Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 15
Nadeko becomes the new snake god by the power of delusion. Senjougahara is so powerful, she can stop a rampaging newborn god with a phone call.
Reminder: never piss off Senjougahara by messing with her man. Never.
The twist in this Decoy Story is on the level of Sixth Sense. How it gets explained after Nadeko eats the body of the sealed snake god, thereby resurrecting it, is very similar to Memento. Flashing all the way back to when her delusions and selective memory began with seeing Araragi with his girlfriend Senjougahara, and using her knowledge of snake gods from her previous problem and the hint from Ougi about where a sealed snake spirit might be. Everything else was a delusion. All the conversations with the little snake, trying to find the pieces of the snake spirit body as a way to maneuver herself into the Araragi's house to grab the key so she could enter later. Which brings us to the utter defeat of Shinobu and Araragi at the shrine.
Only a well-timed phone call by Senjougahara stopped the destruction of the world. Literally. Depending on whom Nadeko killed first, as explained by Senjougahara, a full-powered Heart-under-Blade would fill the world with zombies, as we saw in Route X, or the entire world population would be destroyed by a rampaging Senjougahara. And as she warns Nadeko, killing her first might not be as easy as she thinks. So, Senjougahara bargains for an armistice of six months, to end the day after she and Araragi graduate from high school. A neo-god thwarted by a phone call.
Some questions that are unresolved are what is Ougi's real deal here? Her strange conversation with Nadeko got this all going, but what was the motive? Another mysterious oddity for our Monogatari Series. And Nadeko had a strange delusional vignette where she imagines all of Araragi's harem join him in some final showdown after graduation. We already know she has a vivid imagination, so will it work out that way? We can only look forward to the next story.
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