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Boogiepop wa Warawanai
TV Series 2000 12 eps Trailer

Boogiepop wa Warawanai

Boogiepop Phantom
Supernatural Drama Mystery Suspense Horror Avant Garde
Ep 0/12
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.
7.2
RATING
Original Work
Kouhei Kadono
Director
Takashi Watanabe
Studio
Madhouse
Status
Finished

Episodes

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1 2000-01-06 00:00 Aired
English

Portraits from Memory

Japanese

Portraits from Memory 記憶の肖像

Romaji

Portraits from Memory: Kioku no Shouzou 

Synopsis

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.

2 2000-01-13 00:00 Aired
English

Light in the Darkness

Japanese

Light in Darkness 闇の灯

Romaji

Light in Darkness: Yami no Hi 

Synopsis

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'.

3 2000-01-20 00:00 Aired
English

Life Can Be So Nice

Japanese

Life Can Be So Nice 世界を受け入れし者

Romaji

Life Can Be So Nice: Sekai wo Ukeireshi Mono 

Synopsis

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.

4 2000-01-27 00:00 Aired
English

My Fair Lady

Japanese

MY FAIR LADY けがれなき少女への愛

Romaji

My Fair Lady: Kegarenaki Shoujo e no Ai 

Synopsis

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.

5 2000-02-03 00:00 Aired
English

Interlude

Japanese

Interlude 間奏

Romaji

Interlude: Kansou 

Synopsis

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.

6 2000-02-10 00:00 Aired
English

Mother's Day

Japanese

Mother`s Day 汝, 母を愛せよ

Romaji

Mother's Day: Nanji, Haha wo Aiseyo 

Synopsis

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.

7 2000-02-17 00:00 Aired
English

Until Ure In My Arms Again

Japanese

Until Ure In My Arms Again 世にかなわぬ願いなく

Romaji

Until Ure in My Arms Again: Yo ni Kanawanu Negai Naku 

Synopsis

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.

8 2000-02-24 00:00 Aired
English

She's So Unusual

Japanese

She`s So Unusual 彼女の生き方

Romaji

She's So Unusual: Kanojo no Ikikata 

Synopsis

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...

9 2000-03-02 00:00 Aired
English

You'll Never Be Young Twice

Japanese

You`ll never be young twice 過ぎさりし我が時

Romaji

You'll Never Be Young Twice: Sugisarishi Waga Toki 

Synopsis

This episode revolves around three people, the first of which is Saki, a pianist. She is determined to make it into a music university, but she just can't make it. Then, Poom Poom gives her a balloon. After she let go of it, she killed herself. Quite a few people are now getting strange phone calls urgeing them to 'Come play with us.' Yoshiki, the one making the calls, gets taken in by Boogiepop Phantom and dissapears.

10 2000-03-09 00:00 Aired
English

Poom Poom

Japanese

Poom Poom プーム プーム

Romaji

Poom Poom 

Synopsis

This episode revolves around Poom Poom, Manaka, and Paisely Park. More and more people are getting red balloons, making Nagi go to the park to see what's causing it. There are children versions there of everyone that had recieved a balloon. However, Boogiepop (not the phantom) arrives on the scene and causes Manaka to fall from the Ferris Wheel. All the lights in the park go out, and Manaka appears to have aged quite a bit. Apparantly, her powers made her age, and now that she used them like crazy, she aged greatly. All the phantom children dissapear, along with Poom Poom, leaving Manaka with Boogiepop.

11 2000-03-16 00:00 Aired
English

Under The Gravity's Rainbow

Japanese

Under The Gravity`s Rainbow 虹

Romaji

Under the Gravity's Rainbow: Niji 

Synopsis

This episode revolves around Manaka. It explains about her past, her mother, her grandmother, and her ability. After the flashbacks are done, Manaka starts to run from Boogiepop when Boogiepop Phantom interveins and tries to kill her. Boogipop frees her, stating that she hasn't enough power to cause a threat to this world, and Manaka runs off to the house of mirrors. Boogiepop finally meets Boogiepop Phantom. Manaka tells herself that she will not die; rather, she will become light. And so she does. A great light composed of the golden butterfiles engulfs the land, causing time to skip. People start to see phantoms of themselves, events of the past long forgotten. Manaka makes one last visit, to her mother in the hospital. Since Manaka was born, her mother had lost her short term memory, and could not remember anything for a long time. She even forgot that she had a daughter. However, Manaka arrived as light, and restored her memory using the butterflies. For just a moment

12 2000-03-23 00:00 Aired
English

A Requiem

Japanese

A Requiem 眠りによって全てが終わる

Romaji

A Requiem: Nemuri ni Yotte Subete ga Owaru 

Synopsis

One year after the 11th episode, these events occur. Toka is going to take an entrance exam when she detects trouble. Indeed, as the manticore is still alive; it possessed the writer when the manticore was originally destroyed by Boogiepop Phantom. Boogipop comes and destroys both the manticore and the writer, who had actually died a long time ago. Boogiepop then says, ""I feel sorry for Toka Miashta. She was supposed to be taking an entrance exam now."" Thus the series comes to the end, with us only just knowing who Boogiepop really was.

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2 tracks
Openings · 1
OP1
Yuudachi
Shikao Suga
Endings · 1
ED1
Mirai-Seiki Maruhi Club
Kyouko

Cast

Kaori Shimizu
Kaori Shimizu
as Boogiepop
Boogiepop
Yuu Asakawa
Yuu Asakawa
as Nagi Kirima
Nagi Kirima
Kaori Shimizu
Kaori Shimizu
as Touka Miyashita
Touka Miyashita
Kyou Nagasawa
as Kazuko Suema
Kazuko Suema
Mayumi Asano
Mayumi Asano
as Boogiepop Phantom
Boogiepop Phantom
Megumi Nasu
Megumi Nasu
as Misuzu Arito
Misuzu Arito
Shizuma Hodoshima
Shizuma Hodoshima
as Hisashi Jonouchi
Hisashi Jonouchi
Sanae Kobayashi
Sanae Kobayashi
as Manaka Kisaragi
Manaka Kisaragi
Mamiko Noto
Mamiko Noto
as Moto Tonomura
Moto Tonomura
Jun Fukuyama
Jun Fukuyama
as Masami Saotome
Masami Saotome

Keywords

Conspiracy Philosophy Achronological Order Urban Fantasy Kuudere Dissociative Identities Female Protagonist Suicide Denpa Bullying Episodic Crime Drugs Agender
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