__Height:__ 153 cm 

Nadeko, the main character of Nadeko Snake, is [Tsukihi](https://anilist.co/character/24195/Tsukihi-Araragi)’s friend back in elementary school. She always wears a waist pouch, always casts her eyes downward, has her bangs covering her eyes, has a shy personality, and can be easily amused. [Koyomi](https://anilist.co/character/22036/Koyomi-Araragi) played with her a lot whenever she visited his house after being invited by his sisters. She refers to Koyomi as Koyomi onii-chan and appears to have feelings for him.   ~!She was cursed two times by a classmate who liked the boy she rejected, and the rejected boy. While the first one is banished, Koyomi is forced to battle the second to keep it from killing Nadeko.!~ She's quite protective of her hair (particularly her forelocks) thinking that it's her place to guard more than her panties. When she finally combed her forelocks aside in Nisemonogatari, Koyomi commented that she has a glare just like a serpent, probably foreshadowing the story of Nadeko Medusa.

In Nademonogatari, ~!Nadeko gains a power to draw, create, and then materialize shikigami, making her useful in the eyes of [Izuko Gaen](https://anilist.co/character/87115/Izuko-Gaen) and gets offered a job, thanks to [Yotsugi Ononoki](https://anilist.co/character/57499/Yotsugi-Ononoki)!~

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels. 
Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.
 
(Source: Aniplex)

__Height:__ 156 cm (5'1")

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__Introduction__
Kana Hanazawa is a voice actress, actress, singer, former child actress, and talent represented by Office Osawa. In July 2020, she married fellow voice actor [Kensho Ono](https://anilist.co/staff/95819), whom she had been dating since 2017. 

__Early Career__
Hanazawa originally became a child actress at the age of 8. Amongst other roles, she starred in the well-known TV school show _Appare Sanma Daisensei_ and the TV series _Gakkou no Sensei_. At that time she was contracted to Big Apple, and later to Five Eight and Smile Monkey.

__Voice Acting Career__
At the age of 14, she made her voice acting debut in 2003 as Holly in _[Last Exile](https://anilist.co/anime/97/)_. Three years later in 2006, she was selected for a major role in TV Tokyo's anime mecha series _[Zegapain](https://anilist.co/anime/878/)_. She was playing the main character's childhood friend, [Kaminagi Ryouko](https://anilist.co/character/2578/), and her performance was one of the main reasons for the character's popularity amongst fans. It was afterwards that she came under contract at prestigious voice acting talent agency Office Osawa in 2007.

Hanazawa went to university in 2007, while at the same time, she began to make her mark as a voice actress. She was voted in 2010 as "Best Female Voice Actress" by listeners of the radio program Nonko and Nobita's Anime Scramble. She graduated from university in 2011, and in the same year became a full-time voice actress.

Hanazawa won Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Seiyuu Awards for her role as [Kosaki Onodera](https://anilist.co/character/52723/) in _[Nisekoi](https://anilist.co/anime/18897/)_. She also won Newtype's Best Voice Actress award in 2015 and later in 2018.

__Music Career__
On February 23, 2012, it was announced that Hanazawa would launch her official website. A few days later, during the Kana Hanazawa Solo Debut Presentation Party event, it was announced that she would release four singles within a year: "Hoshizora Destination" on April 25, "Hatsukoi no Oto" released on July 18, "Happy Endings" on October 24 (an ending theme for _[Zetsuen no Tempest](https://anilist.co/anime/14075/)_), and "Silent Snow" on January 16, 2013. Her first album Claire was released on February 20, 2013, and her second album 25 was released on February 26, 2014. She released an album title Blue Avenue in April 2015 and went on a concert tour starting at the Nippon Budokan on May 3. The Blu-ray release of the show, Live Avenue Kana Hanazawa in Budokan, ranked number six in sales.

__Trivia__
- She was invited to Anime Festival Asia 2010 on stage.
- She used to be a junior idol in Akihabara where hundreds of people came to watch her, which is how she got her breakthrough for her acting career in commercials before becoming a voice actress.

**Non-anime roles:**
- [Marie](https://anilist.co/character/89069/Marie) - Persona 4 Golden (VG)
- Hakari Atsuko - Blue Archive (VG)
- Illya - Memento Mori (VG)
- Marian - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Modernia - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Alice Kuonji (Caster) - Fate/Grand Order (VG)

[Official Website](http://www.samirajakobs.de) | [Synchronkartei](https://www.synchronkartei.de/sprecher/7098/2) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/samirajakobs/)

Second season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/2. Contains the arcs Tsubasa Tiger, Mayoi Jiangshi, Nadeko Medusa, Shinobu Time, and Hitagi End, from the Nekomonogatari White, Kabukimonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari and Koimonogatari light novels, respectively.
 
These stories take place after the end of the summer vacation when the apparition of the bee had left and the apparition of the phoenix avoided any consequences… Now that Koyomi Araragi and the girls were entering their new school terms, they were once again about to encounter supernatural beings…but this time, they may not be so easy to deal with.
 
Tsubasa Hanekawa, Mayoi Hachikuji, Nadeko Sengoku, Shinobu Oshino, and finally Hitagi Senjougahara. The girls’ loneliness, their confessions, and their departures… 5 new “stories” begin now.
 
(Source: Aniplex) 
 
Notes:
 
 Includes 3 recap episodes from the TV version (Ep. 6, 11, 16).
 
The recap episodes were not included in the Blu-Ray version of the anime.

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 5/6. Contains the arcs Karen Bee and Tsukihi Phoenix from the Nisemonogatari light novels.
 
In Bakemonogatari, the story centered on Koyomi Araragi, a third year high school student who has recently survived a vampire attack and finds himself mixed up with all kinds of apparitions: gods, ghosts, myths, and spirits. However, in Nisemonogatari, we pick up right where we left off and follow Koyomi as the psychological twists delve deeper and deeper...
 
(Source: Aniplex)

Third and “Final Season” of the Monogatari Series, part 3/5. Contains the arcs Ougi Formula, Sodachi Riddle, Sodachi Lost and Shinobu Mail from the Owarimonogatari light novels.
 
During the month of October of his third year in high school, Koyomi Araragi is introduced to a transfer student named Ougi Oshino by his underclassman Suruga Kanbaru. Ougi tells Koyomi that she has something she wishes to consult with him. When she draws the map of Naoetsu High School, she finds something peculiar on there. This discovery reveals a tale that wasn’t meant to be told, and this makes Koyomi’s high school life totally different. This is the story that brings to light “what” makes Koyomi Araragi. This is the story that reveals the “beginning” of everything.
 
(Source: Aniplex)
 
Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

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.

Nadeko Sengoku is just an ordinary middle school girl. But what happens when she has an unexpected encounter with a handsome transfer student!? A thrilling, heartwarming romantic comedy is about to start...
 
Written and drawn by Sengoku Nadeko in-universe, as made famous in Hitagi End/Koimonogatari.

Third season of the Monogatari Series, part 2/5. Adapts the arcs Koyomi Stone, Koyomi Flower, Koyomi Sand, Koyomi Water, Koyomi Wind, Koyomi Tree, Koyomi Tea, Koyomi Mountain, Koyomi Torus, Koyomi Seed, Koyomi Nothing, and Koyomi Dead from the Koyomimonogatari light novel.
 
“You’re looking for a horror story? I wish I got one for you." Untold stories… one per month for one year… Taking place between other Monogatari stories, a chapter not yet told surrounds Koyomi Araragi and the strange happenings he gets pulled into over the course of a year. With one episode told per month, the story unravels in this 12 episode-long series of shorts.
 
(Source: Aniplex)
 
Premiered on the Japan-exclusive Koyomimonogatari mobile app.

Third and “Final Season” of the Monogatari Series, part 4/5. Contains the arcs Mayoi Hell, Hitagi Rendezvous, and Ougi Dark from the Owarimonogatari light novels.
 
Koyomi wakes up to see Mayoi Hachikuji before him, the girl who supposedly had gone to the afterlife. She tells Koyomi that they are currently in Avichi, the lowest levels of hell. Koyomi is dubious of how Mayoi knew about the exact timing of his death and which hell he would drop into, when Mayoi tells him that she was there to pick him up by the request of a certain individual.
 
(Source: Aniplex)

Third season of the Monogatari Series, part 5/5. Contains the arc Koyomi Reverse from the Zoku Owarimonogatari light novel.
 
The morning after high school graduation, Koyomi is standing in front of the mirror above the sink to wash his face when he suddenly feels like his reflection is staring back at him. He instinctively reaches for the mirror, and upon touching it, his fingers sink in... When he comes to, Koyomi finds himself in a world where everything appears to be reversed.
 
(Source: Aniplex)
 
Zoku Owarimonogatari premiered in theaters across Japan in November 2018. It was later released as a 6-part OVA on Blu-ray/DVD from February to March 2019.

One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But—much to his surprise—she doesn’t weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called “crab” took away all her weight …
 
Monsters have been here since the beginning. 
Always. 
Everywhere.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

Five short stories, one for each of the Bakemonogatari girls which appeared in the complete guidebook. 
Hitagi Buffet 
Mayoi Room 
Suruga Court 
Nadeko Pool 
Tsubasa Song

Adaptation of the Koyomi History short story, released in the Madogatari blu-ray.

Unlike ne’er-do-well former vampire Araragi, his two younger sisters Karen and Tsukihi, who attend a private junior high, are little balls of energy and charisma that their peers look up to. That the “ka” in Karen and “hi” in Tsukihi are both written with the character for “fire” isn’t the only reason they’ve come to be known as the Fire Sisters. Karen is the brawn and Tsukihi the brains of a vigilantism that the pair sees not merely as defending justice but as justice itself. They can’t encounter a harmful fad without trying to hunt down a specific source that had a motive for spreading it. In their big brother’s humble opinion, there is something fake and precarious about it all.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

A certain middle school girl has a fondness for hats, which serve as a line of defence against eye contact along with the overlong bangs she’s worn ever since she was little. Speaking in fits and starts when she doesn’t fall completely silent, her go-to line is “I’m sorry,” and she’s given to referring to herself in third person. Nadeko Sengoku is pretty, and not just cute.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

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.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

Calendar Tale, narrated by our titular hero, sends us to various earlier points in the story where certain events had yet to occur—when, for instance, the shady “expert” Oshino was still in town, and the ex-legendary vampire Shinobu hadn’t tired of sulking in a corner. After revisiting with a “case files” feel of the series’ origins, we will start to catch up to the present moment until we are violently spliced back into the overarching plot.
 
Weaving in a motif of ways, paths, roads, and streets—walks of life—the nostalgic vignettes hark back to the “case files” feel of the series-launching Monster Tale, but with a twist. Not all oddities are supernatural: stones and flowers; sand and water; the wind and the tree can just be plain weird without being aberrations. The vignettes for the months of October to March deal with six ladies who are either not quite human or older than titular narrator Koyomi Araragi, bless his bantering soul.
 
In this instalment, say hello from the future to class president among class presidents Hanekawa, acid-tongued girlfriend Senjogahara, cheeky lost child Hachikuji, smutty athlete Kanbaru, pathologically shy Sengoku, and justice-loving martial artist Karen, young ladies who love to make our young man sweat. See how he handles—or is handled by—aberration of a little sister Tsukihi, enigma of a freshman or -woman Ougi, shadow of a legendary vampire Shinobu, corpse of a tween girl Ononoki, psychopath of a monster expert Kagenui, and know-it-all of a Machiavellian fixer Izuko Gaen.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA, edited)
 
Note: The English release was split across two volumes, instead of the original singular volume.

Just when we thought the darkness menacing the town had been identified, named, and tamed, clear and unclear mysteries of seasons past looming or surfacing, then resolving, not without tears, not without bittersweetness, of course, but satisfyingly, in a tripartite finale, all loose ends tied up into, or at least with, a bow…
 
The End Tale continues—if only for one last time, in a bonus stage for the ages, as our softie of a protagonist who wished for all parties involved, including himself, maturely enough, to end up happy, sees his reflected image freeze in a mirror and regretfully, regrettably, reaches for it to find himself through the looking glass.
 
In an alternate reality where bits of the world have been flipped around, the hero comes face to face with the hidden side(s) of familiar faces, along with author NISIOISIN, whose bravura attempt to reimagine character possibilities concludes, with signature flair, the MONOGATARI series proper—thank you for reading.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

Yotsugi Ononoki, the shikigami girl assigned to watch over Koyomi Araragi. This dead tsukumogami girl faces a challenge, but what exactly is that do-or-die struggle with her life on the line? As the "story" grows, it keeps on running, ever burning bright!
 
These are the modern-day oddities! Oddities! Oddities!
 
Youth is going back and forth between pain and peace.
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

The girl who was once a god, Nadeko Sengoku. She, who followed her dreams and was forced into reality, is successful in creating alter egos by borrowing the power of the little girl shikigami, Yotsugi Ononoki.
 
However, the four "Nadekos" run away, scattering……?
 
The Oddities! Oddities! Oddities! of these modern days.
 
Youth is being unable to control even oneself.
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

"I don't know anything. You're the one who knows... Officer Araragi."
 
Cracking down on a "rumour" before it can turn into a ghost story. Police officer Koyomi Araragi has begun working at the Hearsay Department of Naoetsu Station. Hitagi and Tsubasa, who have left town.
 
What paths have the three have chosen after turning 23 years old... and what feelings will Koyomi convey in the end...?
 
As one knows more, the more you find things you don't know.
 
These are the modern-day oddities! Oddities! Oddities!
 
For all time, these hearts in love cannot be unbound.
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

Araragi Koyomi's university arc (Monster Season)
 
Oddities x Mystery
 
"Do you still feel like playing detective?"
 
From his kouhai at Naoetsu Highschool, Higasa Hoshiame, comes rumours of the kidnapping of an elementary school girl.
 
Araragi Koyomi, now a first-year university student, along with Hachikuji Mayoi, Oshino Shinobu and Ononoki Yotsugi begin investigating, but...!
 
This modern day oddity! Oddity! Oddity!
 
In the Evening darkness, youth shines brightly.
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

"I've known Yotsugi Ononoki for a long time now, considering."
 
Koyomi Araragi receives a request from Iezumi, an associate professor of linguistics: "Please save my child from my abuse." Apparently, she had heard from Sodachi Oikura that Koyomi is "an expert on child abuse." As Koyomi scrambles to take his beloved car to the associate professor's apartment, the scene of the abuse, he is suddenly confronted by Yotsugi Ononoki. He has no idea why she's tagging along, but the pair soon bear witness to an astonishing sight at their destination.
 
This modern day oddity! Oddity! Oddity!
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

"It's an unfashionable monster. Even vampires are no match for them."
 
Araragi Koyomi was consulted by his friend, Hamukai Meniko, about her falling out with her boyfriend.
He himself had just been told by Hitagi Senjougahara that she is breaking up with him — along with an apology.
Koyomi deduced that this commotion was the work of oddity.
He goes to Oshino Ougi, an expert in the field of oddities.
 
This modern day oddity! Oddity! Oddity!
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

Volume 1: 
"All I ever see in thee is the visage of death."
 
Shinobu Oshino and Koyomi Araragi set off to meet Deathtopia Virtuoso Suicide-Master in her homeland, the tentatively named Kingdom of Acerola. As the humans fall into a state of disorder, the vampires are being wiped out by a virus that only infects aberrations?
 
This is the modern era of oddities, oddities, and more oddities!
 
Youth is by your side, alive and well.
 
Volume 2: 
"Good night, sleep tight, and sweet dreams."
 
As a specialist in training, Nadeko Sengoku heads to Iriomote Island with Yotsugi Ononoki and Deishuu Kaiki. Their target is the snake charmer Uroko Around— the root of all evil, and the biological daughter of Izuko Gaen. What will be the outcome of Nadeko's deathmatch?
 
This is the modern era of oddities, oddities, and more oddities!
 
Thank you, youth. Until we meet again.
 
(Source: Kodansha, translated)

A promotional video coinciding with the release of the sixteenth Bakemonogatari manga volume. 
 
Note: Initially shown off at the Ito Oogure's "Oh! Great Exhibition" in 2021.