As usual, “Warawanai” tends to make me think in metaphor, and this episode was certainly no exception. Read more

It’s started to click into place for me that the way you have to approach this series is the same way you would a song. Read more

Boogiepop gives you answers, but at the cost of more questions.  Read more

If there’s one thing I can say about about Boogiepop after 14 episodes it’s that it’s not especially interested in making things easier on the audience. Read more

Watching this one immediately after “VS Imaginator” was interesting, because they seem to represent the two tonal extremes of this series. Read more

There have been a few shows down through the years of writing about anime that I would term “slow builds” – series that don’t reveal their charms easily or quickly but when they do, those charms are truly formidable.  Read more

On their own either Boogiepop’s pure intellectual ambition or its historical importance would make it notable as a series.  Together, they’re more than enough to stamp it as one of the more interesting and important anime of the season. Read more

It’s probably fair to say at this point that I find the longer arcs of Boogiepop wa Warawanai more involving that the really abstract ones. Read more