24 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestOne 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.
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.
Direction
Watanabe's fragmented timeline demands you work for coherence.
Sound
That industrial-ambient score crawls under your skin permanently.
Editing
Episode ordering is deliberately scrambled. Chronological is cowardly.
Yuu Asakawa
Kirima Nagi (voice)
Kaori Shimizu
Boogiepop / Touka Miyashita (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Manaka Kisaragi (voice)
Kozue Yoshizumi
Rie Takai (voice)
Mayumi Asano
Boogiepop Phantom (voice)
Jun Fukuyama
Manticore / Masami Saotome (voice)
Gakuto Furuhara
Poom Poom (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Moto Tonomura (voice)
Ayaka Saito
Akane Kojima (voice)
Chihiro Suzuki
Ariou (voice)
Fumiko Osaka
Mayumi Kisaragi (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
Saki Yoshizawa (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released January 2000, it captures millennial apocalypse anxiety—Y2K fears made literal through teenage dissolution.
The non-linear structure mirrors the original light novels' technique; Watanabe refused chronological adaptation despite network pressure.
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