Monogatari Series
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50 free Monogatari Series trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Monogatari is the anime that talks. A boy who was briefly a vampire spends his last year of high school meeting girls whose troubles have taken supernatural shape: a classmate with a secret no doctor can treat, a child who cannot find her way home, a model student whose strain grows cat ears. Most of the fights are conversations, thick with puns, and the visuals never sit still. This quiz covers the whole series, starting with Bakemonogatari: Koyomi Araragi, Hitagi Senjougahara, Tsubasa Hanekawa and her alter ego Black Hanekawa, Shinobu, the specialists who deal in oddities, and the arcs that follow through Nisemonogatari, Second Season and Owarimonogatari. There are also questions on the novels, the voice cast, the music and the people who make the anime. It is written for fans who have seen the series at least once, with the easier questions first and deeper cuts later. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so it doubles as a refresher before a rewatch.
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Q 01What does a giant crab steal from Hitagi Senjougahara in Bakemonogatari, a secret Koyomi Araragi learns by catching her?
Her weight
Her weight went with the crab, so she lands in his arms weighing almost nothing. Ever since, she has avoided her classmates and threatened anyone who discovers the truth.
Q 02Which animation studio, also behind March Comes In like a Lion, has produced the Monogatari anime since Bakemonogatari?
Shaft
Shaft began in 1975 doing subcontracted work, such as cel painting, for larger studios. Decades later the Tokyo Anime Award Festival chose its Bakemonogatari as the best anime series of 2009.
Q 03Which Japanese novelist, a Mephisto Prize winner at twenty for his debut, writes the Monogatari light novels?
Nisio Isin
Nisio Isin often styles his pen name NISIOISIN, to show that it reads the same forwards and backwards. Monogatari began as short stories he wrote for a literary magazine.
Q 04Which real doughnut chain is Shinobu Oshino spotted at in Bakemonogatari before she slips into Koyomi's shadow?
Mister Donut
Mister Donut is Japan's largest doughnut franchise, though most of its North American shops became Dunkin' Donuts decades ago. Once in his shadow, Shinobu shares Koyomi's emotions and senses.
Q 05Which Bakemonogatari opening, sung by Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku, later resurfaced worldwide through TikTok?
Renai Circulation
Renai Circulation has Hanazawa rapping gently over a funky tune, an idea its composer drew from Shibuya-kei music. Fans on Niconico were dancing to it years before TikTok found it.
Q 06What colour does Tsubasa Hanekawa's hair turn in Bakemonogatari when the cat oddity takes over as Black Hanekawa?
White
White hair and cat ears mark the change. The cat is a weak spirit by itself, but with Tsubasa's knowledge it grows cunning enough to rival a vampire.
Q 07During which school holiday is Koyomi Araragi turned into a vampire, shortly before the story of Bakemonogatari begins?
Spring break
Spring break is when he meets a dying vampire and offers her his blood. Meme Oshino later helps him become human again, though his wounds still heal unnaturally fast.
Q 08Mayoi Hachikuji's oversized backpack in the Monogatari series stands for the shell of which creature?
Snail
Snail imagery follows Mayoi everywhere: she is the ghost of a lost fifth-grader, seen only by people who do not want to reach their destinations.
Q 09Which anime character type does the sharp-tongued Hitagi Senjougahara openly call herself in Bakemonogatari?
Tsundere
Tsundere is the label she gives herself, the type that is hard on the outside and soft inside. Bakemonogatari is now listed beside Love Hina and Evangelion as a home of the archetype.
Q 10Which Japanese holiday period, retold in Nekomonogatari (Black), sees Tsubasa Hanekawa first possessed by a cat oddity?
Golden Week
Golden Week brings out the cat after years of strain at home, and it takes Shinobu's help to end the rampage. The cure costs Tsubasa her own memories of the week.
Q 11Which stationery item is Hitagi Senjougahara's symbol in the Monogatari series, standing for the claw of a crab?
Stapler
A stapler opens the romance on a painful note: she staples the inside of Koyomi's mouth to frighten him into keeping her secret. The wound heals within minutes, which is how she learns he is no ordinary boy.
Q 12A classmate's curse in Bakemonogatari leaves Nadeko Sengoku slowly strangled by which invisible creature?
Snake
A snake, and in fact two of them: one was set on her by a boy she turned down, the other by a girl who was in love with that boy. Koyomi manages to remove only the first.
Q 13Nisemonogatari reveals that Koyomi's youngest sister, Tsukihi Araragi, is in truth which legendary creature?
Phoenix
Q 21Which black-suited con man swindled Hitagi Senjougahara's family before returning to scam schoolgirls in Nisemonogatari?
Deishu Kaiki
Deishu Kaiki says he prefers fakes, because a fake that strives to be real ends up surpassing the real thing. He loves money and distrusts anything it cannot buy.
Q 22Which Taiwanese illustrator has drawn the art for the Monogatari light novels ever since the first volume?
Vofan
Vofan also designed Koyomi, who never appears on the novel covers. When rumours claimed the hero had never been drawn for the books, the artist posted his early illustration to settle it.
Q 23Which director, also behind Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, has overseen the Monogatari anime since Bakemonogatari?
Akiyuki Shinbo
A phoenix entered Tsukihi before she was even born, and the two minds have long since become one. No injury can kill her; only old age can end her life.
Q 14In the Monogatari series, which nickname do the karate devotee Karen Araragi and her sibling Tsukihi share at school?
Fire Sisters
The Fire Sisters of Tsuganoki Second Junior High work as a pair until Karen moves up to high school, when the duo is disbanded. Tsukihi admits she mostly used Karen's crusade as an excuse to run wild.
Q 15In which kind of abandoned building does the oddity specialist Meme Oshino live during Bakemonogatari?
Cram school
A cram school that went out of business is his base, and the weakened vampire Shinobu lives there with him. He solves other people's oddity troubles, but always asks for fair payment in return.
Q 16In Bakemonogatari, Suruga Kanbaru, the underclassman with a bandaged left arm, stars for which school sports team?
Basketball
Basketball is where Suruga shines as the school's star player, and an old rival from the court, Rouka Numachi, comes back to trouble her in Hanamonogatari.
Q 17Which Monogatari prequel reached cinemas as three films subtitled Tekketsu, Nekketsu and Reiketsu?
Kizumonogatari
Kizumonogatari was first promised for 2012, but the films slipped by four years. Their subtitles mean iron-blooded, hot-blooded and cold-blooded.
Q 18Which sound does Black Hanekawa slip into her words as a verbal tic in the Monogatari series?
Nya
Nya takes the place of every na, a tic that shows the cat is the one talking. The spirit behind the voice is male, although the body it borrows is Tsubasa's.
Q 19Which voice actor, also heard as Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan, plays Koyomi Araragi in the Monogatari anime?
Hiroshi Kamiya
Hiroshi Kamiya found Koyomi hard to play, because the scripts pile narration and monologue on top of ordinary dialogue. He kept reading the novels to understand the character better.
Q 20Which band released Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari, the ending theme of Bakemonogatari, as its first major-label single?
Supercell
Supercell had made its name with songs voiced by the singing synthesizer Hatsune Miku. This single was its first release with a human vocalist, Nagi Yanagi.
Akiyuki Shinbo was at first the only director, but he asked for Tatsuya Oishi to join him as series director on Bakemonogatari. Oishi went on to make the prequel films.
Q 24Which manga artist, creator of Air Gear and Tenjho Tenge, drew the manga adaptation of Bakemonogatari?
Oh! great
Oh! great is a pun: the artist's real name, Ogure Ito, sounds like the English phrase when said in Japanese order. His version of the story ran to 22 volumes.
Q 25Which stoic Monogatari character is a shikigami, brought back from the dead by student specialists as a school project?
Yotsugi Ononoki
Yotsugi Ononoki was once human, and her makers shared ownership of her until most gave up their claims. She speaks of herself with the boyish pronoun boku and fights beside Yozuru Kagenui.
Q 26The onmyoji Yozuru Kagenui pays for her immense strength in the Monogatari series by never touching what?
The ground
The ground is off limits to her as the price of that strength. She hunts immortal oddities and, unlike her fellow specialists, does the work for free.
Q 27In the Monogatari series, what relation is the know-it-all specialist Izuko Gaen to Suruga Kanbaru?
Her aunt
Her aunt, a tie Gaen asks Koyomi to keep secret when she has him arrange an introduction. She takes her payment in favours, building a network of people who owe her one.
Q 28As which relative of Meme Oshino does the mysterious Ougi Oshino introduce herself in the Monogatari series?
His niece
His niece is the claim, but a university friend of Meme's insists that he has no family at all. Owarimonogatari finally reveals where she really came from.
Q 29Which mathematician's name does the maths-loving Sodachi Oikura want as her school nickname in the Monogatari series?
Euler
Euler is what she asks for, but classmates call her How Much instead, a pun on Oikura. She despises Koyomi, who once scored 100 on a class maths test to her 99.
Q 30In the Monogatari series, what job do both of Koyomi Araragi's parents hold, one he later takes up himself?
Police officers
Police officers, both in senior posts. Koyomi follows them into the force and joins a squad that handles rumours of oddities, and his sister Karen becomes an officer too.