Ranked #256

Ghost Hunt (Manga)

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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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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This is a great manga, because of it's balance between typical shoujo elements (romance, chibi moments...) and mystery.

The manga has a episodic format, so if you prefer one smooth story line than this might not be for you. However, each of the story arcs, which is usually covered by several chapters, is very well put together and thought out. The mystery element is strong, where as the horror element is not. Horror can easily make me squeamish, but there's nothing bone chilling in here. There is some blood and random popping up of ghosts (but that is to be expected from the title I think). Each arc is basically a team of different kinds of 'ghost hunters' trying to solve some sort of ghost related problem and figure out why weird events are taking place.

The art isn't amazing, but it is somewhat likable, and does not in anyway hinder the story. (Expect large shoujo eyes and pretty looking characters).

The characters are very likable, though most of them do lack some depth. Details about these characters seem to be drawn rather reluctantly from the author, but that could just be because it is a work in progress, or because it is in the mystery genre...The protagonists are a high school girl (whose point of view we see the story from), and a young paranormal researcher who has a lot of fancy equipment, his own research center and is very self-centered. Other characters include and an atypical monk and a miko, a young priest, a spiritual medium, and a mysterious assistant. read more

I became interested in this manga purely as a fan of Twelve Kingdoms and wanted to see what other things Fuyumi Ono had created. I've just finished reading Ghost Hunt and I guess I'm left pretty disappointed. Unlike Twelve Kingdoms, I felt there was little to no character development. Up until the very last volume, the manga is purely episodic stories with only the vaguest of callbacks from case to case. Even the characters themselves finally realize in the final volume that they know absolutely nothing about the people they have been working with for presumably months.

When an actual plot did emerge, I thought it was engaging and really well developed. Really, if the entire story had been like volume 12, I would have given this an 8 or 9. But after slogging through 11 volumes (honestly, around volume 3 or 4 I almost just gave up), we've only just finally learning some depth to the characters, but by now it's hard to even care.

So I guess, if you were like me and are now reading this review because you can't decide whether its worth it to continue, skip right to the very last volume as anything you could possibly miss is going to be summarized again for you anyway. Heck, you could probably just read volumes 1 and 12 and have a better experience than I did. read more