*holds cat like baby*
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Why Ghost Hunt Is Great And Everyone Should Watch It: A Summary
It’s basically all of those ghost investigation shows only good.
The writers do their research into parapsychology and occult history and phenomena. They don’t just make shit up like pretty much every other supernatural horror series does.
Multiple religions and cultures are portrayed very earnestly and tastefully, with very little relying on stereotype. The Buddhist Monk, Shinto Preistess, and Catholtic Preist characters are all treated with respect and authority to their beliefs.
The main character gets called out and schooled on having had an Imperalist Japanese education. The tense history between China, Japan and particularly Hong Kong is brought up and not shied away from.
On that note all the main characters are shown to have their flaws and faults and short-comings.
When the main character discovers she has supernatural ability, she is automatically aware of the responsibilities and consequences these powers come with. She is regularly taken to task for using her powers when she doesn’t fully understand them. A character that could have been a ‘sue is instead given depth and development. It’s a lot like Pretear that way.
There are some great twists on old horror tropes– the reasons and explainations that come up for a lot of the hauntings are unique and unexpected (again, because the writers do their research.)
The Nightmare Fuel is counterpointed with some genuinely sweet, funny and heartwarming moments.
The writers are totally cool with letting side characters steal the spotlight or the scene.
There’s a lot of social commentary throughout the series that other series would shy away from. The main characters argue and disagree in some pretty horrendous ways because of this, and it’s handled fantastically.
Please watch Ghost Hunt, you’ll thank me.
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i think in the final stages of my life i will forget my own name before i forget the lyrics to mr. brightside
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studio ghibli movies are like if someone took all of your fondest, softest childhood dreams and put them into a film
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“When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, ready to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. This isn’t pathological. It’s normal. It’s why you find yourself, at twenty-four, or thirty-five or forty-three, unwrapping a present or walking down an aisle or crossing a busy street, doubled over and missing your mother.”
— Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters
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Easier to swallow pills
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“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
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America: You can be gay, just don’t be feminine.
Korea: You can be feminine, just don’t be gay.
Japan: LOL FUCK THAT JUST BE BOTH
