[UA] Boogie Pop Phantom

[kabael at softhome.net]

My roommate (hey there joe) rented this damned recent anime (at least the
first 2 episodes) and I have to say it's prime UA material. I didn't think
that the first episode was, but by the second I did (and I was hooked on
the show).

Basically there's a high school student who gets a disease (it was hard to
tell what with our fan subbed, billionth-generation tape - but it was
probably bone cancer). He takes some special medicine that only gives him a
fever for a week. Then, 5 years later, he witnesses a pillar of
supernatural light and a ball of ghostly energy passes through him.

>From that point on, he sees big spiders on some people's chests and necks.
After failing a wide variety of stress checks, he stumbles upon the fact
that these spiders are the memories of regret, guilt and shame - and he
starts taking them from people and eating them. Sin-eater indeed.

Anyway, he gets addicted and (to spoil the episode) starts going to greater
and greater lengths to get these spiders. Then Boogie Pop Phantom herself
(the God of Death, what a name for her, eh?) shows up and "collects" him.
She says that she's not the one who is killing him though, and points at
his chest, where we see all the spiders he's been eating latched onto him.

Very nice stuff.

The show has some strange direction as well. The first two episodes happen
at the same time, but have different plots and characters - they just
intersect in the middle. I have the feeling that this "same story,
different angle" approach will continue. The show itself is also rather
odd, drawn with fuzzy borders and colored almost entirely in cepia. That's
sure to piss some people off ;)

and for those who know stuff about anime, it's apparently written by the
Lain guy and directed by the man who made Slayers. An odd combination that
ends up being nothing like Slayers at all, and strikingly similar to Lain.

Definitely something people should check out if they get the chance, but it
may be rather hard to find, since it's only months old as far as I know,
and we could only find ratty fansubs.


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