Kouhei Kadono


Kouhei Kadono 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
  • Beat's Discipline Side 2
  • Beat's Discipline Side 3
  • Beat's Discipline Side 4
; Repent WalpurgisRepent Walpurgis Fire 1Repent Walpurgis Fire 2Repent Walpurgis Fire 3Repent Walpurgis Fire 4
; The EmperoiderThe Emperoider Spin 1The Emperoider Spin 2The Emperoider Spin 3The Emperoider Spin 4
; Short Stories
  • Metal Guru
  • London Calling
  • My Death Waits
  • Boogiepop Poplife
  • Chariot Choogle
  • ''Angel Volume''

Tokuma Dual

; Night Watch Trilogy
; Novel 21 Shonen no Jikan
  • ''Controversy about Iron Mask''

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

Shizuru-san series

The Eccentric Dead in White Sickroom

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 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"
;Shizuru-san
;'''Chikuta'''

Other works in series

  • The Bottomless Closed-Rooms in the Limited World
  • The Silent Princess in the Unprincipled Tales
  • ''The Cavalier Bleeds for the Blood''

Soul Drop series

  • Spectral Speculation of Soul-Drop
  • Phantasm Phenomenon of Memoria-Noise
  • Labyrinthine Linkage of Maze-Prison
  • The Deprived Proof of Topolo-Shadow
  • The Screened Script of Crypt-Mask
  • Infinity Inference of Out-Gap
  • ''Remote Thinking of Cogito-Pinocchio''

Other works