Monster Season Monogatari Episode 3 Reaction
Added 2026-01-09 18:31:38 +0000 UTCOikura return!!!!!!
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Sodachi oikura the GOAT. She's as beautfiul as the day we lost her... I was freaking out when she suddenly appears. It's like seeing your fav anime get a 2nd season after 10 years of silence. With oikura, and with other characters, I never needed to be in a similar situation to be able to relate and just puts a character in a pedestal. It's just the writing and the delivery hits so hard that I can't help it. And her appearing now just makes me appreciate her character even more. Like my 2 fav moments in this ep was when she said that she tried to change her image but in the end couldn't change who she was in the inside. I immediately connected it with her hair. When everyone else like kanbaru, hanekawa, senjou and to some extent sengoku cuts their hair to show how they grows up as a character or move on from something, Sodachi did it as an attempt and failed at it. The 2nd one is def the "It truly isn't over, it won't end it'll keep on going" It just felt overwhelming after recalling her arc during owarimonogatari. I think I've said this before, but Oikura faced her problems like raw, when every other girls had to push their problems away to an oddity before facing it, this girl had to live with it and through it. Everyone managed to beat their oddities and move on, all she could was just brace through it and continue living carrying it. Nothing a little kaiki scam won't fix
Oisif
2026-01-10 06:43:16 +0000 UTCI'm going to get a little personal here, but anyway... During the Covid pandemic, the loneliness made me realize a lot of things, and being a high school student, the situation overwhelmed me, and I became depressed. It wasn't about wanting to die or anything like that; it was simply the inability to motivate myself for anything. Day after day, I drowned in self-pity, and as Sodachi says in Owarimonogatari, it was about "not wanting to be happy." I won't elaborate much here, but it's an overwhelming feeling, and something that, at least in my case, no one could help me with. It's a continuous self-sabotage that you can't escape. That year, I also watched Owarimonogatari, and the line, "In this world, there is no happiness heavy enough to crush you," impacted me on a very personal level. For me, at that moment, Monogatari ceased to be just a simple anime series and became something that helped me move forward. Although I haven't yet shaken off that feeling of not striving for happiness, which still troubles me today, it was that phrase that helped me keep going. And I think it's the same for the character of Sodachi; the regrets are still there. You can change your hairstyle, try on new clothes, meet new people, go to university, but at the end of the day, when you're alone, that feeling is still there in the background. Even so, you always hope that the next day will be better. Returning to Sodachi, I think what Nisio Isin expresses through her is precisely that "depression," and she does it incredibly well. You can see that Sodachi has changed, and perhaps she herself isn't even aware of it, but the sadness still remains deep inside. For people like that, maybe simply feeling connected to others might be enough to motivate them, which is why she says talking to Nadeko motivated her. And speaking a little about myself, that boy who was in school when he saw Owarimonogatari, now in university, my feelings haven't changed much, but when I saw Sodachi and how she's "improved" despite the sadness that's still hidden there, I honestly cried. She showed me that even if it's just a little, we can change for better. I didn't expect to see her, and just like her, this motivated me to hope that the next day will be better. That's why I love Monogatari so much. Ty guys for your reaction!
Melisfir
2026-01-09 19:26:24 +0000 UTC
