Boogiepop! & Books!
I’m a HUGE Boogiepop Phantom fan! I have all 3 of the novels and the 4 manga that was released as well as the 5 DVD set with the whole animated series and the live action Boogiepop movie… It’s been a while since I read the novel (I remember when I first got it I’d even read it during class, it was just so amazing) and I already saw the movie, which I thought was very good considering they had to fit three books into it… the series however… I don’t remember any of this stuff… well… once in a while something will click… but not much… and I’m wondering if it’s the work of the series or lack of work in my mind (my memory isn’t all that great) I remember Kirima Nagi… but then again… who doesn’t? I mean, she was probably the best character next to Orihata Aya, yeah, Boogiepop was cool and all of that, but … duh… of course Boogiepop is going to be amazing… I’m talking about the other characters… obviously…
Anyway… I’m disappearing tomorrow… and wont be back until Wednesday… I dont think I’ll be able to handle my mom and sister for 5 days … I can barely handle them for an hour… so for 120 hours… I doubt it… anyways .. I might have something to report and babble about when I’m back… or maybe not… I know though, for a fact, I’ll have finished Battle Royale and be reading BLOOD … aahhhh vacation… I should be home.. sleeping… yup… but I’m not… sigh … stupid warm places (though I do like the warm…)
My Boogiepop books (the novels anyway) are pretty bent out of shape from me carrying them all over the place and reading them in the rain -.-* whoops… but like I said, they were good books, and still are…
As far as books go I’m on the third stage of reading Battle Royale… and it’s about time, it’s taken me months to get this far… because I love the book, but I rarely have time for it… and it’s not as easy to carry around as the Boogiepop books were. Im almost done though! It’staken months but I’m almost done!!! I’m so excited! I can’t wait to read it! I don’t care if I’ve already seen the movie (I really want to buy the movie as well) but I’ve already noticed some differences in the novel, and they go into way more detail (obviously because it’s a book) but it’s just better… (of course)… next I’ll be reading BLOOD: The Last Vampire… I think it’s called ‘Night of Beasts’ or something like that… eh… I really liked the movie, so I figured why not… and anything to keep me from reading ‘Socrates in Love’ it’s way to lovey-dovey & depressing for me.. I mean the first page it’s like ’she’s dead… i miss her… she’s dead… i love her… she’s dead… i miss her…’ it drove me crazy… of course I’ll probably read the Kamikaze Girls novel AGAIN before I read it…
I really adore the Kamikaze Girls Novel, Manga, and Movie… it’s really awesome… though I must admit the novel bored me little bit at the beginning… mostly because I knew about the whole ‘Rococo Era’ and stuff like that. Of course, I really got into it… actually it was really towards the end, I hate to admit it though it was really… painful to read.. of course towards the end it picked up pace and changed from the movie in a critical scene (though at the same time it didn’t change the overall outcome of it) and it got really good. The cover is really cute… I think I want the paperback version since I have the hard cover version (and I want it ALL XP including the $50 imported Soundtrack.. Wahhh Shimotsuma Monogatari…WHYYYY!) Oh Shimotsuma Monogatari is the Japanese name for it. It’s something like “Shimotsuma Tale” for a translated name… which is… no offense… I really LAME name for a movie… but … whatever,, right? since the plot is really good and creative and unique and all that ood stuff… Shimotsuma is just a name of a place…I love the book regardless of it boring me to almost tears (tears since I really loved every other thing related to Kamikaze Girls and this one, the ORIGINAL, just didn’t work for me) I actually used the quotes for a Health project where we needed quotes on Courage or something like that… haha I don’t remember what it was exactly…
Also… Melon Kinenbi needs more attention given to them… they’re the ones with talent (if you ignore Takahashi and Tanaka from Momusu and Suzuki from C-ute and Natsuyaki from BerryZ) Melon Kinenbi, yeah, they have age, but they have talent and Saitou Hitomi is waaaayyy cool (Even though the HAPPY7 outfit didn’t work for her XP a person like her should have a spaghetti strap shirt)
The following are from a Character called Seiichi Kirima in the books/series/manga/etc. Boogiepop Phantom
- The past will often attack the present with the pain of your memories
- The brain is a microcosm creating its own stories. People then live out these stories.
- Time does not exists, only the illusions of memories exist
- Existence does not rely on matter. Everything is phantom.
- The waking dream called the world is constantly changing. What’s so sad about that?
- Pure perfection has no past. That is how you live purely
- How can you say you are a phantom?
The quotes are from random moments in the book and may nor mean anything to those who haven’t read the book…
