Boogiepop Phantom (ブギーポップは笑わない)

Sono Hi Gogo kara Higure ni Kakete

From afternoon till evening that day...

Karui Yuudachi ga Toori-Sugita

...a light evening rain passed through.

Shoshite Bokura wa Umi no Chikaku

And you and I ran along...

Nureta Asphalt wo Hashitta

...the wet asphalt road by the sea.

Tsubureta

In the shadow of...

Usugurai Kashi Souko no Kage de

...that dark deserted storehouse...

Shibaraku

...we gazed up at the sky...

Sora wo Miagete Ame wo Shinoi da

...as we took shelter from the rain.

Kimi ga Kuchizusamu

You were humming a song...

Boku wa Kiiteiru

...as I listened to you.

Kiki-Oboe no Nai Melody

A melody I'd never heard before.

Kieteshimau Kurai

Your voice so low that it...

Chiisana no Koe de

...almost wasn't there at all.

Yagate Togireteshimau

Eventually fading away...

It appeared.

What did?

Death.

When?

Oh, no. A split end.

About a month ago... There was that weird light...

Oh, yeah! My brother's computer got all screwed up.

You're kidding?! Didn't it cost like three grand?

I guess.

And those kids who all disappeared at that same time.

Remember? That senior... The otaku, and...

They were all taken by it.

It?

By Death!!

Are you even listening?

Death?

BOOGIEPOP!

That was when I still hated myself.

Moto!

Where were you? Come on! Let's go!

I... I don't think I'm...

Always the same with you...

Just yesterday you said you were coming.

Yeah. But...

Forget her!

But wait, there are three of them.

Just wait a sec.

Hey, Moto, we asked you because we're trying to help you.

You've gotta get used to them...

Boys!

All right!

She hasn't changed a bit since junior high.

She won't do anything unless I drag her along.

Well, in that case...

Meet you at the gate later.

Looking back at it now... At that encounter...

It just might have been after effects...

The aftermath of something much bigger...

...that happened earlier.

Looking at the world as a whole...

...this incident was just a small piece of the big puzzle.

But it's the pieces of the puzzle that form the whole picture.

As far as I'm concerned I just want to figure out...

...what the encounter meant to me personally.

It's all distorted.

Next!

Who's next?

Let's see.

You don't wanna sing?

A song...

Sorry about her.

She's not used to coming to places like this.

Hey, Suzuki...

Did you know that kid Saotome that disappeared?

What?!

Who's that?

We went to junior high together.

He went to a different high school though.

He disappeared about a month ago.

Is that true?

Yasuko, did you know him?

Well... No, not really.

Are you sure?

He was kind of creepy. I didn't really like him...

Did you know him, Tonomura?

We have kids like that in our school too.

And listen to this...

Now there's this rumor. Some kid saw Saotome's ghost!

He was probably killed... By Boogiepop.

What? Boogie... what?

It's nothing! It's just some rumor.

You know... An urban legend.

Moto, you're up.

Moto?

You understand, right?

I don't want Satoshi to know that I went out with Saotome.

Keep it a secret.

He gets really jealous.

I know.

Good.

Hey, Moto...

We're still...

Friends, right?

I just don't know anymore. If you and I are still...

Friends? Of course, right?

You're right. Why did I even ask?

Saotome was Yasuko's boyfriend in junior high.

Yasuko used to be more like me.

She was a pretty quiet girl.

But once she started dating she became more confiident.

She became more outgoing.

But I on the other hand...

...became less comfortable around boys.

But then...

After she lost her virginity she became more of a free spirit.

She started cheating on him and...

She later broke up with him.

But...

Oh, it's you.

Looks like a stray cat got it.

Did she say anything?

Yes. She said it's her fault.

No, it's not. It's my fault.

Why do they even bother to live?

They all die anyway.

You're right.

That's when I realized...

He didn't really love Yasuko.

And then...

I don't know when it started...

...but I was helplessly falling for him.

After graduation we went to different high schools

I never saw Saotome again.

I'd kept my love for him a secret.

But over time my feelings started to fade.

Moto, are you coming?

Moto, are you awake?

I told you not to open my door.