Review of Bakemonogatari

Bakemonogatari is as a stretch to watch as saying the title. An anime that is visual and musical in its appeal, but with episodes that stretch the dialogue to simple back and forths so much, you will need patience to sit through these 15 episodes. Is it a complex anime? No. It's pretty straight forward in its mission to separate each arc into its own mystery to solve. Bake plays around the detective wordplay as much as the artsy visuals to carry most of its production. Add in a few supernatural buzz themes and a banger OST and you get Bakemonogatari. I'm no stranger to good richword play, but this anime is just average dialogue, but extended for longer shots.It feels more like a college project than an actual anime show in the way its just too standard in its characters, its strict art guidelines, and its random flairs of attempting to be creative.

The story is where this anime suffers. Don't expect a 15 episode story. Expect a 15 episode series of events concerning the main cast. Although, unlike other shows that leave you wanting more, Bake is like an anime that doesn't care whether you watch the next episode or not. Each arc it covers can be enjoyed on their own, but putting them together, well that starts to weigh like a long and tedious essay. By far, a huge clickbait from its first episode.

The strengths about this anime is that it looks cool and sounds cool with some good dialogue moments between characters. The flaws is that the story has a lose direction, nothing really matters, and this anime becomes a muddy chore to truck through.

There are much better shows that do mystery reveals better as well as shows that do dialouge better. Bake is neither of them. The problem with Bake is that it doesn't take itself seriously. 15 episodes of a light mystery show is what I would call Bake.

As a critic, these are my flaws and strengths I saw in this show.
As a normal anime watcher, I just wouldn't recommend this.

Pros: Senjou is a hot waifu
Cons: shes trapped in a mid lackluster anime
7/10 this anime is more a nostalgia poster than good.