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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Anime Review: Ghost Hunt


The story revolves around Mai Taniyama, a normal high school student who likes to stay behind after classes and tell ghost stories with her friends. One day a mysterious guy appears, Kazuya Shibuya, asking them about an old abandoned school building. And when she accidently injures his assistant she gets pulled into a scary ghost hunting adventure, which eventually leads to a permanent job as an assistant for Shibuya Psychic Research center (SPR for short).

Ghost Hunt is just... Amazing! Half of the time it'll have you pinned to your seat in fear and the other half you'll be laughing more that you have ever laughed before! But it's not something for the fainthearted, and I found that out the hard way...

It's now time to say goodbye to all of you who has been even slightly considering to watch this anime, cause I really recommend you to watch it, thou it's not particularly long (only 25 episodes), but please don't ruin an amazing anime before watching it, just go watch it, okay?

*SPOILER ALERT* and don't say I didn't warn you...

I thought I should clarify this beforehand, just so you know what I’m talking about. Otherwise it might become very confusing for all of you who are reading this but haven’t watched the series, and probably many of you who have watched it as well.

The anime is sort of divided into 6, 7 or 8 parts, depending on how you want to count, but I usually count 6, meaning the bigger and longer "chapters" or cases. Then there are two small cases, more like filler ones, one is one episode long and one is two, and you could count them as two parts, one filler part or just as a break between the two scariest parts of the entire anime.

I totally love all the parts of this Anime, either because of the comedy in them, or that you start to get to know Naru's (Kazuya's) feelings and personality more, or just simply because of how amazingly scary it is. It has none of that grossing out, I feel like throwing up, sort of scary. It has the heart racing, adrenaline rush, want to scream out loud kind of scary. And it’s so well done it sent shrills down my spine, a lot. I can’t even hear the opening theme anymore, it just creeps me out. A lot of the horror anime that I've seen has been playing a bit too much, or completely, on the grossing out scary, which I either find kind of boring, or really sickening, depending on the storyline. So I really like the fact that this anime is very clean, and almost blood free.

Part 1 and part 5 are probably my favorite parts, if I had to choose. Part 1 because it’s the first case, and you get to know all the important characters in this part (not Lin thou, since he’s in the hospital almost the entire part…), and it’s also probably one of the funniest parts. Even thou it is perfectly creepy and scary for introducing a horror anime this good, there is some comedy woven into it with all its mismatching characters, but it doesn’t take away anything from the scariness of the plot.

I love part 5 because of its absolute creepiness, and there is no getting around the fact that this part was the scariest one of them all, even thou it didn't appear to be in the beginning, and it pretty much had me holding my breath the entire time I watched it (the second and third time as well…). It has a weird eerie feeling from beginning to end, from the moment they stepped into that creepy house you just couldn’t relax. And that house itself would probably be enough to freak anyone out, and what’s going on in there is just… Ugh, it sends shrills down my spine just thinking about it.

The part I liked the least was definitely part 6, and I was seriously disappointed by that one. In the previous parts the cases had become freakier and freakier (not counting the fillers/mini parts), so I was really looking forward to seeing how they were going to top part 5, which were amazing. And in comes ----- zombies? Seriously? There were rotting corpses attacking them (thou, there zombies wasn’t the brain eating kind, but still, they were zombies). Yes, the part was sick and twisted, but it wasn’t scary at all. If it hadn’t followed the amazing part 5, and if it hadn’t been the last part of the anime, I think this part could have been kind of good. And I also don’t think they shouldn't have introduced it the way they did, it made you believe it would be much better than it actually was. But it was good in the sense that you get to know Ayako a bit better, and she finally gets to be a deciding factor in a case. And you also get to know the mysterious Naru and Lin a bit better, and Naru’s feelings towards Mai starts to become more obvious, so that’s a good thig as well. Thou, Naru isn’t in this part as much as he usually is, since he was unconscious pretty much the entire part.

Another minus is that it ends in the middle of, like, everything. Part 6 ends and that’s it. No ending AT ALL, and it’s just when you start to get to know the main characters on a deeper level too. *Sad and pouting*. But I'm definitely reading the manga (to begin with, may read the light novel as well), they will definitely cover more ground than the anime does.

And I’ll tell you again, this anime is probably as close to perfect as you could ever come, it's intriguing, scary and you'll be on the edge of your seat pretty much the entire time, and then there is the bits and pieces of comedy and drama that shines through at times, and have you laughing so hard you can hardly believe that you just a couple of seconds ago was so scared you thought your heart would jump out of your chest and that you were fighting the reflex to scream! It is so amazing!


*Links*

Want know more about this Anime? Go to;
http://myanimelist.net/anime/1571/Ghost_Hunt

Want to watch it? Go to;
http://www.animefreak.tv/watch/ghost-hunt-online

~Rosey

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