Holiday Review: BAKEMONOGATARI

As far as shonen manga this year, it was mostly dominated by the usual Weekly Shonen Jump suspects, but there were some surprises this year, such as this.

BAKEMONOGATARI, based on the light novel by Nisioisin & art by Oh!Great.  First published in 2018 and first published in North America in 2019.

PLOT:

It all started with an accident on the stairs.  That's how Koyomi Araragi discovered that his distant, haughty classmate Hitagi Senjougahara weighed virtually nothing.  It seems that a strange, supernatural force took her weight in exchange for a dark secret from her past, and Araragi is determined to take her to the one person who might be able to help her.