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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- In this episode we learn some more about Manaka's life. One more episode to go! |
| I thought the pianist girl had died. |
| So did the girl have some sort of regret that kept her bond to earth |
| Can't identify that music, but that really was a great scene. Looking forward to the final episode, it should tie most things together. Well, those things we weren't supposed to go into the series already knowing from the Boogiepop novels. |
| Yeah I tried to find a song from the first episode and it seems the OST doesn't include it as well. It's a shame. |
| that scene where Boogiepop slowly walked up those steps after Manaka was beautiful. also, this might have been the best episode of an any anime I've ever seen. |
| So the real Boogiepop finally showed up and turns out Phantom didn't kill everyone. And man did Manaka get screwed over by everyone. |
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| Probably the 2nd episode where I understood at least 75% holy shit when the grandmother was killing her |
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| So now everything concerning Manaka has been pieced together. Wow, I really feel for her now, she just wanted to live despite not knowing why she did. That reunion with her mother was bittersweet, especially considering how she forgot Manaka the next day. Looking forward to the final episode, although I'm not sure where they will go from here. This has been a very solid story so far and now I'm finding myself saying "just a little longer, please." |
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| The execution of this episode was great. I cannot re-emphasise how this episode emphasised (a lack of a better word, forgive me) upon the main theme of Boogiepop Phantom: Life. Manaka was born unwanted by her grandmother, who perceived her as devil's child, while her mother does not remember a single thing about her being in existence at all. Manaka was literally cursed with the ability to absorb and engulf the guilt and regret of people all around, and when released from isolation after her grandmother's death, her ability grew and eventually led to her being unable of speech (as stated: the drug-bestowed ability resulted in Manaka being an 'Echo', only to be able to repeat what people said). Human life is nothing without companions. As she sought to make friends after her grandmother's death, she used her ability to create a friend out of the memory of Mamoru, and since her innate desire was to have more and more friends, resulted in the creation of a Pied Piper, which so coincidentally coincides with Mamoru's past which he wants to forget (albeit, a pathetic reason as we all know). This, unknown to her purity and naivety, actually caused harm to the lives of teenagers who were faced with troubles of growing-up and were entranced to seek eternal refuge under her abilities, threatened human society and the world order, which resulted in Boogiepop's intervention. It should be noted that her aging was a result of the drug. (Explaining her teen-like appearance when she was only five, and her instantaneous aging into an old woman after the sudden disappearance of her 'friends', which severely depleted her powers and supposed 'life force'. [conjecture here]) The Phantom's later intervention to prevent Boogiepop from killing her was to enable the dispersal of EM waves to simply survive, stating that "she is now too weak to threaten anything". Nevertheless, I am unclear as to who disappeared in the end: Boogiepop or Phantom. My deduction is that it was Boogiepop, as her role in the first place was to prevent more of Manticore's victims and generally, victims of 'evolution' and her role is technically finished after the end of Manaka. Yet, I have my doubts as Phantom is perceived to have an ambiguous role currently, as well as Manticore+Saotome still remaining to exist. I guess we still need one more episode to wrap up things for good. 5/5 |
| "If you reject me, I'll blast a hole in you!" Kanzaki H. Aria Just kidding.  |
| Is the title of this episode a reference to Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow'? I loved that novel, was kind of a mindfuq but very engaging. Anyway, I'm excited to see how this concludes. The different stories within each episode have gradually started to converge with one another. I'm currently feeling a strong 8 or a light 9. |
Lil_B_is_a_qt_12Jan 8, 2016 11:43 PM
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| Well that sure was impressive, I really do wonder what the last episode will have to offer though! |
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| Everybody understands it all now, right? (no) Boogiepop and Boogiepop Phantom in the same scene at the same time. The first time I watched this I was like "huh what?" |
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| Oriental music wtf ? XD Nice as standalone episode,but I still can't make much sense of the whole picture. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Just revisited the series, this still is my favorite episode <3 Really love how it ties in with most if not all of the presented scenarios in each episode. |
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| Manaka could see her mother again before dying again. Fucking granny, she killed her the first time. I know from episodes ago but I like the twist for Boogiepop Phantom, she didn't kill everyone.. |
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Sean_Nessman said: Arab music now?? But my favorite is the sparse music when Manaka runs from Phantom and falls down on the rain soaked ground. "I want to fly like him" Is that Shinpei Kuroda we see being experimented on, and somehow connected to Manaka and accompanying her to heaven??? I don't remember him in the 1st novel. he's still the last mystery of this show. Maybe his and the female doctor's story will be told in the VS Imaginator novels?? I am really late for this but actually that "man" who was being experimented on was Echoes. |
rubedesuFeb 22, 2022 7:14 PM
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| That was fucking beautiful. That was fucking intriguing. That was fucking mindblowing. That was everything. That was a fucking masterpiece. |
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| There they go again throwing all these new names characters around |
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| I love Manaka's encounter with her mother. If I had a daughter her name would be Manaka. In a kanji variation of the name, there is the ideogram for "flower" in the kanji. By coincidence the name Manacá (same pronunciation as in the Japanese one) means "flower" in Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian language), and it is a Brazilian plant. |
私が見たのが、ブギーポップだったのかどうかは分からない。 |
Reply to guilherme_27th
@Boogiepop1989 very interesting coincidence! now I'm reading about similarities in japanese and tupi-guarani languages, fascinating stuff, thanks for the input.
| @guilherme_27th Thanks for the reply. Remembering a scene in 2 screenshots:  |
| 私が見たのが、ブギーポップだったのかどうかは分からない。 |
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