Nisemonogatari - Episode 01

Episode – 01 Characters

Araragi Koyomi – Is the star of the show, he was a vampire but now he is human again but not completely. Although this makes him almost immortal with how fast he heals, also the pseudo-vampire that orginal turned him now lives in his shadow.

Senjougahara – She is the first girl that he helped in the previous series, and she is his current girlfriend. They started to become closer after he helped her to get her weight back from the weight god that original took it. Although when it took her painful memories it took her weight with it because “omoi” means both memories and physical weight.

Hanekawa – Is the fifth girl that he helped in the previous series, that her problem came from the sawari-neko. Which according to the write is one of the legendary cat-demons along with neko-mata “twin tail cat” and bake-neko “monster cat”. The sawari-neko lives inside the person and when the suffer from too much stress, it manifest itself to relieve the problem.

Sengoku – Is the forth girl that he helped, she was suffering from jagari-nawa which was a snake curse. Where it cause an invisible snake to bind the person body then once it reaches their neck it kills them. It turns out that she was curse because she turn down a boy that asked her out.

Hachikuji – Is the second girl in the previous series that he helped. It turns out that she wasn't actually a person but a ghost that is an earth-bound spirit that cause people to lose their way. Although it is also called a snail because people that follow it just endless go around in circles. That the only way to save it is by having it go somewhere that isn't mapped out.

Episode – 01 Summary

The begin of the series so far seems to be to introduce people that are new to the series to all the characters from the first season, although in this episode you don't get introduced to all of the characters. It starts off in the middle of the story where for some reason Senjougahara has chained up Araragi inside the abandoned building that Oshino used to live in, although there are some references that it is for his own protection. However it is done in a very disturbing fashion also to some extent from her personality she is getting some sick pleasure out of it. Also another point that should be consider is that this is in reality an imitation of Senjougahara, that it took her image to trap Araragi.

However Araragi takes us back to the day before he was capture, where he was getting tutored by Hanekawa and Senjougahara during summer break. Although one day when Hanekawa was going to tutor him she calls him up and says that she has some other things to do for the next couple of days and she won't be around for awhile. After a confrontation with his younger sister he decide to call up Sengoku to see if she is free, which it turns out that she is. Although when he tells his sister that she coming to because she is friends with Sengoku, she decline because she doesn't want to get in the way of her friends love life even if it's unrequited love.

Although on the way to Sengoku's house, he runs into Hachikuji which results in a bunch of funny scene with him messing with her and saying that he hates her but his actions tell a different story. This leads into the fact of that he is worrying about telling his family that he is a vampire or was at least at one point. That it might make his life easier if they knew what was going on. However Hachikuji believe that even in families everyone has one or two secrets. That even if it might make his life easier, it would also pull them into this world of aberrations that they are better off not knowing about because in the end it is safer if they don't know about it. Which kind of alludes to the fact that by then end of this arc his sister might end up learning about his secret life.