Review of the light novel Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale (Monogatari Series Volume 14) by Nisioisin
Review is of the official English release by Vertical Inc.
📔LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION TITLE: Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale JAPANESE TITLE: 憑物語 AUTHOR: Nisioisin ILLUSTRATOR: Vofan PUBLISHER (English): Vertical Inc. TRANSLATOR: Daniel Joseph RELEASE DATE (English): April 30, 2019 PURCHASE (Amazon.com): https://amzn.to/310a6VX PURCHASE (Book Depository): http://bit.ly/2UorLXn
PUBLISHER (Japan): Kodansha BOX
RELEASE DATE (Japan): September 27, 2012
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 25 (most recent released April 2019)
ANIME SERIES: Yes
MANGA: Yes. Licensed by Vertical Inc.
Review of the light novel Onimonogatari (Monogatari Volume 12) by Nisioisin
The volume where we get to hear Shinobu’s tale of her first visit to Japan.
📔LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION
TITLE: Onimonogatari
AKA: Monogatari Series, 物語シリーズ, 囮物語
AUTHOR: Nisioisin
ILLUSTRATOR: VOFAN
PUBLISHER (English): Vertical
RELEASE DATE (English): October 30, 2018
PURCHASE (Amazon): https://amzn.to/2FWHQNc
PURCHASE (Book Depository): http://bit.ly/2y81vU1
PUBLISHER (Japan): Kodansha Box
RELEASE DATE (Japan): September 29, 2011
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 24 (most recent released June 14, 2018)
ANIME SERIES: 97 TV episodes. Kizumonogatari was adapted over 3 films
Review of the light novel Otorimonogatari (Monogatari Volume 11) by Nisioisin
Yeah, this one turned into more of a discussion video, but it’s still pretty much spoiler-free.
📔LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION
TITLE: Otorimonogatari
AKA: Monogatari Series, 物語シリーズ, 囮物語
AUTHOR: Nisioisin
ILLUSTRATOR: VOFAN
PUBLISHER (English): Vertical
RELEASE DATE (English): August 28, 2018
PURCHASE (Amazon): https://amzn.to/2PBxYcc
PURCHASE (Book Depository): http://bit.ly/2Luin0L
PUBLISHER (Japan): Kodansha Box
RELEASE DATE (Japan): June 29, 2011
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 24 (most recent released June 14, 2018)
ANIME SERIES: 97 TV episodes. Kizumonogatari was adapted over 3 films
Review of the light novel Hanamonogatari (Monogatari Volume 10) by Nisioisin
Another light novel in the Monogatari series. This time, it’s Suruga Kanbaru’s turn to act as narrator.
📔LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION
TITLE: Hanamonogatari
AKA: 花物語
AUTHOR: Nisioisin
ILLUSTRATOR: VOFAN
PUBLISHER (English): Vertical
RELEASE DATE (English): June 20, 2018
PURCHASE (Amazon.com): https://amzn.to/2PdDzpX
PURCHASE (Book Depository): http://bit.ly/2IS8Gnn
PUBLISHER (Japan): Kodansha BOX
RELEASE DATE (Japan): March 30, 2011
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 24 (most recent released June 14, 2018)
ANIME SERIES: 97 TV anime episodes. 1 book was split into 2 films.
Review of the light novel Kabukimonogatari (The Monogatari Series Volume 9) by Nisioisin
LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION
TITLE: Kabukimonogatari
AKA: 傾物語, Monogatari Series
AUTHOR: Nisioisin
ILLUSTRATOR: VOFAN
PUBLISHER (English): Vertical
RELEASE DATE (English): May 17, 2018
PURCHASE (Amazon.com): https://amzn.to/2KvD8YI
PURCHASE (Book Depository): http://bit.ly/2HXBUQP
PUBLISHER (Japan): Kodansha BOX
RELEASE DATE (Japan): December 25, 2010
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 25 (most recent volume released June 14, 2018)
ANIME SERIES: 94 episodes + 3 movies (14 volumes adapted to date)
PUBLISHER (Japan): Kodansha
RELEASE DATE (Japan): October 27, 2010
VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 23 (most recent released July 20, 2017)
ANIME SERIES: 94 episodes + 3 movies (14 volumes adapted to date)
From the back cover:
Launching into new territory that the author hadn’t mapped out when he embarked on the series, NEKOMONOGATARI (White) tells the tale of heroine Tsubasa Hanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice—if that can hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you’re asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration.
The bone-chilling brokenness of her household, where father and mother and daughter keep three separate sets of cookware in the same kitchen and only ever prepare their own meals, and the profound darkness nurtured in the genius schoolgirl’s heart, come to life, if that is the word, through her self-vivisection.
As for our customary unreliable narrator, Araragi, we seem to learn revealing tidbits about him now that we have an outside view of him at last, while his lady friends Senjogahara, Hachikuji, et al, freed from his predilection for proudly inane banter, show subtly new faces to us via their female interlocutor. Welcome to the Second Season.
