is a Japanese author, best known for the
''Boogiepop'' series which has received multiple
manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...
adaptations, a live action film, and two television
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
.
Biography
Born on December 12, 1968, Kadono graduated from
Hosei University
is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.
The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of law ...
.
In 1998, his
light novel
A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English languag ...
''
Boogiepop and Others
is a Japanese light novel written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata. The first in the ''Boogiepop'' series, it was released in 1998 by MediaWorks and won the fourth Dengeki Game Novel Contest.
A manga adaptation by Kouji O ...
'' won the Fourth
Dengeki Novel Prize
The is a literary award handed out annually (since 1994) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light novelists, like K ...
and was later adapted into a
manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...
that was illustrated by Kouji Ogata. An anime spin-off of the Boogiepop series, ''
Boogiepop Phantom
is an anime television series animated by Madhouse, based on the ''Boogiepop'' light novel series by Kouhei Kadono. The series is directed by Takashi Watanabe, from a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai, with original character designs by the light ...
'', 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
is a Japanese light novel written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata. The first in the ''Boogiepop'' series, it was released in 1998 by MediaWorks and won the fourth Dengeki Game Novel Contest.
A manga adaptation by Kouji O ...
''
*''
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
xile'
*''Beat's Discipline Side 2
racture'
*''Beat's Discipline Side 3
rovidence'
*''Beat's Discipline Side 4
ndiscipline'
; Repent Walpurgis
* ''Repent Walpurgis Fire 1
arning Witch'
* ''Repent Walpurgis Fire 2
pitting Witch'
* ''Repent Walpurgis Fire 3
ozing Witch'
* ''Repent Walpurgis Fire 4
reezing witch'
; The Emperoider
* ''The Emperoider Spin 1
ormy Empire'
* ''The Emperoider Spin 2
ravelly Empire'
* ''The Emperoider Spin 3
aunted Empire'
* ''The Emperoider Spin 4
allen Empire'
; Short Stories
*''Metal Guru''
*''London Calling''
*''My Death Waits''
*''Boogiepop Poplife''
*''Chariot Choogle''
*''Angel Volume''
Tokuma Dual
; Night Watch Trilogy
*''The Night Watch into the Night Yawn''
*''The Night Watch under The Cold Moon (VS Imaginator Part IV)''
*''The Night Watch against the Star-Crossed Star''
; Novel 21 Shonen no Jikan (anthology)
*''Controversy about Iron Mask'' (short story)
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
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540).
The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads ...
*''Outlandos d'amour''
*''Jagtiger (Porsche Laufwerk''
*''When Hornet Says Leb'wohl''
; Mephisto
*''Dragonfly in the Sky with Gold''
*''Eyes of Guignol, or Outside the Castle''
*''A Spoon of Jackpot''
*''Masque of Veiled Man''
*''Snows in Dragon's Teeth''
; Mystery Land
*''No Oxygen, Not To Be Mirrored'' ()
Shizuru-san series
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 Unblance: 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
=
; (Real-name is unknown.)
:A familiar face of the hospital in which Shizuru-san is, and her best friend. She comes for Shizuru frequently to see and talk to because she herself is pleasant.
;
:A beauty attached and interested severely in cruel incidents which Yo wants to avert her eyes and the intricately complicated mystery. The incidents in which she got interested are solved one after another only by her reading data, without her moving from the hospital. The incident she indicates interest is unsolvable by any means, if it is thought using ordinary common sense. During guessing she is indifferent to Yo's feeling, although she is usually so gentle that she wants Yo not to have a decadent idea. She always remains calm. She never utters loud voice and does not talk rapidly.
;
:Sewing-basis which Yo was loving once. Yo and Shizuru make him into a hero and collaborate with each other in telling one story.
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
*''The Dance with Pluto and Beast''
*''Clockwork Serpents''
*''Questions & Answers of Me & Devil in 100''
*''Like Toy Soldiers''
*''Zero Trillion in Pangaea''
*''
Shameless Purple Haze -JoJo's Bizarre Adventure- Purple Haze Feedback''
*''
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak''
References
Kouhei Kadono at Hatena Diary (in Japanese)
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1968 births
20th-century Japanese novelists
21st-century Japanese novelists
Living people
Light novelists
Boogiepop
Hosei University alumni