Judgment Commentary! | Nekomonogatari: Black | Episode 4 "Tsubasa Family, Part 4"

-I don't know if you forgot about it or not, but you said "wow, didn't know you had that" when Shinobu gave Araragi the sword, but it was the same sword she showed him back in Kizu (even sliced through his body to show it's power), the one her first kin left behind when commiting suicide; he also tried mimicking her by swalowing the sword and letting the cat attack him (though he didn't do a very job and it resulted in him being unable to move from the spot he was with a straight sword as long as that going along with his torso) -Yes, Araragi was trying to bait Hanekawa into attacking him when he said all those things. And you were pretty much right about him not really having loved her, it was just a case of him experiencing the feelings of liking someone outside of his family for the first time in a long time (remember his cringy philosophy from Kizu that "making friends would lower his intensity as a human"), so Tsukihi's analysis of the situation at the start of the arc was very on point. Dang, you don't even have to be a loner to understand him, just think back to your days in high school and remember how you suddenly started to think you had feelings for any girl that you started getting close with. Common part of growth and puberty. -The aviator hat is a way Shinobu found to distance herself from Araragi. Remember as she stated right after he woke up as a vampire for the first time in Kizu: patting on the head is how they would express obedience to each other. By putting it on she was basically saying "stay away from me" after him having the audacity and the courage of begging her for help to save the one who told Araragi of her plan of dying for his sake in Kizu and made her become this former shadow of a proud vampire, not dead, but barely living With this you just finished the First Season of the series (as it was originally divided in the novels) and enter the rollercoaster that only goes up and then crashes in a spectacle: Monogatari Series Second Season. It's almost as if everything so far was just a prequel and a setup for the _real_ begining of the series and, boy, oh, boy, it just gets better... Just to clear your doubts on the naming of next season: Bake, Kizu, Nise and Neko Kuro are The First Season; Neko Shiro, Kabuki, Hana, Otori, Oni and Koi are The Second Season; and then Tsuki, Koyomi, Owari and Zokuowari are The Final Season. Next season covers most of the books in The Second Season from the novels (with exception of Hana), that's why it's named "Second Season" even though it's the fifth by anime order.