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化物語 [Bakemonogatari] #1
Bakemonogatari, Tome 1
Koyomi Araragi est un lycéen un peu particulier : mordu par une vampire âgée de 500 ans, il doit composer avec des capacités hors du commun qui le rendent, malgré lui, sensible aux phénomènes surnaturels… Un jour, il rattrape Hitagi, une de ses camarades de classe, alors qu’elle chutait dans les escaliers. Quelle n’est pas sa surprise quand il découvre qu'elle ne pèse pratiquement rien ! Très vite, Koyomi réalise qu’une entité chimérique a pris possession de la jeune fille et qu’il va devoir lui venir en aide…
182 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 15, 2018
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Oh! Great
221 books127 followersOh! great, whose real name is Ito Ōgure (大暮維人 Ōgure Ito) is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Air Gear. Apart from working with manga, he designed some of the alternate character outfits in the PlayStation 2 version of Namco's 3D fighting game Tekken 5, and a guest character in Soul Calibur IV named Ashlotte.
His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".
His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".
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July 14, 2025
The art is stark and stylish, its settings oddly lacking in life aside from the small handful of characters in the main cast. The story's more or less what I'm coming to expect from Nisioisin: imaginative, stiff and overselfconscious storytelling and dialogue, chock full of male gaze, introducing interesting themes or a hint of actual emotion... and with an odd and constant sidestepping from affect, staying distanced from its own proceedings. Got to hand it to him that he's "committed to the bit" in a way that immediately recognizable as his, though I will never find it congenial.
4 stars for the art, 2 for the (not quite finished) story.
4 stars for the art, 2 for the (not quite finished) story.
August 24, 2020
This is the manga adaptation of the acclaimed novel of an acclaimed novelist by an accomplished artist, with a competent translation.
Bakemonogatari is the first part of the Monogatari series of novels that is so beloved in its original Japanese incarnation, that one should be wary in consuming it. Translations can be tricky because of how much nuance can be lost, especially in the wordplay and puns. Manga adaptation can be the same, there's only so much an artist can do in transforming dense narrative into sequential graphic storytelling. However, the talent involved in this collaboration is enough to assuage such apprehensions, and actually exceed expectations. 5 stars.
Bakemonogatari is the first part of the Monogatari series of novels that is so beloved in its original Japanese incarnation, that one should be wary in consuming it. Translations can be tricky because of how much nuance can be lost, especially in the wordplay and puns. Manga adaptation can be the same, there's only so much an artist can do in transforming dense narrative into sequential graphic storytelling. However, the talent involved in this collaboration is enough to assuage such apprehensions, and actually exceed expectations. 5 stars.
September 14, 2019
I don't get the hype over this manga. This one mixed casual day to day teens life with some fantasy elements. I did enjoy the arts that was pretty and very clear for manga standard but the story just seem to be a weird melting pot. I didn't enjoy it at all! I give two stars for the illustrations.
April 7, 2024
Miałam ogromną ochotę na reread Bakemonogatari, historię kraba akurat świetnie pamiętałam, jestem ciekawa, jak będzie z resztą ❤️
September 14, 2019
As someone with limited knowledge of this series, I went into this first volume confused and left confused. But lets start with the good.
The art is BEAUTIFUL It's a sight for sore eyes, really. Disclosure, I haven't read very many super recent manga (stuff from the last five years or so) and that may be heightening my perceptions but I love the use of shadows and often quirky details. Everything looks clean and the sense of scale is palpable. Honestly, this art style is too good for the standard sized manga volume with soft beige pages. It would look best on a high quality 10-inch tablet to really showcase the level of detail.
I like the character designs, they remind me vaguely of the Persona series. If you're a fan of tsundere girls and risque shounen romance series that are on the darker side with some action sequences, I think this would be easily recommendable. It's very fast-paced and the ending hints at deeper character development in subsequent volumes.
But for some drawbacks, if you're not into that any of that aforementioned stuff this is not a series that I think would change people's minds.
As previously stated, I am still utterly confused by the story and its aims. And finally, the inside of people's mouths being put in mortal danger seems to be a terrifying trigger point for me so hopefully future volumes don't have as much of that.
Note : Thanks goes to Netgalley and Kodansha for providing an e-ARC of this title for review.
The art is BEAUTIFUL It's a sight for sore eyes, really. Disclosure, I haven't read very many super recent manga (stuff from the last five years or so) and that may be heightening my perceptions but I love the use of shadows and often quirky details. Everything looks clean and the sense of scale is palpable. Honestly, this art style is too good for the standard sized manga volume with soft beige pages. It would look best on a high quality 10-inch tablet to really showcase the level of detail.
I like the character designs, they remind me vaguely of the Persona series. If you're a fan of tsundere girls and risque shounen romance series that are on the darker side with some action sequences, I think this would be easily recommendable. It's very fast-paced and the ending hints at deeper character development in subsequent volumes.
But for some drawbacks, if you're not into that any of that aforementioned stuff this is not a series that I think would change people's minds.
As previously stated, I am still utterly confused by the story and its aims. And finally, the inside of people's mouths being put in mortal danger seems to be a terrifying trigger point for me so hopefully future volumes don't have as much of that.
Note : Thanks goes to Netgalley and Kodansha for providing an e-ARC of this title for review.
December 20, 2019
amo Nisioisin, ma i disegni di Oh! Great per quanto belli restano sempre confusionari, non si capisce chi parla o chi pensa, non si capisce quando c'è un flashback, la regia è confusa ed è difficile stargli dietro. pensavo che con Nisioisin alle spalle si sarebbe trattenuto dal fare le stesse cose, a quanto pare mi sbagliavo, probabilmente è l'ultima serie di oh great che leggerò, mi spiace, ma non lo reggo più.
January 19, 2021
I’ve watched almost all off the anime for the series and It’s one of my favorites. The manga just started but so far it’s follows the anime almost exactly. The artwork is incredible too me and is what really made me want to read the manga even tho I’ve already seen the anime.
April 25, 2023
Stylistic art and exceedingly weird plot. Not sure how I feel about any of the characters. Simply fucking bizarre.
Fan service is a little over the top, but I guess that the norm in this demographic of manga.
Fan service is a little over the top, but I guess that the norm in this demographic of manga.
February 25, 2021
Y se lleva esa nota por la edición y el dibujo, de lo contario le pondría menos 😂
January 6, 2019
No puede ser. Es imposible que el mejor manga del año lo haya leído el día 6 de enero. Pero en esas estamos. Da igual lo que llegue después. La adaptación a manga de Bakemonogatari va a destronar sin dificultad a cualquiera que intente robarle el número 1. Pero no es justo. Hay una historia detrás de la historia aparente. Si algo se aprende con NisiOisiN es que todo puede ser otra cosa. Que las versiones oficiales y los textos apócrifos pueden intercambiar su lugar en el canon. Y que la mayor parte del tiempo nadie se fija en ello.
Aclaración en 3, 2, 1... Me ha gustado Bakemonogatari desde el primer episodio del anime. Desde que entre en su mundo. Yo, que estoy en contra del fan service; yo, que jamás pagaría por ver un anime de tipo harem; me vi arrastrado por una historia en la que los sentimientos de los personajes me parecían creíbles. Historias de monstruos encerrados en cuerpos de chicas que movían cosas dentro de mí gracias a la delicadeza con la que iban creciendo los personajes e iban entretejiéndose sus tramas. Morí de amor. Supe lo que era una auténtica obra maestra de la animación en ese justo momento.
Y entonces llegó su manga y pude ver que no se parece en nada a lo que yo esperaba encontrar. ¿Entonces? Esta es la historia del cangrejo y Senjôgahara que ya conocía, pero la forma que ha tenido el artista Oh!great de plasmar su historia ha sido para mí algo nuevo. Ha usado los recursos del manga para provocar unos efectos de sobredosis muy parecidos. ¿Quién iba a decir que iban a funcionar tan bien los silencios aquí y que el monólogo interior iba a ir de la mano de los paseos nocturnos en bici de una forma tan adecuada?
No sé. Me he quedado torcido y extasiado con una historia que ya me sabía de memoria. Y eso no tiene precio. La magia de Bakemonogatari se ha transformado para que, a pesar de conocer lo que va a salir de la chistera, nos siga sorprendiendo el truco.
Grande NisiOisiN por crear un universo tan sólido. Grande Oh!great por reinterpretarlo sin insultar a aquellos que llevábamos tanto tiempo visitándolo.
Aclaración en 3, 2, 1... Me ha gustado Bakemonogatari desde el primer episodio del anime. Desde que entre en su mundo. Yo, que estoy en contra del fan service; yo, que jamás pagaría por ver un anime de tipo harem; me vi arrastrado por una historia en la que los sentimientos de los personajes me parecían creíbles. Historias de monstruos encerrados en cuerpos de chicas que movían cosas dentro de mí gracias a la delicadeza con la que iban creciendo los personajes e iban entretejiéndose sus tramas. Morí de amor. Supe lo que era una auténtica obra maestra de la animación en ese justo momento.
Y entonces llegó su manga y pude ver que no se parece en nada a lo que yo esperaba encontrar. ¿Entonces? Esta es la historia del cangrejo y Senjôgahara que ya conocía, pero la forma que ha tenido el artista Oh!great de plasmar su historia ha sido para mí algo nuevo. Ha usado los recursos del manga para provocar unos efectos de sobredosis muy parecidos. ¿Quién iba a decir que iban a funcionar tan bien los silencios aquí y que el monólogo interior iba a ir de la mano de los paseos nocturnos en bici de una forma tan adecuada?
No sé. Me he quedado torcido y extasiado con una historia que ya me sabía de memoria. Y eso no tiene precio. La magia de Bakemonogatari se ha transformado para que, a pesar de conocer lo que va a salir de la chistera, nos siga sorprendiendo el truco.
Grande NisiOisiN por crear un universo tan sólido. Grande Oh!great por reinterpretarlo sin insultar a aquellos que llevábamos tanto tiempo visitándolo.
October 20, 2020
Sadly this one was not upto my taste. I am easily pleased by anything and everything that is illustrated including manga with great art sequence and just ignore everything else about it including the characters or the plot or the dialogues. But this one, I just cannot pinpoint which one I must like for the two stars. I would say it's solely for representing a female main character and for the first two colour pages. Other than these, I cannot find anything else to appreciate this one. The characters are cringy, the art sequence is really haphazard, the plot is messy with no ultimate explanation or a proper presentation. If it was a confusing plot, I would have been happier. And to enjoy a manga either you have to enjoy the characters or enjoy the art sequence or the plot or the mystery or anything to enjoy a manga. This one lacked in any of this. And to say this is of a fantasy/action genre, it represented the vampire/fantasy part or the characters being strongly represented totally lacking. And what's with the nude scene. It was so irrevalant and made the characters look really bad. I will not continue with the series.
Thank you #NetGalley for the book #Bakemonogatari.
Thank you #NetGalley for the book #Bakemonogatari.
June 9, 2024
I never get tired of Oshino's "Something good happen to you?" line.
This is arguably the perfect version of NISIOISIN's Bakemonogatari. The original prose stories feel a bit stuffy for how short they are, not giving the Reader the chance to really get to know the characters or the world until successive stories (for example, we don't get much of Hachikuji's true personality until after "Mayoi Snail" is resolved), and specifically we don't get enough time for banter. SHAFT's anime adaptation is bound to the way the books are divided, so it has a weird false "ending" with the second "Tsubasa Cat" episode serving as the finale for the Araragi-Senjougahara story before a later web release of the last three episodes, which actually involve the "cat" of that story's title, while also serving as the finale for Bake- as a whole. I do not dislike Bake-, and indeed I cannot dislike it, as it is the foundation on which the later series is built, but later novels and their animated adaptations feel more "whole" for having the sense that their creators are more comfortable with their art in their respective media (Bake- is actually my second favorite of SHAFT's adaptations, after the Kizumonogatari movie trilogy).
Oh!Great's largest contribution in this manga adaptation is that he preserves the quasi-avant-garde visuals of the SHAFT anime in a medium that better fits them, being print manga. For me, personally, I believe any artwork should strive to make great use of its chosen medium, and indeed SHAFT's Monogatari Series does well for a visual medium, but the "problem" is there is not enough "action" in the series to allow the animators to... well, animate. The series is mostly about talking, and so Akiyuki Shinbou and his coworkers wriggle around this by using art-style changes, or closing up on weird parts of people's bodies, or over-emphasizing erotic fanservice, or using monochromatic title cards containing large chunks of the original novels' text, &c. All of these things are pretty neat, but they don't really require animation, in the sense that they don't require movement. Manga is static, so it can arguably better use SHAFT's techniques to similar effect. Oh!Great does this perfectly, with Senjougahara's crab being shown occasionally as a mass of kanji, or showing Senjougahara's stapler attack from a vantage point in the back of Araragi's mouth, &c.
On a more basic level, Oh!Great does a pretty good job drawing Senjougahara's butt. Generally speaking, I don't care too much for Senjougahara, but I would probably blame this mostly on the purple hair of her SHAFT version. VOFAN's art for the novels always gave her black hair, and everyone else has black hair except where it's supposed to be weird, like the European vampire Shinobu or the zombie Ononoki (who I don't think is even described in-text as having blue hair, but whatever). Senjougahara's hair being purple seems to clash with the overall normalcy of the main girls, as if the aesthetic choice of her hair color was simply to have her stand out as the "main girl" among main girls. Not only does Oh!Great correct this, but he also makes everyone's hair almost white anyway, through use of harsh "lighting" to create high contrast in the sheen of everyone's black hair. Which is somehow more palatable for me than giving Senjougahara purple hair, I guess. Anyway, beyond this, Oh!Great continues to build upon the groundwork laid in his previous series, Tenjho Tenge: Senjougahara is drawn to be sexier than she appears in the anime. This is reasonable, not just for the simple fact of fanservice, but because it's supposed to be a big deal that Araragi eventually starts dating her in the story while otherwise Kanbaru, Sengoku, his sisters, arguably Hachikuji, and definitely Shinobu and Hanekawa have more chemistry with Araragi in terms of personality, and all are a bit more sexually involved with the kid, at least as concerns fanservice (Senjougahara is usually too brutal in her verbal abuse that it moves too far to be merely "S"). Senjougahara is meant to be beautiful, but her anime version feels bland in comparison to the filled niches of the sporty Kanbaru and Karen, the demure Sengoku, the smart and busty Hanekawa, the "gap moe" of Tsukihi's violent side clashing with her traditional Japanese appearance, Hachikuji's fourth-wall-breaking slips of the tongue, and the monster girls. Oh!Great "corrects" this in part by at least drawing Senjougahara's legs, thighs, and butt with great care (I guess her boobs were big-ish, too, but we already have Hanekawa for that), and of course we are spending a whole volume with Senjougahara, with only Hanekawa as competition, seen very briefly at that, so it's maybe easier to see what Araragi sees. It helps that her trademark acid tongue either seems tastefully downplayed, or otherwise Araragi's straight-man overreactions are tastefully up-played to counter.
I keep forgetting that Araragi has seen Senjougahara completely nude, but then it is possible the SHAFT version obscured things a little more than Oh!Great does here. I'd write further on the subject, but I strongly believe I've written elsewhere about ecchi comedies and the lax severity of full-frontal nudity. Essentially, it is weirdly common in the genre to have the main boy see the main girls completely nude, with nothing coming of it. Indeed, Araragi and Senjougahara begin dating shortly after the events of this volume, but their relationship will remain chaste for quite some time. The purpose of nudity in ecchi comedies is more for the Reader, so we can see butts and boobs and things. This gets tricky when we try to consider the agency of the Protagonist, who must necessarily be "blue-balled" time and again so we might kinda-sorta cuckold him by seeing these naked girls ourselves, in an external dimension where we at least have some opportunity for "release" (I don't personally beat off to such manga, but the point is I can whereas Araragi himself cannot, unless he is written to have such an allowance). We can maybe raise more questions regarding "objectification of women" as relating to two-dimensional women, most of whom are intended from the ground up to be mere caricatures, following certain tropes to appeal to 3D Readers through the lens of the 2D Protagonist, how the Protagonist's agency and that of every girl is limited by the Author-Reader dyad's need to place the characters in risque situations for our laughs and/or boners. But this is all probably a subject better suited for e.g. To Love-Ru anyway.
****
EDIT (06/09/2024): I bought this volume when it was new-ish, pretty sure. And bought the next two volumes with one another, so necessarily quite a bit after purchasing Volume 1. Hadn't read 2 and 3 to this day. Likewise, hadn't read beyond the first half of Koyomimonogatari among the novels until only recently. I'd been planning on finishing what was officially released of the novels much sooner. I'm still sleeping on the anime Second Season and beyond (though I've seen the Kizu movies at least twice each, and they came out later...). I think I got overwhelmed by how much shit was releasing so close to each other? And then lost interest when it seemed like Kodansha weren't going to publish the Off and Monster Seasons in the West? I've already forgotten if my reasoning for jumping back in was because SHAFT are confirmed to resume the anime. I don't think my returning to the manga has much to do with Oh!Great having just started another manga a couple weeks ago; I'd been planning on re-reading this volume for a few weeks, continuing into 2 and 3 which are sitting around untouched, then collecting future volumes, but maybe Kaijin Fugeki's release was the last push I needed?
Anyway, I wrote enough in 2019 that I don't feel I need to add much else. I considered doing that thing where I note all/most nice images of ass, thighs, boobs, &c., but... honestly, it's Oh!Great; it would take forever to catalog each and every panel with something titillating.
This is arguably the perfect version of NISIOISIN's Bakemonogatari. The original prose stories feel a bit stuffy for how short they are, not giving the Reader the chance to really get to know the characters or the world until successive stories (for example, we don't get much of Hachikuji's true personality until after "Mayoi Snail" is resolved), and specifically we don't get enough time for banter. SHAFT's anime adaptation is bound to the way the books are divided, so it has a weird false "ending" with the second "Tsubasa Cat" episode serving as the finale for the Araragi-Senjougahara story before a later web release of the last three episodes, which actually involve the "cat" of that story's title, while also serving as the finale for Bake- as a whole. I do not dislike Bake-, and indeed I cannot dislike it, as it is the foundation on which the later series is built, but later novels and their animated adaptations feel more "whole" for having the sense that their creators are more comfortable with their art in their respective media (Bake- is actually my second favorite of SHAFT's adaptations, after the Kizumonogatari movie trilogy).
Oh!Great's largest contribution in this manga adaptation is that he preserves the quasi-avant-garde visuals of the SHAFT anime in a medium that better fits them, being print manga. For me, personally, I believe any artwork should strive to make great use of its chosen medium, and indeed SHAFT's Monogatari Series does well for a visual medium, but the "problem" is there is not enough "action" in the series to allow the animators to... well, animate. The series is mostly about talking, and so Akiyuki Shinbou and his coworkers wriggle around this by using art-style changes, or closing up on weird parts of people's bodies, or over-emphasizing erotic fanservice, or using monochromatic title cards containing large chunks of the original novels' text, &c. All of these things are pretty neat, but they don't really require animation, in the sense that they don't require movement. Manga is static, so it can arguably better use SHAFT's techniques to similar effect. Oh!Great does this perfectly, with Senjougahara's crab being shown occasionally as a mass of kanji, or showing Senjougahara's stapler attack from a vantage point in the back of Araragi's mouth, &c.
On a more basic level, Oh!Great does a pretty good job drawing Senjougahara's butt. Generally speaking, I don't care too much for Senjougahara, but I would probably blame this mostly on the purple hair of her SHAFT version. VOFAN's art for the novels always gave her black hair, and everyone else has black hair except where it's supposed to be weird, like the European vampire Shinobu or the zombie Ononoki (who I don't think is even described in-text as having blue hair, but whatever). Senjougahara's hair being purple seems to clash with the overall normalcy of the main girls, as if the aesthetic choice of her hair color was simply to have her stand out as the "main girl" among main girls. Not only does Oh!Great correct this, but he also makes everyone's hair almost white anyway, through use of harsh "lighting" to create high contrast in the sheen of everyone's black hair. Which is somehow more palatable for me than giving Senjougahara purple hair, I guess. Anyway, beyond this, Oh!Great continues to build upon the groundwork laid in his previous series, Tenjho Tenge: Senjougahara is drawn to be sexier than she appears in the anime. This is reasonable, not just for the simple fact of fanservice, but because it's supposed to be a big deal that Araragi eventually starts dating her in the story while otherwise Kanbaru, Sengoku, his sisters, arguably Hachikuji, and definitely Shinobu and Hanekawa have more chemistry with Araragi in terms of personality, and all are a bit more sexually involved with the kid, at least as concerns fanservice (Senjougahara is usually too brutal in her verbal abuse that it moves too far to be merely "S"). Senjougahara is meant to be beautiful, but her anime version feels bland in comparison to the filled niches of the sporty Kanbaru and Karen, the demure Sengoku, the smart and busty Hanekawa, the "gap moe" of Tsukihi's violent side clashing with her traditional Japanese appearance, Hachikuji's fourth-wall-breaking slips of the tongue, and the monster girls. Oh!Great "corrects" this in part by at least drawing Senjougahara's legs, thighs, and butt with great care (I guess her boobs were big-ish, too, but we already have Hanekawa for that), and of course we are spending a whole volume with Senjougahara, with only Hanekawa as competition, seen very briefly at that, so it's maybe easier to see what Araragi sees. It helps that her trademark acid tongue either seems tastefully downplayed, or otherwise Araragi's straight-man overreactions are tastefully up-played to counter.
I keep forgetting that Araragi has seen Senjougahara completely nude, but then it is possible the SHAFT version obscured things a little more than Oh!Great does here. I'd write further on the subject, but I strongly believe I've written elsewhere about ecchi comedies and the lax severity of full-frontal nudity. Essentially, it is weirdly common in the genre to have the main boy see the main girls completely nude, with nothing coming of it. Indeed, Araragi and Senjougahara begin dating shortly after the events of this volume, but their relationship will remain chaste for quite some time. The purpose of nudity in ecchi comedies is more for the Reader, so we can see butts and boobs and things. This gets tricky when we try to consider the agency of the Protagonist, who must necessarily be "blue-balled" time and again so we might kinda-sorta cuckold him by seeing these naked girls ourselves, in an external dimension where we at least have some opportunity for "release" (I don't personally beat off to such manga, but the point is I can whereas Araragi himself cannot, unless he is written to have such an allowance). We can maybe raise more questions regarding "objectification of women" as relating to two-dimensional women, most of whom are intended from the ground up to be mere caricatures, following certain tropes to appeal to 3D Readers through the lens of the 2D Protagonist, how the Protagonist's agency and that of every girl is limited by the Author-Reader dyad's need to place the characters in risque situations for our laughs and/or boners. But this is all probably a subject better suited for e.g. To Love-Ru anyway.
****
EDIT (06/09/2024): I bought this volume when it was new-ish, pretty sure. And bought the next two volumes with one another, so necessarily quite a bit after purchasing Volume 1. Hadn't read 2 and 3 to this day. Likewise, hadn't read beyond the first half of Koyomimonogatari among the novels until only recently. I'd been planning on finishing what was officially released of the novels much sooner. I'm still sleeping on the anime Second Season and beyond (though I've seen the Kizu movies at least twice each, and they came out later...). I think I got overwhelmed by how much shit was releasing so close to each other? And then lost interest when it seemed like Kodansha weren't going to publish the Off and Monster Seasons in the West? I've already forgotten if my reasoning for jumping back in was because SHAFT are confirmed to resume the anime. I don't think my returning to the manga has much to do with Oh!Great having just started another manga a couple weeks ago; I'd been planning on re-reading this volume for a few weeks, continuing into 2 and 3 which are sitting around untouched, then collecting future volumes, but maybe Kaijin Fugeki's release was the last push I needed?
Anyway, I wrote enough in 2019 that I don't feel I need to add much else. I considered doing that thing where I note all/most nice images of ass, thighs, boobs, &c., but... honestly, it's Oh!Great; it would take forever to catalog each and every panel with something titillating.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 15, 2019
I received an arc from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
So I came in to this manga super intrigued in how this would adapt my favorite light novel series of all time. What makes the Monogatari series so great is how wonderfully timed, humorous, and quick-witted the banter between characters seems, as well as the super interesting characters and supernatural events.
So is the manga able to maintain what makes the light novel so good? Sadly it loses a lot from this adaptation. The witter banter is scaled back significantly, even more so than the anime, which at least left in enough to not feel as empty. Don't get me wrong here, as the manga has some really good sequences, and nails jokes at a decent pace. It's just due to the structure of manga and panels, if you've delved in to this world before, you know it has sacrificed a lot. Due to said structure it has no choice, but to edit out so much of the conversations, which left it feeling not quite whole.
Thankfully the plot itself doesn't suffer in the manga, so if you prefer a more straight forward nature in this style, it does its job. The artwork is fantastic, and I really enjoyed the effort the artist put in here. Characters look, act, and feel as they should. Another nice thing the artist has done, is give their own touch to the characters. The characters of course follow the original designs, but it is done without looking like straight copies of the light novel art, or the anime.
I think in the end, this manga may please some who may not have checked out the light novels or the anime first. It's not a terrible starting point in that regard, yet even then I recommend people consume this in either of its other media forms as to not miss out on what truly makes this series amazing in the first place. As for anyone that has consumed this series in another format, there isn't any reason I can recommend needing to check this out, unless you want it for your collection.
I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 if I could, but rounding it up to a 3 since it isn't an option.
So I came in to this manga super intrigued in how this would adapt my favorite light novel series of all time. What makes the Monogatari series so great is how wonderfully timed, humorous, and quick-witted the banter between characters seems, as well as the super interesting characters and supernatural events.
So is the manga able to maintain what makes the light novel so good? Sadly it loses a lot from this adaptation. The witter banter is scaled back significantly, even more so than the anime, which at least left in enough to not feel as empty. Don't get me wrong here, as the manga has some really good sequences, and nails jokes at a decent pace. It's just due to the structure of manga and panels, if you've delved in to this world before, you know it has sacrificed a lot. Due to said structure it has no choice, but to edit out so much of the conversations, which left it feeling not quite whole.
Thankfully the plot itself doesn't suffer in the manga, so if you prefer a more straight forward nature in this style, it does its job. The artwork is fantastic, and I really enjoyed the effort the artist put in here. Characters look, act, and feel as they should. Another nice thing the artist has done, is give their own touch to the characters. The characters of course follow the original designs, but it is done without looking like straight copies of the light novel art, or the anime.
I think in the end, this manga may please some who may not have checked out the light novels or the anime first. It's not a terrible starting point in that regard, yet even then I recommend people consume this in either of its other media forms as to not miss out on what truly makes this series amazing in the first place. As for anyone that has consumed this series in another format, there isn't any reason I can recommend needing to check this out, unless you want it for your collection.
I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 if I could, but rounding it up to a 3 since it isn't an option.
October 11, 2019
I received a reviewer copy of Bakemonogatari through NetGallery.
I've heard about this series long before this release of the English Version of the manga. The memory of the clips with the weightless girl and the infinite number of weaponized stationary has stuck with me over the years.
Bakemonogatari or Monster's story is a manga adaptation of a light novel of the same name by NISIOISIN. It is labelled as a horror comic but it falls under mystery, urban fantasy, and it could be easily a slice of life story.
It follows Koyomi Araragi as he helps his female classmates deal with fairly recent brushes with the supernatural. Araragi himself was attacked by a vampire over the two week school break before the manga starts.
Volume one follows Hitagi Senjougahara who has been rendered virtually weightless by a stone crab for two years. Hitagi used to be a track star but she stopped and no longer participates in any school sports.
Araragi becomes interested in her after she slips on a banana peel and he catches her as she falls down the stairs and uncovers her secret.
I won't get into too much more due to spoilers but this is a dialogue heavy manga with very few action scenes which is contrary to OH! Great's series, Tenjou Tenge, which might be disappointing to fans expecting something similar. There is some light cheesecake type of shonen panels and mild sexual humor but the subject is heavy.
This issue's overall theme is acceptance. What would you be willing to sacrifice to alleviate an emotional burden?
I like the reoccurring tagline of "Monsters don't come to you. They are there from the start." It sets the tone as you read through. It is a strange story but it is just a start of what sounds like is episodic stories dealing with a central emotional theme. It is a breath of fresh air from the countless fighting, dsytopian future and isekai mangas that have become popular recently.
This warrants more than one read through to really get.
I've heard about this series long before this release of the English Version of the manga. The memory of the clips with the weightless girl and the infinite number of weaponized stationary has stuck with me over the years.
Bakemonogatari or Monster's story is a manga adaptation of a light novel of the same name by NISIOISIN. It is labelled as a horror comic but it falls under mystery, urban fantasy, and it could be easily a slice of life story.
It follows Koyomi Araragi as he helps his female classmates deal with fairly recent brushes with the supernatural. Araragi himself was attacked by a vampire over the two week school break before the manga starts.
Volume one follows Hitagi Senjougahara who has been rendered virtually weightless by a stone crab for two years. Hitagi used to be a track star but she stopped and no longer participates in any school sports.
Araragi becomes interested in her after she slips on a banana peel and he catches her as she falls down the stairs and uncovers her secret.
I won't get into too much more due to spoilers but this is a dialogue heavy manga with very few action scenes which is contrary to OH! Great's series, Tenjou Tenge, which might be disappointing to fans expecting something similar. There is some light cheesecake type of shonen panels and mild sexual humor but the subject is heavy.
This issue's overall theme is acceptance. What would you be willing to sacrifice to alleviate an emotional burden?
I like the reoccurring tagline of "Monsters don't come to you. They are there from the start." It sets the tone as you read through. It is a strange story but it is just a start of what sounds like is episodic stories dealing with a central emotional theme. It is a breath of fresh air from the countless fighting, dsytopian future and isekai mangas that have become popular recently.
This warrants more than one read through to really get.
September 26, 2019
I've received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for honest review.
Monogatari series is one of the most well known anime series out there, following complicated story line with bunch of characters. It's also beloved for its magnificent and breathtaking art style. That's why I was surprised there was no translation of manga, up until now. I was planning to dive into the series in the anime format but I haven't yet. Is it worth it? First volume of Bakemonogatari convinced me that it is.
First of all, I'd like to talk about artstyle. It is truly beautiful and eventhough it might not be everyone's taste, I was mesmerized. Eventhough some say it has its ecchi moments, I would disagree. Sure, there are some, but original artstyle and the beauty of the moment turn it into something else. It's not lewd at all...
Second of all, storyline. This one was a little bit confusing. At least for me. I was not entirely sure what was happening in the beginning, but I caught up in the end. At least on some level. A lot of stuff is still a mystery to me, but I am pretty sure we'll get to that later. I am a big fan of any yokai/monster elements in my manga/anime, meaning I was sold immediately.
Third of all, characters. I am pretty sure whole series is pretty character driven. From what I've seen so far, we get bunch of diversity. In a good way. My favorite one was Senjougahara - her weapons made me love her immediately.
Would I recommend Bakemonogatari to everyone? No. I think it's one of those series you either love or hate. It is a little bit confusing in the beginning and if you don't know about whole complicated structure, you might get lost. On the other hand, art style is totally worth it.
4/5*
Monogatari series is one of the most well known anime series out there, following complicated story line with bunch of characters. It's also beloved for its magnificent and breathtaking art style. That's why I was surprised there was no translation of manga, up until now. I was planning to dive into the series in the anime format but I haven't yet. Is it worth it? First volume of Bakemonogatari convinced me that it is.
First of all, I'd like to talk about artstyle. It is truly beautiful and eventhough it might not be everyone's taste, I was mesmerized. Eventhough some say it has its ecchi moments, I would disagree. Sure, there are some, but original artstyle and the beauty of the moment turn it into something else. It's not lewd at all...
Second of all, storyline. This one was a little bit confusing. At least for me. I was not entirely sure what was happening in the beginning, but I caught up in the end. At least on some level. A lot of stuff is still a mystery to me, but I am pretty sure we'll get to that later. I am a big fan of any yokai/monster elements in my manga/anime, meaning I was sold immediately.
Third of all, characters. I am pretty sure whole series is pretty character driven. From what I've seen so far, we get bunch of diversity. In a good way. My favorite one was Senjougahara - her weapons made me love her immediately.
Would I recommend Bakemonogatari to everyone? No. I think it's one of those series you either love or hate. It is a little bit confusing in the beginning and if you don't know about whole complicated structure, you might get lost. On the other hand, art style is totally worth it.
4/5*
January 15, 2019
Si tiene 4 estrellas es por la pedazo de edición de la mano de Milky Way Ediciones, que se salen con las pedazo de ediciones y detallitos que incluyen. Cuidan un montón a su público y eso se agradece un montón.
En cuanto a la historia, personalmente yo ya me he visto unas cuantas temporadas del anime de Bakemonogatari y sigo a un youtuber que la tiene como su historia y posible escritor favorito.
El youtuber, mitad japonés, ha dicho que el autor controla el idioma y los juegos de palabras como si lo hubiera inventado el mismo y que es una maravilla. Por esto yo comprendo que toda traducción o interpretación (que no tengo NINGUNA queja) será complicada y que quizás se pierdan ciertas cosas. Pero, no es sólo el idioma sino la cultura.
Todo los monstruos que aparezcan tendrán un sentido dentro del folclore japonés que, a no ser que seas a)japonés o b)alguien a quien le flipe y lea por su cuenta, algunas de las cosas te va a dejar un poco confusa, porque lo comentan como si todos los lectores conocieran estás historias que, personalmente, no es el caso. De todas maneras, como interesada en el japonés y en la cultura pues no me importa tener que indagar; para una persona que no le importe demasiado quizá entienda menos de la historia o no le llene tanto.
Por último, y la razón por la que se llevaría 3 estrellas es por el fanservice. Urg, estoy harta del maldito fanservice. No tiene sentido, no hace nada en la historia salvo el dibujar tetas y culos y comentarios innecesarios, de verdad.
Cuando me encuentre una novela ligera (de dónde sale este manga) o un manga escrito por un japonés en el que no haya nada de fanservice, me preparo unos huevos revueltos y me los como (odio el huevo), lo juro.
En cuanto a la historia, personalmente yo ya me he visto unas cuantas temporadas del anime de Bakemonogatari y sigo a un youtuber que la tiene como su historia y posible escritor favorito.
El youtuber, mitad japonés, ha dicho que el autor controla el idioma y los juegos de palabras como si lo hubiera inventado el mismo y que es una maravilla. Por esto yo comprendo que toda traducción o interpretación (que no tengo NINGUNA queja) será complicada y que quizás se pierdan ciertas cosas. Pero, no es sólo el idioma sino la cultura.
Todo los monstruos que aparezcan tendrán un sentido dentro del folclore japonés que, a no ser que seas a)japonés o b)alguien a quien le flipe y lea por su cuenta, algunas de las cosas te va a dejar un poco confusa, porque lo comentan como si todos los lectores conocieran estás historias que, personalmente, no es el caso. De todas maneras, como interesada en el japonés y en la cultura pues no me importa tener que indagar; para una persona que no le importe demasiado quizá entienda menos de la historia o no le llene tanto.
Por último, y la razón por la que se llevaría 3 estrellas es por el fanservice. Urg, estoy harta del maldito fanservice. No tiene sentido, no hace nada en la historia salvo el dibujar tetas y culos y comentarios innecesarios, de verdad.
Cuando me encuentre una novela ligera (de dónde sale este manga) o un manga escrito por un japonés en el que no haya nada de fanservice, me preparo unos huevos revueltos y me los como (odio el huevo), lo juro.
March 29, 2020
While I haven’t watched or read all of the Monogatari series by Nisioisin, I have gone through my fair share. I’m happy Bakemonogatari has been adapted into an anime and is available in English. However, the series in general tends to be a bit discussion and dialogue heavy. While fans of the series probably won’t have an issue with this, new readers who stick mostly to manga might have a harder time getting into this one. That said, it’s still a great story with nice art. Fans will probably get the most out of it, however.
January 27, 2021
3 stars
**Provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
#BakemonogatariMangaVolume1 #NetGalley
Pros: sharp art style, dangerous/tough girl trope, a hint of vampires & other monsters
Cons: confusing narrative, interjections of asides which slow the pace, blase mention of possible rape (there isn't)
Video link: [will insert when I film my Jan+Feb Invisible Cities wrap up]
Invisible Cities (Jan): Japan
**Provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
#BakemonogatariMangaVolume1 #NetGalley
Pros: sharp art style, dangerous/tough girl trope, a hint of vampires & other monsters
Cons: confusing narrative, interjections of asides which slow the pace, blase mention of possible rape (there isn't)
Video link: [will insert when I film my Jan+Feb Invisible Cities wrap up]
Invisible Cities (Jan): Japan
April 21, 2019
Senjougahara es de mis personajes favoritos de Monogatari. Me cuesta un poco acostumbrarme al dibujo pero tengo ganas de ir leyendo esta adaptación
April 21, 2020
Nah. It was too much boobs and nudity in this one. The story wasn’t engaging enough to me....I’ll not continue the series.
April 14, 2021
Such a fantastic read, loved it from start to finish every moment.
May 25, 2023
Little confusing, but the art is amazing
December 4, 2021
3.75/5
'Bakemonogatari' is a fascinating first installment in the Monogatari series. It focuses on a high school boy who meets a vampire and then encounters a girl that doesn't weigh anything. These two instances propel him into a series of strange events. In this first installment, just the smallest beginning of the story is touched on and I am sure that the following volumes will help flesh out the world. It's a bit confusing at first but the world feels unique and has a good dash of fantasy and folklore that make me intrigued to learn what will happen next.
'Bakemonogatari' is a fascinating first installment in the Monogatari series. It focuses on a high school boy who meets a vampire and then encounters a girl that doesn't weigh anything. These two instances propel him into a series of strange events. In this first installment, just the smallest beginning of the story is touched on and I am sure that the following volumes will help flesh out the world. It's a bit confusing at first but the world feels unique and has a good dash of fantasy and folklore that make me intrigued to learn what will happen next.
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January 12, 2019¿Cómo adaptar lo inadaptable cuando ya ha sido adaptado? Esto no es un rompecabezas. Es una pregunta legítima. Existen infinidad de obras inadaptables, consideradas imposibles de traducir a otro medio o idioma, que han sido adaptadas sin problemas, igualando al original es importancia. Y entre esas obras, esta Bakemonogatari.
Oh Great adaptando Bakemonogatari tiene dos problemas: las novelas originales son inadaptables y el anime que adaptó las novelas originales es inadaptable. Por eso, a la hora de abordar su adaptación al manga, decide seguir la ruta que hace inadaptable a las otras. Se apropia la historia, le confiere su estilo y aprovecha todo lo que tiene de propio el manga para contarlo de otra manera igualmente imposible en términos de literatura o animación.
Esa forma imposible es a través de la composición de página y el detalle del dibujo.
En términos de composición de página es interesante por la fluidez con la que se lee. Aun cargado de detalles, repleto de símbolos, se queda en un punto medio entre la obra original y el anime; está cargado de diálogos, pero pone más peso en las splash page, prácticamente ilustraciones, que es donde más brilla el manga. Porque el detalle del dibujo de Oh Great es prodigioso. Con líneas cuidadas, un uso del espacio negativo soberbio y unos fabulosos bloques de negros, la atención al detalle es tal que resulta sorprendente cómo pule hasta el último de los detalles en la página.
Eso no quita para que, más allá del detalle, también tenga ciertos problemas. El ritmo tiene pequeños traspiés, sobre todo en la primera mitad, cuando aún está buscando un ritmo adecuado, y la sexualización de los personajes femeninos resulta incluso más sangrante que en el anime, lo cual clama al cielo. Pero esos son precisamente los defectos que cabía esperar de cualquier adaptación de Oh Great, por lo cual, tampoco es dramático que exista aquello que ya sabíamos que iba a existir.
No es dramático porque, a fin de cuentas, Oh Great consigue apropiarse de Bakemonogatari. Darle su estilo, hacer que tenga sentido en formato manga, que adaptar lo inadaptable sea, una vez más, posible. Y aunque sólo sea por eso, ya merecería la pena continuar leyendo los subsiguientes tomos.
Oh Great adaptando Bakemonogatari tiene dos problemas: las novelas originales son inadaptables y el anime que adaptó las novelas originales es inadaptable. Por eso, a la hora de abordar su adaptación al manga, decide seguir la ruta que hace inadaptable a las otras. Se apropia la historia, le confiere su estilo y aprovecha todo lo que tiene de propio el manga para contarlo de otra manera igualmente imposible en términos de literatura o animación.
Esa forma imposible es a través de la composición de página y el detalle del dibujo.
En términos de composición de página es interesante por la fluidez con la que se lee. Aun cargado de detalles, repleto de símbolos, se queda en un punto medio entre la obra original y el anime; está cargado de diálogos, pero pone más peso en las splash page, prácticamente ilustraciones, que es donde más brilla el manga. Porque el detalle del dibujo de Oh Great es prodigioso. Con líneas cuidadas, un uso del espacio negativo soberbio y unos fabulosos bloques de negros, la atención al detalle es tal que resulta sorprendente cómo pule hasta el último de los detalles en la página.
Eso no quita para que, más allá del detalle, también tenga ciertos problemas. El ritmo tiene pequeños traspiés, sobre todo en la primera mitad, cuando aún está buscando un ritmo adecuado, y la sexualización de los personajes femeninos resulta incluso más sangrante que en el anime, lo cual clama al cielo. Pero esos son precisamente los defectos que cabía esperar de cualquier adaptación de Oh Great, por lo cual, tampoco es dramático que exista aquello que ya sabíamos que iba a existir.
No es dramático porque, a fin de cuentas, Oh Great consigue apropiarse de Bakemonogatari. Darle su estilo, hacer que tenga sentido en formato manga, que adaptar lo inadaptable sea, una vez más, posible. Y aunque sólo sea por eso, ya merecería la pena continuar leyendo los subsiguientes tomos.
April 22, 2024
11Abr24
Quisiese leer esta historia como la primera vez.
"Los monstruos no vienen a uno. Están ahi desde el comienzo. Siempre. En todas partes."
"Tu sola te salvarás a ti misma, por voluntad propia. "
"Mis comentarios despiadados están elaborados con 40 gramos de cobre, 25 gramos de zinc, 15 gramos de níquel y 97 kilos de malicia más chico gramos de vergüenza oculta. "
20Jun2021
La historia de Senjogahara. Solo eso, es exactamente como el anime aunque tiene menos paréntesis. Ya sabes cuando en el anime de repente ponían toda la pantalla llena de texto por unos segundos y tenias que parar para leerlo todo. En este formato de la historia está muy simplificado. Pero mantiene la esencia de la historia.
"¿Mh? ¿Ayudarte? ¿Yo? ¡Eso es imposible! Tu sola te salvarás por ti misma, por voluntad propia."
Quisiese leer esta historia como la primera vez.
"Los monstruos no vienen a uno. Están ahi desde el comienzo. Siempre. En todas partes."
"Tu sola te salvarás a ti misma, por voluntad propia. "
"Mis comentarios despiadados están elaborados con 40 gramos de cobre, 25 gramos de zinc, 15 gramos de níquel y 97 kilos de malicia más chico gramos de vergüenza oculta. "
20Jun2021
La historia de Senjogahara. Solo eso, es exactamente como el anime aunque tiene menos paréntesis. Ya sabes cuando en el anime de repente ponían toda la pantalla llena de texto por unos segundos y tenias que parar para leerlo todo. En este formato de la historia está muy simplificado. Pero mantiene la esencia de la historia.
"¿Mh? ¿Ayudarte? ¿Yo? ¡Eso es imposible! Tu sola te salvarás por ti misma, por voluntad propia."
January 3, 2019
Me ha parecido una historia interesante y original. Lo malo es el fanservice y el Ecchi inecesario y tan machista, como siempre. Por lo demás, tengo ganas de leer el siguiente.
September 27, 2019
If you'd like to see a few panels' worth of the art, visit my blog, The Grimoire Reliquary.
ALRIGHT, I’M APPARENTLY BRANCHING OUT INTO MANGA — first time for everything. I was looking through NetGalley a few days ago, searching for something new and intriguing and what do I come across but the first Volume of a manga adaptation to something I’m familiar with? I saw the Bakemonogatari anime years ago, and was struck by how unique its visual style was — on par only with the eeriness, the sheer bloody strangeness, of its story.
THE ART IS PRAISE-WORTHY. Oh!Great’s art consists of clear lines, which was a relief since I often struggle with the visual overload so frequently present in a lot of manga art. It properly communicates the moods of characters and their intentions. The writer-artist is enormously talented with the pencil, that’s for sure, and I am looking forward to how this looks on paper as compared to digital. The few double-spreads in this first volume showcased the kind of art I’d put in a frame on the wall, and looking at them cut in half in a .pdf file felt very wrong indeed.
Onto the bad…or at least the mildly, wildly annoying bits. There’s a fair amount of fan-service here, which works great for my sixteen-year-old self but at twenty-four comes across as gratuitous and unnecessary. Pretty art, sure, but I could do without the panty-shots and several even more over-sexualized elements included inside.
It doesn’t quite capture the quirky nature of the story as presented in the anime. It doesn’t have to – they’re two different adaptations of the same core material but this operates in a different medium entirely and it’s a good way to reacquaint myself with a franchise I never got to explore in full.
THE STORY, ALAS, LACKS CLARITY. Some will find it difficult to comprehend, which is where my familiarity came in use. I had at least some knowledge about what was going on, and I’m not entirely sure the dialogue succeeded in recapturing the eery feel of the light novel as much as it was confusing. It gets clearer about midway through.
If you like manga, if you’ve heard about the Monogatari franchise but prefer this medium to anime — I’d say, GO FOR IT! The release is in October — my personal score is 3.25 stars out of 5, or a 6.5 out of 10. It lacks that extra something to give it a score of 3.5/5; as it is, the art pushes it to a level just above the utter averageness of most 3-stars.
Thanks, NetGalley, for providing me with a review copy.
ALRIGHT, I’M APPARENTLY BRANCHING OUT INTO MANGA — first time for everything. I was looking through NetGalley a few days ago, searching for something new and intriguing and what do I come across but the first Volume of a manga adaptation to something I’m familiar with? I saw the Bakemonogatari anime years ago, and was struck by how unique its visual style was — on par only with the eeriness, the sheer bloody strangeness, of its story.
THE ART IS PRAISE-WORTHY. Oh!Great’s art consists of clear lines, which was a relief since I often struggle with the visual overload so frequently present in a lot of manga art. It properly communicates the moods of characters and their intentions. The writer-artist is enormously talented with the pencil, that’s for sure, and I am looking forward to how this looks on paper as compared to digital. The few double-spreads in this first volume showcased the kind of art I’d put in a frame on the wall, and looking at them cut in half in a .pdf file felt very wrong indeed.
Onto the bad…or at least the mildly, wildly annoying bits. There’s a fair amount of fan-service here, which works great for my sixteen-year-old self but at twenty-four comes across as gratuitous and unnecessary. Pretty art, sure, but I could do without the panty-shots and several even more over-sexualized elements included inside.
It doesn’t quite capture the quirky nature of the story as presented in the anime. It doesn’t have to – they’re two different adaptations of the same core material but this operates in a different medium entirely and it’s a good way to reacquaint myself with a franchise I never got to explore in full.
THE STORY, ALAS, LACKS CLARITY. Some will find it difficult to comprehend, which is where my familiarity came in use. I had at least some knowledge about what was going on, and I’m not entirely sure the dialogue succeeded in recapturing the eery feel of the light novel as much as it was confusing. It gets clearer about midway through.
If you like manga, if you’ve heard about the Monogatari franchise but prefer this medium to anime — I’d say, GO FOR IT! The release is in October — my personal score is 3.25 stars out of 5, or a 6.5 out of 10. It lacks that extra something to give it a score of 3.5/5; as it is, the art pushes it to a level just above the utter averageness of most 3-stars.
Thanks, NetGalley, for providing me with a review copy.
July 9, 2022
First off the art is really good and interesting, if you like manga art this one won’t disappoint. It is on the hentai side with plenty of fanservice panels, so if not your thing avoid. This is based on a series of horror stories, which I haven’t read, but after this adaptation I feel like the novels might be a better route for me as the story was hard to follow. I went into this cold not knowing anything but horror and a nice cover, and was confused most of the time - it feels like I’ve jumped into the middle of the story and world.
This feels like a series of strange happenings, spirits and horrors that are tied together by a few characters that try and solve or help those affected. It is actually kinda difficult to explain the story without giving away all the strange happenings. All the characters are just there to service the story, we get a baseline of their personalities but little else besides the facts that none of them are ‘normal’ we don’t get much about their relationships to each other or why they do what they do.
The main focus is on the girl they are there to help. A monster has attached itself to her and they help her deal with it, I’m not even sure if she Is supposed to be a main character or just the person they are helping that week. Could be either, will have to read more to get a better sense of whether there is a greater story or if all of these are just a series of short stories, because it did feel that way.
Not sure if I’ll switch to the novels or just watch the anime series. I might have to do some research to see if I skipped a series as I know there are several series connected by this theme.
This feels like a series of strange happenings, spirits and horrors that are tied together by a few characters that try and solve or help those affected. It is actually kinda difficult to explain the story without giving away all the strange happenings. All the characters are just there to service the story, we get a baseline of their personalities but little else besides the facts that none of them are ‘normal’ we don’t get much about their relationships to each other or why they do what they do.
The main focus is on the girl they are there to help. A monster has attached itself to her and they help her deal with it, I’m not even sure if she Is supposed to be a main character or just the person they are helping that week. Could be either, will have to read more to get a better sense of whether there is a greater story or if all of these are just a series of short stories, because it did feel that way.
Not sure if I’ll switch to the novels or just watch the anime series. I might have to do some research to see if I skipped a series as I know there are several series connected by this theme.
July 30, 2022
"Belum tentu orang lain yg salah, karena kita sendiri juga bisa salah"
Manga yg aku dapat dari giveaway Gramedia, nyoba nyicip mana tau tertarik buat koleksi. 📚
Bercerita tentang manusia² yg memiliki keanehan sejak ketemu dengan pelbagai monster. Fokus utama vol 1 ini mengenai Senjougahara yg berat badannya dicuri tuan krab maksudnya kepiting. 🦀
(bukannya enak ya berat bada diambil, timbangan jd enteng kan ya? impian semua kaum hawa.) 🤣
Koyomi Aragari yg nggak sengaja tau akan hal ini, mencoba membantu gadis bahenol tsb. Walo tu cewe udah sempet menghekter mulut aragari terlebih dulu. ☠️
Alur ceritanya unik skali woi, suer ✌️ tempo maju mundur yg acak gitu, jadi pas baca kek lagi nyusun kepingan puzzle gitu, agak bingung sih awalnya tapi ini tuh beda dari yg lain malah terkesan keren. 🧩
Soal art? WOAH gile sih bagus uy. Detail-detail yang divisualkan itu hidup, cukup buat kagum pake banget. Dari mangaka Air Gear sih patutlah secakep itu. intip aja ya di slide art-nya tuh best deh ngga boong. 👍
Banyak sensor? Ya jelas ada yg disensor bestie, we live in Konoha guis. Namun okelah, fanservice nya nyampe kok, cakep juga. 👀
Jdi kau kanjut koleksi ini nggak sih Ki? hmmmm keknya lanjut deh 🤭 walo ini bukan tipikal genre yg my cup of Tea, Ecchi & Harem. Tapi aku sesuka itu sama art-nya juga hal-hal unik lainnya. 🍵
Kesimpulan, ini menarik, sexy, unik dan artwork-nya begitu laksmi. ☄️
Manga yg aku dapat dari giveaway Gramedia, nyoba nyicip mana tau tertarik buat koleksi. 📚
Bercerita tentang manusia² yg memiliki keanehan sejak ketemu dengan pelbagai monster. Fokus utama vol 1 ini mengenai Senjougahara yg berat badannya dicuri tuan krab maksudnya kepiting. 🦀
(bukannya enak ya berat bada diambil, timbangan jd enteng kan ya? impian semua kaum hawa.) 🤣
Koyomi Aragari yg nggak sengaja tau akan hal ini, mencoba membantu gadis bahenol tsb. Walo tu cewe udah sempet menghekter mulut aragari terlebih dulu. ☠️
Alur ceritanya unik skali woi, suer ✌️ tempo maju mundur yg acak gitu, jadi pas baca kek lagi nyusun kepingan puzzle gitu, agak bingung sih awalnya tapi ini tuh beda dari yg lain malah terkesan keren. 🧩
Soal art? WOAH gile sih bagus uy. Detail-detail yang divisualkan itu hidup, cukup buat kagum pake banget. Dari mangaka Air Gear sih patutlah secakep itu. intip aja ya di slide art-nya tuh best deh ngga boong. 👍
Banyak sensor? Ya jelas ada yg disensor bestie, we live in Konoha guis. Namun okelah, fanservice nya nyampe kok, cakep juga. 👀
Jdi kau kanjut koleksi ini nggak sih Ki? hmmmm keknya lanjut deh 🤭 walo ini bukan tipikal genre yg my cup of Tea, Ecchi & Harem. Tapi aku sesuka itu sama art-nya juga hal-hal unik lainnya. 🍵
Kesimpulan, ini menarik, sexy, unik dan artwork-nya begitu laksmi. ☄️
October 15, 2019
*~.Book Analysis.~*
Just remembering that those were my impressions and opinion as a reader :)
Rating: 2 stars
Reading period: Oct. 15th, 2019
Format: ebook
Source: NetGalley – I have received this copy in exchange for an honest review.
Release date: Oct. 1st, 2019
PROS
I chose to read this title because its art caught my attention. It seemed like I knew the artist behind its drawings, so I gave it a shot. I wasn't wrong about the artistic aspect of this work, as it is beautifully done in detail.
CONS
Unfortunately, this story line disappointed me to no end. I can deal with the ecchi contents even though I'm not a fan, I really loved the art, but I just hated the plot. Unnecessary gore, comes and goes without much logic for a good part of the volume and poor characters that made me roll my eyes so much that they hurt. I'm a fan of Kodansha Comics' work and even have a few physical volumes from them even though I'm from Brazil and it's tough to find their volumes around here, so I'm disappointed that they chose to bring such a poor title to their amazing catalogue.
COVER ANALYSIS
As the cover drawn me to read it, I guess it did its job! LOL
RECOMMENDED FOR
Ecchi, action and horror manga lovers.
Just remembering that those were my impressions and opinion as a reader :)
Rating: 2 stars
Reading period: Oct. 15th, 2019
Format: ebook
Source: NetGalley – I have received this copy in exchange for an honest review.
Release date: Oct. 1st, 2019
PROS
I chose to read this title because its art caught my attention. It seemed like I knew the artist behind its drawings, so I gave it a shot. I wasn't wrong about the artistic aspect of this work, as it is beautifully done in detail.
CONS
Unfortunately, this story line disappointed me to no end. I can deal with the ecchi contents even though I'm not a fan, I really loved the art, but I just hated the plot. Unnecessary gore, comes and goes without much logic for a good part of the volume and poor characters that made me roll my eyes so much that they hurt. I'm a fan of Kodansha Comics' work and even have a few physical volumes from them even though I'm from Brazil and it's tough to find their volumes around here, so I'm disappointed that they chose to bring such a poor title to their amazing catalogue.
COVER ANALYSIS
As the cover drawn me to read it, I guess it did its job! LOL
RECOMMENDED FOR
Ecchi, action and horror manga lovers.
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