Nisemonogatari - Episode 04

Episode – 04 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.

Araragi Karen – She is the older of Koyomi's two sisters, Koyomi make a point of mentioning the fact of that she has a natural talent for karate. That she presents herself in a way that reflect her aggressive nature, and doesn't go about hiding it like her younger sister.

Araragi Tsukihi – She is the younger of Koyomi's two sisters, although from his perspective she uses her womanly charm to hide her aggressive nature. Instead of presenting out there for all to see like her elder sister.

Kanbaru Suruga – Is the third girl that he helped in the previous series. Although her problem was that she made a contract with a lesser demon called the rainy devil. Which once it grants your wish it takes your soul. Then because Kanbaru hated Araragi for being able to get close to Senjougahara so easily. Kanbaru wish for him to die. Although Araragi set things in motion Senjougahara made so that the rainy devil couldn't fulfill the wish because after Suruga kill Koyomi, Senjougahara would kill her thous invaliding the wish and saving Kanbaru's soul.

Kaiki Deishuu – He is a man that Araragi first meets outside of Kanbaru's mansion. Although during this meeting he uses his name to define himself. The first kanji “Kai” like a mountain of clam-shells, and the second kanji “Ki” like a dead tree. While comparing Araragi's name to his own by saying he is a dead tree but Araragi is a sapling. The last thing that is noted is that he is similar to oshino-san but at the same time possesses an ominous foreboding.

Oshino Meme – Is an important character in the Bakemonogatari story is because he is the one that helped Araragi with his vampirism, as well as helped him save all the other girls in the previous series. That be became less important until he finally leaves, to important of this fact is that he was preparing Araragi to be able to face these things without his help.

Oshino Shinobu – Is the vampire that attack Araragi Koyomi, and with Oshino's help she was defeated by using the Sawari-neko that lives inside of Hanekawa. That currently she lives inside of Araragi Koyomi's shadow, and they have a love hate relationship.

Episode – 04 Summary

Things start off with Koyomi back at his home trying to get his sisters to tell him what the problem is. Although this proves to most unsuccessful because he is very angry with them and what they have been doing, because he know how dangerous creature of the supernatural world can be. It just that his sisters are to ignorant to realize what they are dealing with. However in the end he is more interested in disciplining them the getting answers from them. Final he decides that it would be best to distance himself from them until he is calm enough to deal with them, this leads him to getting most of the story from Hanekawa.

This first leads to him finding out how she convinced Senjougahara to let him go. It turns out that Hanekawa threatened Senjougahara by saying that if she won't behave like a good girl that she will take Araragi from her. Given how Senjougahara doesn't want to lose anything close to her anymore against her better judgment Senjougahara let him go. Then from here it leads into the main subject that the one with the problem is Karen. It turns out that his sisters have been searching for the person behind all the curses, because the see themselves as some sort of heroes. In then end it appears that Karen did find them but during this meeting they poisoned her with the wrath-fire bee. Although it turns out that the person that poison Karen is someone he just meet Kaiki Deishuu. This is the same person that Senjougahara warned him about.

Then after his conversation with Hanekawa about what happen to Karen, he decides to take a bath so that he can figure out what can be done about this situation. While his is in the bath Shinobu comes out of his shadow, and have a little conversation about there relationship. That neither of them will forgive the other over what has happen in the past but she feels that is no reason that they can't work together. Then is gets her to inform Araragi about what the fire bee is, and the problem it has cause for his sister. The thing is that there is nothing that she could do about the bee because the bee isn't the problem it's the poison that the bee infected his sister with that is the true source of the issue at hand.

Then with no-more headway to be made in this conversation she get on to talking about Koyomi's future. That even-though now he is mostly human, it is like that he will not have a human life-span that he will live another four-hundred to five-hundred years like her. That everyone he know will died while he will still be alive. That the only way to avoid this is by killing her and become completely human. Although he will not do this because he will not forgive her the same way that she will not forgive him. Things end with her giving Koyomi a warning to not let his guard down or she will kill him in his sleep.