Judgment Commentary! | Nisemonogatari | Episode 8 "Tsukihi Phoenix, Part One"

Here's my take: big nice. One of my fav scenes.

SAL

I see long comments talking about this episode here..

SAL

God, I cannot express how much I hate that scene xD After watching it so many times it kinda grew on me and I can't imagine the series without it, because yes, it does have some narrative value, but at the same time IT DOES GO TOO FUCKING FAR. No matter what point you try making about it, it could always have been toned down and have the same effect. Look, I don't mind ecchi anime, hell, To Love-Ru is one of my favorite anime ever, but what I do despise is "unnecessary ecchi", like we see in Fairy Tail or Nanatsu no Taizai. There's ecchi with narrative purpose or when it's the focus of the joke, and there's ecchi for the sake of being ecchi or fan-servicey. For the most part Monogatari threads the "right" side of ecchi majestically, always bringing purpose and depth with it, but then there are 3 scenes... There are only 3 instances where I think they went too far and, looking on the brightside, you already saw 2 of them: -The "please rub my naughty breasts" scene in Kizu -The infamous toothbrush scene in Nise Now there's only one left in the future that I won't spoil, but will say it's not as bad as the other two. Those 3 scenes are the only thing that hold me back on giving a round 10/10 to this series (which is my favorite ever by far).

What's behind all sexual suggestiveness in Nisemonogatari? Remember, what you see is not what you get. The key here is to understand what a pastiche is: literally means to "paste" together multiple elements to represent the chaotic, pluralistic and information-drenched aspects of postmodern daily lives. So sex in Monogatari is a strange and hyperbolic metaphor meaning simple intimacy and proximity between the characters. It's a ludic but strange pastiche of certain fetishes of the anime community. Although it's a criticism of archetypes and clichés as a mass consumption phenomenon, Monogatari as a pastiche reminds us all the time that the serie itself is a part of all of this. This paradoxical self-consciousness can be also found in the history of all forms of modern art pictured through the episodes and it's a interesting discussion for anyone interested in arts in general. But back to Nise, the girls are afraid that Koyomi is growing up too fast and moving away from them. This is represented when the audience literally feels the disconfort between Karen and Koyomi through a peculiar use of a narrative technique. But, despite everything, the two are still very close to each other. Intimacy and proximity, remember? Then Tsukihi interrupts the session to remind Koyomi that there is another element involved in this equation.

wanna know the artistic meaning of this episode? its kinda to show how much of an hypocrite araragi is, with everything he said, and he was about to do something to his sister, and that nisioisin (the author) wanted to have fun afther bake and kizu, it helped him a lot to get better xD

J Scarampi

I have been waiting for this day ever since Monogatari won the poll.