List of Boogiepop media

This is a current listing of the media in Kouhei Kadono's Boogiepop series. This metaseries currently consists of 15 light novels, a four volume light novel spin-off series, a live-action movie, an anime TV series, two manga serials, two audio CDs, and other books.

An oddity of the Boogiepop titles is that they are almost always made of more than one title, and often there is a mix of English and Japanese titles. This list provides the English-release title, the Japanese title (and transliteration), with any further sub-titles below.

Light novels

An alien being chases an escaped clone of itself, a man-eater hiding in Shinyo Academy. As students disappear one-by-one, people begin to wonder if they are being taken by the legendary Boogiepop. As five different students try to understand different aspects of the puzzle, will anyone every truly know the truth of the events?
A year ago, Boogiepop defeated Imaginator, however, it appears to be trying to return: Asakura Jin, who can see people's hearts as plants, is being visited by the phantom of Imaginator's last host. Meanwhile, two agents from the Towa Organisation are trying to find Boogiepop. Whilst Camille tries to lure out Boogiepop indirectly, Spooky E finds himself face-to-face with Shinyo Academy's shinigami.
Six children with the ability to predict the future, each in different ways. One day, Boogiepop begins to enter their premonitions.
Teratsuki Kyouichiro, a man with connections to the Towa Organisation, constructed The Moon Temple, but has now suddenly died. The building is to be demolished in a month's time, but an accident seals visitors to the building, allowing the King of Distortion to manifest.
The prequel to the Boogiepop series. A serial killer is stalking the streets, meanwhile Kirima Nagi is hospitalised with an unknown disease, and Miyashita Touka begins to exhibit unusual behaviour.
After trying the Peppermint ice cream made by Kigawa Tosuke, Teratsuki Kyouichiro uses him to start a chain known as The Peppermint Wizard. The ice cream is able to take away people's pain, but does not go unnoticed by the Towa Organisation.
A mysterious virus named Embryo begins infecting portable gaming systems. Anyone exposed to this virus soon begins to develop special abilities.
A prequel to Boogiepop and Others and Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator. No sooner does Kirima Nagi return to middle school than a series of strange incidents occurs.
A pair of delinquents seek to release an enemy of the world known as Rock Bottom.
Meet Oxygen, the head of the Towa Organisation, and learn about the Organisation's agenda: world domination.
Crossing over with the Night Watch Trilogy, Orihata Aya and a boy seeking vengeance on Boogiepop become trapped in a world known as 'Kiba no Ato'.
A boy discovers his girlfriend is an MPLS, and both the Towa Organization and Boogiepop are after her.


These serialized novels take place within the Boogiepop universe:

Short stories

Anime

Main article: Boogiepop Phantom

A month ago, a pillar of light pierced the sky. Now, some people are beginning to show signs of highly evolved powers, and others are seeing the apparitions of people who should be dead. Rumours circulate about Boogiepop being involved, but does this urban legend even exist, and does anybody really know what is going on?

DVDTitleEpisode # Original Release Date
Evolution 1 Portraits from Memory15 January 2000
A month ago, a pillar of light pierced the sky. Masami Saotome disappeared around that time, and Moto Tonomura wondered what had happened to him. One day, she saw him appear, like a ghost. She now looks for Saotome, so that she can confess her love to him.
Light in Darkness212 January 2000
Ever since the pillar of light appeared a month ago, Jounouchi Hisashi was able to see visions of bugs attached to people's hearts. By removing these bugs, he was able to free them from their pain, but the cost of his interference pays a heavy toll on his own heart.
Life can be So Nice319 January 2000
Misuzu Arito is known as Panuru to her friends, and has learned to accept everything in the world, because it is all beautiful. However, she is living a lie, one that even she cannot look to see the truth of.
Evolution 2 My Fair Lady42 February 2000
Yoji Suganuma is pushed by his father to follow a certain path, but he seeks to follow his skills with computers. Isolated from others, he spends his time with a girlfriend he created on his computer. With the assistance of a new drug, he seeks to change his life, but when the lines between fiction and reality blur, it only results in confusion and insanity.
Interlude526 January 2000
Whilst Officer Morita idly discusses rumours of a secret organization with Officer Yamamoto, Kazuko Suema seeks the truth of those events from five years ago from Nagi Kirima.
Mother's Day69 February 2000
Shizue Wakasa's relationship with her mother collapsed after the death of her father, and these issues were left unresolved after her death. As her mother reads Shizue's diaries five years later, she unravels the truth.
Evolution 3 Until Ure in My Arms Again716 February 2000
Mamoru Oikawa is cruel to his sister, Sayoko, but that is nothing compared to how he treats the rest of the world. As he seeks 'useless' things to destroy, the closeness of their relationship becomes clear.
She's So Unusual823 February 2000
From the shadows, Nagi Kirima tries to save the world from whatever may threaten it. It was not until Ichirou Kishida appears that her life is truly troubled, not least because he bares a striking resemblance to her first love, Shinpei Kuroda.
You'll Never be Young Twice91 March 2000
Saki Yoshizawa loves to play the piano more than life itself, but when her confidence is shattered by a private teacher, she wonders if it were all worth it. That is when she hears rumours of Paisley Park, and looks for her salvation.
Evolution 4 Poom Poom108 March 2000
Poom Poom flies between different magical worlds, carrying a balloon of happiness. When he sets up a haven for lost children at Paisley Park, Nagi Kirima investigates the truth behind Poom Poom's perfect world.
Under the Gravity's Rainbow1115 March 2000
Manaka Kisaragi had spent her whole life locked away from the world, and died without ever seeing it. When Echoes inadvertently brought her back to life, she set off to learn about the world around her.
A Requiem1222 March 2000
A year later, all seems peaceful. Kazuko Suema and Touka Miyashita prepare for entrance exams, but not all the loose ends have been tied off. Everything still remains as a mystery.

Music

CDRelease DateTrack List
Boogiepop Phantom Original Soundtrack Japan 25 February 2000 1) Happy End, Flare
2) In Heaven, SiLC
3) Penalty Taker, Audio Active
4) Gataway, Susumu Yokota
5) Delirious, SiLC feat 2k+D's of RED LINE
6) Stormy Soup, AOA
7) Boogiepop Me Up, Ming_(DJ) & FS
8) A Furrow Dub, Sugar Plant
9) Torso, Sadesper Record
10) Snow Coast, Yoshihiro Sawasaki
11) Unstability, Hidenobu Ito
12) Pone, Rei Harakami
13) Angel in the Dark, M.Y.K.N.
United States 30 April 2002
Music Inspired by Boogiepop and Others Japan 25 March 2000 1) Daphne
2) Sad Bird
3) Nepenthe #1
4) Porcelain
5) Egotism
6) Forget-me-not
7) Nepenthe #2
8) Criss-Cross
9) Embrace
10) Boogiepop
11) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Boogiepop Version Classical Mix
United States 30 April 2002

Other Boogiepop works

Movie

Based on the novel of the same name. An alien and a man-eater are playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse at Shinyo Academy, and the students are the ones who suffer as a result of this. Is the legendary shinigami, Boogiepop, somehow involved in this incident?

Manga

Based on the Boogiepop and Others novel.

Books

References

See also

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