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- Jul 7, 201392% CONFIDENCEfrom myanimelist.net
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- Dec 29, 201392% CONFIDENCEfrom myanimelist.net
Monogatari Series Second Season Premieres
26 episodes
Monogatari Series Second Season, adapting five arcs of Nisio Isin's light novels, follows Koyomi Araragi and the women around him as new supernatural "oddities" surface after summer vacation ends.
- Monogatari Series: Second Season is a 26-episode TV anime by studio Shaft, aired "Jul 7, 2013 to Dec 29, 2013", premiered Summer 2013 and broadcast Sundays at 00:00 (JST), 25 min. per ep.[1]
- Produced by Aniplex, Kodansha and Cyclone Graphics, licensed by Aniplex of America; source is a light novel; genres Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural with a Vampire theme; rated R - 17+ (violence & profanity).[1]
- It "adapts all but the third volume of NisiOisiN's light novel series of the same title"; that third volume's adaptation, Hanamonogatari, "was aired separately in August 2014".[1]
- The season covers the arcs listed as its synonyms: Nekomonogatari: Shiro, Kabukimonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari and Koimonogatari.[1]
- Story: "Apparitions, oddities, and gods continue to manifest around Koyomi Araragi and his close-knit group of friends"; "A new semester has begun and with graduation looming over Koyomi, he must quickly decide the paths he will walk", and when he goes missing "a vicious tiger apparition has appeared in his absence. Hanekawa has become its target, and she quickly finds she must fend for herself."[1]
- Cast includes Hiroshi Kamiya as Koyomi Araragi, Chiwa Saitou as Hitagi Senjougahara, Yui Horie as Tsubasa Hanekawa, Maaya Sakamoto as Shinobu Oshino, Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku and Shinichiro Miki as Deishuu Kaiki.[1]
- Six opening themes, mostly performed in character ("chocolate insomnia", "happy bite", "Mousou\u2661Express", "white lies", "fast love", "Kogarashi Sentiment"), with endings by Luna Haruna, supercell ("Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari", ep 11) and Marina Kawano.[1]
- On MyAnimeList it scores 8.76 from 383,984 users, ranked #49 with 726,869 members, and streams on Crunchyroll; the complete Blu-ray release places Hanamonogatari between episodes 11 and 12 to reflect the original novel order.[1]
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