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Ages 16+

One day, high-school st

udent Koyomi Araragi
named Hitagi Senjogah catches a girl
ara when she trips.

h anything. At all.
But—much to his surprise—she doesn’t weig t...
1 al le d “c ra b” to ok away all her weigh
ter with a so-c
She says an encoun
Monsters have been here since the beginning.
Always.
Ever ywhere.
E R R AT I ON!
ABERRATION! ABERRATION! AB

NISIOISIN
Original Story:
OH!GREAT

OH!GREAT
Original Story:
NISIOISIN
Original Character
Design: VOFAN
Monsters
don’t
come
to you.
 They’re
there
from
the
start.

At
every
mo-
ment.
 In
every
place.
OH!GREAT
Original Story:
NISIOISIN
Original Character
1
Design: VOFAN
Chapter 1 Hitagi Crab
 My
bottom
hurts.
It’s
numb.

G
A
S
H
A
K
K

And my
skirt got
wrinkled.

Not my
fault.

FIR This is my Stop trying

EXTINGUE
ISHER first time or to talk your
riding on a I’ll lop way out of
bicycle with Which it off. this,
someone
else. body
Do you part
N O You should
S - more
not give a ?!
AaSlittle
T R E S Pgenerous. Give
crap about be
anyone G your bag to
I Nme
other than use as a cushion
yourself?! or something.
 didn’t you
say you’d
even consider And
generosity anyway,
as hostile
behavior
?
I bet
even Marie
Antoinette
was a little
more modest
and humble
than you.

She’s my
In what disciple.
timeline?!
 And stop
casually
You’re
riffing off of
We are almost making
it sound like everything
class-
we’re class- I say.
mates!
mates.
Just
how much
are you
going to
disavow
me?!

I ...This
He’s a guess. man of
strange yours
quite a lives in
guy, I’ll
give you strange
that... place...

But
not as
strange
as you.
 ARARAGI.
KOYOMI
ARARAGI.

Don’t
call me
that.
Call me
Miss
Anyway Senjogahara,
... What is it,
or Lady
Hitagi Senjogahara
?
Senjogahara.
 You
might be
surprised,

but my body
may not
be worth
breaking the
law to make
yours.

Or, to be flat-out
for fools who don’t
understand when
s h in k people are being
roundabout...

If your plan
is to lay bare
your base
JA K K
instincts,
Araragi,

and try to
rape me after
bringing me to
this deserted JA K K K T
little spot...
 I will do
anything and
everything in
to pay my power
you back
slash-fiction
style.
What
does that
mean?!
That
is, of
course,

if you
were able to
rape me...

What
is she
Something ?
tasted

like blood A
... human
weapon
?
 Memories of
that taste of
blood filling
my entire
that came mouth
from the
long-healed
wound inside
it.

30 minutes earlier.

Miss
Senjoga-
hara?
 Why do
you ask,

Araragi
?

Naoetsu High
PREPARATORY

Well
...
y’know
Don’t you ...
know her
better than
I do?
You’ve been
in the same
class three I was just
years in a row, wondering...
haven’t you? what kind of
person she
Well, yeah, is.
but...

Yeah,
That’s not boys really do
Stop it. like the sickly
what this is.
types~
Really.
 Hitagi
Senjoga-
hara.

While you might think

otherwise because her
family name means
“battlefield,” she is
what you might call
a sickly, cloistered
princess.

And I agreed
with the
sentiment.
She’s graceful The words
and evanescent, did seem to
like her thin fit her.
lines could snap
at a touch.
 Always
alone
reading
a book in
one corner
of the
class-
room,
never
expected
to
partici-
pate in
P.E.,
of course.

it goes No,
beyond that.
I’d never once
seen her engaged
in any sort of
vigorous activity.

She
Not didn’t
a seem to
have any
single friends.
one.
 The Pa
Modern radox of It’s not like she’s
Quantu
Chemis m bullied, though.
try
Thomas
C. Pot-
It was just like that
au -Feu was her natural
g
Runnin amoto place to be.
Yam

The shrewd take

might be that her

d M ll
un s A
e
Aroemie
constant reading is a

En

r?!
apte
behavior intended to

t ch
firs
the
tell you not to speak

om
ne fr
ryo
eve
to her because she’s

n by
ake
Fors
reading, a way of
building walls
around herself.

like it’s Like it’s

natural natural for
But her to be
not to
be here. also, there, alone.

All I’ve
learned about
is that her in these
“I don’t know” two years
she says in that thin
voice whenever the
teacher calls
TA P
on her... TA P

TA P
 But Oh.
she has
excellent
grades.

I kinda
but I don’t knew
Not from that...
the legendary want to hear
class president those words
who scored 598 from you,
points across Hanekawa.
six courses in
five core
subjects.
By
the way,
this is How
Hanekawa rare.
is a class president
born to be a class Tsubasa over here.
president who Hanekawa →
embodies what a ...
class president
should be, someone
who makes you wonder You’re
if she’s going to be interested
a class president in in a girl,
some capacity for Araragi?
the rest of her life.

B
U
R

I’m
N
A

Wait,
B
L
E

HUH not gay,

you
? you
really know.
thought T BY
SOR R
YOU’RE
COLO
I was?! NOT?!
 ...is what And so,
I’m
she declared while I
gonna was not
before turn
forcefully the class’s
your life problem
naming me around
as her child but
!! merely an
vice
president. ornament,

pp
wh
b
W hy
o
o
i
n
?!
g

I feel What’s
it had nothing to do like I going
with the spectacle I As for why
just on?
witnessed from my I didn’t put up
got a She’s
angle at the time. a fight...
peek wearing
...Nothing at all.
at her clothes,
Probably.
boobs! but...

We
were
she and never
I went in the But
to the same ...
same I guess
class, I could
middle but...
school. say I’m
surprised
She ...
wasn’t
anything
like the
way she
PR tsu Hi
E
Nao

is now.
PA RAT h
e

Or
OR
g
Y

maybe...
it’s not
what I
expected.
Kiyokaze Middle School Team
Run at Full Speed
 The
track
team.

She was
its star!!
She was
famous.
I heard
all about Why
her, at do you BOOM
least. look so
smug?! B
O
I
N
G

One of her
juniors was
super fast,
More
famous
Hanekawa too. ...I
than
seems to almost
you?
seriously think asked...
of herself as but
As far as I know,
“a regular stopped
there’s no one
girl who has myself.
more famous in
nothing to
She hates recommend her our grade than
being treated but being on Hanekawa.
as special They were
the studious known as
more than side.” the Valhalla
anything. Duo, you
see...
 Compared
to then,
she’s so But...
much...

... she’s
prettier. so...
Her pretty
presence
is so... now.
evanes-
cent...

As if
she had...
none.

That’s
right.
In other Evanescent
words. presence.
 Almost
like she
was a
ghost.
 It
happened
this
I think morning.
I made a
better choice
than moving What
out of the should I have
way. done then?
 Or, I
thought
I did.

Oh.
Can you Ah—
handle the Sorry, I forgot.
rest? Hane-
kawa.

Our class is
We can just either putting
have everyone on a café or a Hm?
vote on one of haunted house Umm...
the two, that for the culture
has a nice festival, right?
democratic
veneer to it.

The
rest of...
True, but... what?
you’re so
cynical. We haven’t
Why the decided on
sudden anything yet.
rush?
 Old Man
Oshino
I’m going wanted
to that to see me
building. today.

Mr.
Oshino
Really ?
?

I can’t
keep
you,
Hanekawa then.
owes Please
Oshino, send
too. him my
regards.

Yeah.

I feel a little
guilty about
cutting
It’s things short
fine. that
T blatantly,
H I’m not but...
P lying.
P
 WHAT
WERE YOU
DISCUSSING
WITH
HANEKAWA?

DON’T MOVE.
 Oh... no.

I should
have said,
“You can move,
but it would be
very risky.”
 ...
j o lt
C
P H
...!! T K
T K

?!
?!!
C
H
K
K
T

Curiosity
is such a
cockroach,
isn’t it?

Flocking
How to precisely
insufferable. the secrets
The You dare that people
trifling get on my want
untouched.
insect nerves.
that you
are.
 The
right side
was feeling
lonely,
right?
C
Ah... H
O
St—
P
 drip
Ugh.

drip I can’t
believe
how
careless
I was.

Wha—

I try to be
twice as
careful as
the average
person when I
climb stairs.

Who would
have imagined
there’d be an
actual banana
peel on the
floor right
there?
drip

What’s...
with this
girl...?
They’re not
kidding when
they say a
single fart
What is can ruin a
with this A
hundred days
girl?!! Why’s
fart? of sermons.
she talking
about farts?
 You’ve
noticed,
haven’t
you.

The
secret
about my
body.

In other The only other

person at this
words...
school who knows
you’re the about this is the
second to health teacher,
know. Harukami...

You’re
thinking
some-
I know thing
what right
it is. now... ...

36
 I swear
I wasn’t Staring
looking Dis- at my
gusting. breasts
!!! like that.

So...

I wonder,
what
should
I do...

If I want
you to
what make a
kind promise to make
of deal to me, you keep
are we my
going secret
to have to
to cut? yourself.
 How are
we going to
staple your
Tell mouth
shut?
me.

Is she in Is... zh f
f
her right
mind...?

She’s She’s...
so
scary S
H

﹋!!
U
D
D
E
R
 The
doctor
?! Or rather, at the
that there hospital
might not the says
be a cause. cause is
unknown.

That
“It is as it
as it is now.”
was,

Prin ciple

Don’t you
think that’s
ridiculous?

After all
that fiddling
around with
Until a stranger’s
middle school, body.
I was a normal,
cute girl.
 Putting aside
the fact that
she just called
herself cute...
Anyway.

So it
was
true...
Two
She was years.
going
to the
hospital.
 More
than
enough
time.
To give up
on things.
To resign
yourself
...

Unlike
me.
It was just
Two
two brief
whole
weeks over
years.
spring break
for me.
 Are you
feeling
sorry
for
But Oh, me
it’s not how ?
generosity generous
I want. of you.

I want your
silence
and your
indifference,
nothing
more.

If you
promise me If you
then your silence
could have
nod and your
indifference, you give those,
Araragi. twice,
them to
me?
K
CHK
 I’ll consider
any other
action, even
freezing,
and I’ll as hostile
move behavior,
promptly
to
attack.

NOD
NOD

klik
klik
klik

...Thank
you.
Sf
f
 G
A
C
H
U
N
K

You’re
not
going to
scream?

Impres-
sive.

PP
WH
 I’ll let
you off
at that
I hate today.
but you did being so
promise, so I lenient,
ought to show
you some
goodwill.

Ah—

She’s
Oww. like
Urgh. some
devil.
k
l
i
n
k

Ouch.
K AC H U
NK

RiP

ch a kl in k
 s
h

But...
w
w
w

it’s fine.
This
much

I can
take
just fine.

You’re Hm
still here, ?
Araragi?

HiK
GAC
Huh
I don’t
under- ?!
stand,
Araragi. If I ever
catch you Hey,
What
tossing a ? Hanekawa
leftover ...
I’ll never peel on Well, Do you like
forgive the bananas?
you. stairs, I guess
so...
 Two
years.

Two
Compared whole
to my two years.
weeks...
Senjogahara
fought
that thing for
two years.

That’s
just...

so
long.
 No,
I can’t
I’ll go ahead
Oh, I’m so and be honest believe
surprised. with you here you... H
EEC
SKR
and say that
I’m surprised.

She calls
that being
surprised
?!

you’re already After

having all
So you’d been this rebellious.
of that
doing this to As far as
I can remember, done to
others, too?! this is a first, you,
Araragi.

GRAK c h ik

Your
eye for an eye
c h ik
ch ik ch
ikk
All
attitude agrees G RAK right.
with my KRA
K

own sense KRAK

I get it.
of justice. KR AK

NK
CH AK CHU
 AK
KRE KRA
K
K
EA
KR

AK
KR

KRAK

LET’S HAVE OURSELVES A WAR.

Isn’t the Hey.
government neglecting ...
Um,
its duties by letting
Japan?
someone this
dangerous run free?
 We’re
Oh, not?
well.
W-Wait.
Wait, no.

We’re
Why do you t sk not
sound so having
disappointed a war!
?!

I was
think-
I might just
ing,
be able maybe,
to help you
you out. know...

Give
me a
Just keep Didn’t break.
your mouth I tell you
shut! Pay no I don’t need
attention to any cheap
me, that’s all sympathy?
I want!!
 Didn’t I
tell you
already?!
Generosity,
too—
I’ll deem as
hostile
behavior!!

t
jo l
...!!
 ...
wound There’s
there no...
...?!
 It
hap-
pened
during
spring
break.

I was
attacked
by a
vampire.
 It’s not like In this day
I went on a and age.
trip to Europe It’s
or anything. embarrassing
Right here on enough to
the streets of make me
Naoetsu, want to go
the kind of into hiding,
middle-of- but it’s the
nowhere town truth.
you might find
anywhere in
Japan.
Ye.
 Hail... ye thither.
It shall be thy
privilege to aid
me. Closer. Aye,
come closer. Can
ye not hear me?
I say I am willing
to bestow upon
thee the honor of
aiding me.
 The My name is
iron-blooded, Kiss-Shot
hot-blooded, yet Acerola-Orion
cold-blooded Heart-Under-
vampire. Blade.

Give me Now
thine hurry
blood. ...!
 I don’t want to die
I’m sorry
No I can’t die
Someone

Please

Save me
No

Usually, when
regular people
s get attacked by a
k
or by some r
i vampire, they’re
That’s how it sort of secret
t
c
h
saved by an expert
always goes holy force. vampire hunter...
in manga
or anime or
whatever.
 But
in my
I was saved by a case,
shabby old dude
named Oshino
who happened to
TRESPA
SSING

be passing by.
NO

TRESPA
SSING

NO
NO

TRESPASS
ING
NO
TRESPASS
ING

NO
TRESPASSING

TRESPASSIN
G

Oshino
...

You’re
This Mr. saying...
Mèmè he lives
Oshino. here?

Mèmè
If you Oshino,
Stop
get your huh... Quite
it. an adorable
hopes up
like that, sounding
it’ll be bad name, I have
The
to say.
contrast when you
is gonna see him.
make you
puke.
 like what Anyway,
you and I this guy says he
are going specializes in this
through. kind of thing,
Aberration

In fact,
don’t even
Don’t be
classify
so casual
me as
when you
being in
speak
It’s not the same about me.
as if category
I trust you as you.
already or
KEEP anything.
OUT

This girl
Then what is such
Puh-leeze, Miss a pain.
should I
Sen-joe-guh-hara. say?
Allow me.
To save you.
Well, why
don’t you
get down on
BOW
all fours
and beg?
ZAKK
I don’t like
the way you
sounded Fine.
like a robot,
though. I’ll Please, Miss
accept Senjogahara.
That your
was good Allow me to
sincerity
enough in kind. save you.
for her?!
 NO

NO
Then let
me hold
...Er, your onto your
stationery. weapons.
Huh? TRESPASSING
All
TRESPASSING
of it.

And Oshino is a
... I can’t have weird dude,
such a man but... he did
face a technically
dangerous save my life.
person.

he’d saved
Hanekawa’s
life, too.

GLARE

...
CE
GLAN

...It GLAN
CE

seems
...

No! And
I’m the only you’ve
one here! caught
me in a
trap.

Fine.
...Can I
just go
home...?
 that stretch D-Do
into the her
fourth clothes
dimension have
or pockets
something ...
?!
k
l
a
How long t
t
Let’s
are you going e
r
hurry to spend
up picking
already,
you those up?
piece
of
trash.

You ’re
t he one
who
sca t ter ed
t hem
eve ry-
whe re!
 If something
is to happen Listen.
to me,
5,000 of my
rowdiest pals are
going to appear
in the blink of an
eye, and...

p
a
k Okay.
r
a
k
Yeah,
uh-huh,
5,000 of
’em...
 AK
WH

E
E EE
SW
 F LO
AT

PWOM
 That’s
right.
Senjoga-
hara’s
body

had
no
weight
to it.

As if
only her
existence
was
there.
 A crab.

It It
took it happened
All away. when I met
of it. a crab.
My
weight.

PAT
 Th...
Thank
you...

Wh-
What’s
with that
Thanking
someone who face?!
saved them
is the least a
proper human
I’m shocked being can do,
that any right?!
part of you
is a proper
human
being!!
 Why...
did you
save
me? NO TRESPASSING

SAFETY FIRST

SAFETY FIRST
NO TRESPASSING
NO TRESPASSING
NO TRESPASSING
NO TRESPASSING
SAFETY FIRST
SAFETY FIRST

I can’t
save
I can’t do you.
How anything,
should I in fact...
put it...

Pretty
you’re soon,
going to
need to save
yourself.
That’s
the feeling
I get...
 I’m just
here to
show you
the way.
 Then
please
do,

my
friendly
guide-
servant.

I heard
that last
word!
 Monsters
don’t
come
to you.

They’re
there
from the
start.

At every
moment.

In every
place.
T
BZZ
Inside
 every
one of
New Curriculum
CHARTED
From the Ground Up Series
us.
MATH
Bakemonogatari

01: Hitagi Crab

 Can I ask you a question?

would If I said
you seems that
feel conven­ immor-
hurt? ient, tality

Not
so
much
Not now.
so
Not much
now. now.

Ah,
Hey! If too
only I’d bad.
What’s known.
behind H
a
And stop all a
I wanted
looking those to try XXXing
so redac- your XXX, or
sincerely tions?! XXXing you,
disap- and all kinds of
pointed!! other things.
 Hitagi
My class-
Senjoga-
or more mate who
hara.
precisely, had most of
9/10ths of her weight—
her weight—
stolen by a
mysterious
crab.

Sff

This
probably was
equivalent to
Even this her feeling
empty can. as though
I could everything
To her, it just kick it around her
might as away. has ten times
well be a the mass.
concrete
block.
 LET’S
ik
kl

A
HAVE
WAR.
OUR-
SELVES

The
reason
she’s
Oh. armed to
the teeth
with that
statio-
The nery.
reason
she hurt
me with
such
I think
naked
I get it
hostility.
now.
 YOU
FINALLY
CAME,
ARARAGI.

First
So you’ve
Missy brought yet
Class Prez, another girl
Why, and now with you
this? You
I’m quite got a today?
glad for thing for
you. girls with
straight
bangs?
 BOW Sh e’s
ign orin g Um
I’m Hitagi Nice to m e!! ...
Senjogahara. meet
So
you. Oshino. this is
...

...
Araragi
told me
about you.

This is Really
Hmm
... how you ?
...Hm? treat me?

Do
you
see ...
some-
thing
?

I Nah
Not a don’t. ...
thing!
-

j o lt
BAKEMONOGATARI
Two hours later.
 This
room is
empty
...

zha a a a a

“My mother
fell for a
religion.
A sketchy
Senjogahara one...”
started talking
about herself
as if she
was making
some kind of
excuse.
 Not only
Ultimately, did she
Senjo­ give them
gahara’s everything
parents she even
she had,
divorced at went into
She the end of massive
lives alone last year. debt.
with her
dad now.

It sounds
like he rarely
comes home
these days
It’s like because he’s
I’m living trying to work
alone. KREAK off all that
It’s nice. debt.

Huh?! Araragi.
I’m going
to break
your every
bone.
 Wait,
You nailed maybe I was I’m sorry.
it your right the Make
second try!! first time? yourself
You couldn’t at home,
have done I mean.
any
better!!
Oh,
I’m so
honored!
Ha! Ha!
Ha!

Seems like
all that talk
about her being
Hane- a rich, cloistered
kawa... princess...
was old
information,

“The
omoshi-
kani.”
 Aberration

A
Depending “Crab of Weight.”
the heavy crab,
on the locale, It’s a bit of
the stone-
it might be folklore from
weight crab,
called the the mountainous
or even the
weight crab, areas of
omoishi-gani.
The details Miyazaki.
vary.
 ... What
the
is that it
stories
“steals
have in
people’s common
weight.”
S-So when
And we’re you say crab...
not in like really,
Miyazaki a crab?
...

Ah hah
Who cares hah!
about how That’s an You
bad my American really
gestures crawfish, are an
are? not a crab. idiot,
Araragi.

The location doesn’t matter.

HAH HA And why

Stay
would you be
out asking me that
of my when you were
Given busi- attacked by
the right ness!
That’s a vampire in
situation— Backwater,
all. it arises
Simple Please Japan?!
there. !!
as can
be.
 But crab,
Since stone, it
the young doesn’t
lady says really matter.
she came Some even
we must across a say it’s a
be dealing crab, rabbit.
with a
crab.

What it’s What’s

Uh, Can you be that
...
called is
okay a little more all the same supposed
... serious about to mean?
to me.
this...?

Oh.
It is I
important... wouldn’t
Yeah. say so.
Names are
important.

What’s
Me? that? ...I’m here
Now Save because
that you? I heard
I can’t you would
do. save me.
Hah
hah—
 You’re just
going to get
saved on
your own.

it’s up to In other
your point of words, Those kinds
view... or maybe young and they’re of things are
your heart and lady, nowhere, everywhere,
mind. We just depending on
have to switch your view.
it around.

That
No... almost
I think sounds
you’ve It’s like
started some-
to get thing a Zen
an idea koan.
else.
of the
answer
here.

that way You

now aren’t
because of
something.
 What
I’m saying is
that I can’t
stand you
playing the
victim!!!
 Oh ho,
Five not bad...
Most
people. I was sure
of the
you were
girls who
some kind of
encounter
stuck-up
the Crab of
princess...
Weight are
like that.

Sorry!
-
 Five people...
All have looked me
All in the eyes and
eventually of them
That’s were spouted similar
spit up lines to me.
why?! blood. frauds.
er
No wo nd
go od
sh e’s so
t
wi t h t ha
st ap le r!!

Mr.
Mèmè
Oshino,
Do you
I never right?
share
knew their
frauds blood
were all as well?
related.

...

Go
home.
 Once
you do,
cleanse
your body
with cold
water,

and
change
into a
clean
set of
clothes.

Meet
me here
again at
midnight.
Okay? shff
H o o .. .

PTT

...

I’ve got
my own
preparations
to make.

WHAT IS May I ask you...

THAT? one question
before I leave?
 Oh...
Uh ...

It’s
nothing.
 Neither
a shadow She’s
nor a just
trace sitting
left. there.
Not She
even a can’t do
name. anything.
She’s
nothing.

She Hold on
worked a sec...
SHI- hard during I did give
NOBU. ?! Missy Class her a name
President’s yesterday.
case, after
all.
I’m pretty
SHINOBU impressed
OSHINO. with my
sensibility,
if I do say so
myself.

Written
Something A husk with the
I merely character
of a for
ought to vampire. “heart”
face for the under the
one for
rest of my The dregs “blade.”
life. of a Fitting,
beautiful right?
I let her
demon. reuse
Just my my last
karma. name
as-is.
 It’s
You really nothing
don’t ?
care?!!

K AH Okay,
HAH then.
HAH
Talk
about
indiffer-
ent.

Now
that
I think
about
out of all it,
the people
like us,

Senjogahara
might be
on the
lucky side
...
 Hane
kaw
a

Haneka
I ma
It’s not like d
t wo e m a t e r
c ia
festiv hoices f ls for o
It might be
wa this aberration
destroys stuff
them
room in
a
e. W
e’ll b
tomo
r
e
o
hous l, a caf r the cu r
é an
p ropo a
u
lt
d a h u re
u
sin ed
nt
a serious
problem for
for t , so plea row’s ho g
RE A D around her or he p
re s e s e b e re m e
ntatio
n.
a dy her...
anything...

...Huh.

That’s
Hane-
kawa for
you.

With
Hanekawa...
it was
different.

It
destroyed
Cat
Aberration every-
thing.
It was a
to the point real pain to
that I nearly deal with...
Hey. died again and for both me
again— and Oshino,
 Move out
of the way.
I can’t get
my clothes
with you
there.

J
W
Clothes!
Put on

E
some
clothes!!

I
That’s
what

U
I’m
trying
to do.

W
 Then cover I’m
up with
Why
saying you
a towel should now
No
way, or some- have
Are you
saying
?!
how
class-
thing!!! already! I
I forgot shouldn’t
less. ?
to bring
them in
with me.

I...
Why
What I’d ...? s hu d d er
I just saw
dreamed of a woman
wasn’t this totally
childlike naked for
streaking, this the first de
r
But... time... sh
ud

letting-it-all- no...
o
Why d l
hang-out...
I fee
this
shu dd er
Something’s
e ...
sens s
o s wrong...
of l
dde
r ...?
shu shu
dde
r

I don’t own Clean

any white clothes,
Don’t underwear. So huh...?
ask white,
me! Do I have I guess?
to wear
some-
thing?
 Why are you
screaming
every time
I do
anything?

Hey, I’m assking

I you for help
I see caught here, butt
what that! you won’t
you’re give it to
doing!! me.

Just try Don’t tell me

to lay a
finger on me. you’re sexually
I know that aroused by
biting off the sight of
one’s tongue
will end the my nude body.
ordeal.
Well, aren’t
you a
chaste one!

I’m
talking
about
Okay. yours,
Sheesh. You can not
Mine?! mine.
look Why are you
now.
making it
You are sound like
seriously that’s my
danger-
ous!! fault?!
 What is
your goal
heeeeere
?!?!
 And Act Come on.
isn’t there at least I was trying to
something a little thank you for
else you happy. helping me out
should be today.
doing?

Huh?!
Like
what?!

Weeping tears of
gratitude, or being
moved to your core,
or not being able to
see straight from
all the beauty,
or spontaneously
belting out a poem
of adoration.

What a
positive girl
Miss
Senjogahara
is.

How
inconsid- It’d only be
erate!! Say polite to
Why is she anything at provide some
the one all, it doesn’t feedback!!
getting mad matter what
at me?! it is!!
 For most men,
ought to be getting one’s first
a pretty big good, long look at
moment to a naked woman
remember.

So why am
I being threatened
like this during
mine...?

...You
—

Your
breasts
are quite
nicely
shaped...
...Like
that?

You’re
the
B-But you said
worst.
to say anything
at aaalllll !!
︴
 Life-
long? This is why
Were you were
Wait, did a life-long
you come ?!?!
virgin.
from the HAA
future or H. .
something WHY
?! THE
PAST
TENSE?!

Could
you please
And you’ve not spray
You
been talking your
can’t spittle?
like it’s a
catch
given that
it!!
I’m a virgin! I might
catch your
virginity.

Hold on, Well,

I have two isn’t it?
objections No grade
to that!! schooler
Second!! would ever
I’m sure I could First!! give you
find a grade I’m not a the time
schooler pedophile!! of day.
who would if
I looked!
 Why state
the second
She’s right. ... if the first
is true?

So you
Urgh... are a
Fine, yes! virgin,
I’m a yes?
low-down,
dirty virgin
...!!
Ugh... Why
am I being
humiliated
like this...?!

Okay, then. You should’ve

I guess come out and said so L
you’ll be from the start. O
What dead at This moment of happiness S
are you, 45. is easily worth half of E
the Grim
your remaining lifespan, R
so just get a good look
Reaper?! and appreciate it.

So, I see.
What nothing
Why ?! with
Hanekawa
Hanekawa yet, hm?
?!
 Huh?
Aren’t
No way! you
That’s two
totally dating
wrong!! ?
Abso-
lutely
OSH
not!! SWO

GHT
I THOU You’re
THAT Oh.
A BE
LEAD- MIGHT So I was
always
ING TH E togeth-
QUES- CASE. right.
er.
TION
?!

Hanekawa’s
b
only like that
o
o because she’s
i
n
g W hy
That’s it... good at caring
I feel
like I
What’s
going
?!
Plus the fact about others.
just
got a
on?
She’s
that she’s
peek
at her
wearing
clothes,
too kind of a
boobs! but...
person.

She thinks
that the
worst people
out there are
in the worst
positions...
She’s just That
decided to they’re
meddle in my life the worst
because of that off or
wonderful little something.
misunderstanding
...
 So...
Mr. Oshino
helped
Hanekawa out,
He called her too?
Missy Class
And if she’s President, and
not your said how that
girlfriend, Shinobu girl
either— Wait,
helped her out,
that’s what remember?
did I say
it means, that?
right? Ack!

but I do Well... I won’t HAAH

.. . ...
think it’s try to convince Smart
all right to you with people
trust him. Hanekawa’s ... Hm...
His seal of
personality approval tire me
is one thing, or any- out so
but he’s good thing...
much...
at what he
does...

OF
FWO

Sorry,

but I don’t
have an inch
of trust for
him yet.
 I happened
to slip on
and the the stairs,
person who
happened to
catch me
happened
to be a
classmate who
was attacked
by a vampire
over spring
break,

and the
president
of his class
to a happened
homeless- to have been
looking old and you involved
man who happened with aberra-
squats in the to have a tions,
abandoned connection
ruins of a
former cram
school who
happens to
be able to
save me.
 to believe I couldn’t
in that possibly
kind of be so
coincidence. optimistic

...I put my
Could clothes on
you take backwards.
Excuse them
me back off
?!?! for me?

You’re just
My I’m not proud of your
clothes. that body and trying
Getting conceited. to show it off
changed to me, aren’t
They’re isn’t my you?!
heavy. forte.

O-Oh...
Right...
 Hey,
Senjoga-
hara.

About
your mom...
was it for when she
your sake? fell for that
religion...

What
an un-
pleasant
question.
 Beats
me.
Maybe
that
wasn’t it.

And
me. that’s
an Be ats
unpleasant
answer. May
be t hat wasn’t it
.
 Ah,
you’re
here.

F
OO
BW

A family
There’s no way member
she wouldn’t living in the
notice a bizarre Her mother, same house.
change in her at that.
daughter...

Wh...

Hm? What is
Oh. that...?

I’m
setting
the
mood,
that’s
all.
 All
right.
Especially
if doctors
had thrown
If in the towel,
you’re
in a and they’d
situation already
like fallen for
that... countless
frauds.
who could
blame you for Let’s get
trying to find this over
emotional with.
solace...?

“Get
Is it going to it over
be that easy with”
Beat it to beat back ...?
back? this crab?

Hah hah
Some- hah. What a
thing violent line of
good thought.
happen
to you,
Araragi
?
 S L iP

ap
wh

Hm.
So I was
wrong.
 Beings they’re Listen,
whose simply because
existence there, I’ve told
is a given. that’s you this
They’ve all. once
been there already,
since long
before you
were ever
born.

So they
won’t do
anything to
They might
us as long
as well not
as we don’t
exist,
come in
contact
in other with them.
words.

In other words...
you’re saying that—
I was the one to
reach out and make
contact with this
aberration?
 That’s
It wasn’t right.
I’m glad
this crab who you’re a
climbed right sharp one,
into your Missy.
It was territory.
you.

So I
want you
to be
humble
and as
restrained
and ask. as
possible.
This is
a space
created Act with
for that modesty,
a purpose,
spiritual
field of
sorts.

Um...
Is it
Putting aside These guys okay
are a pretty for me
humans
to be
taken as a undiscern-
in it,
cluster, ing bunch. too
?

It’s fine. Yeah.

 Not even
about
discerning
between the they really
three of us— couldn’t care
no, they don’t less about us
All we even care on an individual
are to that we’re basis.
them are different
“human.” beings.

As if W
Guaranteed
you’re
accuracy! We’re H
touching
Russian the A
between
the brows
Sambo Eye same...? A
with your
Gouge
Me and A
middle her...? ?
finger.
NO
You’re W A Y.
You Well, if gonna
call you’re make GOUGE

that not me go
Also, equiva- going
to go
blind!
lent
I was lying exchange mute. Gwah
?!
about the !

bashfulness.
My
inappropriate
remarks are
an alloy of
40 grams copper,
25 grams zinc,
She got That’s 15 grams nickel,
rid of her 5 grams bashfulness,
almost and 97 kilograms
one saving all
grace!!! malice.
malice!
 Hmf
!

I’ve made
up my
mind,
Araragi.

Me, too
What?! ...? If this all
Why? goes well,
let’s get
crabs in
You Hokkaido.
didn’t
know?

Crabs are
delicious.
 H
o
o

Start by Relax.
letting your
guard down.
 One.

Two.
Four.
Five.
Three.
Six... Let’s
Sev- count.
en...

Do you
Then let’s ... feel
answer some Yes. calm?
questions.

!
RE
S TA
 What’s
your
This stage. Hitagi name?
Senjo-
ga-
hara.

Oshino’s
out-of-
character What
school
appearance, What’s do you
this your
birth-
go to?
silence. July day?
7th.
Nao-
etsu
Private
High.

...

ss
ff
“I’m
setting
the
mood.”
Or to take
it further...
he’s setting up
Senjogahara’s
mental state.
 Oshino
The once told
method me about
The most doesn’t this.
important really
thing when matter. He said it’s
conversing like a type
with them of hypnotic
is the suggestion.
mood.

Wall
“Tearing
and bringing down the
about a heart’s
relationship walls...
of trust.”

CH LU RP

“Getting
them to
trust you.”

But we They say,

need to get “Believe
Senjogahara and you
to believe shall be
Oshino first saved.”
here.
 I don’t
have an inch
of trust for
him yet.

N
W
O

R
D

But...
 and the
person who I
happened to catch happened
and it happens me happened to be to slip
to be that our my nosy classmate on the
oh-so-righteous who was attacked stairs,
class president by a vampire over
also trusts spring break whose
this man, life was saved by
this man,

I wouldn’t say
this happens
to be a
coincidence.
 and you
happen to
be trying
to get him
to save
me.
 What I’d
say... is
that fate
brought
me here.

In that
case, I
might be
able to
see some
value in
trust
here.
 “So it’s
not that
I’m going
to trust
him.

It’s that
I think I’ll
trust the
way you feel,
as someone
who trusts
him.”

Who is
your
favorite
author
Yu- ?
meno An
Kyu- embar-
saku. rassing
story
Fa- from
vorite when you
clas- were a
sical kid?
music I don’t
? want to
I’m say.
not
very
well-
versed
in the
genre.
 T
W
I
T What
C
H
experience in
your life hurt
the most?

...

painful Your What’s

experi- most wrong?
ence.

Your ...
mother M... My...
mother...
?
 My
mother
...
...falling for
...a bad
religion...

That’s
...

all? TH P

That’s
no big
deal.
What do...
you mean...? K
GRR
a pe
skr

No, Freedom
freedom of faith is
What of faith is recognized
your by the laws
recognized as
mother of Japan.
reveres is
an authentic
merely an human right.
issue of
method­
ology.
 —So
that’s

not all.
What Try and
happened? say it.

Like
She fell I...
for that said.
religion...
for my
she— sake, My... My
and... mother...
she got
duped...

After...
that... My mother
got duped by a
After cult, and—
that...!!!
 An Our
executive home.
He member
of the Our
came group...
to our home!!
home
...!!

An
executive
He member.
went
and there
...
then
what
...?

He... He
He said it said it
would be a would be
ritual— purifying.
and
then...!!!!
 T
LA
SP
 I
see.

So...
it ended
Good at an
for attempt...
you.
Very
brave.

My
moth-
er...
didn’t But
...
try to But...!
save
me.
 She In fact... she
Again...
and
hit scolded me.
again... me.

I see.

I... I...
Your
mother
was
penalized? Because I
injured that
executive—

Yes... So
Even our
they took
land—
it... Our
And my everything!
property...
They even
family... made us go
Our home.

broke. in debt.
 IT
COM-
PLETELY
BROKE,
AND
YET...
IT
CONTIN-
UES...!

SHE’S
PROBABLY
STILL PRACTIC-
ING HER FAITH,
NOT HAVING
LEARNED
A THING,
UNASHAMED!
 MY
IT FATHER’S
CONTINUES BEEN
TO FALL STRUG-
APART... IT GLING THIS
CONTINUES ENTIRE
TIME!
TO, SIR
...!!!
 It might be
a serious
problem for
such It’s not like her...
a total this aberration
destroys stuff
Idiot.
idiot. around her or
anything...
Hane
kaw
a I
I mad
two e mater
ch ia
festiv oices fo ls for ou am
...
hous al, a café r the cu r
e. ltu
them We’ll be and a ha re
room in tomor propos unted
in
the pr , so plea row’s ho g
esen se be m
tatio read e
n. y for

It’s
shattering
...
everything
It’s a around in
total pieces
!!
catastro-
phe!
 I
it’s not realize...
appro-
priate.

Now that I can’t keep When I saw

Senjogahara is these feelings her naked as a
baring everything, down. baby... I didn’t
down to what’s in
her heart... But feel anything.
now,

She’s
so
pretty.
 ...

Ah...

I
can... I see A
a
see ...

a
it!

aa
a a
ah
!!
 A
crab
A ...
huge
crab
...!!!
 Do you,
Well, now.
I don’t
see a
thing.

All
I can see
is... your
shadow.

No... I can
see it...!

It’s clear
to me...
The crab
from then
is right
here...!!
 isn’t there I see.
something In that
case,
you should
say to it?

A
crab...

I get it It is
now... important...
Yeah.
Its Names
name... are
important.

It’s not
just...
the
omoshi-
kani.
It’s an
omoshi-
kami—
a god!!
 ...Something
...I should...
I...
say?
...!
I...!

I can’t
help...
but
think...

if only...
if only
back
...I hadn’t then...
resisted...

It
It
might
might
not
not
have
have
broken
broken.
!!
 I...
really Do you
do... think
I do... that?
think Do you
that...! really?

Thought
Then that,
Missy...
that is your
thought and Weight

burden.

No matter
how weighty,
Leaving it’s what
it to you need to
someone shoulder.
else isn’t
the way
to go.
 Someone’s
been
supporting
that weight
for you all this
time so that
you wouldn’t
break.

So why
don’t you
go and
thank that
kind god?
 A little
secret
They between
have a is that us. You
weak- they see,
ness all love the thing
for your little about
tears. girls. gods...

Ah...

d r ip

SHU DD ER

g
in
sh
 Huh
?
Now this
is bad.
Whoa
...?!
B O OM
 KKT
ZSS
 You’re just Senjo-
going to get ga-
I can’t hara.
saved on save you.
your own.

the
least But
is be I can
your do
wall

any so that
more you
than don’t
you have to
already break
have.
 GA
KR AK K

G
...
w
a
Yikes
...
KRAK
g
h
!!
P
SNA
 What
Aaa
Ah!
aah!

GS SH T

GSS H
T

just
GSS H
T

hap-
pened
...?!

GSS H
T

This was
so she
could
with no, converse G— Senjogahara
the god with the went into a
who’d crab— trance.
stolen
her Gravity’s
going...
weight. sideways...?!
 Haa! T
GCHH
Haa I can’t
see a
thing, G
C
H
H
T

Hah

but
Senjogahara
can see it.

That it’s not Does this

interested mean... it
in hearing... rejected
what you you?! D—
have to
say...?!
 Really,
Araragi
?
You’re just
making things
GRR
T
even worse
by sneaking in
there under her.
What’re you
doing?
PLO D

RT
GRR

There’s a bag
between us!! It’s
We’re not okay!!
touching
!!!
So you’ve Wait, why am
bothered I see. I spending
You were to give her time arguing
listening a cushion about this
to us?! this time right now?!
around.

APP
WH

PA
POP
 BAKEMONOGATARI

Ah,
sheesh.

What an
How sporting. impatient
Couldn’t god.
Wonder if even wait
something good for us to
happened to it. start
praying.
 This is
Change pretty
of standard,
plans. though.

FWOOO

Either
way was
fine for me
from the
beginning.

Listen, PEEL

Missy.
I’m not
saving you
here, okay?
 ZHB
OOF

M Aaa- Wuh
S L AM
and ?!

hup.
 GWOOMM

p
um
wh

P
T
T

T
A
P SKR
K

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Huh
?
 ER
S H AT T

k li n k
k li n k

I can’t
see a
thing.

in
k But
kl kl in k
...

she
must
see
some-
thing.
God
And to
her...
 SPLATT

You
okay?

it seems
to be a
sight that
makes her
eyes go
wide.
 No matter
how big a crab
gets, turn it
In fact, upside down,
I’d say and there
the only you go.
thing size
does for
a crab is
make it
easier to
step on.

What do He was
you think, getting
Araragi?
ready to
step on a
god. In a
consum-
mately
violent
manner. We
Without an certainly
Personally, could
it’d be
ounce of redo this
deference. but from the
quickest for it’d be begin-
me to go on such a ning,
and squish hassle.
and squash Yeah.
it.
 Squish
and
squash
it...?
But,
that
thing...
that
crab...
that’s the
god who
protected
Senjogahara,
isn’t it...?!

Just
take a
It either look.
got mad
at Missy
for
or raising
whatever it felt her
it is, frisky head,
there’s because
no way her tears The way
we can fell on it, these things
ever well... think is
under- nothing like
stand it. us.
 If we
can’t
talk,

there’s
only
war.
 In a
In the end, sense,
this stuff it’s
is about almost
your frame like
of mind. politics.

If we can’t
be nice and ask
a favor... then we
have to resort
to dangerous
ideas.

Well,
simply
crushing
It’s a it
Just palliative would
mowing treatment
the
solve her
that doesn’t
weeds, problems on
touch the
so to root. a surface
speak, level.
instead
of pulling
them.
 This
occa- But maybe
sion?! on this
occasion
I should
just go
for it~
Hey, And
go for
Oshino what
!!! ?!

It’s I mean...
This crab equiva- Missy
took that lent offered her
weight exchange. She weight
did have to it.
from her in it stolen
return for from her.
some-
thing. Weight

In other
words...
Missy still
owes this
crab
something.
 If you
want to If you’re I don’t care
wipe the gonna cheat, what it
slate you might as might be.
clean well go all the
KK
without GRK way.
returning
what you
owe...

KR EE AK
KREE
AK
KR AK
kr ik

we’re just
going to have
Right? to kill it.
kr ik
KR AK

And anyway, Araragi...

Everyone
goes quiet You see,
while you’re I despise
eating them, crabs.
right?

I can’t stomach that.

 Wait...
Please,
Mr. WAIT
Oshino... !!
I can...
do this.

I can do
it... on
my own.

Sf f

I’m
sorry.

Her
words
sound
No nothing like
all the verbal
thorns. abuse she
No hurled
stiffness. my way.
 Thank
you
very
much.

And
had
so much
weight.
 But
these
I will thoughts
carry are my
them burden.
myself.

It
wasn’t
right
of me
to lose
them.

Please.

I beg Please.
of you,
give me
back my
weight.
 what you What
did to give I took
me relief. from
you,

I will
give it
all back.

So

please.

the bond
Please
between
give me
me and my
back
mother
that
you
cut.
 Please
give me
back

my
mother.
Continued in Volume 2
 The Path of the Series
BAKEMONOGATARI in Detail
Tsukimonogatari released
Koimonogatari released
Hanamonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari,
Kabukimonogatari released
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“Hitagi Crab” runs in the September 2005 issue of
What is BAKEMONOGATARI?
A novel written “entirely as a hobby” by NISIOISIN published by the Kodansha BOX label.
The series, which started with Bakemonogatari, is known as the Monogatari series.
Taiwanese illustrator VOFAN is responsible for the cover art and insert illustrations. It has
now been adapted into various forms of media, including a TV anime series.

Second year of high school: Before entering high school: The Path of the Manga Until Now

3/25 Hitagi encounters a crab and has her

(spring weight taken from her.
break)
Koyomi
encounters
a vampire
on the verge
of death.
Ye.

A
crab
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mo nogatari, Koimonog
atari
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Final Owarimonogatari
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owe Oshino
(Pa
Season: (Part 2), Owarimono rt 1), Owarimonogatari a debt of
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k o S na k gratitude
ade
Off- Orokamonogatari, Wazamono
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gatari,
Season: Nademonogatari, Musubimonog atari

Shinobumonogatari,
Monster Yoimonogatari Tsu
b a s a C at
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...and more?!
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As she faces her weighty past,
Preview

the girl decides to take on a love that was too heavy for her.
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Next Volume

“Hitagi Crab” comes to its conclusion.

And then...
smile belongs
to me alone...
My mother’s
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