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Caitaro has a spiritual sight, the ability to see and feel ghosts around him, but when children’s experience leaves him, and his friend is cursed and injured, Caitaro isolate himself from society. After years, after his childhood friend, Eyko helps him integrate back into society, he now in college and takes work with tutors, but swore all things related to ghosts. Problem? His first student, egg, also has a spiritual sight and asks Caitaro to help her find more ghosts so that she can become powerful enough to resist the grotesque supernatural phenomenon that took the spirit of her dead mother. Can Caitaro save his normal life and avoid all ghost meetings? Or was he destined to turn back, no matter what?

Dark gathering It is based on the manga of the same name from Kenichi Condo, available in English with Viz Media. Anime lasts 25 episodes, and from research, anime seems to follow the manga to Tom 9 and then stops. Unfortunately, despite the long anime, the series does not end with its own ending or any ending. It actually adjusts the next arc and then simply ends. Either he hoped for a new season or never planned to cover the entire manga (which continues at the time of writing, and Recently resumed after a short break.). This makes the ending quite equal and perhaps disappointing when I felt that I had never made a satisfying conclusion about the story she created, but I cannot deny that I had a very creepy time with this series.

The first half of the anime covers Caitaro, who tries to preserve some normal life, opposing all the attempts of egg and Eyko to take his hunting for ghosts. He is the POV character for the first arc, including his story about how he feels at certain times, and the ghost attacks him. Apparently ghosts are attracted to Kaitaro, so despite the fact that he wants nothing to do with ghosts, they really Want to do something with him and it’s usually not good! I enjoyed this arch most because it had an emotional core and ponds I could sympathize with. Catero, of course, is injured by his experiences from the runny nose, and despite his ability to feel them, he really wants anything with them. Seeing that the “curse” he and his friend suffer from the ghost attack that happened to the series, it is clear that he is scared when both the egg and Ayko seek to look for ghosts. When he learns from Yayoi that they can break the curse if they capture a powerful ghost and use it to kill the original ghost that cursed it, it gives him a pause. He fights for “normal life” with his curse, independently? Or will he plunge his head back into the supernatural, risking his life with the hope of living a life without a curse in the future? It is through the meeting of Caitaro with the egg and her courage when fighting other ghosts, the knowledge he acquires in his battles, and learning about the curse of other people (for example, AI, at the end of the first arc), his mind begins to change. It is a impetus and a train that makes an interesting dynamics between Keitaro and the egg, and also gives him food to think about whether he is ready to return to what his life destroyed. In the second half of the series, it focuses less, where the focus goes to the egg, and this is a real shame because it has the best arc and emotional ponds.

I also like the arc of history that Eico is experiencing in the series. It was early revealed that she was a friend who was cursed next to Kaitaro, but instead of self -writing, she engulfed the supernatural and actually loves a trembling from what was frightened. She is mostly Yumeko of Kakegurui is a compulsive excitementBut instead of depending on gambling, she is obsessed with the supernatural and fear she brings her. She is also similar to the devil on Keitaro’s shoulders, pushing him to dive into the occult, and she is also in love with him. In the middle of the series, she has an interesting crisis of faith, where her fear is pushed to her boundaries, and she begins to think about whether her love for the supernatural was wrong. Here you think it will go, but I like the study of her character, and as the series does not frame her obsession with ghosts as something healthy, often framed by her monologues to love to be frightened by sinister music and spooky images.

But the most important character of the series is an egg that is a spooky girl we see from the beginning and looks like Soul eatery nature. She also has a spiritual sight and lost both parents very young in a car crash, but has a double hamme injury, watching her mother’s ghost eats a horrible being known as a “ghost of death”, which looks like a giant womb floating in the sky. Yayoi is in search of revenge and has knowledge of the world -a ghost that goes beyond Caitaro’s experience, so she is both those who manage the main plot, and also provides an exposition when the situation requires this (which is many). In the second half of the series, she also adopts as a POV character, as her search for revenge is a much greater problem and influence the search for Keitaro, and to the existence of other people.

However, the problem is that Yayoi is a more plot device than a character; She has building blocks for the emotional arch (wanting to save her mom’s soul, grow her ghostly army when she is immersed deeper into the occult), but she also serves as a hunter in the ghosts of “Badas” of history, the expression of which never changes and always comes out in the first place. You can not really humanize someone who tries to save the spirit of the dead mother from the curse, but still does not affect the numerous ghost attacks. And I mean “unprotected” in every possible way. It not only wins every time (expected as the main character), but also spills ENT of every ghost in the middle of battle, as she always knows or found out the weaknesses of every ghost, but never afraid and shows that it affects it. There is one battle where it threatens a serious danger, almost strangled the ghost over the bed of water, but at the moment when it is rescued, it moves as nothing happened. She may be interested in watching when she wins, but she is much less interesting that Cateur, which is why it is a shame that she takes over the story. It also becomes tired after a while.

It turns out that the ghost world is more difficult than it seems at first. There are different level ghosts (S-Rank, A-Rank, etc.), each has different forces depending on how they are killed, etc. It also turns into a deadly game in Pokémon It was there that was done where ghosts can be captured and leveled, but also eating other ghosts and turning on people when a hat drop, if left without checking. It becomes more important in the second half, but every ghost has its own history and a special attack is very good. The beauty of the show is interesting; This allows you to make unique kits and cool ghosts, but it can sometimes get a little, especially since Yayoi tends to explain it only how and when it happens, not information about the drip supply and will make it later. One flashy example, in the last half of the series, when it turns out that a ghost can actually replace and switch bodies with a person, and this is explained only by literally an episode before it becomes important, revealing that the villains were redesigned by the body for their evil plans.

But beyond how sometimes they reach down the ghosts, I cannot exceed it enough: ghost attacks are certainly a highlight of the series. Rating 18 on a box set is not a mistake because this series is very atmospheric and scary. If you like super creepy and Gory Survval Horror Games such as Project zero/Fatal frame, Silent Hill or Fear and faminethen Dark gathering It is also worth checking. First of all, it is very good at nailing the atmosphere of horror, although the series opens as a comedy and has casual light moments (to compensate how time it can be), at a time when ghosts seem to be in the atmosphere. Dark color palette, cold music, bait and switch of the redirection of the audience who think that the ghost is only to cut the ghost directly in the next picture without musical spoilers. It’s all very well done and effectively. Even later, when you know that our characters are going to do it from every meeting with a ghost alive, you can still feel the tension in every episode, because you do not know what a ghost will be or what it will be further, and the bets are different every time. The same applies to designs; Each of them is very striking and causing horror. My special beloved ghost was the one who kills by pulling the brain and then forcing the ghosts of his victims to serve him and bring him Even more Victims … Yes, this image will not leave me in the soon! The mountain series, dark, spooky and cruel at many points, so not for the weak -minded.

The OLA animated series, which is a company with many “smaller” teams, and this name was processed by the Masuda team (which has more experience of animation series Beyblade) But I think they did a great job here. Quality is strong in the world; You can say during quieter/comedy moments that corners are reduced to save time, but ghost attacks pass everything that is grateful. I like how they realize various ghost attacks, such as chanting the death of one ghost, with a shimmer of Kaji on the screen when he is screaming. The evaluation is distributed between numerous people: Cat Jamamoto, Shun Narita and Yusuke. The soundtrack is very effective to bring to life stops that stop on the heart, and the spooky tracks make you feel disordered, even when nothing happens. Yet. I also like the use of sound effects to truly drive home the confusing nature of the show, coating, swelling, clicking, moaning, biting sounds, etc.; They really set the audience to the edge.

This Blu-Ray set from MVM Entertainment contains all 25 episodes of anime; Applications include clean opening and ending, preview of episodes and resumes. There are also Japanese and English oaks. For Dub, I thought that Veteran Clint Bikhm did a good job, showing Kaitaro’s range from crying to an expensive life to emotional when he approaches Eico.

Dark gathering Changes its name with an extremely effective horror and ghost design to send a cold spine. The series is as unobstructed, and the story catches up with the least interesting character, but it is still a spooky clock as a whole.