Launching into new territory that the author hadn't mapped out when he embarked on the*series, NEKOMONOGATARI (White) tells the tale of heroine Tsubasa*Hanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice-if that*can hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you're asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration.
The bone-chilling brokenness of her household, where father and mother and daughter*keep three separate sets of cookware in the same kitchen and only ever prepare their own meals, and the profound darkness nurtured in the genius*schoolgirl's heart, come to life, if that is the word, through her self-vivisection.
As for our customary unreliable narrator, Araragi, we seem to learn revealing tidbits about him now that we have an outside view of him at last, while his lady friends*Senjogahara, Hachikuji, et al, freed from his predilection*for proudly inane banter, show subtly new faces to us via their female interlocutor.*Welcome to the Second Season.
