Monogatari Off Season and Monster Season has recently revealed two new character trailers ahead of its July 6 premiere in Japan. One of the new character trailers puts Shinobu Oshino in the spotlight, while the other features Meme Oshino. The paranormal/mystery anime series is scheduled to premiere in Japan on July 6 on ABEMA, and it will be available to stream on Crunchyroll in North America and other regions.
Shinobu Oshino is described to be the princess of an unknown country, cursed by a witch to have her immense inner beauty visible to everyone who interacts with her. Watch the character trailer for Shinobu Oshino here:
Meme Oshino is described to be a middle aged aberration specialist that helps Koyomi Araragi regain his humanity, and also occasionally gives the boy advice about the aberrations he encounters. Check out the character trailer for Meme Oshino:
Studio SHAFT is in charge of the animation of Monogatari Off Season and Monster Season, which is the first new Monogatari Series anime since 2019's Zoku Owarimonogatari, ignoring the Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp compilation movie from January 2024.
Akiyuki Shinbo is returning as the chief director of Monogatari Off and Monster Season and Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director) is the director. Akiyuki Shinbo and Fuyashi To are back as series composers, and Akio Watanabe is the character designer. The cast includes Saori Hayami as Yotsugi Ononoki, Yuka Iguchi as Tsukihi Araragi, and Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku.
What is Monogatari: Off and Monster Season about?
The anime adaptations of Monogatari are based on the light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The series also received a manga adaptation titled Bakemonogatari, illustrated by Oh! Great. The manga has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine since 2018.
The Off-Season part of the anime is based on a collection of side stories released from 2015 to 2017, focusing on various characters. The collection consists of four arcs: Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari. Overall, the Off-Season collection is the fourth saga in the novel series. The Monster Season features the story of Koyomi Araragi's university life in six arcs:
Shinobumonogatari
Yoimonogatari
Amarimonogatari
Ougimonogatari
Shinomonogatari (two parts)
Kodansha USA shared a story description for Bakemonogatari Part 1:
There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that ’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor.
The anime adaptation of Bakemonogatari premiered in 2009 and was directed by Tatsuya Oishi, who also helmed the Kizumonogatari movie trilogy, released from 2016 to 2017. The other previous anime adaptations of Monogatari were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (Call of the Night, The Case Study of Vanitas).
For more information about Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, check out the official website of the anime.
