Editing Boogiepop Phantom (section)

== Summary ==
{{See also|Boogiepop and Others}}
Five years before the events of ''Boogiepop Phantom'', [[Nagi Kirima]] met and befriended Shinpei Kuroda, an undercover agent of the Towa organization, at the local prefecture's hospital. Nagi was hospitalized because she was dying as her body was evolving. Shinpei, upon learning the truth behind Nagi's sickness, betrayed the Towa organization and administered a stolen Towa drug to Nagi that saved her life. He was mortally wounded by Towa agents as he fled from the hospital, leaving the drug behind in the process. [[Touka Miyashita]] came across Shinpei (as the Towa Agent Scarecrow) and the [[psychological trauma]] from seeing the dying man (after being hit by More Murder) created her [[Boogiepop (character)|Boogiepop]] persona.

The ''Boogiepop at Dawn'' light novel describes how Dr Kisugi witnessed Nagi's remarkable recovery and, through experimentation on rats, learned of the drug's powers to grant [[superhuman]] abilities, before administering it to herself. The drug changed the doctor into a composite human, granting her the vast increase in physical and mental attributes shared with all composite humans and allowing her to sense the hormones that produce fear and develop a craving for them. At first terrorizing her patients and sampling their blood, she then murdered a number of strong-willed girls to consume the fear they produced at the moment of their death.<ref>{{cite video|people='''Dr Kisugi''': "But it's when people are full of fear that the Angel of Death comes to take them. And Death prefers strong people get scared, their souls taste better. Weak people have an awful taste to them. Their souls are bitter."|title=Boogiepop Phantom Episode 2 "Portraits in Darkness"|medium=DVD|date=2000}}</ref> ''Boogiepop Phantom'' shows how Dr Kisugi gave the drug to her patients, claiming it could heal them, and how it worsened their problems and resulted in their evolution. Kirima investigated the murders, and discovered Dr Kisugi was the [[serial killer]]. Nagi and Dr Kisugi confronted each other at the hospital, where The Fire Witch was initially overwhelmed by the doctor’s power, but managed to kill her with Boogiepop's help.

The ''Boogiepop and Others'' novel tells of [[Manticore (Boogiepop)|Manticore]], an imperfect clone of the alien entity [[Echoes (Boogiepop)|Echoes]], created by the Towa Organization five years later. Escaping the laboratory, Manticore killed Minako Yurihara with the intention of assuming her form when it was found by Masami Saotome. Instead of killing Masami, Manticore struck a deal with him. Manticore (as Minako) and Masami experimented with production of '''Type S''', a highly addictive drug that would enslave all its users to their will, while killing students for Manticore's consumption.<ref>{{cite video|people='''Masami''': "They escape the real world and lose their own identity. They’ll work for us like mindless robots. I want more. I want a lot of them." '''Manticore''': "In order to remake human society, isn’t that right?"|title=Boogiepop Phantom Episode 4 "My Fair Lady"|medium=DVD|date=2000}}</ref> Meanwhile, Echoes escaped from the Towa laboratory in chase of [[Manticore (Boogiepop)|Manticore]]. The alien met up with [[Nagi Kirima]], who was investigating the recent student disappearances.

Learning they were being pursued, Masami and Manticore set a trap for Echoes and Nagi. Events culminated one evening at Shinyo Academy, when Masami crippled Echoes with poison and killed Nagi, who did not expect Manticore to have a human ally. Manticore chased Echoes as he attempted to escape with Nagi's body, and beat him to the verge of death. Manticore and Masami were attacked by [[Boogiepop (character)|Boogiepop]], who held Manticore in place while Echoes turned himself into light. The light pierced the sky and destroyed Manticore, with Masami committing suicide by flying into the pillar. Nagi was revived by Echoes before he left the planet.

''Boogiepop Phantom'' is set one month later and revolves around the consequences of the pillar of light. Echoes' light inadvertently allowed the memories of that night to continue as [[hologram]]s, giving rise to a [[mixed reality]] where past and present co-exist,<ref>{{Cite video|people='''Kishida''': "Regular holograms are 3D images formed by interference patterns of recorded light. When Echoes light spread across the city as you say, might be that the memories of that moment took root as electromagnetic interference patterns."|title=Boogiepop Phantom Episode 8 "She's So Unusual"|medium=DVD|date=2000}}</ref> and forced the [[evolution]] of the citizens, including those who were administered the Towa drug by Dr Kisugi. The series is concerned with these evolved individuals, how evolution affected their lives, and their disappearance after meeting Boogiepop Phantom. The Phantom explains it hid them below the city to save them,<ref>{{cite video|people='''Boogiepop Phantom''': "Their evolution is not natural. Such powers would cause nothing but harm to other people and to this world." '''Boogiepop''': "If danger threatens to engulf this world, I must nullify it. That is the purpose of my existence." '''Boogiepop Phantom''': "That's why I brought them here."|title=Boogiepop Phantom Episode 11 "Under the Gravity's Rainbow"|medium=DVD|date=2000}}</ref> and that although their bodies no longer function, their nerves extend across the city so they will keep dreaming until the day the rest of humanity catches up to them.<ref>{{cite video|people=Boogiepop Phantom|title=Boogiepop Phantom Episode 12 "A Requiem"|medium=DVD|date=2000}}</ref>