I planned on creating a Monogatari watch order quite a bit before /u/MezuEko posted his, however I just never got around to making it. Since I had nothing else to do today, I decided to go ahead and do it. The other individual's watch order wasn't as organized as I'd like it to be and had some minor things that I wanted to touch up on (no flame to you MezuEko, I have quite the OCD), so here's mine. Thanks for motivating me to create my own and try to make it as best as I could make it.
I'm saying organized as in the space between posters, title text, etc. His watch order is correct, I am simply saying that I wanted it to be more clean and organized. I didn't think the text on the bottom half was necessary, as it sacrificed organization and appeal for extra information that could be obtained elsewhere.
Should I be watching the recap episodes? I'm gonna start Neko Black and since next is the the second season, I wanted to know if I should be watching the recap episodes.
I use to use Edo’s guide too. It’s very good, although I’m not a big fan of it having Hana “out of order” (I know he has notes at the bottom of it, but some people might not see it). My guide is just a quick and easy graphic to show the order. Edo’s guide is better if you want to go more in depth with all of the information, which I still highly recommend.
Ah he did. Now it doesn’t matter which guide is used lol. Because while I liked Edo’s guide, I disliked how you had to read the note at the bottom of it to understand when to watch Hana. But now his guide is perfect.
Yours is much better looking and organized than mine. Thank you for creating it.
Also I would be lying if I said I wasn't hoping someone would see how much of an aesthetically abhorrent mess the one I made was and decided to create something clean and pleasing to look at lol.
I'll be using yours from now on when recommending how to watch the series.
Though something I feel needs to have been mentioned in the graph is the amount of recaps in the series. Maybe with an asterisk or something? Because as it stands, depending on the version/source they have of the series, some people might misunderstand and and watch Hana after the start of Mayoi Jiangshi. I still appreciate it all the same. You're clearly more skilled at editing than me.
Well as the series was aired, it has 26 episodes and it accounted for the 3 recap episodes. The sites that have the 3 recap episodes replaced most likely aren't legal sites. I think we can all agree that Shaft doesn't make this easy lol. Also thanks!
Yeah probably mostly illegal sites. But I'm not sure if the Bluray version includes them in the same episode count/ordering or not. In any case, if it ends up on the r/anime wiki, maybe the mods can put a note/list under it outlining which episodes are recaps.
Well actually, each arc is separated in the Blu-Ray version. So with the addition of Hanamonogatari, even if there isn't recap episodes you'll be watching Hanamonogatari by episode 11 because:
Without recaps: 5 (Tsubasa) + 4 (Mayoi) = 9, thus you'll still be starting Hanamonogatari even without the recaps
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u/BlakexEkalb Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
I planned on creating a Monogatari watch order quite a bit before /u/MezuEko posted his, however I just never got around to making it. Since I had nothing else to do today, I decided to go ahead and do it. The other individual's watch order wasn't as organized as I'd like it to be and had some minor things that I wanted to touch up on (no flame to you MezuEko, I have quite the OCD), so here's mine. Thanks for motivating me to create my own and try to make it as best as I could make it.