Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku x Monogatari

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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

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: 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

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

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

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

Suruga, the main character of Suruga Monkey, is Koyomi's underclassman, star of the school's basketball team and one of Hitagi's acquaintances from back in junior high school. She is so well known in her school that not a single student had not heard of her, mostly because it was her who was responsible of the rapid rise of success of the school's girls basketball team due to her talents. She considers herself a lesbian, fujoshi, lolicon and masochist. Her hobbies include reading yaoi literature and playing basketball. Although her sexual preference is clearly towards females, she does not have a hard time interacting with males, and she even manages to say teasing remarks when she is comfortable with the person she talks to (i.e. Araragi). She is 160cm tall.  Suruga is a girl with brown eyes and dark bluish hair. Because of her club activities as a basketball varsity player, she boasts an athletic physique, although she admits that her breasts might not be ample enough for Araragi to notice.  Her clothing style reflects her boyish personality; when she is not in the uniform of Naoetsu Private High School, she often wears sleeveless clothing and shorts. Whichever clothes she wears, she is regularly seen wearing cycling shorts, which she considers to be her underwear, much to Araragi's shock upon hearing it straight from her (as it implies that she does not wear panties).  Hidden from others, however, is her tendency to be jealous of others to the point of thinking of causing bodily harm to them for revenge. This would eventually fuel her killing intent as the Rainy Devil.  Back in elementary school, she inherited what she thought was a monkey's paw. At this time, she had been teased at for being slow in track. Because of this, Suruga decides to use the monkey's paw to grant her wish to become the fastest among her classmates. Unexpectedly, her competitors in one race she would participate in were attacked by an unknown assailant and were absent the next day. This would soon continue for some time, and this caused Suruga to be afraid, especially upon her discovery of the novel The Monkey's Paw, which tells the story of a similar item that grants wishes for a certain price.  Suruga would soon shift her focus to basketball, where she immediately shone as the school's ace player, and this caused Hitagi Senjougahara, the track ace at that time, to take notice of her talent. She and Hitagi become close friends,with Kanbaru calling their pairing the Valhalla Combo (ãƒ´ã‚¡ãƒ«ãƒ�ãƒ©ã‚³ãƒ³ãƒ“ Varuhara Konbi, formed by the "varu" from Kanbaru and "hara" from Senjougahara), and she soon forgot about the monkey's paw. Immediately after she entered senior high school, she became aware of Hitagi's secret and was threatened by her, just like Koyomi was. However, unlike the persistent Araragi, Kanbaru followed Hitagi's advice and stopped talking to Hitagi since that time. However, she then started stalking Koyomi after she discovered he was dating Hitagi.  In Suruga Devil, there seems to be a rumor about a devil solving other people's problem. Fearing that she might be the rumored "Devil," she decided to investigate and found out that the rumored Devil is actually an old basketball rival of hers named, Numachi Rouka. It seems that Kanbaru is still worried about the effects of the Rainy Devil after it has been dispersed to the point that whenever she goes to sleep, she would bind her devil's arm to a pillar so that she wouldn't start sleepwalking and committing crimes and check the newspaper everyday so that she can make sure she didn't do anything unconsciously. She also has dreams of her mother once in a while which give her weird life lessons.  She is named Kanbaru Suruga now but she was previously named Gaen Suruga. Izuko is her aunt and Suruga's mother had some kind of connection to oddities as she had inherited that devil's left arm from her mother. Her mother and father were revealed to have eloped as the Kanbaru family did not agree with their relationship. Kanbaru is also the only person that Kaiki will ever treat in a good way.  (Source: Bakemonogatari Wikia)

Suruga Kanbaru

Yotsugi was first introduced in Tsukihi Phoenix. She is Yozuru's shikigami. She always addresses herself with the masculine first-person pronoun boku and thinks of Yozuru as her sister. She has an ability called Unlimited Rulebook where she can shape-shift her finger.  She seems to know about Koyomi's past as she calls him "Devil Boy" (é¬¼ã�„ã�¡ã‚ƒã‚“, Oni-chan).  She tends to end the things she says with "I said, with a posed look" (åƒ•ã�¯ã‚­ãƒ¡é¡”ã�§ã��ã�†è¨€ã�£ã�Ÿ, Boku wa kime-gao de sou itta).  After being defeated by Shinobu Oshino, she stops saying it. In Koimonogatari series, she started saying "Yaaay" when she first met Kaiki, but he really hated it and she stopped doing so, and started talking normally. Yotsugi was once a human and was resurrected as a tsukumogami by Yozuru. Shinobu Oshino said that Yozuru "probably is using the name to bind her (Yotsugi)." and she was a supernatural creature "that took on human form." She and Kagenui are specialists who specialize in immortal creatures thus they try to kill Tsukihi Araragi who is immortal and is a "monster," an "Evil Phoenix." She was defeated by a powered up Shinobu.

Yotsugi Ononoki

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)

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

Boukyaku Tantei Series

Twenty-five-year-old Kakushidate Yakusuke suffers from the fate of constantly stumbling into various crime scenes and ending up being the main suspect.

His last resort: Okitegami Kyouko the "Quickest Detective." However, Kyouko suffers from a strange case of amnesia; whenever she falls asleep, she forgets everything that happened the previous day, making her solve the mysteries within one day.

Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku x Monogatari

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