10 Second Anime - Owarimonogatari - Episode 3

Ougi helps Araragi recover his memories and solve why Sodachi is so angry with him. Hanekawa questions whether Ougi really did or not.

"Sodachi Riddle"

Hmm.

Last week I brought up the issue of the unreliable narrator and that is still a device I see running through any scene with Ougi in it. I don't trust anything that I'm seeing when she is alone with only one other person. We don't have any third person objective viewpoint at all during those times. I wondered how those three letters were still in the same shoe locker as 5 years ago and now I'm wondering whether Araragi actually went to this ruined house where he met a young Sodachi during a Summer break. A clue to what may be going on are the two images of a swinging watch and a metronome.

 

Both of those things are used to facilitate hypnosis. Hypnosis is also used to help recover lost memories. During the course of Ougi's conversation with Araragi, everything she brought up were things that only Araragi would have known. Forget how a young Sodachi would have known certain things about Araragi. How would present day Ougi, who only met Araragi a few days ago, know those things too? Her uncle was not the talkative type either.

 

Another concept to consider in the course of mystery stories is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning. Where inductive reasoning takes collected evidence to propose possible conclusions, it is deductive reasoning that takes that same evidence to eliminate those possible scenarios. Ougi used inductive reasoning to come up with a scenario for why Sodachi hated Araragi so much - that he didn't ignore her request to keep her a stranger, which was actually an unspoken plea for help from his policemen parents, and then he forgot about her so thoroughly that he didn't recognize her in high school three years later.

 

That's a plausible scenario plucked from the Araragi's memories, but after that, a true detective would collect more evidence to eliminate this conclusion. Hanekawa at the end of the episode pulled on a nagging thread that may unravel this poorly knit conclusion - how did a young Sodachi know that Araragi's parents were police?

 

One last thought about Ougi. She is related to the big black fuzzy ball that came after Hachikuji. Her purpose is "to right wrongs and bring an end to things that must end." It appears to me that Ougi wanted to wrap up the Sodachi riddle so that some new aberration either ends or doesn't start up. Answering what is the significance of a hidden empty envelope does not factor into that.

Heh.

Lots of yacking this episode. You know that means lots of allegorical scene munching.

The real Sodachi riddle: how did a cute young girl turn into such a sourpuss?

Ougi knows just where to stick her verbal daggers into Araragi.

I really do think Araragi expects shojuo manga Sodachi to show up at school tomorrow.

 

Yay. Yay. Peace. Peace.

I laughed out loud at Yotsugi Euler Identity Doll.

 

Hanekawa is always there to calm things down and ask the right questions.

Of course, she can't help looking so good doing it.

Yes, we know Araragi is making lots of copies for his mental spank bank.

Hanekawa's jiggle is srs business. Shojou manga Sodachi is not going to be behind that door.

Araragi realized that he was being played for a fool by Ougi. He may be slow on the uptake, but when his passion for justice awakens, Ougi better watch out. We also learned why his younger sisters fashioned themselves at seekers of justice too. The Fire Sisters are unstoppable!