Nisemonogatari - Episode 06

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 original 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 – 06 Summary

It turns out the result from last episode wasn't as promising as Koyomi hoped for but it did achieve some results. That being that with his vampire powers he was able to consume half of the poison but not all of it. Although his healing abilities are keeping it the poison from completely effecting him it is still having some effect. However he intents to go for a walk to distance himself from his irritating siblings. Along the way he runs into Hachikuji which he complains about his immature sisters, and ask her when she thinks that a person becomes an adult. Her answer provides two different view points. One is legally you become an adult once you reach a certain age you become an adult, which suggest that when you age enough you automatically become an adult because it is a forgone conclusion. The other option suggests that you can mentally mature fast enough that you could be an adult even before you reach an age in which society considers you one. This conversation comes to an end when he reaches the turn-off to Senjougahara's place. Which appears the whole reason for the walk was so that he could get more information on Kaiki from Senjougahra.

It turns out that as Koyomi enters Senjougahara's place, that she is preparing for war with Kaiki. The she intends to out right kill him by trying to make it look like an accident. Although I don't think stabbing a person with a thousand pencil could ever be consider an accident. In this Araragi is shock and doesn't think this sort of action is appropriate, even if it is against some one you viewed that they destroyed your family. That killing someone for justice isn't right in the eyes of the law, and he doesn't want to see his girlfriend end up in jail because of it. That he would prefer that they deal with this together, so that she can put her past behind her. While also he needs to see Kaiki about the fire-bee so that he can cure Karen because he doesn't think he will be able to do what he did again. It turns out that Senjougahara knows how to get in contact with Kaiki that she has a time set-up to meet him at 5:00 pm. That they will go together then to deal with him, that it would be best for him to go home a get some rest since Kaiki isn't the type of person you can easily deal with.

Then once Koyomi get home he finds out from Tsukihi that Karen got up and went to search for Kaiki. He ask her if she might know where she is but she doesn't. That she is panicking because she believe that there is no-way that Karen could be well enough to deal with this. Koyomi tells her that he will look for her but he doesn't want Tsukihi to come with because Karen will probably convince her to go along with any idea that she has, that it would be best for her to remain at home. In Koyomi's frantice search for his sister, he ends up waking up Shinobu. She tells him to order her to find his sister that she would be able to since there blood would be similar. Koyomi feels that he does having any right to order Shinobu to do anything. Her response to this is that she was asking him to order her to do this for the sake of her saving face. Once he realize this the episode ends with him ordering Shinobu to find his sister for him.