The Best Episodes of Monogatari
Every episode of Monogatari ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Monogatari!
Although there are still traces of the brief period he became a vampire, third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi is human again. He happens upon others with their own supernatural problems and finds that he can empathize. Koyomi becomes involved in their lives, seeking to help them and occasionally asking for advice from Meme Oshino, the homeless man who helped him become human again.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Monogatari" is "Tsubasa Cat (2)", rated 9.2/10 from 471 user votes. It was directed by Tatsuya Oishi, Toshimasa Suzuki and written by Fuyashi Tou. "Tsubasa Cat (2)" aired on 9/25/2009 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "OROKAMONOGATARI Tsukihi Undo".
9.2/10 471 votes#1 - Tsubasa Cat (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/25/2009
Koyomi is over the moon when Hitagi announces their first date will finally happen. But on the day of, he finds that she is not the only one there.
Director: Tatsuya Oishi, Toshimasa Suzuki
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - OROKAMONOGATARI Tsukihi Undo
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/2024
Yotsugi Ononoki has been infiltrating the Araragi residence to keep an eye on Tsukihi Araragi. While Tsukihi is at school, Yotsugi freely spends her time, but she is seen by Tsukihi, who suddenly comes back home.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - NADEMONOGATARI Nadeko Draw (4)
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 8/3/2024
Nadeko and Yotsugi returned to the Sengoku residence to plan a strategy for the future. Unable to take a step forward, Nadeko ponders how to secure the rest of the Shikigami Nadekos, prompting Yotsugi to remind her of her original purpose. To settle the situation and achieve their objectives, the two headed to the place for the final battle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#4 - NADEMONOGATARI Nadeko Draw (5)
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/10/2024
With the help of Yotsugi Ononoki, Nadeko Sengoku finally met God Nadeko. In front of God Nadeko, who had a creepy smile on her face, were the two "Current Nadekos." After that, the place Nadeko heads to in order to end the story is the location where Koyomi Araragi used to be.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.8/10 5 votes#5 - Hitagi End (6)
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 12/29/2013
Kaiki proceeds to deceive Nadeko Sengoku. However, Nadeko with surprising ease sees through Kaiki's lies and attacks with numerous white snakes. What will be coming last out of the tongue of a con artist near death–a lie, or the truth?
Director: Kenjirou Okada
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.5/10 351 votes#6 - Mayoi Snail (3)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/31/2009
An apparition is behind why Mayoi is unable to reach her mother’s house. Receiving advice from Meme, Hitagi tells Koyomi the surprising truth.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
8.5/10 4 votes#7 - Hitagi End (3)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 12/8/2013
Kaiki meets Nadeko Sengoku face to face at North Shirahebi Shrine. Nadeko's personality became a lot brighter once she became the snake god, and she starts to talk to Kaiki in a carefree manner about how she was going to kill big brother Koyomi soon...
Director: Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.4/10 308 votes#8 - Suruga Monkey (3)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/28/2009
Koyomi takes Suruga to see Oshino in order to help her. However, the help he offers isn't the help Koyomi wanted...
Director: Tatsuya Oishi
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
8.2/10 4 votes#9 - Tsubasa Tiger (5)
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/4/2013
Tsubasa determined the identity of the giant tiger apparition “Kako,” and writes one long letter. The letter was addressed to Black Hanekawa, the apparition that could be described as her other personality.
Director: Tomoyuki Itamura
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.2/10 4 votes#10 - Hitagi End (2)
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 12/1/2013
Kaiki, deciding to accept Hitagi's work request, visits the town where Koyomi and his friends live. He starts to do research on Nadeko Sengoku, the junior high school girl turned god of North Shirahebi Shrine, who is the current target of deceit.
Director: Sumito Sasaki
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.1/10 364 votes#11 - Hitagi Crab (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/10/2009
Koyomi takes Hitagi to consult Meme Oshino, the wandering expert on supernatural oddities. Meme provides advice to them on exorcising apparitions.
Director: Tomoyuki Itamura
Writer: Yukito Kizawa
8.0/10 6 votes#12 - Tsukihi Phoenix (4)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2012
As Shinobu explains how Tsukihi came to be in her currents situation. Araragi resolves to stop the out-of-towners from killing her. But unlike Oshino and Kaiki, Kagenui speaks with her fist and she talks a lot.
Director: Yuki Yase
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.0/10 4 votes#13 - Nadeko Medusa (4)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 10/13/2013
Nadeko finally found the object of worship. Kuchinawa, now in a good mood, tells Nadeko that he will grant her a wish. But Koyomi shows up right then and starts his attempt to convince Nadeko to let go of that object of worship.
Director: Shuuji Miyahara
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.0/10 4 votes#14 - Ougi Formula
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2015
Koyomi and Ougi find themselves trapped in a classroom, and the story shifts back to the point when Suruga introduces Ougi to Koyomi. Ougi approaches him with a mystery about a room not seen in the school's blueprints for them to investigate. When they enter the room, they find themselves trapped inside, leading them to their current situation. While talking about their predicament, the duo realize that the room is an oddity created by a traumatic memory from Koyomi's freshman years. Koyomi then tells Ougi that two years prior, the class president at his and Hitagi's class at the time, Sodachi Oikura, was looking for possible culprits of cheating on a math test, and would not allow any student to leave class until a culprit was found. Ougi surmises that they themselves won't be able to leave the room until the two-year-old mystery is solved.
Director: Tomoyuki Itamura
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
8.0/10 1 votes#15 - NADEMONOGATARI Nadeko Draw (1)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/13/2024
In order to become a manga artist, Nadeko Sengoku doesn't go to school and spends her days drawing. So, her parents finally tell her to start working after graduating from middle school. As the deadline until graduation approaches, Yotsugi Ononoki proposes ways to become a manga artist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#16 - NADEMONOGATARI Nadeko Draw (2)
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/20/2024
Together with Ougi Oshino, who says, "I saw Nadeko in uniform," Nadeko Sengoku arrives at 701 Middle School, a public school, where she was sighted. Despite her anxiety, Nadeko stepped into the school. The scene she witnessed was unexpected.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#17 - NADEMONOGATARI Nadeko Draw (3)
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/27/2024
Inspired by her conversation with Sodachi Oikura, Nadeko was heading to the Araragi residence to secure Meek Nadeko. However, there was a big hole around the knob of the front door, big enough for a human wrist to pass through. Meanwhile, Yotsugi, who had gone in the other direction to look for God Nadeko, was heading toward North Shirahebi Shrine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 278 votes#18 - Nadeko Snake (2)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/11/2009
Koyomi taps into Meme’s powers in order to lift the snake’s curse from Nadeko Sengoku, a mysterious girl he encounters at the temple.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
7.8/10 290 votes#19 - Suruga Monkey (2)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/21/2009
The day after his attack, Koyomi goes to see Suruga, where she tells him something about herself he can't quite grasp.
Director: Toshimasa Suzuki
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
7.8/10 4 votes#20 - Shinobu Time (4)
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 11/17/2013
Koyomi and company climbed down the mountain they were hiding in after escaping from the “darkness." Upon visiting a village between the mountains, they meet Izuko Gaen and receive an explanation concerning the “darkness.”
Director: Yuki Yase
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
7.8/10 4 votes#21 - Hitagi End (1)
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 11/24/2013
On January 1st, Hitagi Senjyogahara makes a phone call to Deishu Kaiki, her supposed archnemesis. It was a tough decision made on her part, in order to save herself and Koyomi Araragi from their “death sentence.”
Director: Kenjirou Okada
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
7.8/10 4 votes#22 - Hitagi End (4)
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 12/15/2013
Kaiki heads to North Shirahebi Shrine daily in order to deceive Nadeko the snake god but finds himself being followed on his way home. Furthermore, he gets a mysterious threat telling him to “pull out of this case.”
Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo
7.7/10 337 votes#23 - Mayoi Snail (1)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/17/2009
Uncomfortable after quarreling with his sister on Mother’s Day, Koyomi leaves the house. Hitagi bumps into him at the park and makes an offer.
Director: Tomoyuki Itamura
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
7.6/10 296 votes#24 - Suruga Monkey (1)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/2009
On his way to Hitagi's house, Koyomi bumps in to Suruga Kanbaru, the school's basketball star and an old friend of Hitagi, of whom he can't get rid of. Later that day, Koyomi is attacked by a mysterious being.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Writer: Fuyashi Tou
7.6/10 5 votes#25 - Karen Bee (6)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2012
Koyomi leaves Karen behind at home to talk with Senjougahara. Senjougahara seems to be planning on confronting and murdering Kaiki. When he comes back home, he learns Karen has wandered off, while still sick.
Director: Takashi Kawabata
Writer: Fuyashi Tou, Akiyuki Shinbo