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  Boogiepop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boogiepop Wa Warawanai (ブギーポップは笑わない, commonly translated as Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh, Boogiepop Never Laughs or Boogiepop Never Smiles) is the name, and central character, of a series of Japanese novels written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata.
The first novel, Boogiepop and Others, describes the battle between a mysterious man called Echoes and a bloodthirsty creature called the Manticore; the students at Shinyo Academy who are caught in the crossfire; and the involvement of Boogiepop, a crime-fighting super heroine of sorts, in these events.
Boogiepop in the Mirror: Pandora, 1 December 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boogiepop   (407 words)

  
 Anime on DVD
When finally confronted by death in the form of Boogiepop Phantom, the philosophy she held breaks down, as she asks, “In this screwed up world, how else should I have lived?” As viewers, we are left not knowing the answer to Misuzu’s question, but at least we are aware of one false answer to it.
Boogiepop’s quest to “hunt down dangers to this world” is little more than a mission to destroy any sort of radical change, which is quite similar to the aspirations of the Showa Corporation and the “composite humans” it employs to achieve its ends.
In fact, Boogiepop herself is a reflection of this society – Toka Miyashita does not choose when to shift into the role of Boogiepop, instead she sporadically transforms into the entity, even at the most inappropriate times, as evidenced by the final episode.
www.animeondvd.com /specials/articles/rsd001.php   (10356 words)

  
 Anime on DVD
Boogiepop Phantom?s primary statements on the modern escape from reality, as well as its reasons, are not evidenced until the concluding four episodes.
The role of the parent in general in Boogiepop Phantom has previously been discussed; the parent in contemporary society was depicted negatively, as an individual who merely provided material wealth for his or her children, instead of nurturing and assisting said children grow up into knowledgeable adults.
However, this is not the case in Boogiepop Phantom?s evolving society; the viewer never hears of Manaka?s father, and instead of aborting the fetus, Mayumi decides to give birth to the child, without the traditional support of a father.
www.animeondvd.com /news/article.php?article_view=266   (10011 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Boogiepop Phantom is a dark mystery (Any of various resins or oleoresins) anime series which is often compared to (Click link for more info and facts about Serial Experiments Lain) Serial Experiments Lain.
When the series begins, high school students have just started to disappear again, and the blame is placed by many on Boogiepop, a mysterious entity who is said to be (The event of dying or departure from life) Death.
Boogiepop Phantom is based on the series of books (Click link for more info and facts about Boogiepop) Boogiepop by Kouhei Kadono.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boogiepop_phantom.htm   (241 words)

  
 Animefringe: Features: Boogiepop Phantom
Boogiepop Phantom is, at its core, a show about the inter-related nature of people's lives and the concept that they know of as time.
Boogiepop is a series that deals straightforwardly with some of the issues that we as humans face, and that society tends to tuck under the rug and hopes that no one sees.
Boogiepop Phantom, known in Japanese as Boogiepop Wa Waranai (Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh) is voiced by a group of talented seiyuu.
www.animefringe.com /magazine/02.01/feature/1   (1547 words)

  
 Welcome to the GameVortex
Boogiepop Phantom is the latest in a series of mature and provocative anime shows to have made the jump from Japan.
Boogiepop herself is still a complete mystery by the end of this DVD, and although people call her The Angel of Death, she seems to be concerned about more than just living and dying.
In the final chapter, we see Boogiepop's opposite number when we catch a glimpse of the serial killer who is stalking the city.
www.gamevortex.com /gamevortex/rm_anime_boogiepop1.html   (645 words)

  
 AAW: Boogiepop Phantom Review
Boogiepop Phantom is a quietly disturbing series of stories that blend psychodrama, horror, and an X-Files-style plot into something dark and unusual.
Boogiepop Phantom is mostly an episodic series; each episode introduces a new group of characters and tells its own story, but there are a few threads--some obvious, some not--tying them together into a greater whole that eventually brings the series to its climax.
On the whole Boogiepop Phantom is a masterfully constructed work of art, both in the individual stories of emotional collapse that make up its episodes and the broader picture that is slowly constructed through the series.
animeworld.com /reviews/boogiepop.html   (1514 words)

  
 Animetric.com >> Anime Reviews >> Boogiepop Phantom
To say that Boogiepop Phantom is an anime series is something of an inaccuracy.
Boogiepop is supposedly the other persona of an ordinary girl named Toka, and Boogiepop supposedly surfaces whenever there is a threat to the world.
Nagi is a brave young lady who feels it is her duty to fight for justice...
www.animetric.com /abc2/boogiepop.html   (637 words)

  
 Anime Dream Music - Boogiepop - Music Inspired by Boogiepop and Others
The anime Boogiepop Phantom is just one later incarnation of the original Boogiepop novels written by Kouhei Kadono - there was another retelling of the novels in the form of the manga illustrated by Kouji Ogata, Boogiepop wa Warawanai (literally, "Boogiepop doesn't laugh", though also known as Boogiepop and Others).
Obviously, the Boogiepop and Others album is not a soundtrack per-se, but carries the familiar "inspired by" moniker.
One can feel certain themes and moods latent in the music that it shares with Boogiepop - it just isn't readily related, in my mind anyway, despite the fact that each song is said to be inspired by a certain character.
www.animedream.com /music/boogiepop-others   (1195 words)

  
 Anime Academy Lounge - Boogiepop or Lain
Boogiepop - I'm a sucker for shows with out of sequence timelines, and I liked a lot of the characters in the show.
I love Boogiepop for the interesting work on the setup of the timeline of events that includes many characters that over time end up interacting, even it's just for a second, and I love Lain for its extreme philisophical nature.
The Boogiepop characters, though many only have one episode, are unique in that they all have their own special "power", and the exploration of how that power is defined by and influences their psyche goes far to drive the various themes of the series.
www.animeacademy.com /forums/printthread.php?t=16980   (652 words)

  
 Anime News Network - Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Despite the fact that Lain and Boogiepop were created by two entirely different groups of people, they share so many similarities in the way they come across that the comparison between the two is inevitable.
Animation—wise, Boogiepop follows very much in the footsteps of Lain; the images are generally crisp (although intentionally blurred on occasions) and the Animation is fluid.
Boogiepop Phantom is an extremely hard to follow series, and this may put some people off.
www.animenewsnetwork.com /reviews/display.php?id=170   (1203 words)

  
 Automate the process of handling bounced e...: BoogiePOP Enterprise free download
BoogiePOP Enterprise: BoogiePOP is the first enterprise-level software solution to fully automate the process of handling bounced e-mail messages.
BoogiePOP is a POP client that runs as a Windows Service and can be configured to retrieve messages from several POP accounts.
BoogiePOP Enterprise is ODBC compliant, so it allows you to log your email bounce information to any ODBC compliant database.
www.soft411.com /company/BoogieTools-Inc/BoogiePOP-Enterprise.htm   (167 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom - theOtaku.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Boogiepop Phantom is frequently referred to as one of the most confusing anime ever made, and with good reason.
Most of the main characters are troubled high school students with problems which range from psychological to supernatural in nature.
While these teenagers are connected by everyday encounters and "six-degrees-of-separation"-type relationships, a mysterious recurring figure known as Boogiepop Phantom is the person who ultimately ties them all together.
www.theotaku.com /anime/boogiepop_phantom   (259 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Boogiepop Phantom: V1-4 Set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Everyone knows about Boogiepop: meet her one dark night and you are taken.
Boogiepop Phantom is an anime that begins as a series of short story-style tales.
Every time you watch Boogiepop Phantom, you will understand more of its subtleties - don't get me wrong, it is *very* interesting on first viewing, but it's absolutely amazing to see an anime that you want to keep watching again and again to pick up on more small, but well-rendered, threads of its plot.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005QY8E   (1068 words)

  
 anime.mikomi.org - Boogiepop Never Smiles
BOOGIEPOP is part of Japanese pop trend called Late night anime.
BOOGIEPOP teases us with the question of whether all the things we fear in the night are only there because we created them and allow them to continue living and thriving from us.
Think of it like adjusting a camera lenswhat youre looking at is a little blurry and you cant be too sure of what youre really seeing but once you get it into focus youre a little amused you even had to question it at all.
anime.mikomi.org /series/Boogiepop+Never+Smiles   (354 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom
However, BOOGIEPOP PHANTOM manages to convey a sense of mystery and fear that is, at times, overwhelming.
In the midst of it all, a young woman, Nagi Kirima, is determined to fight those who are behind the madness...a fight that might prove to be fatal.
Though I cannot give it my highest recommendation, due to its intentional obfuscation of its plot through the methods I discussed before, it is certainly a worthy series for anyone who likes their anime with a strong bottle of head-trip.
www.theanimereview.com /reviews/boogiepop.html   (876 words)

  
 BoogieTools.Com - Email Bounce Handler - Process Bounced Email Messages - Email Bounce Format   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
BoogiePOP Enterprise is the first enterprise-level software solution to fully automate the process of handling bounced email messages from your company's opt-in email newsletters and email campaigns.
BoogiePOP Enterprise is a POP client that runs as a Windows Service and can be configured to retrieve bounced messages from the POP accounts of your choice.
BoogiePOP Enterprise automatically recognizes and categorizes all of your bounced messages.
www.boogietools.com /products/productBoogiePOP.asp   (487 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Boogiepop Phantom: Evolution 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Same senseless stills with sounds, same minimal dialogue (although you don't really want to strangle the main character for her extreme lack of confidance and speaking ability) and Lain is back with different hair and a few more words to say.
Boogiepop is basically a dark superhero trying to protect the town from the Manticore; a man-eating monster than has taken a human form.
Boogiepop Phantom is one of the very few anime that will get you to really think about the meaning of life and why we are here.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MEVR   (1125 words)

  
 DVD.net : Boogiepop Phantom Evolution 1 - DVD Review
Boogiepop Phantom, a direct result of this new trend, is the most recent in a fresh breed of anime series to reach our shores.
The show is really about them and their interwoven lives; and yet always returns to the mystery of the cataclysm, the enigmatic figure of Boogiepop, and a serial killer that is seemingly stalking the city.
Consumed by her delayed sense of grief, Moto aimlessly wanders the city, only half hearing the circulating rumours that Boogiepop, the Angel of Death, is stalking the city streets.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1655   (1732 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom Review
Boogiepop Phantom's story and character development aren't the only things that make it great.
A side note: There's one single shot in Boogiepop Phantom that is by far the creepiest thing I've ever seen on a television screen.
The writing is brilliant, the story and characters have incredible depth, the art direction is outstanding, the music sets the mood perfectly, and the English dubbing is first rate.
members.fortunecity.com /animearmageddon/boogiepopphantomreview.html   (808 words)

  
 AAW: Boogiepop Phantom Quicklook
Each individual story follows someone as their world falls apart from within, while slowly giving the viewer the pieces of the greater picture that ties the series together, offering both a raw connection to a variety of disturbed characters and a challenging supernatural puzzle to keep the intellect engaged.
Filmed from uncomfortable angles with a monochromatic palette of olive hues and scored with distorted fragments of music and commonplace sounds, the production establishes a relentlessly oppressive setting for its twisting plot and overlapping timelines, and the whole is completed by a large troupe of talented actors.
Boogiepop Phantom is a masterfully constructed work of art, maintaining a subdued but always powerful emotional character and stylistic theme from start to finish.
www.animeworld.com /quicklooks/boogiepop.html   (341 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom Evolution 1 On GameVortex.com
We’re not talking tentacle porn or other misogynistic crap here, and in fact, Boogiepop Phantom herself is a she.
Bits and pieces of each chapter are retold from different characters’ perspectives in other chapters, suggesting a long, continuous stream of events and moments.
The storytelling is fantastic, and waiting for Boogiepop feels like waiting expectantly for some Petshop of Horrors pet to show its true form and give the owner what he asked for...
www.gamevortex.com /gamevortex/movie_rev.php/19   (663 words)

  
 Email Bounce Automation Using BoogiePOP Enterprise - Part 1 of 2: ASPAlliance
The BoogiePOP POP Account that you create should be configured to use the POP email box where all of your "bounced" email messages are sent too.
Sometimes BoogiePOP knows that a message is a bounce, but for some reason the email address of the recipient isn't in the position that BoogiePOP is expecting it to be in.
BoogiePOP doesn't want to pass back the From, Reply-To, or the Ignore Addresses of the original sender by mistake, so it checks for these while calculating who the original recipient was.
www.aspalliance.com /375   (2234 words)

  
 Acid Losvaize:  Boogiepop Phantom
Boogiepop es la heredera de Lain en estética y estilo.
En nuestra opinión Boogiepop supera con creces a Lain (el grafismo es mucho mejor, y las músicas son increibles) pero lo que si es cierto es que éste anime tiene clarísimas referencias a su predecesora, y por lo tanto puede ser considerada como hija de Serial experiments Lain.
Boogiepop Phantom contiene elementos de horror junto con unas bellas y profundas temáticas.
www.dreamers.com /losvaize/boogiepop.htm   (900 words)

  
 Animeboards.com Forums - View Single Post - which one is better lain or boogiepop
Although Lain is probably the more difficult of the two to understand, Boogiepop's style of story telling and it's message made much more sense to me personally.
Plus, the shear artisticness of Boogiepop is a world apart from Lain, the animation is some of the best I've seen and the use of sound is absolutely incredible.
I think overall on an artistic level, Boogiepop is the winner hands down.
www.animeboards.com /showpost.php?p=537777616&postcount=12   (91 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom 1
Kids have a habit of disappearing, and it is almost universally blamed on Boogiepop, a strange person/creature which comes out of the night and disintigrates them or drags them to hell.
While we don't yet know who or what it is, it becomes clear that it is some sort of merciless, dark creature that purges the world of even darker elements, for all the kids that disappear invariably have come into contact with (and been corrupted by) some sort of evil influence.
Boogiepop Phantom is certainly a psychological thriller that has very dark overtones and includes suicides, memory munching, and other strangeness.
www.animefu.com /index.pl?node_id=5563   (543 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Boogiepop Phantom - Evolution 1: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With a name like "Boogiepop Phantom, " you might think that the "angel of death" would be a force to be dismissed and perhaps be jeered at as well.
Boogiepop Phantom is anime horror the likes of which I have not seen since the OVA of Vampire Princess Miyu.
Boogiepop, on the other hand, succeeds very well in raising the hairs on the back of your neck.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005MEVR?v=glance   (2643 words)

  
 Anime Dream Reviews - Boogiepop Phantom, DVD 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Boogiepop Phantom (not to be confused with Boogiepop) confronts Manaka about her actions.
This is truly one of the finest anime series I've seen, simply for the depth and complexity of the plot and characters; but the animation and music is top notch as well.
Consider Boogiepop Phantom for you essential collection; it is definitely a series I will continue to pull out of my library and watch again and again.
www.animedream.com /reviews/boogie-ryu-dvd-4.shtml   (674 words)

  
 Boogiepop Phantom
All she really wants is to tell him how she feels, especially after she realizes that bottling up her feelings will eventually kill her, but he doesn't seem quite like himself, and Moto's in a great deal more danger than she realizes.
Boogiepop Phantom is gorgeous, 'shot' (for want of a better term) with a hazy dreamlike quality, the frame a vignette as if we are looking not at the world but into it.
Intellectually on all these levels there is a sense that to derive meaning from what's going on, we must think about it and come to our own conclusions, and in a way we only really know as much as each of the characters do.
www.heroic-cinema.com /films/boogiepop_phantom.htm   (929 words)

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