Review of Bakemonogatari

God I love Shinbou Akiyuki and Nishio Ishin. The first one as a director, for the way he has to film sequences, the beauty of each scene, the vertigo sensation everytime, even in dialogs moments. And the second one as a writer, because he's an incredible author. Father of my favorite show ( Katanagatari ) his dialogs are unrealistic, funny and often stupid by the way. Maybe he's a genius who's criticizing the brand new anime community in placing lots of nonsense in his writtings, maybe he's just a moran, good at makes weebs production, I don't know. But what I know is that thesetwo guys really fit well together, do they ? Both of them are the fathers of what we're talking about, the well known Bakemonogatari, part of a long saga. So let's stop talking about them and focus on the anime.

Well, before you guys say a thing, I want to warn you. First, as you can see in my introduction, my english is pretty terrible so sorry If my review is a bit approximative in term of language. Second, the grade I gave to, six, isn't a normal six. You see, I'm a bit "strict" and so this grade is maybe equivalent to a 8 or 7 in a "normal" list. Because yes, I love this show and It was a true experience.

Disappointing me at the beginning, Bakemonogatari has finally charmed the stupid elitist I am. Like I said before, this is pretty stupid but this isn't bad stupidity and let me explain why you don't have to take that show at the first degree.

Bakemonogatari is, I think, a critical lampoon about the modern japanimation industry. Fast-paced action, fan-service, bland dialogs and scenes and I pass... there's clearly a lot of reccurents problems, and by the way of exageration, Nisio and Shinbou are not only trying to show us panties, boobs and ass, no, mostly deliver a message. "Do you want some bitchies on your dick ?", "Was the 6728th last fight satisfying ?", "People are killed if they die ?" and that kind of stuff I'm talking about. But at the end, I'm still sceptic about that way of process because It can just be a classical weebs show with his clichés too. That's why I prefer to see Bakemonogatari as "melting pot" anime, where everyone can pull what he wants from, and there's no right thought. I'm not a big fan of ecchi nor hentai but it's still cool to watch because I can think what I want of.
But hold it there, I'm not don yet. Lot's of people are yelling at the fans, spitting on the serie 'cause it's just a "retarded weebs show", "pure nonsense" or even "stupid" and yes it is, for the stupid part. The anime is just a following of randomly generated-like sequences with stranges characters and strange story. So what ? I didn't see the point here.
This anime is clearly crazy and I've already give my advice about why. Bakemonogatari is trying to get the f*ck out of the crowding average mass, get up to a higher level. It's dangerous, because tons of people hating that kind of stuff but for the ones who like it, this is heaven.

But enough talking of the "sense", it's time to talk about the anime in itself.

Story - 5
Well ... the story is ... well.
It surely be a pain in the ass to tell the entire plot so let me do a quick summary in few words. Vampire lolicon guy saves a purple haired tsundere girl who doesn't weighs anything and then, a blond old man with an hawaiian jack try to exorcise a crab spirit out of her.
So yeah kids, drugs are bad. When I was talking about strange story, It wasn't a joke for the god sake. But it's there, precisly there that I see Bakemonogatari as a special show. If it was normally structured, with normal filming, normal characters, normal dialogs, it probably would be bad. And why is it good then ? Because of Akiyuki. The way he has to realize is perfectly fiting with that kind of plot. Thanks to him, the anime reveals all his potencial.
Anyway, after the first weird encounter ( and severals unrealistic dialogs scenes later ) we get to met the others characters. I'm gonna talk about them now ( Savin' this for later ) but wow, my mind. Spirit haunting, curse, monsters, you got everything here. Every god damn story is good, great, fantastic ! And ( warning, you're entering the mediocre philosophical zone ) I'm thinking of these stories like some rapports of the person in the modern society. For exemple, in the second story, we're following the adventure of a "lost snail", a girl who can't get back to her home. And strangly, when the protagonist is with her, he can't get back too. Honestly, it could describe a type of mentality like "You're gonna loose everythign if you stay with me" or "Some people needs to be alone". That's what I'm talking about, morals. Morals about behavior in the society, morals about people who doesn't respect others and I think the main character is representing of the society and the girls are various morals like madness, sadness, jealousy and others type of feelings.
And maybe not, maybe it's just a stupid story with randomly generated plot, maybe it's just a fan-service endless hole, maybe. But you can see it as you want, no ?

Art - 8
God, this is gorgeous.
If my eyes could cum, they would to.
For a 2009 anime, the graphism is exceptional. The animation is fantastic, the art is fantastic, every god damn thing in these drawings are fantastic. The landscapes are orgasmic for the retina. That's why SHAFT is my favorite studio, you're always sure about the graphic quality, no shit Sherlock.

Sound - 6
The OST is good, made by the guy who compose Haruhi, so yes.
And then, I didn't like any of the OP, badly.
BUT, I'm falling in love with the ending, it's absolutely awesome. And it's by- ow, supercell ... do they produce bad music sometimes ?

Character - 9
The best part, characters.
Bakemonogatari is the best show for character development in my opinion.
Arararararagi, the protagonist, is surely one of the best character of japanimation.
Character, character, character, character.
And each of the girls have their own personnality, their own way to react, to think, to do, they are not just copies of a classical archetype, no, they are cool.
From the cold tsundere to the athletic lesbian, passing by the annoying loli and the nymphomaniac childhood friend, all of those guys are really original.

Enjoyment - 8
Yeah, 8, because this is fun as hell.
In the first and second episode, I wasn't sure about but when I see what could be done in a climax situation, gosh I started to love it. Bakemonogatari is a double or quits series, you're gonna love it or hate it, there's no medium.

Overall - 6
So I'm giving a 6. You're gonna yell at me like "Y A SIX IF YOU LOVE IT NIGG ?". First, I already told you that a six is actually a good grade for me and after, because of the story. The plot isn't that good, yeah, and despite of all the good sides, I cannot stay deaf at all the defaults. It's an excellent anime but there's a way too much fan-service and nonsense, and even if it's made on purpose, it doesn't makes the thing good. But forget it, some great stuff here.