Kouhei Kadono (上遠野 浩平, Kadono Kōhei, born December 12, 1968) is a Japanese author, best known for the Boogiepop series, which has also been adapted as a live action movie, two manga and an anime.
Born December 12, 1968, he graduated from Hosei University.
In 1998, his light novel Boogiepop and Others won the Fourth Dengeki Novel Prize, and was later adapted into a film, and a manga illustrated by Kouji Ogata.
Boogiepop NovelsBoogiepop and OthersBoogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2Boogiepop in the Mirror: PandoraBoogiepop Overdrive: The PiperBoogiepop at DawnBoogiepop Missing: Peppermint WizardBoogiepop Countdown Embryo: ErosionBoogiepop Wicked Embryo: EruptionBoogiepop Paradox: Heartless RedBoogiepop Unbalance: Holy & GhostBoogiepop Stacatto: Welcome to Jinx ShopBoogiepop Bounding: Lost MoebiusBoogiepop Intolerance: The Ark of OrpheusBoogiepop Question: The Silent PyramidBoogiepop Darkly: The Scat Singing CatBoogiepop Unknown: Into The Lunar RainbowBoogiepop Within: Paradigm RustBoogiepop Changeling: Stalking in Decadent BlackBoogiepop Antithesis: Revolt of Alternative EgoBeat's DisciplineBeat's Discipline Side 1[Exile]Beat's Discipline Side 2[Fracture]Beat's Discipline Side 3[Providence]Beat's Discipline Side 4[Indiscipline]Repent WalpurgisRepent Walpurgis Fire 1[Warning Witch]Repent Walpurgis Fire 2[Spitting Witch]Repent Walpurgis Fire 3[Dozing Witch]Repent Walpurgis Fire 4[freezing witch]The EmperoiderThe Emperoider Spin 1[Wormy Empire]The Emperoider Spin 2[Gravelly Empire]The Emperoider Spin 3[Haunted Empire]Short StoriesMetal GuruLondon CallingMy Death WaitsBoogiepop PoplifeChariot ChoogleAngel VolumeNight Watch TrilogyThe Night Watch into the Night YawnThe Night Watch under The Cold Moon (VS Imaginator Part IV)The Night Watch against the Star-Crossed StarNovel 21 Shonen no Jikan (anthology)Controversy about Iron Mask (short story)Jiken seriesA Case of DragonslayerInside the Apocalypse CastleThe Man in Pirate’s IslandSome Tragedies of No-Tear LandThe cruel tale of ZANKOKU-GOInjustice of innocent princessBeyond The Dragon's SkiesFaustOutlandos d'amourJagtiger (Porsche LaufwerkWhen Hornet Says Leb'wohlMephistoDragonfly in the Sky with GoldEyes of Guignol, or Outside the CastleA Spoon of JackpotMasque of Veiled ManSnows in Dragon's TeethMystery LandNo Oxygen, Not To Be Mirrored (ISBN 978-4-06-270582-0)The Eccentric Dead In White Sickroom (しずるさんと偏屈な死者たち, Shizurusan to Henkutsuna Shishatachi) 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
"Yō-chan" (よーちゃん, Yō-chan) (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.
Shizuru-san (しずるさん, Shizuru-san)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.
Chikuta (チクタ)Sewing-basis which Yo was loving once. Yo and Shizuru make him into a hero and collaborate with each other in telling one story.
The Bottomless Closed-Rooms in the Limited WorldThe Silent Princess in the Unprincipled TalesThe Cavalier Bleeds For The BloodSpectral Speculation of Soul-DropPhantasm Phenomenon of Memoria-NoiseLabyrinthine Linkage of Maze-PrisonThe Deprived Proof of Topolo-ShadowThe Screened Script of Crypt-MaskInfinity Inference of Out-GapRemote Thinking of Cogito-PinocchioThe Dance with Pluto and BeastClockwork SerpentsQuestions & Answers of Me & Devil in 100Like Toy SoldiersZero Trillion in PangaeaShameless Purple Haze -JoJo's Bizarre Adventure- Purple Haze Feedback
