NisemonogatariFollow

Can't. Wait.

Wish I knew what was going on :3
But naked anime chicks? That is almost real, so sign me up.

And you don't know just how lucky you are watching this now- those three episodes came out months apart each. It was painful

Aaaaaand, finished with episode 15. I finally figured out what bothered me so much about this series (and why I only watched the first four episodes before):

There's an entire series of events that take place before the first anime series that they never come straight out and tell you about!

Instead, the series begins with the super fast split-second recap of the light novel (Koyomi Vamp (aka, Kizumonogatari)) that comes before the anime series. On the one hand, it's kinda cool how they do it; kinda dancing around the entire history without coming out and talking about what happened for sure. But as the final few episodes center almost entirely around Shinobu and she's like a tiny note at the beginning of the series, it drove me up the wall. I feel like Bakemonogatari would be better by making the prior events into an OVA, with a nice note at the end of the first episode saying "If you're confused by what the heck is going on here, please watch the OVA first. Really, if we gave you this background information in the form of its own video instead of flashing words and images on the screen for 45 seconds, you'll be a lot less muddled."

Anyway, for those curious about it (or are going to be like me and spend way too much time looking up information online to understand WTF is going on in this series), the demons in Nisemonogatari will likely be a bee and a phoenix. Spiffy! You can read the novels themselves here, but from thumbing through a few pages, I feel like they lend themselves much better to the (admittedly unique) animation format.

Edit: Ok, reading online it seems like Kizumonogatari has also had the green light since, like 2010. So it looks like I'm just the last one to this party and everyone else already knew that >_>

Edited, Dec 30th 2011 10:32pm by LockeColeMA

Favourite part of the anime, hands down.

I had completely forgotten about those first three minutes.. lol

Rewatched them and now I can't wait for Kizu even more.

Edited, Dec 31st 2011 1:45pm by Deadgye

First episode is out, feels exactly like bakemonogatari did. This shall be my anime for the season that I watch as it airs.

http://commiesubs.com/nisemonogatari-1/

Commie aren't bad, and they're consistent. Pretty fast, too.

Commie is also doing that series, so win win for me. Thanks!

Commie has always been good, I've been using them for years. Their not my group of choice or favorite group, but they're high quality.

If you can't wait the couple of hours it takes on saturday for commie to release, go with horriblesubs. They're a direct rip from CR. For this series commie is taking the CR script, fixing the one or two minor errors, and then typesetting it correctly to a different raw. Better encoding overall, and 10bit. If you don't know what I just said, the gist is that the Commie release for Nise is better than HorribleSubs.

Commie is okay, but I tend to prioritize other groups over them. Like for Nise I'll probably go with Shini-Subs.

I was completely expecting an ED too since the OP/ED of Bake and OP of Nise were all really good. Not to mention, as you said, SpoilerI'm not repeating it, just look one post up.

Yeah, that was my mistake. I was thinking of Shinsengumi, who forever ago were one of the first fansub groups and idiotically I thought Shini-subs were the same group. I know shini collaborated with Doki on Kamisama Dolls, which was pretty well done.

As I was posting this, it made me nostalgic for the old guard of fansubbing, like SAHA who did some Slayers movies and Excel Saga.