Nekomonogatari: Cat Tale (White)

Following up on the high note of family ties on which the previous instalment concluded, but preceding it chronologically, we find Araragi and his little sister Tsukihi, the heroine of the last volume, in full sibling rivalry mode as they bicker about love. The conversation that cannot end unfolds in its unabashed original glory herein. Like KIZUMONOGATARI, which delved into our narrator’s disastrous spring break, Cat Tale (Black) is a prequel about another catastrophe, mentioned often yet never recounted even in a foregoing chapter dedicated to Miss H.: namely, the model student’s rampage over Golden Week, a string of holidays starting at the end of April. (Source: Kodansha USA)

How far does one go to help a lost child? In the case of returning narrator Araragi, the answer is too far, across the veil of time. Dutifully (if unknowingly) following up on Hachikuji’s cheeky foreshadowing, he concerns himself with his young lady friend and her fate in this instalment of the cult-hit series, heroically unable, once again, to find his own way home. Thus the tale is also, or more so, about the journey itself, the dark honeymoon of a trip he takes into the past with the dweller in his shadow, Shinobu. Even among a cast that routinely disrespects chronology with their meta-commentary, she takes the cake, or the doughnut, by rewinding the clock for a perverse road movie, one that by and large goes nowhere, spatially. It’s Kabuki not as in the theatre, but with the character for “tilt”—as in a slanted attitude toward the world, the posture of a bohemian. Or, perhaps, of a legendary vampire who once sought death, and of a high school senior who once tuned out life doing their dandy best to attend to an embarrassing wealth of aberrations in a provincial town. (Source: Kodansha USA)

One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But—much to his surprise—she doesn’t weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called “crab” took away all her weight … Monsters have been here since the beginning. Always. Everywhere. (Source: Kodansha USA)

Nadeko Sengoku is just an ordinary middle school girl. But what happens when she has an unexpected encounter with a handsome transfer student!? A thrilling, heartwarming romantic comedy is about to start... *Written and drawn by Sengoku Nadeko in-universe, as made famous in Hitagi End/Koimonogatari.*

Special booklets bundled with the first press release of the 1st and 2nd Blu-ray and DVD volumes of Onimonogatari anime. They contain short advertisement manuscripts published in Yomiuri Shinbum along with short kakioroshi. Volume 1 1. Tsubasa Board 2. Mayoi Castle 3. Shinobu Science 4. Suruga Palace Volume 2 1. Nadeko Mirror 2. Hitagi Salamander 3. Yotsugi Future 4. Ougi Travel