This is my (hopefully) complete batch torrent for the Monogatari series, barring any future seasons coming into existence.
What order should I watch?
Please refer to this spreadsheet. I’d recommend Broadcast Light Novel Order if you want the canonical experience, Broadcast if you want to experience it the way most TV viewers did, Chronological if you want the story to be linear (for more information on why these orders exist, see this fan wiki page). I’ve named the episodes such that it should be relatively straightforward to follow any of these orders. However, there is a catch, which is discussed below.
What’s with the wonky season/episode numbering?
The numbering scheme I have chosen corresponds to the show’s TVDB listing. This order is not recommended for viewing, but the episodes must be numbered and organized this way for metadata such as episode descriptions to properly display on Plex servers, or anything else that uses TVDB as a metadata agent.
Why did you choose [Subgroup X] over [Subgroup Y]?
A combination of personal preference and a strong aversion to ordered chapters. In case you want more detail:
Bakemonogatari
subs: [ANE]
reason: these seem to be the most popular subs on the net
Nise, Neko, Kabuki, Otori, Oni, Koi, Hana, Tsuki, Owarimonogatari
subs: [Commie]
reason: can’t find a batch of all of Commie’s work on this series, hence why I’m making one
Koyomimonogatari
subs: [DB]
reason: all the subs I found seemed pretty much the same, so I picked one at random
Kizumonogatari
subs: [edo]
reason: I liked the typesetting
Owarimonogatari (part 2)
subs: [Tess]
reason: of the two official sub sources, this one appears to be higher quality (no fansubs seem to exist yet)
Zoku Owarimonogatari
subs: [MTBB]
reason: these are the only subs I could find with decent typesetting
TL;DR it’s mostly Commie because I admire their work and couldn’t find a batch.
This torrent is huge. Why didn’t you do any encoding?
I wanted to keep the original sources intact (plus I didn’t really feel up to the challenge).
Edit: please ignore the 1.ass file in the Bakemonogatari folder. This file is not required for viewing the subs; I just forgot to remove a relic of my sub inspection.
Edit 2: when making this torrent I was not aware that Commie had released Kizumonogatari. I haven’t compared the two (Commie and Edo), but I’ll stick to Edo for now if only for the sake of not having to make a new torrent or a cumbersome patch.
Edit 3: the chronological order listed previously was wrong. It took actually trying to watch it to figure this out. The list has been updated, and the chronological section made slightly less ugly.
Edit 4: there is no Mayoi Hell 3. The file marked Mayoi Hell 3 is actually Hitagi Rendezvous 1, the file marked Hitagi Rendezvous 1 is actually 2, etc. The episodes in the Season 05 folder are still in the correct viewing order when sorted alphabetically (no matter which option you chose above).
Comments - 20
ASSASSINSUBS
Thanks for the collection
John_Rhogan78
A bit unorthodoxed, but hey I’ll take it. Just wish was in 720. I currently don’t have room on my harddrive for 1080 right now.
Noem-light
Ignorant bullshit, watch broadcast if you want an experience not even intended by the anime studio that only exists because of production delays, that some people were forced to watch and an emotional attachment despite being objectivey wrong.
Another bullshit, watching episode 50 before episode 1 does not make for a linear experience just because episode 50 is technically a prequel. Like, “prequel” literally means “a sequel that happens earlier” - how hard is to get that?
This is not like Fate or Haruhi that really have different orders. There is only one correct order - LN order, i.e. how the story was actually written, and a bunch of a wrong ones that exist for stupid reasons.
Abunja
Not yet. You’re missing ‘Ore Monogatari’. Commie subbed it so I’m wondering how did you missed it.
John_Rhogan78
Ore Monogatari is not part of this series, genius.
Abunja
Can’t even take a hint.
LCE
LN Order: Bake -> Kizu -> Nise -> Neko Kuro -> Neko Shiro -> Kabuki -> Hana -> Otori -> Oni -> Koi -> Tsuki -> Koyomi -> Owari -> Zoku Owari
The only edit I’d make to the order when adapted to anime is just to put Koyomi between Owari and Owari 2, since the last episode of Koyomi is a direct lead in to Owari 2.
LCE
Also chronological is horrific since there are several arcs which occur at the same time.
Neko Shiro takes place over the same period of time as 3 other arcs
Jiur
Just to clarify I should watch this in the LN order you just posted, for the “best” experience ?
LCE
Yes
columnq
We are stuck at 28.23%, I think OP needs to seed until at least one of us has the full file. Thank you for the upload!
ratsratswearetherats (uploader)
Yeah sorry about that. I have a scheduler so I can’t seed 24/7.
ratsratswearetherats (uploader)
Also not running a seedbox so I only have like 750KiB/s upload total, which is now being distributed among 50+ leechers. I do have unlimited data though so I can seed to a ridiculous ratio.
jordgoin
Nice it seems to work with my plex without extra work… Thank you I will try to seed as long as I have it but I don’t have a seedbox and my uploads not amazing
ratsratswearetherats (uploader)
Yes, that was the intention of the TVDB numbering. To make sure this worked, I created the torrent from the Monogatari folder in my own plex library.
I have updated the spreadsheet to include LN Order; however I do not think there is one absolutely correct order as you claim. After all, the three sources I consulted to make the spreadsheet (the fan wiki page, the actual Wikipedia page, and the TVDB page) didn’t even agree about how the seasons/meta-seasons should be grouped. It should therefore be noted that I am only providing this spreadsheet for informational purposes; how you choose to watch the series is entirely up to you.
columnq
We did it! Thanks again OP, for the upload and the seeding. Looking forward to finally catching up on this masterpiece~
Interruptor
exactly what i was hoping for. Thank you even though commie>edo for kizu (imo).
ratsratswearetherats (uploader)
Commie’s release of Kizu appears to be fairly recent. When I was putting together this batch I didn’t realize they had done it.
marcyuan08
Is this Even complete???
Sparrow
Thank you so much for this batch and for your explanation.
I am still learning the episode orders and slowly getting there. Searching one by one.