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** "The fashionable": Characters are slender with more realistic proportions. The clothings are much more diverse, colorful and recognizeable than before. At times, they even look like models posing for a fashion magazine. This style came in full bloom in ''Boogiepop Antithesis'' and has only grown more intricate
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* ArtEvolution: Kouji Ogata has been in charge of the series' illustration ever since the first volume. While continuation and transition exist, his style so far can be roughly divided into three phases:
** "The homie": Character features are generally crude, and the poses sometimes look stiff. There is a heavy reliance on the [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]]/[[OrangeBlueContrast orange]] contrast. This style carries the series from the first novel till the end of the ''Beat's Discipline'' saga.
** "The cutie": The eyes and heads get proportionally bigger, making the characters look like they're in early teens rather than late teens. On the other hand, more attention is paid to female body curves, which comes in full force in the Fanservice-heavy Walpurgis novel. Yellow hue dominated for quite a while. This phase last roughly from ''Boogiepop Question'' to the end of the ''Repent Walpurgis'' saga.
** "The fashionable": Characters are slender with more realistic proportions. The clothings are much more diverse, colorful and recognizeable than before. At times, they even look like models posing for a fashion magazine. This style came in full bloom in ''Boogiepop Antithesis'' and has only grown more intricate
** "The homie": Character features are generally crude, and the poses sometimes look stiff. There is a heavy reliance on the [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]]/[[OrangeBlueContrast orange]] contrast. This style carries the series from the first novel till the end of the ''Beat's Discipline'' saga.
** "The cutie": The eyes and heads get proportionally bigger, making the characters look like they're in early teens rather than late teens. On the other hand, more attention is paid to female body curves, which comes in full force in the Fanservice-heavy Walpurgis novel. Yellow hue dominated for quite a while. This phase last roughly from ''Boogiepop Question'' to the end of the ''Repent Walpurgis'' saga.
** "The fashionable": Characters are slender with more realistic proportions. The clothings are much more diverse, colorful and recognizeable than before. At times, they even look like models posing for a fashion magazine. This style came in full bloom in ''Boogiepop Antithesis'' and has only grown more intricate
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The first official trailer for the 2019 anime, which you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tu253SOas here]], is composed of scenes that have nothing to do with the anime or the light novels. Among them there is Nagi submitting a trenchcoat-wearing mook, a glassed man showing telekinetic moves against a burning hooded character,[[note]]The glassed man is most likely Dobermann, a character in the (untranslated) ''Repent Walpurgis'' saga who has the same SalaryMan appearance and metal-controlling power. His unidentified opponent also resembles Riki Tikki Tavi from the same story.[[/note]] and Boogiepop taking on Imaginator in a dream world and ending it in a MexicanStandoff.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The first official trailer for the 2019 anime, which you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tu253SOas here]], is composed of scenes that have nothing to do with the anime or the light novels. Among them there is Nagi submitting a trenchcoat-wearing mook, a glassed man showing telekinetic moves against a burning hooded character,[[note]]The glassed man is most likely Dobermann, Doberman, a character in the (untranslated) ''Repent Walpurgis'' saga who has the same SalaryMan appearance and metal-controlling power. His unidentified opponent also resembles Riki Tikki Tavi from the same story.[[/note]] and Boogiepop taking on Imaginator in a dream world and ending it in a MexicanStandoff.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The first official trailer for the 2019 anime, which you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tu253SOas here]], is composed of scenes that have nothing to do with the anime or the light novels. Among them there is Nagi submitting a trenchcoat-wearing mook, a glassed man showing telekinetic moves against a burning hooded character,[[note]]The glassed man is most likely Doberman, Dobermann, a character in the (untranslated) ''Repent Walpurgis'' saga who has the same SalaryMan appearance and metal-controlling power. His unidentified opponent also resembles Riki Tikki Tavi from the same story.[[/note]] and Boogiepop taking on Imaginator in a dream world and ending it in a MexicanStandoff.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The first official trailer for the 2019 anime, which you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tu253SOas here]], is composed of scenes that have nothing to do with the anime or the light novels. Among them there is Nagi submitting a trenchcoat-wearing mook, Mo Murder a glassed man showing telekinetic moves against an a burning hooded character,[[note]]The glassed man is most likely Doberman, a character in the (untranslated) ''Repent Walpurgis'' saga who has the same SalaryMan appearance and metal-controlling power. His unidentified hooded character with fire powers, opponent also resembles Riki Tikki Tavi from the same story.[[/note]] and Boogiepop taking on Imaginator in a dream world and ending it in a MexicanStandoff.
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* AmbiguousGender: Boogiepop is often referred to as male, but its actual gender is never stated, and it's entirely possible that it actually [[NoBiologicalSex doesn't have one]]. In the original Japanese novels an ambiguous pronoun was used to help this along. During Miyashita's interview with Dr. Kisugi, Boogiepop outright states it doesn't know what its gender would be.
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: [[spoiler: Kisugi Makiko when she injects herself with the serum that Kuroda left behind from the Towa facility]], and actually lampshaded as a stupid idea, but still does it anyway.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Boogiepop is whom the series is named after, and they appear in every work,they can't really be called the protagonist of the series or its adaptions, as the novels and the animes focus on any characters but Boogiepop or Touka.
* SecretIdentity: Touka as Boogiepop. Subverted in that almost everyone figures it out ''instantly''. Except herself, although she might be aware of it to some degree.
* SecretIdentity: Touka as Boogiepop. Subverted in that almost everyone figures it out ''instantly''. Except herself, although she might be aware of it to some degree.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Boogiepop is whom the series is named after, and they appear in every work,they work, they can't really be called the protagonist of the series or its adaptions, as the novels and the animes focus on any characters but Boogiepop or Touka.
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* SecretIdentity: Touka as Boogiepop. Subverted in that almost everyone figures it out ''instantly''. Except herself, although she might be aware of it to some degree.
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* SkilledButNaive: Masaki Taniguchi is a bit too trusting and never once questions why this mysterious girl that he met and started dating tells him nothing about herself and wants him to [[spoiler:pretend to be Boogiepop]]. He has to be saved twice, once by his sister and once by [[spoiler:the real Boogiepop]], from the mess he's gotten himself into.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Billionaire Teratsuki Kyouichiro was originally [[ArtificialHuman designed]] and put into place by the Towa Organization to provide them with powerful leverage over national economies. However, he came to oppose Towa once he had grown powerful enough, and designed the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Moon Temple]] [[spoiler: specifically as a means to test and search for individuals who had the strength, intelligence, and willpower to oppose Towa.]]
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''Boogiepop'' is a LightNovel series by Kouhei Kadono. With its first volume published in 1998, it currently consists of 23 light novels, an anime-original {{Interquel}} series by Creator/{{Madhouse}} (with Kadono's involvement) called ''Anime/BoogiepopPhantom'', a live action movie, two [=CDs=], and two attendant manga series. The anime series along with several of the novels have been released in the U.S. by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. Omnibus printings collecting the first six light novels were released in late 2018 and early 2019.
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''Boogiepop'' is a LightNovel series by Kouhei Kadono. With its first volume published in 1998, it currently consists of 23 24 light novels, novels and two spin-offs, an anime-original {{Interquel}} series by Creator/{{Madhouse}} (with Kadono's involvement) called ''Anime/BoogiepopPhantom'', a live action movie, two [=CDs=], and two attendant manga series. The anime series along with several of the novels have been released in the U.S. by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. Omnibus printings collecting the first six light novels were released in late 2018 and early 2019.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the 2019 anime, Kazuko's statement of "I already had a savior - Boogiepop" in episode 8 comes out of nowhere, since the dialogue where she learns that information (that Boogiepop saved her from Fear Ghoul), which should have taken place between her and Nagi in episode 2, is omitted. Whether it happened offscreen at some other point or she found about it in a different way is not revealed.
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** In the third, Masaki uses karate meditation to decide what to do. This is a real life practice called ''mokuso'', essentially their own version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] UsefulNotes/{{Meditation}}, but in real life, meditating is the exact opposite of exerting higher thought: what one does is preciely letting conscient thoughts and keeping the mind away from them.
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*** Nagi does not need to escort Kazuko home and stay for dinner [[PetTheDog just to relieve Kazuko's parents from worries]] when their daughter gets home late.[[note]]Curiously enough, the anime has Kazuko departs from Nagi's house in daytime instead of long after sunset like in the novel.[[/notes]]
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** Curiously enough, the card access gate at the school entrance, treated as a peculiarity in the novel and totally plausible in real life, is omitted in the anime. Presumably, having both the flap gates and a Discipline Commitee member monitoring the students is a bit redundant.[[note]]this actually has allegorical meaning in the novel: both the gate and the DC member are equally performative and useless[[/note]] This creates a minor PlotHole since there is no explanation for where Nagi gets the time-stamped behavioral data of the students (this is shown in the background but not commented on).
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** Everyone has cellphone now. The kids don't need to use the home line, and thus exposed to parental surveillance, to call each other. Quite a few moments of characterization in the original novel cannot occur verbatim in the anime adaptation:
*** It is no longer that abnormal for Nagi to have her own phone paid by herself, or for Aya to pick up every calls within seconds.
*** Nagi does not need to escort Kazuko home and stay for dinner [[PetTheDog just to relieve Kazuko's parents from worries]] when their daughter gets home late.[[note]]Curiously enough, the anime has Kazuko departs from Nagi's house in daytime instead of long after sunset like in the novel.[[/notes]]
** Nagi doesn't require a room [[HackerCave filled with hardware and software boxes]] to do the hacking.
** Curiously enough, the card access gate at the school entrance, treated as a peculiarity in the novel and totally plausible in real life, is omitted in the anime. Presumably, having both the flap gates and a Discipline Commitee member monitoring the students is a bit redundant.[[note]]this actually has allegorical meaning in the novel: both the gate and the DC member are equally performative and useless[[/note]] This creates a minor PlotHole since there is no explanation for where Nagi gets the time-stamped behavioral data of the students (this is shown in the background but not commented on).
*** It is no longer that abnormal for Nagi to have her own phone paid by herself, or for Aya to pick up every calls within seconds.
*** Nagi does not need to escort Kazuko home and stay for dinner [[PetTheDog just to relieve Kazuko's parents from worries]] when their daughter gets home late.[[note]]Curiously enough, the anime has Kazuko departs from Nagi's house in daytime instead of long after sunset like in the novel.[[/notes]]
** Nagi doesn't require a room [[HackerCave filled with hardware and software boxes]] to do the hacking.
** Curiously enough, the card access gate at the school entrance, treated as a peculiarity in the novel and totally plausible in real life, is omitted in the anime. Presumably, having both the flap gates and a Discipline Commitee member monitoring the students is a bit redundant.[[note]]this actually has allegorical meaning in the novel: both the gate and the DC member are equally performative and useless[[/note]] This creates a minor PlotHole since there is no explanation for where Nagi gets the time-stamped behavioral data of the students (this is shown in the background but not commented on).
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*TamerAndChaster: The 2019 anime omits all sexual intercourses in the first novel (all of which are between high schoolers) and Kamikishiro's polyamory.
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Although still obscure in the west, the ''Boogiepop'' series was a surprise hit in the light novel business and re-defined the whole genre in many ways, to the point some have gone to call it [[TropeCodifier the first modern light novel]]. Also, although western viewers might not spot the thread due to its aforementioned lack of the presence outside of Japan, Kadono's work was massively influential over later Japanese works, with many authors, most notably [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Ryogo]] [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Narita]], Creator/NisioIsin, [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Kinoko Nasu]] and the creators of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' videogame series having cited it as one of their main inspirations. A lot of the modern conception of the {{Chuunibyou}} archetype was also inspired by this series' eponymous character although it is ironically not an element found within.
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Although still obscure in the west, the ''Boogiepop'' series was a surprise hit in the light novel business and re-defined the whole genre in many ways, to the point some have gone to call it [[TropeCodifier the first modern light novel]]. Also, although western viewers might not spot the thread due to its aforementioned lack of the presence outside of Japan, Kadono's work was massively influential over later Japanese works, with many authors, most notably [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} [[Literature/{{Durarara}} Ryogo]] [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} [[Literature/{{Baccano}} Narita]], Creator/NisioIsin, [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Kinoko Nasu]] and the creators of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' videogame series having cited it as one of their main inspirations. A lot of the modern conception of the {{Chuunibyou}} archetype was also inspired by this series' eponymous character although it is ironically not an element found within.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The cover of the first volume.]]
There's a legend among the girls of Shinyo Academy about Boogiepop, a ''shinigami'' who can take you away while you're still young and beautiful. But when a series of students begin to go missing, it soon becomes apparent that Boogiepop isn't just a legend, and furthermore, there's much more going on beneath the pristine surface of the school.
''Boogiepop'' is a LightNovel series by Kouhei Kadono. With its first volume published in 1998, it currently consists of 23 light novels, an anime-original {{Interquel}} series by Creator/{{Madhouse}} (with Kadono's involvement) called ''Anime/BoogiepopPhantom'', a live action movie, two [=CDs=], and two attendant manga series. The anime series along with several of the novels have been released in the U.S. by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. Omnibus printings collecting the first six light novels were released in late 2018 and early 2019.
Although still obscure in the west, the ''Boogiepop'' series was a surprise hit in the light novel business and re-defined the whole genre in many ways, to the point some have gone to call it [[TropeCodifier the first modern light novel]]. Also, although western viewers might not spot the thread due to its aforementioned lack of the presence outside of Japan, Kadono's work was massively influential over later Japanese works, with many authors, most notably [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Ryogo]] [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Narita]], Creator/NisioIsin, [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Kinoko Nasu]] and the creators of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' videogame series having cited it as one of their main inspirations. A lot of the modern conception of the {{Chuunibyou}} archetype was also inspired by this series' eponymous character although it is ironically not an element found within.
A straight anime adaptation of the series, ''Boogiepop and Others'', aired in Winter 2019, also animated by Creator/{{Madhouse}}.
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* AdaptedOut: The 2019 anime adaptation skips the fourth volume, ''Boogiepop in the Mirror: "Pandora"'', and moves the sixth, the prequel ''Boogiepop at Dawn'', to its place. The latter switch is done probably in order to end the anime with the fifth, ''Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion'', which is set in present time and has a bigger feel of conclusion. The anime also removes the dead animal subplot of ''Overdrive'', as it is of little relevance for the main story and only acts as a redundant FramingDevice (the main one being Boogiepop telling the story to Echoes' shadow, which is preserved).
* ArcWords: "Sometimes it snows in April" for the ''Vs. Imaginator'' arc.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts:
** In the sexth novel, Nagi uses an UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}} throw on a petty criminal, which the text describes as "with enough force to send him flying". Although it could be just a case of bad description (or translation), it's worthy to mention that aikido throws don't work by force or by directly throwing the opponent; they are almost exclusively based around twisting limbs in order to make the opponent flip or drop himself in order to avoid the joint pressure, an action that usually only happens cleanly with trained opponents (which in this case isn't).
** In the third, Masaki uses karate meditation to decide what to do. This is a real life practice called ''mokuso'', essentially their own version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] UsefulNotes/{{Meditation}}, but in real life, meditating is the exact opposite of exerting higher thought: what one does is preciely letting conscient thoughts and keeping the mind away from them.
* AmbiguousGender: Boogiepop is often referred to as male, but its actual gender is never stated, and it's entirely possible that it actually [[NoBiologicalSex doesn't have one]]. In the original Japanese novels an ambiguous pronoun was used to help this along. During Miyashita's interview with Dr. Kisugi, Boogiepop outright states it doesn't know what its gender would be.
* ArtificialHuman: The Towa Organization specializes in making these and setting them up as {{Deep Cover Agent}}s.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Nagi Kirima is described as looking "handsome", and Touka when possessed by Boogiepop is often mistaken for male.
* BigDamnHeroes: The stories are told from the perspectives of people ''other'' than Boogiepop. These people are frequently teenagers who get in over their heads in bad situations leading to Boogiepop showing up to save the day.
* BodyHorror: Most stuff having to do with Manticore, which slowly robs you of your mental functions and turns you into a puppet. The way [[spoiler:Kisugi Makiko]] kills also qualifies, since it involves taking a person's brain out ''while they are still alive''.
* {{Bokukko}}: Nagi frequently uses male pronouns and styles of speech.
* CharacterTics: Boogiepop frequently has an asymmetrical expression that's probably supposed to be a smile, [[spoiler:that he copied from a dying Kuroda]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Frequently characters mentioned only briefly become very important later.
* ContinuityDrift: As the English translators note in the appendix, in the first novel Boogiepop claims he never emerged in front of the psychologist Touka's parents dragged her to, but ''Boogiepop at Dawn'' reveals he did, and in fact it was very relevant for both of their characterizations. Given that Boogiepop has no reason to lie, it is probably a goof on Kadono's part.
* CrapsackWorld: The world of Boogiepop generally isn't very nice.
* CrazyPrepared: Nagi, and she usually needs it at some point. For example, in ''Boogiepop at Dawn'', she caries with her a bag of [[spoiler:special electricity conducting materials, a rod to deliver a powerful electric shock, and an insulated jumpsuit against the current, all of which she uses to fry Kisugi Makiko]]. That same jumpsuit is also bulletproof. Lampshaded when someone wonders just [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys where she gets the stuff]].
* EvilutionaryBiologist: The Towa Organization sounds like this at first. Actually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that Towa seeks to ''preserve'' humanity in its current form and all their efforts are geared at ''preventing'' "evolved humans" from spreading throughout the world [[spoiler: which is the major reason why all their synthetic humans are sterile.]]
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: [[spoiler: This is essentially what MPLS is. A term used by the Towa Organization for humans who have begun to suddenly manifest unusual abilities.]]
* EvolutionaryLevels: [[spoiler: The backbone of the entire story. The human race is beginning to manifest new evolutionary traits in its next generation, identified by the Towa organization as "MPLS" individuals, and they seek out these individuals to neutralize them in hopes of keeping the human race as it presently is. This may also be the reason why the alien race Echoes is from took an interest in humanity and sent him there to observe humans. It is even possible that Boogiepop itself is merely Miyashita Touka manifesting her status as an MPLS and is not something supernatural.]]
* FauxlosophicNarration: Not really narration, but the Kirima Seiichi quotes definitely qualify. The English translators noted that they had a heck of a time keeping those quotes cryptic and mysterious while also making sure they made ''some'' kind of sense.
* FlashForward: Akio Kimura's section in ''Boogiepop And Others'' features this as it has him reflecting back on his relationship with Naoko Kamikishiro two years after the main events of the book. This was kept in the live-action movie, but removed from the 2019 anime, along with his character as a whole.
* HealingFactor: Most of the artificial humans possess some form of this.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Echoes]] and in a slightly more twisted version [[spoiler:Masami]]. In ''Boogiepop at Dawn'' we also have [[spoiler:Kuroda]] and [[spoiler:Mo Murder]] both end up making these to [[spoiler:save Nagi]].
* HeroicWannabe: Nagi's step brother Masaki ends up becoming his own version of Boogiepop, and eventually has to be saved by the real thing.
* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler:Masanori Sakaki]] aka [[spoiler:Mo Murder]] eventually becomes this, leading to the above HeroicSacrifice.
* HomoeroticSubtext:
** Suema seems to go just a ''bit'' farther than necessary to get close to Nagi than one would usually think normal.
** Not to mention Anou Shinjirou's crush on Masaki, which is actually fairly unambiguous for the genre.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Masami Saotome, though it's implied he was already pretty twisted.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Nagi again.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The nature of Boogiepop. [[spoiler: Is it truly a {{Shinigami}} or spiritual being that possesses Touka as part of an ethereal automatic defense mechanism of Earth? Or is it just a SplitPersonality of Touka's, who may or may not be an MPLS individual?]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Nagi considers [[spoiler:the death of Naoko]] to be hers. [[spoiler: The same for Tanaka Shirou, whose guilt and regret over Naoko's death eventually causes the manifestation of the King of Distortion.]]
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: The Towa Organization.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The first official trailer for the 2019 anime, which you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tu253SOas here]], is composed of scenes that have nothing to do with the anime or the light novels. Among them there is Nagi submitting a trenchcoat-wearing mook, Mo Murder showing telekinetic moves against an unidentified hooded character with fire powers, and Boogiepop taking on Imaginator in a dream world and ending it in a MexicanStandoff.
* NoSocialSkills: Aya Orihata, aka [[spoiler:Camille -- an artificial human]]. She gets better at the whole "human interaction" thing as time goes on.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Half the cast, though some more than others. In Masami Saotome's case, his normalcy is why Nagi rejected him.
* PillarOfLight: [[spoiler: Echoes turns into a beam of energy and returns to his homeworld with it, vaporizing Saotome Masami along the way.]]
* {{Prequel}}: The fourth novel, ''Boogiepop at Dawn'', which details Kirima Nagi's backstory and how Boogiepop got its name.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: [[spoiler: Kisugi Makiko when she injects herself with the serum that Kuroda left behind from the Towa facility]], and actually lampshaded as a stupid idea, but still does it anyway.
* PsychoElectro: Spooky Electric.
* RazorFloss: Boogiepop's main weapon.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Though she's still a high school student, Nagi maintains this image.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Boogiepop is whom the series is named after, and they appear in every work,they can't really be called the protagonist of the series or its adaptions, as the novels and the animes focus on any characters but Boogiepop or Touka.
* SecretIdentity: Touka as Boogiepop. Subverted in that almost everyone figures it out ''instantly''. Except herself, although she might be aware of it to some degree.
* SettingUpdate: Compared to the novels it’s based on, released between 1998 and 1999, the 2019 anime features characters who use smartphones and instant-messaging apps to communicate, as well as rumors spreading on social media. The Shin’yō Academy uniform is also updated, going from gakurans for boys and sailor uniforms for girls to blazers and ties for both.
* {{Shinigami}}: What Kuroda assumes Boogiepop is, and the latter takes the idea and runs with it.
* ShoutOut:
** The premise of a poised, androgynous vigilante with a SplitPersonality, clad in a black cloak and equipped with RazorFloss, who shares the city with several other supernatural beings and factions, is a WholePlotReference to the cult novel series ''Demon City Blues'' by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi, another pioneer of the LightNovel genre. Kikuchi's work has been occasionally cited as an inspiration.
** Nagi's character resembles ComicBook/{{Batman}}, and it's not casual that while taking to her, Suema thinks on a study case from her father's books about a man who believed himself to be the Caped Crusader.
** Also in-universe, Boogiepop's hat and look are described to be like those of Maetel from ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999''.
** Naoko compares Echoes' mission to the inspection robots from the books of sci-fi writer Shinichi Hoshi.
** The series frequently makes references to music, including several to Music/{{Prince}} in the form of the characters Spooky E and Camille, as well as the ArcWords “Sometimes it snows in April” (from the song of the same name). The chapter names are also frequently borrowed from song titles.
** As noted by the translators, Camille's name seems to be also a reference to the film ''Film/Camille1936'', where the female lead wins the heart of a young man but leaves him for his own good.
** Creator/HirohikoAraki's ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' was also a big influence on the series. Kadono himself would later pen a light novel of the ''Jojo'' franchise.
** The tone, elements and atmosphere of the series remind of the young adult work of Taku Mayumura, another inspiration for Kadono.
** Gen Sakakibara, the martial arts genius that trained Nagi and Masaki, is probably a reference to Nobuyuki Sakakibara, Japan's premier UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts promoter, who was especially known as the chairman of the mighty PRIDE league by the time the first ''Boogiepop'' volumes were published.
* SkilledButNaive: Masaki Taniguchi is a bit too trusting and never once questions why this mysterious girl that he met and started dating tells him nothing about herself and wants him to [[spoiler:pretend to be Boogiepop]]. He has to be saved twice, once by his sister and once by [[spoiler:the real Boogiepop]], from the mess he's gotten himself into.
* SplitPersonality: While early volumes suggest Boogiepop might be either an split personality or an external entity that took Touka as a host, later volumes more clearly imply [[spoiler: Touka is an MPLS (evolved human) and Boogiepop is how her evolution manifests.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Kamikishiro Naoko]], slightly subverted in that [[spoiler:she]] was also something of a delinquent. Also arguably [[spoiler:Echoes]].
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Billionaire Teratsuki Kyouichiro was originally [[ArtificialHuman designed]] and put into place by the Towa Organization to provide them with powerful leverage over national economies. However, he came to oppose Towa once he had grown powerful enough, and designed the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Moon Temple]] [[spoiler: specifically as a means to test and search for individuals who had the strength, intelligence, and willpower to oppose Towa.]]
* TheUnreveal: The meaning of the acronym "MPLS" is never revealed in the story. All we know is that it is the term used by the Towa Organization to designate [[spoiler: naturally evolving humans who are awakening their powers.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: The ''entire town'', which somehow houses psychics, clones, aliens, guardian entities, shared dreamscapes, secret organizations, ghosts, and all manner of other strange goings on.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Nagi again, as well as Boogiepop.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The cover of the first volume.]]
There's a legend among the girls of Shinyo Academy about Boogiepop, a ''shinigami'' who can take you away while you're still young and beautiful. But when a series of students begin to go missing, it soon becomes apparent that Boogiepop isn't just a legend, and furthermore, there's much more going on beneath the pristine surface of the school.
''Boogiepop'' is a LightNovel series by Kouhei Kadono. With its first volume published in 1998, it currently consists of 23 light novels, an anime-original {{Interquel}} series by Creator/{{Madhouse}} (with Kadono's involvement) called ''Anime/BoogiepopPhantom'', a live action movie, two [=CDs=], and two attendant manga series. The anime series along with several of the novels have been released in the U.S. by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. Omnibus printings collecting the first six light novels were released in late 2018 and early 2019.
Although still obscure in the west, the ''Boogiepop'' series was a surprise hit in the light novel business and re-defined the whole genre in many ways, to the point some have gone to call it [[TropeCodifier the first modern light novel]]. Also, although western viewers might not spot the thread due to its aforementioned lack of the presence outside of Japan, Kadono's work was massively influential over later Japanese works, with many authors, most notably [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Ryogo]] [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Narita]], Creator/NisioIsin, [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Kinoko Nasu]] and the creators of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' videogame series having cited it as one of their main inspirations. A lot of the modern conception of the {{Chuunibyou}} archetype was also inspired by this series' eponymous character although it is ironically not an element found within.
A straight anime adaptation of the series, ''Boogiepop and Others'', aired in Winter 2019, also animated by Creator/{{Madhouse}}.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AdaptedOut: The 2019 anime adaptation skips the fourth volume, ''Boogiepop in the Mirror: "Pandora"'', and moves the sixth, the prequel ''Boogiepop at Dawn'', to its place. The latter switch is done probably in order to end the anime with the fifth, ''Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion'', which is set in present time and has a bigger feel of conclusion. The anime also removes the dead animal subplot of ''Overdrive'', as it is of little relevance for the main story and only acts as a redundant FramingDevice (the main one being Boogiepop telling the story to Echoes' shadow, which is preserved).
* ArcWords: "Sometimes it snows in April" for the ''Vs. Imaginator'' arc.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts:
** In the sexth novel, Nagi uses an UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}} throw on a petty criminal, which the text describes as "with enough force to send him flying". Although it could be just a case of bad description (or translation), it's worthy to mention that aikido throws don't work by force or by directly throwing the opponent; they are almost exclusively based around twisting limbs in order to make the opponent flip or drop himself in order to avoid the joint pressure, an action that usually only happens cleanly with trained opponents (which in this case isn't).
** In the third, Masaki uses karate meditation to decide what to do. This is a real life practice called ''mokuso'', essentially their own version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] UsefulNotes/{{Meditation}}, but in real life, meditating is the exact opposite of exerting higher thought: what one does is preciely letting conscient thoughts and keeping the mind away from them.
* AmbiguousGender: Boogiepop is often referred to as male, but its actual gender is never stated, and it's entirely possible that it actually [[NoBiologicalSex doesn't have one]]. In the original Japanese novels an ambiguous pronoun was used to help this along. During Miyashita's interview with Dr. Kisugi, Boogiepop outright states it doesn't know what its gender would be.
* ArtificialHuman: The Towa Organization specializes in making these and setting them up as {{Deep Cover Agent}}s.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Nagi Kirima is described as looking "handsome", and Touka when possessed by Boogiepop is often mistaken for male.
* BigDamnHeroes: The stories are told from the perspectives of people ''other'' than Boogiepop. These people are frequently teenagers who get in over their heads in bad situations leading to Boogiepop showing up to save the day.
* BodyHorror: Most stuff having to do with Manticore, which slowly robs you of your mental functions and turns you into a puppet. The way [[spoiler:Kisugi Makiko]] kills also qualifies, since it involves taking a person's brain out ''while they are still alive''.
* {{Bokukko}}: Nagi frequently uses male pronouns and styles of speech.
* CharacterTics: Boogiepop frequently has an asymmetrical expression that's probably supposed to be a smile, [[spoiler:that he copied from a dying Kuroda]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Frequently characters mentioned only briefly become very important later.
* ContinuityDrift: As the English translators note in the appendix, in the first novel Boogiepop claims he never emerged in front of the psychologist Touka's parents dragged her to, but ''Boogiepop at Dawn'' reveals he did, and in fact it was very relevant for both of their characterizations. Given that Boogiepop has no reason to lie, it is probably a goof on Kadono's part.
* CrapsackWorld: The world of Boogiepop generally isn't very nice.
* CrazyPrepared: Nagi, and she usually needs it at some point. For example, in ''Boogiepop at Dawn'', she caries with her a bag of [[spoiler:special electricity conducting materials, a rod to deliver a powerful electric shock, and an insulated jumpsuit against the current, all of which she uses to fry Kisugi Makiko]]. That same jumpsuit is also bulletproof. Lampshaded when someone wonders just [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys where she gets the stuff]].
* EvilutionaryBiologist: The Towa Organization sounds like this at first. Actually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that Towa seeks to ''preserve'' humanity in its current form and all their efforts are geared at ''preventing'' "evolved humans" from spreading throughout the world [[spoiler: which is the major reason why all their synthetic humans are sterile.]]
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: [[spoiler: This is essentially what MPLS is. A term used by the Towa Organization for humans who have begun to suddenly manifest unusual abilities.]]
* EvolutionaryLevels: [[spoiler: The backbone of the entire story. The human race is beginning to manifest new evolutionary traits in its next generation, identified by the Towa organization as "MPLS" individuals, and they seek out these individuals to neutralize them in hopes of keeping the human race as it presently is. This may also be the reason why the alien race Echoes is from took an interest in humanity and sent him there to observe humans. It is even possible that Boogiepop itself is merely Miyashita Touka manifesting her status as an MPLS and is not something supernatural.]]
* FauxlosophicNarration: Not really narration, but the Kirima Seiichi quotes definitely qualify. The English translators noted that they had a heck of a time keeping those quotes cryptic and mysterious while also making sure they made ''some'' kind of sense.
* FlashForward: Akio Kimura's section in ''Boogiepop And Others'' features this as it has him reflecting back on his relationship with Naoko Kamikishiro two years after the main events of the book. This was kept in the live-action movie, but removed from the 2019 anime, along with his character as a whole.
* HealingFactor: Most of the artificial humans possess some form of this.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Echoes]] and in a slightly more twisted version [[spoiler:Masami]]. In ''Boogiepop at Dawn'' we also have [[spoiler:Kuroda]] and [[spoiler:Mo Murder]] both end up making these to [[spoiler:save Nagi]].
* HeroicWannabe: Nagi's step brother Masaki ends up becoming his own version of Boogiepop, and eventually has to be saved by the real thing.
* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler:Masanori Sakaki]] aka [[spoiler:Mo Murder]] eventually becomes this, leading to the above HeroicSacrifice.
* HomoeroticSubtext:
** Suema seems to go just a ''bit'' farther than necessary to get close to Nagi than one would usually think normal.
** Not to mention Anou Shinjirou's crush on Masaki, which is actually fairly unambiguous for the genre.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Masami Saotome, though it's implied he was already pretty twisted.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Nagi again.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The nature of Boogiepop. [[spoiler: Is it truly a {{Shinigami}} or spiritual being that possesses Touka as part of an ethereal automatic defense mechanism of Earth? Or is it just a SplitPersonality of Touka's, who may or may not be an MPLS individual?]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Nagi considers [[spoiler:the death of Naoko]] to be hers. [[spoiler: The same for Tanaka Shirou, whose guilt and regret over Naoko's death eventually causes the manifestation of the King of Distortion.]]
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: The Towa Organization.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The first official trailer for the 2019 anime, which you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tu253SOas here]], is composed of scenes that have nothing to do with the anime or the light novels. Among them there is Nagi submitting a trenchcoat-wearing mook, Mo Murder showing telekinetic moves against an unidentified hooded character with fire powers, and Boogiepop taking on Imaginator in a dream world and ending it in a MexicanStandoff.
* NoSocialSkills: Aya Orihata, aka [[spoiler:Camille -- an artificial human]]. She gets better at the whole "human interaction" thing as time goes on.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Half the cast, though some more than others. In Masami Saotome's case, his normalcy is why Nagi rejected him.
* PillarOfLight: [[spoiler: Echoes turns into a beam of energy and returns to his homeworld with it, vaporizing Saotome Masami along the way.]]
* {{Prequel}}: The fourth novel, ''Boogiepop at Dawn'', which details Kirima Nagi's backstory and how Boogiepop got its name.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: [[spoiler: Kisugi Makiko when she injects herself with the serum that Kuroda left behind from the Towa facility]], and actually lampshaded as a stupid idea, but still does it anyway.
* PsychoElectro: Spooky Electric.
* RazorFloss: Boogiepop's main weapon.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Though she's still a high school student, Nagi maintains this image.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Boogiepop is whom the series is named after, and they appear in every work,they can't really be called the protagonist of the series or its adaptions, as the novels and the animes focus on any characters but Boogiepop or Touka.
* SecretIdentity: Touka as Boogiepop. Subverted in that almost everyone figures it out ''instantly''. Except herself, although she might be aware of it to some degree.
* SettingUpdate: Compared to the novels it’s based on, released between 1998 and 1999, the 2019 anime features characters who use smartphones and instant-messaging apps to communicate, as well as rumors spreading on social media. The Shin’yō Academy uniform is also updated, going from gakurans for boys and sailor uniforms for girls to blazers and ties for both.
* {{Shinigami}}: What Kuroda assumes Boogiepop is, and the latter takes the idea and runs with it.
* ShoutOut:
** The premise of a poised, androgynous vigilante with a SplitPersonality, clad in a black cloak and equipped with RazorFloss, who shares the city with several other supernatural beings and factions, is a WholePlotReference to the cult novel series ''Demon City Blues'' by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi, another pioneer of the LightNovel genre. Kikuchi's work has been occasionally cited as an inspiration.
** Nagi's character resembles ComicBook/{{Batman}}, and it's not casual that while taking to her, Suema thinks on a study case from her father's books about a man who believed himself to be the Caped Crusader.
** Also in-universe, Boogiepop's hat and look are described to be like those of Maetel from ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999''.
** Naoko compares Echoes' mission to the inspection robots from the books of sci-fi writer Shinichi Hoshi.
** The series frequently makes references to music, including several to Music/{{Prince}} in the form of the characters Spooky E and Camille, as well as the ArcWords “Sometimes it snows in April” (from the song of the same name). The chapter names are also frequently borrowed from song titles.
** As noted by the translators, Camille's name seems to be also a reference to the film ''Film/Camille1936'', where the female lead wins the heart of a young man but leaves him for his own good.
** Creator/HirohikoAraki's ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' was also a big influence on the series. Kadono himself would later pen a light novel of the ''Jojo'' franchise.
** The tone, elements and atmosphere of the series remind of the young adult work of Taku Mayumura, another inspiration for Kadono.
** Gen Sakakibara, the martial arts genius that trained Nagi and Masaki, is probably a reference to Nobuyuki Sakakibara, Japan's premier UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts promoter, who was especially known as the chairman of the mighty PRIDE league by the time the first ''Boogiepop'' volumes were published.
* SkilledButNaive: Masaki Taniguchi is a bit too trusting and never once questions why this mysterious girl that he met and started dating tells him nothing about herself and wants him to [[spoiler:pretend to be Boogiepop]]. He has to be saved twice, once by his sister and once by [[spoiler:the real Boogiepop]], from the mess he's gotten himself into.
* SplitPersonality: While early volumes suggest Boogiepop might be either an split personality or an external entity that took Touka as a host, later volumes more clearly imply [[spoiler: Touka is an MPLS (evolved human) and Boogiepop is how her evolution manifests.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Kamikishiro Naoko]], slightly subverted in that [[spoiler:she]] was also something of a delinquent. Also arguably [[spoiler:Echoes]].
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Billionaire Teratsuki Kyouichiro was originally [[ArtificialHuman designed]] and put into place by the Towa Organization to provide them with powerful leverage over national economies. However, he came to oppose Towa once he had grown powerful enough, and designed the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Moon Temple]] [[spoiler: specifically as a means to test and search for individuals who had the strength, intelligence, and willpower to oppose Towa.]]
* TheUnreveal: The meaning of the acronym "MPLS" is never revealed in the story. All we know is that it is the term used by the Towa Organization to designate [[spoiler: naturally evolving humans who are awakening their powers.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: The ''entire town'', which somehow houses psychics, clones, aliens, guardian entities, shared dreamscapes, secret organizations, ghosts, and all manner of other strange goings on.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Nagi again, as well as Boogiepop.
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