It’s time for more Karen Bee, although we actually only get two words from Karen Araragi all episode! It’s also one of my favourite episodes from this season, as we get to meet my favourite Monogatari Series character for the first time!
Where we had last left off, Koyomi Araragi was on his way to Nadeko Sengoku’s house when he ran into Mayoi Hachikuji, who he proceeded to spend some time with.
I’ve gotten some lists full of random tidbits for you all to enjoy, and now I want to get more into the “anime” side of things. Are things really the way they are portrayed in anime?
As for the post theme, I want to dedicate it to one of the first graders (JHS, so grade 7 equivalent) at my main school who plays this song on the piano extremely well.
The guys are all obsessed with playing Megalovania from Undertale, and they pretty much all just play the exact same DUDUDUDU part over and over. A few of them can actually play more of the song than just that though.
With the movies out of the way, we’re back in the present.
If you can consider it that. It’s all relative, this Monogatari timeline.
Let’s get into some random tidbits about school life in Japan.
No rhyme or reason to them, these are mainly just quirks of school life here that weren’t really a thing in Canada where I’m from.
So here we go with 12 Japan school life tidbits!
Unfortunately 5pb. isn’t the studio but a producer, so I wasn’t able to binge all of SNAFU for a third time. In fact, this OVA is the only SNAFU-related media that 5pb. worked on.
I could have gone with Myself; Yourself, a romantic drama anime that I’d never heard of and could be pretty good. But then I decided to just go with the SNAFU OVA because I hadn’t seen it anyways…
In the spirit of transparency once again I’ll disclose here that I skipped over Licensor 4Kids Entertainment. Everything they’ve done is either a long shounen or a related movie. I could have gone with a movie but in the end I decided to just move on.
Anyways, as this is a single OVA episode, I’m going to treat this more like I would an episodic post, and just go over the synopsis and my thoughts.
So I was going to write another list post about random tidbits you maybe didn’t know about Japan schools, but first I figured I’d give an update on where I’m at and what’s going on in regards to that!
Also because I ended up including a bunch of disclaimers that took up half the post last time before realizing I should just throw this info all in one post. So the list will come later.
Post theme:
Now that I’ve said my part regarding Tsubasa, let’s look at Kiss-Shot, someone that I love just as much as Tsubasa. And this movie was really good for showing us Kiss-Shot!
I know I wanted to write about Japan, but then I got here and settled in and whatnot, and I realized that a lot has already been covered somewhere before, for example mainstream tips like “don’t rub your chopsticks together”, that I’d read a million times prior to coming here. So I tried to come up with some other things that I hadn’t known.
Even these points probably have been mentioned before.
But they’re pretty minor things, so maybe not!
So let’s get into 8 random tidbits I’ve picked up so far from living in Japan for a couple of months. In no particular order.
And now for the final Kizumonogatari movie, and the conclusion to the story of where everything began, and why things ended up the way they did.
