Speaking of the rampant success that is Bakemonogatari, SHAFT recently released the thirteenth episode of the popular series on the official website. After initially being set for an October 28th release, that never happened (due to SHAFT saying they had certain encoding issues to overcome) and they delayed the release until November 2nd. Now unlike many streaming websites out there, the video is not restricted to any specific region, which means that you can go watch it right now. Granted, there are no subtitles, but I sincerely doubt that's going to keep most of you from watching it.

Two more episodes will be distributed this way in the future, although release dates are unknown. A nice bonus is that we get to see a short trailer for Katanagatari, another anime base on a story by Nisio Isin.

Also, in another side note, greetings! I'm the new intern at Japanator, Ben (mostly known as Roody). You might have seen me around a bit before, and now I'm here to make your life even worse -- er, bring you the best quality anime and manga news.