A team-up made in manga heaven! The wildly popular Monogatari novel series by renowned bestselling author NISIOISIN has now been reimagined into a knockout manga adaptation by none other than legendary artist Oh! Great (Tenjo Tenge, Air Gear)! One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But-much to his surprise-she doesn't weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called "crab" took away all her weight ... Monsters have been ...
The worst way to experience an absolutely incredible story
The bits and pieces are there: this manga has an incredible artstyle and I truly treasure what the artist was making in order to differentiate this story from the novel and anime, but I think it cuts away some of my favorite pieces of both as well - I think second volume might go hard with the wordplay, but part of the magic of 化物語 is the crazy unassuming setups that it's very easy to miss, but they pay off a few thousand pages later, and when you go back you go like, "i can't believe it's been