5/5 art - 2.4/5 plot This is if not the best work by Oh!Great visually speaking. The mastery of brush patterns and contrast, the technical level of detail, the astonishing use of japanese folklore images … the most one can make use of simply black and white. This is the latest, the manga with the best art currently. The plot. Compliments first. The highlights of this manga are Hanekawa, the conversations between Hanekawa and Araragi and Oshino and Araragi, Koyomi Vamp and Tsubasa Cat arcs and the way the characters’ feelings are orchestrally expressed. The down sides: I’m really not fond of some imagery and jokes involving super younglooking girls here.
In between reading the manga, I read the kizumonogatari novel and didn’t notice anything borderline criminal and then I tried to watch the movies and saw some of that stuff there. I want to try reading the first bakemonogatari novel to prove my point that the animators and fandom are the ones that link this stuff to the franchise or if the author himself is the one who adds this stuff to his books.

Either way Ogure simply did his job as an adaptor, and an amazing one if I speak so!