Launching the third or "Final Season" of the international cult-hit
series, Possession Tale returns the narrator's headset back to high
school senior and amateur savior Koyomi Araragi, who used to eschew
friendship once upon a time because it'd lower his "intensity as a
human"--a loner's misgiving that was perhaps on the mark in a different
way than he intended.
At issue now is not the precarious fate of one of his cherished
confrères, or rather consoeurs, whom he'd aid, sight unseen, with a
monster's resilience, but his own aberrant state and its prolonged
abuse. If everything comes with a bill, and if no man is an island, then
is the price of self-sacrificing amity--and the bloodshed it ironically
occasions--becoming inhuman for good?
That being said! Our hero, whose first name means "calendar" but who has
none in his room, sees no need to rush, so, on our way to the profound
mysteries of the superhuman aspect, expect a super-shallow
deconstruction of the alarm clock. On hand this volume to (hardly ever)
humor his humor: his little sisters, a living doll of a corpse, and its
violent mistress.