Review of Bakemonogatari

Bakemonogatari is one of those shows that makes it hard to say bad things about. It's an amazing art-series that definitely makes use of vivid imagery, amazing choreography and wonderfully fleshed-out settings. The artwork in this show is some of the best I have seen in anime. Everything has its right place and every scene is meant to evoke the audience into the emotions and thoughts of the characters at hand. The characters are all very strong and its nice that we have very few background characters to pull down the story. Everything that happens, all dialogue, all events, they build upon the current arc.I will say that there are moments where I feel a bit overwhelmed by this show. Not that it's too much, but moreso that everything that happens is quite relentless and very much impatient with the audience. If you need a break you can pause, but don't expect the show to slow down and give you moments to breathe. In a way, I think was the only major thing that held me back from giving it the highest rating I could.

This is definitely worth a watch, it will thrust everything at you from episode one and won't hold back the rest of the way. It knows no bounds. It's relentless, it's confusing, it's unnerving. Just like a monster would be.