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{{short description|Japanese artist group}}
{{nihongo|'''Be-Papas'''|ビーパパス|Bīpapasu|alternately '''Bepapas''' and stylized as '''Be-PaPas'''}} was a production group founded by [[anime]] director [[Kunihiko Ikuhara]]. Its membership consisted of Ikuhara, manga artist [[Chiho Saito]], animator and character designer [[Shinya Hasegawa]], scriptwriter [[Yōji Enokido]], and planner [[Yūichirō Oguro]].<ref name="Animage"/> Ikuhara founded Be-Papas in 1996 to create ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', an original anime he conceived following his departure from [[Toei Animation]], where he worked as a director on the anime series ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. The group also created ''Revolutionary Girl Utena''{{'}}s 1999 film sequel ''[[Adolescence of Utena]]''.<ref name="Akadot"/>
Be-Papas disbanded following the release of ''Adolescence of Utena'', but remained in existence as a corporate entity until at least 2001 to publish several projects created by its former members, specifically Ikuhara and [[Mamoru Nagano]]'s 1999 novel series ''[[Schell Bullet]]'', Hasegawa and Enokido's 1999 serialized [[light novel]] ''Shounen Ou'', and Ikuhara and Saito's 2001 manga series ''[[World of the S&M]]'' (released in English as ''The World Exists for Me'').<ref name="Akadot"/><ref name="SM"/>
==References==
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<ref name="Animage">{{cite journal |author=Animage Editorial Department |title=ウテナ白書 |trans-title=Utena Dossier |journal=[[Animage|Animage Extra]] |date=June 1997b |volume=6 |page=5 |language=ja}}</ref>
<ref name="Akadot">{{cite journal |last1=Yamashita |first1=Shizuki |title=Kunihiko Ikuhara Discusses "Utena," the Future, and Moving to Los Angeles |journal=Akadot |date=2001 |url=https://ohtori.nu/creators/a_america.html }}</ref>
<ref name=SM>{{cite web
|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-08-15/new-manga-from-utena-colaborator
|title=  New Manga from Utena {{sic|Colaborator|nolink=y}}
|date= August 15, 2001
|work= [[Anime News Network]]
|access-date= February 3, 2019
}}</ref>
}}
==External links==
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[[Category:1996 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Japanese artist groups and collectives]]
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