 If you liked
Boogiepop wa Warawanai
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 ...then you might like
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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Both involve:
- A series of murders and disappearances happening in a city/village
- Teenagers dealing with paranoia, psychosis, drugs, suicide
- Same scene told from the POV of different characters
- Non-linear story with a hopeless, desperate feel
- Gore, also similarly toned down/darkened in the censored version
- A deity or mysterious entity.
Look no further if you want a creepy and complex psychological anime.
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Recommended by RenaPsychoKiller
Graphically, Boogiepop and Higurashi couldn't be further appart from each other; while Boogiepop has a grim world design and color palette, with realistic looking characters, Higurashi is filled cute lolis and bright colors. However, both shows tell stories with plenty of despair, mistery, murders and disappearances. Now, that alone wouldn't make any of these shows a particularly good recommendation for the other... The main link in the style of these shows is the narrative. Both make use of non-linear storytelling and change of character's focus, building the plot slowly, bit by bit of information. Boogiepop is harder to grasp, but Higurashi also takes longer to
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Recommended by requimcompany123
Boogiepop Phanton is a horror anime series with a story that has a similar set up to Higurashi. All of the characters profiled in each episode are in some way linked to each other; a mysterious beam of light, a series of murders that took place 5 years before the anime, and Boogiepop, the "Angel of Death". Boogiepop Phantom, like Higurashi, needs to be paid attention to closely so you can be able to fully grasp what is going on.
Both anime deal with a supposed supernatural entity that might punish you or kill you. (Boogiepop in Boogiepop Phantom and Oyashiro-sama in Higurashi)
Both feature heavily sensitive scenes showing the worst of mankind, like gore, blackmail, gaslighting, explicit children abuse, etc.
Both feature characters losing the ability to distinguish reality from hallucinations.
Both have mind-exploding plot-twists.
Both are excellent psychological horrors.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, the are both stories that focuses on telling you similar events from different points of view.
I really loved both of them.