Hanamonogatari

Now that Koyomi Araragi and Hitagi Senjougahara have graduated, very few familiar faces remain at Naoetsu Private High School. One of these is Suruga Kanbaru, holder of the Monkey's Paw. When she begins to hear talk of a mysterious being known as the "Devil" who will magically solve any problem, Kanbaru immediately thinks these rumors are about her and decides to investigate.

She discovers the Devil is actually Rouka Numachi, a former basketball rival from junior high who is no longer able to play due to a leg injury. Rouka provides free advice to those who seek her out. Acting as a collector of misfortune, she enjoys relieving the stress of her clients by providing them with the false hope of having their problems solved. Although Kanbaru sees no real harm being done, she reprimands Rouka for lying and heads home, relieved she is not the cause of the rumors. But she may have a reason to worry after all: she finds that her left hand has reverted back to its human form.

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Kanbaru, Suruga Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Numachi, Rouka Main

Asumi, Kana Japanese

Araragi, Koyomi Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Kaiki, Deishuu Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Oshino, Ougi Supporting

Mizuhashi, Kaori Japanese

Araragi, Karen Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Kanbaru, Tooe Supporting

Neya, Michiko Japanese

Higasa, Seiu Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Iwakami, Atsuhiro Producer

Kubota, Mitsutoshi Producer

Matsushita, Takuya Producer

Shinbou, Akiyuki Director, Series Composition

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Nov 25, 2024

Fanime07

Recommended

You may think that my 8/10 is a bit high for Hanamonogatari (and I think so too), but the series still holds its own. Kanbaru may not be as interesting a character to explore as the main cast of the series, but the show takes her perspective with her old classmate to let the viewers know more about her personality and her growth after Bakemonogatari and when Araragi and Senjougahara go to college. In short, even though it is a TV special with only five episodes, it still holds the core of the Monogatari series and is no less than the previous seasons, at least ... for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 24, 2023

CaptainKenshiro

Mixed Feelings

The first thing to say about this season is that it’s best not to watch it unless one is at their 100% ‘cause I was kind of sleepy when I watched it and boy was it tough.

In terms of visuals and sound I didn’t find much differences from the previous season so I don’t bother much with it. The opening has Kanbaru and some other girl acting as friends even when they are enemies, though there’s a part where the vocals change completely and it is nice. The ending has a very creepy and completely different art style so it was cool to watch ... even though the song itself was more of the same. Some recurring characters has different designs which are good but the most important one isn’t permanent so fuck it.

This season takes two risks. One, coming out at this point even though chronologically is the last, at least when it comes to the anime up until this point, since the novels kept going, as far as I know. This will make any possible tension from future entries to lack any real impact since this one already confirms the outcome.

The second is having Suruga Kanbaru as the protagonist, as was built up in Second Season, since for plot reasons many characters are not around. Up until this point she was a comical type of secondary character, and as previous examples have proven, it’s very rare for a type of spin off or sequel like that to be good or successful or even not ruin the character.

So, is Kanbaru a good enough main character to take the place from the previous ones? Not in the least, or maybe she is, she could be, perhaps, if this anime was about her, but it really isn’t, since for a big portion it focuses on another girl whose name I didn’t bother to learn and who has a very simple and boring backstory compared to the previous main cast.

Said backstory takes one and a half episode to be presented and said presentation is kind of a mixed bag. First, like with Shinobu’s in the previous season, it is told instead of shown, and this time around there aren’t even some cool visuals along with it for its first half, all that’s shown is the character talking and Kanbaru looking at her with a straight face from time to time. Ok, there are some visual metaphors with floating objects but that’s it. The second half goes for something completely different and far more interesting looking for some reason, so it balances out.

As for Kanbaru herself, something important happens to her character wise, but not because of her, it’s something that someone else does for her, without her even noticing it at first. It’s not that she’s explored much either, some backstory of her is told, and she has some conversations with old time characters where she tells them about some of her doubts, they encourage her, and she gets over it rather easily and quickly, that’s it. Plus, it is weird to see her all serious like this, she doesn’t really feel like the character that was shown so far.

Ok, I’m not dumb nor uninterested enough to not notice that the series explicitly draws some parallelisms between the two girls but, Suruga, I don’t care about being TOLD about who you could have been, I want to SEE more of who you are, or how you came to be, or who you can be in the future, and you brought none of that in this show.

The more enjoyable scenes for me where the first and third out the four scenes where old time characters appeared, and even then, one of them undid a death from Second Season, and the other was kind of comical and didn’t have the same melancholic tone of the rest of the season. The second left me indifferent and the fourth was the same old pedophilic and incestuous humor that I made clear that I hate.

As a whole the season continues to have great visuals, serviceable sound, a welcomed different melancholic tone to the most part, and it isn’t really bad to be honest, but also feels like it has very little content and very little or very uninteresting characterization in it. A very passable one and I would say the second worst after Nisemonogatari so far, which doesn’t leaves me wanting to watch any possible sequel.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 4, 2021

ItsErik

Not Recommended

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i was expecting to see something exciting and im really disappointed now, i didnt enjoyed the other monogatari for their art style the characters and the sound, basically i just voted the plot, but now how am i supposed to see 5 episode without cutting my balls in half,this monogatari has a ORRIBLE plot, i couldnt stand watching "dialoguemonogatari" i would have preferred do my homework instead of looking at this, the only thing that made me continue it was the fact that i wanted to finish this series to start another one. U guys are probably wondering why i am not dropping it, well... ... its just because many people say its beautiful and that its a "must watch anime" but seriously i really hope this is getting better in next monogataris (im watching it in the correct order)

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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