_47fec0dd	comment	Faceless Masses: Very occasionally. More often than not only the people that matter will be onscreen at all anyway.
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Bakemonogatari / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Bakemonogatari / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: YEP! You got it! It is made by Shaft after all. It is of note that combined with screwy camera angles, the series uses scenery shots to great theatrical effect along with a ton of unusually schizophrenic shifts between locations, bizarre color hues, and a lot of settings in disarray to invoke a feeling of Surreal Horror.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Bakemonogatari / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: From Kizumonogatari:
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Bakemonogatari / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Bakemonogatari / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Watching a high-schooler glomp, molest and get into fights with a grade-schooler somehow manages to be hilarious.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4bc00353	type	Multiple Reference Pun
Bakemonogatari / int_4bc00353	comment	Multiple Reference Pun: Tons, per Nisio Isin's Signature Style; multiple reference puns can even form the basis for the supernatural creatures that appear. One magnificent example is given during "Suruga Monkey": a collective nickname for Suruga and Hitagi back in middle school was the "Valhalla Combo". These are all the references: Valhalla, obviously. Suruga and Hitagi were the "goddesses" of their respective sports teams (basketball and track). Baruhara (the Japanese transliteration of "Valhalla") combines the two girls' names (Suruga Kanbaru and Hitagi Senjogahara). Valhalla was Odin's domain, for warriors who died in battle; "Kanbaru" contains "god" and "Senjogahara" contains "battlefield." Koyomi is impressed with the nickname until he finds out that Suruga made it up herself.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4bce56dc	type	The Thing That Goes
Bakemonogatari / int_4bce56dc	comment	The Thing That Goes "Doink": One scene repeatedly cuts to a closeup of one.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Bakemonogatari / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: Even if it isn't exactly rape, it's certainly taking Refuge in Audacity: In episode 2 of Nisemonogatari, Koyomi himself gets a taste of this.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4c8a0849	type	Mirror Universe
Bakemonogatari / int_4c8a0849	comment	Mirror Universe: Zoku Owarimonogatari is set in one. However, it later turns out that's not the case. By interacting with his bathroom mirror at the beginning, Araragi unintentionally pulled in everyone's regrets, giving the real world properties of a Mirror Universe.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4d0372b	type	Everybody Knew Already
Bakemonogatari / int_4d0372b	comment	Everybody Knew Already: Nadeko's crush on Araragi, which pretty much everyone except him figures out right away.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Bakemonogatari / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Aberrations come into being because people believe that they exist, and are directly shaped by their continued perception. As revealed in Onimonogatari, Shinobu/Kissshot spent much of her backstory testing the extreme cases of this phenomenon. Shinobu's current childlike behavior is partly due to the fact that Koyomi, being the only person she regularly interacts with, expects her to act that way. This is an interesting case, since there are still plenty of people and aberrations out there that regard her as The Dreaded. Kissshot begins to fade away after settling in Antarctica because there aren't any people around to observe her. After that, she encounters the opposite problem upon moving to Japan, a place with humans who don't know about vampires. The locals regard her not as an exceptional vampire, but an actual deity, which grants her incredible power but summons a reactionary natural phenomenon, the "Darkness", which "punishes liars" by erasing aberrations who act outside of their normal role in folklore.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Bakemonogatari / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Hitagi Senjogahara keeps several pencil, rulers, scissors staplers and a box cutters in her skirt and uses all them at once.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Bakemonogatari / int_4e3d253b	comment	Nadeko Medusa is just as bittersweet and just avoids being a Downer Ending thanks to Hitagi making a deal with Nadeko to delay her killing Koyomi and the rest.
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Bakemonogatari / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
Bakemonogatari / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Implied for Hitagi and Koyomi at the end of "Karen Bee".
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Bakemonogatari / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Bakemonogatari / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: A very nicely done one. In Mayoi Snail, Mayoi talks constantly of the aberration, a 'lost snail'. She also has a large backpack, and her hair sticks out. For The Reveal, they show her shadow...which makes her look exactly like a snail!
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Bakemonogatari / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Bakemonogatari / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	It should be noted that even when Koyomi beat up Mayoi, Tsubasa reprimanded him-it's abuse if you hit a child without giving a reason.
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Bakemonogatari / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Bakemonogatari / int_500696c6	comment	To describe. Episode 3 is just Hitagi and Koyomi talking in a playground about random stuff.
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Bakemonogatari / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Bakemonogatari / int_504a1991	comment	Episode 9. Played with, as it is also supposed to introduce viewers to Nadeko's Body Horror, and yet still comes off as fanservicey.
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Bakemonogatari / int_50f17484	type	Fake-Out Opening
Bakemonogatari / int_50f17484	comment	Fake-Out Opening: The first episode starts with a rapid montage of fast paced action and violence.These images belong to Kizumonogatari, a prequel to the Bakemonogatari series that tells the story of Koyomi's vampirism, and it got its own adapttion into a trilogy of animated movies, shown in a flyer that came attached to Nekomonogatari (link NSFW).
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Bakemonogatari / int_55554032	type	Irrational Hatred
Bakemonogatari / int_55554032	comment	Irrational Hatred: Discussed by Kaiki. According to him, it's quite difficult to maintain an irrational hatred and even if you manage it that doesn't mean the other person will hate you back. In context, Kanbaru is finding it hard to hate Kaiki because he's only being nice to her with no ulterior motives. The only reason she tries to hostile towards him is because she feels she should, but he doesn't even act like a villain to make it easy for her.
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Bakemonogatari / int_5664dbe4	type	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
Bakemonogatari / int_5664dbe4	comment	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: Inverted, mostly. A good rule of thumb in this series is the more straightforward someone seems to be, the bigger the lie they're concealing. Nadeko is hesitant and lacks self-confidence, and her "big secret" is that she likes Araragi (secret only to Araragi, really); on the other hand, Suruga is quite forthright with her sexuality but not so much with her violent hatred towards Araragi for "stealing" Senjogahara from her. As it turns out, her provocative teasing of Araragi is probably a ploy to get Araragi to forget about Senjogahara, even if that means potentially having to seduce him.
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Bakemonogatari / int_57fe068e	type	LuckyTranslation
Bakemonogatari / int_57fe068e	comment	Lucky Translation: The portmanteau in the title works just as well in English (GhoSTory/MonSTory, pick one). The sequel book Nisemonogatari also applies ("ImpoSTory"), but the series' other three books, Nekomonogatari ("Cat Story"), Kizumonogatari ("Damaged Goods Story"), and Kabukimonogatari ("Slope Story"), don't, but they're not really puns in Japanese either...so maybe that makes it double lucky. Nekomonogatari can also be translated as "Cat Tale". Kabukimonogatari has been called "Twistory."
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Bakemonogatari / int_5b92d2f	type	Virgin-Shaming
Bakemonogatari / int_5b92d2f	comment	Virgin-Shaming: Hitagi makes fun of Koyomi for being a virgin. Soon after, it is revealed that Hitagi is a virgin as well.
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Bakemonogatari / int_5cbb2384	type	G-Rated Sex
Bakemonogatari / int_5cbb2384	comment	The scene in "Tsukihi Phoenix" where Koyomi brushes Karen's teeth and everything leading up to it is effectively PG rated sex.
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Bakemonogatari / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Bakemonogatari / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: In Nisemonogatari, fake versus real: is an incredible imitation innately worth less than the real thing? Can a fake become "real" depending on how it's perceived?
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Bakemonogatari / int_5d1eca88	type	Awesome McCoolname
Bakemonogatari / int_5d1eca88	comment	Awesome Mc Coolname: Araragi considers one of Hachikuji's mistakes, Shuraragi, to be one. For reference, "shura" means "Asura" or "carnage".
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Bakemonogatari / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Bakemonogatari / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In "Nadeko Snake"... More like, "I want my beloved to be happy, but since you don't want him I'll curse you to death for his sake." Hanekawa attempts to do this when faced with Koyomi's relationship with Senjougahara. Her Superpowered Evil Side objects.
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Bakemonogatari / int_61321e1	type	Unusual Chapter Numbers
Bakemonogatari / int_61321e1	comment	Unusual Chapter Numbers: As mentioned above, Nekomonogatari (Shiro) skips chapter numbers to symbolize Tsubasa losing time when Black Hanekawa's personality takes over.
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Bakemonogatari / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Bakemonogatari / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Besides the Unreadably Fast Text detailed below, there will often be flashes of red/black cards with the word "red"/"black" written on them, for whatever reason. The "red" cuts show up during scenes of strong emotion, while the "black" cuts appear more in scenes with ambiguous emotion. This adds up to the movie surrealism. The black/red flash is shown on screen when the main hero closes his eyes. It's not about reality, but rather protagonist's perception of reality. Plus, the anime is obviously an adaptation of a novel and the black/red/white/blue panel indicates that some pages were skipped. Episode 1 of Nisemonogatari, during the Big Ball of Violence scene, you can see that Araragi has almost successfully removed Mayoi's panties.
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Bakemonogatari / int_63cd6ccb	type	Image Song
Bakemonogatari / int_63cd6ccb	comment	Image Song: The anime adaptation opens each chapter with an in-character song performed by the featured heroine's voice actor. The only exceptions to this are the chapters named after Koyomi and Shinobu, which feature thematic instrumentals.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Bakemonogatari / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The entire franchise, according to Word of God.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Bakemonogatari / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have You…: The boy who cursed Nadeko in "Nadeko Snake." Nadeko herself in "Nadeko Medusa" towards Koyomi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_67e9574c	type	Sliding Bike Stop
Bakemonogatari / int_67e9574c	comment	Sliding Bike Stop: The scene also was homaged in the episode 3 of Nisemonogatari when Araragi makes this slide with his bicycle instead of a motorcycle.
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Bakemonogatari / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Bakemonogatari / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Araragi was apparently something of a bully to his sisters when he was younger, but in episode 8 of Nisemonogatari (part 1 of Tsukihi Phoenix) while mistakenly believing that Karen is being bullied he demands the names and addresses of everyone involved. Araragi also goes in something of a murderous rampage the moment he sees that his younger little sister gets torn in half in episode 10.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6a61f08f	type	Expressive Hair
Bakemonogatari / int_6a61f08f	comment	Koyomi's distinctive feature, doubled with Expressive Hair.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Bakemonogatari / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: As might be expected from someone who loves wordplay as much as Nisio Isin. They're on the character page.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Bakemonogatari / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Episode 2 of Nisemonogatari could just as well be titled "Vaguely Creepy Fanservice"; it starts with Koyomi narrating about his sisters, while depicting them in provocative poses, proceeds to him meeting with Sengoku who tries to clumsily seduce him, and ends with his meeting with Kanbaru who keeps posing to him naked for no apparent reason. Taking into account the characters' biological relationship, age, and sexual orientation, it seems to be aimed specifically to make viewer aroused and uncomfortable at the same time.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6cb9eee2	type	Talking Heads
Bakemonogatari / int_6cb9eee2	comment	Talking Heads: This is an extremely dialogue oriented show, but averted by Shaft's crazy visuals. To describe. Episode 3 is just Hitagi and Koyomi talking in a playground about random stuff. Episode 12 is COMPLETELY talking heads, thought it still manages to be entertaining... And adorable. Done again in episode 4 of ''Nisemonogatari" in which the majority of the episode is one long conversation between Koyomi and Shinobu.
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Bakemonogatari / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Bakemonogatari / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Cause of death for 90% of all vampires, including Shinobu's only other subordinate and Araragi, until Hanekawa talks him out of it.
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Bakemonogatari / int_703b2f20	type	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance
Bakemonogatari / int_703b2f20	comment	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Applies to most of the character designs; most invoke some type of Animal Motif while possessed by a monster which is removed once the possession is resolved. For example, Nadeko wears a cobra hood-esque oversize hat while under the effects of a snake curse but gains a completely different outfit after the curse is broken.
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Bakemonogatari / int_71019994	type	Unwanted Harem
Bakemonogatari / int_71019994	comment	Unwanted Harem: Oshino teases Araragi about the fact that every time he comes to see him he has a different girl with him.
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Bakemonogatari / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Bakemonogatari / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: In "Mayoi Snail", Koyomi asks Hitagi if she can read the tag on Mayoi's backpack, to which she replies that she sees no such thing. Koyomi thinks that she just can't read the tag at that distance (he used his vampiric super-vision to read it) when she meant that she didn't see any grade school kid at all.
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Bakemonogatari / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Bakemonogatari / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: "Karen Bee" ends with Karen and Tsukihi setting out to heal the damage done by Kaiki.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7289a350	type	Idiot Hair
Bakemonogatari / int_7289a350	comment	Idiot Hair: Koyomi's distinctive feature, doubled with Expressive Hair. Apparently the Idiot Hair runs in the family, as both of of Koyomi's sisters and his mother have it.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7603b45b	type	Furo Scene
Bakemonogatari / int_7603b45b	comment	Two episodes later, the Furo Scene of Koyomi and Shinobu (which lasts more than half of that episode) provides plentiful of eye candy for both genders of the audience.
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Bakemonogatari / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Bakemonogatari / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in Nekomonogatari Black between Tsukihi and Koyomi, twice.
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Bakemonogatari / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Bakemonogatari / int_771f6307	comment	A much more disturbing example at the end of the infamous episode 8 of Nisemonogatari involving Koyomi and Karen. Disproved as of episode 9, with Koyomi still referring to his sister as a virgin.
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Bakemonogatari / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Bakemonogatari / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: There is the exception of the wreathe-fire bee in "Karen Bee". Historical accounts of it were fabricated, and Karen's fever — characteristic of the bee's sting — was both harmless and caused by hypnotism. Note that this explanation is questionable, as Kaiki is a notorious liar, especially so in this scene where he is called out for it. Oshino states in Nekomonogatari that aberrations are defined by people's expectations of them. Thus, by Kaiki telling Araragi that, the damage could already be healed.
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Bakemonogatari / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Bakemonogatari / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Kana Hanazawa mentioned off hand that she would have liked to voice a villianous character. Upon hearing this from her, Nisio Isin found some inspiration for making Nadeko.
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Bakemonogatari / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
Bakemonogatari / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: Koyomi reveals to Hitagi that he has a vampiric Healing Factor by showing her the injury she left inside his mouth with a stapler already healed.
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Bakemonogatari / int_792e11ec	type	Dance Battler
Bakemonogatari / int_792e11ec	comment	Dance Battler: Karen is basically this, what with her spins, kicks and apparent ability to ignore gravity (as noted by Koyomi).
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Bakemonogatari / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
Bakemonogatari / int_7a19a69b	comment	Not Quite the Right Thing: It's a major point of Koyomi's character and actions that he frequently does the wrong thing and screws people up even more, such as trying to sacrifice himself for Hanekawa, completely ignoring the fact that she'd be horrified to realize he was dead because of her. He also urges her to keep bottling up her emotions, which is the cause of all her aberration incidents. The story makes it pretty clear that the problem is that Araragi's motives are fundamentally flawed: The worst part of his actions are that he A. doesn't consider the effect his death would have on others and B. wants to sacrifice himself for others rather than actually help them. The three incidents where he was most successful, Senjogahara, Karin and Tsukihi's, are the arcs where he did the least.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7a8546d6	type	Exposition Intuition
Bakemonogatari / int_7a8546d6	comment	Exposition Intuition: Somehow, Meme Oshino can always tell what supernatural phenomena affected each girl, usually based on Koyomi's secondhand recounting of their story of their problem.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7b6f0622	type	Curtains Match the Window
Bakemonogatari / int_7b6f0622	comment	Curtains Match the Window: Ononoki Yotsugi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Bakemonogatari / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The "staple stable" opening features a giant Hitagi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Bakemonogatari / int_7ea2a915	comment	Special mention to Bakemonogatari episode 15—the entire episode is, visually, movie-quality. Even the flashbacks only use Animation Bumped material from previous episodes.
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Bakemonogatari / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Bakemonogatari / int_7eccbb3d	comment	The following episode, we get the Shower Scene with Senjougahara and Hanekawa… together. "WOW!"
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Bakemonogatari / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Bakemonogatari / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Invoked by many of the other characters to describe Senjogahara. Senjogahara even uses it in relation to herself. The term's used either jokingly or incorrectly at every turn, though, since Senjogahara never makes any attempt to deny or conceal her feelings. The only problem is that she's lived without emotions for so long, she can't exactly express them properly. At least until episode 12, where she goes full blown "dere" in the best way possible. Episode 14 has Senjougahara while on the phone with Araragi: This being Senjougahara, she switches to being deadly serious halfway through.
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Bakemonogatari / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Bakemonogatari / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Nisemonogatari opens with Koyomi waking up after being knocked out and kidnapped by Senjogahara. We don't get to hear why until episode 3.
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Bakemonogatari / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Bakemonogatari / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction
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Bakemonogatari / int_8593b49	type	Twerp Sweating
Bakemonogatari / int_8593b49	comment	Twerp Sweating: Koyomi's afraid Senjogahara's scary-serious looking father will do this on their first date. Subverted in that the father is actually extremely grateful to Koyomi for both curing his daughter's condition and making her happier than she's been in a long time.
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Bakemonogatari / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Bakemonogatari / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The "heavy crab" possessing Hitagi is described this way by Meme.
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Bakemonogatari / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Bakemonogatari / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Anyone Koyomi talks to. Even Koyomi himself shows snarky behavior from time to time.
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Bakemonogatari / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Bakemonogatari / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: After Kaiki finds a letter on the floor of his locked hotel room, he worries about some conspiracy targeting him regarding the Nadeko case. One powerful enough to have moles in the hotel staff. Senjougahara bluntly points out that all someone would have to do is slide the envelope under the door and Kaiki has no response.
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Bakemonogatari / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Bakemonogatari / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The aberration-eating "law of nature" in Onimonogatari is some kind of strange force that consumes aberrations who don't conform to their nature. It's mainly described by exclusion; Koyomi and Mayoi initially notice it by a powerful sense of dread emanating from a particular direction. Upon seeing it, Koyomi seems to assume that something worse is hidden in the darkness, and struggles to quantify it with phrases like "the dark space where the aberration should be".
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Bakemonogatari / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Bakemonogatari / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Kaiki's M.O. to a T. He would in fact have given up his whole charm business for the right amount of money, and claimed he'd discuss a Heel–Face Turn for the right price. Then he charged Karen for infecting her with the bee's poison! Part of his dedication to this trope is that for each example he quotes an exact figure. The same could be said of all of the 5 con men.
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Bakemonogatari / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Bakemonogatari / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an "S": The term "kaii" is translated variously. The novels use "aberration", the anime juggles "aberration" and "apparition", and a highly popular fan translation is "oddity".
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Bakemonogatari / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Bakemonogatari / int_8af25294	comment	The first episode opens with a Bullet Time Panty Shot. The odd thing is, this is the closest visual equivalent to the scene in the book, where Koyomi spends over a page describing the effect of Hanekawa's skirt being blown up by the wind in front of him, and then dwells on it for the rest of the chapter.
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Bakemonogatari / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Bakemonogatari / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Present in the Araragi family.
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Bakemonogatari / int_8b015e1f	type	Flesh-Eating Zombie
Bakemonogatari / int_8b015e1f	comment	In Onimonogatari, Yotsugi evaluates a shirtless Koyomi like a hunk of meat because, well, she is literally thinking about him as a hunk of meat. The punchline is left out in the anime, which alters the joke into Yotsugi being surprisingly sexually aggressive. However, a similar joke appears in Tsukimonogatari, where even in the anime Yotsugi makes clear in what way she hungers for Koyomi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Bakemonogatari / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Final Season: It's not the final season, since Isin went on to append an "off season" and a "monster season" afterward. Final Season wasn't even chronologically "final" when it was coming out—that was Second Season's Hanamonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_8e00db94	type	Mystery of the Week
Bakemonogatari / int_8e00db94	comment	Mystery of the Week
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Bakemonogatari / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Bakemonogatari / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Even though it's suggested that the world they live in is indeed populated, the named characters are the only people who ever appear in the show. Kinda creepy. Lampshaded when Karen asks how many friends Koyomi has.
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Bakemonogatari / int_8e47b1f5	type	Kissing Discretion Shot
Bakemonogatari / int_8e47b1f5	comment	Kissing Discretion Shot: Episode 12
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Bakemonogatari / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Bakemonogatari / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: While never actually portrayed on screen it is implied that the people who cursed Nadeko would become cursed themselves and constricted by the same snakes. Not that there is a whole lot of sympathy for people who placed a rather nasty curse on a girl just for rejecting a guy.
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Bakemonogatari / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Bakemonogatari / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: As is typical for Shaft productions, during significant monologues and other intense moments, the show's visual style will often completely change into something like the nightmarish Russian animation-inspired paper cutouts of Gekidan Inu Curry or the kinetic, minimalistic style of URA. Koyomi occasionally flashes into the art styles of different classic manga, such as Doraemon. The next episode previews are also animated in a chibi style and there have even been multiple shifts into the art style of The Powerpuff Girls.
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Bakemonogatari / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Bakemonogatari / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The story doesn't make a great deal of sense or will at best be badly misunderstood if viewed literally. For example, Tsukihi really being an immortal type of phoenix/cuckoo is fantastic and crazy, but is basically symbolic for her being adopted even if she technically isn't. Koyomi even muses to himself that even knowing the truth doesn't change the fact that she's still his sister and will never be anything else. Almost every supernatural incident is similarly related to some kind of psychological problem the characters face, which is reinforced by Koyomi often approaching them the wrong way: The characters need counseling, not a knight in shining armor who beats up the monster plaguing them.
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Bakemonogatari / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
Bakemonogatari / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: Almost all of the Japanese text is written with older orthography, using unsimplified kyuujitai kanji (including complex daiji numerals, nowadays usually used only in finance) and katakana. Much of the incidental text also goes from right to left even when horizontal (nowadays horizontal text is generally read left to write as in Western languages), and the cut cards look significantly aged. The "Kogarashi Sentiment" OP for Koimonogatari/"Hitagi End" jumps between the show's modern art style and one evocative of the '80s or '90s, including Japanese karaoke subtitles (generally limited to children's shows nowadays) and a noticeably lower resolution.
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Bakemonogatari / int_92eb3e7c	type	From a Single Cell
Bakemonogatari / int_92eb3e7c	comment	From a Single Cell: The antagonist of "Shinobu Mail" is an ancient vampire who had been reduced to aerosolized ash—apparently, Monogatari vampires can literally recover from a handful of damaged cells. However, the healing process is grievously slow until the vampire has coalesced to the point of being able to feed, and whatever tiny measure of progress can easily be wiped out by daylight or a number of other circumstances. It would appear that the only surefire way to kill a vampire is for another vampire to eat it.
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Bakemonogatari / int_9397414	type	Unmoving Plaid
Bakemonogatari / int_9397414	comment	Unmoving Plaid: Oshino's patterned shirts, Hanekawa's pajamas, Senjougahara's panties in episode 2 and dress in episode 12, and Tsukihi's kimono.
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Bakemonogatari / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Bakemonogatari / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The main plot of Kabukimonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Bakemonogatari / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: The options for getting rid of Suruga's rainy devil are (1) cut off the arm or (2) let her kill Koyomi. Koyomi decides (3) to beat her in a fight to convince the devil that he can't be killed. However, the third option is really Koyomi trying the second because of his own longstanding problems. Of course, Oshino takes a fourth option by summoning Hitagi to Talk The Hero To Death With The Monster In Earshot.
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Bakemonogatari / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Bakemonogatari / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: One for each "season"! The villain of the first season is revealed in Nisemonogatari to be Deishuu Kaiki, one of the five con men briefly mentioned by Hitagi. In addition to his exploits in Nisemonogatari, he's the one responsible for the divorce of Hitagi's parents and spread the word about the snake curse that eventually targeted Nadeko in "Nadeko Snake". The villain of the second season is harmless little Nadeko, driven mad by jealousy and obsession for Araragi. She ends up bonding with a snake god, becoming a Physical God in the process. The villain of later stories in the series is Ogi Oshino, the supposed niece (and later, nephew?) of Meme.
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Bakemonogatari / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Bakemonogatari / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending
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Bakemonogatari / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
Bakemonogatari / int_9aaad071	comment	HA HA HA—No: In what at first appears to be a Nisemonogatari culmination showdown brief pause, Shinobu refuses Kagenui's offer to pick up the debatably-free role of Kagenui's opponent, but not before having a resonating spirited laugh.
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Bakemonogatari / int_9b6acdb3	type	Lyrical Cold Open
Bakemonogatari / int_9b6acdb3	comment	Lyrical Cold Open: In "Ren'ai Circulation," the Bakemonogatari opening featuring Nadeko Sengoku.
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Bakemonogatari / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
Bakemonogatari / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Kanbaru in Nisemonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Bakemonogatari / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Tsukihi's opening, there's a short part where her legs continue dancing without an upper body. That's exactly what happens to her when she gets attacked in episode 10.
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Bakemonogatari / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Bakemonogatari / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires are described as the "kings of aberrations," and for good reason. They have enhanced strength, speed, and senses; they can suck blood, but also have an energy-draining touch and can devour other monsters to increase their own power; they can hide in shadows; they have a Healing Factor so powerful it puts most examples of From a Single Cell to shame; and they can even Time Travel. They are, of course, immortal unless killed, but their physical age depends on how powerful they happen to be at the moment. They have the classic weaknesses to sunlight (although with some vampires, the damage can be overcome through the Healing Factor) and holy water. It's implied (but not clearly demonstrated) that they Must Be Invited, and they can't swim. Koyomi is described as "one-tenth vampire", something that is only maintained due to him periodically feeding Shinobu his blood. He can improve his powers by letting her suck more blood than usual, although there seems to be a sweet spot between him enhancing his powers and just making himself anemic.
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Bakemonogatari / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Bakemonogatari / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Various instrumental versions of the girls' Image Songs serve this trope. There are other leitmotifs as well, such as the chipper harmonica of "Ruins" for Oshino and the sinister cello of "Ominous" for Kaiki.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Bakemonogatari / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: "Mayoi Snail" is the only story with the "monster"'s name as a native Japanese word as opposed to some kind of loanword (the Japanese title being Mayoi Maimai).
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Bakemonogatari / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
Bakemonogatari / int_a119b588	comment	Hey, You!: Araragi introduces Senjogahara to Oshino in this fashion.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a129cb19	type	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors
Bakemonogatari / int_a129cb19	comment	Rock–Paper–Scissors, as far as Karen's concerned. Koyomi doesn't agree.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
Bakemonogatari / int_a15af1f3	comment	A character being as moe as possible in a world that seems like it's halfway towards being a Sugar Bowl? Check.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Bakemonogatari / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Played for laughs, when Koyomi describes himself molesting Mayoi in third person, and realizes that it sounds quite horrible. Not that it stops him from doing it again in the future.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Bakemonogatari / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the light novels and Vofan's corresponding illustrations, Hitagi had brown hair. In the anime it's purple. There is the ending of episode six and the beginning of episode seven where everybody's hair is rather subdued and brown, but it's arguably due to lighting. In episode 13 her hair is quite visibly dark brown/black — even darker than in the original illustrations. Hitagi's hair is a bit odd case, as in anime they are usually shown purple, but on several occasions when she dropped her mean act, they were shown brown. Sodachi Oikura, a brunette, makes her anime debut with her hair bleached white.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Bakemonogatari / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The entire series is made of this trope. Ren'ai Circulation, Nadeko's Image Song, serves as the opening theme for the "Nadeko Snake" arc. Yeah, the one that comes right after the end of "Suruga Monkey", when Koyomi gets swung around by his intestines. "Nadeko Snake" is also a fairly dark arc in and of itself. In episode 1 of Nekomonogatari (Black), Hanakawa says she would do anything if Araragi kept her abuse at her father's hand a secret. This rather heartfelt and upsetting moment is immediately followed by Araragi celebrating and trying to come up with something for her to do. While this happens in a few episodes, episode 4 of Nisemonogatari has mood whiplash in spades. It starts off rather serious, gets silly, and alternates between serious, silly, and sad throughout the episode, with nary a warning of the mood changes.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Bakemonogatari / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Did you think Hitagi End had a nice conclusion? Too bad, Kaiki apparently gets murdered by the junior high kid that cursed Nadeko wayyyy back in Nadeko Snake. Subverted at the beginning of Suruga Devil when Kanbaru meets Kaiki in a train station. This chronologically takes place after Hitagi End, which means that Kaiki's apparent death was actually just Kaiki being an Unreliable Narrator.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Bakemonogatari / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Quoth Mayoi: "Isn't Koyomi a girl's name?"
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Bakemonogatari / int_a5a3ae2b	type	Orifice Invasion
Bakemonogatari / int_a5a3ae2b	comment	Orifice Invasion: The DVD release of Nadeko Snake features a snake that forces itself into Sengoku's mouth, reminiscent of...well...just look.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
Bakemonogatari / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: Characters tend to lie about the conditions under which they obtained their particular supernatural afflictions until it becomes absolutely necessary to tell the truth.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Bakemonogatari / int_a60f7120	comment	The villain of the second season is harmless little Nadeko, driven mad by jealousy and obsession for Araragi. She ends up bonding with a snake god, becoming a Physical God in the process.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Bakemonogatari / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: True to her name, Shinobu (or Heart-Under-Blade) has Heart Span, an incredibly long nodachi capable of killing aberrations in one hit. It's rather understated outside of its length, though. It doesn't even have a handle—it's just an unadorned tang.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Bakemonogatari / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Both Shinobu and the Fire Sisters were practically thertiary characters in Bakemonogatari, where they only appeared in a couple of scenes at best. Then Nisemonogatari came and the three of them became the main characters of the series along with Koyomi. While Karen and Tsukihi returned to be supporting characters after the end of Nisemonogatari, Shinobu still remains as a very important character for the series until these days.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a71980f8	type	Surreal Theme Tune
Bakemonogatari / int_a71980f8	comment	Surreal Theme Tune: Six of them in the first series! Let's see: Staplers floating around a black and white city with a giant girl stomping around? Check. Multiple clones of an extremely energetic girl populating a city? Check. A court in the middle of nowhere with floating basketballs and giant flowers (Easter lilies, no less)? Check. Well, the Japanese word for "lily" is "yuri." A character being as moe as possible in a world that seems like it's halfway towards being a Sugar Bowl? Check. An entirely live action opening featuring a girl cosplaying as a character in the show with small pyramids that look like cat ears floating on her head while silhouttes of cats walk around? Check. An alternate, very disturbing version of the fifth opening that features disembodied hands grabbing at the (non-live action) nude figure of the same character as she struggles to run away? Um... check. They came back in Nisemonogatari. A completely silhouetted girl (later updated to be fully drawn but with an alternate, pastel color scheme) doing nothing but changing poses while the background and camera angle shift around her? Check. A girl running around being both appearing out of and vanishing into flames with images of bees flying around? Check. A girl with constantly changing hair dancing (at one point inside a guy's mouth and occasionally without having an upper body at all) before transforming into a flock of birds? Check. Nisemonogatari's ending has Hajime Ueda's art make a comeback, with the ladies of the first series on perpetually spinning and glowing wheels and train cars in one version, and in another, the Fire Sisters dancing and singing with detached limbs and heads. SHAFT proves itself worthy again in Monogatari Series Second Season. Nekomonogatari White's opening involves a girl being unboxed from a box that's floating around in a magical pink void full of white and dark chocolate. Cats then hoist her on their shoulders and carry her around. She proceeds to eat chocolate, gain cat ears, sit on a crescent moon, and finishes by growing wings and flying off with a horde of similarly flying cats. In Kabukimonogatari, a young girl walks around a void of square blocks with pretty colors and symbols on them. A massive snail shell starts smashing through them. They later form into a certain ahoge. In Otorimonogatari, Bakemonogatari's 4th opening makes a comeback, in a very similar and trippy style. This time though, the audio is a reversed remix, the girl acts considerably more depressed, and the lyrics take a much darker turn.
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Bakemonogatari / int_a7faec8e	type	Written Sound Effect
Bakemonogatari / int_a7faec8e	comment	Written Sound Effect: Black Hanekawa's Evil Laugh in "Tsubasa Family".
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Bakemonogatari / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Bakemonogatari / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: Koyomi insists on helping everybody he finds who has a problem, even when it means he'll suffer for it (and when I say suffer...)
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Bakemonogatari / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Bakemonogatari / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The Kizumonogatari trailer.
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Bakemonogatari / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Bakemonogatari / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each book is named "Blank-monogatari". Occasionally they form puns. Every story is named "[focus character's given name] [whatever monster is involved]," i.e. "Hitagi Crab," "Mayoi Snail," et cetera. The details are off for a few of the monsters in the titles (for example, in the cases of "Mayoi Snail" and "Tsukihi Phoenix", Mayoi and Tsukihi are the eponymous monsters, and "Suruga Monkey" isn't actually about a monkey at all) and there are exceptions for the second word even being a monster, such as "Tsubasa Family" (although it does make one wonder) and "Hitagi End".
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Bakemonogatari / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Bakemonogatari / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: Araragi and Senjougahara aka Crazy Tsundere Stapler Girl's relationship is about as weird and unlikely, and usually downright sadistic as it gets. And yet somehow it works, for them.
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Bakemonogatari / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Bakemonogatari / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: A good number of characters. Hitagi, especially, is seemingly incapable of speaking in a manner other than this.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Bakemonogatari / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Senjogahara and Black Hanekawa. Kanbaru in Nisemonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Bakemonogatari / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The Suruga Monkey arc.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Bakemonogatari / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Every story is named "[focus character's given name] [whatever monster is involved]," i.e. "Hitagi Crab," "Mayoi Snail," et cetera. The details are off for a few of the monsters in the titles (for example, in the cases of "Mayoi Snail" and "Tsukihi Phoenix", Mayoi and Tsukihi are the eponymous monsters, and "Suruga Monkey" isn't actually about a monkey at all) and there are exceptions for the second word even being a monster, such as "Tsubasa Family" (although it does make one wonder) and "Hitagi End".
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Bakemonogatari / int_b2099693	type	Stargazing Scene
Bakemonogatari / int_b2099693	comment	Stargazing Scene: For their first date, Hitagi takes Koyomi to the forest at night where they lay down to watch the starry sky together.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Bakemonogatari / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In "Mayoi Snail", Koyomi objects to Hitagi implying that he's an especially kinky pervert. It should be noted that he's been trying to look up her skirt the whole time. Brick Joke example: In Bakemonogatari, Koyomi states that he thinks Incest Subtext is something that only people with no siblings would find appealing. However, when his sisters make their real debuts in Nisemonogatari, Incest Subtext is a key feature of his dynamics with both of them. In "Mayoi Jiangshi," Koyomi gets pissed when Shinobu squees over how cute his 7-year-old self is. A few minutes later, he does the exact same thing upon seeing 7-year-old Tsubasa.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b7822ca7	type	Harem Genre
Bakemonogatari / int_b7822ca7	comment	Harem Genre: While simultaneously fitting in the harem genre and also not, Bakemonogatari also examines many of the genre's tropes at length, and a lot of the characters apply directly to a common stereotype found in Harem media, like Hitagi being the Tsundere, or Nadeko being the overly Moe girl. However, the series goes to great length to examine how damaging a lot of these stereotypes are, and puts forward the message that categorizing characters into these stereotypes is both shallow and hurtful. Also, despite being a harem, Araragi never decides to romance anyone other than Hitagi- in essence, the series really isn't a harem.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
Bakemonogatari / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: In the official translations, most of the wordplay is simply translated as-is with minimal to no effort to adapt or even explain the puns, leading to what appear to be nonsensical leaps in logic in the dialogue. Some examples: The monster in "Mayoi Snail" is actually called a "lost cow". The trick here is that one word for "snail" (蝸牛) contains the kanji for "cow" (牛), and in Japanese cows have the same "extremely slow" idiomatic meaning that snails have in English, but you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a way to adapt that play on words without simply changing the lost cow's name. In Nekomonogatari White, when Senjogahara and Hanekawa discuss Kako (the fire tiger aberration), Senjogahara says her first thought upon hearing the word is that it refers to the past. Hanekawa replies that she's actually talking about a fire tiger and goes on to have a "Eureka!" Moment regarding the tiger's relation to her own envy of others. None of this is given context at all—in case you were wondering, "Kako" translates to "fire tiger" (火虎) but when written differently also means "past" (過去), while "envy" (焼き餅 yakimochi) contains "burn" (焼き yaki). On top of all that, the aberration's name uses none of those spellings of "Kako"—he's called a "tormenting tiger" (苛虎).
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Bakemonogatari / int_b8d93317	type	12-Episode Anime
Bakemonogatari / int_b8d93317	comment	12-Episode Anime: Bakemonogatari is actually 15 episodes long, but only 12 were broadcast on television, with the last three being premiered online. Nisemonogatari is 11 episodes long. Owarimonogatari and Koyomimonogatari are both 12 episodes long.
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Bakemonogatari / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Bakemonogatari / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Zigzagged. After the arc of one of the heroines ends, she usually takes a supporting role unless the series decides to give her a new arc, in which case she ends taking a lead role again. Not even Senjougahara is free of this. Araragi suffers of this during some of the arcs of Second Season (namely Nekomonogatari: Shiro, Otorimonogatari, Koimonogatari and Hanamonogatari), where he appears as a supporting character and isn't the POV character of the arc.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Bakemonogatari / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Senjougahara severely dislikes children due to an incident where bumping into a child and apologizing to them made her feel powerless. After explaining this, as well as her other views on kids, to Araragi, Hachikuji, who also heard her rant, became even more terrified of her. It isn't clear if Senjougahara was being honest or if she was making an excuse for why she didn't want to wait alone with a girl she can't even see.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Bakemonogatari / int_bcb452a9	comment	The real reason, as explained by Oshino, is that Koyomi's still a Weirdness Magnet because of his unconscious refusal to let go of Shinobu. Once he separates from her completely, his vampirism will completely disappear, the aberrations will abandon his life and he'll finally return to normality. So in the end, it's his decision.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bce536e1	type	Residual Evil Entity
Bakemonogatari / int_bce536e1	comment	Residual Evil Entity: The series has a recurring theme that simply defeating evil or malevolence will not get rid of it unless the very root of the problem is cured. And in many cases, a problem rooted that deep in the first place is far beyond the understanding of your typical human (supernaturally gifted or not) to deal with. As such, several arcs in the later parts of the series deal with problems that are recurring because the root issue wasn't solved, or causing an entirely new problem in the absence of the old.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bd0af87b	type	Honorable Marriage Proposal
Bakemonogatari / int_bd0af87b	comment	Honorable Marriage Proposal: Koyomi Araragi visits his lesbian underclassman, Kanbaru Suruga, while she's lounging naked in her room. At first, she doesn't make an effort to change or cover herself, and Araragi (jokingly) offers to take responsibility for viewing her in this state by marrying her. She says that while his offer is very attractive, she doesn't want his Clingy Jealous Girlfriend to murder her.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Bakemonogatari / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: At end of episode 7 of Nisemonogatari, with Hitagi and Koyomi. It would definitely be "did", except it is ever brought up again, even by the "involved" parties, and in Nekomonogatari (White), Hitagi appears to have her Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality back and intact. A much more disturbing example at the end of the infamous episode 8 of Nisemonogatari involving Koyomi and Karen. Disproved as of episode 9, with Koyomi still referring to his sister as a virgin.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Bakemonogatari / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Prepare to feel uncomfortable. Nisemono 8 could easily be renamed "In which Koyomi and his sister Karen get a little too close to each other" and no one would probably notice. Koyomi and Tsukihi also have this. When observing how one of her scars disappeared, he decides to do it by stripping off her clothes and holding her down. And then gropes her. Later on, when he finds out his sister isn't human, he decides to kiss her to see if he would feel anything. He doesn't, but she was certainly quite upset about the fact that her first kiss was with her brother. And literally says later 'Isn't it hot to have a sister that isn't your blood sibling'. Yay. Played for Laughs in Nekomonogatari Black between Tsukihi and Koyomi, twice. Flies right past subtext in Tsukimonogatari. When Araragi realizes he has no reflection, he holds Tsukihi's head to prevent her from looking in the mirror. Tsukihi takes this as a sign that he wants to kiss her, and is all for it. They only stop because Karen comes in and catches them in the act.
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Bakemonogatari / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
Bakemonogatari / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: Bakemonogatari has one between episodes 5 and 6 to recap the first two arcs. Monogatari Series Second Season has three: episodes six (a recap of Nekomonogatari Black), eleven (Bakemonogatari, minus "Tsubasa Cat"), and sixteen ("Tsubasa Cat" and Nisemonogatari).
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Bakemonogatari / int_c4525c1d	type	Intangible Theft
Bakemonogatari / int_c4525c1d	comment	Intangible Theft: Oshino claims to have stolen Kissshot's heart from her, while she was at full power no less, without her noticing. Koyomi only doubts this for a moment before realizing it's the truth. He couldn't pull that trick again, but even she's baffled as to how he managed it even once.
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Bakemonogatari / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Bakemonogatari / int_c75df49a	comment	Nisemonogatari also contains a Shout-Out to Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, starting from Deka Master's Badass Boastnote "Cutting down hundreds of evildoers! The Guard Dog of Hell! Deka Master! to Deka Blue's Gratuitous English Catchphrasenote Super Cool. Perfect.
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Bakemonogatari / int_c978ad0b	type	Magic Skirt
Bakemonogatari / int_c978ad0b	comment	Magic Skirt: Nisemono Episode 8. Karen, with a blue tennis skirt, stands on her hands. It's only after several seconds and a bit of coversation that the skirt even starts to fall down, just to stop short of revealing anything, after which Karen tries to hold it up. This is more just one of all ridiculous details that show up than any sort of censoring, as her panties are seen at other occasions.
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Bakemonogatari / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Bakemonogatari / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: Karen, enough to completely wreck a highway.
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Bakemonogatari / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Bakemonogatari / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Did Meme just judo throw a crab god? Hitagi gets rid of it by asking it to leave her alone and restore her burdens a little later, but Meme implies he could have finished it off if he had to.
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Bakemonogatari / int_ccdd6905	type	Epileptic Trees
Bakemonogatari / int_ccdd6905	comment	The "red" cuts show up during scenes of strong emotion, while the "black" cuts appear more in scenes with ambiguous emotion.
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Bakemonogatari / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
Bakemonogatari / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: Hanamonogatari's "opening" is so spoilery that it actually plays over the closing credits. Sounds confusing, but basically a sequence in the style of a Monogatari ending (i.e. a credits sequence with a song composed by Ryo and art by Hajime Ueda) plays at the beginning, and a sequence in the style of an opening (normal art style with an Image Song) plays at the end.
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Bakemonogatari / int_cf5335c	type	Energy Absorption
Bakemonogatari / int_cf5335c	comment	Energy Absorption: Both meddlesome cats and vampires have the ability to drain energy through touch, but they work in slightly different ways—the cat's energy drain can't be turned off and is painful to the target, while the vampiric version can be controlled and is painless.
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Bakemonogatari / int_cfd3e8f3	type	Save This Person, Save the World
Bakemonogatari / int_cfd3e8f3	comment	Save This Person, Save the World: Played straight with Koyomi, but inverted with Mayoi.
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Bakemonogatari / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Bakemonogatari / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: One scene in Nisemonogatari episode 6. Also several scenes in episode 7, to parody the style of old Samurai films.
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Bakemonogatari / int_d076824c	type	Every Episode Ending
Bakemonogatari / int_d076824c	comment	Every Episode Ending: Every chapter of Koyomimonogatari ends with "And now for the epilogue, or rather, the punchline."
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Bakemonogatari / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Bakemonogatari / int_d129e13e	comment	In Nekomonogatari White, when Senjogahara and Hanekawa discuss Kako (the fire tiger aberration), Senjogahara says her first thought upon hearing the word is that it refers to the past. Hanekawa replies that she's actually talking about a fire tiger and goes on to have a "Eureka!" Moment regarding the tiger's relation to her own envy of others. None of this is given context at all—in case you were wondering, "Kako" translates to "fire tiger" (火虎) but when written differently also means "past" (過去), while "envy" (焼き餅 yakimochi) contains "burn" (焼き yaki). On top of all that, the aberration's name uses none of those spellings of "Kako"—he's called a "tormenting tiger" (苛虎).
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Bakemonogatari / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Bakemonogatari / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The first episode opens with a Bullet Time Panty Shot. The odd thing is, this is the closest visual equivalent to the scene in the book, where Koyomi spends over a page describing the effect of Hanekawa's skirt being blown up by the wind in front of him, and then dwells on it for the rest of the chapter. The entire tooth brushing scene in Episode 8 of Nisemonogatari, which is treated as an extremely sexual process. Rock–Paper–Scissors, as far as Karen's concerned. Koyomi doesn't agree.
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Bakemonogatari / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Bakemonogatari / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Episode 2 of Koimonogatari. Although taking the end of Karen Bee into account, this might qualify for Did I Just Say That Out Loud?.
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Bakemonogatari / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Bakemonogatari / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: In Mayoi Jiangshi, Oshino's letter reveals that Senjogahara and Araragi still end up dating in the story's alternate timeline. To be fair, the nail in question probably wouldn't have any effect on their getting together, considering how things played out in Bakemonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
Bakemonogatari / int_d4bb4e51	comment	In the 5th episode of Nisemonogatari, Koyomi spends the first part of the episode in just a towel. Which eventually falls when he stands up. Yay.
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Bakemonogatari / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
Bakemonogatari / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: Koyomi's Idiot Hair.
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Bakemonogatari / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Bakemonogatari / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Excluding Hitagi, Koyomi has it with Tsubasa, Shinobu and Karen.
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Bakemonogatari / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Bakemonogatari / int_dfb71617	comment	The anime takes a distinctly visual approach to adapting the spirit of the novels' first-person narration. For instance, Male Gaze is extremely prevalent while Araragi narrates but less present with other narrators; to Araragi, Senjogahara is often scary but is simply a bit odd when Hanekawa is the narrator. To all the school-age narrators, the world is entirely devoid of people except for the few characters necessary to the plot, reflecting a teenager's exaggerated concern with their immediate social circle while ignoring the world at large. These artistic choices are thrown into sharp relief by Kaiki, the only adult narrator, whose world is still focused on certain people but will at least allow the depiction of random passers-by on the street.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Bakemonogatari / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In "Koyomi Water" (which takes place between Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari) Araragi remarks to Kanbaru that he's worried she wants to imprison him, to which she replies (paraphrased) "Never! Maybe Senjogahara would though." Guess what the opening scene of Nisemonogatari is?
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Bakemonogatari / int_e40f6792	type	Design Student's Orgasm
Bakemonogatari / int_e40f6792	comment	Design Student's Orgasm: All the openings and endings invoke this trope to varying degrees. The episodes themselves aren't immune either, since the entire series is very artsy.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e41a9801	type	All Women Are Lustful
Bakemonogatari / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: Played hilariously to disturbingly straight. Kanbaru is a self described pervert, Senjougahara admits to influencing Kanbaru and proves it by whispering unmentionable things to Koyomi whilst rubbing his thigh and licking his ear, the last arc of Bakemonogatari Season 1 is caused by Hanekawa repressing her desires, both of Koyomi's little sisters are implied to lust for him (not to mention the toothbrush scene), Nadeko tried to seduce him by wearing skimpy clothes and playing Twister with him, and those are just the most prominent examples.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e4760ebc	type	I Regret Nothing
Bakemonogatari / int_e4760ebc	comment	I Regret Nothing: Araragi in Episode 14 when Black Hanekawa accidentally energy drains him while pressing her breasts into his back on his bicycle.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e4f05faa	type	Jaw Drop
Bakemonogatari / int_e4f05faa	comment	Jaw Drop: And how◊!
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Bakemonogatari / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
Bakemonogatari / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: Harem genre. A harem is built, as usual, a single couple is established, as not so usual. Then the story proceeds to dismantlie the harem, resolving tensions and developing the other girls. Now that's rare.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Bakemonogatari / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: See No-Holds-Barred Beatdown below. While it may be portrayed in variant colors in order to "censor" it, the images alone are gratuitously gruesome.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Bakemonogatari / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Black Hanekawa. Lampshaded by Koyomi after Oshino suggested calling her Black Hanekawa:
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Bakemonogatari / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Bakemonogatari / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: "There was no girl with bright golden hair, pale white skin, and a flat chest who spoke in a haughty, old-style voice, but appeared to be around eight years old. You imagined it."
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Bakemonogatari / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Bakemonogatari / int_e63228a7	comment	"Shinobu Time" has Mayoi returning the favor to Shinobu. Though Shinobu's past experience is important for Info Dump purposes, it ultimately is Mayoi's fault the Eldritch Abomination is around.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Bakemonogatari / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Koyomi gets a few catch-dialogues with other characters. With Tsubasa: With Mayoi: Black Hanekawa (at least in the anime): NYAHAHAHAHAHA~ (awkwardly translated as Meow-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha). At this point it's even a meme now.
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Bakemonogatari / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Bakemonogatari / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: It's very easy to read Monogatari metaphorically as a story about mental illness, but the literal presentation gives you morals like "Don't suppress your emotions or they will become cat demons and kill everyone."
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Bakemonogatari / int_e9de9c18	type	Enhanced on DVD
Bakemonogatari / int_e9de9c18	comment	Enhanced on DVD: Nearly every scene is reworked in some way. The most notable examples are the climax of the "Nadeko Snake" arc, where the climactic scene was finally fully animated (in the broadcast version, only a handful of frames interspersed with blank cards were shown due to missed deadlines), and an early episode of "Karen Bee", where Karen's introduction was completely redrawn to fix a flagrant continuity error where Karen would appear on opposite ends of the street depending on the camera angle.
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Bakemonogatari / int_ed23decc	type	Big Ball of Violence
Bakemonogatari / int_ed23decc	comment	Episode 1 of Nisemonogatari, during the Big Ball of Violence scene, you can see that Araragi has almost successfully removed Mayoi's panties.
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Bakemonogatari / int_eee69e44	type	Boke and Tsukkomi Routine
Bakemonogatari / int_eee69e44	comment	Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Lots of the comical dialog between characters is performed this way, with Araragi usually acting as the Straight Man.
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Bakemonogatari / int_ef702856	type	Of Course I'm Not a Virgin
Bakemonogatari / int_ef702856	comment	Of Course I'm Not a Virgin: Koyomi pretends like he's not a virgin when the topic comes up in the second episode, but eventually admits that he is when he's tired of keeping up the facade. In the third episode, Senjogohara does the same- but immediately admits she was lying when Koyomi notes it seems implausible that someone with her psychological issues would engage in orgies.
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Bakemonogatari / int_f28de900	type	Airplane of Love
Bakemonogatari / int_f28de900	comment	Airplane of Love: Done in the last episode, with it flying right over the characters it symbolizes.
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Bakemonogatari / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Bakemonogatari / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Koyomi is remarkably cool with Kanbaru's attempted murder of him. Strictly speaking, she's not even the only person he forgives for attempted murder.
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Bakemonogatari / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Bakemonogatari / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Inflicted by Kaiki upon Karen in Nisemonogatari.
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Bakemonogatari / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: According to Hanekawa, Senjogahara was this back in middle school, gaining popularity among guys and girls, but especially younger girls.
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Bakemonogatari / int_f9c3ecc6	type	Series Fauxnale
Bakemonogatari / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnale: Nisemonogatari's Tsukihi Phoenix arc was the originally envisioned conclusion to the story, and indeed serves as the finale to the First Season. The series' breakout popularity prompted Nisio Isin to continue the story, before releasing another fauxnale in the form of the "Final Season"...which eventually got followed up with two more seasons afterwords.
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Bakemonogatari / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Bakemonogatari / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Mayoi's mispronouncing of Koyomi's name. "Sorry, I stuttuted." In the novels, Koyomi's insistence that he is definitely not a pedophile.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Bakemonogatari / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: Lots of the great wordplay gets lampshaded or straightaway explained.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fb297e7	type	Gainaxing
Bakemonogatari / int_fb297e7	comment	Gainaxing: Black Hanekawa. Constantly.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Bakemonogatari / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Whole dialogues are repeated with no apparent reason. There is also Senjogahara's habit of repeating the same thing several times with different emphasis. Also, the quick flashes during dialogue of different coloured frames that display whatever colour they are. E.g. red frame, black frame, etc.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fc8bc8e	comment	Special Edition Title: Each arc plays the afflicted character's image song as an opening. Each OP was only played in one episode per arc on TV due to time constraints, but the Blu-ray releases have every episode featuring the proper OP.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Bakemonogatari / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Hanekawa at first seems like a very sweet and shy bookworm. However, later on it's revealed that she has a much darker side, and is entirely capable of being a Manipulative Bastard—she's just too dedicated to being a good person to do it. Even Senjogahara actively fears her. Both Araragi and Karen are terrified whenever Tsukihi gets angry.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Bakemonogatari / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke example: In Bakemonogatari, Koyomi states that he thinks Incest Subtext is something that only people with no siblings would find appealing. However, when his sisters make their real debuts in Nisemonogatari, Incest Subtext is a key feature of his dynamics with both of them.
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Bakemonogatari / int_fe5e40e2	type	Gondor Calls for Aid
Bakemonogatari / int_fe5e40e2	comment	Koyomi Calls For Aid: A good portion of episode 14.
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Bakemonogatari / int_feb72f62	comment	Literal Genie: Subverted in that the Rainy Devil really was being true to the spirit of Kanbaru's wish; Kanbaru just wasn't being honest with herself about what she really wanted.
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