Boogiepop and Others

Alt title: Boogiepop wa Warawanai (2019)

TV (18 eps)
3.427 out of 5 from 2,557 votes
Rank #7,661

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name: Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving female students breaks out at Shinyo Academy, the police and faculty assume they just have a bunch of runaways on their hands. But Nagi Kirima knows better. Something mysterious and foul is afoot. Is it Boogiepop, or something more sinister...?

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BaraEttie
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Having watched the original back in High School, I was oddly excited to see Boogiepop would be making a new appearance. Now after having finished this, I don't believe it's necessary to have seen the original as the stores and premise between the two are different. But you might get a better understanding of who or what Boogiepop is in the original. That said, I really enjoyed the new season, but it's not the same as the old, which I was expecting. The old made me feel more unnerved like I want from a psychological anime. This one, especially towards the end, made me think more about myself and my problems. One of few anime as well where I feel there was a message it wanted to give it's viewers, outside of just a story to watch and enjoy. If you let something distort too far, it can become unhealthy, even if what you are doing is genuinly believed to be for the benefit or yourself, or others. Everyone has a different view of what is right or wrong, and it isn't such a black and white concept. I think this makes humanity all the more interesting when they show that intentions meant for good, can sometimes be wrong if dealt in a certain way. It really makes you think. As for the overall story, it's told in arc's and I truly believe this anime would be much more enjoyable to watch those arcs at once, than weekly if you watched while it aired. Knowing how many episodes there was, and when it was going to end I watched the last arc in one go, which was more enjoyable than when I watched the earlier arcs weekly. I didn't have any problems with the stories they chose for each arc, they where all interesting in their own way, and you didn't always know the outcome. But watching it weekly means you might not retain all the information present, making it less enjoyable or sometimes confusing if you forgot what was happening. Because it's done in arcs, there is not a lot of character development, but those that do get it are the ones that show up in more than one arc. It's not drastic like a villian learning to become a hero. Boogiepop isn't that type of anime. But instead something more subtle and realistic that the viewers can also take into heart. An example would be if you love too much, sometimes it can hurt the person you are directing those feelings at. So you learn what is also enjoyable for them without compromising your own feelings over theirs. The soundtrack I though was amazing, one of few anime of this season where I would probably purchase an OST when/if released. The music does a good job of pulling you in and imersing you into the world [like any anime should but not all do]. The animation was simple, but they did a good job in the short amount of time they had to release this series [one week had an entire arc released in one go] and you didn't see much of a drop in animation, and when we did it was in very unimportant scenes so it didn't affect your view of the main story much, if at all. I will reccomend this anime, but I feel if I do, I would reccoment watching the original as well. It would be a nice comparison. I know I'll be going back and rewatching the original myself.

krofire
8

Madhouse’s 2019 dark supernatural thriller is a sophisticated affair that sadly borders upon the unintelligible. It reminded us much of “Owarimonogatari” (Shaft 2015) with which it shares its cult-like disregard for simple linear plots. Characters stand around having long and baffling philosophical debates about what is going on. This central impenetrability strongly suggest that the audience needs to work really hard to make head’n’tail of it. It revels in its mystical enigma to the point where you wonder if original light novel author Kouji Ogata didn’t have one short of a full set. Maybe dropped on their head at an early age? “Boogiepop and Others” is set in and around a bunch of High Schoolers at Shinyo Academy. The JK count is unnecessarily high as the students battle against supernatural forces destined to destroy the world (maybe). The Boogiepop character inhabits the body of one of the female students. The character emergers when she is needed like some kind of avenging superhero. The character is the subject of a dark urban myth suggesting that she is actually a reaper who takes the lives of innocent girls when they are their most beautiful. Nothing really could be further from the truth. Something is going on with human evolution and this theme underlies the science fiction element of the show. Nothing here is straightforward. The 18-episode show is broken down into specific sub-plots that jump backwards and forwards in time. Characters from one plot will pop up elsewhere at other times as the stories are inter-twined in a complicated fashion. All centre upon some form of science fiction or fantasy villain who is set upon bring the end of days. Boogiepop herself has quite the iconic look with her highly unusual costume. She isn’t no magical girl (put it that way), but she does appear at the end to vanquish the bad guy with her garrot. Several other, more human, teenage characters also appear to possess super-hero traits yet their backstories are muddled and confused. It is unclear how this all fits together. There a shadowy background organisations who are creating synthetic humans but their motivations are never quite revealed. The show is infuriating for anyone who likes their story-telling straight and simple. Several characters look very similar and tracking who is who becomes difficult with plot-line(s) this complex. This isn’t to say that watching the show is not enjoyable or rewarding. Of particular note is the music used in the opening and closing credits. Myth and Roid get a look in on the opening titles which is always a good omen. We are not big fans of “culty” shows that pretentiously toys with the audience and are content to keep most of their cards carefully hidden. This is content to not follow the normal rules of story-telling – and that is OK as far as it goes. There are worse examples out there of this sort of artsy nonsense. This will demand a lot of you but it pays you back if you can be bothered. Hard work but still a great show from a very twisted mind.

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