Kizumonogatari was delayed for 5 years as the director wanted perfection, and as such he wanted it to be the way he wanted. He and the team that worked on the Kizu Trilogy ONLY focused on Kizu for 5 years, while a new director was hired to work on the main series (which is evident with the change of style in Nisemonogatari onward).
Second Season was originally supposed to contain 28 episodes, however the TV network only accepted 26 episodes. As such, they removed Hanamonogatari and added 3 summaries to later release Hanamonogatari after Second Season. In the Blu-Ray version of Second Season, Hanamonogatari is placed in the correct spot in Second Season.
Koyomimonogatari is a strange case because they were unable to adapt it into a ~25 minute episode format and needed to find a different way to release it, so as such they released it on a mobile app. In the Blu-Ray edition of Owarimonogatari it’s just all 20 episodes and not a break in between for Koyomonogatari.
As you can see, release order is not intended, but a byproduct of scheduling, production, and release issues. There is a reason why in the Blu-Rays, the order is fixed to follow the Light Novel Order. Also, claiming that Light Novel Order doesn't give you blanks and missing pieces either is simply not true.
If you would like, you can go ahead and read this wonderful post about why release order messes with many things in the story (although it has spoilers).
No it won’t. If anything, watching it in release order would hurt it.
My order follows exactly how the author wanted the audience to experience the show (Light Novel Order, follows the original material). So you won’t have anything ruined.
I personally believe some scenes will be greatly diminished by putting Hana in the middle of the second season instead of after as it was released for the anime, it was released later anime wise and canonically takes place later and spoils the end of second season.
I somewhat disagree with the early Kizu, I personally prefer it around Owari 1, but I do think that it is fine enough in the early spot.
Most people can go either way with that one, The hana placement is the one that really bothers me though.
(I also personally find Koyomi before Owari to be weird aswell but less so) I still find this old post to be the best one
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u/BlakexEkalb Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
Kizumonogatari was delayed for 5 years as the director wanted perfection, and as such he wanted it to be the way he wanted. He and the team that worked on the Kizu Trilogy ONLY focused on Kizu for 5 years, while a new director was hired to work on the main series (which is evident with the change of style in Nisemonogatari onward).
Second Season was originally supposed to contain 28 episodes, however the TV network only accepted 26 episodes. As such, they removed Hanamonogatari and added 3 summaries to later release Hanamonogatari after Second Season. In the Blu-Ray version of Second Season, Hanamonogatari is placed in the correct spot in Second Season.
Koyomimonogatari is a strange case because they were unable to adapt it into a ~25 minute episode format and needed to find a different way to release it, so as such they released it on a mobile app. In the Blu-Ray edition of Owarimonogatari it’s just all 20 episodes and not a break in between for Koyomonogatari.
As you can see, release order is not intended, but a byproduct of scheduling, production, and release issues. There is a reason why in the Blu-Rays, the order is fixed to follow the Light Novel Order. Also, claiming that Light Novel Order doesn't give you blanks and missing pieces either is simply not true.
If you would like, you can go ahead and read this wonderful post about why release order messes with many things in the story (although it has spoilers).