
Loli oppai anime Bakemonogatari is at it once again, with the latest episode offering the rather erotic OP scene visible above, and with more Shaft quality visible below…

However, much of the episode is “removed due to certain circumstances,” as above – only the voicing remains; in fact these scenes are thought not to have been finished in time.
Producer Shaft has previously been the subject of derision after it was revealed that the company is in dire and constant danger of failing to meet its production deadlines, presumably due to a lack of staff – in fact the company advertises on its website the fact that it is “urgently” recruiting animators.
Fans are hoping the missing scenes and incomplete animation will be restored/finished in the DVD version, but even so this hardly augurs well for future Shaft productions…

This show is so overrated.
Generic harem trash.
You're retarded. Hella not overrated. There's a difference between "overrated," "being good," and simply "sucking."
In order to be overrated, something has to SUCK, but have A LOT OF FANS. SUCKING means that something has to SUCK and have NO FANS. Being GOOD means it's GOOD and has A LOT OF FANS. Bakemonogatari is hella good... Fuckin' weeaboo...
Oh silly, anon. At least put some effort into your trolling.
so bitter lol.
Not really. If it was, than the only reason this anime would be popular would be because of the women fawning over one man. This anime is a satire of generic harem trash. The guy's girlfriend (yes, he has one) is a neo-tsundere. All the anime archetypes contradict themselves.
Its really only trash to people who don't know much about anime, can't understand Japanese to a certain extent(high dependency on subtitles), or just doesn't appreciate this kind of humor.
Better or worse, Bakemonogatari is anything EXCEPT generic, unless you're considering other works by shaft.
Well said, that Anon was definitely high on something and couldn't understand where he was.
Your face is UNDER 9000!
this is a shame. the show is SO freaking quality itz ridiculous.
Hitagi has the same birthday as me ^_^ yay!
this is one of the best series i've ever watched, it's a
real pity to hear they have problems.
So that explains why it took till episode 3 for them to get an actual ending animation going.
Those were “removed due to certain circumstances?” I always thought it was just part of the show's weirdness. I guess not knowing Japanese does have advantages.
Urgently recruiting animators.
Perfect for aspiring weeaboos.
SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFFFFFFTTTT~!!!!
well.. watched the raw already.. i have to say that int the first part of the ep the animation was pretty good.. well.. bakemonogatari standard that is.. but during the fight scenes it went way downhill.. please please please let more animators join shaft!
and oh yes.. it needs more senjougahara!!!
..and Mayoi and Shinobu.
its an invisible snake they fought...theres really no way to make that fight go 'uphill'
Bakemonogatari...what can I say? After watching the series (episodes 1-12) on a weekly basis I completed each episode without fully understanding what was going on. Of course I got the "how the f*** can you miss that?!" bits, but the parts where you had to pause to read the subtitles were a miss for me, so I didn't really grasp the background details of the episode and the character's dilemmas. But still it manages to be my favourite anime this year. A huge redeeming factor of the show was when Senjogahara (sp?) finally makes a f***ing appearance in episode 12, if she didn't come back and show her pretty face, this show would be fail! (A slight exaggeration on my part, but did anyone else feel the same way before watching episode 12?)
Also, I plan on buying the DVD when (and if) it comes out, so I can fill in the blanks that I missed on my first run through and also they can fill in the scenes they cut and maybe improve the animation instead of giving me still frames to look at, which I didn't really mind at all, because I was watching it free. Now I'm paying... I demand quality.
Wtf Artefact, 'onanism'? Please to be pointing out where the hell the 'onanism' is?
Erotic opening? Lolwut?
Fucking wanabee loli-rapist didnt even watch the episode I take it.
Watching this episode was worse than watching Endless Eight episodes 2-7 for the first time each (not the first and last ones as those were the only different ones). Watching one of them again after several weeks, though...holy shit, my head felt like it festered O.o ...but this latest Bakemonogatari was still painful to watch, even knowing their current circumstances.
Now I know what it means to get "Shafted" O.o ...
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I thought that it was part of the show actually, haha. Just finished watching and must say, I'm really a fan of shaft. I really like their quality. I hope they can give moar! +9000
I still haven't given this series a watch.
If it's this good I'll have to.
...then again I hated K-On and it sold well...
Actually there was a joke about this in Zan Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei Bangaichi, in one of those 0,5 sec text flashes we have come to expect and love from SHAFT.
"If you have time to mess around with this, you should be concentrating on Bakemonogatari."
SHAFT is the best. End of.
This anime sucks dick
thx
Kinda remind me of Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei with all those inner thinking and Silence Talking . With the Real Pic. showing sometime~ It's give me the goosebump but i like the way the storyline go eventhough each character have it short
The first pic is not from the OP. The actual OP is actually quite clean.
As for this episode, the lack of animation killed it for me. I was used to a lot of still imagery and stock footage in this show, but to me, it didn't even look like they tried to compensate it with anything. Couldn't they have used something else than the "Voice/Line removed" and the "scene removed due to circumstances" boxes?
Maybe rewatching it again later will change my mind.
nevermind: shitty animu is really boring
I really like this anime. Hope Shaft gets to fix this later.
He was fighting an invisible snake in that episode...there really IS no way to animate it nicely
I felt the "removed due to circumstances" parts actually made the fight more exciting, made it more suspenseful, and they showed it the way most other fights are animated/shown I think it would've looked a lot dumber.
Also, look at any other things shaft has done, they've done many other "simplified animation making scenes much more epic' like the text message scene in 'ef' just one blank screen with writing laying and writing on top of each other became one of the most memorable scenes in a series
Eh, watched the subbed version yesterday.
Considering the pacing of the story, you don't really notice the missing images.
Probably, because previous episodes had similar "inserts" during the action, the Kanbaru vs Araragi fight comes to mind. With the inserts representing thoughts or wishes. Essentially narration for the viewer.
Much ado about nothing, to quote a title from the Bard.
i almost cried, i thought sengoku was gonna die
OF all the episodes to be shafted... WHY IS IT A LOLI EPISODE.
I love SHAFT, but they are becoming the new GONZO, using fan service to attract more … well, fans. Then again … haven’t they always been this way?
god dammit and this is the studio doing dance in the vampire bund which is probably going to be completely fucked up now.
assholes should just delay it and run a rerun if it's not finished.
Or, you know, book the TV slots once it's actually finished.
Really? what a douche >_>
Oooh so that's why this episode was noting but a loong voice track. that's a darn shame.
I've finally realized the point of Sankaku Complex is to be annoyingly sensationalist, but this one has gotten under my skin anyways. By allowing these inconveniences to seep into the show rather than half-assing everything and pretending it's fine, it's creating a postmodern subtheme to the production that I'm thoroughly enjoying.
Further, Neon Genesis Evangelion, arguably one of the best anime of all time, was absolutely brilliant when the entire production was on the verge of collapse. Shaft could emulate similar conditions to similar success.
Considering that Shaft has had several joint productions with Gainax, it doesn't surprise me that they took this route and it won't surprise me if they emulate Gainax in other ways as well.
Pretentious tripe. The studio must be very badly run to get into this kind of fix. You can admit they messed up catastrophically without saying the show itself is rubbish.
Whether bad run or not it's the only studio being original in the whole Japanese animation panorama, period. Same with animation: whatever you say Ep9 loli oppai was the best ever.
I see, no wonder Arte hardly make any weekly coverage about this show like Queen's Blade; he somewhat really despise it..
i was under the impression that 'Artefact' is a woman.
Hush no need to flatter his ego.
Blasphemy, id say this is the most entertaining show to air in the last month. I'd rate it on the same level as A certain magical index.
Apart from visual nitpickings its unique style of presentation and enjoyable mix of fanservice with suspense itself alone already guarantees a solid 8 on the scale of 10 and only rising based on personal bias.
Finally a show also the not socially starved can enjoy after that moe blob frenzy and pantsu witches constantly stealing the headlines.
The readers demand more Bakemonogatari articles!
/Gets off of soapbox
When i saw this episode i was like hell wtf... There were only few frames and sound in background meaning that there was something actually happening, but nothing on the screen but this stupid "black" and "red" subtitles. All episode is a trash. It should be redone, and they shouldn't be doing stupid excuses, even if so, they should postpone this episode and finish it for next week.
If they would actually finish animating the loli oppai there would be more...
Well, at least it's not a Jiji-heads censorship DVD scheme.. You have my forgiveness, SHAFT :3
Loving this series and can't wait for DVD goodies ^_^/ yay
I would actually buy this as well
Yeahh...anyway is still a cool show, with awesome animation compared to other mainstream shit (cofcofnarutobleachcofcof)
so true :D
but naruto and bleach are the best.
Believe it!
fail
Habeeb it!
It's still better than the stuff the korean slave animators are producing for their japanese overlords in almost every other studio.
lol...so now Artists/animators who arent Japanese arent just as good?
The artist who did the original light novel illustration of Bakemonogatari is not Japanese... She is Taiwanese (>_<)
Korean animation studios are often outsourced to for cut scenes, and transition type scene drawings. Most of the crucial scenes and animation is left the Japanese/origin studio or if outsourced, "overlorded" closely to retain quality.
Korean slave animators?
See credits here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkys9qOoLCM
+ too many numbers.
Shaft just needs to SLAP DAT ASS, as they've done before.
Well, at least the animation in general is good, better than the outsourced QUALITY shit other studios want to pass out as animation.
what do you mean? outsourcing is not directly related to quality.
He means asread quality.
like endless eight
fail. Kyoani is domestic and thus doesnt apply to "outsource".
try asread quality
Kyoani hires overseas contractors for animation.
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Screw it this series is awesome watching it is still a blast
I hope Shaft gets shit done soon. If this happens again in their next shows I'll not be a happy camper...
It's like SHAFT is becoming the new Gainax!
well, the parts you can actually watch, that is
Most of the gist of this series is in the dialogue anyway, so as long as they don't cut those...
I'll be laughing if they just dump the whole anime series into a drama CD... Lol
Screw it. Bakemonogatari is one awesome anime for it's fans.
That's pat of the art XD
Yeah, all the missing frames and the like added to the charm of it and the experience.
Helped contribute to the "What in the hell..." factor without any doubt.
the inconsistancies add to the humor i think
kuro
(post cut due circumstances)
I FAP TO KANBARU!!
you better use our brain to sort out the series.
If the DVDs do have complete shots then it would be better!
it better have dvds and now got to rediownlaod this entire series. stupid bastards should show it uncensored in first place
I'd guess it's a truism that copyright infringement is severely damaging to the anime industry at this time, as also to certain other industries.
However,
>stupid bastards should
indeed
>show it uncensored in first place.
The high water mark was already breached some time ago, it's over; they're selling pirate masks in Woolworths, man.
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
I doubt you could comprehend any ironic response, so I won't even bother.
it's all a plot to sell the dvds!
thats equal to 9000 dourp
+1
Now that's OVER 9000
+2
+8997
-7664
it's 1337 now!!! :P
still a genius plot :)
it's a better plot than kyoani's
If so, it may just work.
+1