History Literature / GhostHunt

** Subverted [[spoiler:in the future as WordOfGod stated that Mai and Naru are/will be canon,meaning she eventually gets over Gene. Except the author isn't going to show how they get together or write an ending with them coming together as she doesn't do "happy endings"]].

* CerberusSyndrome: A mild case. While the series never quite loses its comedic tone, it does slowly transition from cases like a lonely girl with latent ESP to an angry god that uses tortured spirits as its puppets, actually killing two people during said case.

* [[spoiler: CharacterNameAlias]]: [[spoiler: Naru. In the final volume of the manga, SPR discovers that "Shibuya Kazuya" is apparently only an alias for Oliver Davis, a famous British parapsychologist]].

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* {{Onmyodo}}: Lin is revealed to have this ability.

** The arc before that may be scarier, as it involved a HumanoidAbomination who UsedToBeAMan in a haunted house stalking the characters, actually killing 3 people and almost killing Mai and Masako before the arc is over. Also, unlike the angry god which the cast tried to exorcise, this monster cannot be exorcised, and the team didn't even try. It's only destroyed when the whole house was burned to the ground.

* [[spoiler: AnchoredShip]]: In the last story [[spoiler: Mai discovers the loving Naru she's been psychically dating in her dreams is actually the ghost of Naru's twin brother, Gene. After Gene's spirit is laid to rest, Mai confusedly attempts to tell Naru that she likes him, but Naru politely points out that the one she and perhaps, Masako, really loved was Gene.]]
** Subverted[[spoiler: In the future as WordOfGod stated that Mai and Naru are/will be canon,meaning she eventually gets over Gene, except she isn't going to show how they get together or write an ending with them coming together as she doesn't do "happy endings"]]

* {{Expy}}: C'mon, when you first see [[{{TheStoic}} Lin]] tell me you ''don't'' think of [[{{FruitsBasket}} Hatori Sohma]]!

** Subeverted[[ In the future as WordOfGod stated that Mai and Naru are/will be canon,meaning she eventually gets over Gene, except she isn't going to show how they get together or write an ending with them coming together as she doesn't do "happy endings"]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor: The dub voice actors for Monk and Ayako are [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Roy and Riza]].
** Not to mention that the dub voice actors for Naru and Mai are [[KeroroGunsou Keroro and Natsumi]].

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Eugene Davis.]] During an investigation in Japan, he was run over by a car as he was crossing a road. [[spoiler: However, he was still alive. Apparently, what actually killed him was when the female driver panicked and threw his body in a nearby lake, thereby drowning him]], all by accident. This results to Naru, who was [[spoiler: Gene's younger twin brother]], becoming the [[spoiler: AngstySurvivingTwin.]]

* AllMythsAreTrue: Among the main cast are a Shinto Miko, a Buddhist Monk and a Catholic Priest who successfully use rituals from their respective religions to interact with spirits and perform exorcisms.

* [[spoiler: AnchoredShip]]: In the last story [[spoiler: Mai discovers the loving Naru she's been psychically dating in her dreams is actually the ghost of Naru's twin brother, Gene. After Gene's spirit is laid to rest, Mai confusedly attempts to tell Naru that she likes him, but Naru politely points out that the one she really loved was Gene.]]

** [[spoiler: Mai also starts to count.]]

* HiddenBadass: Monk. You start to get a hint of how powerful he is in the last arc of the anime [[spoiler: and in the following arc (manga only right now), Naru gets a close look at his vajra and decides that he's been underestimating Monk.]]

** Ayako probably qualifies as well. She's rude or condescending several times, and seems to enjoy provoking the other members of the team. However, she also has several moments of being sincerely sweet and caring.

* [[MultinationalTeam Multidisciplinary Team]]: We have a [[ISeeDeadPeople Medium]], a Shinto Miko, an Onmyodo, a Catholic [[BadassPreacher priest]], a Buddhist Monk, a girl with PsychicPowers, and Naru. It's too many people for it to be the setup to a joke so it got turned into an anime.

* OlderThanTheyLook: John. When Mai met the nineteen-year-old priest, she initially assumed him to be as young as ''twelve''.

* YouGetMeCoffee: Mai's occasionally on the receiving end of this joke.

* TeamDad: Mai likens Monk to this at the beginning of the Forgotten Children manga-arc. [[spoiler: as they're getting Naru discharged from the hospital after the Cursed House.]]

* CerberusSyndrome: A mild case. While the series never quite loses its comedic tone, and you would be hard-pressed to find a person who actually considers it scary, it does slowly transition from cases like a lonely girl with latent ESP to an angry god that uses tortured spirits as its puppets, actually killing two people during said case.

* AdultFear: The "The Doll House" File. It turns out that the ghost haunting the house [[spoiler: was a distraught mother who committed suicide after her daughter was abducted, and continues to search for her in death, causing the deaths of other children living in the home. It is implied that the abductor may have killed the child, but it is never actually confirmed]]. Also, [[spoiler:the little girl currently living in the home is feared to have drowned, but luckily nothing bad ever happened]].
[[spoiler:In the anime, it's stated Tomiko's body was found in the pond.]]

* BetterThanItSoundsAnime

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* BloodBath: Based on both the Elizabeth Bathory legend and Vlad the Impaler, one of the scariest villains was a Japanese Lord who bathed in the blood of numerous servants in the hope of extending his life and took up the moniker "Urado" (Vlad).

* ShownTheirWork: When mentioning vampires, Naru mentioned the difference between Bram Stoker's Dracula versus Vlad the Impaler. Even mentions Elizabeth Bathory as the one who is actually associated with blood.

* HiddenBadass: Monk. You start to get a hint of how powerful he is in the last arc of the anime [[spoiler: and in the following arc(manga only right now), Naru gets a close look at his vajra and decides that he's been underestimating Monk.]]

* NotAMorningPerson: Naru [[spoiler: He slept his way through most of vol. 8 and 9 as he was being possessed by a spirit. Lin knocked him out with a few good ol' spells. The characters were fully aware that he was going to be in a bad mood when he woke up and they dreaded having to go face to face with him. Lin and Masako will never be the same...]]

* [[MultinationalTeam Multidisciplinary Team]]: we have a [[ISeeDeadPeople Medium]], a Shinto Miko, an Onmyodo, a Catholic [[BadassPreacher priest]], a Buddhist Monk, a girl with PsychicPowers, and Naru. It's too many people for it to be the setup to a joke so it got turned into an anime.

* {{Bishonen}}: Pretty much every main / recurring male character in the series (i.e. Naru, Lin, Takigawa, John, Yasu)

** Ayako probably qualifies as well. She's rude or condescending several times, as seems to enjoy provoking the other members of the team. However, she also has several moments of being sincerely sweet and caring.

* JerkAss: Mr. Matsuyama, a teacher at Rokuryo High School is intolerably unpleasant. He also [[spoiler: is undisturbed by the idea of dozens of students dying so long as ''he'' lives.

* {{Workaholic}}: Naru and Lin.