Aniplex has released a trailer for Wazamonogatari, the next arc of the Monogatari Off and Monster Season anime series and the narrative follow-up to the past-set Episode 6.5, “A Cruel Fairy Tale: The Beautiful Princess.”.
The trailer introduces Maya Sakamoto‘s Acerola near its start, with a mysterious, slender vampire whom she encounters appearing soon after. Warm colors dominate most of the previewed footage, instantly setting the prequel arc apart from the Orokamonogatari and Nademonogatari episodes, and there are scenery shots that convey a grand sense of scale along with solemn majesty.
Wazamonogatari will begin on August 24 JST. Monogatari Off and Monster Season‘s first episode premiered on July 6 JST.
Monogatari Off and Monster Season is the latest installment in the Monogatari anime series, which adapts the supernatural light novels written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The Off-Season books, released from 2015 to 2017, include Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari. Meanwhile, the Monster Season stories, released from 2017 to 2021, include Shinobumonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shimonogatari Parts 1 and 2.
The first Monogatari Series books were 2006’s Bakemonogatari Part 1 and 2. The Bakemonogatari anime premiered in 2009 and was directed by Tatsuya Oishi, who also directed 2016 to 2017’s Kizumonogatari movie trilogy. The other previous Monogatari anime were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (Call of the Night, The Case Study of Vanitas).
Kodansha USA describes Bakemonogatari Part 1 as:
There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that ’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is.
So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor.
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Staff
• Chief director: Akiyuki Shinbo (returning)
• Director: Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director)
• Character designer: Akio Watanabe (returning)
• Series composer: Fuyashi To (returning)
• Series composer: Akiyuki Shinbo (returning)
• Art director: Hisaharu Iijima (returning)
• Color designer: Yasuko Watanabe (Zoku Owarimonogatari)
• Compositing director: Hiyori Hashimoto (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story and RWBY Ice Queendom assistant compositing director)
• Compositing director: Mizuho Ishikawa (Zom 100 compositing staff)
Cast
• Saori Hayami as Yotsugi Ononoki
• Yuka Iguchi as Tsukihi Araragi
• Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku
• Marina Inoue as Sodachi Oikura
• Kaori Mizuhashi as Ougi Oshino
Source: Aniplex Channel