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“Araragi's final semester brings graduation choices, vanishing acts, and a tiger apparition targeting Hanekawa.”
Monogatari Series: Second Season
〈物語〉シリーズ セカンドシーズン
8.76
46 rank · 715,725 viewers · 24,270 favorites
Comedy
Mystery
Romance
Supernatural
Vampire
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Synopsis
Araragi's final semester brings graduation choices, vanishing acts, and a tiger apparition targeting Hanekawa.
Apparitions, oddities, and gods continue to manifest around Koyomi Araragi and his close-knit group of friends: Tsubasa Hanekawa, the group's modest genius; Shinobu Oshino, the resident doughnut-loving vampire; athletic deviant Suruga Kanbaru; bite-happy spirit Mayoi Hachikuji; Koyomi's cute admirer Nadeko Sengoku; and Hitagi Senjougahara, Koyomi's eclectic girlfriend. A new semester has begun and with graduation looming over Koyomi, he must quickly decide the paths he will walk, as well as the relationships he will form and friends that he will save. But as strange events begin to unfold, Koyomi is nowhere to be found, and a vicious tiger apparition has appeared in his absence. Hanekawa has become its target, and she quickly finds she must fend for herself.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 88 sampled reviews
8.8
/10
What 88 viewers settled on.
98%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.52
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.52 · some divergence
The polarity gap
6.1 pts
Recommenders 9.1 · others 3.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.17
Running avg · Dec 2013 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I am going to be totally honest Monogatari is so frustrating because as soon as I begin to hate on it after a couple of bad episodes they drop a season like this. If all of Monogatari had been...”
- 9 “If you wanted to show someone an example of how creepy and degenerate the medium of anime can be, well here you go. There are so many problematic scenes that are downright pedophilic, but despite...”
- 7 “The second season answers many hanging questions and delivers intriguing characters alongside satisfying end-of-vignette reveals. Yet the storyline remains stubbornly hard to follow, and the...”
Verbosity
Short · 17%
Medium · 33%
Long · 50%
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- Format 26 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 50m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 Summer 2013
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-7553 catalog
Produced by
- Aniplex Producer
- Kodansha Producer
- Cyclone Graphics Producer
Licensed by
- Aniplex of America Licensor