Nisemonogatari - Episode 11

Episode – 11 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 – It is now known that she is just like Oshino, but also in other ways she is completely different than him. That all monsters or aberrations need to die, that there is no comprises like Koyomi has with Shinobu. That their very existence is harmful to humans regardless of the circumstances.

Ononoki Yotsugi – It appears that unlike Kagenui, she is a shikigami or aberration that live to serve Kagenui. That the reason that she appear so odd and unusual is because she wasn't human. That in reality she only appeared to look human.

Episode – 11 Summary

It seems like a lot of my assumption about Tsukihi were incorrect, it turns out that Tsukihi was always a phoenix. Then from this Shinobu explains to Koyomi what Tsukimi really is. The fact is to a degree Kagenui is incorrect that Tsukihi is a phoenix, when she is really something called a dying bird. This creature called a dying bird the moment before it dies, it goes it a humans woman's womb before if dies so it can be reborn. That in reality the victim of the dying bird isn't his sister but his mother. That as far as monsters go it is the most harmless of all the creature out there because it only uses human to reincarnate. That in reality Tsukihi relationship to Koyomi is no different that if she was adopted, that she is still his sister even if they aren't related. Then before he goes off to face Kagenui to prevent her from killing Tsukihi, he confirms if he feels anyways different towards Tsukihi by kissing her. Although from her reaction shows him that she is no different than who she was before he knew, that she is still family even-though her origins are not what he thought that they once were. Then with knowing this he is perfectly fine with fighting Kagenui to the death.

Once he arrives at the old building that Oshino use to live in, he makes some final preparations by having Shinobu suck his blood. This cause Shinobu to transform into a teenage-girl, with this done they head up to face Kagenui. Then from the short talk with Kagenui about how they should do this fight. Koyomi finds out that this whole problem was caused by Kaiki. It appears that Kaiki, Oshino, and Kagenui all went to college together in the same major. What even more shocking is that they were even friends, but the thing that piss Koyomi off is that this whole situation was set-up by Kaiki. That somehow he found-out what Tsukihi was and knew that Kagenui would seek to destroy any monsters. That in the end Koyomi would have to come to him for information. That in reality it wasn't any chance event that they meet at the doubt-shop that in reality Kaiki was waiting for him. That all of this was so way to get back at Koyomi. Once he get over this shock, he decides that it going to be monster verse monster and human verse human. This leave Shinobu and Ononoki to have their fight somewhere else, while Kagenui and Koyomi have it out.

The whole fight between Kagenui and Koyomi is very one-side where it mostly entails Kagenui beating Koyomi up, while telling him how she doesn't like the idea of him forcing is ideas on other people. That he might be alright with the fact that Tsukihi is immortal and a monster but what does the rest of his family feel about it. That in a way Kagenui is being a hypocrite because she is forcing her ideals on Koyomi because she feels that she is right. The justification for this is because she is seeking to destroy a monster so she must be a good guy. However she is curious on how Ononoki is doing against Shinobu, she punch Koyomi through the floor to see how they are doing. Then as things turn out is that Ononoki has been defeated by Shinobu without Shinobu be harmed in the least. In the end Kagenui concedes defeat when, he tells her that he will lie, deceive, and force his ideal on them because they are family. This leads to Kagenui telling him about the theory of fundamental evil, that the desire to do good is artificial and question become which is of greater value. When Kaiki proposed this question to them, she answer that it was the thing that was real. While Oshino believed that both the real and the fake had equal value. Then Kaiki said that the fake had more value because it was trying to be something greater. In the this is point at the fact that because Tsukihi is a fake is might be of greater worth than if she was real. In the end she decides to leave things as they are because by killing Tsukihi she the good guy would be evil. That reach the end of this arc but in the conclusion it leaves one last thing to be addressed and that is for Koyomi's girlfriend Senjougahara to meet his family.