2000-03-16 • 24 min
This episode revolves around Manaka. It explains about her past, her mother, her grandmother, and her ability. After the flashbacks are done, Manaka starts to run from Boogiepop when Boogiepop Phantom interveins and tries to kill her. Boogipop frees her, stating that she hasn't enough power to cause a threat to this world, and Manaka runs off to the house of mirrors. Boogiepop finally meets Boogiepop Phantom. Manaka tells herself that she will not die; rather, she will become light. And so she does. A great light composed of the golden butterfiles engulfs the land, causing time to skip. People start to see phantoms of themselves, events of the past long forgotten. Manaka makes one last visit, to her mother in the hospital. Since Manaka was born, her mother had lost her short term memory, and could not remember anything for a long time. She even forgot that she had a daughter. However, Manaka arrived as light, and restored her memory using the butterflies. For just a moment
Hitoshi Kagiyama
Key Animation
Kazuyuki Ikai
Key Animation
Hiroyuki Kakudou
Storyboard Artist
Mitsuhiro Yoneda
Animation Director
Jun Yoshida
Key Animation
Eiji Fukuyama
Key Animation
Tadashi Kubo
Key Animation
Kazuya Miura
Animation Director
Yoshiaki Ito
Animation Director
Nobuo Hashimoto
Key Animation
Sachiko Oohashi
Key Animation
Koji Kataoka
Key Animation
Hisao Muramatsu
Key Animation
Setsuko Unno
Key Animation
Masaki Kamiguchi
Key Animation
Fumio Matsumoto
Animation Director
Tsutomu Yabuki
Director
Sadayuki Murai
Writer