Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Anime: Ghost Hunt

by Fuyumi Ono



Description: Ghost Hunt follows the adventures of Kazuya Shibuya, the president of the Shibuya Physic Research Center (SPR) and Mai Taniyama, a first year school student. When Mai and her friends to attract spirits at a creepy and decrepit high school building, they find that none of the rumoured ghosts appear.

Mai Taniyama
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 accidently breaks some of Shibuya's expensive equipment, she reluctantly takes up a part-time job at the company to pay it. Unfortunately, Mai and Shibuya do not get along at all.

Kazuya Shibuya

Along with Shibuya's assistant, Lin, the SPR also finds itself assisted by various spirit mediums and exorcists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Hunt
Official Website: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/ghosthunt/

I like the anime, because it's creepy!! It started with this girl call Mai who loves telling ghost story. One day, she passed by a known haunted building in her school and saw a video camera in the middle of the room. Curious, she decided to check out and accidentally spoil and camera and caused injury to the owner of the camera. The owner turned out to be an assistant of ghost hunter. The ghost hunter was the handsome senior, Kazuya Shibuya, she met in school earlier the day. He was actually the president of the SPR. He had been assigned to the school to investigate the haunted building. With the camera destroyed and his assistant injured, Kazuya made her compensate by being his assistant in the case. Her job scope was mainly to carry things around, setting up things and attending to Kazuya's order. Mai found Kazuya a true narcissist and call him "Naru-chan" is short. Mai sticked around and continue to be Naru-chan's assistant in future ghost haunting assignments.

21 December 2006:
The second case (Ep 3-6) was very scary.. It happened in a big house. The owner of the house report that the things were being moved by themselves. Kazuya Shibuya was called to investigate the case. After a few unnatural incidents, the team realised that the house was haunted by spirits of many children unable to leave. From research, it was discovered that the history of the house had many incidents whereby children around 8 years old died in the house. The little girl called Ayami now living in the house was caught talking to her doll, Minnie. After questioning, she finally admitted that Minnie started to talk to her the moment she moved into the house. When the team tried to burn the doll, the doll came out undamaged. It was only after John Brown, the Australia Priest exorcised the doll that it was finally managed to be burn to ash. The children ghosts were trapped by a woman ghost who killed herself after losing her only daughter. She jumped into a well. The well was where the current living room of the house was. Kazuya Shibuya finally used use a paper effigy representing the daughter of the ghost to purify her spirit. All the children spirits were finally free to leave the house. Houshou Takigawa, called him an Onmyouji (It was explained in the anime that an Onmyouji, a system for divination and for dealing with paranormal that blossomed during the Heian Period (circa 800 C.E.)). What Kazuya Shibuya did was, he used a piece of wood as a paper effigy. Wood was the original form of paper effigy used for curses. A Paulownia wood was curved into the shape of the person whom the spell will be put on, then write the name and birthdate of the person on the wood. Most people will believe that such method was a curse spell, but the anime explained that there are black and white spells. White spell helps people while black spell harm people. It is common that both black and white spell use the same spell. Paper effigies are vessel for holding a soul. Damaging the paper effigies will hurt the person it represented.

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