Kouhei Kadono
Japanese writer
Kouhei Kadono (上遠野 浩平, Kadono Kōhei; born December 12, 1968) is a Japanese author, best known for the Boogiepop series which has received multiple manga adaptations, a live action film, and two television anime.
Biography
Born on December 12, 1968, Kadono graduated from Hosei University.
In 1998, his light novel Boogiepop and Others won the Fourth Dengeki Novel Prize and was later adapted into a manga that was illustrated by Kouji Ogata. An anime spin-off of the Boogiepop series, Boogiepop Phantom, aired in 2000 animated by Madhouse and an anime adaptation of the series was released in 2019 by the same studio.
Works
Boogiepop series
Boogiepop Novels
Boogiepop and Others
Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1
Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2
Boogiepop in the Mirror: Pandora
Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion
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
Boogiepop Darkly: The Scat Singing Cat
Boogiepop Unknown: Into The Lunar Rainbow
Boogiepop Within: Paradigm Rust
Boogiepop Changeling: Stalking in Decadent Black
Boogiepop Antithesis: Revolt of Alternative Ego
Boogiepop Beautiful: The Kingcraft of Panic-Cute
Boogie Pop Almighty: When Dizzy Thinks of Lizzy
Beat's Discipline
Beat's Discipline Side 1[Exile]
Beat's Discipline Side 2[Fracture]
Beat's Discipline Side 3[Providence]
Beat's Discipline Side 4[Indiscipline]
Repent Walpurgis
Repent Walpurgis Fire 1[Warning Witch]
Repent Walpurgis Fire 2[Spitting Witch]
Repent Walpurgis Fire 3[Dozing Witch]
Repent Walpurgis Fire 4[freezing witch]
The Emperoider
The Emperoider Spin 1[Wormy Empire]
The Emperoider Spin 2[Gravelly Empire]
The Emperoider Spin 3[Haunted Empire]
The Emperoider Spin 4[Fallen Empire]
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
A Case of Dragonslayer
Inside the Apocalypse Castle
The Man in Pirate's Island
Some Tragedies of No-Tear Land
The cruel tale of ZANKOKU-GO
Injustice of innocent princess
Beyond The Dragon's Skies
Faust
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
Snows in Dragon's Teeth
Mystery Land
No Oxygen, Not To Be Mirrored (ISBN 978-4-06-270582-0)
Shizuru-san series
The Eccentric Dead in White Sickroom
The Eccentric Dead in White Sickroom (しずるさんと偏屈な死者たち, Shizurusan to Henkutsuna Shishatachi) 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 Unbalance: Holy & Ghost.
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
"Yō-chan" (よーちゃん, Yō-chan) (Real-name is unknown.)
A familiar face of the hospital in which Shizuru-san is, and her best friend.
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