Boogiepop Dual: Loser's Circus, Volume 1

ブギーポップ・デュアル 負け犬たちのサーカス [Boogiepop Dual: Makeinu-tachi no Circus] #1

by Masayuki Takano (Illustrations), Kōji Ogata, Kōhei Kadono

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.

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 took First Place in Media Works' Dengeki Game Novel Contest in 1997 and ignited the Japanese "light novel" trend. Today, there are over 2 million Boogiepop novels in print, a feature film and manga adaptation based on the first book, an original manga entitled Boogiepop Dual, and the unforgettable original anime series Boogiepop Phantom.

Genres: Manga, Comics Manga, Paranormal, Horror, Fiction, Supernatural

184 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2000

About the author

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Reviews

[Lucas]

So far my least favorite part of the Boogiepop series that I'd read. I don't love the characters very much yet, it feels very rushed like it was crammed into 2 volumes and needed to be at least 3, not to mention the sex/boob jokes that feel incredibly out of place in the series. Although when it gets dark, it gets really dark, the scissors scene was intense and wonderful as was the end of the volume in the hospital.

[Ririn]

all the sensei-tachi in this manga are perverts O_o but it's refreshing to see a male boogiepop medium for once lol.