Happy end?

[Cetacious]

Oh man! I just saw the ending to Boogiepop phantom and... Dude, WHY? I loved Boogie for being so dark, so suicidal, so negative, it gave me a breath of fresh air out of the entire shoujo atmosphere everywhere else. I considered it a masterpiece even capable of replacing NGE in the unreachable altair. BUT...

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After eppisode eleven I was so mad about seing what happened during the explosion, which ctually was the only thing left to tell but NO! The ending is colorfull! And happy! And it motivates you to get into your life and overcome all odds and besides to be a good person. Wagh! And, besides, it doesn't tell me anything couldn't have deduced myself to complete the map of events.

:bawling:

[GigaSheep]

i think you are missing the point of the last episode.

it IS a depressing episode, since it is hinted that even suema is 'infested' by a 'spider' of guilt and doubt. moreover, she cries at the end (look closely) and observes that everything is uncertain and transient.

[DrZepp]

I think the end drew paralells to the darkness of Boogiepops world askew, and the darkness in what we consider the real world. The last episode was good because it didnt need to be overly dramatic, and it probably wasnt what a lot of people were expecting. Really, theres another 'ending' within the series, when Minaka connects with Echoes and spreads the light throughout the city again... Thats a big part of the story coming to a close for me.

[Shadow War]

It was like staring into the sunlight after the hours of the night. It gave me a different feeling to end the series on. It is a great series.

[sutarikun]

A happy ending? You consider Toka not getting into the school of her choice a happy ending? (sorry, this from the same person who thought it was hilarious in Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland when Miyuki was complaining about losing her perfect attendance record)

Anyway, I thought it was quite a bittersweet ending. Toka still carries her large dufflebag, showing that Boogiepop still needs to exist but at what cost? Toka can still live a vaguely normal life but she remains unable to fulfill all of her dreams. Suema realizes some of what's happened but she understands it was more than fate that saved her, and that she's different. And all three of the friends go their own ways...

And the "special" kids haven't been killed, just made dormant until it is time for them to exist as they have.

[Nulani]

The sad part of the ending is subliminal, in the sense they haven't made it dramatic and scream out to you. Which makes it great, much like the rest of the series.

None of that made sense, did it?

[Cetacious]

Yeah, right. I saw it again a coule of times and understood the wole thing. It IS real kickas. Must have been cause the first time I saw it on crappy VCD and without sound and was really pissed off by the colours, but the thing with the city's forgotten song and Toka's final soliloque are great, the very image of oblivion. Hmm. It's scary to have something you can really put as high as the NGE, it unstabalizes my entire cosmovision, like when Galileo came up with that Earth was not the center of the universe...

Yay, 500th post!

[Cookiepop]

Whether the ending was happy or not depends on your view. As has been said, Miyashita will continue to be Boogiepop, she failed her entrance exams, and Suema is saddened that school has ended and now she won't be with the friends she has. Also, Kuroda "died" again, being a defender of justice, and Boogiepop Phantom has been left all alone in the underground tunnel with no means of communication except the Theremin. The three children are also being kept there until the rest of humanity reachers ther level of evolution, but how long will that take? In the end, with "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" playing in the background, I thought the ending was quite melancholic as we get the final image of the big city and all the imagery that comes with that.