Circling back to a middle school girl's apotheosis if we can call it that in Otorimonogatari
and the mortal threat it poses to the hero and his girl this Season Two finale is narrated
for the first time in the series by a grown-up-but if the word conjures a sense of reliability
of stability and certainty to you dear reader then the lesson to take home from this is to
trust no one. Because the teller of the tale who has been summoned by the heroine to defuse
the situation despite having been her nemesis since the very outset of the series is-in the
absence of the equally shady adult Oshino who at least was an expert-none other than his
college frenemy the fake ghostbuster who doesn't believe in ghosts the shameless swindler
Deishu Kaiki. And it is indeed a con that he agrees to perpetrate uncharacteristically pro
bono on a wrathful god-a mythic undertaking if true which it may be when a liar among liars
holds that his story like any other is all a lie. But maybe not when a man who claims to be
wise in the ways of the world sounds just as self-conscious as his adolescent counterparts or a
Russian anti-hero.
