Anime: good for what ails ya

I’m back!  Sort of.  I was going to blog a bit last week and thought I’d have the perfect chance when I stayed home from work for three days after getting sick but… I was too sick.  Unsurprisingly I spent all three days in bed trying to read or breathe and had a total lack of interest in my computer.  :)  One thing I DID manage to do was have a Ghost Hunt anime marathon – 17 episodes all at once.  Not hard to do since I was bed-ridden anyway.   (I didn’t even manage to get any manga read, grumble grumble)

I ended up really enjoying Ghost Hunt.  There were few surprises since it matches the manga very closely, but the animation is great and the voices worked really well for me.   Well, Mai was occasionally annoying but that’s because if there was any screaming or shouting to be done it was usually her.  I can’t say whether I prefer the manga or the anime – I read the manga first so there wasn’t much suspense for me while watching.  However!  There were some genuinely creepy/freaky moments, and I think those worked better as animation.  The chills aren’t quite the same without motion, sound and timing somehow. 

Creepy creepy ghost children are spying on Mai.