Full title: Bakemonogatari 1 Author: Nishio Ishin Illustrator: VOFAN Label: Kodansha Box Year of publication: 2006 Pages: 445 Full title: Bakemonogatari 2 Author: Nishio Ishin Illustrator: VOFAN Label: Kodansha Box Year of publication: 2006 Pages: 401 It's been so long since I last posted that I barely remember what button you submit with. The reason for the delay is partly because Bakemonogatari is an exceptionally thick light novel at nearly 450 pages, which in addition are split-page format that allows for 50% more text, so it's almost three times the length of regular volumes. Mostly, however, it's because after reading the first, I couldn't figure out what the series was actually about. Thus I dove straight into the second novel and spent another ten days turning pages. It didn't really help.