Who is your favourite character?

[Shadow War]

*Possible Spoilers*

The title speaks for itself, who is your favourite character in the series. I know this might have been done before but oh well; this is for the benefit of Region 4 viewers that might have finished the series by now.

Well my fav character would be: Moto. She is the character that I can most relate to and in the end is a little more together than some of the characters.

Also runners up would be Toka(Well she can don a cape and be a different person) and Spooky Electric(just because his name is so cool!)

[DrZepp]

Yea, i think someone did this a while ago, but i didnt feel like digging it up on page 2 or 3 so ill respond here.

Really, i like Boogiepop and Boogiepop Phantom a whole lot... They are just so damn cool on so many levels. Hands down Boogiepop Phantom is my favorite art-wise.

The characters i thought were the most emotionally trying: probably Manaka and Miyumi. The scene where Manaka returns her mothers memory is one of my favorites, and the whole Echoes connection i felt was extremely interesting and important. Out of all the 'evolved' children i always thought it was cool how Manaka played such a unique roll... Not saying that the others didnt of course.

[heart havok]

my favourites are definitely Boogiepop and Boogiepop Phantom. they just blew me away. from character design, to personalities, reason, insight, to everything... just everything. i especially favour Minako though, i'm very interested in the whole Minako/Manticore/Phantom thing.

aside from them, i found the composite humans to be the most interesting. Snake Eyes, Scarecrow, Spooky Electric, Echoes {not really "composite" though}... there's something about them all that i find most intriguing... especially the fact that i know there's so much more about them in the novels that we've yet to even approach in grasping.

as for the children... i probably favoured the stories of Misuzu and "Panuru," Shizue Wakasa, Saki Yoshizawa, and the later suicidal Rie Takai most. but certainly, none of the listed beats Toka/Minako.

[Shadow War]

Yeah art wise Boogiepop is the coolest.

[heart havok]

i don't know, i think i like Phantom's design slightly better just 'cause of the whole darker hair, purple lipstick thing haha

[Shadow War]

Originally posted by heart havok
i don't know, i think i like Phantom's design slightly better just 'cause of the whole darker hair, purple lipstick thing haha

Close call between Boogiepop and BP Phantom.

[heart havok]

hah indeed.

[Cetacious]

Oh boy! I just finished watching the series yesterday and am so messed up with all the names you mention now. Spooky Electric, wasn't that Morita, the cop? I don't know.
Yep, artwhise the phantom is the coolest, but as a character I don't really like her as much as the others, as she sais herself, she's just "automathic".
I love so many characters, though. Shigh. If you force me to chose only one, I think I'll keep Chonouchi-kun, that bug-eating boy is just so Kafkian!

[Nulani]

Morita was Snake Eye I believe; which fits if you consider his attack method.
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I'm not certain really. Toka, or Miyumi, most likely.

[Lain13]

Moto was my favorite. Her tone set the scene for the whole movie. I was always dissapointed that she didn't show up more after the first two scenes.

[GigaSheep]

Hmm...

I liked Nagi + Kuroda the best. The relationship between them was very interesting, with a lot of subtleties. For example, Kuroda losing his glasses when he recalls his true identity in the last episode. And in episode 8, we wonder how much Nagi knows about what is really going on by the end of the episode.

It was great that a character like Nagi can break gender conventions without going to extremes.

[elpu34234]

GigaSheep is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

finally someone can answer my questions

[Glace]

hmm....... Echoes and Spooky Electric, I found the composite humans to be the most interesting for some reason

[StAtIc NiNjA]

I definatly felt that the coposite humans were the most interesting, mainly because of Snake Eye. I cant get enough of him. I think episode 5 is my favorite because of him.

[sunset]

TOKA MIYASHITA (http://www.etherlair.com/gallery/publications//////FOLDER_405f7cb36ddf2/images/IMAGE_41d01e2a5f6e2.jpg) is my favorite, her seiyuu won me over when in ep. 5 she wakes up in the morning, turns to that photo and says:

- Ohayo, Takeda Sempai.

Such a nice girl.... too bad she flunked her exams because of her alter-ego´s the crime-fighting habits...... :(

[Cookiepop]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Dr Kisugi. Come on, she is definitely the most bad ass character in there. Boogiepop Phantom wins in terms of art, but Dr Kisugi wipes the floor with all of them in terms of personality. This only really becomes apparent when you've watched the series for the third or fourth time. I mean anyone who goes around scaring six shades of brown out of strong willed people before ripping them apart deserves recognition.

EDIT:

This is a fan translation of a passage from the sixth Boogiepop novel from http://www.boogiepop.studiokanzen.com/index2.html#:

[Dr. Kisugi Makiko] headed toward a sickroom for her job of counseling.

Assigned to the psychiatric ward, her main duty was to comfort and console long-term in-patients in the general internal medicine and surgical wards whose spirits were flagging. She also occasionally saw outpatients when the other doctors' schedules were full.

Dr. Kisugi entered the private sickroom abruptly without knocking.

A man lie on the bed with a vacant expression, his upper torso fixed in an upright position.

The name of the man's illness was diabetes, and although he was not a psychiatric patient, his eyes were empty in the manner of schizophrenia, and his expression devoid of will or purpose.

Makiko stared at the man with an icy look.

"Mr. Shinokita," she called to him in a careless manner.

The man turned his vacant stare jerkily toward Makiko, but did not answer.

"....."

"Have you had any visitors?"

"....."

"Dear, me. I didn't think so," she said with a mocking smile, and moved over to the man's side.

As Makiko placed her hand on the man's shoulder, he twitched violently -- no, he shook, and a fearful expression appeared upon his face. His eyes opened wide, the chattering of his back teeth could be heard through his quivering half-open lips, and he trembled in fear.

"Are you lonely, Mr. Shinokita?"

Makiko slid her arm slowly around the back of the man's neck and whispered sweetly in his ear.

"You worked your body to the bone for your company, but your wife divorced you, you got demoted, and the long years of entertaining corporate guests have done irreparable damage to your liver. Your company has granted you sick leave for the time being, but how long will that last? And when the insurance runs out, I wonder how will you pay the hospital fees?"

The man's face turned pale and his trembling increased. It seemed that Makiko's voice did not even register in his ear.

".....uh, uuhhh"

A distressed moan leaked from his mouth.

Makiko abruptly grabbed the man's cheeks in both hands. "Look at me!" she commanded in a sharp tone, forcibly turning the man's head toward her.

A strangled cry escaped from the man's lips, and he froze in fear, so filled with terror that he could not even tremble.

"That's right, more... more... I want you to become even more afraid from the bottom of your heart...," Makiko said as she smirked and ran the tips of the fingers of her right hand over the man's lips.

She turned her hand slowly so that her fingers pointed at her own face, then without warning she suddenly thrust her index finger with its sharp nail deep into her left eye.

".....!" the man's mouth opened in shock.

Makiko calmly pulled out her finger. Her eyeball also came out stuck on the finger, with the optic nerve stretched behind, leaving a gaping hole in her face.

"Party trick," she breathed lightly, "Nothing to it."

But the stage makeup that could create such a "hole in one's face" did not exist.

It would be absolutely impossible for a normal human.

Yes -- for a normal human...

In other words, if one were not normal...

"Ha ha ha ha..."

Makiko laughed quietly as she stuck her finger with the eyeball back into her empty socket. She closed her eyelid and slowly pulled out her finger, but this time the eyeball stayed in the socket.

She scrunched up her eye two or three times, and when she raised her eyelid, there was her eyeball, as good as new as if nothing had happened. The pupil even focused as if to prove that the eye had vision.

A tortured breath far short of a scream escaped from the man's throat.

eExposed to some of the most extreme fear imaginable, the man had visibly withered. Makiko pulled out the IV from his arm, and then immediately clamped her lips over the wound where the tube had been attached and began sucking the man's blood with noisy slurping sounds. The secretions caused by fear mixed with the blood, changing its composition and giving it a bitter taste.

Makiko greedily lapped up the leaking blood for close to a minute, making slurping sounds with her tongue, then she slowly raised her face from the man's arm.

A sweet smell filled the sickroom as the man's sugar-laced urine soaked the sheets below him.

Makiko smiled mockingly again.

"Oh, dear. You did it again, Mr. Shinokita."

"Ah, Aaahh..."

The man remained frozen and unable to move.

"Well, I guess it can't be helped," said Makiko, reattaching the IV tube

She pressed the nurse call button and then whispered in the man's ear.

"If you go crazy, you'll get to come to my ward, Mr. Shinokita. And if that happens I'll have even more chances to 'savor' you..."

The man's body convulsed and stiffened. With nowhere to run, he could only continue to tremble in fear.

At that point the nurse entered the room.

"Oh, he did it again?" she said in a annoyed tone, and began changing the sheets while mumbling to herself.

Trading places with the nurse, Makiko left the room as if nothing had happened.

"Oops..." she said absently as she noticed a single drop of blood trickling down from her left eye, and wiped it off with her finger. Of course no one else had noticed.

As she walked down the hall, calm and composed on the outside, she whispered to herself inside her closed mouth in a voice so low as to be inaudible.

"Not enough. It's not enough. I need more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more... I want the fear from a more overwhelming collapse. This is not enough..."

A deep despair, and an even more terrible hunger glittered at the back of her eyes...

<"Boogiepop at the Gates of Dawn"

Story 3: God Only Knows - Dr. Kisugi>

Now tell me that hasn't got awesomeness written all over it. :evil: