Nisemonogatari - Episode 09

Episode – 09 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.

Kagenui Yodzuru – She is a major unknown but she will have something to do with the current arc. The other thing that is particular strange is that she called Koyomi a devil and Karen a hornet. That for some reason she wants to go where Oshino uses to live.

Ononoki Yotsugi – She is about as strange as Kagenui Yodzuru, so there is most likely some connection between the two. However we don't know much more about her than we know about Kagenui Yodzuru.

Episode – 09 Summary

After surviving the assault from Tsukihi, Koyomi takes Karen to Kanbaru like he promised. Although before that he calls Kanbaru to tell her whats going on and why he is coming over. Although this starts a strange conversation with her believing that Koyomi wants Kanbaru to take his sisters virginity. He quickly settle this by saying that he would take Karen's virginity before he would ever allow her to have it. This is the whole reason he was concerned about bring Karen to see Kanbaru, that somehow she would be tainted by Kanbaru's insanity. Anyways on the way there Karen starts some strange thing about how to always win at jakenpo (rock,paper, scissors), which turns out to just be cheating. Which cause her to lose the bet with her brother which leads her to have to carry her brother on her shoulders the rest of the way to Kanbaru's house.

Although initially Koyomi was concerned about his weight being a problem because the weight god that was effecting Senjougahara double his weight. However it doesn't prove to be a problem. While on the way there he runs into Kagenui Yodzuru, who for some reason is looking for Eikou Cram School. Koyomi isn't particularly familiar with the name so he calls up Hanekawa, but turns out that he has been going there for a long time. The reason being that it is the very building that Oshino Meme use to live in before he disappeared. She thanks him for the information and tells him that is where she will be setting up a base of operations. Also if he see a little girl be as kind to this person as he was to her. The thing he finds most strange about that is who she knew what monster infected him and Karen. Then with that over they head to Kanbaru's house where he introduce the two not before warning Karen , one last time.

Then as he is on his way home to continue studying he runs into Hachikuji, which he feels that he can spare a couple of minutes to play with her. Then as he is running to play a prank on her from behind, Shinobu reaches a hand out of his shadow and trips him messing up his plan. Forcing him to take a dive in between Hachikuji's legs. Afterwords he spends some time cursing Shinobu for messing up his plan. This leads us into another of Koyomi's usual interaction with Hachikuji, which ultimately gets interrupted by Ononoki Yotsugi. Which also calls him the devil boy like Kagenui did, that it also appears that this is the girl that she was talking about. This clearly express that these two will have a large impact to the current arc, but what that will be is still unknown. Also the fact of will Koyomi be able to trust these two, or are they going to be a problem like Kaiki was in the last arc.