What's the difference?

[Nairohe]

How would you classify Manticores and evolved humans and where would boogiepop and boogiepop phantom fall under?

[heart havok]

Boogiepop classifies under "Death," Boogiepop Phantom classifies under "copy of Boogiepop," evolved humans fits under "evolved humans" and Manticore and Echoes classify under "supernatural beings." ^_~

Edit :: i suppose Boogiepop and Boogiepop Phantom could also classify under "supernatural beings" as well.

[Nairohe]

I just watched it another time...

-Regular humans-kids walking around, enjoying their lives.
-Evolved humans-have developed special powers.
-Composite humans-go out and kill evolving humans.
-Manticore-feed on week humans, especially those who strong people who they have managed to break.
-(UNIDENTIFIED)- whichever kind boogiepop is.

If you haven't noticed, evovled humans appear to have been treated in the perfectual hospital. It seems that they have also been doing some experiments to further human evolution.

known developing evolved humans were Nagi kirijima and touka. Kuroda was aware that Nagi might eventually end up like Echoes so he gave her a drug to stop her from evolving. A result of her evolution was the fact that she had a condition that made her grow up fast. Other childred discovered their powers when the first pillar of light appeared.

-Butterfly girl (Manaka) (actually, she died... then she lived again.)
-Saema (nagi's friend) -She was originally being stalked by the serial killer who happens to be a composite human responsible for the killings 5 years ago.
-Hisashi Jounichi -He's able to see pain in the form of spiders.
-Misuzu (Panuru) -Not sure what her power is, but it she had issues with her mom.
-Sayoko -(the loving sister of mamoru) She was able to grant her brother's wishes.


I'm not quite sure if Boogiepop herself is a result of an 'awakening' to human evolution. She did become boogiepop before the 'light' incident which might make her a special case compared to the other evolving humans.

Uh... more to come...

[heart havok]

my own observations...

Toka was never known to be evolving.
Nagi is dead.
Echoes is the last form of evolution.
Spooky Electric is a messanger "composite human" that knows more of what's going on than anyone.
Snake Eyes erases memories and kills people.
the Doctor is the true Serial Killer.
Manticore is a copy of Echoes.. {fairly like Yin and Yan} ..due to the collumn of light.
Boogiepop Phantom is inside Echoes' old body.
Boogiepop is true death.
Boogiepop Phantom is the true Piper.
Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac lyrics have creepy [coinsidecial ?] references to this beloved Anime series. "..rats and children follow me out of town." "..women and the children first and the children first." "Cut the kids in half."
Manaka and Echoes are now one.
Manaka's butterfly memories are not only past memories but also memories that have yet to occur.
there's a difference between Manticore and "human-eaters" or whatever they were called.

[Nairohe]

What makes this confusing is the fact that people have several names so erm...


-Spooky wired is a copy of echoes who later took over Kuroda's body. He also took over Masami Saotome's body. Spooky wired also took over Misuzu's (panuru 2) cd player.

-Masami Saotome is the same guy who went out with Yasuko, whom Moto had a crush on (he later tried to kill her). he also tried going out with Nagi but got turned down.

-Snake Eye took over a policeman's body (morita). He killed Misuzu when he ran to her for help. I don't understand why but boogiepop phantom didn't save her because she wasn't like the other kids (who all seems to possess special powers or talents.)

-There appears to be two individuals who looks like Nagi. There's Nagi who's working as a detective and a Nagi running around being the 'manticore' and also known as 'boogiepop phantom.'

-Boogiepop and Touka exist in one body but are two different individuals.

[YellerCrakka]

Originally posted by Nairohe
-Boogiepop and Touka exist in one body but are two different individuals.

yeah I also noticed that they have different voices...??

[heart havok]

Boogiepop and Toka have the same voice, only different tones. Boogiepop has a serious tone as Toka has a more upbeat tone.
i only recall them speaking of ONE copy of Echoes, and that being Manticore.
who's Spooky Wired?
i only recall Manticore being inside Saotome's body.
i don't recall Saotome asking out Nagi either. i do recall him asking out Minako though.
Nagi isn't Boogiepop Phantom, Minako is. they not only are clearly different in appearance {to me atleast} but they are also referred to with different names.

[Nairohe]

There is only one copy of echoes. The only difference is the forms that he takes.

-first he is still in Saotome's body. He attempts to eat the girl who has a crush on Saotome on the first episode.
-boogiepop kills him and saves the girl.
-he became that spooky wired. Panuru 2 called him while she was riding the train.


this is all i could remember at the moment. i need to go rewatch it.

I understand who minako is now... minako had originally been the manticore and during that light incident, the manticore transferred to saotome.

echoes was the guy who caused that light incident.

[heart havok]

the first episode takes place after the Panuru 2 scene. thus the Manticore was killed after that scene. nor do i recall the name "spooky wired"... when ManticoreSaotome is talking with Panuru 2, Nagi even calls him Manticore.