>>84173The last couple episodes are extremely narration-heavy, that much is very true, although if you look at, say, episode 3, there's a lot of events taking place that in Monogatari would've been spread out across three episodes or more:
¥joining the bike club¥sucking at it¥deciding to work for a better bike¥purchasing it¥getting it stolen¥failing at the race¥being inducted into the birdman club¥training montage¥getting rejected¥final encounter with the thievesAnd several other smaller things sprinkled along. Monogatari is way, WAY slower than this. Across episodes 1 through 9 the longest stretches of dialogue are only a couple minutes long at most, like the one which I pointed out as one of the most important scenes out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIDMk2MaIIBut it doesn't stop to explain to you that Higuchi's desire to travel is inspired by his reading of Verne and the pins he placed on his globe while going through it, that's left up to the audience. That the castella is a symbol of loneliness is only very briefly said in passing and too early to understand its meaning. What the show does focus on and dedicate a fair amount of time to is Watashi's (yes, that's his name) comically biased inner monologue, and I'm grateful that they made it so blazingly fast. Imagine how insanely worse the pacing would be if they slowed that down. And compared to SZS, where the characters spend a lot of time voicing their thoughts on the current topic (not a criticism, mind you), Tatami is much more made up of goings-on with or without narration (which I think serves a nice dual purpose in moving things along more quickly while also showcasing Watashi's mental state).
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