Unboxing [US]: Onimonogatari: Shinobu Time - Limited Edition (Blu-ray)

So the falling pound is getting another spike once again and I figured I gotta get a Monogatari arc out of the way. Just in time to conclude the March pickups collections, still have two more Second Season arcs to acquire but for now here's this one.

Here's a look at what Onimonogatari's set is like.

Onimonogatari is the fourth arc of five in the Monogatari Second Season series (technically six if you include Hanamonogatari). The story is now set after the events of Nisemonogatari and each arc follows the individual female heroines who had apparitions of sorts from Bakemonogatari. For instance, Onimonogatari covers the Shinobu Time arc featuring Shinobu Oshino as the main lead instead of Koyomi Araragi.

It's worth noting that as each arc goes along there may be spoilers up ahead, so you have been warned.

Each Monogatari Second Season arc is split up for the US releases and Onimonogatari is one of them. The set contains a cardboard box with art from the Japanese volumes as well as a mini booklet, artcards, a picture scroll and the Blu-ray case with 2 discs. The box itself is very slim and flimsy but they at least fixed this with the newer Aniplex sets. The Aniplex sets are region free and this is no exception, plus the subtitles are unlockable. The Monogatari series is only available in Japanese with English subtitles (because the meaning will be lost in English dub form and the subtitles are all over the place).

Unlike the first three Second Season arcs where they each had an Ominbus recap episode, this set only includes the four episodes from the arc.

Blu-ray Specs:

Languages: Japanese

Audio: LPCM 2.0

Video: 1080p HD Native 16:9

Region: A B C

Subtitles: English

Subtitles Locked: No

Discs: 2

Plot Synopsis (via Aniplex):

After time traveling to the past with Shinobu Oshino, Koyomi Araragi meets Mayoi Hachikuji and returns her backpack, which she left in Koyomi's room. That is when they witness something unidentifiable - something that can only be expressed as the "darkness."

Koyomi, instinctively feeling danger, sits Mayoi on his bicycle and attempts to escape, but the ever-elusive "darkness" tries to swallow the two of them. They barely manage to escape with the help of the young shikigami girl, Yotsugi Ononoki, and they evacuate into the ruins of the cram school. There, Shinobu tells him that she encountered the "darkness" about 400 years ago. Then a woman named Izuko Gaen, who says she knows Meme Oshino, explains to them the nature of the "darkness"... and Koyomi has to face Mayoi's tragic fate.

On-Disc Extra Content:

Textless Ending

PV & CM Collections

Limited Edition Extras:

Cardboard Limited Edition Artbox

Deluxe Booklet

Pinup Postcard Set

Aniplex 'Proof of Purchase' card

Onimonogatari is only available as a Blu-ray Limited Edition set from Aniplex of America for SRP $64.98. It's also available on Blu-ray and DVD elsewhere in UK & Australia.