Monogatari rewatch ep 5

For returning watchers

I’ve always thought of Araragi’s sexual assault of Hachikuji being OK since she seems OK with it and is in actuality 21-22, but this first squeeze last episode happened before any such consent had been given and before he knows her real age. I didn’t think of that until know, but it slightly changes my view of Araragi as a character.
This being said, Araragi acknowledges this himself in the novel when Hachikuji says ”You’d squish an elementary school girl’s chest, Mister Araragi, but not a middle school girl’s chest”
and Araragi answers
”Whoever this Mister Araragi you’re talking about is, he sounds like one hell of a pedophile.”
I guess it could have been an honset slip of the hand though.