Kizumonogatari Part 1: Iron-Blooded

Synopsis

This is the second installment in the six-part first season of the Monogatari Series, covering the Koyomi Vamp arc from the Kizumonogatari light novel. On March 25th, an otherwise normal day of spring break, Koyomi Araragi—a second-year student at Naoetsu High School—strikes up a friendship with Tsubasa Hanekawa, the school’s top honors student. Hanekawa mentions a rumor about a "blonde vampire" that has recently been seen around town. Though usually antisocial, Araragi finds himself taking a liking to her down-to-earth demeanor. That night, he comes across the very vampire from the rumor: Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, otherwise known as the "iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded King of Apparitions." The breathtakingly beautiful vampire lies in a pool of her own blood, all four limbs severed, and cries out for Koyomi to save her. Kiss-Shot asks Araragi to give her his blood. The instant he does, Araragi awakens to find himself reborn as her vampire kin. As he struggles to come to terms with what he has become, Kiss-Shot whispers, "Welcome to the world of darkness..."

Background

The Kizumonogatari movie trilogy adapts the third volume of NisiOisiN's Monogatari Series: First Season.