Review of Bakemonogatari

I'm really, really, really frustrated with Bakemonogatari. Why is an anime this visually impressive, this amazingly surreal, this meticulously crafted and this beautifully instrumented being brought down by the constant fanservice and sexualization of teenagers, and sometimes even literal children? Because let me tell you, the one thing that completely destroys my enjoyment of something is when it becomes unnecessarily creepy towards minors. And this anime, despite how amazing it is in literally every other regard, does this literally every scene. And the few episodes where this doesn't happen are some of the best animated segments I've ever watched, and they only serve to prove me right:when this anime is trying, it's a masterpiece. It's a shame that nearly a fifth of its runtime is spent on sexualizing teenage girls.

Imagine how good those episodes have to be in order to raise my rating from a mediocre 6 to a strong 8. If they took out the pedobait, this anime would be a 10.