Posted inBakemonogatari Light Novels Monogatari Series

Light Novels: Bakemonogatari

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.
Posted inDarker than BLACK Series Introduction

Darker than BLACK 2 – CM

 

There was a Darker than BLACK 2 - officially titled Darker than BLACK: Ryuusei no Gemini - commercial that aired with today's episode of Basquash. As you can see above, it starts with a quick montage of stuff that happened in the final episode of the first series, including Hei's line about how there is no longer any man named Li. Then comes the interesting part of the commercial, the much wilder looking Hei. It's not a lot to go on (there are magazine spoilers that reveal more), but it's exciting to me all the same, and I'm looking forward to the series. The fact that the commercial aired during Basquash today means that it'll most likely be taking over that MBS timeslot come October, the same Thursday timeslot that the first series had.