The Off-Season and Monster Season light novels of the Monogatari Series are getting adapted into anime. The new series will be the first new Monogatari anime (discounting this year’s Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp compilation movie) since 2019’s Zoku Monogatari.
A key visual with a 2024 date listed was released with the announcement.
Shaft is once again producing with Akiyuki Shinbou in the supervisory chief director role. Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director) is the director for Monogatari Off-Season and Monster Season.
Akio Watanabe, who drew the visual, is returning as character designer for the new show. Fuyashi Tou (a collective pseudonym) is again credited as co-series/script composer with Shinbou.
The new anime will take place after main protagonist Koyomi Araragi’s high school graduation. The YouTube description indicates a focus on the heroines of the series.
The Monogatari Series, which is written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan, began in 2006 with Bakemonogatari Part 1 and 2. The Off-Season books were released from 2015 to 2017 and include Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari. The Monster Season entries — Shinobomonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shinomonogatari Parts 1 and 2 — were released from 2017 to 2021.
Kodansha US describes Bakemonogatari Part 1 as:
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 ’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 humor.
The first anime adaptation of the supernatural books was 2009’s Bakemonogatari TV series. Tatsuya Oishi was the series director for Bakemonogatari and later directed the Kizumonogatari movie trilogy, which was released between 2016 to 2017. Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp was released on January 12 in Japan. The numerous other Monogatari anime were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (The Case Study of Vanitas).
Source: @nisioisin_anime
