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Boogiepop Phantom
ブギーポップは笑わない (Boogiepop Phantom)
Genre	Mystery
TV anime
Directed by	Takashi Watanabe
Studio	Magic Bus
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	6 January 2000 – 21 March 2000
No. of episodes	12

Boogiepop Phantom is a dark brooding mystery anime series which is often compared with Serial Experiments Lain. The series is 12 episodes long, but the story is not told in a linear fashion. Each episode centers on different characters who sometimes have just a short involvement in the major events of the series. For this reason, many scenes are seen twice, from different perspectives, and some episodes are out of sequence, although there is a slow general time progression. All of the character stories tie to a single event, a single brief point in time where all of the characters saw and were affected by a brief, intense, unexplained light in the night sky.

An unusal visual style is employed wherein, for all but the last episode, a much reduced colour palette is used in conjunction with a vignette effect.

The story centers on several important characters, most of whom are students from one of two high schools in the city in which the series takes place. The city (which is never named) was held in fear by a serial killer five years ago, who was never caught. When the series begins, high school students have just started to disappear again, and the blame is placed by many on Boogiepop, a mysterious entity who is said to be a Shinigami. Through the daunting non-liner style of the series, the characters are used to develop a central theme of the series: The City, and Evolution of Human Consciousness.

Boogiepop Phantom is based on the Boogiepop series of books by Kouhei Kadono, which have also been adapted into the live action film Boogiepop and Others. The original character designs are also done by the books' illustrator, Kouji Ogata.

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