The first short story compilation of Nisio Isin's Monogatari series!
 
Thirty-eight familiar stories!
 
“To me, people's hearts are like darkness."
 
Nadeko Sengoku is haunted by memories of a past she wishes to forget.
 
Shinobu Oshino is at last in despair over her seemingly endless future.
 
And Ononoki Yotsugi, the doll who tries to console them!
 
_"Nadeko Past" / "Shinobu Future"_
 
These are the modern oddities! Oddities! Oddities!
 
Talking about the past and the future is what youth is all about.

The first part of the Monogatari Series.
 
There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

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