A new announcement for the Monogatari Off and Monster Season anime has revealed that YOASOBI will be the performing artist for its theme song.
The song, “UNDEAD,” will be previewed in a video on May 3 at 8 PM JST.
Monogatari Off and Monster Season is the first new Monogatari Series anime since 2019’s Zoku Owarimonogatari (ignoring the Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp compilation film from January 2024) and will begin airing in 2024. The anime are based on the light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan, that began in 2006 with Bakemonogatari Part 1 and 2.
The Off-Season books — Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari — were released from 2015 to 2017. The Monster Season titles, which are Shinobumonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shimonogatari Parts 1 and 2, were released from 2017 to 2021.
Kodansha USA describes Bakemonogatari Part 1 as:
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 ’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 humor.
Bakemonogatari‘s anime adaptation premiered in 2009 and was directed by Tatsuya Oishi, who also directed 2016 to 2017’s Kizumonogatari movie trilogy. The other previous Monogatari anime were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (Call of the Night, The Case Study of Vanitas).
Staff
• Chief director: Akiyuki Shinbo (returning)
• Director: Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director)
• Character designer: Akio Watanabe (returning)
• Series composer: Fuyashi To (returning)
• Series composer: Akiyuki Shinbo (returning)
• Art director: Hisaharu Iijima (returning)
• Color designer: Yasuko Watanabe (Zoku Owarimonogatari)
• Compositing director: Hiyori Hashimoto (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story and RWBY Ice Queendom assistant compositing director)
• Compositing director: Mizuho Ishikawa (Zom 100 compositing staff)
Cast
• Saori Hayami as Yotsugi Ononoki
• Yuka Iguchi as Tsukihi Araragi
• Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku
Source: @nisioisin_anime
