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Jul 29, 2021
Mixed Feelings
Well, Boogiepop Phantom has a well-structured and enigmatic atmosphere in an urban city and throughout the episodes they give information about light and neo-humans, the entity dedicated to Shinigami, the aliens and the serial killer, and gathering all this information will arrive understanding and characters are used in the puzzle although they are just passing disposable fragments for the final plot and are not the main solution, the anime provides all the information needed to get to the ace of the matter but watch marathon or not watch closely, possibly lack holes without resolution to the viewer and such understanding will be contained in the anime that passed and can draw the conclusion and interpret that Boogiepop Phantom too complex but actually it's not quite that, sometimes Boogiepop lacked to make its main objective more explicit by the way after watching what can I say I learned from anime? I must get over my traumas and move on or past and present are linked or people should be happier, honestly I don't know, and Boogiepop Phantom reminded me of Serial Experiment Lain having some similar aspects like the dementia genre, and themes about criticism social and especially the ambiance and even layers of realism, I even wonder if Lain and Boogiepop pass on the same plane but it's just a thought.

The mysterious paranormal events that occur to the characters about the powers shortly after the mysterious light are portrayed in a unique way, as a kind of human psyche reflected feelings of anger, denial, pain, etc., and each faces an ordeal before reality and some characters advance more in the plot than others, adding to the final mysteries and even intertwining in other episodes forming a connection between episodes and for some reason they are abandoned to make room for others and that's precisely why they become forgettable, maybe not having more uses or Boogiepop does not have a central protagonist each character has its screen space and some plots are better than others such as Jonouchi Hisachi is possibly the most memorable, the characteristics of the characters are common for a citizen, high school, to be any human not having any prominence what they both have and share is the problems that seriously surround them, and the even his features are portrayed more realistically and it is even difficult to distinguish them, because of this aspect it can become monotonous to watch not only this characterization, other factors imply such as rhythm, episodic, style, dull, added to all of this can influence the discontent and as a consequence for not watching carefully, something useful can be lost from the anime.

The art, the environment, characters, everything was intentionally used a somber color palette, made by MadHouse in 2000, I usually don't rate this kind of thing as it has to take into account various elements, so skipping these bureaucracies I assess in terms of I like simple personal and saying auto and of course I didn't like it, but obviously I don't take points for that because it's essential and crucial to have this darker aspect and I led to believe that Boogiepop Phantom had a low budget for animation, even because it's a stopped anime that doesn't need consistent animation but rather create an ambiance and setting to give the idealism and feelings of dark and realism, seriousness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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