Crabs, snails and lesbians! Oh, my!

It is time for another blog post already. I finished Bakemonogatari early this morning and since everyone else watched it months ago this will be another review with just me.

SPOILERS

Lets start with Araragi. He is the main character and white knight extraordinaire. He runs to anyone's side whether they ask for help or not and is 1/10th vampire, because of this he heals extremely quick. Throughout the series he gets his arms, legs, wrists and pretty much everything broken and mangled, but manages to heal it by the next scene. It is hard for me to get a firm hold on his personality. At some points he seems to be a perverted creeper and at others he freaks out at even the thought of a girls body. At the end of the second arc he starts dating Hitagi Senjogahara.

Senjogahara is a girl with a rather strange problem. She is weightless. She is extremely anti-social because she does not want people finding out her secret. It is to the point to where when people do find it out she threatens then with an entire stores worth of office supplies. She ends up stapling the inside of Araragi's cheek when he finds out, but he heals it within a few seconds. After he helps her cure her weight she decides that she loves him.

Mayoi Hachikuji is a cute little girl who is also a aberration. She follows Araragi around at random points in the series and is repeatedly beat up or felt up by him. At one point in the series he literally sneaks up on her and starts rooting his hands around in her shirt. Every time they are together she ends up biting his fingers for one reason or another. She has a habit of stuttering Araragi's name in different ways each time. She eventually says it right just to say she spelt it wrong in her head. Despite their constant fighting Araragi and her appear to be friends.

Suruga Kanbaru is a strange girl. She is extremely athletic to the point of being able to run along side cars with ease. One of her arms is bandaged to cover the fact that it is a monkey's arm. This arm gives her super strength and was able to take control of her before Araragi helped her dispell it. She is also a lesbian, which seems to be even more strange then her monkey arm. The scene where she reveals all of that goes exactly like this


There is also a guy named Meme Oshino who can defeat all sorts of aberrations with little problem. He has a girl named Shinobu staying with him who is responsible for Araragi being part vampire. She never talks through the entire series, just sits there and stares at people. When she isn't sitting and staring she is helping Araragi defeat a cat aberration who has taken over his friend's body. At the end of the series she stops living with Oshino and starts living inside Araragi's shadow.

Tsubasa Hanekawa is the girl whose body has been taken over by the cat aberration. Normally she is a good girl with good grades. Class representative and knows a great deal in many different subjects. When taken over her hair turns white, she grows cat ears and can move and jump extremely quickly. She also has the ability to drain people's energy by touch. Both of the times she is taken over Shinobu attacks her and drains her of all the energy she has, forcing her back into Hanekawa's body.


There were a few other characters, but these were my favorite and I don't feel like writing up something for all of them. Overall I loved the show. I am looking forward to the prequel movie they're coming out with.