Monogatari rewatch ep 8

For returning watchers

I find Shinobu’s ”post tried to kill myself but you didn’t let me and now I’m having an existential crisis depression” so interesting. Imagine how it must feel, having been royalty, only to become a legendary vampire, to live through immense hardship, to regret immortality, to against her very existence seek out a way to die, only to be diminished to a husk of a former vampire, bound by name to a high school boy and trapped in the body of an eight year old.
No wonder she doesn’t speak with Araragi.
But she is nearly 600, and with that amount of life (or undead) experience comes maturity (lol, yeah right) so she is able to forgive Araragi eventually.