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…Boogiepop is as its stated a “phantom” and in this case it’s a phantom that acts as a split personality for a girl. You can say that Boogiepop is technically possessing these girl(s) but I don’t think that’s the case. As I said, each story centres on a bunch of individuals. I’m only willing to talk about Boogiepop, I personally think talking about the other characters would spoil too much as each of the stories play very closely to their individual personalities.
The animation is very good but at the same time I would not expect anything less from Madhouse. OST fits well too.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed Boogiepop Phantom, each of the stories was interesting and the idea that is Boogiepop was interesting to see explored too.
(Side Note: Kind of reminds me of Durarara, but just not as good)
7/10