12.16
How Much is an Euler? 99 cents! Does that make sense? No? Well, neither does this show. When the latest anime adaptation of the Monogatari series was released this Fall, my expectations were low. I mean, I hate this series. I only watch it because I hang out with Dalek and Marquis, and those two are utter sadists who love the pain that accompanies viewing this all style, no substance dreck. But we aren’t talking about the show as a whole. No, we’re talking about Oikura Sodachi, a math whiz that was Araragi’s childhood friend…but the audience never knew her about until just now.
This is, for all intents and purposes, the show’s sixth season, so I guess now is as good a time as any to start adding new characters to keep people interested in the weird story. In the three story arcs concerning Sodachi, I guess there was something about people cheating on a math test because they had a study group and she getting the blame. But I was tripping on all the random imagery and references to early 00s Cartoon Network (the hell?) to really focus on the constant, unending stream of dialogue. Anyway, I think the whole incident made her go cray-cray and Koko loco, because our “hero” Araragi finds out that she lives on government support with her mom. But then it turns out, in a huge twist, that her mom has been dead for years, so she’s been taking care of a corpse. And she didn’t know it was a corpse! And she’s just been there for years with a dead mom in a bed! Such hijinks! Sadly, the government found out, and reduced her SSI checks as a result.
And now the show will go on to ignore what would have probably been an Oscar-worthy story of a mentally-ill Japanese teenager accepting the loss of her deranged mother and making her way in modern Tokyo or whatever. I mean, I suppose that she and Araragi became friends again, which is nice. But to be completely straight with all of you, I was too busy being frightened (yet strangely aroused) by Ougi. Seriously, that girl stole the show, and I’m not completely sure if I mean that in a good way or a bad way.