Boogiepop Phantom follows an ensemble cast of characters, mostly high school students, who are witnesses to the incident and its consequences.
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17 Facts About Boogiepop Phantom
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Manticore and Masami were attacked by Boogiepop Phantom, who held Manticore in place while Echoes turned himself into light.
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Boogiepop Phantom is set one month later and revolves around the consequences of the pillar of light.
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The Boogiepop Phantom explains it hid them below the city to save them, and that although their bodies no longer function, their nerves extend across the city so they will keep dreaming until the day the rest of humanity catches up to them.
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Boogiepop Phantom is the urban legend whispered of among the female students of Shinyo Academy.
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Boogiepop Phantom is an entity born in the electromagnetic field the moment Echoes' light appeared in the sky.
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Manticore Boogiepop Phantom is another product of Echoes' light, one who possesses the remnants of Manticore's consciousness and the visage of Masami Saotome.
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Manticore Boogiepop Phantom seeks a way to sustain himself permanently when he learns that he will be gone once the electromagnetic field returns to its original state.
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Touka is not aware this is happening, as she deletes her memories of being Boogiepop Phantom, and carries all of Boogiepop Phantom's effects in a Spalding sports bag without realizing it.
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Boogiepop Phantom is a story that primarily deals with change and how perceptions change as people grow older.
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Similar to the theme of change, the concept of moving on and not being stuck in the past is integral to the story as both Boogiepop and Boogiepop Phantom confront Manaka for what they perceive as keeping people stuck in the past.
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Boogiepop Phantom is a series that is about memory and how memories help define who we are.
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Boogiepop Phantom was conceived as an original story taking place after the events of the novels Boogiepop and Others and Boogiepop at Dawn.
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In particular, musical references are a characteristic trait of the Boogiepop Phantom novels, such as the character Echoes being an allusion to the Pink Floyd song of the same name, which itself is a possible allusion to 2001: A Space Odyssey with its themes of evolution and transcendence.
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Kitsune are fox spirits of Japanese folklore, they possess magical powers that increase with age and are capable of assuming human form, with Boogiepop Phantom being described as a kitsune by Touka Miyashita's parents.
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The Boogiepop Phantom soundtrack was published by AnimeTrax and released by The Right Stuf International as a two-disc CD on 30 April 2002.
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Boogiepop Phantom was later released as a thinpak collection in 2006 that came with the live action Boogiepop and Others.
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