Rika Fukami and Daisuke Hirakawa will be joining the voice cast of the ongoing Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season anime. The anime began airing weekly in Japan on July 6, 2024, and is currently airing the Wazamonogatari chapter, which premiered on August 24, 2024.
Fukami voices Deathtopia Virtuoso Suicide-Master, while Hirakawa voices Tropicalesque Home-awave Dogstrings.
Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season adapts the Orokamonogatari and Nademonogatari series, along with Shinobumonogatari. Wazamonogatari serves as a sequel to the previously added Volume 6.5, “Wicked Fairy Tale: The Beautiful Princess”.
Akiyuki Shinbo is credited as chief director, with Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director) as director, Akio Watanabe (returning) as character designer, Fuyashi To (returning) and Shinbo as series writers, Hisaharu Iijima (returning) as art director, Yasuko Watanabe (Zoku Owarimonogatari) as color designer, Hiyori Hashimoto (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, RWBY Ice Queendom assistant chief creative officer), and Mizuho Ishikawa (Zom 100 general staff) as general director. Shaft is handling animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime's main voice cast includes:
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Koyomi Araragi • Emiri Kato as Mayoi Hachikuji • Yui Horie as Tsubasa Hanekawa • Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku • Saori Hayami as Yotsugi Ononoki • Yuka Iguchi as Tsukihi Araragi • Chiwa Saito as Hitagi Senjougahara • Kaori Mizuhashi as Ougi Oshino • Maaya Sakamoto as Shinobu Oshino • Marina Inoue as Sodachi Oikura • Miyuki Sawashiro as Suruga Kanbaru
The anime is based on a light novel written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The off-season books include several entries such as Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Mussubimonogatari, which were released from 2015 to 2017.
Meanwhile, the Monster Season titles include Shinobumonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shimonogatari Parts 1 and 2, published from 2017 to 2021. The Monogatari series began with the release of Bakemonogatari Parts 1 and 2 in 2006.
Monogatari Off & Monster Season is the latest installment in the Monogatari Series since 2019's Zoku Owarimonogatari, excluding the compilation film Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp. Crunchyroll is streaming the new series worldwide outside of Japan, and is also streaming the previous seasons.
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The anime began with Bakemonogatari in 2009, directed by Tatsuya Oishi, who also directed the Kizumonogatari film trilogy from 2016 to 2017. Other previous Monogatari anime were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (Call of the Night, The Case Study of Vanitas).
Kodansha USA released the novel series in English, which describes the first part of Bakemonogatari as:
There was a girl at their school who was always sick. She was often late, left early, or didn't show up at all, and skipped gym class as a matter of course. She was beautiful, and the boys whispered that she was a convent princess. As the self-proclaimed worst loser in the class soon found out, they just didn't know what kind of monster she was.
Thus begins a story of mysterious illnesses of supernatural origin that reveal profound insights into the human psyche, a collection of case files that delivers a sense of surprise as well as irreverent humor.
Source: Nisio Isin Anime Official Twitter
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