I have a stranger relationship with Boogiepop Phantom than I do any other anime.
It is entirely possible I may not have an association with any other piece of media in the rather particular way this series and I have danced around each other over the years.
As I have been granting a rather extensive amount of time this month to seasonally Halloween appropriate anime affairs (one previous column dealing with the holiday in a friendly fun focus via Dirty Pair, three weekly entries on horror and gore back catalogue resurrections, with two more distinct pieces still in the pipeline) a few questions have been sent along to me.
In summarizing them and in so many fewer words: Why and how can I bring myself to watch so many disgusting anime? Don’t I just want to watch some nice things?