Perhaps it's only fitting that "Kizumonogatari Part 3" is a mixed bag.Three years after I watched the first two parts of Kizumonogatari, the long wait to see Part 3 is finally over. It feels like the inevitable culmination of its predecessors, representing the "Kizu" trilogy at both its best and worst. The worst part remains the animation, which turns characters flat and makes every background look like the inside of a biscuit tin. The one moment by which I will forever remember these films is when Shinobu holds out a horrifically disfigured severed head, which is created with such embarrassingly bad CGI that it made me say 'Eww' out loud. Probably not the kind of horror the animators had in mind. Unlike the second film, "Part 3" lacks scenarios that make good use of the computer animation. Its one overly long battle is fought between two vampires, who are capable of regeneration and hence practically unkillable. Them tearing off each other's limbs by the dozen has all the plasticity of a ball of pizza dough being slammed around in a stand mixer, without being half as satisfying to watch. But the film's strongest aspect is its character writing, which is what "Monogatari" is all about. Strangely, 'Part 3' has little to show us that we did not know already. Rather, it plays its characters off against each other, and gets quite a lot of mileage out of doing so. The film's tensest scene is not the vampire fight, but a character moment: Hanekawa getting prepared to let Araragi touch her breasts.
Suddenly, the typical "Monogatari" lewdness isn't a joke anymore.
We know from before that Hanekawa is sexually uncertain.
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