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ItвЂ™s frequently used to describe the series as a whole, which I emphatically disagree with, for the reason that after Bakemonogatari, the harem elements practically disappear. MonogatariвЂ™s status as a harem is contentious. Thus, then, the animeвЂ™s ability to weld the seams together can give Bakemonogatari as a whole a genre that it did not already have.

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I canвЂ™t know what Nisioisin was planning when he started writing Hitagi Crab in 2006, but given his many flippant remarks about not planning ahead in various afterwords, I think itвЂ™s fair to say that he was not thinking about what Bakemonogatari could be as a collective whole, but rather how to make the individual particular stories good. To solve this question, we must look to Studio ShaftвЂ™s 2009 adaptation, Bakemonogatari, directed by Tatsuya Oishi, which adapted the two novels and five arcs as a single cohesive whole- technically, the last three episodes of Tsubasa Cat can be considered a separate part of the story, as they were released months after the twelfth and ostensibly finally episode, but since they did not wrap up the story and production with those episodes was practically contiguous with the rest of the production, I will be considering them part of the series proper- The result of this adaptation is that the arcs are able to be given a better go at overarching narrative. I think the answer to the question of Bakemonogatari вЂ™s genre is not in the novels, however. Where other arcs might introduce a single character, or might contain several stories within a distinct theme or larger plot beat, none replicate Bakemonogatari вЂ™s insistence on introducing the world to these many characters. No other arc of the Monogatari series has so broad a focus as Bakemonogatari, with its five distinct heroines.

Even once it ceased serialization and shifted into a published series, the structure was still there. Each arc was standalone and could function as its own story while having these overlapping threads. This serves as a relic of Bakemonogatari вЂ™s serialized past, where it began in the literary magazine, Mephisto. However, Bakemonogatari as a whole is never all of these things at once.

The five arcs it encompasses can be seen as a microcosm of the series at large, with Hitagi Crab as a ghost story, Mayoi Snail being a romance, Suruga Monkey being a queer coming of age narrative, Nadeko Snake being a form of body horror, and Tsubasa Cat being psychological horror. Thus, I will go through each arc of Monogatari- and in this instance, I use вЂњarcвЂќ to mean each different title that novels were released under, as to collate both Bake books, both Nise books, and the three Owari books- and describe it in genre terms that I have not used for any other arc before.Д«akemonogatari, like much else of Monogatari, is varied. I believe that each arc of Monogatari stands in isolation of the others as its own unique genre, and that while arcs will often have overlap, the clear lines between show their genre as something entirely their own. At the same time, it is all of these at one time or another. Monogatari is not a harem series, just like it is not a mystery or a romance series or a dark comedy or a drama. However, I think that describing the series in such broad terms is not only doing it a disservice, but being incredibly reductive while doing so. Perhaps the series is all of these, or none. Monogatari is a harem series, or perhaps itвЂ™s a dark comedy, or maybe a horror anime, but also possibly a mystery series, and it could also be a romance series. IвЂ™ve seen people try to describe Monogatari in the past plenty of times, and frequently it uses the same vocabulary. ThatвЂ™s starkly different from Monogatari, where back to back books, such as Kabukimonogatari and Hanamonogatari, will have a totally different feel to them. It has aspects of slice of life or drama, but those are not the series itself. My Hero Academia is a superhero series, whether it be the manga, anime, manga spinoff, light novel spinoff, or whatever other ephemera for the series exist. Any series with this width will inevitably be difficult to describe, but if you compare the Monogatari series to, for example, My Hero Academia, thereвЂ™s a pretty clear difference.

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Even pulling the camera in tight to focus just on the anime and novels, which will be the primary focus of this essay, that still leaves me with eighteen books across three seasons, as well as a hundred and three episodes of anime plus three feature length movies.

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The series consists of anime, manga, short stories that come packaged with figures, short stories only available through buying movie tickets, short stories only available through buying entirely different anime on blu-ray, crossover stories, audio dramas, and, if youвЂ™ll believe it, somehow more.

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