Why is this series not popular in the west?
Boogiepop
Luke Morales
Austin Cruz
Because it's shit
Easton Hernandez
it isn't popular in the east either
Chase Roberts
OPM director ruined it
Eli Anderson
it sold like 400 copies, it isn't popular anywhere
Carson Foster
Too many pleb filters.
Luke Price
Are you guys talking about just the anime? Or the LN as well? Because if you're including the LN, that makes no sense considering the LN has been around for 20 years.
Or maybe I have no idea how LN publishers work
Elijah Lewis
Why didn't she wear the ying-yang symbol or that long strip?
Juan Rodriguez
Because it wasn't mentioned in the LN. The anime is faithful to the descriptions that is mentioned in the LN.
Jose Myers
Probably because the original was way 2deep4u
Elijah Garcia
It didn't have enough snow in it
Austin Allen
I loved it. One of Aoi Yuuki's best performances imo.
Leo Wood
>The anime is faithful to the descriptions that is mentioned in the LN.
>no makeup
Brayden Foster
The LN is
Adam Rogers
>OPM2 died for this
Noah Cruz
OPM season 2 was going to be a failure anyway, all the good animators abandoned ship because the source material is awful Murata "le epic Garou xD" fanfic that takes itself too seriously and ruins the original vibe of the webcomic.
Jeremiah Hernandez
A Google search for it brings up millions of English results. Pretty popular if you ask me.
Ryder Richardson
I'm not sure how popular it is but at the very least it doesn't get much attention from the internet-vocal otaku types that discuss recent light or web novels on twitter/5ch/futaba. I guess it could have non-anime otaku readers or just faithful readers that don't have time for that fandom shit but continued buying the books over the years, same for Guin Saga probably which is rarely ever mentioned (other than people mentioning how long it is) but has 110+ volumes.
Notice how these works have little fanart or doujins and most of is from when they had anime adaptations. It's not really surprising they wouldn't be popular here on Yea Forums either.
Brayden Cooper
I can't speak for the past like when Phantom or the LNs came out but the reason the new anime didn't become a stand-out hit last season is probably because bigger more mainstream shows soaked up attention. Boogiepop may never become a big hit in the west, which is fine since it doesn't appeal to the casual anime market and doesn't need to.
Adrian Smith
This
It's meh tier
Alexander Collins
Good, opm is overrated garbage
Jason Collins
The light novel seems to be selling well enough in the west. It was an Amazon best seller for a while and the first omnibus completely sold out and Seven Seas had to reprint it before the anime was complete.
The real question is whether it sold enough for them to license more. They've teased more could be coming, but I assume that'll be an AX announcement instead of the smaller twitter announcements they do.
Jeremiah Cruz
It must be true that Boogiepop has a decent fanbase in japan, but you shouldn't overestimate that. Though living in japan and a fan of the series, I had not heard much about it in any major media for more than a decade until the new anime started airing.
Jonathan Clark
Bad writing and animation.
Dylan Ross
Best part is that OPM2 has better animation and will sell better than boggieflop too. Natsumehack on suicide watch.
Jaxson Sullivan
Every single screenshot from the anime, all the promotional material is extremely ugly and unappealing.
>muted colors
>ugly costumes
>the mc looks kinda bored and mundane
>the name of the show doesn't tell me anything, whats a boogie and why does it pop? Oh wait I dont care
Theres just nothing gripping about it.
Asher Peterson
It would have been popular if the preview hadn't been a lie.
Luis Harris
wats this even bout?
Jose Walker
>Guin Saga
I wonder if there's anyone left on this board who read even half the volumes.
Evan Watson
Too old and strange for normal mainstream fags
This is even true on Yea Forums and this thread
Bentley Robinson
Not true
Logan Diaz
Fillerfag
Contrarian
Jaxson Gonzalez
Because you didn't watch the Boogiepop Phantom 2000s
Jordan Gray
If what was said here is true the LN is selling well enough to count as mainstream, at least compared to a lot of the series discussed here.
Most of the hate on here was in the threads for the first few episodes. After that it was more positive, if only because pretty much everyone dropped it and the show actually got better.
Jonathan Clark
Based
Lincoln Evans
I really hope the LNs get more English translations but with these flop sales it doesn't seem likely.
James Phillips
I wish embryo got adapted too, I want more Imaginator
Andrew Rivera
Chuuni girl fighting other chuunis.
Jaxson Sanders
Cute chunni serial killer girl killing her chosen targets
Ethan Ramirez
>girl
Chase Cruz
She herself doesn't appear in embryo, only her ability does.
Cooper Thompson
Hey, isn't that the sash? The one that's supposedly non-canon?
Why is it in the promotional material but not in the anime itself?
Evan Jones
>supposedly non-canon
>He was shorter than me and dressed in a long, black cape with a collar that wrapped around him like a great coat, and a black hat like a shrunken pipe or a top hat without a brim. The hat was a size too big for his head, and half covered his eyes.
>On the hat and cape bits of metal gleamed, like rivets or some sort of badge, sewn along the hem. It gave off the impression of armor.
It is non-canon. So is the chain and the infinity cape
Isaiah Stewart
X-Men origin story but from the primary perspective of the humies with a schizo chuuni serial killer as the protagonist.
Basically what was said here
Chase Myers
it's popular with me
Isaac Jenkins
No good anime adaptation, LNs too old to catch on anymore
Landon Lewis
Aside from the first 3 episodes, there is nothing really wrong with the anime
Adrian Edwards
This part of boogiepop verse looks even more chuuni
Michael Kelly
MPLS sure are strange creatures. No wonder the Towa wants to erase them.
Joseph Wilson
it's impossible to be popular with that retarded, silly name
Owen Sanders
Anyone else felt bad for the guy that fell in love at first sight and then got his memories erased?
Eli Williams
The planning on their part of having the worst episodes the ones that most people judge a show on wasn't great. So many people would have dropped it based on those being mostly boring and badly animated.
In the end the PV didn't represent the series and the first 3 episodes didn't either. I only gave it 4 episodes because they released the first 2 together so I treated it as a 3 week rule instead, and that let me see the series improve drastically. Without that I'd probably think of it as a 3/10 at best.
Grayson Martin
>Towa Organization
>Administration
>Kazuko Suema - New Axis, Moon River
Wtf
Aaron Clark
Being at the level of nothing really wrong with it does not make it a good adaption. A good adaption would have used more artistry to transfer all of the tonal and thematic elements lost from original prose. That's without going into a bucket of nitpicks like Spooky E not having a dozen phones. Then there are larger things that persisted to later episodes, such as cutting an entire side-story from At Dawn.
That's all besides the butchering of the first arc.
Luke Roberts
So nothing really wrong and pretty decent adaption
Blake Gray
Very nice.
Matthew Rodriguez
Nice "arguments" you have there, reddit-kun.
Oliver Jackson
V23
Boogiepop Almighty: Dizzy Misses Lizzy
Josiah Taylor
Good, only third-world monkeys watch trash like OPM.
Brayden Howard
It's boring and convoluted.
Alexander Moore
Just what the heck Suema did to get to that position? Last I checked she was a frustrated school girl.
Evan Evans
To be completely into kadono universe, have to read over 30 books at least besides boogiepop series.
Juan Sanders
Classic answer from someone who doesn't know the series. Boogiepop is pretty simple actually
Parker Bennett
>Last I checked she was a frustrated school girl.
20 years worth of books came out since that.
Camden Bell
And also a fuckton of short stories. And after that you are still not guaranteed to understand how everything works.
Nathaniel Scott
AOTY
Brainlets BTFO
Carson Moore
I don't know but I want a season 2
Josiah Turner
I miss sensei bros
Jack Russell
Same
Jackson Hernandez
There will never be a man as pure as snow just like him.
Ethan Rodriguez
He remain noble even after he was imagined.
Sebastian Peterson
Nothing very surprising. In addition to that, iincho apparently became mpls too, and orihata returned to towa with masaki' permission.
Jace Ward
I wish I know nip so I can know how the hell these happened.
Chase Roberts
You need an IQ of 120+ to appreciate spoopypop
Jaxon Gomez
Evan Fisher
Yea Forums-tier arguments
Wyatt Robinson
His small org better survives
>Moon River (ムーン・リヴァー, Mūn Ribā): Kazuko's MPLS ability. Details are unknown. It is described as an unreasonable ability, theorized to be capable of 'invalidating reality'.
Nani
>orihata returned to towa
Should have expected that from this pic
Connor Sullivan
Even more importantly, Takeda newly stole two other women's hearts, besides touka and iincho.
Chase Jackson
tried watchin it but fucking hated the "out of chronological order" gimmick.
What exactly is gained from throwing a scene obviously from the end of the story thats supposed to be emotional at the beginning where it cant be emotional since i dont even know the character?
Connor Ross
Boogie spooking others outside their series
Carson Perez
In fact, you don't have to care much about that picture. Just exaggerated by ogata.
Leo Ramirez
I've seen somewhere that Aya's personality changed drastically later in the story.
Angel Kelly
why he looks like he's going to get assraped by boogie?
Henry Hall
That's not in the main series but in the spin off series (Repent Walpurgis Fire)
Evan Carter
Boogiepop's chronological shenanigans are among the best there are. It's never used as a gimmick; it always serves the purpose of focusing the narrative on the themes of the work. For instance, Takeda's perspective isn't even out of order in itself, but the point of having his truncated view of the story is to put the focus on the content of his conversations with Boogiepop to establish the themes of the volume. Takeda's part is a complete story by itself and the emotional impact at the end is set up by his characterization throughout and the attachment he builds toward Boogiepop.
All that being said, the anime doesn't handle the first volume material well.
Parker Rodriguez
I'm pretty sure that Repent Walpurgis and Beat's Discipline aren't separate from Boogiepop and just happen somewhere in the same timeframe.
Nicholas Mitchell
>students dying left and right
>not even the best friends care about them that much
Jace Gomez
You should be right. Though I've finished Beat's recently, not Repent Walpurgis yet. So I don't know about it in detail. What I mean is just that orihata didn't change so much in the main series.
Elijah Collins
It doesn't really work in a weekly 20min format.
Grayson Sanders
Anime reminded me how much I like the old 90's Shin Megami Tensei stuff and how much I hate the fluffy Persona series past the second.
Easton Davis
I like door-kun's story
Matthew Bennett
John Hill
yikes
Chase Cooper
Based and SPOOKYpilled
Kayden White
Pretty much this. It just looks like Parasyte without any exciting stuff.
David Rogers
And nothing of value was lost!
Luis Hernandez
>Kazuko Suema - New Axis
So she is Towa's boss now?
Owen Diaz
It was boring as shit with head-up-own-ass dialogue at times.
Liam Flores
Seems so, the two beside her are from Towa, super high up too. Kaleidoscope is like vice king.
Tyler Foster
too smug to watch
Robert Sanders
Is he in Towa now? Heard he got recruited.
Grayson Evans
It's AOTY
Josiah Howard
>the mc looks kinda bored and mundane
That's your shit taste. She actually looks pretty cool.
Brayden Robinson
It was written by someone who was pro life and had anti- abortion themes. Fuck this anime
Daniel Mitchell
Where did she get her hat?
Julian Harris
What did Pete do to get spooked by boogie?
Carter Sullivan
Bet you love Heavens feel.
Samuel Edwards
I think the west in general just doesn't have much appreciation for thematic storytelling or subtlety, they'd much prefer vocal appeals to emotion and of course explosive action
Henry Sanders
youtube.com
TV anime got downgraded pretty hard.
Lincoln Price
Touka ended up a lot cuter in this anime desu
KOD Touka is top smug though
Adrian Young
I could listen to Aoi Youki's Boogiepop performance all day.
Julian Stewart
Tell me, why does she wear the hat?
Nathaniel Mitchell
Are the blu-rays going to improve the visuals?
Isaiah Morris
I give the anime a 7/10 (never read the light novel) great storytelling, great writing, good characters, i enjoyed the concepts of which the show talked upon. I would say the awkward, random pacing threw me for a loop more than any other anime i have watched thus far. It made it hard to follow track of what was happening. It still kept me engaged all the way through. If i didn’t like it i would have dropped it but it was just too good and moody
Carter Murphy
west is reddit, plus it's pleb filter.
Look at this cute kirima nagi announcing the boogiepop stream
James Young
Whiteknighting popular things doesn't make you an interesting person either, in fact you are doing free work and you are a cuck. Yea Forumstard
Ethan Cook
>inb4 mo murder scarecrow etc
Landon Moore
I watches 4 episodes and dropped. 3/10 seems about right to me based on what i saw. Find it hard to believe it gets better
Angel Thompson
all good points to me, sounds comfy. The colors and the soundtrack give Resident Evil 4 vibe
I fucking love it.
This sounds like the echoes theme
youtu.be
Charles Foster
If you don't like the first three episodes it isn't for you, not all the intended target is not shounentards. But people who like mystery
Jason Reyes
Are we ever going to see the 7th novel translated?
Chase Rogers
It's not a filter when the poster for the anime includes a plain high school girl who looks slightly uncomfortable about being there.
Just give me something to work with. I don't want a show about myself.
Brayden Ortiz
based retard
Aaron Sanders
The tv anime wasn't QUALITY, so I don't think we will see any changes. Anime was just rather boring direction and storyboard wise.
Robert Russell
>myself
We have a serial killer here
Blake Walker
Was this prototype Monogatari?
Hudson Nelson
Proto fate and a shit load of others
Mason Bell
Boogiepop basically popularizede the LN genre. It's remarkable how few adaptation it got.
Today, the series is way its past so that the anime bombed wasn't really a surprise, especially with that low effort attempt.
Juan Howard
Not really a low effort though
James Ward
>Boogiepop Missing: Peppermint Wizard
>Boogiepop Countdown Embryo: Erosion
>Boogiepop Wicked Embryo: Eruption
>Boogiepop Paradox: Heartless Red
>Boogiepop Unbalance: Holy & Ghost
>Boogiepop Stacatto: Welcome to Jinx Shop
>Boogiepop Bounding: Lost Moebius
>Boogiepop Intolerance: The Ark of Orpheus
>Boogiepop Question: The Silent Pyramid
>Boogiepop Darkly: The Scat Singing Cat
>Boogiepop Unknown: Into The Lunar Rainbow
>Boogiepop Within: Paradigm Rust
>Boogiepop Changeling: Stalking in Decadent Black
>Boogiepop Antithesis: Revolt of Alternative Ego
>Boogiepop Beautiful: The Kingcraft of Panic-Cute
>Boogiepop Almighty: Dizzy Misses Lizzy
Translation never
Lincoln Baker
I want go fuck Boogiepop
Daniel Moore
She gave me a boner.
Drug addiction and the handfew doujinshi about that niche topic is one of my favourite fetishes.
Levi Price
I want to go pop Boogies cherry
Evan Collins
>Boogiepop Wicked Embryo
is that Toukas pregnancy arc?
Jose Johnson
to high iq
Blake Sullivan
No isn't, but a synthetic woman wants to recruit him. He knows nothing about towa even now.
Nathan Garcia
I think it's a Suiko plot
Austin Ward
sick
Mason Turner
Why do they want to recruit him though? Do they know he has a connection to Boogiepop?
Juan Phillips
Ryan Mitchell
>Why do they want to recruit him though?
Towa itself care nothing about him. That's just because a synthetic human lady is into him.
Zachary Myers
It's a terrible adaptation
>Poor Animation and art
>Rushed
Caleb Diaz
>That's just because a synthetic human lady is into him.
But he already have a cute gf
Easton Wilson
Why can't we have nice things?
Landon Cox
'Cause he's so based.
Christian Brooks
The song is nice youtu.be
Asher Gutierrez
Convince more people to buy the Seven Seas omnibus release. They've said they will continue to the 7th volume if it does well.
Daniel Collins
that looks fucking amazing, is it possible the box set will have an extra arc or something...?
Gavin Williams
It sold well but it would never be "enough". I am quite sure that's the plan
Daniel Anderson
Nagi is for ________
Aiden Johnson
turning people to watch anime with interesting protagonist instead.
Jack Young
Old men, literally canon
Lincoln Thomas
Why would it? It was shit and nobody knows the source material here
Landon Lee
I honestly loved it, episode 10 is still episode of the year
Thomas Robinson
Cooper Butler
>all these people who think liking this turd makes them smart
Gavin Adams
Should probably read the thread a bit before proclaiming something. Look quite retarded
William Walker
creepy cosplayers
Charles Fisher
Why? It's not even that hard to follow.
Parker Ward
Still so many half assed shit posters without even basic google knowledge about the series
Parker Mitchell
This.
Wyatt Sanchez
Cos he doesn't know shit about the series or the fans
Matthew Thompson
Both seasons are great. Underrated anime.
Carter Howard
>they never used this in the actual anime
m.youtube.com
Why? It's so good
Blake Bell
i dropped it after realizing this is just a fate rip off, hack writer copied nasu lmao
Hunter Turner
Maybe if the anime had an actual action scene
Cameron Watson
It is not even similar.
Charles Baker
>i dropped it after realizing this is just a fate rip off
What
Christian Mitchell
he ripped off many elements from fate and so much is similar to kara no kyoukai too
Hudson Martin
What elements?
Hudson Rivera
Stop being retards. This LN started publication before Fate was released.
Brandon Evans
story structure, characters and "powers" are lifted straight from nasu, 2 characters in one body, the general aesthetic
suprised nasu didn't sue
Xavier Allen
>mfw he thinks boogie copied fate, not fate copied this
Chase Garcia
>story structure, characters and "powers" are lifted straight from nasu
In what way?
>2 characters in one body
The concept is almost as old as storytelling itself.
>the general aesthetic
In what way?
Jayden Harris
I don't think anyone thinks that. Are you a genuine retard?
Hunter Reed
Indeed nasu was a hack, he took too many elements from boogiepop, even the basic ideas about redman were from boogie
Easton Watson
>Fate/stay night: January 30, 2004
>Boogiepop Wa Warawanai: February 25, 1998
What
Joshua Foster
>both urban fantasy novels
>"main characters" that have 2 personalities
>both use concept of death powers
>both literally came out in the same year
>both use non linear storytelling
Shirou Archer
Hunter Perez
I miss the comfy weekly smug boogie threads
James Murphy
What boogie is better, the old one vs the new one?
Easton Jones
>came out in the same year
Around 8 months difference is pretty big
Liam Baker
This one.
Kayden Garcia
Both
Jacob Baker
I'm concerned about your mental health. I recommend seeing a doctor.
Daniel Jenkins
me
Colton Taylor
people are seriously absolute retards?
I can't believe this thread.
I'm off forever from this dogshit site
Blake Bailey
The amount of shitposters is so obvious
Thomas Ortiz
>only pretending
still, it's concerning.
Samuel Clark
You're dead wrong you fucking retard, they care more about Shingo than the source material. OPM2 died because some corporate faggots thought striking again while the iron was still lukewarm was more important than waiting another season or two for Shingo to be available
Grayson Anderson
I want to fuck the creepy bubble
Brody Baker
>source: my ass
Christopher Rivera
I actually liked the chuuni talk on the rooftop in episode one.
Camden Wilson
In regards to what? Talent follows talent, that's industry common sense. If you're talking about Shingo's schedule, I'm not entirely certain how busy he is or if he even ever gave a shit about directing another season about OPM, but someone greenlit a sequel during the specific time frame he was working on Boogiepop. You have some other, enlightened reason this may have happened?
Kevin Moore
same
Jaxon Ross
Imagine doing such mental gymnastics to deny that both Shingo and the animators just didn't find the source material good enough to deserve another season.
Levi Hill
Sadly, she died in vain, and over 10000 years later, aliens will start attacking humanity.
Brayden Nelson
>Shingo
Maybe
>Literally everyone else
You're fucking delusional. Most of them couldn't care less. I'm still talking in nonspecific terms as well assuming disliking the material is common sense. What's your problem with it relative to season 1? I'd think anyone that enjoyed the original would enjoy the current stuff just as much if not more. You're sounding increasingly autistic.
Gabriel Rivera
give it to me straight, we're never going to get any more boogiepop Yea Forums related material are we?
Ryder Jackson
This adaptation bombed pretty hard so its unlikely, but then again 3D Kanojo sold almost the same and still got a second season. I guess it depends on how much it boosted LN sales to warrant a new series.
Parker Rivera
do people really have taste that shit?
Cooper Powell
When will Seven Seas license Boogiepop? They said they would do more but we're still not getting any news.
Oliver Robinson
its less shit taste and more about being a light novel series from the late 90's and this adaptation having 3 really poor introductory episodes
Thomas Taylor
i liked the first 3 episodes...
Evan Anderson
Because it's a garbage adaptation
Jayden Baker
While I wait, I decided to learn nip. Just in case Seven Seas doesn't license any more Boogie.
Anthony Martin
you can't tell me the tao sash and space cape aren't cool as fuck and appropriately chuuni though
Jason Russell
becoming batman
Jayden Powell
the old one has a much more defined aesthetic and a much more unique soundtrack which are most of the reason why people remember it, the new one is just kind of... plain, as much as i love the way some of the audio is used and a couple of the tracks. the new one has much better voice acting though
Christopher Gray
Why did this season seem way to lighthearted and non confrontational? I watched the other Boogiepop before and the difference between the two are like night and day.
Cameron Richardson
honestly the first episode was pretty good at doing what it did, even cutting as much as it did
it had the same sort of wonderful indirectness that phantom had
2/3 had some good bits, but fell kind of flat on the whole
Jayden Sullivan
If they license more then the announcement will be at anime expo. They seem to consider Boogiepop a big enough title that the omnibus announcements didn't just get dropped into one of their quarterly twitter license bombs.
Nolan Gonzalez
It's shit
Jose Hill
Is she a mpls? Or a synthetic human?
Jaxson Harris
Neither. She was a normal human who took an evolution drug.
David Clark
>a normal human who took an evolution drug.
Then she evolved into a mpls, didn't she?
Owen Butler
MPLS generally describes those who evolved on their own. Taking a drug means the evolution was artificial.
Jack Murphy
what a cute birb
Hunter Williams
>orihata returned to towa
so her boyfriend is just ok with Toliet-chan going back to the org that discarded her?
Dylan Howard
Damn son, this is more complicated than I was told when the old anime came out.
Brody Morales
Afaik people who got powers that way are also considered to be synthetic humans.
Evan Flores
Dumb name. No superpowers. Boring. Feels like a 90's anime in all the wrong ways. Talking a lot but not saying anything.
Jacob Brooks
youtube.com
Will any soundtrack this year top Boogiepop & Others?
Wyatt Adams
Why are anons pretending to be retarded like this so obviously? Or they are not pretending?
Aiden Sanders
I've been running through this slowly. It's entertaining enough, I'd say the lack of a main cast makes it hard to stay invested
Eli Mitchell
I just want to listen to more of her cute voice. Which I can, fortunately
Thomas Brown
That's about it. At the end of Vol 20, Masaki and Aya each got a new partner from towa. The former's is a synthetic old man and the latter's a synthetic loli girl. It doesn't mean that they broke up though.
Colton Baker
They're shitposters but failed to be stuble about it at least that's what I like to believe
Parker Sullivan
I meant subtle not stuble. I'm a dumbass who can't even spell correctly.
Zachary Perry
It's just really poor trolling, but honestly it's only a little bit worse than what has always been present here.
Mason Garcia
Cute hobo loli
Christopher Rivera
I didn't have much of an impression of Jin when I first watched the show but on rewatch I think he's a much more compelling and interesting character than I initially thought. His cool attitude and drive to accomplish his mission makes him so goddamn fun to watch, plus knowing the conclusion of the arc makes his "I've already won" demeanor all the more evident.
Jacob Richardson
By that point, humans should be like what Suiko imagined. Did they still lose? That's in night watch right?
Joshua Allen
no
Only animated for the PV. They sometime do that like Sarazanmai with the live action backgrounds.
Ethan Flores
>madhouse decided to animate boogieflop instead of one punch man s2
Brody Ortiz
Based madhouse and natsume
Opmfags BTFO
Oliver King
Finished this yesterday
I think I am in love with boogie now
Xavier Ortiz
>Dumb name
Delete
Nicholas Murphy
> That's in night watch right?
Yes that is. Though I've read only vol.1, heard suiko appears in 2.
>Did they still lose?
I don't remember the plot in detail because did read a long long time ago.
By the point of vol 1, most of human had run away from the earth. ( don't know if it's because of aliens) Then with their body sleeping in a huge spaceship, only their souls live in the virtual world. Almost all aren't aware of the truth. Might sounds so matrix-like, but it's actually pretty good.
Colton Gomez
>heard suiko appears in 2.
>The Night Watch under The Cold Moon (VS Imaginator Part IV)
>COVER CHARACTERS - Suiko Minahoshi
Jace Gray
It feels like they deliberately ruined all the best parts of the novels. And I'm surprised people who haven't read the novels even got past the first arc, considering how they rushed it. They absolutely bulldozed through that first book. The anime gives you no reason to give a shit about what's going on. I'm just hoping Seven Seas releases more of the books in english.
Juan Nelson
Meh it's only the first arc that was rushed
Ethan Ramirez
I prefer the old print to this.
Easton Jones
I don't understand, but at least she still has her husbando
Alexander Martin
I prefer the old print. More mysterious and beautiful.
Henry Turner
I want to have sex with a Boogiepop
Kevin Jackson
>source: my ass
Jaxson Hill
yep
Austin Robinson
Very roughly speaking, they got involved in a big conflict inside towa, and after going through a lot of complicated things, she decided.
Tyler Gomez
The under Cold Night Watch The Moon
Owen Johnson
Aoi is Boogie? AAAAA!!!! Well, I'm waiting for it to finish to binge it. Is it done yet?
Adrian Cooper
Yes and yes.
Gavin Mitchell
>Hating popular things doesn't make you an interesting person
Spoiler alert: neither does liking them. Something having popularity doesn't exclude it from criticism, you absolute fucking normie.
Colton Collins
tkmiz likes it so your opinion is 自動的に invalid
Eli Parker
Are you trying to tell me Boogiepop is popular in the west, when it only had a few translated issues here and it took until this anime to get more?
John Lee
Nope you're just being conveniently ignorant, these threads are usually full of
>brainlets FILTERED
>You're just too dumb to follow the story its not even complicated :)
>Go back to your moeshit if this show is too smart for you
Nolan Cruz
based tkmiz
Nolan Flores
>nobody knows the source material here
Nearly everyone read v1 to 6, some are reading further now
Luis Nguyen
stupid hat
Kayden Diaz
Landon Torres
Same energy.
Hunter Lopez
Jin is just a really good villain.
Samuel Hughes
Is he too?
Christian Morris
I do not get how one can make the show look so dull. Like it sucks all energy out from life itself.
A black hole of lame and off putting.
Being contrasted by something vibrant and energetic like hat girl just makes it so much worse.
Cooper Turner
Arey you retarded? The artistic design choice on purpose. It's meant to look drab and grey because the world of Boogiepop is not a happy one.
Nolan Bennett
That used to be the consensus on Berserk 1997 too
Luke King
>normie
Come on you were winning until then
Wyatt Anderson
Still the same amount of retarded posts like other threads. Why so obvious? Is it that fun to pretend or is it real?
Henry Thomas
>It's meant to look drab and grey because the world of Boogiepop is not a happy one.
They did a terrible job at that. The design for most of it looks "normal" more than dreary.
Josiah Rodriguez
I want a boogie figure
Aaron Reyes
Duh, Normal is a part of the world too. Normal looking things having a not so normal side is standard boogiepop.
Shouldn't you know this?
Hudson Smith
The LN, maybe. The anime is a mess. Both of them.
Levi Garcia
Shouldn't you stop defending a flawed adaption with a boring design aesthetic that fails to convey the tone of the original work?
Xavier Nguyen
>tone of the original work
Assuming you even know what it is
Isaac Thompson
Nah new anime is more simple after first arc cos they rearrange some parts
Ian Scott
Because literally anyone with a basic grasp of the English language will not be able to stand a series that constantly talks about a mysterious entity that is literally named "Boogiepop".
It's comparable to creating a very serious historical anime, but naming the main bad guy Mr. Hingledingle.
Dropped it after 2 eps.
Lincoln Allen
Because people have shit taste
Only the first arc was meh, the rest was fine to me
I really enjoyed it, the scarecrow arc was 10/10
Josiah Barnes
What did they mean by this
Lucas Sanchez
7/10, they cut the BatNagi vignette that bridges the timeskip
Asher Murphy
That one isn't really necessary and it's after kod anyway
Ryder Jones
Too boogie and not pop enough
Sebastian Evans
No fighting
Alexander Evans
Boogiepop? more like Boogieflop
Jeremiah Torres
well yes, people complaining about it being boring or hard to understand can fuck off. it's not that we are smart is that you are used to literal shit
Ian Russell
...
Samuel Lewis
Poopie plop down the toilet.
Christopher Howard
>ompfags still seething
Pathetic
Adrian Bell
There it is again. It can't possibly be bad! You're just too du-, I mean, you're just too used to dumb shows to appreciate this smart one! See thats different.
Owen Mitchell
>hurr durr I don't understand so it's bad
if you call that valid criticism you are a retarded
Anthony Rivera
>and it's after kod anyway
I think that's actually a reason that its inclusion would have been cool. Anime only viewers would get hyped up on Habara dealing with the incident on his own, which would make the reveal that the lockdown of the Moon Temple and the appearance of the King of Distortion are separate matters as well as Shiro's interference and the true resolution all the more shocking. Playing around with the material could have been an interesting way to spice up the adaption.
As far as not being necessary; nothing is fucking necessary so why have an adaption at all? That's a retarded reason to excuse corner cutting. It's not central to "the plot," but it's important thematically to show that Nagi followed through on evolving as was discussed with her father who reiterates the point to lolimaginator, by way of taking up the mantle of a superhero/detective that she tried to coerce Scarecrow into taking. It also provided more characterization for Nagi with her visit to the office and her thoughts on trying to keep friends out of weird shit, which the anime essentially has none of since In the Mirror was skipped (OVA fucking when).
It's like saying they could have just cut Sakiko's story from Overdrive. Her part isn't necessary to the plot (besides locking Habara and Shiro in), so it could just be cut without impacting the narrative, right?
Justin Bell
Which I didn't even say, but it is when its the result of nauseating direction my dude. But a criticism like that is just unfathomable to you, it must be because everyone else is too stupid
Ethan Johnson
Daily reminder that pic related won
It snowed in april in Japan
Apologize
Jayden Long
Of course he would win.
Nolan Diaz
But did it melt away soon after?
Christian Myers
If you say the series is shit because you don't understand, it's not valid criticism. Same goes to being boring because that's subjective. Like you found it boring, ok is not for you? Literally go back to something more fast paced like shonens? How do you want us to say to you to fuck off?
We are being rude because we don't want people who hate the series here.
Most people here loved this adaptation as is and want more. Your feedback is useless.
Eli Davis
>If you say the series is shit because you don't understand, it's not valid criticism.
Again, just ignoring what I ACTUALLY said because you want to stick to your strawman
>Literally go back to something more fast paced like shonens?
This is exactly what I said, its always this strawman, anyone who had problems with the show is just one of those people who only ever watch "shonens"
>Most people here loved this adaptation
lol. Most people dropped it
>Your feedback is useless.
Then either stop responding of go fuck yourself
Lincoln Jenkins
>this thread
Holy shit
I never doubted him
Jaxon Smith
Because it was fucking trash. It had some good ideas and atmosphere but in the end it was too boring.
Lincoln Ward
It was ok but better than overrated shit like tpn for sure
Ayden Mitchell
I miss boogie
Christopher Clark
Who /imagine/ here
Adam Gray
I'll imagine her loli form
Blake Moore
Why do so many people die in that show and no one cared about them?
Joshua Brown
Why are all the characters in this show so smug
Jayden Gray
Post the (You) edit with boogie. I lost it.
Jacob Wright
Ryder Lee
Daniel Fisher
Yeah, he was based. The one death besides Mo' Murder that got to me.
Angel Allen
Thanks, this thread need it
Austin Howard
Didn't have that one yet
Anthony Evans
What is it about?
Austin Perry
Why is the series still on going? Why can't Japan finish something properly
Luke Johnson
Was it better than the first adaptation ? I liked the 2000 anime even if it was very cryptic.
Ayden Brooks
The 2000 anime was some own thing. This was an adaptation of part of the LN main series.
Tyler Perez
The first volume is about connection to social environments and compassion, the next two volumes are about interpersonal relationships and influence on others, the anime skips the volume about the power of friendship in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances, and then the anime shuffles the volumes that are about "evolution" between generations as it relates to individual struggle against the status quo and drawing strength from negative experiences.
Jackson Green
>One of the most critically acclaimed LNs
>Responsible for the widespread use of the term light novel
>it isn't popular in the east either
Oh boy do I have news for you.
Gabriel Kelly
Liking trash doesn't make you special opmfagsan
Eli Brooks
the character designs are really fucking bad
Ian Morgan
Because it's actually good and the anime community hates series like those.
Julian Carter
Sounds like a book on philosophy. Sounds boring.
Grayson Reyes
William Evans
Touka-chan!
Connor Myers
>small
David Ortiz
based user
thank you
Brayden Anderson
Cute serial killer
Asher Baker
I've finished all the translated novels and i feel empty now
Brandon Brooks
>This series basically invented the urban supernatural fantasy genre, and it's influence can be seen in series like A Certain Magical Index, Durarara!!, and the monogatari franchise. In fact, at one point, the author of the Monogatari series referred to the author of Boogiepop as a God.
Is this true? I wanted to start the series but I don't know if I should start with the novels or watch the anime adaptation, I love urban fantasy stuff
Kevin Kelly
Nagi is better though
Watch the new anime, then read the novelsthen watch Phantom
Caleb Flores
*watch warawanai 1-3 then phantom then the rest of warawanai then novels
Luke Powell
based and nagipilled
Dominic Wright
>Nagi is better
Josiah Edwards
It popularized the LN genre in Japan, so I don't know if we hate or love Boogiepop for it.
Samuel Ramirez
>we get a season 2 but it's by shaft
Would you watch It?
Connor Ward
If the OST is always by ushio then yes
Colton Russell
yes but only for boogie's head tilts
Caleb Jones
embryo would be ruined
Owen Taylor
Why
Tyler Kelly
Why does she wear that giant, stupid hat?
Tyler King
Hats are cool
Leo Collins
I would rather have a proper adaption of the first volume by Shaft. In fact, let them re-do Returns as well.
Cooper Cox
This series? Because it's shit. Phantom? Because life isn't fair.
Jackson Jackson
it's ironic that the story is about a mysterious being called Boogiepop but Touka ends up being far more mysterious and elusive.
Ryder Harris
So are Takeda and Touka still a thing? Sounds like their relationship grew rather distant
Well sounds like everyone in touka's environment gets sucked into the towa organisation. Wondering what Touka/Boogie is thinking about this...
Nathaniel Hughes
Phantom fags are delusional as ever
Sebastian Nguyen
Go seethe elsewhere, tertiary
Logan Reyes
I've loved this version of Boogiepop but I wish it had the same Lynchian feeling as the early 00s did.
Parker Davis
She had more scenes during the 1st
arc but they cutted them off
Brayden Jenkins
I see, thanks
Julian Brooks
Touka a cute
Josiah Brown
>designs were bad
plain grounded designs are cute the fuck is wrong with you people
Robert Cooper
they love weebshit, god please forgive them
Wyatt Myers
>So are Takeda and Touka still a thing? Sounds like their relationship grew rather distant
No problem. Almost nothing has changed between them, besides takeda looks busier at work than before (and touka has some complaints about it)
Adrian Mitchell
>Why are all the characters in this show so smug
If I had some super powers I'd be pretty smug too.
Sebastian Hernandez
Based
Cameron Ortiz
The Op and ED keep playing in my mind
Brandon Mitchell
Based and snowpilled
Josiah Perry
First post
Best post
Jack Gomez
S2 when I need more best girl Nagi
Isaac Bell
Because it tried to bait the audience with a PV featuring content non-existent in the actual anime
Charles Fisher
>ywn see the repent walpurgis series animated
Carter Morales
anyone got the "where is my mind" screencap of Touka infront of the mirror?
Logan Cox
Well I started this series when this thread opened and just finished it now, so glad to see it's still up. Overall it was pretty good, but can't say it was very amazing, and I have no reference to the source material. However the OP, ED, OST and non-sequential narrative were refreshing for me. And obviously, gotta love the smug.
Maybe I'm a mental midget or something, but I couldn't quite wrap my head around the very last scene. What was going on there? Was that just some sort of connected dream state between Boogie and Takeda after they fell asleep on the train? What was meant by "how did you know it was me?", isn't that a stupidly obvious question given the outfit? Am I mentally challenged, or am I just looking too deeply into a superfluous ending scene? Everything else made sense except this part and it's bothering the shit out of me. Please enlighten me.
Jayden Bell
I think "how did you know it was me" was meant in relation to Takeda seeing through the King of Distortions trick, and later knowing it is real Boogie.
William King
That scene was anime original. The ending in the novel is about Kentarou is still unable to deal with his own distortion.
Hunter Bailey
It means Boogie is a fucking liar and has a perfectly functioning sense of self.
Jose Rivera
I see. I was hoping a sourcefag would be able to flesh it out for me, but I guess that's not a possibility. Though I already had an inkling that this was just thrown in as some sort of "we only have 30 seconds to end this shit" kind of scene.
Anthony Johnson
You philistine pleb.
Liam Sanchez
I want to imagine
Jayden Nguyen
Boogiepop wants Toukas man to play games of pretend with.
Jacob Mitchell
What would Boogiepop in America be like?
Nolan Clark
I want to Boogieknock up Touka Miyashita!
Jeremiah Green
shot
Angel Rivera
"Why don't we just pretend I'm Touka."
Gavin Sullivan
i want to cream a nagi
Caleb Thompson
fpbp it's not original, not interesting, and the storyboard is a disaster. On a related note japanese writers really like trying to explain mundane concepts in abstract roundabout gibberish and boogie is an example of that not working well at all
Camden King
>not original
What do you mean about that user?
Camden Carter
Another faggot pretending to know the series
Aaron Long
>boogiepop.fandom.com
Jesus that's a shit load of novels
>Boogiepop if Touka Miyashita is the Fire Witch
This looks fun
>VS Imaginator Part Ⅵ "The Satanic Majesty"
Where is part 5?
Nicholas Bell
>Where is part 5?
heard it's in Like Toy Soldiers.
Christopher Ross
>Literal years worth of Boogiepop stories forever stuck in Japan
Just end it now, Lord
Aiden Wilson
Anyone have the raw for Toy Soldiers. All the links I found are down.
Benjamin Davis
>No Control, Man with No Future
This is quite different from japanese title.
>製造人間は頭が固い,Seizō Ningen Wa Atama Ga Katai
If this literally translated, "Productive Human Is Hard-Headed" would be correct.
Jack Scott
pleb filter
Jace Thomas
Imaginator is everywhere
Nathaniel Walker
Nicholas Hughes
Takeda is so lucky
Liam Flores
10000 years for a slut is a good deal
Levi Ross
When will Touka reconcile witH Boogie? Isn't it implied in At Dawn that she knew about him but deleted her own memories to protect her normal life?
Noah Wright
Supposedly in the drama CD with KOD volume
Wyatt Garcia
There is a drama CD with the KOD volume?
Angel Brooks
This
I need more boogie
Blake Harris
BoogiePop 2000 was a masterpiece. Those with refined taste can only understand.
Ayden Long
>boogiefiller
Ayden Jenkins
Why is this creepy bubble so cute
Connor Taylor
>Boogiepop 2019
Tries to rush through the books for some reason, turning the story into a weird mess with no point really
>Boogiepop Phantom
Has a better understanding of the series, gives each pov one episode, but focuses too much on the horror atmosphere, neglecting the dialogue that made the books so great.
Ryder Lopez
Just read the novels, there is no reason to watch the anime unless you are allergic to books, and even then the anime is not good so you shouldn't watch it.
Luke Perez
Logan Foster
It's not rushed aside from the first arc
>Has a better understanding of the series
Bullshit
Jose Edwards
A cutie
Matthew Mitchell
I love boogiepopu.
What are some cool musical references in BP.
I noticed Imaginators power was named Strange Days, after a song.
Spooky Electric and Camille are aliases of Prince.
What are some others?
Nolan Diaz
KOD touka is my heaven and hell. Imagine a touka who was a demon in the sack and asks "do you have experience?"
Take me now.
Jaxson Ross
senpai
Jacob Moore
Because the adaptation is absolutely utter garbage.
Daniel Evans
I liked it
Might buy the novels
Bentley Cook
anyone else actually feeling bad for poor little Touka?
She didn't ask for this
Henry Walker
She probably did. It's explicitly stated she erases her memories of Boogie's activities on her own, which means she's aware of it all. She might actually be Boogie itself and fakes the normal human personality.
Matthew Richardson
she erases the memory of Boogie messing around so she can live a somewhat normal life, doesn't mean she likes being Boogie.
young Touka didn't seem particularily thrilled about it.
Alexander Ortiz
What is it about though
Jeremiah Walker
In the novel she seems more disturbed with her mother's behavior than the idea of having split personalities. The Dr. Kisugi even comments she can sense Touka's mother is the one with severe emotional/mental problems. The anime just doesn't capture the vibe of that scene properly.
Aoi Yuuki's voice work is masterful though.
Ryder Fisher
Evolution.
Carson Baker
She is a lot more aware than boogie implied at least, her switches, particularly small ones are pretty abnormal compare to standard cases desu
Camden Baker
Being absolute shit.
Charles Martin
Because it's good and the west only loves overrated shit
Julian Jackson
never
Henry Collins
/thread
Wyatt Taylor
>Aoi Yuuki's voice work is masterful though.
Literally carried the show and one of the reasons it would be so hard for me to try and pickup the books. Along with the soundtrack.
Jackson Garcia
Does the soundtrack get better or something? I watched the first book's worth of episodes and it was pretty mediocre.
Ayden Cox
To each their own I suppose. I wouldn't say the OST changes much from what you'd experience in the first arc. I personally enjoyed it, but just to be clear, there is a noticeable power gap between Aoi Yuuki's performance and the soundtrack.
Grayson Reed
What was her problem?
Jackson Murphy
Futsuu.
Gabriel Wilson
What the hell was he after all?
Justin Adams
An alien. He was originally a being of thought, but took on a human form when he came to Earth. His alien power made his human body evolve which attracted the Towa organization to him. They captured him and extracted cells and blood from her over-evolved body. With those cells they manufactured their evolution drug which can force a normal human to evolve.
Jacob Watson
普通ってなに？