On its own merit, the book would probably be hard to get into immediately. I certainly enjoyed it thoroughly, once I got used to the writing style.įor those who haven't seen Bakemonogatari, I think this book might be a harder sell. It's more of the same-just a written version of Araragi's mental state and all of his sometimes unintentionally hilarious hijinks. Araragi is Araragi, Hanekawa is Hanekawa, and Kiss-Shot is Kiss-Shot-which is to be expected, but is a delight all the same.įor those who are already invested in Bakemonogatari, it's almost a given that you'll enjoy Kizumonogatari. You can practically see the screen breaks, (some of) the humor is intact. Despite this though, Nisio Isin's quirky writing style shines through-Araragi's contemplative mental asides are in here in all their glory. It isn't bad per se, but certainly there's almost a choppy quality to it that makes you wish Nisio Isin could have hired a better translator. But absent Bakemonogatari's visual flare and fantastic music, Kizumonogatari seems.kind of jarring. It's the internet if you're not familiar with the context of the story then I'm sure it's readily available-boy meets sexy vampire, vampire turns boy, boy has to turn back to being human-barring some plot difficulties of course. So how does the novel fare with its anime counterpart? Answer.moderately well. Questionable ecchi content aside, Bakemonogatari is remarkably singular in its visual presentation, its focus on character development, its emphasis on dialogue/wordplay, and always entertains. I'm part of the latter group-I consider Bakemonogatari and its other recent anime iterations as probably the hallmark of modern anime. The second type will be people who have seen Bakemonogatari (and all its successive seasons), and are emotionally invested in the series. There will probably be two types of people reading Kizumonogatari-one will be people who have not seen Bakemonogatari, the excellent anime adapation of Nisio Isin's series of light novels, which is a relatively entertaining pastiche of urban fantasy/supernatural/coming of age genres.

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