The Monogatari Off and Monster Season anime is inspiring the production of new content.
A teaser visual reveals that fans can expect not just the return of Shinobu Oshino, Yotsugi Ononoki, Mayoi Hachikuji, and Nadeko Sengoku, but also Karen Araragi.
A promotional video that stars “DJ Nadeko” and “Bro Yotsugi” and a more typical announcement video were also released.
The Monogatari Off and Monster Season anime originally premiered in July 2024 and ran for 14 episodes. It is the latest installment in the Monogatari anime series, which adapts the supernatural light novels written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. Crunchyroll describes the anime as:
While Koyomi Araragi’s time may be ending, the journey continues with the girls he’s saved. Their own tales of struggles and supernatural threats once thought to be resolved are far from over. From the past to the future, discover their stories, challenges, and intertwined destinies they now face in the wake of Araragi’s departure.
The first Monogatari Series books were 2006’s Bakemonogatari Part 1 and 2. The Off-Season books, which were released from 2015 to 2017, include the titles Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari. Meanwhile, the Monster Season stories, released from 2017 to 2021, include Shinobumonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shimonogatari Parts 1 and 2.
Kodansha USA describes the first book of the series, 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.
The Bakemonogatari anime 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 (Monogatari Off and Monster Season 2024)
• Chief director: Akiyuki Shinbo (returning)
• Director: Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director)
• Character designer and co-chief animation director: 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)
• Music composer: Satoru Kosaki (returning)
• Music composer: Kei Haneoka (returning, since Hanamonogatari)
• Animation production: Shaft
Source: @nisioisin_anime
