Be-Papas

Be-Papas (ビーパパス, Bīpapasu, occasionally stylized as Be-PaPas or Bepapas) was an artist collective and collective pen name founded by anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara for creating original works.[1] Its membership consisted of Ikuhara, manga artist Chiho Saito, animator and character designer Shinya Hasegawa, scriptwriter Yōji Enokido, and planner Yūichirō Oguro.[2] The group was intended to allow the animation production staff, who were previously rarely recognized as authors, to stand out in the shoes of original creators.

The group created the 1996–1997 manga and anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena and its 1999 film and manga sequel Adolescence of Utena. The name of the team, according to Oguro in the liner notes for DVD volume 1 of Revolutionary Girl Utena, meant "let's grow up."

Be-Papas disbanded following the release of Adolescence of Utena. Ikuhara and Saito later collaborated on the 2001 manga series World of the S&M (released in English as The World Exists for Me), the authorship of which was credited to Saito and Be-Papas.[3]

References
  1. Saito, Chiho (April 11, 2017). Revolutionary Girl Utena: Shojo Beat Deluxe Box Set Edition. San Francisco: VIZ Media. ISBN 978-1421585871.
  2. "Be-PaPas". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
  3. "New Manga from Utena Colaborator [sic]". Anime News Network. August 15, 2001. Retrieved February 3, 2019.


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