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Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator (Novel 1 of 2)

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Title: Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator
Volume: Novel 1 / 2
Pages: 220
Distributor: Seven Seas Entertainment

Release date: 2006-06-21
Suggested retail price: $9.99
Age rating: 13+

SKU: SS16420
ISBN-10: 1933164204 1933164204
ISBN-13: 9781933164205 9781933164205

Description:
Witness the first appearances of the mysterious Towa Organization - a player in the Boogiepop Phantom anime series - as Boogiepop finds himself hunted by the synthetic human known only as "Spooky E." All the while, the deadly "Imaginator" is out to change the world one mind at a time. Can you escape from the clutches of the Imaginator...?

This is the second novel in the Boogiepop series.

Written by Kouhei Kadono.

(added on 2006-04-06, modified on 2006-04-06)

Reviewed by Theron Martin (July 27, 2006)

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