Jan 12, 2024
Updated Review without the post-watch high since points 1,2,4,5 in the cut content section ruins Tsubasa's arc, rating went from 9/10 to 7/10, added the singer d!ego with correct spelling
Update 2: text in double square brackets no longer true (watched clips of the 3rd movie for confirmation)
The short version is, this isn't really a "definitive version" of Kizumonogatari nor does it add enough to be worth a rewatch.
For the long version, I'll start off strong with what I noticed was added to the movie (I haven't seen the original trilogy in a while so I'm likely to misremember some details), the most obvious would
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be Ueda Hajime's artwork (think Monogatari's Ending credits illustrations) that was added in during the somewhat short talk Kiss-shot does on her first servant after she was fully restored, there were 2 continous shots with a break in between the illustrations which afaik, was made specifically for this movie (I will need to double-check the trilogy).
[[Another addition is possibly a 3d illustration of Koyomi using his powers during the Guillotine-Cutter fight.]]
Ending credits song is now "étoile et toi edition le noir" a duet between the previous two version's french singer Clémentine and (I hope I remembered this correctly) a male singer le diego (?).
As for the cut content from the original trilogy.. I counted atleast 5 that I was sure of and a few more that I might be confusing with the cut content from the LN/that one scene in the beginning of episode 1 of Bakemonogatari
1) Araragi Koyomi (henceforth referred to as Koyomi) doesn't meet Hanekawa Tsubasa (henceforth referred to as Tsubasa) post-transformation right before the Dramaturgy fight where Koyomi was reviewing a Judo and a Baseball book.
2) Talk between Koyomi and Tsubasa in the cramschool (in-between the Dramaturgy and Episode fight) has been cut short to the point Kiss-shot doesn't sleeptalk during said talk ( scene where they talk about the pornmag Koyomi bought was cut)
3) Removed the scene where Kiss-shot stabs her head, and massages her brain to remember something before the Episode fight.
4) Removed the extra detail on the "come back to school promise" between Koyomi and Tsubasa where the latter *cough* takes off one piece of her undergarment and tells the former to give it back when the new school term starts.
5) Removed the whole interaction in the storage room where Tsubasa offers Koyomi to *cough* "feel her up", which includes the removal of another piece of undergarment through her camisole before slipping it between the yoga mattresses, and the ensuing shoulder massage Koyomi ends up doing whilst Tsubasa berates him by calling him "chicken".
List may not be complete and I'll still have to comeback and check the existence of some of these in the original trilogy (another point that I'm not sure is if the "crucial organ" was only shown for a split-second in the Bakemonogatari ep 1 montage or if it also appeared in the original trilogy as well)
TL;DR added scenes does not necessarily justify the cut scenes,
Ramblings: still watched it once to show interest to the companies if (big IF) they do decide to adapt off season. Also shaft scheduling is not as bad as current Mappa but still pretty bad so I also don't really want to support them that much until they fix their scheduling issues
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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