This is a list of media in Boogiepop series created by Kouhei Kadono.This metaseries consists of 23 light novels, three four-volume light novel spin-offs, a live-actionmovie, two anime, four manga, audio CDs, and other books.
An oddity of the titles of Boogiepop series is that they are almost always made of more than one title, and there is often a mix of English and Japanese ones. This list provides the English release title, the Japanese title (and transliteration), with any further subtitles below.
Light novels
These serialized novels take place within the Boogiepop universe:
1. Boogiepop and Others (ブギーポップは笑わない) Boogiepop and Others 🇯🇵 10 February 1998; ISBN 4-8402-0804-2 🇺🇸 14 February 2006; ISBN 1-933164-16-6
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.
2. Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1 (ブギーポップ·リターンズ VSイマジネーターPart 1) "Sign" 🇯🇵 10 August 1998; ISBN 4-07-309430-0 🇺🇸 21 June 2006; ISBN 1-933164-20-4
One year ago, Boogiepop defeated Imaginator which seems to be trying to return. Jin Asakura, who can see people's hearts as plants, is 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.
3. Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2 (ブギーポップ·リターンズ VSイマジネーターPart 2) "Parade" 🇯🇵 10 August 1998; ISBN 4-07-309447-5 🇺🇸 15 October 2006; ISBN 4-07-309447-5
4. Boogiepop in the Mirror: "Pandora" (ブギーポップ·イン·ザ·ミラー 「パンドラ」) Does anybody really know what time is it? 🇯🇵 10 December 1998; ISBN 4-07-310350-4 🇺🇸 19 July 2018 (e-book); 5 February 2019; ISBN 978-1-642750-38-6 (print)
Short stories
Metal Guru (メタル·グゥルー) Metal Guru 🇯🇵 18 June 1999
London Calling (ロンドン·コーリング) London Calling 🇯🇵 18 September 1999
My Death Waits (死神を待ちながら) My Death Waits 🇯🇵 18 December 1999
Boogiepop Poplife (ブギートーク·ポップライフ) Boogietalk, Poplife (in Petssounds) 🇯🇵 25 February 2000
Chariot Choogle (チャリオット·チューグル) Chariot Choogle 🇯🇵 18 March 2000
Angel Volume (天使篇 - 真贋について) 🇯🇵 25 September 2003
Anime
Boogiepop Phantom
One month ago, an unknown pillar of light pierced the sky over the city. Now, strange events begin to take place. Some people are disappearing, others are beginning to show signs of highly evolved powers, while others are seeing apparitions of people who should be dead. Rumors circulate about urban legend Boogiepop being involved.
Boogiepop and Others
Marking the 20th Anniversary of Kouhei Kadono's original novel debut and announced at the Dengeki Bunko's 25th Anniversary & New Work Unveiling Stage, a series based on Boogiepop and Others, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator, Boogiepop at Dawn, and Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion aired from January 4 to March 29, 2019.[13][14] The series updated the setting to the present day.
Film
Boogiepop and Others (ブギーポップは笑わない)🇯🇵 11 March 2000 🇺🇸 1 March 2005
Based on the novel of the same name, the film follows an alien and a man-eater playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse at Shinyo Academy, and the students are the ones who suffer as a result of this.
Music
Two audio CDs have been released.
, 🇯🇵 25 February 2000, 🇺🇸 30 April 2002.
, 🇯🇵 25 March 2000, 🇺🇸 30 April 2002.
Books
Boogiepop wa Warawanai the Movie: Eiga Fanbook 🇯🇵 1 March 2000; ISBN 4-8402-1521-9
The Art of Kōji Ogata: Boogiepop and Others 🇯🇵 20 April 2000; ISBN 4-8402-1422-0
Manga
Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh (ブギーポップは笑わない) Volume 1 🇯🇵 1 February 2001; ISBN 4-8402-1754-8 🇺🇸 24 April 2006; ISBN 1-933164-18-2 Volume 2 🇯🇵 December 2002; ISBN 4-8402-2279-7 🇺🇸 15 July 2006; ISBN 1-933164-21-2
Based on the Boogiepop and Others novel.
Boogiepop Dual: Losers' Circus (ブギーポップ·デュアル 負け犬たちのサーカス) Volume 1 🇯🇵 1 April 2000; ISBN 4-8402-1526-X 🇺🇸 15 September 2006; ISBN 1-933164-22-0 Volume 2 🇯🇵 15 December 2000; ISBN 4-8402-1705-X 🇺🇸 15 December 2006 ISBN 1-933164-31-X
3.Boogiepop Phantom TechTV, July 30, 2003, retrieved November 16, 2024
Six children with the ability to predict the future, each in different ways. One day, Boogiepop begins to enter their premonitions.
5. Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion (ブギーポップ·オーバードライブ 歪曲王) Heartbreaker II 🇯🇵 10 February 1999; ISBN 4-07-310887-5 🇺🇸 9 August 2018 (e-book); 5 February 2019; ISBN 978-1-642750-38-6 (print)
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.
6. Boogiepop at Dawn (夜明けのブギーポップ) Boogiepop at Dawn 🇯🇵 10 May 1999; ISBN 4-8402-1197-3 🇺🇸 5 August 2008; ISBN 978-1-934876-06-0
The prequel to the Boogiepop 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.
7. 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) Peppermint wizard, or Rize and fall of poor innocent puppet 🇯🇵 10 August 1999; ISBN 4-8402-1250-3
After trying the Peppermint ice cream made by Kigawa Tosuke, Teratsuki Kyouichiro uses him to start a chain known as The Peppermint Wizard. The ice cream is able to take away people's pain, but does not go unnoticed by the Towa Organisation.
8. Boogiepop Countdown: Embryo Erosion (ブギーポップ·カウントダウン エンブリオ浸蝕) "The Embryo" 1st half (Erosion) 🇯🇵 10 December 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.
9. Boogiepop Wicked: Embryo Eruption (ブギーポップ·ウィキッド エンブリオ炎生) "The Embryo" 2nd half (Eruption) 🇯🇵 10 February 2000; ISBN 4-8402-1414-X
10. Boogiepop Paradox: Heartless Red (ブギーポップ·パラドックス ハートレス·レッド) The Unusual Contact of Vermilion Hurt & Fire Witch 🇯🇵 10 February 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.
11. Boogiepop Unbalance: Holly & Ghost (ブギーポップ·アンバランス ホーリィ&ゴースト) Holy and Ghost are steeped in plastic crimes 🇯🇵 10 September 2001; ISBN 4-8402-1896-X
A pair of delinquents seek to release an enemy of the world known as Rock Bottom.
12. 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) Welcome to Jinx Shop 🇯🇵 10 March 2003; ISBN 4-8402-2293-2
Meet Oxygen, the head of the Towa Organisation, and learn about the Organisation's agenda: world domination.
13. Boogiepop Bounding: Lost Moebius (ブギーポップ·バウンディング ロスト·メビウス) Lost in Moebius 🇯🇵 10 April 2005; ISBN 4-8402-3018-8
Crossing over with the Night Watch Trilogy, Orihata Aya and a boy seeking vengeance on Boogiepop become trapped in a world known as 'Kiba no Ato'.
14. 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) Ark of Orpheus 🇯🇵 10 April 2006; ISBN 4-8402-3384-5
A boy discovers his girlfriend is an MPLS, and both the Towa Organization and Boogiepop are after her.
15. Boogiepop Question: The Pyramid in Silence (ブギーポップ·クエスチョン 沈黙ピラミッド) The Silent Pyramid 🇯🇵 10 January 2008; ISBN 4-8402-4141-4
16. Boogiepop Darkly: The Scat Singing Cat (ブギーポップ·ダークリー 化け猫とめまいのスキャット) The Scat Singing Cat 🇯🇵 10 December 2009; ISBN 978-4-04-868197-1
17. Boogiepop Unknown: Into The Lunar Rainbow (ブギーポップ·アンノウン 壊れかけのムーンライト) Into The Lunar Rainbow 🇯🇵 10 January 2011; ISBN 978-4-04-870122-8
18. Boogiepop Within: Paradigm Rust (ブギーポップ·ウィズイン さびまみれのバビロン) Paradigm Rust 🇯🇵 10 September 2013; ISBN 978-4-04-891870-1
19. Boogiepop Changeling: Stalking in Decadent Black (ブギーポップ·チェンジリング 溶暗のデカダント·ブラック) Stalking in Decadent Black 🇯🇵 10 November 2014; ISBN 978-4-04-869047-8
20. Boogiepop Antithesis: Revolt of Alternative Ego (ブギーポップ·アンチテーゼ オルタナティヴ·エゴの乱逆) Revolt of Alternative Ego 🇯🇵 10 March 2016; ISBN 978-4-04-865831-7
21. Boogiepop Doubtful: Rabbit Run Rapidly (ブギーポップ·ダウトフル 不可抗力のラビット・ラン) Rabbit Run Rapidly 🇯🇵 7 July 2017; ISBN 978-4-04-893233-2
22. Boogiepop Beautiful: The Kingcraft of Panic-Cute (ブギーポップ·ビューティフル パニックキュートの帝王学) Kingcraft of Panic-Cute 🇯🇵 10 April 2018; ISBN 978-4-04-893800-6
23. Boogiepop Almighty: When Dizzy Thinks of Lizzy (ブギーポップ・オールマイティ ディジーがリジーを想うとき) When Dizzy Thinks of Lizzy 🇯🇵 10 May 2019; ISBN 978-4-04-912323-4
Beat's Discipline Side 1 (ビートのディシプリン Side 1) Beat's Discipline Side 1 (Exile) 🇯🇵 10 March 2002; ISBN 4-8402-2056-5
Beat's Discipline Side 2 (ビートのディシプリン Side 2) Beat's discipline Side 2 (Fracture) 🇯🇵 10 August 2003; ISBN 4-8402-2430-7
Beat's Discipline Side 3 (ビートのディシプリン SIDE3) Beat's discipline Side 3 (Providence) 🇯🇵 10 September 2004; ISBN 4-8402-2778-0
Beat's Discipline Side 4 (ビートのディシプリン Side 4) Beat's discipline Side 4 (Indiscipline) 🇯🇵 10 April 2005; ISBN 4-8402-3120-6
Repent Walpurgis Fire 1 (ヴァルプルギスの後悔 Fire 1) Repent Walpurgis Fire 1 [Warning Witch]🇯🇵 10 August 2008; ISBN 978-4-04-867171-2
Repent Walpurgis Fire 2 (ヴァルプルギスの後悔 Fire 2) Repent Walpurgis Fire 2 [Spitting Witch]🇯🇵 10 August 2009; ISBN 978-4-04-867938-1
Repent Walpurgis Fire 3 (ヴァルプルギスの後悔 Fire3) Repent Walpurgis Fire 3 [Dozing Witch]🇯🇵 10 August 2010; ISBN 978-4-04-868767-6
Repent Walpurgis Fire 4 (ヴァルプルギスの後悔 Fire4) Repent Walpurgis Fire 4 [Freezing Witch]🇯🇵 10 December 2011; ISBN 978-4-04-886187-8
The Emperoider Spin 1 (螺旋のエンペロイダー Spin1.) The Emperoider Spin 1 [Wormy Empire]🇯🇵 10 April 2013; ISBN 978-4-04891414-7
The Emperoider Spin 2 (螺旋のエンペロイダー Spin2.) The Emperoider Spin 2 [Gravelly Empire]🇯🇵 10 June 2014; ISBN 978-4-04-866638-1
The Emperoider Spin 3 (螺旋のエンペロイダー Spin3.) The Emperoider Spin 3 [Haunted Empire]🇯🇵 10 December 2015; ISBN 978-4-04-865590-3
The Emperoider Spin 4 (螺旋のエンペロイダー Spin4.) The Emperoider Spin 4 [Fallen Empire]🇯🇵 10 January 2017; ISBN 978-4-04-892602-7
