Around midnight, under a depressed street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, is a white female, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Certainly, a rumor’s been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places.

Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to avoid having friends because they’d lower his “intensity as a human,’ is naturally skeptical. However it is to him that the bloodsucking demon, an idea “dated twice over,’ beckons over the 1st day of spring break as he makes his way home with a brand new loot of morally diminishing periodicals.

Always disarmingly candid, often hilariously playful, and sometimes devastatingly moving, KIZUMONOGATARI: Wound Story is the great gateway into the globe of author NISIOISIN, the bestselling young novelist in Japan today. The prequel to BAKEMONOGATARI (“Monster Story’), this is where the famous MONOGATARI series, whose anime adaptations possess enjoyed international recognition and essential acclaim, begins. A theatrical feature predicated on KIZUMONOGATARI is because of become released in Japan in January 2016.