Masaki Taniguchi's popularity at his new school earns him the resentment of a classmate, who sets a group of underclassmen on him; the fight ends when a girl named Aya Orihata wades in and drives them off. Falling for her pulls both students toward Boogiepop, the shinigami said to hunt down human tragedies, and toward the shadowy Towa Organization moving behind the incident. This manga adapts the VS Imaginator arc of the Boogiepop light novels, as the synthetic agent Spooky E and the reality-warping Imaginator move against the city.