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Ghost Hunt

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111 feature instances
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Ghost Hunt	type	TVTItem
Ghost Hunt	label	Ghost Hunt
Ghost Hunt	page	GhostHunt
Ghost Hunt	comment	Mai Taniyama, an Ordinary High-School Student, accidentally breaks a camera left in an abandoned school building. The camera later turns out to belong to Kazuya Shibuya, a.k.a. Naru, and in order to repay him for the camera, she must take the place of his injured assistant in Naru's perfectly-legitimate ghost-hunting business.Mai and Naru are accompanied by an Australian Catholic priest, a spirit medium, a Buddhist monk, a self-styled Shinto priestess, and Naru's really tall and really quiet assistant Lin. The series was originally published as a series of novels by The Twelve Kingdoms author Fuyumi Ono; it was later adapted into a manga, and then a 25-episode anime. A manga adaptation of the relatively-unknown sequel Akumu no Sumu was also released.Not to be confused with Ghost Hunters, the American live-action TV show.
Ghost Hunt	fetched	2024-04-25T06:16:48Z
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Ghost Hunt / int_10dffb47	type	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl
Ghost Hunt / int_10dffb47	comment	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: If it's a Japanese-related Ghost story, you can bet this isn't far behind. Ghost Hunt does not disappoint.
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Ghost Hunt / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Ghost Hunt / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Mai likens both Naru and Masako to this at the beginning of the Forgotten Children arc in the manga.
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Ghost Hunt / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Ghost Hunt / int_14848fa3	comment	Multidisciplinary Team: We have a Medium, a Shinto Miko, an Onmyoji, a Catholic priest, a Buddhist Monk, a girl with Psychic Powers, and Naru. It's too many people for it to be the setup to a joke so it got turned into an anime.
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Ghost Hunt / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Ghost Hunt / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The Bloodstained Labyrinth arc is this in spades. Whereas past arcs were creepy enough as it is, this one takes all that and ramps the creep factor up. The "ghost" in question is implied not to be a ghost at all, and unlike previous cases, there are actual casualties.
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Ghost Hunt / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Ghost Hunt / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Near the end of episode 10, Mai muses about how it would kind of suck to have psychic powers, and that she's glad she's just an ordinary high school student. Turns out she's an Ordinary High-School Student, all right.
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Ghost Hunt / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Ghost Hunt / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: John is one of the most effective of the exorcists in the group and can at least be seen once punching spirits with holy water. Mai also starts to count after she learns some evil-warding chants. She's fully there by the last arc of the manga, when she manages to project her spirit at will for the first time and walk straight into the lion's den to purify an entire room full of spirits. They even are able to deduce that it was her by realizing she was the only one capable of doing it, since exorcism is too physically demanding to use on that many targets and most of the group aren't able to purify.
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Ghost Hunt / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Ghost Hunt / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: There are several things about Naru that are either vaguely hinted at or not brought up at all in the anime but are explained fully elsewhere.
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Ghost Hunt / int_1808775	type	Phenotype Stereotype
Ghost Hunt / int_1808775	comment	Phenotype Stereotype: John Brown, an Australian. Averted with Naru, who is English, but nobody notices.
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Ghost Hunt / int_1abc7f66	type	Violence Detector
Ghost Hunt / int_1abc7f66	comment	Violence Detector: Mai consistently has dreams which explain the natures of the various hauntings and the histories of those who have suffered, making it possible to solve them later.
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Ghost Hunt / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Ghost Hunt / int_1bf47ada	comment	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, and is usually the one who takes care of the injured members of the team..
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Ghost Hunt / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Ghost Hunt / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In "File 6: Forbidden Pastime," Naru's refusal to tell Mai his plan to reverse the curse into dolls of the students instead of the students themselves makes her see him as a murderer, explode on him, and try to deal with the curse herself rather than let innocent people die, nearly getting her killed.
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Ghost Hunt / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Ghost Hunt / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Naru and Lin.
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Ghost Hunt / int_1ebbdddb	type	Power at a Price
Ghost Hunt / int_1ebbdddb	comment	Power at a Price: Naru appears to have no paranormal powers, but in actuality, he's an extremely strong psychic with dangerously powerful psychokinetic abilities that can easily be lethal to others. Unfortunately, Naru's SO powerful that a human body can't take the stress of wielding that much psychic energy. The one time he displays his psychokinesis to a noticeable degree (to destroy a god-possessed statue), Naru ends up collapsing from temporary respiratory and heart failure. Prior to that, he passes out and has to be briefly hospitalized after telekinetically bending a spoon.
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Ghost Hunt / int_22e5329e	type	Ordinary High-School Student
Ghost Hunt / int_22e5329e	comment	Ordinary High-School Student: Mai. She's the only "normal" member of the cast and lacks any knowledge of the supernatural barring familiar ghost stories. Yasuhara is also this, albeit to a lesser extent as his school is caught up in a mass series of hauntings. This dynamic switches the further along in the story they are, with Mai developing psychic abilities one after another and Yasuhara doing normal things like taking entrance exams and showing up for school.
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Ghost Hunt / int_267a0440	type	My Parents Are Dead
Ghost Hunt / int_267a0440	comment	My Parents Are Dead: In the Bloodstained Labyrinth case, Mai reveals she's an orphan, having lost her parents at a young age and lived with her school teacher before her SPR job gave her the income to live on her own.
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Ghost Hunt / int_2a19090b	type	Hidden Badass
Ghost Hunt / int_2a19090b	comment	Hidden Badass: Monk. You start to get a hint of how powerful he is in the last arc of the anime and in the following arc (which is not in the anime), Naru gets a close look at his vajra and decides that he's been underestimating Monk. It's hinted that he's been keeping Mai safe even after he went missing. Many of Ayako's rituals seem ineffectual early in the series; but in the final episode she performs a massive cleansing that frees the multitudes of angry spirits that have been trapped where they are. Ayako's limitations are justified in that she requires live trees to perform her cleansing ritual, which are less prevalent in the city. This is a legitimate handicap when you consider that Shinto is a religion that revolves around nature. Even if the requirements are met, however, the specific trees require a six-month rest period before they can be used again.
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Ghost Hunt / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Ghost Hunt / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Happens to Mai from time to time, most notably in the Bloodstained Labyrinth arc.
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Ghost Hunt / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Ghost Hunt / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Right away in the first episode, a bunch of "technical terms" pop up in English that Shibuya needs to translate for Mai. Makes you wonder why he didn't just say them in Japanese. Naru can also be seen writing notes on his computer in perfect English. Justified in that Naru was adopted by a married couple of parapsychologists in England, raised there and actually is the famed Oliver Davis that gets mentioned from time to time. As such, he's probably been speaking mostly English for most of his life, and even struggles with more complex written Japanese.
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Ghost Hunt / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Ghost Hunt / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: John. When Mai met the nineteen-year-old priest, she initially assumed him to be as young as twelve. An Imagine Spot in the anime even has him blending in with kindergarteners.
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Ghost Hunt / int_2f6a98f5	type	Student Council President
Ghost Hunt / int_2f6a98f5	comment	Student Council President: Yasuhara who also acts as the Sixth Ranger or in this case the eighth.
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Ghost Hunt / int_30d4f2a	type	Narcissist
Ghost Hunt / int_30d4f2a	comment	Narcissist: Naru. Hence the nickname (The japanese pronounce the word like 'naru-ciccist').
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Ghost Hunt / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Ghost Hunt / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Naru. True to his nickname, he prides himself on being the most intelligent person in the room and will happily let others know how better he is. Having said that, he's not so insufferable that he can't admit his mistakes.
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Ghost Hunt / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
Ghost Hunt / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: From a psychic, to ghosts, to a super ghost that grew more powerful by feeding on other ghosts, to a spirit so twisted that's moved beyond a mere ghost and became some sort of demonic monster, to finally a freaking god!
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Ghost Hunt / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Ghost Hunt / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Generally, the series is pretty good about it. However, there are a few moments where you wonder just what character X had to do offscreen for so long. Particularly glaring during the seance in Bloodstained Labyrinth. Not only is Masako, a world famous medium, not involved directly in the seance, she's not even visible for the majority of it.
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Ghost Hunt / int_330841a2	type	Burial at Sea
Ghost Hunt / int_330841a2	comment	Burial at Sea: After the resolution of the Forbidden Children arc, Eugene Davis was found in the bottom of the nearby lake. Apparently, his murderer dumped his body there.
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Ghost Hunt / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
Ghost Hunt / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: One of the more refreshing things about this series is how deadpan serious everyone is about their particular forms of mysticism and what they're dealing with.
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Ghost Hunt / int_438e4dd6	type	Demon of Human Origin
Ghost Hunt / int_438e4dd6	comment	Demon of Human Origin: The reason Urado can't be exorcised is he's no longer a ghost: he's become something much worse. Naru flat out says calling him a demon is more accurate.
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Ghost Hunt / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Ghost Hunt / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Naru is critical, harsh and is rather arbitrary in his decisions, but it is very clear that he generally has the safety of his friends first in mind. At the end of Forbidden Pasttime, he even apologizes to Mai for keeping her Locked Out of the Loop. 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, and is usually the one who takes care of the injured members of the team..
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Ghost Hunt / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Ghost Hunt / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: As Naru points out, Urado's demonic spirit is kept imprisoned within the house he committed his murders in. As such, while extremely dangerous to everyone inside, he can't harm anyone outside of it.
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Ghost Hunt / int_4a2bac68	type	Fire Purifies
Ghost Hunt / int_4a2bac68	comment	Fire Purifies: The only way to put Urado down for good is to burn down the entire house and purify it with fire, as he's long since turned from a mere ghost and turned into a demonic spirit.
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Ghost Hunt / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
Ghost Hunt / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Naru and Lin.
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Ghost Hunt / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Ghost Hunt / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsight: In the manga, when they first arrive at the church in Silent Christmas, Mai sees a skull at the base of the angel statues above the door, and having never been to a church before assumes it's a creepy but normal religious decoration. It's Kenji's skull, and her attention was drawn to it so quickly because her ESP was flaring up.
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Ghost Hunt / int_4f292929	type	Tall, Dark, and Snarky
Ghost Hunt / int_4f292929	comment	Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Naru.
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Ghost Hunt / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
Ghost Hunt / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Averted. After fending off an attack by a horde of possessed corpses, Monk exclaims "What is this, a zombie movie?"
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Ghost Hunt / int_54817ce9	type	Asian Rune Chant
Ghost Hunt / int_54817ce9	comment	Asian Rune Chant: Takigawa, aka Bou-san, uses these regularly.
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Ghost Hunt / int_57be3cd5	type	Anchored Ship
Ghost Hunt / int_57be3cd5	comment	Anchored Ship: In the last story, Mai discovers that 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. This further explained as WordOfGod has stated, in a phamplet, that she had originally expected Mai and Naru be canon - meaning Mai eventually gets over Gene. However, the author eventually scrapped that idea, to continue with the sequel and keep the supsense/tension, and decided to do an unhappy ending and leave their relationship as is since she doesn't do "happy endings". At the very least it is confirmed that Mai and Naru do have feelings for eachother
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Ghost Hunt / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
Ghost Hunt / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Oliver and Eugene Davis. However, it was mentioned that their Psychic Link got weaker as they grew older.
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Ghost Hunt / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
Ghost Hunt / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: Mai.
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Ghost Hunt / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Ghost Hunt / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Naru never showcases any overt supernatural ability (apart from an academic knowledge of magic) and goes through practically the whole anime solving cases with little more than wits, ego and a healthy amount of skepticism. The trope is subverted in the last episode, in which we find out he does have supernatural powers, extremely strong ones, but using them taxes him so much that it can be very dangerous for him.
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Ghost Hunt / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Ghost Hunt / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Urado has ceased to be a ghost and instead become a demonic monster. As such, nothing the group throws at him can do more than slow him down. It takes burning down the entire house and purifying it with fire to finally put him down.
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Ghost Hunt / int_67b9a377	type	Sneeze Cut
Ghost Hunt / int_67b9a377	comment	Sneeze Cut: Two during the Ghost Story in the Park episode, both focused on Lin.
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Ghost Hunt / int_69b7e8ac	type	Evolutionary Pressure Cooker
Ghost Hunt / int_69b7e8ac	comment	Evolutionary Pressure Cooker: A high school overrun by ghosts is eventually discovered to have been set up as a form or curse using the Kodoku method, mixing a Ouija board with a Chinese curse talisman and taking advantage of the spiritually isolated location to gather countless spirits and force them to devour one another until one (or, in this case, four) is powerful enough to carry out the intended deathcurse.
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Ghost Hunt / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Ghost Hunt / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: How Mai purifies the teacher and dead children in the cursed school.
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Ghost Hunt / int_6f4ddd0a	type	Old School Building
Ghost Hunt / int_6f4ddd0a	comment	Old School Building: The setting for the first story in Mai's school and the site of mysterious hauntings. It's eventually revealed not to be haunted and is in fact sinking due to subsidence, with all other "hauntings" being the result of that or a serious case of bad luck. The one time something paranormal happens is because of a psychic who lost control of her power due to not realizing she's psychic in the first place.
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Ghost Hunt / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Ghost Hunt / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Justified in that this is Mai's first year as a spiritualist and she gets better as time goes by, but she has a real trouble remembering that she doesn't have "just dreams" while on cases and thus sometimes decides something vitally important isn't worth saying. Actually, this might be an Aversion of Instant Expertise that is so often seen in fiction.
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Ghost Hunt / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Ghost Hunt / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Episode 11 features a ghost who failed at killing herself several times, only to die when she tripped and hit her head on her way home.
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Ghost Hunt / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Ghost Hunt / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Urado murdered countless people to bathe in their blood in an attempt to become immortal. After death, he kept on killing people and amassed a gigantic body count.
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Ghost Hunt / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Ghost Hunt / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Kazuya is called Narcissistic Naru (Naru the Narcissist in the English version) by Mai from the Japanese word narushisuto, or narcissist. Can also be an Insult of Endearment. In the manga, Yasuhara actually blames Mai for doing this because it hid the fact that Naru - a nickname also used by Lin, whose connection with Naru predated Mai's nickname - was actually supposed to be Noll, a shortened form of Oliver.
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Ghost Hunt / int_7603b45b	type	Furo Scene
Ghost Hunt / int_7603b45b	comment	Furo Scene: Mai has one, but it's very brief and she's only seen from the shoulders up. Ghost Hunt isn't big on Fanservice.
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Ghost Hunt / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Ghost Hunt / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Lin occasionally has brushes with this trope, especially in the Silent Christmas story arc.
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Ghost Hunt / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Ghost Hunt / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Like so◊
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Ghost Hunt / int_7986a111	type	Bonding over Missing Parents
Ghost Hunt / int_7986a111	comment	Bonding over Missing Parents: In the light novels, Mai realizes her job pays unusually well for such an easy, low-commitment position, and asks Naru if he employed her because they were both orphans. Naru admits the fact and offhandedly tells her that people in similar situations should help each other out, and that he first found out about the fact that she was an orphan from her high school principal, way before she actually told SPR about it in the Urado case.
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Ghost Hunt / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
Ghost Hunt / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: 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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Ghost Hunt / int_7d12f7b1	type	Who You Gonna Call?
Ghost Hunt / int_7d12f7b1	comment	Who You Gonna Call?: The Shibuya Psychic Research Center is basically the Ghost Hunters (of Sci-fi channel fame).
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Ghost Hunt / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Ghost Hunt / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Mai shows hints of this. Though she leans toward the Dere side of things. Naru's mentor Madoka seems to have shades of this though she also leans towards Dere.
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Ghost Hunt / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Ghost Hunt / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Right between "The After School Hexer" (The second legitimately creepy arc in the series) and "Silent Christmas" (A bit of a Tear Jerker) comes "Ghost Story in the Park!?", the series' only one-episode arc and the only episode to contain almost nothing but comic relief.
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Ghost Hunt / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Ghost Hunt / int_851dda8f	comment	The arc before that may be scarier, as it involved a Humanoid Abomination who Was Once a Man 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.
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Ghost Hunt / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Ghost Hunt / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: At various times Mai displays precognition, postcognition, clairvoyance, claircognizance, and astral projection. There's also some extremely sensitive instincts that tell her intuitively whether someone intends her harm, and sometimes whether someone can be trusted. In story arc of the manga after the last arc made in the anime, Mai singlehandedly performs a purification.
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Ghost Hunt / int_89399ea2	type	Fake Nationality
Ghost Hunt / int_89399ea2	comment	Fake Nationality: John Brown, an Australian, is voiced by the very American Jason Liebrecht, whose Australian accent is less than stellar. Though this actually manages to work because in Japanese, John does have a funny accent. He speaks with a mixture of Kansai and Australian dialects, which gives his sentences a rather odd, humorous structure.
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Ghost Hunt / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Ghost Hunt / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Naru and Gene. It's even stated that the reason Naru cannot use his powers freely is because Gene was not around to help him regulate it.
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Ghost Hunt / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
Ghost Hunt / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: One arc is called "The Doll House" and even involves a possessed doll. Thankfully it's the only one, but it's, unfortunately, the least threatening ghost in the arc.
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Ghost Hunt / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Ghost Hunt / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Several times. Mai even ends up on the receiving end of this trope, though the ghost in question is thankfully non malicious.
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Ghost Hunt / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Ghost Hunt / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: In Episode 11 the group plays rock, paper, scissors to decide who is paired up as fake couples. John and Ayako get grouped together as a couple and its rather amusing how Ayako assures him she'll "Play Nice."
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Ghost Hunt / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Ghost Hunt / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The group finds a room in Urado's lair filled with shelves upon shelves of bones from his countless victims.
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Ghost Hunt / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Ghost Hunt / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Every arc includes a mystery pertaining to the exact nature of its supernatural events. In most cases, these end with Naru explaining exactly what was going on. Often, he does so only after solving the problem, allowing him to be smug about having already taken the correct action without consulting his teammates.
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Ghost Hunt / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Ghost Hunt / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: At times it can move from a serious, almost frightening, paranormal story to a romantic comedy and back so fast you wonder what just happened.
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Ghost Hunt / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Ghost Hunt / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: John. He is a Catholic Priest after all.
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Ghost Hunt / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Ghost Hunt / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: It's very hard to forget that Naru's actual name is Kazuya Shibuya, as most of the cast only ever refers to him as Naru, Mai's nickname for him. This continues even after they learn his actual name Oliver Davis. This is even one of the reasons they're able to deduce Kazuya Shibuya isn't his real name; Lin calls him Naru - that is, Noll, a nickname for Oliver - and not only has Lin known Naru for longer than Mai's nicknamed him that, it's unlikely Lin would go along with calling him "Naru the Narcissist" all the time. Did you forget Monk's actual name is Takegawa Hosho? Don't worry, you're not the only one.
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Ghost Hunt / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
Ghost Hunt / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: Monk hits this early on for Mai. Ayako follows up soon after as a Cool Big Sis.
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Ghost Hunt / int_ab802f4b	type	Work Off the Debt
Ghost Hunt / int_ab802f4b	comment	Work Off the Debt: Subverted when Mai eventually learns that the camera she broke was insured. Naru just led her to believe otherwise because, she assumes, he wanted a free gofer. In reality, after finding out she was an orphan, he wanted to have an excuse to hire her and give her a way of supporting herself without making her feel like he was pitying her.
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Ghost Hunt / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ghost Hunt / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: In volume 7 of the light novels it turns out that the local villages and newspapers have been covering up the disappearances (and deaths) of multiple children and didn't bother warning the group of that fact when they asked them to investigate.
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Ghost Hunt / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Ghost Hunt / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: The "The Doll House" File. It turns out that the ghost haunting the house 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—although it is stated that Tomiko's body was found in the pond some six months after her disappearance. Also, the little girl currently living in the home is feared to have drowned, but luckily nothing bad ever happened.
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Ghost Hunt / int_b9b348b	type	Television Serial
Ghost Hunt / int_b9b348b	comment	Television Serial
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Ghost Hunt / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
Ghost Hunt / int_ba0e3912	comment	Power Nullifier: Ayako Matsuzaki seems like she's a fake spiritualist for the first 25 episodes until she exorcises eight malevolent ghosts at once. Turns out all her power comes from her affinity for trees and all their previous cases were indoors, or the trees were "dead" trees.
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Ghost Hunt / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Ghost Hunt / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Ayako Matsuzaki. Like Mai, she has red hair and is quite confident in her abilities despite her track record in exercising spirits.
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Ghost Hunt / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Ghost Hunt / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: Ghost Hunt stays on a borderline with the genre, but the effects of the spirits and spiritualists on the team bring it close.
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Ghost Hunt / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
Ghost Hunt / int_c325f125	comment	During the Cursed House arc, there is a scene in the manga where Yasuhara is trying to treat the large wounds on Monk's back. Monk accuses Yasuhara of being a pervert for trying to take off his shirt. The Ho Yay jokes continue for the rest of the scene.
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Ghost Hunt / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Ghost Hunt / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: John is by far the nicest character among the ghost hunters. You can count the times he gets legitimately angry or blows up on someone on one hand alone. Monk is a close second. He acts as a sort of father figure towards Mai and is generally very polite towards people.
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Ghost Hunt / int_c547f08d	type	Ghostly Chill
Ghost Hunt / int_c547f08d	comment	Ghostly Chill: Happens on occasion, usually when a ghost ramps up the haunting or becomes especially malicious. They keep thermometers in each room when possible to help track spiritual activity.
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Ghost Hunt / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Ghost Hunt / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Naru never tells anyone what he's planning, especially late in a case, despite consistent pestering from the others. On the rare occasion he does divulge what's on his mind, he's always wrong.
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Ghost Hunt / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Ghost Hunt / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: After Mai wakes up from a particularly terrifying dream, Ayako slaps her across the face to get her to stop screaming.
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Ghost Hunt / int_c948fd40	type	Ki Manipulation
Ghost Hunt / int_c948fd40	comment	Ki Manipulation: Some of the spells manage to resemble this. Especially the one fired off by Naru against a god in the last episode.
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Ghost Hunt / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
Ghost Hunt / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: In the final arc.
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Ghost Hunt / int_cb83d23b	type	I Just Want to Be Special
Ghost Hunt / int_cb83d23b	comment	I Just Want to Be Special: One character's desire for people to notice them winds up creating a poltergeist and injuring several characters.
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Ghost Hunt / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Ghost Hunt / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: The world in general is skeptical of the supernatural despite it being quite demonstrably true. At one point, a teacher claims that ghosts are nonsense moments after seeing a 7 foot ghost dog tearing up a classroom.
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Ghost Hunt / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Ghost Hunt / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The original cases are things like a girl who wants to be special subconsciously using ESP and the ghost of a child haunting a doll. By the end of the series, it's progressed to a child freezing to death during hide and seek, a demon slaughtering teenagers and bathing in their blood to stay youthful, a vengeful god who forces members of a family to kill each other out of revenge for not knowing to worship it properly, and a classroom full of elementary school children who either died in a landslide or suffocated in its aftermath. Though the series never quite loses its comedic, warm tone, the post-canon arc The House of Nightmares is almost thrilling enough as to be unrecognizable from where the series began. The arc before that may be scarier, as it involved a Humanoid Abomination who Was Once a Man 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.
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Ghost Hunt / int_cffafc80	type	You, Get Me Coffee
Ghost Hunt / int_cffafc80	comment	You, Get Me Coffee: Mai's occasionally on the receiving end of this joke. Somewhat justified in the beginning since that's what her job entails and she had no powers to speak of, and eventually she gets to be a bit smug about the fact that Naru's stopped liking tea that other people have made.
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Ghost Hunt / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Ghost Hunt / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: On multiple occasions Mai has made an innocent comment that allows Naru and the rest to figure out what they're really up against. So many occasions, in fact, that Naru tests her for psychic ability and realizes those 'innocent comments' are actually the result of subconscious ESP.
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Ghost Hunt / int_d2d09ff6	type	After-Action Patch-Up
Ghost Hunt / int_d2d09ff6	comment	After-Action Patch-Up: There is a scene like this during the Cursed House arc in the manga. It was cut in the anime.
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Ghost Hunt / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Ghost Hunt / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: If, as heavily implied, it's the case that Sakauchi created the death curse in the "Forbidden Pastime" case prior to killing himself, he's a victim of this trope, as his own ghost ends up being consumed by the spirits summoned to enact the curse.
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Ghost Hunt / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ghost Hunt / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Mai is not pleased to discover that Naru is willing to turn a death curse onto six hundred relatively innocent students (hoping that the curse would dilute itself and "merely" severely injure them rather than kill them. Maybe) just to guarantee the life of one Jerkass teacher — his justification being that, unwittingly or not, they still invoked a powerful death curse. Naru instead takes a third option and diverts the death curse to six hundred hitogatas of innocent students, leaving everyone unharmed.
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Ghost Hunt / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Ghost Hunt / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: With the exception of Naru and Lin, who wear dark business suits while working cases, everyone wears a different outfit for new days.
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Ghost Hunt / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Ghost Hunt / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Quite a bit with Naru and Mai. Ayako and Monk, further ship-teased by Mai identifying them as Team Mom and Team Dad respectively. Invoked by Yasuhara in the episode just after he is introduced. When Monk teasingly insinuates that Yasuhara and Mai like each other, Yasuhara states that he does like Mai—but he likes Naru better, and he likes Monk best of all. He then admits that he's joking. Later on, though, there is actual Ho Yay between them, some of it perpretrated by Monk himself. During the Cursed House arc, there is a scene in the manga where Yasuhara is trying to treat the large wounds on Monk's back. Monk accuses Yasuhara of being a pervert for trying to take off his shirt. The Ho Yay jokes continue for the rest of the scene.
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Ghost Hunt / int_e03533c8	type	Blood Bath
Ghost Hunt / int_e03533c8	comment	Blood Bath: 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). Even more frightening is the part where dozens of young people who wander into his empty mansion disappear, even decades after Urado's death. It's implied that the power of Urado's multiple Human Sacrifices note the team find a burial chamber set up like the famous Paris catacombs, and looks to have triple-digit numbers of skeletons has preserved the spirit of Urado, and his two attendants/accomplices, in a constant re-playing loop of kidnapping and sacrifice even after Urado is no longer alive to benefit from it.
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Ghost Hunt / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Ghost Hunt / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: C'mon, when you first see Lin tell me you don't think of Hatori Sohma!
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Ghost Hunt / int_e5da07dd	type	Badass Unintentional
Ghost Hunt / int_e5da07dd	comment	Badass Unintentional: Mai, whose main powers are powerful information gathering tools and thus allow her to find the info needed to solve things.
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Ghost Hunt / int_e6eafde0	type	Battle Aura
Ghost Hunt / int_e6eafde0	comment	Battle Aura: Naru gets a white one with Dramatic Wind right before destroying a god-possessed statue.
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Ghost Hunt / int_ea8168f	type	Crossover Cosmology
Ghost Hunt / int_ea8168f	comment	Crossover Cosmology: Among the main cast are a Shinto Miko, a Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Priest, and an Onmyoji/Taoist priest who successfully use rituals from their respective religions to interact with spirits and perform exorcisms. Natural disposition and energy is shown to be a factor in dealing with spirits, as seen when Naru describes Mai as having latent abilities as an Esper rather than developed abilities as an Esper, so it's likely that their respective religions are just ways of processing that energy in a direct and focused way (though there are differences in the effect - Monk's exorcisms, for example, are physically destructive and therefore can't be used on people, while John's don't usually harm the target). On the other hand, spirits for sure exist, and definitely remain in this life because of conflicts before their death that didn't allow them to move on.
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Ghost Hunt / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Ghost Hunt / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: If we had a 500-yen coin for every time Monk burst through a door and shouted "Naumaku sanmanda bazaradan kan!"... Unusually for this trope, though, it's usually in the middle of the episode, to show that things are getting dangerous. Naru usually takes the lead in the finale. In a more straightforward example, Lin in the Bloodstained Labyrinth arc. He summons his shiki right as Mai is about to be attacked by Urado, who can't be banished by an exorcism.
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Ghost Hunt / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Mr. Matsuyama, a teacher at Rokuryo High School, is intolerably unpleasant. He also is undisturbed by the idea of dozens of students dying so long as he lives.
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Ghost Hunt / int_ebf8fc6	type	Not a Morning Person
Ghost Hunt / int_ebf8fc6	comment	Not a Morning Person: Naru. 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...
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Ghost Hunt / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Ghost Hunt / int_f06b07ff	comment	Naru is critical, harsh and is rather arbitrary in his decisions, but it is very clear that he generally has the safety of his friends first in mind. At the end of Forbidden Pasttime, he even apologizes to Mai for keeping her Locked Out of the Loop.
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Ghost Hunt / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Ghost Hunt / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: The first case of the anime series, was caused because one of the girls was desperate for there to be a haunting and so she subconsciously caused most of the poltergeist activities, not knowing she was a latent psychic.
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Ghost Hunt / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Ghost Hunt / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Creepy ghost children to be precise. Lots of them.
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Ghost Hunt / int_f482730a	type	No Peripheral Vision
Ghost Hunt / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: One ghost involving a mysterious bell sound at a school ran into this issue. Specifically, the ghost is the spirit of a young boy who couldn't speak and used to go to that school — he carried a small bell with him if he wanted to get someone's attention. One day while playing hide-and-seek, he climbed up to a high, out of the way cove of the building and got stuck up there, dropping his bell onto the ground in the process and so he was never found. Monk realizes what had happened when the present-day class plays another game of hide-and-seek and observes that all the kids look around the grounds but none of them think to look upwards.
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Ghost Hunt / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
Ghost Hunt / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Ayako begins to develop into this around the second arc. Despite occasionally butting heads, she looks out of the welfare of the others, especially Mai since she's the only member of the group who has zero means of defending herself from spirits.
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Ghost Hunt / int_fb9e0265	type	Team Dad
Ghost Hunt / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Mai likens Monk to this at the beginning of the Forgotten Children manga-arc.
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Ghost Hunt / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Ghost Hunt / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Mai likens Ayako to this at the beginning of the Forgotten Children manga-arc.
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Ghost Hunt / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Ghost Hunt / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Eugene Davis. During an investigation in Japan, he was run over by a car as he was crossing a road. However, he was still alive. Apparently, what actually killed him was when the female driver panicked and decided to finish him off, throwing his body in a nearby lake. This results to Naru, who was Gene's younger twin brother, becoming the Angsty Surviving Twin.
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Ghost Hunt / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Ghost Hunt / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: 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.
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