I glanced across his report, and Bakemonogatari appears exactly as expected: a hotly anticipated Shinbo's production after the stop-gap show of Arashi. It seems a bit too violent for my taste though, I'm not sure I'm going to follow.

This blog is in a danger of turning into "Aro-note" for a week, since Tenka Saiha is pretty much the only outlet that has the breadth and Aroduc is dilligent with summaries. Kuro was really lazy on Bake, for example.