Bakemonogatari (manga)

Bakemonogatari (化物語, "Monster Tale") is a Japanese manga series illustrated by Oh! great, based on the Monogatari light novel series written by Nisio Isin. It has been serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine since March 2018.

Bakemonogatari
Cover of the first manga volume, featuring Hitagi Senjōgahara
化物語
Genre
Manga
Written byNisio Isin
Illustrated byOh! great
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 14, 2018 – present
Volumes16

Plot

The story revolves around Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student, now a quasi-vampire after surviving a vampire attack, with the help of Meme Oshino, a specialist in the supernatural. Despite having some superhuman abilities, such as regeneration, Koyomi tries his best to live life as a normal student, but keeps encountering girls with supernatural problems.

As Koyomi walks up the stairs, he notices a woman falling from the top of the staircase. He catches her, but notices that the woman, Hitagi Senjougahara has no weight to her. As natural, Koyomi find it unusual and realized something is wrong. Determined to help her, he goes to Tsubasa Hanekawa to learn more about Hitagi. However, after attempting to confront her, she refuses his help and then proceeded to staple his mouth threatening him to not mess with her. Koyomi however not listening to her insists, and then runs after her to show that the wound she made in Koyomi’s mouth has fully healed. Convinced with this and realizing he has been involved with oddities, she accepts the help of Koyomi. Koyomi takes Hitagi to the same person that helped him, Oshino Meme. In the past, Hitagi Senjougahara’s mother was involved with a cult and brought a member of the cult to their house; whom the cult member attempted to sexually assault her as her mother did nothing to stop it, which she then hurt the man in self defense and as punishment, they took the mother away from the family. Oshino tells her that the curse is a crab, an oddity that cuts your weight. In Hitagi’s case, she had family affairs and had intentionally removes the guilt and burden of the issues, leading to being bitten by the crab oddity that stripped her of her weight. Oshino suggests they return back on midnight for the ritual After a while, Koyomi and Hitagi head to the cram school again. They see Oshino who has prepared the ritual and it starts immediately. The crab becomes visible and attacks Hitagi but she realizes to get rid of it, she must bear the weight of all the guilt of her family affairs. Gaining her normal weight back, she thanks Koyomi and befriends him.

Production

On January 10, 2018, Nisio Isin announced via Twitter that Bakemonogatari, from his Monogatari series, would receive a manga adaptation.[2] On February 13, 2018, Kodansha revealed three pieces of character art and opened a contest for Twitter users to guess the identity of the artist who would illustrate the series.[3] On February 28, 2018, it was announced that manga artist Oh! great would be illustrating the series.[4]

In comments on the website Mantan Web, Oh! great explained his reasons for adding Kizumonogatari into the Bakemonogatari manga adaptation. He stated that for the Tsubasa Cat arc to work properly, he needed to adapt Kizumonogatari and Nekomonogatari, because in that way the readers would sympathize more for Hanekawa, and it would explain Senjougahara's position in the story thus far. He received Isin's permission to include Kizumonogatari in-between the arcs Nadeko Snake and Tsubasa Cat, but stated that he does not know if he will adapt Nekomonogatari yet, although he has an idea in mind if he does. He finished saying that his plan is to end the manga in the same way the novels ended with the high school festival.[5] The manga entered its final stage at the beginning of 2022.[6]

Publication

Bakemonogatari started in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine on March 14, 2018.[2][7] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on June 15, 2018.[8] The special edition of the first volume contained a short prose story by Nisio Isin and a short manga titled "Bake 'mono' gatari" (化“者”語)[lower-alpha 1] by Oh! great.[9] As of February 17, 2022, sixteen volumes have been released.[10]

In North America, Vertical announced the English release of the manga in March 2019.[11] The first volume was released on October 1, 2019.[12]

A preview video for the manga adaptation, produced by Shaft, was shown to visitors of the Oh! Great Exhibition from August 14–31, 2021 and then released on February 17, 2022, alongside the 16th volume of the manga.[13]

Volume list
No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 June 15, 2018[8][14]978-4-06-511617-3
978-4-06-512056-9 (SE)		October 1, 2019[12]978-1-947194-97-7
2 August 17, 2018[15][16]978-4-06-512333-1
978-4-06-512334-8 (SE)		January 7, 2020[17]978-1-949980-02-8
3 November 16, 2018[18][19]978-4-06-513313-2
978-4-06-513314-9 (SE)		March 3, 2020[20]978-1-949980-16-5
4 January 17, 2019[21][22]978-4-06-513938-7
978-4-06-513939-4 (SE)		August 25, 2020[23]978-1-949980-40-0
5 April 17, 2019[24][25]978-4-06-514889-1
978-4-06-514890-7 (SE)		November 3, 2020[26]978-1-949980-50-9
6 July 17, 2019[27][28]978-4-06-515314-7
978-4-06-515315-4 (SE)		December 8, 2020[29]978-1-949980-68-4
7 October 17, 2019[30][31]978-4-06-517166-0
978-4-06-517163-9 (SE)		February 23, 2021[32]978-1-949980-69-1
8 February 17, 2020[33][34]978-4-06-518172-0
978-4-06-518173-7 (SE)		April 27, 2021[35]978-1-949980-70-7
9 May 15, 2020[36][37]978-4-06-518853-8
978-4-06-518852-1 (SE)		June 22, 2021[38]978-1-949980-99-8
10 August 17, 2020[39][40]978-4-06-520334-7
978-4-06-520335-4 (SE)		September 21, 2021[41]978-1-647290-07-8
11 November 17, 2020[42][43]978-4-06-521256-1
978-4-06-521257-8 (SE)		December 7, 2021[44]978-1-647290-64-1
12 February 17, 2021[45][46]978-4-06-522070-2
978-4-06-522071-9 (SE)		February 22, 2022[47]978-1-647290-65-8
13 May 17, 2021[48][49]978-4-06-523142-5
978-4-06-523145-6 (SE)		2022[50]978-1-647290-87-0
14 August 17, 2021[51][52]978-4-06-524481-4
978-4-06-524501-9 (SE)		2022[53]978-1-647290-88-7
15 November 17, 2021[54][55]978-4-06-526005-0
978-4-06-526004-3 (SE)		2022[56]978-1-647290-89-4
16 February 17, 2022[10][57]978-4-06-526895-7
978-4-06-526898-8 (SE)		2022[58]978-1-647291-54-9
17 May 17, 2022[59][60]978-4-06-527912-0
978-4-06-527919-9 (SE)		2023[61]978-1-647291-96-9

Reception

The first three volumes of the Bakemonogatari had over 1 million copies in circulation as of January 2019.[62] The first nine volumes of Bakemonogatari had over 2.4 million copies in circulation as of August 2020, including digital releases.[63][64]

Notes
  1. The title is spelled with the kanji character 者 (mono) meaning "person", rather than the character 物 (mono) meaning "thing", as used in the title of the Bakemonogatari (化物語) novel.[9]

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