Orokamonogatari

Just when we thought the darkness menacing the town had been identified, named, and tamed, clear and unclear mysteries of seasons past looming or surfacing, then resolving, not without tears, not without bittersweetness, of course, but satisfyingly, in a tripartite finale, all loose ends tied up into, or at least with, a bow… The End Tale continues—if only for one last time, in a bonus stage for the ages, as our softie of a protagonist who wished for all parties involved, including himself, maturely enough, to end up happy, sees his reflected image freeze in a mirror and regretfully, regrettably, reaches for it to find himself through the looking glass. In an alternate reality where bits of the world have been flipped around, the hero comes face to face with the hidden side(s) of familiar faces, along with author NISIOISIN, whose bravura attempt to reimagine character possibilities concludes, with signature flair, the MONOGATARI series proper—thank you for reading. (Source: Kodansha USA)

Around 600 years from the present day, a now-destroyed country was where the girl called the "Fair Princess" had lived. With such beauty that anyone would offer one's life for, the road the girl trod on became a mountain of corpses. These are the legendary oddities! Oddities! Oddities! Youth is cruel like a fairy tale. (Source: Kodansha, translated) Note: The Princess Beauty short story is included in the chapter count.