"Ghost Hunt" (2006) TV series

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Drama | Horror | Mystery

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 2 of 9)

Todd Haberkorn	...	Kazuya Shibuya (25 episodes, 2006-2007)
Cherami Leigh	...	Mai Taniyama (25 episodes, 2006-2007)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:18

Company:

J.C. Staff

Ghostly animation

I thought this looked as if it might be worth watching when I saw that Funimation had it on their YouTube channel. While it wasn't the best anime series I've seen it was still entertaining and I'm glad I gave it a go. The series was made up of eight individual stories which varied in length from one to four episodes.

The main character is Mai Taniyama, a sixteen year old orphan who ends up helping Kazuya Shibuya, who she calls Naru because of his narcissism, with his paranormal research. This typically involves being called in to a haunted site and discovering what is the cause of the problems them exorcising any malevolent spirits. They are assisted by a catholic priest, a TV spiritualist, a Buddhist monk and a Shinto shrine maiden, these people aren't officially part of the team but are either called in for help or just volunteer their help.

While I didn't find the stories particularly scary they were entertaining and one of them managed to be quite sad... in a good way. I liked the characters who each brought something to the story, the animation looked good and the voices sounded good to me although I admit not understanding Japanese but having to read the subtitles.