The story feels perfectly finished with the end of the second season Tsukimonogatari serving as the perfect epilogue and Koyomimonogatari as the perfect short story collection to go with the main series except it isnt really. Im not sure what to expect of the future of the series a Cencoroll dilemma. The main thing Im currently thinking about have been thinking about for some time now have been thinking about for the damn year or so it took me to finish this novel damn you moonpup Minimus is the fact that if I was NISIOISIN perhaps I would skip over Owarimonogatari in its entirety never pen those four novels lined up on my shelf which Im simultaneously excited for and dread. Really this quartet has been teased for years for five books and more this grand finale the entirety of Tsukimonogatari essentially a quiet feeble icecold and heartwrenching acceptance of an inevitable end or is it and thats just the catch Im trying to throw. What if Owarimonogatari was omitted? The last great trick of NISIOISINs Monogatari Series. The series speeding forward ever faster and steadfaster until the obvious and inevitable is right around the corner and then...with this motion clearly shown and verbosely articulated it just doesnt show the destination. The destination which has been spoken of in hushed wishpers word of the street if you will secondhand gossip urban legends until concretised beyond any of such vague forms of information having gathered as Oshino did until arriving at a moreorless clear understanding of what has occured in the past in these parts of backwater Nihon or rather in this case what is about to occur you simply omit. The motion with the implied destination which has become obvious no longer an aberration no longer a mystery. When it becomes mundane enough an aberration is nothing more than part of the everyday a natura maximus. To slice it into clearcut words its a case of the idea of it is stronger than the event itself. A shadow of a musing flashes through my mind What if I simply skip over Owari and head straight into the next season? A silly idea which could be contradicted and reprimanded and ridiculed in various forms. But in the owari all these are nothing but mumbles to myself fancies of what the future might hold based on experience based on what Ive gathered which Im sure anyone whos actually read Owarimonogatari and is in love with the series at large who cant follow my perception of the series as something which has concluded in a sense long ago would be all too eager to attempt to show evidence to the contrary for. I cannot help my feelings yet. And so theres nothing left for me to do but wearily pick the first thick volume of the Owarimonogatari quartet from my shelf and begin to read. I cant leave this series behind yet. I still want to know what the hell is up with this Soidachi Oikura girl whom I have miraculously dodged all spoilers for throughout the years Ive spend reading and thinking about this series seriously whats up with me why so long? talk for another time my favourite character Yotsugi Ononoki has yet to be understood even by the author himself as he explained in an interview one time that doll whom I love so deeply more than anyone in the world so how could I abandon this series at this point? Youre telling me my favourite character and my second favourite character Tsukihi team up in the first volume of the next season??? In the end no matter what Monogatari will always be a comfort series for me a work that means the world to me a work that whenever I read but a smidgen of pages a glimpse of an excerpt spurns me to fancy pagelong conversations between two characters I made up on the spot while I traverse and stroll my forewater town. One of the main reasons why I became an author in the first place. I have endless love and endless gratitude for it. One of my greatest dreams in life is to read every work NISIOISIN has ever written. Thank you NISIOISIN.