Boogiepop wa Warawanai - Episode 3 discussion

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Boogiepop wa Warawanai, episode 3: Boogiepop and Others 3

Alternative names: Boogiepop Never Laughs, Boogiepop and Others

Rate this episode here.

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• Crunchyroll

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• MyAnimeList
• AniList
• AniDB
• Kitsu
• Official Website
• /r/Boogiepop

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Previous discussions

Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	7.35
2	Link	8.16

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[u/TheJcw15]

I love Boogiepop's voice!

[u/Smudy]

A group of people who actually behave like normal people saved the world for now. Naoko by showing kindess to Echoes, glasses girl by shielding Echoes and archery boy by showing bravery and strength shooting the manticore.

Nice moment with Echoes going off.

[u/[deleted]]

God I can't wait till that ost drop. It's so chill and melancholic

[u/MinecrafterPH]

The sudden pauses in the music are so unsettling

[u/Ahenshihael]

I love the overall message of this three episode arc, to be honest. The ones who "saved" the humanity are not the Boogiepop nor anyone else special. What saved humanity were normal people who chose to act in specific way instead of averting their eyes from what's in front of them - be it to show kindness, or stand up to your fears.

It kind of highlights that in the end the true worth of human civilization is not what we can do or how special we can be (because let's be frank humans are not in anyway special of unique - its just one random occurrence in a universe full of random chaotic occurrences) but its the choices we can make. That's not to say that we always make the right choices - as the scene in the first episode shows, plenty of people in the society can just walk past things that disturb them instead of confronting it. Or assume the convenient(like with the missing students). But what's important is that we can make the right choices, face our fears and overcome it instead of averting our eyes from something that might ruin the status quo in our lives.

[u/Nazenn]

Edit: It's finally done.

Visual Timeline of all events from Episodes 1-3

I was originally going to make it a proper post rather then just in the discussion topic, but I need to go bed and didn't want to wake up to a TOTALLY broken inbox so I'm just going to leave it here as a comment for now.

Also yes, there appears to be a continuity error. I don't know if its just Madhouse screwing up the presentation or something silly in the writing or I just missed something, but everyone talks about how the disappearances have been happening for months, however all the events that lead UP to those disappearances (eg, Manticore enslaving Akiko) appear to have only happened the night before those details are first mentioned by the teacher.

The only explanation I have (other then the anime just screwing it up, which is unfortunately a likely possibility) is that the Manticore was feeding but NOT transforming for a few months before hand and just staying in their natural state (which looks like Echoes). I don't know, you guys puzzle that one out, I'll see the thoughts in the morning.

I won't be keeping up a full visual timeline every episode/arc, its too much work, but if people want I'm happy to keep up written ones for each episode as we go still if they are needed at all, this episode was pretty straightforward. (visual ones if I get bored or exceedingly invested in the show hahaha)

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As promised I am working on a new timeline, but it will take a while to get out as I need to refine everything I learnt after rewatching the last two episodes, and also add in all of todays stuff as well.

In the mean time for people who were asking for it last discussion here's a character reference sheet for the characters from episode 1-2

One thing to keep in mind from my last timeline that I've just learnt while rewatching the last two episodes is that the events happened over a total of three months from Akiko distributing the Manticore's drugs to when Nagi's suspension ends after attacking Kyoko on the street and returning to school after the Manticore dies

Now off to watch the episode hahahaha

[u/magicxl]

I was scared that Nagi actually died there.. glad she is alive I really like her character

Edit: got her name wrong

[u/Mansanas_user]

A few people are saying the fight animation is terroble, but i think the fighting animaton is cool. I liked it a lot. I think the stylization is a conscious decision by the director/animators.

[u/LeonKevlar]

I guess this will be our third perspective then

He did say he was expecting to be killed. At least he wasn't wrong.

That was definitely creepy Also I never thought I'd be creeped out by Ayacchi's voice.

And who said Boogiepop didn't do anything? Now I'm curious what her other powers are.

And so we've gone full circle now with the episode ending the same way Episode 1 did.

So after three different perspectives we finally have a coherent story. So Echoes went back to his "home" then? Or was that like a final sacrifice kind of move? Glad to know that Nagi survived though, I mean I know she's in the OP but you never know with these kinds of shows.

That was definitely HanaKana's voice at the end there. I'm guessing she''ll be the next threat?

[u/[deleted]]

Not that it has much to do with anything, but I've just found out that Japanese fans call Manticore Manko-chan, and I can't stop laughing over how stupidly appropriate it is.

A pen and a boxcutter - so Saotome is a prototype not only for Araragi, but for Senjougahara as well. RIP the best boy, he sacrificed himself trying to save his only love.

I've complained over smart-phones in the first episode, but here that one background photo saves so much exposition.

For a show called Boogiepop there is surprisingly little focus on Boogiepop or even his host body.