Ghost Hunt – 10

Short-summary: Inside the hospital, Naru-chan reveals the real culprit, and her case is revealed. Good: A good move away from the predictable mystery in this case. Bad: This arc just doesn’t match up to the second one. Overall Enjoyment Value: 6/10 Before I start with the usual episode review, a little something about the above lines. It’s a small experiment. I tried to include some new kind of feature to my blog, and since I love statistics, I tried thinking of some statistics I could add to every post. Well, I couldn’t, at least not without some completely far-fetched, nonsensical and doomed-to-fail ideas. Then I got the idea of including a small short blurbs, which summarized my thoughts a bit. When I read other blogs, I often catch myself skimming for short summaries, or episode ratings, so I figured to have a small experiment, to see whether this would work for my blog as well. I’m not sure whether I’m going to keep up with it, seeing as I already dropped the idea of including some additional information in the post title, but who knows. It’s also a good way for me to force me to be a bit more critical, and it may be good for when I want to skim back to previously seen episodes. Also, about the rating. I’m planning to have a very high standard for it, so that’s why this episode only got a 6/10, despite being good. The average episode ranks 5/10, when it doesn’t really have any interesting points. By adding some interesting points, like this one did, it gets a rating of 6/10. Needless to say that 1/10 is total garbage, while 10/10 ranks among the best episodes ever. Both don’t appear often, possibly once every few months. Anyway, about the episode, I’m glad it turned out good, despite the predictability. Luckily, it decides to focus on something other than mystery this time: the relationship between psychic abilities and the mass media. The episode brought Ubusuna-sensei’s case in a really good way. It’s a really interesting one, seeing as even during her confrontation, she kept smiling, thinking that her actions are the only things that matter. The mass media can be quite a bitch at times. Especially the gossipy ones are all after stories, and aren’t afraid to hurt people. What they don’t realize is the huge effect this can have on children, with a good chance of causing a post-traumatic disorder, like what happened to Ubusuna-sensei. I guess it isn’t necessary to mention that I hate these kinds of reporters in real life. Also, Naru-chan is quite a trickster. He fooled me yet again, thinking he had psychic powers, but as far as things look now, he’s the only main without any powers in this anime. At least, if Matsuzaki really has them and Naru-chan isn’t hiding something from everyone. Still, why was Lin so worried when Mai told everyone about Naru-chan’s “powers”?]]>