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At the end of _Bakemonogatari_ episode 2, Araragi claimed his normal weight is
supposed to be 55kgs, but on the weighing scale, it showed 100kgs. He then
said something about the crab and the episode ended. There was no sign as to
what happened to the weight difference in the entire series.

I've only watched _Bakemonogatari_ , so is there an explanation or something
in the later series? Or the anime has mistaken it or ignored the fact of
Araragi overweight?


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What about Araragi's weight?


I have watched all of the _Monogatari_ series until the one before
_Owarimonogatari_. I can tell you that Araragi's weight difference in episode
2 was never mentioned again. Throughout the entire series, only a few of the
episodes (or maybe just one episode, not sure, it's a very long series)
mentioned about the crab but only very briefly, didn't even talk about the
weight problem.

That said, I don't think the anime made a mistake or ignored that fact. This
is just how the _Monogatari_ series is by nature. It tends to leave some stuff
open-ended in kind of a humorous way. Though I watched back that episode and
in the end, it did say that the reason for his weight increase was because the
God was careless (as they don't really care about human's emotions, etc).

![Araragi's weight LOL](https://i.stack.imgur.com/N444Il.png)


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Actually, in _Nisemonogatari_ ep. 09 (Tsukihi Phoenix arc), there is a scene
where Araragi and Karen-chan play Janken, and when Karen-chan loses, she has
to carry Araragi on shoulders as a punishment. You can see that he feels
uncomfortable by knowing his weight and doesn't want to let Karen-chan know.


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The words have a dual meaning.

In the case of Senjougahara, when they talk about the problem of weight and
feeling, it is interesting because in Japanese, _omoi_ means "weight" and
"feeling" at the same time.

About Araragi, that new weight that he won is a metaphor for his new feeling
for Senjougahara.


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It’s one of those things he’s just living with. A metaphor come to life or
like in jujutsu kaisen patch face says the body is actually shaped by the
soul. I honestly love it, I’m doing a rewatch and just tugging all
heartstrings.


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In the _Bakemonogatari_ light novel, Mayoi Maimai part 5, Araragi narrates:

> Senjougahara and I had gone to [Oshino] just last Monday about her problem--
> as well as on Tuesday, to deal with loose ends.

Later, in _Koyomimonogatari_ , Koyomi Flower part 2:

> With Oshino's help, we'd more or less taken care of her aberration-based
> malady--that had been just last night, and today we'd gone to see him again
> to tie up the loose ends, or to deal with the final cleanup, or to take care
> of the last few minor issues that had cropped up.
>
> [...]
>
> Incidentally, I'd ridden my bike to the ruined cram school the night before,
> but that day I walked there and back with her.
>
> Circumstances--or inconveniences stemming from the previous night's
> resolution had ruled out my bike.
>
> Happily, those inconveniences had been taken care of once and for all, so
> starting the next morning I'd be riding my beloved mountain bike around town
> again, the thought of which made me want to skip all the way home.

We can conclude with some degree of certainty that the extra weight made
biking prohibitively difficult, and that Oshino Meme then cured it some way or
another.

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My original, anime-only answer:

Originally was going to be a comment on @Euzones' answer, but it may fit
better as an answer of its own.

In _Nisemonogatari_ episode 9, Araragi states that he weighs 56kg. The extra
kilogram could be some kind of residual effect, entirely natural, or a
somewhat silly lie.

Although he attempted to back out of riding on Karen's shoulders on the
pretense of having gained weight from "studying too much", he was quite
enthusiastic about this only ten seconds prior, with his second thoughts
coming after she squatted down in order to pick him up. In light of the
director's choices of camera angle, the events of the previous episode, and
her later complaint of such, it seems likely that his hesitance is instead
because he has suddenly gained an erection which he would prefer not to press
against the back of her head. (Perhaps the light novel could clarify this?)

When he does run out of excuses, he awkwardly proceeds to willingly mount her,
which would contradict his ongoing concern with protecting his sisters from
knowledge of aberrations if he were exceptionally heavy.

In conclusion, at that point he no longer bore most if any of the extra
weight.


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