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On the Naru, Mai and Gene Dynamic

Feeling up to it today, so here’s a little ramble:

Sometimes I think it’s a shame Ghost Hunt ended when it did, because I felt like the relationship Mai and Naru had in Akumu no Sumu Ie was so beautiful– they were for the first time on truly even ground with each other. As a writer, I understand when you know, for a fact as a creator that a story is over but their dynamic in that book was my favorite thing about it. They truly knew each other and accepted each other despite still getting frustrated with each other– but that’s true friendship. You care about someone and know someone so well you can kinda pick at their flaws objectively, and now that Mai knows where Naru is coming from and vice versa, they both do that with rather hilarious results.

There was finally a true equilibrium in their relationship, and that’s because the flucrum of it wasn’t “dream Naru” aka Gene. Gene’s still a pressence in both of their lives but before this, he seemed to overshadow and throw things out of balance for both of them– Naru because he was consumed with finding him and Mai because she couldn’t reconcile “Dream Naru” with the one she knew in the waking world.

There’s a part of me that wants more Ghost Hunt just to see what Mai and Naru are like when they well and truly “get” each other and Gene is, however bittersweetly, where he belongs. Gene is gone, and I think part of his own development as a character was figuring out how to step back and let Naru figure out what Mai had the potential to be to him on her own. Gene reached out to Mai because Naru needed someone, someone who could be there, physically with him to challenge him to be the person he always knew Naru was, to use a phrase I’d coined before– be Naru’s belligerent better angels. But Mai doesn’t need Gene anymore to do that, she knows why Gene broughtthem together. And it’s enough, because it has to be, because Gene’s dead and his ability to infulence the world on Naru’s behalf will never be what it was when he was living.

by Agwen/ @flychansan  Ongoing 81,457 words

The plot, the characters, the tone: everything in this story will keep your attention!

A letter arrives, and impacts the course of the story. Little changes cascading into bigger ones weave the telling of this intriguing plot, mixing canon facts and extrapolations cleverly.

The chapters offer a good balance between mystery, paranormal, humour, family and even romance (though the latter is rather subtly hinted and the pairings are undisclosed so far). The author has a perfect mastery of the characters, and is able to provide the most organic and believable interactions, for instance between Naru and his twin brother, which were the focus of this first arc.

Follow my advice and give it a try. You’ll thank me later.

Review by GHHQ Lead Reviewer @frenchcirce

Investigating Goatman’s Bridge

Ghost Adventures:

Buzzfeed Unsolved:

Art by Yun Ling

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ghost Hunt Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shibuya Kazuya/Taniyama Mai, Oliver Davis/Taniyama Mai Characters: Taniyama Mai, Oliver Davis Additional Tags: alcohol use Summary:

Naru receives a rude awakening at an ungodly hour by his far-too-inebriated assistant. Certain truths come to light in the fallout.

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I finished my midterm and I felt good, so I drew something silly.

Based on the cheeky little tweet @csakuras shared with us.

Ghost Hunt Fanfic Recs:

Incomplete: 

dreaming of the seaside by needo, Rated M Summary: In a small seaside community in the south of Japan, local police had tired of a half-century long string of inexplicable drownings and have reached out to SPR to help them. Though their surroundings look like a oceanic dream, there is something sinister lurking underneath the pretty blue of the ocean. SPR have years of experience, but are they prepared for what’s in store?

Book One: Limbus by C.S. Isui, Rated T Summary:  Limbus: Limbo is reserved for the wandering souls who cannot enter heaven. Some of them stay where they are, peaceful and dormant, accepting their fate but not all that are lost remain lost. Some want to be found. Will Mai, Naru, and the gang find what is lost before its too late?

Sweet Dreams by Mayurei, Rated M Summary:  What do spilt tea, stalker ghosts, self analysis while you sleep and narcissistic bosses have in common? Taniyama Mai. Expect fluff, heroic tendencies and a long suffering assistant, who definitely didn’t ask for any of this.  

The Transfer by Malindorie, Rated T Summary: Mai Taniyama’s transfer application to Cambridge University says she wants to study Parapsychology. Not on the application: a secret transfer that will bring Mai and Naru together and simultaneously tear them apart. Japan’s SPR follows Naru to England..

Complete: 

A Long Time Coming by GlitterCyborgPrincess, Rated T Summary:  It took a long time, but Mai finally realized why that one question was so absolutely devastating. She doesn’t like easy and agreeing with him made it *suspiciously* easy. Mai preferred a challenge.

Feeding on Fear by CoffeeQuills, Rated E Summary: Naru has a new case and it’s already giving him vague feelings of foreboding, prompting him to only take volunteers to Kiryu, Gunma, where the bodies of an entire family have been found. Then Monk goes missing, plunging the SPR team into chaos. With Mai’s growing nightmares and Masako’s mysterious illness, the stakes have been raised. In the end, will determination be enough to save them all? Or will someone slip through the cracks?

Trusting Intuition by rowankitsune18, Rated T Summary: Seven years have passed since Naru left for England and everyone in their own way has moved own. However, things begin to change when Masako invites Mai to a paranormal conference in London. A chance meeting; uncertain future. And who is the strange boy alone at the party? (NaruxMai)

I Am Still Here by Koizumi_Scarlet, Rated M Summary: As an investigator for SPR, Mai is used to seeing malicious spirits. However, their newest case may be the most dangerous one yet, especially as the haunting becomes more complex and confounding than ever. With Naru back for the first time in almost two years, Mai must navigate her feelings as well as the haunted house. With things not as they seem, can Mai survive to see the end?

Don’t Go Outside by Koizumi_Scarlet, Rated M  Summary: Mai and Naru was ready to enjoy a leisure visit to Naru’s parents in England over Christmas. Yet an unexpected visitor in the night threw a spanner in the works and they are needed on a case that’s already proven itself dangerous. Travelling to London’s most famous insane Asylum, they must separate the truth from the lies to solve the mystery and perhaps save a soul in the process. Sequel to IASH.

I’ll probably expand this list later on to include more.

Ghost Hunt Fanfic Recs:

Incomplete: 

dreaming of the seaside by needo, Rated M Summary: In a small seaside community in the south of Japan, local police had tired of a half-century long string of inexplicable drownings and have reached out to SPR to help them. Though their surroundings look like a oceanic dream, there is something sinister lurking underneath the pretty blue of the ocean. SPR have years of experience, but are they prepared for what’s in store?

Book One: Limbus by C.S. Isui, Rated T Summary:  Limbus: Limbo is reserved for the wandering souls who cannot enter heaven. Some of them stay where they are, peaceful and dormant, accepting their fate but not all that are lost remain lost. Some want to be found. Will Mai, Naru, and the gang find what is lost before its too late?

Sweet Dreams by Mayurei, Rated M Summary:  What do spilt tea, stalker ghosts, self analysis while you sleep and narcissistic bosses have in common? Taniyama Mai. Expect fluff, heroic tendencies and a long suffering assistant, who definitely didn’t ask for any of this.  

The Transfer by Malindorie, Rated T Summary: Mai Taniyama’s transfer application to Cambridge University says she wants to study Parapsychology. Not on the application: a secret transfer that will bring Mai and Naru together and simultaneously tear them apart. Japan’s SPR follows Naru to England..

Complete: 

A Long Time Coming by GlitterCyborgPrincess, Rated T Summary:  It took a long time, but Mai finally realized why that one question was so absolutely devastating. She doesn’t like easy and agreeing with him made it *suspiciously* easy. Mai preferred a challenge.

Feeding on Fear by CoffeeQuills, Rated E Summary: Naru has a new case and it’s already giving him vague feelings of foreboding, prompting him to only take volunteers to Kiryu, Gunma, where the bodies of an entire family have been found. Then Monk goes missing, plunging the SPR team into chaos. With Mai’s growing nightmares and Masako’s mysterious illness, the stakes have been raised. In the end, will determination be enough to save them all? Or will someone slip through the cracks?

Trusting Intuition by rowankitsune18, Rated T Summary: Seven years have passed since Naru left for England and everyone in their own way has moved own. However, things begin to change when Masako invites Mai to a paranormal conference in London. A chance meeting; uncertain future. And who is the strange boy alone at the party? (NaruxMai)

I Am Still Here by Koizumi_Scarlet, Rated M Summary: As an investigator for SPR, Mai is used to seeing malicious spirits. However, their newest case may be the most dangerous one yet, especially as the haunting becomes more complex and confounding than ever. With Naru back for the first time in almost two years, Mai must navigate her feelings as well as the haunted house. With things not as they seem, can Mai survive to see the end?

Don’t Go Outside by Koizumi_Scarlet, Rated M  Summary: Mai and Naru was ready to enjoy a leisure visit to Naru’s parents in England over Christmas. Yet an unexpected visitor in the night threw a spanner in the works and they are needed on a case that’s already proven itself dangerous. Travelling to London’s most famous insane Asylum, they must separate the truth from the lies to solve the mystery and perhaps save a soul in the process. Sequel to IASH.

I’ll probably expand this list later on to include more.

Ghostfest Giveaway

Hello to all you Ghost Hunt lovers out there! I’m doing a special giveaway this month! Unlike my previous giveaways, you’ll have THREE chances to win official Ghost Hunt merchandise.

Prizes:

It Comes from the Sea, rewrite edition of Volume 6 of the original Akuryō Series with Ayako as the main feature image. And it glows in the dark!

Akumu no Sumu Ie (The House in Which Nightmares Dwell) Part 1 & 2. This is the sequel series to the original Akuryō Series! 

A Post Card sheet featuring four illustrations of Ono Fuyumi’s works. This was published with the 2012 September Issue of Da Vinci magazine.

To Enter You Must:

Be a follower of this blog

Create Halloween themed Ghost Hunt content

This could be fanart, fanfic, headcanon, cosplay, meme etc. as long as the content is your original work and SFW

Level of skill does not matter. If it’s Ghost Hunt and Halloween, I want it! All entries are weighted the same, but please put your genuine effort into it

Post the content to your blog and mention me/send me a private message OR submit it directly to this blog

Deadline: 12:00 AM PST, November 1st

The winners will be randomly chosen through raffle and announced shortly thereafter

1st place gets first choice

2nd place gets second choice

3rd place receives the remaining item

I will pay ALL shipping prices, so it’s free for you

If you have any further questions, feel free to send me a message or ask.

Ghost Hunt Volume 9

 by Lysiithea 

 This is three months after the Agawa investigation. The SPR has been called to investigate strange happenings at a boarding school/orphanage. The case was brought to them first by a mysterious letter claiming to be written from a dead person, then by a councillor representative of the orphanage school. Upon investigating, things are not what they seemed to be. 

This fic does a really fine job capturing the feel of Ghost Hunt, picking up right after the Akumu series. It’s written similarly to the Ghost Hunt novels, with Mai as the narrator, so that it feels a lot like the real deal. 

The author weaves the mystery well with plenty of unsettling and creepy moments involved. Plus they also sneak in some superb (and believable) MaiRu gems in there! The author had gone on hiatus for a while due to their manuscript notes getting lost, but it seems like they finally managed to get everything set up again, so I’m looking forward to more updates in the future! If you’re looking for that good old GH scare, I fully recommend this giving this story a try! And I urge you to leave the author some lovely comments to welcome them back into the fandom!

Art and review by GHHQ member @soulsborne123

I have heard that there are spin off manga series about gh characters. do you know where you can read the one for monk?

Hello, There are short stories and there is the occasional sketch comic released by the Mangaka but we have not heard of any spin off manga series for Ghost Hunt. (Unless you are counting doujinshi)We keep a list of the Ghost Hunt books, manga, and short stories that have been translated on our website.

Sorry there isn’t more, I wish there was more Ghost Hunt out there spin off or otherwise.