Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
crb0shark
Before watching any anime I start to look at its score on this page, when I saw a 7.41 I thought it would be an anime that was going to be good enough to recommend it. In the end I was disappointed, the most unfortunate thing is having to watch 22 episodes to realize that the most important plot has no outcome. Don't waste your time watching this unless you have nothing to see.
I liked the animation, setting, intro and outro but the script failed. I ended up disappointed, I thought I had found a gem but it was the opposite.
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Ok so this is gonna be my first actual review I write here on this page but I just kinda feel like I HAVE to after I just finished this show yesterday, and maybe there are soon a few to follow. So here are my detailed thoughts about Shinreigari, or Ghost Hound, without spoilers of course so if you are still contemplating if you should watch this or not, you can safely look at this review:
STORY: Psychological meets Spiritual, in the best way possible. The story is great in itself but the pace just adds to the awesomness that is this anime, it is perfectly paced. Slow paced, but perfectly slow paced so that it does not end up being boring. The story pulls its characters along and the characters in turn pull the story along, it's the perfect balance. The storytelling is reminiscent of that…
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When an anime has to include cliff hangers every episode in order to make the viewer keep watching, then it's not worth watching. I can't even begin to describe how many things the anime does wrong, since there are 22 episodes worth of things. The goofy ghosts and exceptionally weak main character aren't helping.
Please, for the love of god, don't get trapped like I did. I saw a 7.63 but a few 10 and 9 reviews and thought, hey maybe it's not that bad (I had just seen the awesome Shinsekai Yori and Ghost Hound was recommended as like that).
The only reason I watched this was because of the cliff hangers. My brain compelled me to keep watching it despite how bad it was due to the constant cliffhangers which would make me think "oh next episode there will be a great illuminating explanation…
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REVIEW CONTAIN CONCLUSIVE SPOILER
For the first half of the show, Ghost Hound have got everything right, from the creepy soundtrack that formed its designated atmosphere to the countryside setting that we're so fond of in horror anime. The series gave off the same kind of atmosphere that Higurashi and Shiki gave me, which shows how great it was directed. The unique camera angle amplifying the creepy tone of the series to a level where "horror" would be one of the appropriate genre for the series while the colorful and unique representation of the "hidden world" surely did its job to allow the viewers to see the story in a more frightening way, making them more prone to the dark assumptions that viewers can't help but to make in a series like this.
The pacing was perfect in almost every w…
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Shinreigari: Ghost Hound is a 22 episodes long Psychological/Mystery anime by Production IG that came out in 2007. After i finished it just recently, my first thought was: "Man, i can´t believe it took me so long until i finally watched this!"
However...this show centers around three high school boys with traumatic experiences in the past, who try to solve a mysterious puzzle in the small mountain village of Suiten.
I was mentally prepared for a brainf*** since Ghost Hound was created by the same guy who did Ghost in the Shell and a few important staff members also worked on Serial Experiments Lain. Nevertheless, despite being heavily influenced by psychoanalysis in the first half and a mix of mainly spirituality and a bit of theoretical physics in the second half, the story is actually…
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This is my first time writing a review so I don't know if I'll be good at this or not. You decide.
Though my understanding of this anime, Shinreigari: Ghost Hound, It is about a boy, named Tarou Komori, who had been kidnapped, along with his older sister, at the age of three years old. He was the only one who made it out alive.
Tarou and his friends decide to investigate on this matter eleven years later.
As the story builds, you start to figure out that the kidnapping was not what you thought it was; it had a greater meaning to it. (Not going to spoil it for you, sorry)
Pros:
- The opening song was awesome.
- The story builds over time which is a good thing for an anime of the mystery genre.
- You get a new perspective on the subject of "Out of Body Experiences" which is a good thing.…
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I just finished watching this anime and it wasn't good. It leaves the audience feeling incomplete as there are a lot of questions left unanswered, and also with a heavy sense of disappointment. When the last episode ended the first thing that came to my mind was, "...ok...so...is that it?". I'd only recommend this anime to people who don't really want to be drawn and hooked to an anime, but those who are just wanting something to pass the time with and have absolutely nothing better to do. (I hate being this harsh, but it really wasn't good)
Story: 4
Let me just start off by saying that the concept of the story was promising and deeply intriguing. However, despite this there was bad linkage, poor pace, and a very poorly thought out conclusion. Let me explain. The anime is about 3 boys who…
Read at the sourceR3353
Where do I begin?... The premise is nice. The execution was fair.
Taro (our whiney main-main character), Makoto (rebel extraordinaire) and Masayuki (professional milf hunter) are our three almost immediate MC's for this evening. They all have dramatic pasts that lead them to spend the rest of their days with regret not far from their minds. Masayuki is the bridge that connects Tarou and Makoto with his intrusive personality. Miyako is later introduced as main character 4? yeah... I guess we just hand out MC like it's no big deal around here. Don't question it. Read the synopsis if you want more, but it's really hard not to spoil anything, so I have to be vague.
Flaws: I would like to mention the flaws before I mention what makes this anime stand out. This show... tries to touch on the s…
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The show starts out with a really creepy opening of something flying around and only getting glimpses of what’s happening from his eyes. We find out that it was all a damn dream from our main character. Taro Komori seems like a rather normal boring guy who lives with a family of brewers. And yet they bring up strange things about his past that seem to be bothering him. I can’t lie, even with knowing the description of the anime; this all was a bit confusing in the beginning. They jump around a lot and the only thing I really got was that Taro was able to astro project and has dreams of the past. As the show goes on, it does get slightly better and there are times that they kept me on the edge of my seat but it is extremely logical and have a mountain of dialogue before something gets done.…
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When I first encountered this Anime, I was really excited because it was advertised as a dark, edgy show that was well produced; qualities that are very difficult to find in most shows. The setting is in a small town that gives off such unsettling vibes that it sometimes gives the feeling that it could have been picked up by the silent hill franchise. The characters are introduced well, and begin to get fleshed out with a plot that deviates completely from the classic Anime stereotypes. In short, this Anime looks and sounds beautiful. But all of this sounds good, why the low score? Unfortunately the Anime lacks the central drive of a plot to keep the show moving for the entire 26 episodes. Sometime around the 17th episode mark, the plot does a COMPLETE 180, and the entire ambiance of the A…
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Wow, this was a great thriller title. Ghost Hound implemented use of psychological and philosophical elements to look into the developments surrounding the central characters of the series and piecing together the mysterious occurrences within the small town of Suiten. Like Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost Hound retains a subdued, mundane mood throughout its run during the show's normal mode and bumps up its suspense during moments when the boys experience out-of-body experiences in the spirit realm and dream of memories from their tragic pasts. The series does rather well at fleshing out the tragic pasts of Taro, Masayuki and Makoto where the series gets into the heads of the boys as they perceive and/ or try to recall the events that occurred during their earlier years. In addition, we get…
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Story 8/10
Only on the penultimate episode did I discover that the original suppose for this series was penned by Masamune Shirow. It doesn't really show, although as that was in 1987 it isn't so surprising. Why it took 20 years to make such a great anime is anyone's guess.
Anyway, the story is very good. A dark and moody tale at heart, this anime mulls through the lives of its protagonists and a semi-real world of astral projection and spirits. It does so in a way immediately attributable to Nakamura Ryuutarou's (Serial Experiments Lain) direction. I enjoyed SEL's rasping static sensory deprivation, and I love it here too. The bassy atmosphere death rattles the viewer through several inter-connected disturbing backstories, and drapes the lead characters in harsh, heavy shadows.
The dar…
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Let me preface this "8" by saying I thought the storyline for this anime was really terrific! A definite 10/10. It is complex without being too over-the-top (for the genre it is under, that is) and unfolds gradually, but not too slowly either. Each character, minor or protagonist, has an ever expanding role and someone you may think you will only see once or in the background often has a greater story to tell.
Another wonderful aspect of this anime is that rarely is someone as they appear to be and where certain situations could have played out in a typical fashion took a very different role instead. My favourite example of this was Taro's therapist/counselor, Dr. Hirata, but there are a number of others that follow.
And while some of the plotlines intersect, the one's that do not, stil…
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In short, this is one of the best anime series I have seen so far. In one word it’s profound, and it’s a must-see, regardless of the genre you prefer. The only thing that made me falter in giving it a ten was the art which I did not enjoy at all. It’s too simplistic and disproportional. But it actually manages to compensate in a way I thought it impossible.
The story starts off innocently. There's a boy named Taro who has had a very traumatic experience with which he tries to deal with. However, the feel of the story is ominous from the beginning. Even though it seems normal enough, you cant's help but wait in anticipation for something bad to happen. Soon, strange things do start to happen, and slowly we are drawn into the Unseen world, full of both beautiful and disturbing things.
The st…
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This is not a synopsis.
Ghost Hound is an anime that I stumbled across a year and a half ago while looking for more fuel for a horror genre anime craze that I managed to suffer. Upon watching the first episode and nearly quitting halfway through, I dropped the series... until three weeks ago. I started watching it again, I decided I was going to drill my mind right through it. So I did. I found that the, boring, static plot was unfolding very slowly. There were no lovable or badass characters as far as I'm concerned, nothing interesting, nothing thought provocative at all for the first few episodes - probably just a background setup. But suddenly, though I dare not unveil what happens, my mind is blown. I managed to spend the rest of the series waiting for the episode where it is revealed…
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Wow. I marathoned Ghost Hound in a single Saturday because I couldn't stop. I'm totally blown away. It manages to be fun and profound at the same time.
It touched on so many things of the I base my own spiritual philosophy on: The Apparent World, the Unseen World(s), that we are spiritual beings first and physical beings second, that everything is part of SPIRIT and has a level of consciousness, our "mind" is more than our brain, that the emotions we attach to events/things mold our lives and frequently need clearing, that intense negative emotions attract even more negative energy from this world and from beyond, the quantum concept of the matrix that is SPIRIT, and more. They even talked about energy clearing techniques like eye movement and tapping, energy meridians, and such.
And o…
Read at the sourceLomi
I decided to watch the series, because the scriptwriter of Ghost Hound also wrote Serial Experiments: Lain, Texhnolyze and Hellsing, all of which I am quite drawn to (especially SEL). I must say, that this anime is a great job, perfect for a 20th anniversary release.
~ s t o r y ~ 8 / 10 ~
If some of you think: 'Those cute characters and a psychological plot? No way!' I am glad to tell you, that you are wrong. At first, when I saw, that GH is of 22 episodes, I was sure, that it will be verbose and / or tedious (i'm used to 13-episode psychological animes), but I'm glad I tried watching it despite that thoughts. Of course, the plot needs a half of the first episode to take off, but once it does, it doesn't stop (actually, it's going faster and faster to the climax). The anime is a specific…
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I kind of have mixed feelings towards Ghost Hound. Being into MindF$#k type animes like Lain and Higurashi the plot immediately intrigued me. The eerie opening with the song Poltergeist was one of the few selective openings I didn't skip over after a few episodes(it set the mood). Now on the topic of the story, I really enjoyed the complex plot. The art is dark and well-done which definitely adds to the creepy element(which hardly lets off until the latter episodes). The sound in this anime is definitely it's strong point. It could be called brilliant in terms of building up suspense(I constantly had shivers sent down my spine throughout). In addition to that, the ending is pretty well done. The character development is also good especially with the three main characters. Each episode kept…
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Ghost Hound is a Supernatural, Psychological, Horror, Mystery, Drama series, produced by the critically acclaimed “Production I.G.” studio. Unlike most horror series that feature plenty of shocking, gory moments and psychological dramas that show the absurd, extremes of the human psyche; Ghost Hounds goes for a more technical approach. Sadly this leads to a great series with an incredibly complex story.
It is about four different kids who have suffered from different traumatic events; in their past and now have the ability to traverse this “unseen world”. That’s just the initial plot of the series and as the story begins, you will see a bunch of stuff and have no idea what on earth is going on. Slowly but surely, little bits of this mysterious and uncanny story are revealed and during th…
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I must say that Ghost Hound is the most complex and technical anime ever made. It's the kind of anime which make you go on the wiki and search for the terminology. As is expected from the staff of Serial Experiment Lain, you have to pay attention to detail or re-watch it to understand what the story is about and the relationship and explanation of it. Ghost Hound, whose idea has gone through 8 years of planning, is indeed a masterpiece. A must see for any hardcore sci-fi fan.
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