Koyomimonogatari

In each episode, Koyomi is presented with a mystery posed by one of the female characters from the story, which he then investigates on his own or helps them solve.

Age: 18 Height: 165 cm Weight: 55 kg  Koyomi Araragi is a third year high school student who survived a vampire attack during spring break and barely regained his human life in the time that followed as a boy with remnants of vampiric traits. He can see in the dark, his eyes turn red when he gets angry, and he heals incredibly fast. As a result, he questions his lifespan. He remains scared of morning sunlight despite the fact that it no longer has any negative effects on him.  Koyomi is a laid-back person whose only real friend at school is Tsubasa Hanekawa. He's a poor student, close to failing every class except math.  It is revealed through conversations that he's quite knowledgeable with anime; a fact even noted by Nadeko Sengoku once.  Although he is shown to be attracted to the other girls, he turns their advances down due to his loyalty to Hitagi.  Other characters seems to speculate that Koyomi is a lolicon, particularly Mayoi and Hitagi, with Hitagi thinking that Nadeko is a "threat" to her.  He is very noble, which is why Hitagi is attracted to him. He is willing to help others at the cost of his own life. As such, the female characters he has helped are quite attached to him. He feels most comfortable talking to Mayoi, Shinobu and, from the Second Season on, to Yotsugi about his problems.  Koyomi is the only person who thinks that his family relationship is bad, with Karen and Tsukihi thinking otherwise. His parents were revealed to be police officers.  His personality is portrayed more clearly in the novels, where his inner thoughts show him to be much more perverted and intelligent than the anime leads one to believe.  Due to events prior to Kizumonogatari and Bakemonogatari, Koyomi avoided having friends and seemed to have lost faith and trust in people and himself.  (Source: Bakemonogatari Wikia, edited)

Koyomi Araragi

Age: 14-15 Height: 170 cm  Karen, the main character of Karen Bee, is one of Koyomi's sisters. She is older than Tsukihi and always doing outdoor activities. Despite being younger, Karen is taller than Koyomi, much to Koyomi's dismay.  In Karen Bee, her hot-headed personality and her habit of acting before thinking lead her to be stung by a bee which leads to being poisoned with a terrible fever that lasted for 3 days. Like Hitagi, she refused any help from anyone which eventually leads to her and Koyomi fighting each other. Later it was revealed that it was set up by Kaiki. Karen and Tsukihi are nicknamed Tsuga no Ki NichÅ« no Fire Sisters (æ ‚ã�®æœ¨äºŒä¸­ã�®ãƒ•ã‚¡ã‚¤ãƒ¤ãƒ¼ã‚·ã‚¹ã‚¿ãƒ¼ã‚º, lit. Fire Sisters of Tsuga no Ki 2nd Junior High). It was revealed that the reason she and Tsukihi found boyfriends was so that Koyomi would become jealous. They found boyfriends in Koyomi's image with Karen's boyfriend being shorter than her. She and Tsukihi also thought that Koyomi's girlfriend was Tsubasa. Koyomi, Karen and Tsukihi's parents were revealed to be police officers. (Source: Wikipedia)

Karen Araragi

Age: 13-14  Height: 156 cm   Tsukihi, the main character of Tsukihi Phoenix, is one of Koyomi's sisters. She's the youngest of Araragi family. Unlike her sister, Karen, she is always doing indoor activities. Contrary to her personality, she constantly changes her hair style and is short-tempered to the point that Koyomi describes her as having hysteria.   Kagenui believed the Tsukihi was a phoenix, but she is actually the reincarnation of a supernatural cuckoo called the "Dying Bird." The Dying Bird reincarnates by entering the body of a child still in the womb. She is immortal and the only thing that will end her life is a natural death from old age. It's hinted that Kaiki was the one who sent Kagenui and Ononoki to go after Tsukihi. Tsukihi and Karen are nicknamed Tsuga no Ki Nichuu no Fire Sisters (æ ‚ã�®æœ¨äºŒä¸­ã�®ãƒ•ã‚¡ã‚¤ãƒ¤ãƒ¼ã‚·ã‚¹ã‚¿ãƒ¼ã‚º).  (Source: Wikipedia)

Tsukihi Araragi

Gaen Izuko debuted in Tsubasa Tiger as Episode's latest client, and was in a different kind of business with the vampire hunter during the appearance of the tiger-shaped oddity Kako.  She is a young-looking woman who wears hip-hop-style clothes that are too big for her. She is the most knowledgeable specialist in the series. Gaen claims to know everything, to the degree where she can predict the future; as a result, she likes to brag about this and her catchphrase is "There is nothing I don't know, I know everything." Although the credibility of her claims over "knowing everything" may be debatable, it can be argued that she is good in taking advantage of what she knows and what other people do not know, allowing her to break down a person's confidence, like Tsubasa's confidence in her knowledge, for example.  She has five cellphones and gave Koyomi three of her contact numbers during the events of "Shinobu Time". Compared to Meme, who wants compensation, Kaiki, who works for money, and Yozuru, who works for free, Gaen demands "friendship" as a form of payment. In other words, she demands that people owes her a favors and doesn't pay her now, but later. She doesn't tell when or what favors she wants done and that she is essentially building a network of people who owe her favors, and use these favors as transactions to get what she wanted done.  She was the upperclassman of Oshino, Kaiki and Yozuru but has shown some form of dislike towards Yozuru for some reason and it is implied that she has a connection to Kanbaru as her last name is the same as Kanbaru's mother. In Koyomi's case, in exchange for helping him during the events in Onimonogatari, Gaen demanded Koyomi to introduce her to Kanbaru but to keep a secret that Gaen is Kanbaru's aunt.

Izuko Gaen

Mayoi is a fifth-grade elementary school girl. She is 144cm tall and always carries a big backpack, wears a hairband, and sports ponytails. Befitting her age, Mayoi is cheerful, energetic and inquisitive. She makes a lot of spelling mistakes and has a habit of mispronouncing Koyomi's family name. On the other hand, she does not easily trust strangers, and will even fight back against them if they become too nosy.  Ten years ago she was involved in a traffic accident and died because of it. After that she became a ghost and considers herself a "lost snail". She unwillingly causes the people around her to become lost and unable to find their way home. The only people who can see her are people who don't want to go home in the first place. However, after Araragi and Senjougahara help her find the home she was looking for, she changed from an "earthbound spirit" to a "wandering spirit", a fact that she considers to be a bonus, as well as granting her to be free to wander wherever she desires. At the end of Nisemonogatari, she said goodbye to Koyomi, implying that she will not be seeing him again, which will be the basis of the next story, Mayoi Jiangshi. Her family name before her parents got divorced was Tsunade. In Shinobu Time, she is chased by the darkness together with Koyomi Araragi. It is later revealed by Izuko Gaen that the darkness was targeting Hachikuji because she remained in the town even after she was saved by Koyomi. To stop the darkness, she finally decides that she must pass on. She kisses Koyomi and confesses her love for him before she vanishes.

Mayoi Hachikuji

Hair: Long/short black hair Eyes: Dark-colored Skin: Fair complexion Height: 158cm  Favorite phrase/slogan: "I don't know everything, I just know what I know." (ä½•ã�§ã‚‚ã�¯çŸ¥ã‚‰ã�ªã�„ã‚�ã‚ˆã€‚çŸ¥ã�£ã�¦ã‚‹ã�“ã�¨ã� ã�‘ã€‚, Nandemo wa shiranaiwa yo. Shitteru koto dake.)  She styles her hair into two braids and ties them with a hair ribbon that has a cat design. She is always seen dressed in the uniform of Naoetsu Private High School, even outside of school days, and is rarely seen on any other type of clothing, except for a set of sleepwear which she wore during Tsubasa Cat Arc.  Hanekawa Tsubasa is Araragi's classmate and the class president. Araragi describes her as "the class president of all class presidents." The reason Tsubasa and Hitagi cut their hair short is because they learned Araragi likes it short.  Hanekawa currently lives with her stepfather and stepmother.  Hanekawa Family's Past: Her biological mother was 17 years old when she got pregnant, the biological father is unknown because she apparently had many lovers. Before she gave birth to Tsubasa, she married another man who was a "workaholic." Right after giving birth, Tsubasa's biological mother commited suicide. The workaholic stepfather, unable to raise a child, remarried again to a woman who is Tsubasa's current mother. The workaholic father soon died from overwork and the current mother married another man who is now Tsubasa's current father. Hanekawa Story's overview in Nekomonogatari/Bakemonogatari: Prior to the beginning of Bakemonogatari Hanekawa was possessed by a bakeneko (mischievous spirit of a dead cat) during Golden Week due to stress over her family (see Nekomonogatari: Kuro). The matter was eventually resolved with the help of Shinobu at the cost of some of Hanekawa's memories, but the problem emerged again right before the school festival because of different stress. Araragi was told by Hanekawa's bakeneko form that she has feelings for him.  In "Tsubasa Tiger" (Nekomonogatari: Shiro), on her way to school, she met a tiger spirit which spoke to her. Soon buildings important to Hanekawa began to mysteriously burn down and "Black Hanekawa" (her bakeneko form) began to take over her body every time she slept. The inevitable showdown was afoot and led to some surprising events.  "Tsubasa Tiger" is written from the perspective of Hanekawa rather than Araragi.

Tsubasa Hanekawa

Yozuru is a lady with black hair and red pupils. Her hair, which is styled in a bob cut, has red streaks on it, and is adorned with a bird-shaped hair clip. She is dressed in a khaki shirt worn over a black collared top, the latter of which is also decorated with the same bird design as in her hair clip, and wears a pair of dark red pants held in place by suspenders. Her footwear of choice is a pair of black high-heeled sandals.  She is a professional onmyouji and belongs to the same university that Deishuu Kaiki and Meme Oshino studied in and the three are known to be constantly together as members of the university's occult research club. Among the three, she is the one who prefers to stand for justice. Between those three university students, she was the only one who graduated. Yozuru is a rather famous figure in the realm of the supernatural, to the point that Shinobu Oshino, herself a very powerful oddity, refused to divulge any information about her as a form of respect. She speaks in a Kyoto dialect, and is described as having the expertise in the dialect as a native speaker. She also has an unusual quirk of avoiding to step on the ground, as if playing a game where the ground is a sea filled with sharks. She maintains this quirk at all times, and would even use her familiar Yotsugi Ononoki as a platform of sorts if needed.  It was revealed that as an exchange for her immense strength, she was given a condition to never step on the earth. She fights by using her fists and is powerful enough to punch through multiple floors at once. Unlike Meme, Deishu, and Gaen, she works for free which means that she only hunts and kills oddities because that is what she truly wanted. Yozuru calls herself "Japan's first battle onmyouji." She is sadistic and brutal and chose to specialize in exorcising immortal beings because nothing else is a challenge for her. Although she considers herself as an ally of justice, her ideology is based on exacting justice by eliminating those who should not exist (immortal oddities) and disregarding the consequences and doing such an act. To her, immortal oddities have no place in the world. Despite this, however, she has a considerate side as well, seeing people like Koyomi as a human despite having contact with an oddity. According to Koyomi himself, Yozuru reminds him of Meme somewhat. Yozuru uses her judgement on which immortal kais to fight and hunt by separating them into what is alive forever and what is dead forever. She then hunts kai that are considered alive forever and that's why Yotsugi is her assistant as Yotsugi is technically not alive.  While Koyomi was fighting her, he counted how many times she punched him while breaking through the floors,—he counted almost 500.  (Source: Bakemonogatari Wikia, edited)

Yozuru Kagenui

Kaiki Deishuu is a conman specializing in fake apparitions.  Kaiki has a gloomy personality and subscribes to the view that there is nothing in the world that is inherently true. The only absolute in life for him is money, due to its value in providing anything he wants that isn't irreplaceable; he even believes it can readily buy concepts like love and happiness. An adept schemer, Kaiki has an opaque mind to outsiders. He is fluent in the arts of lying and subterfuge, so the reasoning behind what he says is constantly blurred. He explains his name as "Kai," like a mound of clam shells, and "Ki," like a dead tree.  Kaiki is an individual who prides himself in having no pride. He openly admits to being a conman and an impostor, among other things, but often this is to his advantage as a master of wordplay. He flows easily in his interactions with others, and he is willing to give and take in order to maximize profit or cut his losses as needed.  Kaiki is a fake specialist who knows about paranormal creatures, but does not personally believe in them. Instead, he manipulates those who do believe, using his knowledge to make money off of them.  In "Nisemonogatari" he serves as the main antagonist of the "Karen Bee" arc. He is identified as the one who swindled the Senjougahara family, as well as the one distributing charms among junior students of Naoetsu High School throughout "Bakemonogatari" and "Nisemonogatari." Confronted by Karen Araragi for his actions, Kaiki uses a bee apparition to incapacitate her and leaves. He is confronted in the arc's finale by Araragi Koyomi and Senjougahara Hitagi, who demand he cure Karen's curse and leave town for good. Kaiki claims that the bee apparition was a fake, a simple trick of hypnosis, and that whatever symptoms she is suffering will pass in a matter of days. He then agrees to their demands and decides to leave the town for good, though not before some choice words to Senjougahara. It is later revealed in the "Tsukihi Phoenix" arc that he was a colleague of Kagenui Yozuru and Oshino Meme during their days in university, having supplied the former information regarding Araragi Tsukihi. In "Monogatari Series: Second Season," he serves as the narrator and main protagonist in "Koimonogatari." He is hired in secret by Senjougahara to deceive the human-turned-snake god, Sengoku Nadeko, who had vowed to kill Araragi and his loved ones. Despite being prompted by Gaen Izuko to back out, Kaiki persists and narrowly succeeds in convincing Nadeko to give up her godhood and attachment to Araragi by appealing to her (well-hidden) former dream of becoming a mangaka. During the arc's resolution, just as he is about to leave town he is attacked by one of the junior high students that he scammed in "Nisemonogatari," evidently tipped off by Oshino Ougi and implied to be the same student that had previously cursed Nadeko with a snake apparition. Having survived the attack, Kaiki meets with Kanbaru Suruga during the events of "Hanamonogatari," where he reveals that the "woman of his dreams" was Kanbaru's mother, Gaen Tooe. Gaen entrusted Kaiki with Suruga's well-being before she died; in honor of this promise, Kanbaru is the only one whom Kaiki shows unconditional kindness and never attempts to swindle. He offers Kanbaru his card—with the usual "ghost buster" moniker scratched off—and tells her to call him if she's ever in need. Not long afterward he sends her the mummified devil's head, which he claims was given to him by Gaen.

Deishuu Kaiki

Koyomi Stone

Before the events of Bakemonogatari, Koyomi and Tsubasa delve into the mystery surrounding a stone that was enshrined into one of the school's gardens.

Koyomi Flower

After Hitagi's condition is treated, she and Koyomi investigate the true reason why some flowers were left behind on a street and the school's rooftop.

Koyomi Sand

After Oshino leaves the city, Mayoi informs Koyomi about a sand box whose shape resembles a devil and he decides to find out why.

Koyomi Water

After Koyomi helps Kanbaru tidying her room, he has a bath in her house, and finds out a curious story about the water of the tub.

Koyomi Wind

Nadeko comes over to Koyomi's house, and is pleasantly surprised that Koyomi's parents and siblings are all absent. The two then engage in a discussion about Kaiki's curse and his means of spreading the rumor amongst the middle schoolers in town.

Koyomi Tree

Karen asked Koyomi for advice regarding a mysterious grown tree that suddenly appeared on her dojo's backyard.

Koyomi Tea

Tsukihi consults Koyomi regarding her Tea Club members on why her fellow members still believe in the ghostly "eight member" despite Tsukihi proving the rumor was fake.

Koyomi Mountain

Araragi Koyomi walks to the North Shirahebi Shrine with Oshino Ougi as she explains to him the history of the shrine and how it affected the town he lives in.

Tsukimonogatari

Koyomi Araragi is studying hard in preparation for his college entrance exams when he begins to notice something very strange: his reflection no longer appears in a mirror, a characteristic of a true vampire. Worried about the state of his body, he enlists the help of the human-like doll Yotsugi Ononoki and her master Yozuru Kagenui, an immortal oddity specialist.

Quickly realizing what is wrong with him, Yozuru gives him two choices: either abstain from using the vampiric abilities he received from Shinobu Oshino, or lose his humanity forever.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

Owarimonogatari

During October of his third year in high school, Koyomi Araragi is introduced to a transfer student named Ougi Oshino by his underclassman Kanbaru Suruga. Ougi tells Koyomi that she has something she wishes to consult with him. When she draws the map of Naoestu High School, she finds something peculiar on the map of Naoetsu High School she draws. This discovery reveals a tale that wasn’t meant to be told, and this makes Koyomi’s high school life totally different. This is the story that brings to light “what” makes Koyomi Araragi. This is the story that reveals the “beginning” of everything.

(Source: Crunchyroll)

Owarimonogatari 2nd Season

Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 2/6. Contains the arc Koyomi Vamp from the Kizumonogatari light novel. 

March 25th—just another day during spring break.
Koyomi Araragi, a second year high school student at Naoetsu High School, befriends Tsubasa Hanekawa, the top honors student at his school. Hanekawa mentions a rumor about a "blonde vampire" that has been sighted around their town recently. Araragi, who is usually anti-social, takes a liking to her down-to-earth personality. 

That night, Araragi encounters the rumored vampire: she is Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade, also known as the "iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded King of Apparitions." The stunningly beautiful vampire cries out for Koyomi to save her as she lies in a pool of her own blood, all four of her limbs cut off. Kiss-shot asks Araragi to give her his blood, and when he does, the next moment he awakes, Araragi finds himself reborn as her vampire kin. As Araragi struggles to accept his existence, Kiss-shot whispers, "Welcome to the world of darkness..." 

(Source: Aniplex USA)

Monogatari Series: Final Season

This entry includes the final season of the Monogatari series:

Vol. 1: Tsukimonogatari
Vol. 2: Koyomimonogatari
Vol. 3-5: Owarimonogatari
Vol. 6: Zoku Owarimonogatari

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