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In the latest Monogatari - _Tsukimonogatari_ there is a cut to an image with
many young girls surrounding the protagonist.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wJ0S1.jpg)

The girls in the purple uniforms are from SHAFT's other show **Puella Magi
Madoka Magica** , but who are the other girls?


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Who are all the girls fawning over Araragi?


This answer is going to be a huge disappointment, in all sorts of ways. I
genuinely hope that someone comes along and proves this answer wrong somehow.

I don't think the other four girls are references to anything; I think they're
just generic middle school girls from Koyomi's hometown.

Look at the two girls on the right:

![girls on right](https://i.stack.imgur.com/imLV9m.jpg)

They seem to be wearing the same school uniform as Nadeko:

![Nadeko in uniform](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qz0Bfm.jpg)

And look at the two girls on the left:

![girls on left](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aRusZm.jpg)

They appear to be wearing the uniform of Tsuganoki No. 2 Middle School, Karen-
chan and Tsukihi-chan's school:

![Karen-chan and Tsukihi-chan in
uniform](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wiJ09m.jpg)

This seems to suggest that the other four girls are just hypothetical middle
school girls of the Fire Sisters' acquaintance, since they attend school in
Koyomi's hometown alongside Nadeko, Karen-chan, and Tsukihi-chan. In other
words, the thinking behind the scene was not, "Hey, let's fill up this scene
with characters from our other works"; it was, "Hey, we've got this scene full
of middle school girls, how about we shove in Madoka, Homura, Kyouko, and
Sayaka?" (Poor Mami got left out again.)

However, the Madoka girls aren't actually wearing their regular uniforms
either. Below we see the Mitakihara Middle School uniform, modeled by the
lovely Homura, Sayaka, and Madoka:

![Madoka, Sayaka, Homura in uniform](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vn0NTl.jpg)

Though the ribbon is similar, their regular uniforms clearly don't have a
sailor collar. Since the Madoka girls are in different uniforms, the other
four girls might still be from other shows, and were put into uniforms from
the Monogatari series. As a counter-argument to this, the Mitakihara uniform
looks very different from Nadeko's and the Fire Sisters' uniforms; the scene
would look unbalanced if the Madoka girls were put into such different-looking
uniforms. Also, in the Madoka series, Kyouko doesn't attend school with the
others, so it wouldn't have made sense to put her in the Mitakihara uniform.
(Mami attends Mitakihara, but she got left out again.) For those reasons, the
animators may have decided to give just the Madoka girls different uniforms.

None of these arguments is iron-clad, so it is still possible that the four
non-magical girls are from other shows and were put into uniforms from the
Monogatari series for this scene. I genuinely hope that there is some more
interesting answer than this one.


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