List of Boogiepop media

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This is a current listing of the media in the Boogiepop series. This metaseries is currently made of 14 light novels, six collections of short stories, a live-action movie, a TV anime 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.

Contents

[edit] 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.
  • Boogiepop in the Mirror: "Pandora" (ブギーポップ・イン・ザ・ミラー 「パンドラ」 Boogiepop in the Mirror "Pandora"?)
    Does anybody really know what time is it? Japan December 25, 1998; ISBN 4-07-310350-4
Six children with the ability to predict the future, each in different ways. One day, Boogiepop begins to enter their premonitions.
  • Boogiepop Overdrive: The Piper (ブギーポップ・オーバードライブ 歪曲王 Bugīpoppu Oobādoraibu Waikyokuō?)
    Heartbreaker II Japan February 25, 1999; ISBN 4-07-310887-5
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 Boogipop 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.
  • Boogiepop Missing: Peppermint Wizard (ブギーポップ・ミッシング ペパーミントの魔術師 Bugīpoppu Misshingu Pepāminto no Majutsushi?)
    Peppermint wizard, or Rize and fall of poor innocent puppet Japan August 25, 1999; ISBN 4-8402-1250-3
After trying the Peppermint Icecream made by Kigawa Tosuke, Teratsuki Kyouichiro uses him to start a chain known as The Peppermint Wizard. The Icecream is able to take away people's pain, but does not go unnoticed by the Towa Organisation.
  • Boogiepop Countdown Embryo: Erosion (ブギーポップ・カウントダウン エンブリオ浸蝕 Bugīpoppu Kauntodaun Enburio Shinshoku?)
    "The EMBRYO" 1st half -erosion- Japan December 25, 1999; ISBN 4-8402-1358-5
A mysterious virus named Embryo begins infecting portable gaming systems. Anyone exposed to this virus soon begins to develop special abilities.
  • Boogiepop Wicked Embryo: Eruption (ブギーポップ・ウィキッド エンブリオ炎生 Bugīpoppu Uikiddo Enburio Enjyō?)
    "The EMBRYO" 2nd half -eruption- Japan February 25, 2000; ISBN 4-8402-1414-X
  • Boogiepop Paradox: Heartless Red (ブギーポップ・パラドックス ハートレス・レッド Bugīpoppu Paradokkusu Hātoresu Reddo?)
    THE UNUSUAL CONTACT OF VERMILION HURT & FIRE WITCH Japan February 25, 2001; ISBN 4-8402-1736-X
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.
  • Boogiepop Unbalance: Holy & Ghost (ブギーポップ・アンバランス ホーリィ&ゴースト Bugīpoppu Anbaransu Hoorī & Goosuto?)
    Holy and Ghost are steeped in plastic crimes Japan September 25, 2001; ISBN 4-8402-1896-X
A pair of delinquents seek to release an enemy of the world known as Rock Bottom.
  • Boogiepop Stacatto: Welcome to Jinx Shop (ブギーポップ・スタッカート ジンクス・ショップへようこそ Bugīpoppu Sutakkāto Jinkusu Shoppu e Yōkoso?)
    Welcome to Jinx Shop Japan March 25, 2003; ISBN 4-8402-2293-2
Meet Oxygen, the head of the Towa Organisation, and learn about the Organisation's agenda: world domination.
  • Boogiepop Bounding: Lost Moebius (ブギーポップ・バウンディング ロスト・メビウス Bugīpoppu Baundeingu Rosuto Mebiusu?)
    Lost in Moebius Japan April 25, 2005; ISBN 4-8402-3018-8
Crossing over with the Night Watch Trillogy, Orihata Aya and a boy seeking vengeance on Boogiepop become trapped in a world known as 'Kiba no Ato'.
  • Boogiepop Intolerance: The Ark of Orpheus (ブギーポップ・イントレランス オルフェの方舟 Bugīpoppu Intorerinsu Orphe no Hakobune?)
    Ark of Orpheus Japan April 25, 2006; ISBN 4-8402-3384-5

These serialized novels take place within the Boogiepop universe:

  • Beat's Discipline Side 1 (ビートのディシプリン SIDE1 Bēto no Teishipurin SIDE1?)
    BEAT'S DISCIPLINE SIDE1 [Exile] Japan March 25, 2002; ISBN 4-8402-2056-5
  • Beat's Discipline Side 2 (ビートのディシプリン SIDE2 Bēto no Teishipurin SIDE1?)
    BEAT'S DISCIPLINE SIDE2 [Fracture] Japan August 25, 2003; ISBN 4-8402-2430-7
  • Beat's Discipline Side 3 (ビートのディシプリン SIDE3 Bēto no Teishipurin SIDE1?)
    BEAT'S DISCIPLINE SIDE3 [Providence] Japan September 25, 2004; ISBN 4-8402-2778-0
  • Beat's Discipline Side 4 (ビートのディシプリン SIDE4 Bēto no Teishipurin SIDE1?)
    BEAT'S DISCIPLINE SIDE4 [Indiscipline] Japan April 25, 2005; ISBN 4-8402-3120-6

[edit] Short stories

  • Metal Guru (メタル・グゥルー Metaru Guuruu?)
    Metal Guru Japan June 18, 1999
  • London Calling (ロンドン・コーリング Rondon Kooringu?)
    LONDON CALLING Japan September 18, 1999
  • My Death Waits (死神を待ちながら Shinigami wo Michinagara?)
    My Death Waits Japan December 18, 1999
  • Boogiepop Poplife (ブギートーク・ポップライフ Bugīpoppu Poppuraifu?)
    Boogietalk, Poplife (in Petssounds) Japan February 25, 2000
  • Chariot Choogle (チャリオット・チューグル Chariotto Chooguru?)
    CHARIOT CHOOGLE Japan March 18, 2000
  • Angel Volume (天使篇 - 真贋について Tenshi-hen - Shingan ni Tsuite?)
    Japan September 25, 2003

[edit] 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?

DVD Title Episode # Original Release Date
Evolution 1 DVD Cover
Evolution 1
Portraits from Memory 1 January 05, 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.
Portraits in Darkness 2 January 12, 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 what is the cost of his interference?
Life can be So Nice 3 January 19, 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 DVD Cover
Evolution 2
My Fair Lady 4 February 02, 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, what will be the result?
Interlude 5 January 26, 2000
Whilst Officer Morita iddly discusses rumours of a secret organiation with Officer Yamamoto, Kazuko Suema seeks the truth of those events from five years ago from Nagi Kirima.
Mother's Day 6 February 09, 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 unwravels the truth.
Evolution 3 DVD Cover
Evolution 3
Until Ure in My Arms Again 7 February 16, 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 Unusual 8 February 23, 2000
From the shadows, Nagi Kirima tries to save the world from whatever may threaten it. It was not until Ichirou Kishida appears that herlife is truly troubles, not least because he bares a striking resemblane to her first love, Shinpei Kuroda.
You'll Never be Young Twice 9 March 01, 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 Paisly Park, and looks for her salvation.
Evolution 4 DVD Cover
Evolution 4
Poom Poom 10 March 08, 2000
Poom Poom flies between different magical worlds, carrying a balloon of happiness. When he sets up a haven for lost children at Paisly Park, Nagi Kirima investigates the truth behind Poom Poom's perfect world.
Under the Gravity's Rainbow 11 March 15, 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 Requiem 12 March 22, 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...

[edit] Music

CD Release Date Track List
Boogiepop Phantom Original Soundtrack
Boogiepop Phantom Original Soundtrack
Japan February 25, 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 & 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 April 30, 2002
Music Inspired by Boogiepop and Others
Music Inspired by Boogiepop and Others
Japan March 25, 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 April 30, 2002

[edit] Other Boogiepop works

[edit] 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?

[edit] Manga

Based on the Boogiepop and Others novel.

[edit] Books

[edit] References

[edit] See also