


This is Koyomi referring to Shinobu, after Black Hanekawa mentions he could just leave her and go back to being a regular human. I know I’ve used a lot of dialogue this post, but this is the last one. Speaking of Shinobu, there’s one last quite I’ll throw in here. Even here, it just goes right over his head. As I mentioned, this is something about Koyomi, the selfless hero: he simply never thinks about himself. While this scene may not have revealed exactly what happened to Shinobu, as Black Hanekawa is only posing a possible perspective of Shinobu trying to protect Koyomi by leaving him, it does tell us a lot about Koyomi. You can turn back into a normal human being whenever you want. “Araragi-kun, if you abandon Shinobu-chan, If Shinobu leaves, Koyomi can just go back to a regular human life.

In other words, she may have left in order to try and help Koyomi. And we know that Koyomi has been near-killed several times in these encounters.

“Except for what’s going on with my master, perhaps you’d be better off without the vampire? After all, with her gone, you can go back to being human.”ĭo you see what she has been getting at? Perhaps Shinobu left, not because of anything to do with herself, but because her very presence was causing Koyomi to encounter so many aberrations. So by treating Shinobu like a little girl, I destroyed Shinobu as an aberration?” “Wait, you said that’s why you exist, right? After all, he’s at least polite.”īelieved in, feared, be afraid of, avoided, respected, worshiped, hated, despised, and receive wishes.Īpproaching us as a friend is just annoying, meow.” That’s probably why the guy in the Hawaiian shirt’s guesses end up being right. “See? That’s how little you really know about us. “No, that’s not what I’m trying to say, meow.įor example, have you considered why that vampire ran off?” “So what you mean is that I’ll never be able to get along with aberrations? It sure seems that way.” There’s quite a bit of dialogue, so let’s just get right to that. Black Hanekawa gives Koyomi some good insight into aberrations, and how they are to be viewed and treated by humans.
