Nisemonogatari - Episode 05

Episode – 05 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 – 05 Summary

Continuing from last time, thing progress further with his conversation with Tsukihi. Even though through most of the conversation Tsukihi is trying to constantly derail the conversation, by talking about completely unrelated topics like if her brother has ever regretted anything he has ever done or is there anything he is embarrassed about. Tsukihi is trying to talk about anything and everything for the sake of avoid talking about the real matter at hand. Eventually we get to the point at hand where the conflict between Kaiki and Karen is revealed.

That it turns out that her master plan was to find Kaiki and meet with him. Then beat him up until he agreed to stop selling his curse and cures to the student in the community. The because of him he is destroying peoples relationship by his business. Then Kaiki question Karen on the very reason on why she is doing this, is someone paying her to try and stop his business. Which cause her to ask why he was running this kind of business in the first place. His answers is money, that the world revolves around money and he needs money to live. Simply children are easy to deceive and deceiving is naturally what he does because he is a con-man. That as he leaves he curse her, and that she will no-longer be able to believe in anything that anyone else says.

That leads back up to the current moment where Araragi is going to walk Hanekawa home. Then as an apologies to Araragi about not telling him about what she was doing with his sister, she gives him a free ticket. That would allow for him to have her grant anything he wish for but if he ever use it she will hate him for the rest of his life, which make it ultimately useless. Which leads them into a conversation about his family that he believes that it would not be in Hanekawa's best interested to hang around his sisters, but in the end he agrees with her on the fact that who ever she choose to spend time with is her own decision. That maybe being around Hanekawa might allow for them to mature.

After he leave Hanekawa and arrives home he has to deal with Karen. Then for some reason he can't let her take a bath but he will wipe her down since she is too tired to move now. Then during the time he is cleaning her he is once again harsh with her about what she has done. That maybe by their future interactions with Hanekawa they will learn the proper way to deal with their problems. This leads to Karen giving Koyomi the idea that he could possible take the poison into himself. He consults Shinobu on this and she gives him a vague answer that he could be also he could not, because to take in the poison he would have to kiss his sister. In the end he decides to do so because it would take away some of her pain.