It has been announced that a new episode of the "Monogatari Series Off & Monster Season," an anime based on the popular novels by Nisio Isin, titled "Karen Ouga: Karen Ouga," will air in winter 2026. The first visual has been released, depicting Karen Araragi gazing at her own reflection in the water.
In "Karen Ouga: Karen Ouga," Karen Araragi, now a first-year high school student, is recognized for her strength by her karate master, but is ordered to seclude herself in the mountains in order to advance to the next stage. Karen secludes herself in the Ouga Three Mountains, consisting of Onikaiyama, Senbaritake, and Kachikachiyama, and confronts herself.
"Off & Monster Season" is based on the "Off Season" and "Monster Season" stories from Nisio Isin's "<Monogatari> Series." It was streamed on ABEMA from July to October 2024 and broadcast on television from September to December of the same year.
The "Monogatari Series" is a novel series depicting the dramas of boys and girls, including Koyomi Araragi, and their encounters with supernatural phenomena. The first TV anime series, "Bakemonogatari," aired in 2009, followed by "Nisemonogatari" and "Nekomonogatari (Kuro)" in 2012, "Second Season" in 2013, "Hanamonogatari" and "Tsukimonogatari" in 2014, "Owarimonogatari" in 2015 and 2017, "Koyomimonogatari" in 2018, and "Zoku Owarimonogatari" in 2019. "Kizumonogatari" was released as a three-part theatrical film series in 2016 and 2017.
◇Staff (titles omitted)
Chief Director: Akiyuki Shinbo ▽Director: Midori Midori Yoshizawa ▽Series Composition: Fuyako Higashi, Akiyuki Shinbo ▽Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Akio Watanabe▽Animation Production: Shaft
