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Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

2002, Light novel, 1 vol, 84%

Recommended by 98 Bakemonogatari fans on AniList. Both have Meta, Philosophy.

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.

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About Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale

2006, Light novel, 2 vol, 88%

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.

(Source: Kodansha USA)

Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

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