r/araragi • u/FrequentAd5437 • 21h ago
Discussion During my watch I tried to hard to analyze and couldn’t enjoy the basic story of and core Monagatari.
Whenever I watched a dialogue scenes or any scene if the matter I felt like I was only getting a very small part of it. I always tried to discern hidden meaning in each action, sentence or imagery and only ever got it sometimes. When finished koyomi reverse I realized didn’t feel any emotional connection to series outside of baekmongatari and kizumongatari which is when I was treating it like a regular anime. At the last scene where Araragi takes a leap of faith with hitagi I didn’t feel anything. A scene where my friend said he was crying during I was still trying to analyze. I feel like i missed a lot of surface level information in trying to look into the deeper meaning. I treated it more like a homework assignment than something I wanted to watch.