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Monogatari Series Second Season (TV).

Nice to see the interaction between the two girls, but I was a bit confused. In Nisemonogatari, didn't Hitagi make comments suggesting that she was afraid of Tsubasa, and that Tsubasa was the sort to threaten with a smile? Not a hint of that dynamic here.

I'm not particularly fond of Hitagi's short hair, if only because she looks too much like Tsubasa now.

Nice to see the interaction between the two girls, but I was a bit confused. In Nisemonogatari, didn't Hitagi make comments suggesting that she was afraid of Tsubasa, and that Tsubasa was the sort to threaten with a smile? Not a hint of that dynamic here.

I'm not particularly fond of Hitagi's short hair, if only because she looks too much like Tsubasa now.

Vaisaga wrote:

Nice to see the interaction between the two girls, but I was a bit confused. In Nisemonogatari, didn't Hitagi make comments suggesting that she was afraid of Tsubasa, and that Tsubasa was the sort to threaten with a smile? Not a hint of that dynamic here.

My interpretation of the events of this episode was that spoiler[Senjogahara spent an entire evening frantically searching the streets precisely because she is afraid of Hanekawa. The look of relief on Senjogahara’s face when she finds Hanekawa at the abandoned cram school was not out of concern for Hanekawa, but a moment of release for Senjogahara who had been trying the prevent a very likely scenario from occurring: Araragi finding about Hanekawa’s situation and offering her a place to stay at his house.
This is precisely why before the scene when Hanekawa’s house burns down we see Senjogahara talking to Hanekawa about how Araragi will always help them regardless of whether they want help or not.]

If that were the case, wouldn't spoiler[it be incredibly simple for her to just check Araragi's house and confirm that she's not there?]

I'm pretty sure that she was worried about Hanekawa, but not necessarily because she cares about her that much (yet). First of all, she's got a traumatic experience with near-rape that affects a lot of her actions spoiler[so the thought of Hanekawa spending the night on the streets and maybe getting raped triggered a torrent of emotions as we saw,]

and second of all she knows Hanekawa is close to Araragi, so for the same reason Araragi went through so much trouble to save Kanbaru back in Suruga Monkey, she'd probably go through an equal amount of trouble to save Hanekawa. She "a precious friend of the one who's important to me" kind of thing.

spoiler[I mean, how do you think Araragi would feel if he came back, Hanekawa was missing or dead, and Senjougahara had to admit that she didn't even try to do anything?]

spoiler[Furthermore, Hanekawa is also highly renowned for being able to take care of herself. She constantly wanders around town by herself all the time, so it seems strange that Senjogahara would suddenly have a concern over her safety in that regard.]