Ghost Hunt (novel series)
| Ghost Hunt (novel series) | |
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| Genre | Shōjo, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural |
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| Created by | Fuyumi Ono (Original Novel), Shiho Inada (Original Manga) |
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| Written by | Fuyumi Ono |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shiho Inada |
| Published by |  Kodansha  Del Rey Manga  Bongkoch Comics  Tanoshimi |
| Anime | |
| Directed by | Rei Mano |
| Studio | J.C. Staff |
Ghost Hunt (ゴーストハント, gōsuto hanto) was originally a Japanese novel series created by Fuyumi Ono. It was converted by Shiho Inada to a shōjo manga series. Currently it runs in the shōjo magazine Nakayoshi, published by Kodansha. An anime based on manga by J.C. Staff premiered on October 3rd, 2006.
Story
Ghost Hunt follows the adventures of Kazuya Shibuya, the president of the Shibuya Psychic Research Center (SPR) and Mai Taniyama, a first year high school student. When Mai and her friends try to attract spirits at a creepy and decrepit high school building, they find that none of the rumoured ghosts appear.
Instead, Mai and her friends meet Shibuya, the owner of Shibuya Psychic Research, who has been hired to investigate paranormal activity at the school. When Mai accidentally injures the leg of Shibuya's assistent, she reluctantly takes up a part-time job at the company. Unfortunately, Mai has feelings for Shibuya. Along with Shibuya's assistant, Lin, the SPR also finds itself assisted by various spirit mediums and exorcists.
Characters
- Mai Taniyama (谷山 麻衣, Taniyama Mai)
- Seiyuu: Kaori Nazuka
- Age: 16
- A first year high school student who has to take up a job at the SPR to work off a debt. She openly dislikes Shibuya for his egotistical attitude, but she seems to be harboring romantic feelings for him which manifests in dreams with him smiling and supporting her. Naru has recently determined that she has ESP abilities through a test (although she did the complete opposite of what she was told to do, instead of predicting which light would light up, she predicted which wouldn't, and has a miss rate of 1000/1000). Naru refers to her abilities as "latent sensitivity", which include her dreams acting as a form of pre-cognition and her seeming clairvoyance, akin to an animal's ability to instinctively detect danger. In recent episodes, Mai has also experienced 'out of body' movement, when she gave the key to her old home to Masako while she was dreaming.
- Kazuya Shibuya (渋谷 一也, Shibuya Kazuya)
- Seiyuu: Yuuki Tai
- Age: 17
- A paranormal researcher and the handsome 17 year-old president of the SPR. His nickname "Naru-chan" is short for "narcissist", given to him by Mai. Contrary to the other characters, he does not possess any kind of spiritual power, and must count on his companions' abilites and his own intellect and knowledge to solve the cases they investigate. It is later revealed that Shibuya is an extremely powerful psychic, but using it takes a toll on his body because it is difficult to control and can only be used as raw power. Though appearing cold and critical in front of his friends, he does care for them deeply especially Mai.
- Koujo Lin (林 興徐, Rin Kōjo)
- Seiyuu: Ken Narita
- Age: ?
- Originally from Hong Kong. Shibuya's calm and taciturn assistant who rarely speaks more than he needs to. He seems to get most of the unpleasant jobs, and works through the night. He appears to be an onmyoji and has a wide range of paranormal skills from exorcism to summoning spirit familiars. He acts as Shibuya's guardian in the place of Shibuya's parents, who are professors of paranormal research and has been apparently sent by them to observe Shibuya, although what this means is unknown at present.
- Houshou Takigawa (滝川 法生, Takigawa Hōshō)
- Seiyuu: Kenji Hamada
- Age: 24-25
- A Buddhist monk from Mt. Koya, who is also a bass musician. He considers monk as a side job, while playing in a band is his real profession. He usually acts as a brotherly figure to Mai, but does ask Mai out on a date when she becomes jealous of Naru going on a date with Masako at the end of episode 11. He is one of the more powerful members of the group and usually with the most effective abilities against ghosts. The others refer to him as "Bou-san" (Monk-san).
- Ayako Matsuzaki ([松崎 綾子 Matsuzaki Ayako] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help))
- Seiyuu: Masami Suzuki
- Age: 23
- An outspoken self-styled Shinto miko priestess, given that she was not raised in a shrine and is actually the daughter of a wealthy doctor who owns a community hospital. She is confident and proud of her abilities, though her attempts to demonstrate them have almost always fallen short. To her credit, she did teach Mai some defensive sutras, particularly the standard Shinto exorcism incantation, "Rin pyou tou sha kai jin retsu sai zen". It is later revealed that she is actually just as strong as Bou-san, but apparently only works well under certain conditions and is capable of hearing the spirits of trees. A running joke is that at the beginning of a new case, Ayako usually claims the incident is caused by an elemental earth spirit.
- John Brown (ジョン・ブラウン, John Brown)
- Seiyuu: Nobuhiko Okamoto
- Age: 19
- A nineteen year old Australian exorcist priest who speaks Japanese with a Kansai accent. Good-natured and helpful, he helps Mai and Naru however he can.
- Masako Hara (原 真砂子, Hara Masako)
- Seiyuu: Rie Kugimiya
- Age: 16
- A spirit medium with a popular television show and the ability the speak to the dead. A young girl who resembles a Japanese doll because she is always wearing a kimono. She seems to have romantic feelings towards Naru and appears to have the upper hand in winning his affections compared to Mai, although she is jealous of how casual and free Naru is when dealing with Mai.
- Osamu Yasuhara (安原 修, Yasuhara Osamu)
- Seiyuu: Kousuke Okano
- Age: 17
- A 3rd year high school student and his president of his school's student council. Yasuhara first appears during incident involving a curse at his school during File 6. When the case is solved, he continues to help out the SPR in what ever ways he can, such as impersonating Kazuya Shibuya at the request of Naru and performing research when the others are occupied. He has no psychic powers of his own. He is planning to attend university and has passed his entrance exams.
Episodes
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