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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: GHOST HUNT - S.1.P.1 (DVD)
EAN: 0704400079108
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Funimation Prod
Manufacturer: Funimation Prod
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Funimation Prod
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 325 minutes
Sales Rank: 12469
Studio: Funimation Prod
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Description:
The Dead Have Something to Say....
The appeal of the unknown is undeniable and freshman Mai Taniyama is hooked. This fact, coupled with her burgeoning psychic powers, leads Mai to join the ranks of the Shibuya Psychic Research team. Led by enigmatic Kazuya 'Naru' Shibuya, she works alongside a spirit medium and a shrine maiden, an exorcist and a monk to uncover the darkest mysteries of the unseen. Using state of the art technology and their respective spiritual gifts, evil is confronted and vanquished time and again.
DVD Extras include: Ghost Hunt Manga Pages from Del Rey Character Case Files Image Gallery Textless Opening Trailers
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Mai Taniyama, the heroine of the supernatural adventure Ghost Hunt (2006), thinks of herself as an ordinary high-school freshman who enjoys telling ghost stories with her friends--until she meets Kazuya 'Naru' Shibuya. A handsome, poised senior, he runs his own company: Shibuya Psychic Research. Mai becomes Naru's assistant, helping to uncover what lies behind unexplained happenings in an abandoned building, a luxurious home, a seemingly normal high school. Glass shatters, furniture moves, things go bump in the night. Some of these actions are caused by humans, others by ghosts and poltergeists. Mai and Naru are assisted in the ghost-busting business by an argumentative supporting cast that includes John Brown, a teenage Catholic priest from Australia; Ayako Matsuzaki, a Shinto shrine maiden who's getting a little long in the tooth; Houshou Takigawa, a Buddhist monk turned rock bassist; Tao master Lin Koujo, Naru's taciturn second-in-command; and Masako Hara, a TV psychic. They perform an ecumenical assortment of exorcisms and purification rituals that rarely do much good. Mai discounts her own psychic abilities, but her vivid dreams often reveal the key to the mystery. Those dreams are also the one place where Naru becomes the warm and gentle boy she'd like him to be, rather than the arrogant, often rude guy he is in real life. Ghost Hunt is a agreeable, light-hearted fantasy that plays on suspense and character interaction, rather than violence and gore. (Rated TV 14, but suitable for viewers two to three years younger: minor violence, scarey imagery, possibly offensive religious imagery) --Charles Solomon
(1. Evil Spirits All Over ?! Part 1, 2. Evil Spirits All Over ?! Part 2, 3. Evil Spirits All Over ?! Part 3, 4. The Doll House, Part 1, 5. The Doll House, Part 2, 6. The Doll House, Part 3, 7. The After School Hexer, Part 1, 8. The After School Hexer, Part 2, 9. The After School Hexer, Part 3, 10. The After School Hexer, Part 4, 11. Ghost Story in the Park?! 12. Silent Christmas, Part 1, 13. Silent Christmas, Part 2)
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Rating:  - A Halloween Treat
What do you get when you cross Fruits Basket with Most Haunted? The answer is this rather conventional but nevertheless delightful shoujo series.
Mai Taniyama is a typical teenage girl save for the fact that her school is apparently haunted. Enter Kazuya Shibuya, a paranormal investigator whom she quickly nicknames Naru - as in "The Narcissist" due to his seemingly rather high opinion of himself - and his taciturn assistant Lin Koujo. When Mai inadvertently becomes partly responsible for an accident that temporarily incapacitates Lin, Naru asks her to step in until Lin is back on his feet, and in spite of her initial opinion of him Naru has enough good qualities that Mai starts crushing on him.
The pair are soon joined by four additional freelancers - Masako Hara, an eccentric celebrity medium whose most important function is to usually do the inital sweep of the target area to get initial impressions and, because this is shoujo we're talking about here, provides Mai's likely competition for Naru; Hip, fun Houshou "Monk" Takigawa, who in spite of his nickname ultimately declined to take up the monastic life but is nevertheless fully qualified to perform Buddhist rituals, with whom Mai develops an affectionate big brother/kid sister rapport; vixenish Shinto priestess Ayako Matsuzaki, whose vanity makes her the frequent subject of Monk's good-natured teasing; and last but not least kindly Father John Brown, a Catholic priest newly arrived from Australia (and considering ... Read More
Rating:  - Ghost Hunt - A good writer meets a good idea for a good time.
If you are a fan of anime, there is no question you should be buying this DVD thin-pack set! If you're just curious, this is a great starter set!
Ghost Hunt is impressive because it manages to honour the often clever manga that inspired the title. The characters are engaging. There are nods to what could be considered 'anime by the playbook', that is, features you'll find generally in an anime (probably most grating of these is the Australian accent of John Brown, the young exorcist, but the character is actually useful and good at his job, so any irritation will pass). For the most part, it's odd how the use of formula seems different in Ghost Hunt than many other titles. This is due to the care taken by the writer of the manga, which is another good buy.
The ghost stories (often mysteries) are all entertaining; this isn't a run-of-the-mill 'one haunting per-episode will be resolved' title either. The team can be mistaken. They can be misled by conflicting evidence (even prodigy, Shibuya). Thus, one 'haunting' may take a few episodes to crack. Shibuya, founder of SPR (Shibuya Psychic Research), and his loosely aligned staff often need to figure out if the phenomenon is real, and if so, whether it's caused by a disturbed person, or some other and inexplicable force (or if someone is just plain-old cracking-up).
There are enlightened debates about the cause of what can seem to be a full-fledged haunting, too. The SPR 'base-camp' at a paranormal investigation site ... Read More
Rating: - Even Subbed I Still Love Ghost Hunt
So, this is the DVD made from the manga which was made from the original novel . . . confusing enough?
Actually, it's awesome. The character design is good, the Japanese voice acting is excellent, and the super-suspenseful music will make you want to run screaming from the room. At least if you're as big a chicken as I am.
The show itself reminds me of the X-Files with a bit of Scooby-Doo thrown in, as *utterly* bizarre as that sounds. Scooby-Doo because there's *some* humor between the characters (about half of which are still teenagers) and, well, they have a van and drive around to different locations solving mysteries. (Well, okay -- only Lin drives the van full of equipment, but the girls *are* prone to falling down wells and/or standing around flipping their hair.)
Ghost Hunt's overall vibe *mostly* reminds me of the X-Files because each case really is a mystery -- something's obviously going on, but what? Is it really supernatural? Is it an evil spirit? A curse? Or just an elaborate hoax? And this is largely Naru's job -- to walk around looking serious, collecting evidence, building theories and trying to come up with solutions. Everyone else is largely along to assist him, provide comic relief, and to run-screaming-in-terror/come-running-to-the-rescue when creepy things jump out and try to kill you. And since Naru-tachi manages to pick up a "self-proclaimed Miko", a celebrity medium, a Catholic priest/exorcist and a hot, bass playing, part-time Buddhist ... Read More
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