Boogiepop And Others

[CainLunax]

Anyone else read this very interesting Novel? :) If so, tell me whatcha thought about it!

Cain~

[Andrew Cunningham]

Obviously, I think it's the single best novel ever translated from the Japanese.
But then, I'm biased.

Those of you who saw the anime may be interested to learn that Boogiepop was originally a series of novels. Boogiepop and Others is the first of them, and it is virtually impossible to follow the anime if you haven't read it.

The five chapters of the novel each have a different main character, and each character only sees a piece of the total story, so only the readers actually know everything that happened.

www.gomanga.com has an animated commercial for the book, and a sample of the first chapter. They're also publishing the manga adaption of the first novel, out later this month, and they have a sample of that up as well. It's actually drawn by the novel illustrator.

All Boogiepop books are exclusive to Borders/Waldenbooks for the first six months, but in August you'll be able to buy Boogiepop and Others online or at other bookstores.

I'm having a great time translating the Boogiepop series (and the Kino no Tabi novels for Tokyopop) and hope people enjoy reading them as much as I did when I first read them in Japanese.

[SaiRong]

I agree, Boogiepop ad Others is an excellent book. Not only does it have aliens, mental disorders, secert government labs and monsters, but it's also a even look at high school in Japan. The fact they don't look at high school as some ideal peroid makes it feel very true to life to me, even if at the same time the students being picked off be some super-natural serial killer. As soon as exams are over, I'm going to re-read it :).

[CainLunax]

I can't wait for the next novel. I believe it's coming out sometime in June *runs to go get book* Boogiepop Returns! That's it XD Even though I have the novel, I wanna get the manga too. I find that sometimes they leave details out of manga adaptations and movie adaptations. Has anyone also seen the movie of Boogiepop and Others? (A little off topic I know, but I wanna see if anyone noticed some things missing in the movie :O )

[Andrew Cunningham]

As I said, the novel came first, so the movie and manga are both based on it.
I've never seen the movie, but manga is pretty interesting.

[Nezumigirl]

Yes! A Boogiepop thread! I love the novels, I've only read the 2 released in America so far but I'm addicted. I read the first one twice and started/finished the second one released (Boogiepop Vs. Imaginator: Signs) yesterday. I wish Parade would come out sooner than October though!

[kokorochan]

I wanna read them but i cand buy them in the B/W don't like the idea of the exclusiveness, grrr, I will have to wait until August ;___;

[SaiRong]

I can't wait for Parade either, with 'Signs' ending in a cliffhanger like it did. I hate not knowing what's going to happen to Masaki and Aya.

[Mathew]

All Boogiepop books are exclusive to Borders/Waldenbooks for the first six months, but in August you'll be able to buy Boogiepop and Others online or at other bookstores.


So I'll have to wait even longer for Boogiepop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop)?!?


How many novels are there exactly?

[Andrew Cunningham]

Fourteen so far, but the series is ongoing.
This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_series) wikipedia entry is pretty accurate.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Although, oops, the actual list of novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boogiepop_media) seems to have been spun off into a page of its own since yesterday.

[Mathew]

Thanks. The last time I looked at a site that detailed Boogiepop was last year, sometime before the publication of Boogiepop Bounding: Lost Moebius.

So will Beat's Dicipline Sides 1-4 also be translated? As these apparently also take place in the Boogiepop Universe.

[Andrew Cunningham]

As I understand things (just a freelancer) Seven Seas only had rights to the first three Boogiepop novels. They're working on getting more.
Beat's Discipline is awesome, but it kicks out of the end of the 11th Boogiepop novel, so we don't need to worry about that for a while yet.
I certainly hope they do bring it out eventually.