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Blood Ties and Nekomonogatari | Wrong Every Time

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Well, this one was definitely simpler than Nise. Simple enough that I figured this writeup would be redundant – but I looked around online and, surprisingly, I couldn’t find a piece that really dove into the central theme. I’d planned on working on my backlog, but… Alright. Fine. Hey guys. It’s Bobduh. Let’s talk Nekomonogatari. This show’s about family. Okay? That’s the main point. Definitions of family, interpretations of family, what it means to have bonds with others, whether those bonds must be expressed physically or metaphorically. Hanekawa Tsubasa’s farce of a family situation is the driving conflict of the show, and the less overtly legitimized but more fundamentally meaningful bonds that surround her are the forces that bring her home. Hanekawa is one screwed up kid. Her family life is a sham – she’s living with two adults who have no actual blood relationship to her, and her generally successful attempts to come off as an exceptional but otherwise normal teenager are basical

Well, this one was definitely simpler than Nise. Simple enough that I figured this writeup would be redundant – but I looked around online and, surprisingly, I couldn’t find a piece that really dove into the central theme. I’d planned on working on my backlog, but… Alright. Fine. Hey guys. It’s Bobduh. Let’s talk Nekomonogatari. This show’s about family. Okay? That’s the main point. Definitions of family, interpretations of family, what it means to have bonds with others, whether those bonds must be expressed physically or metaphorically. Hanekawa Tsubasa’s farce

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