![]() ![]() ![]() Although this view doesn’t mean that a series cannot have its share of bizarreness or fair share of creepy imagery, on a closer look, the intention is not to scare you but to argument something else in the text. The first norm would be the romantic-melancholic view of supernatural phenomena. While I won’t get into these implications directly, the two norms stem from the idea that spirits whose motivation to stick around want to pass over are good while the ones who had a gruesome death or had been unlawful in life, will be cursed to seek revenge. The Japanese conscious has a lot of religious implications regarding life after death that come directly from Buddhism and/or Shintoism. I know that Japanese don’t see ghosts the same way we, westerners see ghosts. The series tries hard not to get too campy or to use the ghosts as a norm to advance the story.īut what is the norm? To me, there are two ways in which ghosts are represented in anime I call it, “the two norms” short for “the two normal representations of ghosts.” It combines the lingo of the paranormal research with creepy imagery and sad stories. If there is one thing I liked Ghost Hunt the most, was the fact that it distances itself from other anime that features ghosts. It was not a bad ending by any means and I am sure I was not clouded by my desire for the main characters to end up together ok, maybe a little, but even then, I shouldn’t have been that disappointed with the entirety of the plot.Īnd so, this essay we will revise why Ghost Hunt is a good series and why the ending of the manga took all that mysticism, the series worked hard for, away. Yet, there I was once again, squirming in disappointment. On the final chapter of the manga, the answers to the puzzles made absolute, irrefutable sense on a second watch this week, the signs spread during the series became a lot more obvious. If the anime series ended in such a high note, the manga should be better, right? The manga should become scarier and scarier with each other chapter to maintain that hight, right? The series ends just before the final most important case of the Shibuya Psychic Research has because if there was something the series did elegantly was the foundation of the big great underlying mystery and center of the series: who or what is Naru? And, why Mai was dragged to the group? When I finished the series, I understood why it had the fame it had: It was a good series, but more than that, Ghost Hunt The Animation was an incomplete project. Although the scary factor really blew up in “Case File 7” and in some moments in “Case File 8,” those arcs are not representative of the series as a whole in fact I would say that those are the two highlights. I didn’t understand what was so special about the series that made people recommend it so much to call it “one of the best horror anime.” Overall, the series is well balanced between the paranormal, the comedy and the sad moments it was okay. ![]() In the beginning, Ghost Hunt wasn’t that impressive to me it wasn’t a scary series or psychologically terrifying as it was sold on many review sites. Being a horror fan myself, the title didn’t give me much hope knowing that there were other titles with the same premise but with bad execution (Ghost Stories.)
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