10 Second Anime - Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 7

Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 7

Monogatari does what it does best: rapid cuts, head tilts, and Araragi talks philosophy with cute girls. Shinobu decides she can time travel, just because, and takes Araragi with her near the time Mayoi was run over and became a lost ghost.

So here we are at a new arc in the Monogatari Series, so that means Araragi has to have random conversations with cute girls, in which the random back and forth actually introduces the context of the next monster story. Talking with Ougi about an urban myth that red lights in the city periodically synchronize for 3 seconds, the topic is actually about how warning signs encourage caution, and green lights encourage recklessness. That leads to thoughts of boundaries and freedom and their interplay.

Then, talking with the resurrected construct Ononoki, the conversation is about being lost, and how that is different than just asking for directions. Again, all just setting up for the focus of this arc, Mayoi. And Araragi being Araragi, he wants to help a cute little girl.

But Araragi is in real trouble because he hasn't done any of his summer homework and school starts the next day. Enter Shinobu, his Master Vampire and source of his powers. "Let's go back to yesterday." Just like that, yeah, she decides she can time travel. Well, they do end up time traveling, but way overshoot, going 11 years in the past, and almost to the day Mayoi died and became a wandering ghost. Hey, it's fiction. Of course everything is tied together.