220https://i.ur.com/RFqvxbQ.png 220https://i.ur.com/mrUsXM6.png?1 Nekomonogatari White is the 5th entry in the Monogatari series and the beginning of the Second Season. Serving as a change in the series Nekomonogatari White features a different narrator that is Hanekawa narrating the events of her meeting a tiger aberration. Though not a direct sequel to Nekomonogatari Black the novel deals mostly with the same problems that being Hanekawas family issues along with her personal problems. Although obviously not her final appearance Neko White serves as a sort of conclusion to Hanekawas character arc. In the novel it is revealed that the tiger that Hanekawa meets is in fact an aberration that was created from herself just like Black Hanekawa who returns in the novel for a third time serving as an avatar of her envy or jealousy. All of her feelings of jealousy towards people with happier situations than her own when it comes to family love or just in general end up building up as a fire burning in her heart therefore manifesting as an aberration that burns all places Hanekawa has been in and in which she has felt some sort of jealousy. One reason the novel is called Nekomonogatari White aside from the neko part which should be obvious it means cat fyi just in case you didnt know has to do with Hanekawa and how she presents herself. As mentioned in the previous paragraph Hanekawa is a person who both consciously and unconsciously hides away her negative emotions and pushes them to the side and accepts all things as they are therefore leaving her as just white or transparent. This explains why some characters frequently think shes terrifying in a way. As Senjougahara tells her Youre not a good person just dull when it comes to darkness. While Nekomonogatari Black served to show that Hanekawa has a dark side to her hence Black Neko White is her finally trying to come to terms with that side of her and accepting all her emotions. Throughout the novel it is also made obvious that there are certain events happening in the background as Araragi is absent for the majority of the story. This along with the fact that other characters are involved like Shinobu Mayoi and Kanbaru leaves you as the reader even more curious as to whats going on in the background. The involvement of newlyintroduced Gaen Izuko Oshino Kaiki and Kagenuis senior and halfvampire Episode also just adds more to the mystery of the events. All of this already adds some questions to the Second Season which will end up being answered later in the series. To conclude the review while the moral of Neko Black could be the fact that all people have different or darker sides of them and that its not wrong to ask others for help the moral of Neko White would be that embracing or coming to terms with all those sides of ourselves is crucial to helping ourselves and that theres no point of putting up a facade of a perfect human being. Next up Kabukimonogatari