Mayoi Hell
Didn't expect Tadatsuru to be the one with the lecture here. Was expecting Guillotine Cutter or someone who died off screen secretly. I will happily take the dulcet tones of Koyasu though, and it deepened the character of someone who was mostly a one-off, I can appreciate that.
I didnt figure the arc to go this way. It seemed to focus far more on the Gaen Faction aspect, and just what the hell Gaen and Oshino Meme are doing. Even Kagenui, Episode, Ononoki, Tadatsuru and seemingly Kaiki are being yanked around by those two.
I was expecting more Hachikuji stuff, but I did like the script flip of the lost snail leading Araragi on his way. A lot of it felt kind of like narrative recap on Bakemonogatari and Araragi's decisions, and a little bit of how far he has come from his self in Kizu.