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Episode Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season - Episode 13 discussion

Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, episode 13

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u/Prince-Dizzytoon Oct 12 '24

The pajama party scene was so funny, I can't wait to see Araragi in a girl's pajamas

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u/Torque-A Oct 12 '24

Half of me wants Kanbaru to take a pic and send it to Senjougahara just to see how she'll respond

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u/Aileos Oct 12 '24

The cheerleaders. 🤣

I hope they'll choose something outrageous.

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u/TermEnvironmental812 Oct 12 '24

I'm disappointed that no one called him Araragi hentai

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u/UVLsystem Oct 12 '24

Araragi not realising how popular and well known he is is one of my favourite gags in the series

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u/michhoffman Oct 12 '24

It's cute how Suicide Master wanted to look cool/powerful in front of Shinobu to check in on her. It's the vampire version of renting a Tux/Fancy Car for a high school reunion.

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u/OtherwiseProgrammer9 Oct 12 '24

It was nice that Suicide Master and Shinobu thought the same thing, with Shinobu wanting to be seen as Araragi's master

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u/Torque-A Oct 12 '24

One thing I've noticed in Monogatari is that many incidental characters are not really given designs per se - for example, Nadeko's scenes at school were mostly her just acting alongside some Persona-like silhouettes. Same with minor characters - we only saw Senjougahara's dad from the back, and Momaragi only briefly. If you're not a main character, you're not focused as much.

Which is to say, that when the pajama scene suddenly had five new girls with Vofan-like designs, I was caught as off-guard as Araragi was.

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u/The_frost__ Oct 12 '24

Lmao I wasn’t ready for that pajama party scene, I can’t wait to see Araragi wear girl pajama next episode

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Oct 12 '24 edited Oct 12 '24

Wow, this is probably the most amount of new girls in a single episode that gets a new design. So odd to see them actually being their own character and not some abstract NPCs.

I wonder if VOFAN actually designed them all...

Apparently, every single character in the series is designed by him first.

He once tweeted that he was sad people doubted him designing all the male characters like Kaiki, Oshino, and the Vampire Hunters. He then posted a photo of small thumbnails showing some of the male characters which we never see in his artstyle.

EDIT: Heck, he even did the redesigns for the Kizu movies!

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u/alconnow Oct 12 '24

I bet Araragi will be forced to wear a negligee lmao

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u/absolutelynotaname Oct 12 '24

They recreate that meme (but in reversed)

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u/Torque-A Oct 12 '24

One 5'11" boy meets seven 6'0" girls (2024, colorized)

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u/LeonKevlar Oct 12 '24

Stitches!

I thought Shinobu would keep up the act that she's the master and Araragi is her servant but it looks like she already told her everything considering Suicide-Master thanks Araragi for saving not just her life but also Shinobu's life.

So it's finally confirmed that Suicide-Master did try to suck one of the girls' blood but she shortly died of food poisoning. The reason she got food poisoning is that she didn't say "Itadakimasu" before eating so she got hit with divine retribution. Is that really what happened? That's pretty funny if it is.

We finally have an answer to the mystery! While Suicide-Master is indeed guilty of feeding on one of the girls, she did die from the failed bloodsucking which makes her innocent for the other four feedings. This means that the first girl must've had a successful vampirization and is now feeding on other members of the Naoetsu Girls Basketball club.

I guess it makes sense considering the issues within the basketball club. Harimaze, the girl from the start of this arc, isn't the only one who has a grudge and someone else would want to stop the basketball club activities because of the pressure they're feeling.

I love the scene where Araragi was finally piecing everything together. Our boy will definitely become a fine police detective someday.

Now that we know who the perp is and who will be the next victim, it looks like we finally get to see Araragi's next biggest challenge: Attend an all-girls pajama party! That scene was absolutely hilarious with all of the girls overwhelming him! It doesn't help that Kanbaru is egging them all on to tease Araragi! xD

Next week is going to be fun! I can't wait to see what kind of pajama the girls will make Araragi wear!

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u/Torque-A Oct 12 '24

The reason she got food poisoning is that she didn't say "Itadakimasu" before eating so she got hit with divine retribution. Is that really what happened? That's pretty funny if it is.

Honestly, I just thought it was hiding the more obvious explanation - Sowa had so many toxic feelings towards her classmates that Suicide Master literally got poisoned from them

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u/StardustGogeta Oct 12 '24

"I need you to infiltrate a pajama party of high school girls."

"Say no more!"

Great episode. I thought the character art was really good today, but then again, the baseline level in this show is quite good anyway.

I hadn't clued in on the twist until Suicide-master admitted to having attempted bloodsucking of a high-school girl, and then it all started to click. It makes sense in retrospect, though those coded hints still seem a bit over-the-top.

That OP is still great. Definitely my favorite OP of the Shinobu arcs so far.

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u/MauledCharcoal Oct 12 '24

And so the hunter became the hunted.

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u/Zero_198 Oct 12 '24

The opening words at the beginning "UNHAPPY? A troubled human child" perfectly describes Araragi at the end

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u/JOOOQUUU Oct 12 '24

I thought monogatari was a lot more popular

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u/LurkingMcLurk Oct 12 '24

Ultimately we're over 100 episodes into an eccentric non-shounen manga series with what is perceived to be a complicated watch order which is back from a 5 year hiatus.

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u/NitroXSC Oct 12 '24

That was such a great resolution to the mystery! I really like that Shinobu's comment last episode on wanting to show off in front of the Suicide-Master was also the motivation from the Suicide-Master that started this whole ordeal. It's a human motivation to show off in front of old acquaintances and thus it questions if aberrations are truly unchanging and thus also truly non-human.

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u/Zeralyos Oct 12 '24

I'm feeling a curveball regarding the new vampire, and I might have a theory as to what's gonna unfold.

Izuko mentioned they were identifying the victims based on their belongings, but that seems incredibly fallible. It seems very possible to me that one of already discovered victims could be Kiseki Sowa, disguised with the real perpetrator's accessories to create a false lead. If this vampire is Harimaze Kie, it'd make a lot of sense that her alleged body was found first if that's where the red herring is, considering she'd want it to be found as soon as possible to throw investigations in the wrong direction. We already know she has beef with the basketball club, and it'd be the most straightforward way of interpreting the scene at the start of the arc where we see her meeting Deathtopia.

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u/CappyHam Oct 12 '24

This arc has been far from my fave but it has plenty of it's moments. Like Araragi getting pressured by his kouhai into crossdressing here. As expected of Ougi's mother, Koyomi cannot escape bending gender norms.

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u/Sharebear42019 Oct 12 '24

How many eps is this suppose to be?

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