Ghost Hunt

I was away from the Internet for a couple of days because i was stuck to the DVD player for quite some time ^^...pushing my courage to the limits and watching scary stories and anything else related from late until dawn. There are black rings around my eyes now and... it looks like i am turning into the horror movies ghouls myself!

My interest moved from Zachary Bagans (hee...hee...hee...) to the ANIME: GHOST HUNT. A girlie girlie, horror type - occult investigation series. In the series, the ghost hunter utilizes anything to get rid of ghost: Shinto Priestess, Buddhist Monks, Christian Priest, Omniyouji, Spirit Medium, Science...ANYTHING!

No Esper? No...

The rest of it i googled ^^...

Mai Taniyama is a 16 year-old orphan and first year high school student who becomes involved with the Shibuya Psychic Research center (SPR for short) after she accidentally breaks an expensive video camera that was being used by the SPR in an investigation of an old building at Mai's school. In the same incident, she is also saved from a falling bookcase by a man working for the SPR, Lin Koujo, who is injured instead; to repay her debt, she fills in for Lin as a part timer on the investigation, assisting the SPR's manager, Kazuya Shibuya. (It is later revealed that the camera was covered by insurance, and that Shibuya was happy for the help). After the conclusion of the first case, she is offered a paycheck for her work and a part-time position at the SPR. She refers to Shibuya as 'Naru' due to her perceiving him as narcissist.

As the series progresses, it is revealed that Mai has ESP abilities, which include postcognitive dreams and clairvoyance. Mai also demonstrates an instance of astral projection, when she gives Masako a key to comfort her after she is kidnapped by a monster. As she is still unfamiliar with her newly discovered powers, Mai is often not confident in her abilities and often does not disclose the full details of her dreams. In Mai's dreams, a person that appears to be Naru frequently appears to guide her. Additionally, the other members of the SPR teach her some useful techniques, which she utilizes in the series. She develops feelings for Naru as well as the other 'Naru' who appears in her dreams.

As the story progressed Mai character become more and more demanding and irritating to my liking. She constantly becomes to emotional to understand the logic of Naru's decision or actions for the last 3 cases...maybe the director want to intensified the drama in the anime so it will have a climatic ending but for me they are turning Mai into a wailing beeeechhh...sorrie ^^

Now, to sum up:

The best episodes for the series: The Bloodstained Labyrinth - so scary!

The best character in the series: If i am in a good mood: Naru If i'm not in the mood for Naru large ego: Monk!

Bad part of the show: 26 episodes dominated by the occurence of Wolf Fires and Curses! The ghost always originated from Wolf Spirit fires...which was too japanese and limits the story. They lack other ghostly labels such as Banshee's, Werewolves, Draculas, etc's

I will give it 5 out of 10. Now if you excuse me i need to pop in the Akibaranger CD's into the player ^^V