“Former vampire Araragi helps supernatural-afflicted classmates, starting with weightless Senjougahara, in occult mystery series.”
Bakemonogatari
化物語
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Synopsis
Former vampire Araragi helps supernatural-afflicted classmates, starting with weightless Senjougahara, in occult mystery series.
Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student, manages to survive a vampire attack with the help of Meme Oshino, a strange man residing in an abandoned building. Though being saved from vampirism and now a human again, several side effects such as superhuman healing abilities and enhanced vision still remain. Regardless, Araragi tries to live the life of a normal student, with the help of his friend and the class president, Tsubasa Hanekawa. When fellow classmate Hitagi Senjougahara falls down the stairs and is caught by Araragi, the boy realizes that the girl is unnaturally weightless. Despite Senjougahara's protests, Araragi insists he help her, deciding to enlist the aid of Oshino, the very man who had once helped him with his own predicament. Through several tales involving demons and gods, Bakemonogatari follows Araragi as he attempts to help those who suffer from supernatural maladies.
What people say
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Derived from 415 sampled reviews
What 415 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.03 · split reception
6.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.9
↓ 0.92
Running avg · Aug 2009 → Oct 2025
- 8 “It was a good overall. Although some of things in the story seemed missing, as if maybe some wholes or things that may not have been fully explained. I soon got past this with the fact that it was...”
- 7 “A lot of people say that BakemonoGatari is a very intriguing anime that does a very profound job in art and story, but to me, after watching NisemonoGatari, would think that there is not an actual...”
- 9 “If I wanted to tell you what genius is, and if I wanted to tell you in the form of an anime, I'd make you watch Bakemonogatari. You think I'm joking... "Genius" is the only word I can find to...”
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- Format 15 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 6h 15m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2009 – Jun 2010 Summer 2009
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-3944 catalog
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- Aniplex of America Licensor