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Spite wrote:I love these Towa Organisation codenames. "Rains on Friday", "Mo Murder"; "Fear Ghoul", "Spooky Electric"... they're cheesy but in a good way. XD
Paradox sounds cool. I like zombie films, so I wonder how long until vampires make an apearance in Boogiepop, if there hasn't already been one.
When you think about it, the Manticore basically is a vampire.
I suspect a lot of the codenames come from song titles. He just has more obscure tastes than Araki (Jojo) Hiroyuki.
Andrew Cunningham,
Translator for Faust, Goth, The Case of the Dragon Slayer, Boogiepop, Missing, Gosick, the xxxHolic and Death Note novels, and Parasyte.
Writer for [url]http://easternstandard.pbwiki.com/[/url]
Neither of them show up at all.
The storyline from the anime is never touched upon and exists independantly from the novels.
Andrew Cunningham,
Translator for Faust, Goth, The Case of the Dragon Slayer, Boogiepop, Missing, Gosick, the xxxHolic and Death Note novels, and Parasyte.
Writer for [url]http://easternstandard.pbwiki.com/[/url]
kerrytt wrote:Found something in Japan I had not realized existed. In Kyoto, they had some Boogiepop novels in a manga shop. As I went through them, (I own all the novels so far, even though I only know about 50 Kanji) I found one on Boogiepop Phantom. The book covered the first six episodes, the bottom third of each page was a notes field. From what I could tell, the notes referenced things like if something was from a novel, if a scene interacted with another episode and even saw a reference to BGM. Am going to try to find the second book if I can. Looked interesting.
Sounds like the Boogiepop Phantom script books. I was aware they existed but not that they were so informative and detailed.
Andrew Cunningham,
Translator for Faust, Goth, The Case of the Dragon Slayer, Boogiepop, Missing, Gosick, the xxxHolic and Death Note novels, and Parasyte.
Writer for [url]http://easternstandard.pbwiki.com/[/url]
I recently realized that in the section about Suema (chapter two), she tries to go up to the roof after a girl claims she just saw Boogiepop up there. But when she tries to get there, the door leading to the roof is locked, and she makes a remark that they closed it off (a bit belatedly) after someone had thrown themselves off. Is she referring to Minahoshi Suiko, also known as Imaginator?
OK, I was wondering about that. I didn't make the connection until a week or two ago. It's just a throwaway line, yet it makes so much sense once you know about the next two novels.
