If you and I came up with exactly the same interpretation of all this I suspect Kadono Kouhei would think he’d failed at his job. Read more
If you and I came up with exactly the same interpretation of all this I suspect Kadono Kouhei would think he’d failed at his job. Read more
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
For an episode with no Boogiepop, Boogiepop sure gave us a lot of Boogiepop this week. Read more