Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Nico98
We follow a series of "supernatural" events involving high school. Boogiepop only appears when the world is in danger, and so we follow her through a series of events that have no "reason" to exist? They just do. And we see Boogiepop correct them.
It's similar to Steins;Gate or Durarara. Strange things happen, eccentric characters appear, and in the end you don't fully understand it, but it's interesting to watch in case you clarify something at the end. It's one of those where you have to watch the explanations on TikTok.
"But it's not just you; any human being has the potential to become an enemy of humanity. Humans are like fuses, and they can explode with any provocation. They can alter the foundations of the world without even considering their consciences."
There are stories that…
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A Truly Hidden & Underrated Gem - A Compelling and Entirely Unique Look Into a World with Superpowers and 'Villains'
To give the reader a brief rundown of this show and what to expect from it, it involves a series of 'cases' that span several episodes each, where a new 'threat' to humanity makes itself known—in the form of a new 'power' or 'ability' evolving in a person and being used—that threatens to disrupt the status quo of society. From there we see how these powers and the world, as well as the leading character Boogiepop—a product of these new divergent "powers" itself—interact with one another, with the abilities often being complex and powerful, and with the people, and reality, often changing with them. Due to this, more often than not these powers need to be 'overcome' by huma…
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The only reason I feel compelled to write a review is because based on reading others, I truly don't know if I missed something or watched a different show. There's a difference between skilled nonlinear storytelling to build intrigue and just dropping information out of order for the sake of novelty. It's just a bad story but out of order. The show was so sloppy, had so many stories peter out into lame dead ends, and spent most of the dialogue spouting stiff self-serious nonsense. I love introspective and abstract media, this is just not it.
Something that I feel is never mentioned is the relationship to the trailer. WHY was the trailer so much cooler than the actual show?? Why did they animate separate footage that was completely unrelated to the story?? Who was the fire skating wizard…
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A good, thought-provoking series, but you may have to hang on for a while to get into it. There are a lot of episodes that retell the same events from a different character's POV, and the plot is not linear, but something you have to piece together. It's a supernatural / sci-fi / horror / mystery.
It centers around a shinigami called Boogiepop, who shares a body with a regular high school girl. Shinigami was alternately translated to “reaper” or “angel of death” in the English version I watched. She only shows up when the world is in danger.
The name “Boogiepop” is so goofy that I put off watching the show for a while. Some high school girl wearing a cape and a stovepipe hat and calling herself "Boogiepop" says she’s here to save the world? It was hard to take seriously at first. But I…
Read at the sourceDiamondBaka
You need big brain to understand.
If you do not have big brain it may be hard to understand what is going on, and you may not be able to tell difference between the characters.
This is why big brain is required.
If you have watched this and are wondering why you did not understand it may be caused by the lack of big brain.
If you want to watch this but have a lack of big brain you may need to watch a YouTube video of someone with big brain explaining what happened, however if you already have a big brain this should not be a problem to understand and you will not be required to watch an explanation video.
I give 10 because i have big brain and i understand. Please rate accordingly.
Read at the sourceAcaz
Words cannot describe how good this show is.
While it's true the plot is inconsistent and and each episode has an entirely different story to tell, I still enjoyed this alot, partly because of that. It's randomness shrouded in mystery, horror, kick ass action scenes and fat plot keeps you at the edge of your seat, lost but wanting more. And when you finally put it all together, it just feels so rewarding. The thing is, everything is actually connected despite how lost some may feel. The universe is unique. Definitely do some background research on a Wiki so you can help yourself understand just what's going on for things like; "What the hell is a MPLS?" Or "Who's this Towa Organization?" and then what you just watched begins to make much more sense. The sound, music and animation are top-…
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[Spoiler free review]
"A great non-linear story telling anime, but unfortunately not for everyone"
Pros:
1. The OP and ED songs are pretty awesome!
2. The story telling is very unique, definitely stood out compared to other series
3. The VA is superb. They did a fantastic work portraying their characters
4. I love Boogiepop's character. Cons:
1. Not enough time to develop each character.
2. Too many characters and their designs are very similar so it would be hard to differentiate between each character if you can't remember their names
3. The art is meh. It's obvious that there's a lack of budget for this series.
4. Story can be quite hard to follow if you didn't pay full attention
I have heard about this anime before it started airing and it was hyped a lot. The light novel for t…
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SS Review – Boogiepop Phantom (2019)
(Short and Sour)
Before I start, I have never seen the original anime so I’m going into this fresh. Boogiepop Phantom is about various different stories that take place at the same school with each one mainly concerning or involving Boogiepop in one way, shape or form. Each story is quite interesting and tends to involve supernatural elements in a pretty natural world, meaning the world is ordinary like the one you know but all these strange events and creatures keep appearing around this school.
Boogiepop is a very interesting idea…or at least that is what it likes to claim to be, Boogiepop is not one person but an idea that exists to keep normality. If anything appears which threatens normality then Boogiepop exists, you can already guess can’t you……
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TL; DR Review
Boogiepop wa Warawanai started off on a very high note. The first arc, although short, was interesting and fun to watch; I loved it overall. The second arc was fun too, not as great as the first one though. However, what ruined it for me was the last arc. This anime, in general, is very vague and I had no idea what was going on at the time, but the last arc was the last straw for me. During the first section of the last arc, I was like, "what the fuck is going on," and we later found out why people were asleep, I was already asleep. I kid you not. ZZZZZZZZ. I've rarely fallen asleep watching anime, yet this has succeeded. In case you don't get it, the last arc ruined it for me completely. However, if I were to say one good thing about this anime, it would be that I totally d…
Read at the sourceDaddy-O
The new Boogiepop that we’ve somehow been blessed with in 2019 anno domini is an actual adaptation of Kouhei Kadono’s original light novels, unlike the previous Boogiepop Phantom (which was an interesting offshoot that only vaguely referenced the source material.) The new show has taken as its style an inconsistent timeline to make the overly-congested plot seem more complex and mysterious than it is. Though accurately adapted, the separate novels are crammed into just three-or-four-episode arcs for each. I wouldn’t say each light novel could last a full season, but they could certainly be more fleshed out. Nevertheless, it’s a great time for those who can enjoy a little pretentious sci-fi in their anime.
Our hero Boogiepop is back in action to stop folks from continually trying to immane…
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Agh, I read like twenty reviews on here of varying caliber before I just decided to watch it myself, as I think this is just that kind of anime. This is a mysterious anime and in general, you'll just have to watch it for yourself. Seriously. Go watch it. Love it or hate it, you'll enjoy yourself.
Right, this is a weird anime. The story is not one hundred percent linear, and often uses different character perspectives as well. I think this works quite well, as often times you can figure out the mystery for yourself, as opposed to there being a case of the ol' Sherlock Holmes explain-everything-as-the-falling-action. The downside to this is that the show kind of demands that you pay attention to it. I mean... this isn't a comedy... so, yeah, you have to use a couple brain-cells while you wa…
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Something about this one just... stuck with me. The audio design is undoubtedly great. The visuals are on point. It's a fascinating string of events. And yet, I don't think I could in any way rank Boogiepop this highly from an objective point of view. I can see how some people would think that it's needlessly confusing and that the entire experience is overly sparse. The characters don't really get much time for us to understand who they are, and the movers and shakers of the world are left, perhaps, too vague in the background. To engage with it fully, the show is asking a lot of its audience; perhaps more than it has any right to.
However, as my score and initial proclamation indicate, this may be top ten material for me. Something about the experience struck a chord within my soul, a y…
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At the beginning I was confused. I didn´t realized what’s happening, because the story wasn´t only told in one direction, many strings were connected and entangled in each other. But I thought that the legendary Studio MADHOUSE will find a way for me to enjoy this series and in the end I wasn’t disappointed.
The plot is too complicated to break it down in a few sentences, but I will try. In this world it happens that mystical creatures (or not?) exist, one of them made up by legends and others by a special organization. The urban legend about a Shinigami called Boogiepop who kills people when they are at their most beautiful look is very popular in the society and you will later realize that something is true about it but also many things are turned upside down.
However later more and mo…
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Boogiepop is truly an anime unlike any other. It takes a look at the psychology of humans and incorporates these themes into a supernatural thriller. The show examines the supposed "inadequacies" of people and displays how they are an important part of how the world exists. For example, in the second arc, the Imaginator tries to create a perfect world and remove the imperfections in our hearts. But Boogiepop, the main hero/heroine, protects humankind. These imperfections make humans what they are. So she fights these oddities and people to save the world.
This show helps one reflect deeply about society as a whole and themselves. It is not easy to follow. The show does not believe in time as a fluid concept as evidenced by the show frequently fragmenting to different points of the plot.…
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Boogiepop and Others (Boogiepop wa Warawanai) is a compilation cerebral anime series based off of 5 of the 22 light novels in the boogiepop universe. The psychological series is truly one of the most complex shows I've ever seen, if not the most complex. Beginning this series may not be for the faint hearted, but completing it has been HIGHLY rewarding.
The anime is made up of four connected but separate story are, which I will rate here-
Overdrive: The King of Distortion 10/10, Episodes 14-18
VS Imaginator, 9/10 Episodes 4-9
Boogiepop And Others, 9/10 Episodes 1-3
Boogiepop at Dawn, 8/10 Episodes 10-13.
This being said, I have not read the light novels (though I plan to) and did thoroughly enjoyed the anime. I've heard many liberties were taken in the adaptation. I understand not apprec…
Read at the sourceKipo0007
First of all before giving a review.To the people who are planning to watch,are currently watching or dropped it halfway.
Please for the love of anime, be very patient with this series,because its really worth it
Boogiepop is adapted from the novel/manga and not original like the 2000 boogiepop series)
Its a psychological,Horror series which is shrouded in mystery and revolves around a enigmatic supernatural entity known as boogiepop,
which possesses one of our MC's miyashita touka.Boogiepop though rumored to target and murder people in a really mysterious way is actually
is a guardian who awakens and manifests itself when the world is in danger or an enemy appears,enemy that is in the eyes of Boogiepop.
The reason being this series can slow paced and confusing at times,you will be like…
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Boogiepop is a DC Universe comic about a girl who becomes a superhero after being bitten by a radioactive private detective. Unfortunately, she has a terminal case of chuunibyou, so she dresses in a ridiculous outfit, speaks in a weird voice, whistles a random Wagner melody she once overheard on the radio and spouts the typical chuuni nonsense like “so this is the will of the world” and “I’m the terror that flaps in the night.” There are other people with superpowers, who all want to make the world a better place, usually by killing or brainwashing everyone, so she’s not so bad in comparison. There is a mysterious organization whose stated goal is to prevent the emergence of said superpowered freaks, except everything they do achieves the exact opposite - a scalding and totally intentional…
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The name Boogiepop is pretty stellar. It’s catchy and unique, of course, but it also has a wealth of meaning behind it not many people are aware of, at least not here in the West. The name Boogiepop is a self-deprecating inside joke Kouhei Kadono, the author of the original novels, thought up to mock himself and his struggles in actually getting said novels published. Kadono has always been something of an arthouse writer, and he had quite a hard time getting any of his initial works published since he had yet to make a name for himself and all the publishers he approached said they simply couldn’t turn a profit printing pieces with such little popular appeal and no audience base, even after—according to Kadono—honestly admitting how good they were. To successfully break out into the marke…
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Once in a while, there may come a show with complex storytelling and character roster that is much more than what it seems. The light novel medium is such a style of Japanese novel literature where imaginations are endless. As one of the earliest light novel originators, Boogiepop Phantom’s presence could be felt as far as back in the early 2000s. While I have seen that show many years ago, it felt like Boogiepop Phantom was missing something, or perhaps needed a boost to regain its popularity again. It’s 2019 and here we are again, connected by a powerful entity known as the Boogiepop, a legend among community who came to judge humanity.
Consisting of 22 light novel volumes, it’s obvious the show doesn’t have the time to adapt every single one. The 2000s’ series ended up being an anime…
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You know there comes a time when an anime series needs your attention. Not because of the quality of the show, but the fact that if you want to get the full experience of the show, you need to sit down, watch it and pick up any details can be answered and explored later on. Of course not everyone has time for that, but some people like to pick apart anime to fully understand it. This anime is one of these cases. An anime with an interesting structure of storytelling, character development and how to get everything out of it.
Sit back, relax and get your surgical kit on because you are about to dissect an anime and its meanings as I present to you the anime review for Boogiepop and Others. Lets begin.
Story: 7.5/10
Set in modern day Japan, the story follows the growing rumours of a my…
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