Wazamonogatari (業物語) is the fifteenth part of the Monogatari series. It is the twentieth book overall, and contains the stories Cruel Fairy Tale: Princess Fair (残酷童話 うつくし姫), Acerola Bon Appétit (第零話 あせろらボナペティ), Karen Ogre (第零話 かれんオウガ), and Tsubasa Sleeping (第零話 つばさスリーピング).
Etymology
Publisher's Summary
"The name Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade has always been attached to me..."
About 600 years from the present, this now-destroyed country was where the girl called the "Princess Fair" had lived. With such beauty that anyone would offer one's life for, the road the girl trod on became a mountain of corpses.
These are the legendary oddities! Oddities! Oddities!
Youth is cruel like a fairy tale.
Plot
Cruel Fairy Tale: Princess Fair
A short fairy tale, telling the story of a princess who becomes inflicted with a brutal curse that ruins her entire kingdom.
See also: Shinobu Oshino #Background
Acerola Bon Appétit
Vampire Deathtopia Virtuoso Suicide-Master tells the story of how the Fair Princess, Acerola, became the vampire known as Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade.
Karen Ogre
Tsubasa Sleeping
Tsubasa Hanekawa tells Meme Oshino about an event that happened in Germany during her trip to search for his whereabouts. She finds Dramaturgy, and agrees to help him with a case of rouge, twin vampires that have been abducting travelers.
Illustrations
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 | |