Boogiepop Begins To Reveal Its Secrets

Boogiepop wa Warawania Episode 2 Review

I said in my episode 1 review that delaying reveals can payoff if you keep the audience interested enough, and Boogiepop seems to want to keep us relatively interested. While more mysteries come into being in episode 2 with discussion now of shady government organisations and aliens we get a different perspective on some of the events that intersected with episode 1 to fill in some of the details and it creates an intriguing mix of information and questions.

None of that has really helped this along visually and the pacing within episode 2 is still pretty languid. This anime is in no rush to reveal, show its hand, or even move on to the next scene as it lingers over conversations and cups of tea. That isn’t to say nothing is happening, it is just taking its time and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing for a mystery.

While I’m still not 100% sold on this one, the premise is interesting enough, some of the characters this week started to actually have some character (actually I’m not sure why this couldn’t have been episode one with a few minor additions), and the story seems to be taking shape. Hopefully another episode or two and I’ll be caught up in this one.

There’s been quite a bit of chatter about the original anime which apparently aired back in 2000. Maybe at some point I’ll look for it but for now I’m pretty happy to see how this one goes.

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• Episode 1: Leaving the Audience on the Outside in Boogiepop
• Episode 2: Boogiepop Begins To Reveals Its Secrets
• Episode 3: Disorderly and Dull, Perhaps the Worst Things for a Story To Be
• Episode 4: The Sprouting of a New Imaginator in Boogiepop
• Episode 5: Weak Introductions To Characters We’ll Never Know
• Episode 6: Beward the Dull and Languid Pacing
• Episode 7: The Interesting Premise That Just Keeps Putting Me To Sleep
• Episode 8: Things Finally Seem to be Popping Along
• Episodes 9 and 10: The End of the Imaginator and The Start of a New Arc
• Episode 11: An Enemy of the World
• Episode 12 and 13: Pop Goes the Fear Ghoul?
• Images from: Boogipop wa Warawanai (2019). Dir. S Natsume. Madhouse. 2019.