
To add to Mima’s growing unease, an obsessed fan who is incapable of accepting that Mima has quit being an innocent idol, begins stalking her a new anonymous website begins to impersonate her life with intricate detail and CHAM! also appears to be doing better without her. Wanting to shed her pop-idol image, she takes on a role in a crime drama series, and her career as an actress gradually becomes more demanding and taxing for both Mima and her manager, Rumi Hidaka. However, Mima’s life begins to change drastically after her departure from the group.

While Mima’s choice is met with a mixed response, she hopes her fans will continue to support her.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and CHAM! must see one of its members, Mima Kirigoe, leave the group to pursue her acting career. J-pop idol group CHAM! has spent the last two years entertaining its fans.
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Much like Satoshi Kon's phenomenal horror series "Paranoia Agent," this is an anthology series. There are no stylish designs, and not even the kind of cartoony slapstick gags or "anime faces" we see in many shonen anime, which helps blur the barrier between animation and live-action and therefore make it easier to relate to the story and get utterly scared. It also helps that the character designs, like those in "Lain" or "Perfect Blue," are more realistic and "bland" than your average anime, with no character having any identifiable features in order to make it easier for the audience to see themselves in them. But is the legend real, or is this just mass hysteria and a general wish to escape the harshness of reality? This is "Boogiepop Phantom." Now, students are once again disappearing, but rather than blaming a killer, it's the angel of death itself, the urban legend that is Boogiepop, who is said to claim the kids.


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Like "Lain," it is not all that easy to describe the plot of "Boogiepop Phantom." But what you need to know is that five years prior to the start of the series, a small prefecture outside of Tokyo was shaken by a serial killer's rampage, and a month ago a beam of mysterious light shone to the sky, causing a bunch of teenagers to start developing powers. " Based on light novels written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata, which helped launch the light novel craze in Japan, the show was helmed by "Perfect Blue" writer Sadayuki Murai, with character designs by "Serial Experiments Lain" key animator Shigeyuki Suga, two titles that have a lot in common with "Boogiepop ," making them sort of a trifecta of scary anime that deals with reality, escapism, and very eerie atmospheres. One of those shows is "Boogiepop Phantom.
