Monogatari appreciation thread

[Anonymous No.14901213]

Also known as the one well-written LN.

[Anonymous No.14901232]

>>14901213
Way too cultured for this board.

[Anonymous No.14901240]

Snake best girl

[Anonymous No.14901364]

>>14901240
>snake
honestly who thinks like this

[Anonymous No.14901720]

>>14901213
nisioisin is the one light novel author that I'll read

[Anonymous No.14901744]

>>14901213
is there any sense in reading Kizumonogatari novel If I've seen the movie?

[Anonymous No.14901745]

>>14901213
Quote a passage as proof for this claim pls

[Anonymous No.14902212]

>>14901364
I think this as well.

[Anonymous No.14902278]

Kanbaru best girl. Probably the least batshit crazy out of all of them.

[Anonymous No.14902563]

>>14902278
>dyke who tries to murder MC

[Anonymous No.14902608]

>>14901213
>well-written
No.
Back-and-forth dialogue with line breaks after every sentence works fine as a script for an anime, but reading an entire book written that way is incredibly tedious. It doesn't help that the books are 90% dialogue, most of which is completely superfluous fluff meant only to make the characters seem cuter. When people say that you need to know Japanese to "get" Monogatari, it's not because the writing has any complexity, it's because the characters are constantly speaking in untranslatable puns or referencing made-for-TV Doraemon movies that were never released outside of Japan.

[Anonymous No.14902821]

>>14902608
>that the books are 90% dialogue
really? I've read parts of Kizumonogatari and there was a good deal of internal monologue

[Anonymous No.14902962]

I watched season 1 of the anime and it was a slog.

[Anonymous No.14903124]

>>14901213
>one well-written LN
Uhh...

[Anonymous No.14903200]

>>14902821
Same thing

[Anonymous No.14903225]

>>14902608
>completely superfluous fluff meant only to make the characters seem cuter
Dare I say "Based".

[Anonymous No.14903289]

>>14902608
pleb filtered

[Anonymous No.14903297]

hold the fuck up nigga

[Anonymous No.14903300]

What's so good about it? It looks like the usual drivel masturbation addicts/anime fans eat up´.
No seriously, out of the HURR BEST GIRL HURRR posting, what is remarkable about this piece?

[Anonymous No.14903303]

hold up

[Anonymous No.14903308]

everyone hold up

[Anonymous No.14903342]

hold your horses

[Anonymous No.14903428]

Crab

[Anonymous No.14903458]

>>14903297
better taste. based.
>>14903300
not much. if you speak nip then some of the puns and word play are clever, but that is all.

[Anonymous No.14903720]

I can't speak Jap but the English translation is amazing

[Anonymous No.14903739]

Pic related when

>>14903300
It has some really good magical realism going for it, and the characters are actually developed and interesting. I can't stand most anime and haremshit but Monogatari is great fun

[Anonymous No.14903886]

Two questions
>is it worth reading Monogatari in translation
>is Spice and Wolf worth reading or should I just watch the anime

[Anonymous No.14903955]

>>14903886
>>is Spice and Wolf worth reading or should I just watch the anime
Both. If you like one, you'll like the other. The anime is an extremely limited part of the whole story and only covers up to the first five LNs.

[Anonymous No.14903976]

>>14903886
Personally haven't read Monogatari translated, as I just read it in moon because of all the untranslatable wordplay etc., but apparently the english translation is decent as >>14903720 is saying. Not that I would know how you could translate much of it.

[Anonymous No.14904000]

>>14901213
They're pretty good books, although I think a lot of the stuff post Bake felt really bloated, and could have easily been cut down to roughly the length of the first handful of story arcs. Like having Nise cut down and made into one book, same for Neko black and white etc.

[Anonymous No.14904222]

>>14901745
This. Post an excerpt.

[Anonymous No.14904732]

>>14903303
>literally has kino in the title
absolutely based

[Anonymous No.14904774]

>>14902563
and yet, he isn't wrong

[Anonymous No.14904857]

>>14903124
Never heard of this before, Is this actually any good?

[Anonymous No.14904860]

>>14903297
Who?

[Anonymous No.14905982]

Bump

[Anonymous No.14906250]

>>14902608
Isn’t that what plays are?

[Anonymous No.14906253]

Are the head tilts described in the novels too?

[Anonymous No.14906311]

>>14901744
it sucks

[Anonymous No.14906318]

>>14906250
reading plays is also shit outside of very few exceptions that are carried by the sheer genius of the playwright

[Anonymous No.14906340]

>"Flashy visuals and an average script is better than a great script and boring visuals" ~ Akiyuki Shinbo (rough translation)

The true and patrician way to experience this series is to watch the anime and not read a single line of the subtitles. In fact I pity the Japanese that are forced to watch the show in their own language and would encourage them to watch it dubbed in a foreign language with no subtitles to get the authentic experience.

[Anonymous No.14906716]

>Hitagi Senjougahara occupies the position of 'the girl who's always ill' in our class. She's not expected to participate in PE of course and is even allowed to suffer morning and school-wide assemblies in the shade, alone, as a precaution against anemia or something. Thought we've been in the same class my first, my second, and this, my third and final year of high school, I've never once seen her engaged in any sort of vigorous activity. She's a regular at the nurse's room, and she arrives late, leaves early, or simply doesn't show up to school bcause she has to visit her primary care hospital, time and again. To the point where it's rumored in jest that she lives there.
>Though "always ill," she is by no means sickly. She's graceful, like her thin lines could snap at a touch, and has this evanescent air, which must be why some of the boys refer to her as "the cloistered princess" half-jokingly, half-seriously. You could say earnestly. That phrase and its connotations aptly describe Senjogahara, I agree.
>Senjogahara is always alone reading a book in one corner of a classroom. At times that book is an inposing hardcover, and at others it's a comic that could permanently damage your intellect to judge from its cover design. She seems to be one of those voracious readers. Maybe she doesn't care as long as there are words in it, maybe she has some sort of clear standard.
This is not terrible by light novel standards, but it's perfectly average by YA standards.

[Anonymous No.14906754]

>>14906716
>judging the whole series by the first chapter of the first book translated into english
斜め七十七度の並びで泣く泣く嘶くナナハン七台難なく並べて長眺め

[Anonymous No.14906762]

>>14906754
何これ?その例文はゴミです。

[Anonymous No.14906769]

>>14906762
yeah if you don't understand it lmao

[Anonymous No.14906780]

>>14906769
I've never seen grammar like that in Japanese. Is it supposed to be a tongue twister or something?

That's like saying Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is good prose. Which it isn't.

[Anonymous No.14906944]

>>14902608
>When people say that you need to know Japanese to "get" Monogatari, it's not because the writing has any complexity, it's because the characters are constantly speaking in untranslatable puns or referencing made-for-TV Doraemon movies that were never released outside of Japan.
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