SEVEN SEAS LICENSES BOOGIEPOP

[MattBrady]

Press Release

Fans have clamored for it for years, and now Seven Seas Entertainment is proud to announce it is finally bringing Kouhei Kadono’s seminal Boogiepop novels and manga to North American audiences in English for the very first time. Fans of the Boogiepop Phantom anime series from 2001 (as seen on G4 and The Anime Network) will finally be able to get the answers they have longed for while new readers will be drawn into the world of Boogiepop like never before.

“Our release of Boogiepop is going to make fans very happy,” says Adam Arnold, Senior Editor in charge of licensed manga. “I have deep roots in fandom and avidly follow what people say on message boards. We fans want everything to be left uncensored and want the work preserved the way the writers and artist originally intended. We expect translations to stay true to the source material, and most of all, we demand that publishers include any color pages that appeared in the original Japanese release. With that in mind, we’re going to give Boogiepop the respect that it deserves.”

With over 2 million books in print, Boogiepop first made headlines in 1997 when Kouhei Kadono’s Boogiepop and Others won first place in the Media Works-sponsored Dengeki Game Novel Contest. With the novel’s official release in February 1998, the book single-handedly ignited the “light novel” trend in Japanese literature.

Starting in February 2006, Seven Seas Entertainment plans to release the first of the Boogiepop novels in English. Further releases for 2006 include the second and third Boogiepop novels, both volumes of the Boogiepop Doesn’t Laugh manga series drawn by character designer Kouji Ogata and the two-volume Boogiepop Dual manga illustrated by Masayuki Takano (Blood Alone).