You got your Kabuki and Oni arcs trimmed down massively, it results in pretty bad adaptations so far, considering Shaft has done better in previous installments.
I mean hey, I ask you one thing, as the anime audience, by far, what could you understand from Shinobu's back story-telling? I seriously pity the anime-only audiences out there as they didn't get to the whole picture of the supposed first generation Kaii-killer, his rebirth and his death.
So as Kabuki, so much of the conversations holding the essence of Araragi and Shinobu's bonds together being cut out until there is nothing left behind, explaining their growing bonds. It's like the only matters in the anime was the whole time-space travel thing.

This post has been edited by XPAWNED01: Dec 15 2013, 10:43 PM

The 4th one looks okay to me. It need to be done this way, I mean they need to retain the dragginess in this arc thus making the 1st and 4th episode suffers (from my own calculation and justification, I am comparing the anime content to the source material).

Shaft simplification in the 2nd and 3rd episode may look like okay to most of the viewers but I need to stress that they totally ignored the back story of Gahara and Kaiki two years ago. They will never coming back, unless in Bluray release, Aniplex decided to insert audio monologue of it just as the same they did to Hanekawa's letter to the cat in Neko Shiro.

More cutting means the arc pacing will be ruined further and more anime original contents means unnecessary Shaft's intervene. Iirc, Shaft has never made an AO scenes for Monogatari except for that scene where Oshino Meme met Araragi the last time in Bake.

Well, this is the only way Shaft can retain the greatness of the arc without interfering much.

If you ask me the worst episode so far, well, it has to be Oni's 1st and 2nd episode. Those were just awful and too rushed.

This post has been edited by XPAWNED01: Dec 15 2013, 11:01 PM

I forgot which episode but it is a scene where Oshino Meme saying goodbye to Araragi, while standing on the rooftop of the school ruin.
Also there're slight changes made to Nadeko Snake arc which are slightly different from its LN counterpart.
Besides these two, Shaft never bother to insert any more original scenes to the franchise, since the LN is still on going. Changing the contents means they made it hard for the original author to keep up with his original ideas.

This post has been edited by XPAWNED01: Dec 16 2013, 07:32 PM

pipe on the head

Hanamonogatari will be aired later in 2014.
Killing characters? Nisio always did that to his characters, may they be main or supporting characters. Anyway, all characters in Monogatari were never meant to be supporting though.

And about Kaiki:

Nope. The format will be the same as Nekomonogatari Kuro as Hanamonogatari is still one of second season entries.
About the recap, well, shaft is just being lazy I supposed, even though they got this lame excuse to provide some relaxation time for the staff lol
If someone confuse here, Hanamonogatari is supposedly aired right after kabuki, according to the order of the books published. But since the plot is too advanced in timeline, they decided to delay the broadcast, and fill those gaps with the recaps.


This post has been edited by XPAWNED01: Dec 30 2013, 09:36 PM

Asumi Kana as Numachi Rouka
Michiko Neya as Gaen/Kanbaru Tooe

The arc is set after Araragi Koyomi has graduated from highschool.
The 3rd season entries (Tsukimonogatari, Koyomimonogatari, Owarimonogatari 1-2) are set before the graduation.


This post has been edited by XPAWNED01: Mar 23 2014, 07:58 PM

Cerita Bunga:
The best adaptation in SS so far. Good pacing and not rushed like Kabuki and Oni.
Yeah, this has to be the most faithful adaptation for the SS entries so far.

they died

monogatari trailer
-starts with 2-3 paragraphs of intro chapter
-select best scenes in entire book
-select best quotes
-???
-profit

hype for worth 40 pages of incest bath scene

Kizumonogatari: Tekketsu-hen


The other two parts will probably be titled;
Nekketsu-hen
Reiketsu-hen

This post has been edited by XPAWNED01: Oct 4 2015, 04:24 AM