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Monogatari is a Disaster

i can definitely say without having read the article i already know i won't agree,the very title says it all so to the guy who wrote the article i say it's sad that you can't see a diamond in the rough like the monogatari series.I don't think i've ever seen such a fantastic anime like this one and even more so to watch and love it after ep 1 like that's so rare usually have to watch a few but like i said ep 1 love it,there wasn't a thing i didn't like in fact what pulled me in even more was the random tooth brush scene i never expected that and that what imo makes a gud anime throwing people off there seats back from there scenes.

I've for the longest time felt like practically the only person who not only could not see this franchise as a masterpiece but just couldn't stand it really. I just found the cast and their banter thoroughly unlikable and the constant jump cuts and flash in words kind of spastic and something that makes it even harder to watch and pay attention to. Too me its just not how storytelling and television is supposed to be done and again I felt very alone while everyone around me was always celebrating this series brazen fanservice and again IMO this series really obnoxious cast. Is it finally okay not to like this franchise without being ridiculed now?

Pedophile stuff in Monogotari?

I'm out.

Great write up. The Monogatari franchise is one of those weird beasts. It has some seriously abhorrent content (almost anytime Araragi and Mayoi are on screen together after her first arc, and a lot of stuff between him and his sisters), but is also one of the most engaging and well written series out there.

It tends to jump between one of those series I absolutely want to recommend (like Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, or Trigun), but is held back by the knowledge that it is also one of the most fanservicey series out there. And somehow it makes it all mesh into, and I love how you described it, a mess that is totally worth watching.

OH please! there is no pedo stuff in the series.

I don't like Nick Creamer's writing/critiquing style. I find it redundant and barbed. Watch more anime.

Good lord. If this is how you review a show you like, I wouldn't want to see how you write about something you don't.

The only real disaster I see here is this review.

This is like, that kind of reviewer who is trying way too hard and go way too far out of his way to be nonsensically quirky, intentionally obtuse, and painfully attention-seeking in such a hipstery way that he provides critical analysis like e.e cummings writes poetry.

The kind of person who stands back and pats himself on the back for writing up a review like some kind of intentionally puzzling, modern art painting and waiting to see how many people deconstruct the formless and contradictory squares and triangles placed randomly about as some kind of metaphor for the human condition when it's just a bunch of randomly placed squares and triangles.

I mean, the hell even IS this? I can do the same thing and rave on about the same kind of platitudes on something base and artless like Dragon Ball Z of all things and come up with the same level of pseudo-intellectual blitherings.

"Dragon Ball Z is the manifestation of the animal nature of us all. Is the inner Oozaru of our rage our ally or our enemy? Who does the fighter seek to fight? Does he fight himself as he fights his foes? Does the man collect the balls, or do the balls collect the man? Is Death the end, or only the cycle of life? Freiza claims Namek will explode in 5 minutes, but several episodes pass in 5 minutes. It is a beautiful commentary on the nature of time itself. How the nature of every fleeting moment is it's own eternity. And Here we have Yamcha, the portrait of the eternal everyman, the crying clown, not unlike the subject of the Italian opera, Pagliacci. Is the greatest failure the true unsung hero? It makes you think, does it not? Dragon Ball Z is the human condition. It is everything and it is nothing."

That level of complete and utter drivel that borders on self-parody was easy enough to come up with in 10 minutes, and much like this review, was just as pretentious, aside from the fact that my review actually didn't seek to take itself seriously on an Anime news website.

Is this the kind of thing that passes for actual critique and a real website review now? The kind of self-deluded ramblings one would expect from a stoner high on marijuana trying to be meaningful and deep, yet seriously conclude a legitimate attempt at a review with "The show is a terrible mess. It's great go watch it".?

While everything above that was really rambling, incoherent, nonsense that made not one definitive point, in the wake of just trying way too hard to be so contradictory, that nothing is said at all, aside from the reviewer equivalent of telling me that "Up Is Down, and Down Is Up" and "There Is No Spoon"?

I can almost hear the bongo playing and see the black rimmed lenseless glasses and black beret in the background, the whole way through this farce.

Seriously if this review is just a somewhat clever trolling that I just fell for, then ok, haha joke is on me I guess, you sure got me.

But if this was actually an attempt at a legitimate review... what even the hell did I just read?

The only real disaster I see here is this review.