is a Japanese

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, best known for the Boogiepop series

Boogiepop series

The of Japanese light novels is written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata. It includes titles from different media, each connected by repeating characters and related plots...

, which has also been adapted as a live action

Live action

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 movie, two manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 and an anime

Anime

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Biography

Born December 12, 1968, he graduated from Hosei University

Hosei University

is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha , established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō . This was from 1883 headed by Dr. Gustave Emile Boissonade, and was heavily influenced by the French legal tradition...

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In 1998, his light novel

Light novel

A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short...

 Boogiepop and Others

Boogiepop and Others

is a light novel and manga authored by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata, and a live-action movie directed by Ryu Kaneda. The light novel, the first in the Boogiepop series, was released in 1998 by MediaWorks and won the fourth Dengeki Game Novel Contest.The story takes place in an...

won the Fourth Dengeki Novel Prize

Dengeki Novel Prize

The is a literary award handed out annually by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light novelists, like Kouhei Kadono and Yashichiro Takahashi. Originally called the Dengeki Game Novel...

, and was later adapted into a film

Film

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, and a manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 illustrated by Kouji Ogata

Kouji Ogata

is a Japanese artist, character designer, and manga artist best known for his work on the Boogiepop series and Gin-iro no Kami no Agito. He was born on December 14, 1970. He has another pen name .- External links :...

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Boogiepop series

Boogiepop Novels

• Boogiepop and Others
• Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1
  Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1
  is the second novel in the Boogiepop series by Kouhei Kadono, and was illustrated by Kouji Ogata.-Plot introduction:The year before the incident with Manticore, Boogieopop fought against Imaginator. Now, Imaginator is attempting to return and complete its ambitions...
  
  
• Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2
  Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2
  is the third novel in the Boogiepop series by Kouhei Kadono, and was illustrated by Kouji Ogata. It was released in English on October 15, 2006 by Seven Seas Entertainment.- Plot introduction :...
  
  
• Boogiepop in the Mirror: Pandora
• Boogiepop Overdrive: The Piper
• Boogiepop at Dawn
• Boogiepop Missing: Peppermint Wizard
• Boogiepop Countdown Embryo: Erosion
• Boogiepop Wicked Embryo: Eruption
• Boogiepop Paradox: Heartless Red
• Boogiepop Unbalance: Holy & Ghost
• Boogiepop Stacatto: Welcome to Jinx Shop
• Boogiepop Bounding: Lost Moebius
• Boogiepop Intolerance: The Ark of Orpheus
• Boogiepop Question: The Silent Pyramid

Beat's Discipline

• Beat's Discipline Side 1
• Beat's Discipline Side 2
• Beat's Discipline Side 3
• Beat's Discipline Side 4

Walpurgis' Regret

• Walpurgis' Regret Fire 1
• Walpurgis' Regret Fire 2

Short Stories

• Metal Guru
• London Calling
• My Death Waits
• Boogiepop Poplife
• Chariot Choogle
• Angel Volume

Tokuma Dual

Night Watch Trilogy

• The Night Watch into the Night Yawn
• The Night Watch under The Cold Moon (VS Imaginator Part IV)
• The Night Watch against the Star-Crossed Star

Novel 21 Shonen no Jikan (anthology)

• Controversy about Iron Mask (short story)

Kodansha

Jiken series

Jiken series

The are Japanese mystery novels by Kouhei Kadono. Kadono began his career writing light novels, but this series came from a mainstream publishing label, Kodansha Novels...

• a case of dragonslayer
• inside the apocalypse castle
• the man in pirate’s island
• some tragedies of no-tear land

Faust

Faust (magazine)

is a literary magazine published irregularly by Kodansha since 2003. Self-described as a "Fighting illustory magazine." Square bound like novels, all volumes have remained in print. Faust features young writers and a style derived from light novels...

• Outlandos d'amour
• Jagtiger (Porsche Laufwerk
• When Hornet Says Leb'wohl

Mephisto

• Dragonfly in the Sky with Gold
• Eyes of Guignol, or Outside the Castle
• A Spoon of Jackpot
• Masque of Veiled Man

Mystery Land

• No Oxygen, Not To Be Mirrored (ISBN 4-06-270582-0)

The Eccentric Dead In White Sickroom

is the first novel in the Shizurusan series written by Kadono and illustrated by Kaya Kuramoto. It tells four stories of two girls and one short story about a fictional character created by the girls.

All of Kadono's works are linked together to a greater or lesser degree. The Shizuru-san series is particularly connected with Boogiepop Unblance: Holy & Ghost

Boogiepop series

The of Japanese light novels is written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata. It includes titles from different media, each connected by repeating characters and related plots...

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Plot summary

""There is no mysterious mystery but "deception" there -- .""
The beauty girl who lives a life bedridden in a hospital challenges mysterious incidents which spread over the world by the cool pupil and sharp insight with a partner.

Characters

(Real-name is unknown.)

A familiar face of the hospital in which Shizuru-san is, and her best friend. She comes for Shizuru frequently to see and talk to because she herself is pleasant.

A beauty attached and interested severely in cruel incidents which Yo wants to avert her eyes and the intricately complicated mystery. The incidents in which she got interested are solved one after another only by her reading data, without her moving from the hospital. The incident she indicates interest is unsolvable by any means, if it is thought using ordinary common sense. During guessing she is indifferent to Yo's feeling, although she is usually so gentle that she wants Yo not to have a decadent idea. She always remains calm. She never utters loud voice and does not talk rapidly.

Sewing-basis which Yo was loving once. Yo and Shizuru make him into a hero and collaborate with each other in telling one story.

Other works in series

• The Bottomless Closed-Rooms in the Limited World
• The Silent Princess in the Unprincipled Tales

Soul Drop series

• Spectral Speculation of Soul-Drop
• Phantasm Phenomenon of Memoria-Noise
• Labyrinthine Linkage of Maze-Prison
• The Deprived Proof of Topolo-Shadow