Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale

Bakemonogatari

Status
FINISHED
Score
8.7/ 10
Format
NOVEL
Airing
From 01 Nov 2006 to 04 Dec 2006
Genres
ActionMysteryRomanceSupernatural
Tags
Urban FantasyPhilosophyMale ProtagonistVampireGodsMetaAchronological OrderPrimarily Teen CastGhostComing of AgePrimarily Female CastDissociative IdentitiesDenpaHeterosexualEnsemble CastTomboySchoolNekomimiShounen
The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.

(Source: Kodansha USA)

Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.