#ougi is just ougi

[sinkableruby]

the shiori ED in owarimonogatari ge kills me, but theres a very specific part of it that really gets my attention

right before the first verse there's a little flash in this box that shows an object relating to the arc character

its interesting to see the items for each of them. mayoi's bag is there, and the first thing you notice is that she's not. her bag feels almost synonymous with her, so it almost gives the impression she's left it behind, possibly for a new stage in her life (as it were). hitagi's apartment building is shown, and what i think might be araragi's house next to it. but they're so small that they look like models more than anything, which i feel relates to how these homes are things that are precious to her, they are things she wants to protect. maybe theres something to be said about the home as it relates to family too, and family being very much a big thing to her arc. and maybe theres something to be said about mayoi's thing being "something to protect" too

whats the object in ougi dark, then?

oh. hi ougi

guys im so not normal about this. putting ougi in the same room where the other two had objects that were important/synonymous with them. its because ougi darks ED is for ougi BUT its also for araragi (and shinobu, its about all 3 of them), so its araragis "thing to protect/that is important to/synonymous with him."

but also like. this is also like the only time in the show that we see ougi in any state even approaching nudity, and not just that, ougi is actually naked here (except for the sleeves). and that coupled with the kind of huddled pose really makes this feel like a very vulnerable moment, and a very very significant thing. its saying many things at once. it's saying conception, it's showing you the big bad but not so big and not so bad, its showing you the weakness in a character who has rarely shown anything like vulnerability or weakness, who is still haunting araragi (see the sleeves and the like "gonna get you" hands lol) to the bitter end.

and like if you look closely you can see a little smile which is standard for ougi but like. the hollowed eyes (more ghastly now when theyre white). the inward hunch. the lack of clothes besides the sleeves, that are stylized to look jagged like claws. this is a creature born with a purpose, a creature born to hurt. but this is also obviously a creature who is alone and feeble and Should Be Helped Not Killed for fucks sake lol.

and not just a creature but a person! ougi is armored in layers of separating clothes all the time but this shot is kind of groundbreaking bc it showing that like. she is really just like anyone else. the fronting is very much a front. she, the fake, has Substance. there's a very real person underneath those big sleeves.

and also since the shot is really only for half a second, ougi fades away very quickly. its very much a blink and youll miss it. but that fading away really feels like a flash of vulnerability before she fades away Forever. as in, it's a parallel to her almost final moments. but the fading away in particular feels ghost-ish. not to mention later in the ED shes even wearing like a ghost outfit.

and. god. if that isn't just.

idk. something about. being alive but not really. being a ghost. not long for this world and resigned to it. being so resigned to it you wear it and use that to represent yourself. making it a part of you. and then later being given a life. becoming able to live. idk yk. idk its just , yk its just ,

[nyaa]

[碗]

[lnbeep-art]

I remember an ask on my primary account that was like “do you prefer big kiss marks on tinies or little kiss marks on big characters” and now I raise you: why not both?

[ekuns]

everyone has to look at the new ougi plush my friends had commissioned for me

[nadekofannumber1]

Ok so unhinged pattern recognition moment. Im thinking abt nademono and kimi to nadeko at the same time and am overlapping features or concepts to the settings. Is Ougi supposed to parallel the ML of kimi to Nadekko.

Like Ougi doesn’t carry the prince aura but does act familiar, has a sudden appearance, is a secret childhood friend, is vaguely recognizable in a way Nadeko can’t quite remember, and is associated with both bike + vehicle. This parallels interestingly bc Nadeko finds him so like weird and irritating in the arc itself. Another bizzare stretch I’ve made is that Nadeko doesn’t really have many visual beach parallels but when driving Nadeko to senjougahara’s place they drive by a beach and Nadeko visualizes her feelings of being lost by showing shy Nadeko in uniform wandering on a beach (symbolism I think they put in the bag for later tbh). Nadeko’s primary manga ML picks up Nadeko and takes her to a beach and dotes on her before driving her back. Nadeko even gets childhood friend evidence by the end. Nadeko is also supposed to find that character kind of weird or annoying for light tsundere moments

I think the theoretical twisting of said canonical fantasies is interesting bc of how Nadeko is generally uninterested in parallel IRL, is fun to show as the concept of fantasies is generally a intrinsic theme for the character of Nadeko. Like how the teacher ML is like always just showing up in places to be mean to Nadeko and is never really portrayed as a character she’s attracted to by the manga but is in fact supposed to be the tertiary ML. Having a tertiary sadist teacher ML character that she forgets to write in any meaningful way outside of “*smirks* I’m gonna punish you for academic negligence…” and then just, not lean into that fantasy at all is funny to me. Like he just yells at her and she leaves after the first chapter. The trope I feel doesn’t get broken by nademono is the secondary ML’s whole thing of being like a younger kuudere “malewife” childhood friend who “she thought of as family but maybe not?” Because I’d say the closest character Nadeko could know to that is like, yotsugi which has something else happen. And even after that the third ml shows up for a home visit to scold her while the second ML is present.

Anyway I think that the concept of Ougi imitating that prince like character and Nadeko having no interest is really funny.

[witchof-hearts]

hmm

kirei is kind of ougicore now that i think about it

[mex-sickos]

Ì think this is genuinely as far as I can take my comp without severely comprising my morals based on opinions of people I do not respect in the slightest

[ikuhara]

[shlnji]

Ougi really loves Rilakkuma.

From the Hanamonogatari commentary tracks

[valhallakonbi]

Are there any visual novels that you are interested in playing?

i finished umineko last fall and it was incredible, i'm currently sorta rereading it bc i got my gf hooked lmfao. a lot of my monogatari mutuals are big fans of tsukihime so maybe that's next on the list? let me know what you think is worth playing!

[ougiba07734]

nadekooo........................ . . ....

ougggggiiiiiiii....... ......... ....

[sinkableruby]

do you even get how profoundly unsustainable ougi's situation was. do you even get how badly it must have been hurting her. how unhappy it must have been. do you even get how she was doing the exact same thing araragi was, and it was just as sad and just as lonely? do you even get that "becoming herself" was supposed to mean she wouldn't have to be araragi's opposite anymore? was supposed to mean she wouldn't have to be stagnant and in that dark lonely place while he got to move forward, because she was supposed to represent his past? ougi will smile through the most fucked up shit. ougi will grin and bear literal actual death. can you fault me for not thinking she's okay when she's still doing the same shit that almost got her to kill herself? when's the last time you watched tsukimonogatari episode 4. when's the last time you watched ougi dark. when's the last time you really thought about it. tell me. tell me.

[youretheonewhoblogs]

ougi evil faces

[penultimate-step]

I'm so tempted to just reread all the owarimonogatari trilogy right now

[hellsvestibule]

New discourse no one wants: Problematic implications that transmasc Oshino ougi is better at riding a bike than trans fem Oshino ougi bc women suck at vehicle: discuss

[unma]

Lumi Credo raids are dying in literal seconds. Oh my god.

This is what I get for waiting till the day before GWs to actually grind out the raid.