Review of Bakemonogatari
Bakemonogatari is part of the monogatari series written by nisio isin. I believe that a lot of people heard about this show and so I wanted to share my honest opinion. We begin the show with our hero Araragi koyomi. Although firstly he seems as your regular harem hero we discover very fast that he is a part vampire, which show us the supernatural element of the series. The story in monogatari is focused on how Araragi help girls who encountered supernatural beings and add them to his harem. This formula gets repetitive and tiring very fast-He sees a girl in trouble, help her (because as usualour hero is very nice with high moral values) and add her to his harem. I got tired of this really fast and the ways to solve the problem, although sometimes original, wasn't very interesting. Except from one episode, the story was very weak (and this episode wasn't really connected to this story).
However, while the story is weak the main focus of this show is characters. It's very character driven and the real interest is the dialogue and the unique, fun conversations about basically nothing. Sometimes the show gets serious but quickly return to this silly tone, in a very natural way and good balance between them. The sad things is that in shows like that to have the maximum enjoyment from characters gags you need to get used to them, and bake only show you very little from them, so the real fun begins in the Sequels.
Aside from the characters the other strong point of this show is the art and visuals which I sure you all heard about. The fun, unique style of shaft, the pleasant character design and the general feeling are all enjoyable. The soundtrack is okay, I don't remember something that I really liked, but the openings are all nice and the great thing about them that each arc they change-so if you didn't liked one, you might like the others.
In conclusion I will say that I expected too much from this show. I heard so many good things on it and how much "deep" and "totally not about echii" that was, but it was my mistake to listen I guess. Another thing that had major effect on my enjoyment was the main girl, and although the best episode in the show centered around her I still disliked her and the fact she got a lot of screen time bothered me. So if you look for a deep story with a large focus on plot-don't look this way. If you want to see something that is fun to watch with great dialogue, go watch now.