Koimonogatari (恋物語) or KOIMONOGATARI: Love Tale in the English publication, is the ninth part of the Monogatari series. It is the twelfth book overall, and contains the story Hitagi End (ひたぎエンド). It is the last book in second season of the series.
The English version is currently slated for a January 2019 release.
Etymology
The title is portmanteau of koi, "love", and monogatari, "story".
Synopsis
"Don't you think unrequited love that lasts forever is happier than mutual love?"
Hitagi Senjougahara made a deal with the gods with her life in order to protect Koyomi Araragi.
As winter holidays approach with the promised "destined day", she chose the darkest and the worst option...
English Release Synopsis
Circling back to a middle school girl’s apotheosis, if we can call it that, in Otorimonogatari, and the mortal threat it poses to the hero and his girl, this “Season Two” finale is narrated, for the first time in the series, by a grown-up—but if the word conjures a sense of reliability, of stability and certainty to you, dear reader, then the lesson to take home from this is to trust no one.
Because the teller of the tale, who has been summoned by the heroine to defuse the situation, despite having been her nemesis since the very outset of the series, is—in the absence of the equally shady adult, Oshino, who at least was an expert—none other than his college frenemy, the fake ghostbuster who doesn’t believe in ghosts, the shameless swindler Deishuu Kaiki.
And it is indeed a con that he agrees to perpetrate, uncharacteristically pro bono, on a wrathful god—a mythic undertaking if true, which it may be, when a liar among liars holds that his story, like any other, is all a lie. But maybe not, when a man who claims to be wise in the ways of the world sounds just as self-conscious as his adolescent counterparts or a Russian anti-hero.[2]
Introduced Characters
Plot
Hitagi End
Illustrations
Anime
See also: Monogatari Series Second Season
Koimonogatari was adapted into the TV anime series through the compilation cour of Monogatari Series: Second Season as the fifth and final arc. For Blu-ray releases, it was released induvidually with its original novel title.
References
The Monogatari Series by Nisio Isin
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| First Season | 1. Bakemonogatari (One) • 2. Bakemonogatari (Two) • 3. Kizumonogatari • 4. Nisemonogatari (One) • 5. Nisemonogatari (Two) • 6. Nekomonogatari (Black) | |
| Second Season | 7. Nekomonogatari (White) • 8. Kabukimonogatari • 9. Hanamonogatari • 10. Otorimonogatari • 11. Onimonogatari • 12. Koimonogatari | |
| Final Season | 13. Tsukimonogatari • 14. Koyomimonogatari • 15. Owarimonogatari (One) • 16. Owarimonogatari (Two) • 17. Owarimonogatari (Three) • 18. Zoku Owarimonogatari | |
| Off Season | 19. Orokamonogatari • 20. Wazamonogatari • 21. Nademonogatari • 22. Musubimonogatari • Tsugimonogatari | |
| Monster Season | 23. Shinobumonogatari • 24. Yoimonogatari • 25. Amarimonogatari • 26. Ougimonogatari • 27. Shinomonogatari (One) • 28. Shinomonogatari (Two) | |
| Family Season | 29. Ikusamonogatari • 30. Tsugimonogatari | |