Originally planned to be the seriesโ conclusion, โfinalโ chapter โTsukihi Phoenixโ invites us back to the seemingly eventless country burg where supernatural afflictions abound and characters change their trademark hairstyles at the drop of a hat. Rest assured, dear reader, that the story continued in Japanese and will do so in translation. In the first half of Fake Tale, lost soul Araragi helped resolve his bigger little sister Karenโs feverish run-in with a fraud. In this second half, he must attend to his littler little sister Tsukihiโs issues, but not before staging the Toothbrush Episode that the acclaimed anime adaptationโs viewers find quite memorableโwhether they like to or not. As fraught with ominousness as a dark empty street, as unexpectedly full of feeling as an acid-tongued girlfriend, as sidesplittingly funny as a horny retired jock, and (maybe even) as educational as college in the best MONOGATARI tradition, this volume also introduces us to โghostbustersโ Yozuru Kagenui and Yotsugi Ononoki.