On 18 January 2024, the official X account of Aniplex revealed that The “Monogatari” series is restarting with its new “Monster Season” and “Off Season“. The Monogatari series will return in 2024,
Monogatari Off Season & Monster Season anime details
Aniplex released 2 mysterious websites on 15 January 2024 and 16 January 2024, with the code names “O” and “M“. And it is revealed that code name “O” stands for “Off Season” and code name “M” stands for “Monster Season”.
The official YouTube channel of Aniplex Japan released the announcement trailer for this Off & Monster season of Monogatari:
Monogatari Off Season & Monter Season will be released in Japan in 2024. Bookmark our website for more updates!
Monster Season will consist of a New Arc with Araragi as a College Student while the Off Season will consist of Interspersed stories focused on different characters
Animation Studio Shaft is making a comeback for animating this Off and Monster season of Monogatari.
The staff members for this version of Monogatari:
Chief Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Director: Midori Yoshizawa
Series Composition: Tomiyako Azuma and Akiyuki Shinbo
Character Design and Chief Animation Director: Akio Watanabe
Animation production: Shaft
Key Visual illustration: Akio Watanabe
The brand new key visual drawn by Watanabe features five people: Nadeshiko Sengoku, Tsukihi Araragi, Mayoi Hachikuji, Suruga Kanbara, and Yotsugi Akenogi is also released:
Monogatari is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. It was serialized in November 2006 and Kodansha published a total of 29 volumes of this series under its Kodansha Box imprint. The series’ story arcs share the common title suffix -monogatari.
Shaft has animated the Monogatari series several times since 2009.
Source: Comic Natalie, Official Website