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Alright, I can understand why people may be upset about the fact how this series ended and I feel empathy for those who seems unsatisfied. But let me explain why I gave this review a score of 7.8/10 (since I can't scores in the tenth decimal place).

Storyline: 8/10
This story goes beyond the understanding of "cutesy romance, after school clubs, and dramatic soap opera slice of life." As you may know the director who was involved with this series uses a lot of representations of items or scenes in explaining this series. Many of the times I watched this anime and thought what was ... the point of this anime? Why does this seem really confusing and how come it isn't making any sense? I read a post in understanding what this anime is about on reddit and looked at other opinions from other people, and what really stood out is the fact the metaphors are used greatly throughout this anime. Many of the times it seems that the different scenes and objects we see throughout the anime seems oblivious to us, but those scenes/objects are really important in terms of telling the story and understanding it. Realizing each scene about how it pertains to the characters, made better sense of what may have happened or the misunderstand of each other. I don't really want to ruin much of the story here, but you'll understand once you see the series with your own eyes. In the end, this story line seems more of a philosophical thought compared to the eye-candy-eye-catching artwork quality. I know it seems really bad in terms of rating, but once you put everything together throughout the story line it makes perfect sense, and don't just hate on it, you gotta let yourself think about the story line. Because the way how we think cultural differs on how the people in japan thinks culturally can effect what we think about this anime. You can't forget how sometimes Japanese culture are very subtle on how they act, but it means a lot more than what you might think.

(I think the story line is more important and I only made brief comments as to why it was good on categories below)

Art: 8/10
The artwork quality was done magnificently in terms of landscape, especially the rendering of the background with the high saturation of light between the trees in certain scenes, while focusing more of the characters, and heights the mood of the plot. I would say the art quality was almost done as well as the story line and I can't really find a complaint as to why it would be off-putting compared to other animes.

Sound: 8/10
Giving an eight for the score seems to be reasonable enough right? Since they didn't cheap out on the sound quality, and they did accurately display the recording of each character with its own scenes of ambient noises (like with cricket sounds, wind, or a car passing by). Now maybe if there were certain areas they had made the scenes sounded like they were on the beach because throughout the story line they all sounded like they were all in a room, but thanks to the ambient sounds and music, it had a less noticeable stale sound. (I may be asking too much, but I'm comparing this to the quality of their artwork)


Characters: 8/10
The writers of the anime did well in depicting the awkwardness in some characters. It does put a sense of eerie-ness within the story and it gives it a weird flavor of curiosity on what some character's might be saying, like how some words are cut off from certain characters with uneasiness, uncertainty, or maybe keeping things a secret. I think this is also why I was glue to this anime in the first place, with it character's personality on track rather than having to be changed dramatically, the progression on each character grew steadily of awkwardness to a better understand why he/she is awkward. And character development does grow on you through the story and by watching the anime towards the end, you kinda know what they're going to say next or be satisfied on why they are the way they are.

In this anime series bakemonogatari, i would like to compliment to the story writer who ever made this series up a great job and the artwork.

Great artwork with the time and quality it must of taken great bit of work and the ideas of how it was drawn and scenes that pointed out into each episodes were out side of the box which did a great thing in persuading people and for people who is watching the series to question more about it. Excuse me for my grammar. :p

Thing is so great about that makes up the story is the characters, each character have ... their own unique standards and the person who did the story writing did a great job on keeping the characters on standard. And to compare most anime series would sometimes have people with all happy personality and yet there is almost like no flaw to them.

What is also great about the characters is that the script was done well, with teasing the people and a few sparks behind them. And some perspective that people might expect from the story is that a bit of irony and the opposite what the view would be thinking, which sometimes bring in comic-relief, and the way of how main character talks Hitagi-san is a complicated character but a friendly one, at first its a bit tense but as the story goes on you'd like want to fall in love with her with her personality. But as the two main characters in the story is a funny comic-relief and a romance its a great story together put with one character being a serious tease joke and the other being a clumsy nice guy.

They did greatly on how the story comes together, and usually there aren't many anime series that would do great in to put in order, and like for instances xam'd was put in a really "in the middle of nowhere" which was totally confusing at the beginning of the episodes and made me not wanna watch it.

And oh yeah... I forgot to add one part of it is that the scenes had great flash forwards when they show part of the episode in the beginning to make the viewer question which is a great persuasion technique in stories and etc. And it relates to japanese sayings "on the moon there is a rabbit making mooncakes" or something like curses.

Overall, I think this series is one of the best one yet I've seen; however, that is just my opinion of thinking. but this story has great storyline, relates to reality and fictional, romance is cute, story is put together really well, a few teases in the story, and the characters are the really great that is really important into this story Bakemonogatari.