Bakemonogatari

[Pandadice]

i suppose you do actually have to be able to understand and read japanese in order to really appreciate Bakemonogatari :\. I'm not able to understand the spoken language much less read it, so maybe that's why I didn't find it ingenious :\

[shinta|hikari]

i suppose you do actually have to be able to understand and read japanese in order to really appreciate Bakemonogatari :\. I'm not able to understand the spoken language much less read it, so maybe that's why I didn't find it ingenious :\

Not really, but I do think it boosts the experience quite a bit. Some of the jokes are either wordplay or Japanese culture oriented, so people may not understand them without background knowledge. A lot of people who don't know a word of Japanese still like it though.

EDIT: since that is an English subbed file, I am now free to comment.

I didn't really enjoy the episode as much as I did the rest, but that is mainly because it is coming off from episode 12 (the best episode IMO). Tsubasa with the hat is really cute, but I have always had a thing for that kind of hat.

Tsubasa supposedly saved Araragi's life. I am definitely curious as to what happened, since it is usually the other way around for Araragi (excluding Oshino). Also, did Shinobu escape and go to Master Donut alone? Is that why Oshino is unexpectedly busy? Lots of mysteries that involve Araragi and Shinobu this time. I can't wait for episode 14.

[Ryllharu]

Tsubasa supposedly saved Araragi's life. I am definitely curious as to what happened, since it is usually the other way around for Araragi (excluding Oshino). Also, did Shinobu escape and go to Master Donut alone? Is that why Oshino is unexpectedly busy? Lots of mysteries that involve Araragi and Shinobu this time. I can't wait for episode 14.

I would be wondering if Shinobu...woke up, so to speak. They mentioned she's little more than a fragment of her former self, but that doesn't mean she doesn't regenerate the same way Arararagi-san does. Maybe it just takes her a while longer. Since most of her vampire-ness went...wherever it went (can't say without seeing that arc), her powers and existence are slowly returning. Perhaps she's is coming back as more Shinobu than whatever her name was before.

It seems fairly obvious ( even more after this ep ) that her one sided crush on Araragi is what causing this whole mess in the first place.

Here's hoping that this all ends in a confession, a declaration of rivalry towards Senjougahara and more yandere eye pocking scenes

The cat itself certainly seemed to recognize what the problem was right from the start, though Araragi is probably too dense to notice, I'm certain any of the other girls would. In fact, two episodes ago, it seemed that Sengoku caught wind of something or another at the crosswalk without even knowing the details of their relationship. She bolted, and I'm not so sure it had anything to do with her being shy. She had no such problems with Kanbaru.

Seeing and hearing about him happily talk about Hitagi makes her get the worst headaches.

This isn't something that Oshino or Araragi can solve that easily. If she confesses, and he rejects her (as he well should with Hitagi), she may go full berserk.