Tsukimonogatari
Genre - Supernatural, Horror, Drama, Comedy, Ecchi
Fanservice - I had to keep checking out the window to see if the FBI was about to break down my door.
Premise - Taking place after season 2 and before Hanamonogatari - the day before Valentine's Day, Araragi notices that all the times over the last year that he has had to resort to embracing his latent vampiric powers to solve problems with aberrations has started to take its toll on his body. Specifically, he is becoming more vampire-like - he no longer has a reflection, he has ever-increasing sensitivity to sunlight, and becomes stronger under the light of the moon. This is troubling to him, as he doesn't want to lose his humanity. With Oshino Meme still MIA, he has no choice but to seek help from an unlikely source, and his resolve to cling to his humanity is tested when those he care about are put in harm's way.
Weeelp, I guess it was too good to last. We're back in lolicon-ville again. Araragi's little sisters unceasingly parade around naked on camera
for two straight episodes this time. I'm not exaggerating. And when a series is only 4 episodes long, that tells you a lot about how much plot there is to advance. Pretty much the entire first espisode is a gigantic perverted squandering of time because it takes Araragi 15 of the 23 minutes of the episode, in which he is, by the way, literally bathing with his youngest sister, to finally notice the kickoff to this series' problem (he sees her in the bathroom mirror, but not himself). That's how the whole series is, really - they take one episode's worth of content and stretch it into four using immense amounts of perverted timewasting. Really, I'm even a little more miffed at it this time than I was in Nisemonogatari because:
1) Doing so AGAIN shows they didn't learn their lesson
2) if anything it's even more unabashed
and
3) there wasn't even the slightest shred of plot advancement or character development. Very little, if anything, gets resolved. A new antagonist is introduced and eliminated with little to no bearing on other events in the overall plot, and the only real development is that now Araragi knows he needs to not be using vampire powers if he doesn't want to become a vampire for real. That's information that could have been a footnote mentioned offhandedly in the first 10 minutes of another series.
Overall, I'd call it a big waste of time. Unless you're into incestuous lolicon.
) its an unwinnable argument, there is no point to it, and IMHO it should not even be brought up beyond mentioning the quality of the actual product.
), it was just a really weird place to put it, and probably would have fit better if it was in between the rounds.
