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Boogiepop Phantom (Bugīpoppu wa Warawanai? in Japanese) is a 12-episode anime series premiered in 2000, animated by Madhouse. It's based on the Boogiepop light novels for young adults, adapting elements of both Boogiepop and Others and Boogiepop at Dawn while telling an independent story.

The plot revolves around a mysterious pillar of light that awakens mysterious powers on people in an unnamed Japanese city, the urban legend of a caped entity called Boogiepop whose origin may be related with the light pillar event, the disappearance of a group of high school students, and an escalating number of mysterious deaths that have a variable relation with the first three things mentioned above. The story is told non-chronologically by way of an incredible nest of flashbacks within flashbacks, and changes its narrative point of view with each chapter, but every character in the limelight tends to be not the most reliable of narrators, either because of either previous insanity, loss of sanity caused by their contact with the episode events, or being the one causing insanity in the first place.

Boogiepop Phantom is one of the premiere examples of Mind Screw. It's probably mentioned more often by comparison with Serial Experiments Lain than in any other context.


Tropes used in Boogiepop Phantom include: