Boogiepop and Others

by Kouhei Kadono and Khei Kadono

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name--Boogiepop. And the legends are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933164166
• ISBN13: 9781933164168
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

loved this

This was what got me hooked on the Boogiepop series. It's plot is really interesting and full of suspense.

Beginning of the "Boogiepop" series

Five years ago, a serial killer mysteriously committed suicide just as he was getting into his prime. About that time, an urban legend started about "Boogiepop", a sinister/romantic boogeyman who would whisk beautiful girls away to the land of the dead at the very instant they'd reached the pinnacle of their beauty. Now, a shape-changing monster called the Manticore is eating girls from the local high school, and Boogiepop is beginning to appear in the flesh. Each chapter of the novel focusses on a single student at the high school, presenting events from his/her point of view. It jumps backwards and forwards in time a little bit, and some scenes are retold from different points of view. Thankfully, the first few pages of the book are taken up by full-color manga-style illustrations of each of the main characters, with a one-sentence quote for each, so that the reader has a visual reference to keep everyone seperate (which can be tricky when all the names are in Japanese, and thus all equally foreign). Now that I've read this, I have to re-watch the anime mini-series, because it'll make a LOT more sense having read the book. (the book is a direct prequel to the anime "Boogiepop Phantom", which I often describe to people as "Like Lain, but without the suck".) This book's original title translates to "Boogiepop Doesn't Smile", but the translators renamed it to differentiate it from the manga adaptation of "Boogiepop Doesn't Smile" that's coming out soon. I highly recommend it; it's a nice quick read, and contrary to its Japanese origin it actually makes SENSE, and there are none of the gaping plot holes, loose ends, ambiguous endings, or unexplained crucial elements that normally plague Japanese stories.