Review of Bakemonogatari

This is a general review after watching more or less all monogatari there is. One additional word before I start. This Anime has some amazing art, not in budget or frame rate but in visualization and creativity. The opening songs with the animation are one of the most impressive piece of art I have ever seen or heard. Anyone who has the least bit if interest to become an artist should watch the monogatari series for that. Also the songs, they change the opening every 3-4 episodes and still come up with unique and interesting sounds, not your standard Japanese anime intro. Astonishing. To writea review about monogatari is very difficult so let's start with a general view.

Basically the story is about our male main character Araragi and his steps on the way to adolescence.
Everything is highly abstracted under a mystery/vampire/religion layer. But in the end its the struggle of young people with their live and issues which they had to come through.
The different seasons are spitted into arcs which handle one of the girls or Araragi.
The whole setting is during one year (final year of Araragis high school life) but the stories are not chronological order, this adds to the confusing and complex setting.
Its difficult to give you the right order to watch the different shows but I followed the LN order which was ok.

Now to the overall conclusion of all shows inside the monogatari series at this moment (Zoku Owarimonogatari).
The show is ok. Thats my overall rating. Some of the episodes where so boring that I skipped them and read the summary and analysis on the internet just to go to the next episode, some are really good. But often I skipped 30 seconds to go over the endless discussion which really annoyed me.
But was this show intended for an adult? I don't think so, from a teenager perspective this is much more interesting. I can remember having such long nonsensical discussion with my classmates about live and yes also all the perverted stuff.
But I am no teenager anymore so it feels really silly and it really is not that interesting anymore, although it gave me some Reflexion moments about my life.
Nevertheless it was way too much to watch and would I not had a lot of time this spring I would never have watched it fully.

Bakemonogatari as important to setup all the girls and Araaragi is quite boring and is the least favorite season except the pedobear approves Nisemonogatari.
I would start with Kizumonogatari which is the most mainstream 3 movie arc and the beginning of the story. It will reduce a lot the question mark in the first episode of Bakemonogatari. And if you can check if you like the fanservice and sexual scenes. Especially in the first seasons the show relays heavily on fanservice which is understandable from a story point (teenager) and intended audience (teenager and pervert old man). For me it was a huge turnoff.

I want to point out the exceptional art, it is really good. It uses a lot of unique techniques and is really nice to watch. Especially the OPs, every Arc has its unique style and I quite liked them all. Technically all the story of the Arc is represented in the OP, check them out in youtube.

So with this and rating all the seasons I will close with the monogatari journey. It was not the best I had, but it had its highs, especially the Owarimonagatari S2 season (final season of the main story so far) so overall it was not a waste of time.