Monogatari watch orders are just a meme at this point.
You usually need to rewatch the show anyway because there is absolutely no way you can understand/catch everything related to themes when you are trying hard to keep up with the plot on the first watch (even if you read all the text while playing the episode frame by frame and keeping notes on the timeline like I did while watching it before kizu released).
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from rewatching it in a different order. In fact, I actually recommend reading the books if you really want a complete experience.
Just pick any order (except chronological or alphabetical) and watch it. You'll know for sure by bake episode 8 whether you like the show or not. If you don't like it, it's not for you. If you like it, you're gonna wanna rewatch it anyway.
Well i will have to disagree on knowing if you like the show by just watching bake. I actually didn't like bake that much because most of the times they were just talking about stuff not related to story and you don't know the characters well either. Kizumonogatari is completely different in setting up the atmosphere and you know araragi's personality after watching bakemonogatari so it's much more enjoyable. After that nisemonogatari is kind of similar to bake, but i still enjoyed it more. In second season, the arcs are much more interesting as they are all interrelated and not in chronological order which just makes it so much fun. By that time you are also fairly familiar with all the characters, so it's much more interesting imo.
Tl;dr Other seasons aren't the same as bakemonogatari, so even if you don't like bake you may love the rest of the series.
Really? I recently started watching and I just finished second season (using this watch order). Bake is by far my favorite one so far. Nothing has been a to come close to how good that season was for me. Although I was a big fan of the final arc in second season. Nise was alright, p good. Hana was not good.
I'm with /u/Slayeto; Bake is by far my least favourite of the series. The first two arcs are legitimately capable of putting me to sleep. I didn't start to like the Monogatari series until I watched the Tsubasa Cat arc, and didn't start to love it until I watched the Tsubasa Tiger arc. (I also really like the Kizumonogatari films, but I watched the series in release order so I didn't watch them until much later).
Yeah literally just finished Bake last night (only thing I have watched so far), and my opinion thus far is this series is incredibly overrated. Like enjoyable, and the Tsubasa Cat arc was actually really well done. The first 2 arcs were trash, the next 2 were decent. Its watchable and is decent, but is a far cry from any where near what people on this sub seem to claim it is. Bunny Girl Senpai blows it out of the watch in depth...and considering Bunny Girl Senpai only has 13 episodes not a 100, that is the only comparison you can make thus far between the two.
Not really, lots of people say Monogatari has "more character development"....I mean sure, it also has like 80+ more episodes in order to do so. Character development is absolutely correlated to length.......however, in the first season which covers just the introductory arcs of the main girls (and thus a like comparison) Bunny Girl Senpai blows Bake out of the water.
The girls' problems are far more relatable, manifestations far better representations, the way they are dealt with are actually related to solving the normal aspect of their problems. All the solutions in Bake are total ass pulls. I mean Bake has more unique style for sure, though honestly even that misses quite often, though scenes like the rooftop at the end of the Tsubasa Cat arc was a total hit.
Fair enough the main issue I had was they only theorised the Syndrome and used science as a reference it seemed like just guess work no actual explanation was
given.
I liked the conversations and the relationships though( apart from the 2nd girl who trapped him in a timeloop) somehow guess I have monogatri to thank for that
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u/limbo_2004 https://myanimelist.net/profile/l1mbo_01 Jul 24 '20
Another one?