After months of waiting for a show that was suppose to to premire during the spring anime seasons Hanamonogatari finally airs. Yay SHAFT!
I have to say this, Hanamonogatari is the most deep, sad and bittersweet out of the monogatari series.
For the most part this series follows around Kanbaru who is now in her Third and final year of high school. Agarigi, Senjogahara, Hanekawa all graduated so Kanbaru is alone.
Rumors flow around the school about some "Devil God" that takes your troubles away. Worried that it might be her causing trouble in her monkey form she sorts out the source of these rumors along the way she meets up with Oshino Ogui(who is now a boy because in monogari season 2 was a girl) Kaiki Deisu (who i now alive and now has a beard) and the actual "Devil God" Numachi Rouka
Numachi Rouka is a Rival of Kabaru from Junior High. Both were very good basketball players but due to Rouka leg injury she was forced to quit and all of her basketball scholarship fell through and was forced to work part time to support her self but is now unemployed but is now listing to young people problems and is calling herself the "Devil God"
As the anime progress Kanbaru monkey arm dissapears and she regains her human arm.
We learn that Rouka killed herself in her third year of Junior high after her leg injury and that the Rouka that Kanbaru met up with was a Ghost. A Ghost who plans on collecting all the devil parts and becoming the devil herself. She even manage to steal Kanbaru monkey arm during their first meet up.
Near the end of the anime She meet up with Agaragi who now has a car and long hair she manage to send Rouka to the afterlife and she re-cuts her hair with Agaragi help.
I have to say this arc help me let go of a piece of my self i was holding on to for six years (and who says anime doesn't help) It made me realized that i had to let go of that side of myself, Judgement, and the past. and fear.
that aside I loved this arc however i didn't like the fact that they place Agaragi in as the "saving grace" near the end or the so called "Help" or "answer man" and i so wasn't here for his long hair.
Rouka backstory was so sad and depressing and in this arc i related so much with Kanbaru in this arc. Her interactions with Kaiki and i Guess Agarigi is what really made me relate more to her.
Growing up is hard. Helping people is hard. Letting go is very hard. BUT not trying is even harder and that is what (or at least that is what i think) Hanamonogatari is trying to convey
Check it out.
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