Boogiepop Phantom
ブギーポップは笑わない Boogiepop Phantom
“There's something out there, and it's coming closer. Are you safe?”
About
Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core and now the rumors have begun once more. Boogiepop... Everyone knows about Boogiepop: meet her one dark night and you are taken. People tell each other the stories and laugh: no one believes that she can possibly exist in this day and age. Still, strange things appear to be going on and the darkness is taking on many forms. Something is out there.
Cast
Yuu Asakawa
as Kirima Nagi (voice)
Kaori Shimizu
as Boogiepop / Touka Miyashita (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
as Manaka Kisaragi (voice)
Kozue Yoshizumi
as Rie Takai (voice)
Mayumi Asano
as Boogiepop Phantom (voice)
Kyo Nagasawa
as Suema Kazuko (voice)
Jun Fukuyama
as Manticore / Masami Saotome (voice)
Gakuto Furuhara
as Poom Poom (voice)
Mamiko Noto
as Moto Tonomura (voice)
Shizuma Teijima
as Jounouchi Hisashi (voice)
Ayaka Saito
as Akane Kojima (voice)
Chihiro Suzuki
as Ariou (voice)
Daiki Ueda
as Yasushi Sanada (voice)
Fumiko Osaka
as Mayumi Kisaragi (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
as Saki Yoshizawa (voice)
Hirofumi Nojima
as Yoji Suganuma (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino
as Mamoru Oikawa (voice)
Maiko Itou
as Atsuko Abe (voice)
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
Portraits from Memory
This episode starts with the sudden apperance of a mysterious pillar of light. The city is thrown into a blackout, but quickly recovers. We are then taken to a bathroom, where we hear several girls talking about an angel of death, Boogipop. Moto Tonomura remembers about a time when she still hated herself. This entire episode is a flashback.
Light in the Darkness
This episode is told from Hisashi Jonouchi. He is running from someone...rather, something. He sees a strange bug in the alley way and eats it. He flashesback to when he first started seeing the bugs. They were spiders, over people's hearts. Only he could see them. Once he removed the spider, that person forgot about what made them sorrowful. However, Jonouchi grew an addiction for the spiders and started to crave for more and more. The episode ends with Jonouchi having an encounter with Boogiepop Phantom, where he is 'taken'.
Life Can Be So Nice
This episode revolves around Misuzu. She had a friend a while ago, named Panaru. Panaru had a great loving for the world, but was killed by a serial killer. Misuzu then decided to take up Panaru's love, only it was not a true love that Misuzu had. By accepting everything, she opened herself to another entity, who manipulated her into luring Naghi Kirima to a location. However, Boogiepop Phantom prevented the meeting. Misuzu found herself in an allyway, where she met her doom.
My Fair Lady
This episode is from Yoji Suganuma's point of view. He's mainly a loser a school, and only has his online buddies as friends. He is also a dating sim game addict, and has fallen in love with a girl named Rie (Ree-ae) who is actually just bits of data on his computer. He becomes addicted to 'Type-S' a so-called attraction device. A girl who applied to work at the resturant with him starts to look more and more like Rie, until the line of reality is forever blurred to Yoji.
Interlude
This episode is quite a confusing one. It jumps from POV to POV, and the time is frequently changing. It mainly takes place in a police station, and is all about a conversation between Morita and another cop. Every time we return to the conversation, a little bit more is revealed, until at the end, we start all over again.
Mother's Day
This episode revolves around Shizue, who died about 5 years ago. A girl named Rika shares the diaries of Shizue and herself with Shizue's mother. The diaries reveal much more about Shizue than her mother could have ever thought.
Until Ure In My Arms Again
This episode revolves around a brother and a sister, who usually stick together, yet the brother is slowly rejecting the sister. The brother recently (after the pillar of light) developed a want to unassemble everything and remove the useless parts. When he thinks that Paisely Park is useless, he attempts to take it apart, yet relizes that he doesn't have any powers. His sister has the power to grant his wishes.
She's So Unusual
This episode mainly revolves around Nagi Kirima, yet is told from the POV of Ichiro Kishida. He knew Nagi in the past, but he adopted a new alias and reentered her life as Ichiro Kishida. They go on a mission to stop the Manticore, a flesh eating shape shifter. They run into Boogiepop Phantom, who destroys the Manticore. However, the Manticore isn't gone forever...
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