

In the
[OP6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLlytsgLcr4&ab_channel=shirumero),
_Kogarashi Sentiment_ (木枯らしセンティメント), of _Monogatari Series: Second Season_ ,
there are a red crab and a white snake. Since:

  1. The male mc has a red car (the same color of the crab), and the female mc wears a white dress (the same color of the snake). The colours of the animals in effect remind audiences of the MCs. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qW81t.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qW81t.png)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bkf2k.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bkf2k.png)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kwrgo.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kwrgo.png)

  2. At about [0:57](https://youtu.be/LLlytsgLcr4?t=57) of the OP, there is a shot where the snake wraps around the crab, which seems to be a metaphor of the intimacy between the two MCs and may even indicates that she's more _aggressive_ in their romantic relationship. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nmmIS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nmmIS.png) (ready to _eat/bite_ the crab?) [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aZqJw.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aZqJw.png)

It's obvious that then crab is a metaphor for the male MC and the snake is a
metaphor for the female MC. (Of course, there are more witnesses of this, but
a complete list would make the post tedious.)

In the spirit of this interpretation, let's see what are in the last 2 scenes.
In the 2nd last, the female is falling down when she _explodes_ into some
snake-like threads. In the last scene, the white hat of the female MC falls by
the side of the red crab. These seem to indicate that in the end of the story,
the female MC left the male MC (maybe due to death or something like a doomed
fate), and he becomes lonely again, missing her. [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KcuRZ.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KcuRZ.png)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPNTJ.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPNTJ.png)

A few questions about the story induced by the interpretation:

  1. Are the two MCs separated in the end of the story? What separates them?
  2. Is the female MC the first to make a move in their relationship?
  3. Are they by any chance nonhuman, maybe actually a crab and a snake?


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Are these 2 MCs in Monogatari Series: Second Season separated in the end?


The "female MC" and "male MC" in question are, of course, none other than
Senjougahara Hitagi and Kaiki Deishuu. _Koimonogatari_ spoilers follow:

> Your interpretation of the snake and crab as standing for them is, however,
> most likely wrong. The crab is Senjougahara, as she was once afflicted by a
> crab, and the white snake is most straightforwardly Sengoku Nadeko, who has
> at this point become a white snake god. Seeing as the arc's plot revolves
> around Sengoku's intention to kill Senjougahara (and Araragi) on their
> graduating high school, I can only conclude that the snake wrapping around
> the crab symbolizes this impending doom. It's not impossible that the
> matching colors are something more than coincidental (they seem like logical
> choices from a purely stylistic perspective), but this is the most obvious
> interpretation.

> However, your conclusion about a broken-off romance is correct. As
> Senjougahara states in _Nisemonogatari_ , Kaiki was the first of the five
> con men hired to cure her mysterious illness, and over the course of
> _Koimonogatari_ he progressively reveals that they developed feelings for
> each other, until he decided to end whatever relationship they had for her
> sake, as he "weakened" her, on top of the obvious problems with that large
> an age gap. (Although the viewer is welcome to doubt that this is true,
> coming a self-professed unreliable narrator, it's most expedient to treat as
> literal truth for the purposes of the arc.) Also, I doubt this is directly
> related to the symbolism of the OP (except maybe the choice to involve a
> car, but that seems like a stretch), but Kaiki's prior romantic entanglement
> --a one-sided crush on Kanbaru's mother, Gaen Tooe--did end with the
> latter's death in a car accident which he still hasn't quite gotten over.


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