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Oh God, I don't even know where to start this messy clusterfuck of a show.

Long long ago while this show was still airing I've decided to watch it and dropped it several episodes hence. Several years afterwards when I finally got around to checking which animes I have watched, I saw this and thought "hey this seems good, why haven't I seen this before" which brings me here.

Oh God, where to start. For starters, there are the general actions of the bloody characters. The ... characters appear to walking three years old with the body of teenagers. They accept commands simply because and their idea of common sense are basically not there. Things like "I am doing sexual petting to cure MC's gynophobia"(which by the way, his ailment is not. A phobia is an irrational fear and our mc does not suffer fear from women, irrational or not) is straightforward stupid. It is bad enough when the butler does this because she is ordered to but when everyone else does is not reasonable in any way, ailments be damned. That stuff is something you do with a boyfriend, husband, whatever, not someone you just met some days ago and shit!

Then there's the harem situation. For most harem titles the heroines will flock to the mc because of coincidence, fate stuff because here. But in here the heroines get to fall for the mc because of the dumbest reasons. The first one, being the butler falls under the category of the basic harem coincidence and goes onward from there but the others include:
"I will use mc to make someone I like jealous yet I don't know that the person I like is actually a girl and somehow I fell in love with the mc in this scenario".
While the other is "I will pair the mc with someone else 'cause they totally look good together but I want to tease mr mc as well because reasons. But wait! Somehow I've managed to fall in love with him as well and now I'm stuck with having to mediate for this two people while here I am, in love with the other person because of my own machinations, oops".
Now doesn't that sound stupid. Well yes it is.

Then there's the scenarios that they get into. Why the hell would you think that the best cure for someone with fear of knives is do a pretend kidnapping? Oh, and lets throw in a knife wielding kidnapper in that scenario as well. On what universe does that seem to be the best answer to curing someone? Then there's the forgetting my only sibling's birthday and the I made my butler lose her job because I don't look where I walk yet I somehow magically swerved to go down the stairs. Well this is a comedy but come on, at least give your characters a brain at least.

The only good thing about this series is the art, which I will admit is pretty good, and the fanservice, if you look at shows just for them. I mean they made basically hentai screenshots in a non-hentai anime, so there's that.

Honestly this whole show is just plain fanservice pandering and stupid scenarios. It was a really painful drag to finish this show and I'm wondering how I finished it when I have dropped more interesting stuff.

Ghost Hunt is the closest anime has gone to truly being in the supernatural genre. Horror and the supernatural generally does not translate well in animated digital form simply because we already know from the start that is not real. There is simply a lack of mystery and eeriness that live action can easily produce hence the reason why anime of these kind rather goes to the mystery, thriller or romance path. It was a bold move on the part of the anime but the execution is only half decent.

The show is pretty good in executing how supernatural events occur and I applaud it ... for that, its biggest weakness (that being that this is an animated show) is turned into one of its strengths as it can be technical without losing out its appeal which is hard to do with this genre. In most supernatural titles the phenomenon could not be explained without the show losing some of its mystery element yet this show incorporating them only adds up to the supernatural appeal

Yet on the other hand this show from the start shows half skepticism towards the supernatural from the start. All the professionals aside from our main character Shibuya seems to be inept or impotent when faced with the supernatural and it is up to our supercompetent mc to fix things up.
The show goes technical into these phenomenon yet poorly handles how they are resolves and simply goes to the "the mc can solve it because" path. There are real world reasons (albeit whether the phenomenon themselves are true or not is up to the viewer) why certain things and actions, such as salt, garlic, certain words, holy water, kagura dances, etc. are used in performing spirit appeasement and exorcism yet by all means it appears to the viewer that all their work is extremely useless and the practitioners appear to be useless one trick ponies. It loses its touch with the supernatural when it approaches its resolution because using the "genius mc solves everything" one of the worst trope used in any form of entertainment.

As for the characters themselves, they are not very memorable which is neither a good or a bad thing for an unconventional anime like this where the theme is the main draw. Their interactions are hardly worth of praise so I'll leave it at that.

Overall this could have been a very great anime yet it half fails on the execution leaving it easily forgettable. If you want a new approach on the supernatural genre this is a good go but its half chewed approach on each case's' resolution means that you have to take it with a grain of salt.