The essential episodes of Monogatari Series
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Monogatari Series — each pick states its reason.
- 01
On the day after the Golden Week holiday, third year high school student Koyomi Araragi finds himself saving a classmate, Hitagi Senjyogahara, by catching her when she slips on the stairs and comes tumbling down from above. He discovers that she's impossibly light, as if she has no physical weight whatsoever….
- 02
On the day after the Golden Week holiday, third year high school student Koyomi Araragi finds himself saving a classmate, Hitagi Senjyogahara, by catching her when she slips on the stairs and comes tumbling down from above. He discovers that she's impossibly light, as if she has no physical weight whatsoever….
- 03
Koyomi meets Mayoi Hachikuji, an elementary school girl who is frantically comparing the town map displayed in the park to the memo in her hand. Learning that Mayoi has lost her way en route to a relative's home, Koyomi offers to help, only to be violently rebuffed.
- 04
Koyomi meets Mayoi Hachikuji, an elementary school girl who is frantically comparing the town map displayed in the park to the memo in her hand. Learning that Mayoi has lost her way en route to a relative's home, Koyomi offers to help, only to be violently rebuffed.
- 05
Suruga Kanbaru, the school's biggest star who has led the underwhelming girls' basketball team to the national championships, begins to inexplicably stalk her upperclassman, Koyomi Araragi. When Hitagi Senjyogahara hears about this, she reveals that back in middle school, she was once so close to Suruga that they were known as the "Valhalla Combo."
- 06
Suruga Kanbaru, the school's biggest star who has led the underwhelming girls' basketball team to the national championships, begins to inexplicably stalk her upperclassman, Koyomi Araragi. When Hitagi Senjyogahara hears about this, she reveals that back in middle school, she was once so close to Suruga that they were known as the "Valhalla Combo."
- 07
Suruga Kanbaru, the school's biggest star who has led the underwhelming girls' basketball team to the national championships, begins to inexplicably stalk her upperclassman, Koyomi Araragi. When Hitagi Senjyogahara hears about this, she reveals that back in middle school, she was once so close to Suruga that they were known as the "Valhalla Combo."
- 08
Meme Oshino has given Koyomi Araragi the task of heading to an abandoned temple on top of a mountain on the outskirts of town, and placing a talisman on the main shrine. Koyomi invites Suruga Kanbaru to accompany him, and the two are on their way up the deserted mountain path towards the shrine, when they pass a young girl running down, her hat pulled low over her head.
- 09
Meme Oshino has given Koyomi Araragi the task of heading to an abandoned temple on top of a mountain on the outskirts of town, and placing a talisman on the main shrine. Koyomi invites Suruga Kanbaru to accompany him, and the two are on their way up the deserted mountain path towards the shrine, when they pass a young girl running down, her hat pulled low over her head.
- 10
June 13th. The students are busy after class, getting ready for the last School Festival of their high school days, which will be held during the upcoming weekend.
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June 14th. The students are busy after class, getting ready for the last School Festival of their high school days, which will be held during the upcoming weekend.
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- 15
The five girls' problems with supernatural beings have been solved, and it's now summer break, with the culture fair over. Koyomi Araragi has two little sisters, self-proclaimed "heroes" nicknamed the Fire Sisters, Karen and Tsukihi. What "fake" beast does Karen confront? What supernatural creature of the holy grounds, whose power surpasses even a vampire, has Tsukihi absorbed?
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