Taniyama Mai is your everyday high school student, who has the pastime of telling ghost stories with her friends. Much to her surprise, she meets a mysterious ghost hunter, Shibuya Kazuya, the 17 year old head of Shibuya Psychic Research, sent out to investigate strange phenomenon occurring in Mai's school. Accidentally interfering with their investigations, Mai unintentionally causes the injury of Shibuya's assistant, resulting in Shibuya demanding Mai herself to aid him in his investigations. Based on the novel by Fuyumi Ono and Shiho Inada.
General Info:
Episodes; 25.
Language; Japanese with English subs, English dubbed.
Review:
This is freaky, cute, and funny all at the same time. Of course, this may freak people out more or less than myself, but I only found a few of the cases skin-crawling creepy. What's nice about this anime is that they don't maintain the super heavy horror atmosphere at all times - the fill-in's between some cases and at the beginning and ending of the episodes are rather cute and funny.
I like the love-triangle between kimono girl (I can't remember her name), Mai, a Naru. I actually liked John and Monk as well, men wise anyways.
The discovery of Mai's powers throughout the show was interesting a freaky. I'll say now that the freakiest one to me was the second to last case with mansion. Just...shiver. I was watching this show until about 8:30 in the morning, and I literally could not stop watching because I had to know that it was solved. Ugh, but I love this feeling, so anyways it definitely provides that.
I'd like to mention the mystery solving horror bit is more prominent than the romance bit, in case your worried. It truly is creepy, I promise.
In the middle of the episodes there are a few comic relief ones - I believe it's episode 11. Also, 12 and 13 are also fairly light, but really sad. Poor Kenji! I was so sad at the end of it!
To be honest I don`t have much to say about this one, other than I enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend it if you liked to be creeped out.7
Also, compared to the written, the anime is much more beautiful. The dub is nicely done as well, though I did find Mai's voice slightly annoying when she was yelling.
Must Watch Episodes:
I liked file 7 "The Bloodstained Labyrinth" which is episodes 18 - 21. I also liked episode 11 "File 4: Ghost Story in the Park!?", and episodes 12 - 13 "File 5: Silent Christmas".
Rating:
I would give Ghost Hunt 4.5 out of 5 stars. * * * * ½*
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