Monogatari : Season 1

On the day after the Golden Week holiday, third year high school student Koyomi Araragi finds himself saving a classmate, Hitagi Senjyogahara, by catching her when she slips on the stairs and comes tumbling down from above.

When Hitagi is attacked by a crab god, Oshino is forced to intervene. This allows her to beg the crab to return her feeling and memories.

Koyomi Araragi has an argument with his sister and then finds ut difficult to stay in the house. He goes to the park where he meets Hitagi Senjyogahara. They see a little girl, Mayoi Hachikuji, comparing the town map displayed in the park to the memo in her hand. Learning that Mayoi has lost her way and route to a relative's home, Koyomi offers to help, only to be violently rebuffed.

After Koyomi Araragi and Hitagi Senjyogahara discover that the girl they met in the park, Mayoi Hachikuji, is trying to get to her mother's house, they offer to walk along with her. However, they keep getting incredibly lost.

While Hitagi is off to Oshino for advice, Koyomi learns more about Mayoi's life. When Hitagi finally returns, she reveals some information that surprises Koyomi.

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.

The day after his attack, Koyomi goes to see Suruga, where she tells him something about herself he can't quite grasp.

Koyomi takes Suruga to see Oshino in order to help her. However, the help he offers isn't the help Koyomi wanted...

Koyomi and Suruga travel to an abandoned shrine in order to perform a favor for Oshino. As they climb the mountain the shrine is located on, they pass a girl running down the path, who only briefly exchanges glances before continuing in the other direction. Once they reach the shrine, Koyomi and Suruga discover a number of dismembered snake corpses in what appears to be some sort of ritual. They both quickly decide to leave. Later, Koyomi comes across Hanekawa in a bookstore, where they begin to

Oshino informs Koyomi that Nadeko is under the effects of a Snake Constrictor, a snake spirit that slowly constricts the life out of its victim. Nadeko explains that it is a curse a classmate placed on her after Nadeko inadvertently rejected the confession of a boy the classmate liked. Normally, a curse placed by an amateur would be harmless, but Nadeko accidentally made the curse worse by performing her ritual at the shrine, which has been corrupted by Shinobu's presence. Koyomi obtains a

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.

Hitagi and Koyomi are having lunch. Her teases him and roughly "asks" him to go on a date. He comes late but Hitagi doesn't seem to mind. Her father drives them to a location where Hitagi teases him more. She leaves him with her father where at first Koyomi was nervous. Her father goes on talking about how he isn't there for her often and asks Koyomi to take cake of her. Hitagi blindfolds him and then shows him an area where a blanket is laid on the ground. They lay down and she tells him that