Boogiepop series translations (1-4) by Kouhei Kadono
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Overview: There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name – Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real.
The Boogiepop franchise is a set of roughly 15 Japanese "light novels" (what we’d call "YA" in English). With elements of SF, suspense and horror, they’re generally sets of intertwined stories about a group of students, teachers, and friends, and their involvement with supernatural events and agents. The stories will often focus on the philosophies and perspectives of each student, and be told in a non-linear fashion that asks the reader to piece together the sequence of events to solve the mysteries alongside the characters.
Kouhei Kadono’s first Boogiepop novel was published in 1997 and is sometimes credited with kicking off a boom in "light novel" publishing there.
In 2006, Seven Seas publishing launched a project to bring translated versions of Japanese light novels to the English-speaking market. It did not meet with long-term success. The first four of the Boogiepop novels were the only ones translated.
So far as I know, no retail of these book has been released, nor is likely to be. These are serviceable OCRs, with EPUB’s that display fine for me. Download is a zip of these EPUB’s. If you need another format, your tools to convert it are probably better than mine.
Genre: YA
1. Boogiepop and Others (Boogiepop Doesn’t Laugh): The first book of the series begins as high school students begin to mysteriously go missing. Is this a repeat of string of serial killings five years ago, or is it something else? Perhaps something other than human? The legend says Boogiepop is responsible for the rash of disappearances from amongst the Academy’s student body, but that’s not the whole truth. Interwoven narratives reveal the truth and circle in towards a resolution.
2. Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator part 1: Asukai Jin makes a living as a cram school counselor as he works towards an art career. He’s gifted at it. But is he maybe, lately, a little too gifted? Are the students he counsels acting a bit strangely? Is he controlling his own fate, or is he a pawn? It wouldn’t seem to have much to do with Tanaguchi Masaki’s pursuit of a relationship with a strange girl he meets. But fate has set them on a collision course.
3. Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator part 2: In the continuation of Boogiepop Returns, the conflict widens, pulling not only Boogiepop, but agents of the powerful and mysterious Towa Organization. Who will survive the inevitable showdown?
4. Boogiepop at Dawn: Linked short pieces filling in events before and after the first three books, it primarily centers on the serial killings of five years ago, the backstory behind Kirima Nagi and Boogiepop’s first appearance.
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Edit: Accidentally overwrote book 1 with a second copy of book 2, so replaced links with a corrected zip, thanks guys for pointing it out!
