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Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale

化物語

manga
Finished
2006
Action
Mystery
Romance

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Yes. Watch the adaptation Bakemonogatari 15 episodes · on 2 platforms

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The facts

Status: Finished
Chapters: 41
Volumes: 2
First released: 2006
Country: Japan
Format: manga
Author: NISIOISIN
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What it is about

The first part of the Monogatari Series. There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour. (Source: Kodansha USA) Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.