Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Akuryou ga Ippai, Ghost-Hunt, The Ghost Hunt Japanese: ゴーストハント
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 12
Chapters: 57
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 7, 1998 to Sep 30, 2010
StatisticsScore: 8.381 (scored by 2018 users)
Ranked: #2562
Popularity: #556
Members: 4,587
Favorites: 234 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisThe decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try to tear it down, "accidents" start to happen-people get hurt, sometimes even killed. Mai Taniyama and her classmates have heard the rumors that the creepy old high school is haunted-possibly by ghosts from the Second World War. So one rainy day they gather at the told school to tell ghost stories, hoping to attract one of the suspected spirits.
No ghosts materialize, but Mai and her friends do meet Kazuya Shibuya, the handsome young owner of Shibuya Psychic Research, who's been hired to investigate paranormal activity at the school. Also at the scene are an exorcist, a Buddhist monk, a woman who can speak with the dead, and an outspoken Shinto priestess. Surely one of them will have the talents to solve this mystery! (Source: Del Rey) |
Related MangaAlternative version: Akuryou Series
Adaptation: Ghost Hunt
Sequel: Akumu no Sumu Ie: Ghost Hunt
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InformationGeek
23 of 29 people found this review helpful
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38 of 57 chapters read
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Art |
8 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
Ghost Hunt is one of two shojo mangas I read, the other being Card Captor Sakura. This is also the only series I read that I never heard about from anywhere and just grabbed it off the selves to buy it without even knowing it. I was quite surprise by my choice and found this a very interesting series to read.
Story:
Well… there isn’t much of a story to say the least. The first three volumes contain separate stories about the main heroine’s group investigating a mysterious force in a certain place. Then the next 6 volumes contain three stories separated into two volumes a piece. The last three stories are very good and are for sure to get your attention.
This series is also a bit confusing to follow at some points since the characters go into a lot of detail about certain things that relate to the case. I mean the explanation is good, but it hard to understand at some points.
Art:
This story has an interesting art style. There isn’t a lot of detail that goes into background and the world around the characters. There is a lot of white in most of the buildings in the story so it is somewhat bland. There characters design are nice, I don’t read a lot of shojo as mention, so the art style is a lot more interesting to me than most of the shonen titles I read.
But the best art design in the story is when we get into the supernatural experiences and the strange entities that make up the story. Everything is very cool and amazingly unquie.
Character:
As with most shojo titles (That I heard about), we get our female lead and the boy she most likely has a crush on. The female lead is a character that I can sometimes relate to is and can put out a few sweet and funny moments. The boy character is easily a narcissist, he is even nicknamed Naru because of this, that has a good heart deep down that we see as the story later unfolds. Then we are introduced to the rest of the team that will be helping along with the psychic investigation. At first, we don’t get a lot of information about this people, but the story slowly introduces new things about our characters that we can relate to and understand.
Enjoyment:
This series is a bit complicated to read and reread over and over again since it is kind of difficult to understand at some points, but if you are able to over look these problems. Supernatural fans will get a good kick out of this and boys should be able to enjoy this series even though it is intended for girls.
Overall:
This story provides a group of smaller stories within this large one that are always interesting and make you wonder. The art style is interesting and the characters are neat as well. I give this series an 8, but it is almost a 7 too. If you want to read an intelligent story about a group of people who battle against the supernatural in real world settings, jump to it!
This series contains supernatural violence and blood & gore. If you don’t like this stuff, it is best to move on.
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Doc1513
8 of 16 people found this review helpful
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57 chapters
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
9 |
| Art |
8 |
| Character |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
Well you see Ghost Hunt is a great manga version of its novel.
The characters in their different circumstances, leading to a great overally manga. It shows the great adaptation ability of Shiho Inada. The manga has an exciting storyline. With great laughs and very good artistic drawings, for readers of the original novel version will find the characters' refreshing. While new readers to the manga version enjoy the great comical, adventurous, and great twist and turns of it all. Also don't be shocked at the chapter order in Ghost Hunt. Since the newer manga version has no actual set "Chapters". It's exciting having a new spin on the manga world with this manga.
Overall this manga gets my apporval of something worth reading!
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Fans of supernatural, shojo, mystery manga will probably enjoy both Yurara and Ghost Hunt. Ghost Hunt follows Mai Taniyama, a highschool student who works a part time job at the Shibuya Psychic Research (SPR), helping to solve mysteries involving supernatural occurrences. Yurara follows another supernaturally sensitive high school girl, Yurara Tsukinowa. Yurara has the ability to see ghosts and often encounters them at her school. Unlike Yurara, where we're told who the ghost is almost immediately, Ghost Hunt often waits until at least a third of the way into the chapter or volume to reveal the perpetrator. Both Yurara and Ghost Hunt deal with girls with slight ESP and involve exorcising ghosts. The Ghost Hunt manga and anime are excellent, as is the Yurara manga.
Both are about exorcising ghosts and the main female character getting involved in it
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Both are mysteries involving the ghosts, a normal girl and a guy with special abilities and a difficult temper. Plus, both are really good.
Both stories revolve around solving mysteries and meeting the supernatural along the way. Saitou also reminds me a lot of Naru. They both investigate & try to solve mysteries involving ghosts. I definitely recommend reading both.
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