April 24, 2022

Good thematic writing and funny dialogue

Bakemonogatari displays flashes of brilliant character writing mixed in with witty dialogue, and a lot of references.

While the dialogue is, at times, completely nonsensical and hilarious, the book also deals with heavier topics, such as mental health and trauma, in an interesting way.

The language used can be quite difficult, especially since the writing can get very metaphorical at times, and the book is laden with heavy-handed references to things such as literature, culture and history. There are also a lot of puns and such based on kanji etc.

Unfortunately there's also some weird sexual jokes, that completely fail to land and only devalue the otherwise great experience.

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