Monogatari

Brain removal? Is this a brain drain?
Weakling.

KAIKI IS FUCKING ALIVE.

They shouldn't scold the series. If you look closely, you'll notice an interesting direction. If in the first season there was more emphasis on style, then in "Fakes" the parallels are very well built. The encrypted pervert Sengoku and the half-abhorrent Kanbaru - Karen's short hair, Hakenawa and Kanbaru - episodes of carrying and standing on their hands - couples with their demons embodied in strange girls... All this is just to find out which of the similar ones is fake. Even Kaiki looks like Oshino. It seems that at first the accumulation of etty is very confusing, but in the second story of the two it is the mythological component that becomes more interesting.

戦場ヶ原ヒタギ – Senjougahara Hitagi. Her last name literally means "Battlefield", which perfectly matches her character.


I think someone noticed the word NisiOisin often flashing by. The fact is that the author of the original is Nishio Ishin, but the first and last names are written in a different romaji system and thus the phrase becomes a palindrome. And to emphasize this, the phrase is written as NisiOisin.

As for crabs:
おもし蟹 (Omoshi kani) - Crab of Memories
Omoishi kani – Heavy Crab
重石蟹 (Omoishi gani) – Heavy Stone Crab
Omoshi kami - The God of Memories
It is easy to see that they differ only slightly in Japanese pronunciation, so they are said to have descended from each other.

As for the second episode. Obviously, the author Nishio Ishin (NisiOisin) is very fond of wordplay.
So, when Araragi says "baka" (Fool), a picture appears with a horse, and then with a deer. That's because the Japanese word 馬鹿 (baka) consists of the kanji "horse" and "deer."

The story that happened to Senjougahara is based on the identical Japanese pronunciation of the words 重い(heavy) and 思い(thoughts).

And the words 重み(Omomi) and 重さ(Omosa) are also often used. Both words are nouns based on the kanji 重(heavy), but the endings ‐み and ‐さ differ. The ending -sa is more often used for real things, in our case — omosa (physical weight). The ending -mi is usually used for unreal things (a good example is 楽しし — Tanoshimi — happiness), so in this context it is more correct to say not just weight, but "inner" weight or just dignity.

As for the crab god (Omoshikami). As explained in this series, it was formed from (omoi – thoughts, memories) and (shigami – to cling, to hold on tightly) and it can be interpreted as 柵 (shigarami - bonds, connection).

Thus, this crab-god takes away difficult memories, including the bonds associated with them (in this case, with his mother).

And why is it in chronology, and not in the order of release? The authors probably made such an "incorrect" chronology for a reason.