Shinreigari: Another Side

神霊狩 ANOTHER SIDE
Ghost Hound: Another Side

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This world we live in, the "Apparent World" had another counterpart since long before the cyber age. From ancient times, people referred to it as the "Unseen World." Taro, Makoto and Masayuki are three junior high school boys who live in Suiten, a small town in a remote region of Northern Kyushu. Each one experienced a trauma in their childhood they could not erase. Because of this, or of other reasons, they all learned to traverse to the Unseen World, by slipping their souls. Ghosts dwelling in the Unseen World, did never manifest in the Apparent World. However, the Unseen World was going through an adverse change. And now, that change is starting to extend into the Apparent World... (Source: production I.G)

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Mar 30, 2007 to Dec 28, 2007

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Makoto Oogami87 fan favorites
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Makoto Oogami is a fairly silent, though hot-tempered boy who avoids contact with his classmates and rarely comes to school. A relative of Tarou's, his family being a branch of the Komori's, he has O.B.Es like Tarou and Masayuki and is able to produce them while playing his guitar, a regular pastime of his. Makoto's family founded a religion of which his elderly grandmother, Himeko, currently serves as the central point, and who wishes that Makoto succeed her as its head, though Makoto is not interested in it. In the direct aftermath of the kidnapping of the Komori children, his grandmother told the police where to find them; his father died by a bizarre suicide shortly after they were found, with the circumstances of his death being unknown. Makoto subsequently discovered his father's bloodied corpse, which resulted in a traumatic encounter for him; due to this, he wishes to find out more about the circumstances of his father's death and had initially harbored resentment toward Tarou; however, he appears to have warmed up to him, upon gradually knowing him better and gathering more information about the circumstances relating to the kidnapping incident.
Masayuki Nakajima68 fan favorites
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Recently transferred to Tarou and Makoto's school from Tokyo, Masayuki Nakajima tries to make friends with both due to an interest in investigating the kidnapping incident. While he was initially ignored by both, they eventually warmed up to him, with the three of them beginning to try to find the circumstances behind the kidnapping incident and the reason behind their O.B.Es. He tends to be very confident and initially, somewhat arrogant and rude. He has had a fear of heights ever since he bullied someone to die by suicide by jumping off the school roof, and the victim left a message on the blackboard cursing Masayuki. Masayuki unashamedly admits he ran away due to the message. Instead of feeling guilt, he is angry at the student for making him a murderer, a fact he cannot get out of his conscience. He is, however, very determined to overcome this problem and tries extensively, including standing on the edge of the school roof, to cure his fear of heights. During his spare time, he often plays his head-mounted display virtual reality game. His father is a researcher at Japan Bio-Tech, while his mother appears to spend large amounts of time playing console games, primarily Tetris or something similar. Of the two other boys, Masayuki has a friendlier relationship with Tarou, visiting him in the hospital and joking with him.
Tarou Komori43 fan favorites
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Age: 14 Tarou Komori is a narcoleptic boy and the main protagonist. He was kidnapped, along with his older sister Mizuka, 11 years ago, on September 2, 1996, but only Tarou was rescued alive. Since then, he has out-of-body experiences (O.B.Es) during his sleep and has the habit of recording what he sees in them in order to figure out the reason for it. He is currently seeking help from the school psychologist to help him work them out and remembers details from certain dreams. He wants to meet his sister again in the kakuriyo (spirit world) as there are things he wishes to ask. Tarou is unable to remember the face of his kidnapper and has flashbacks containing a black giant taking his sister away. Tarou is portrayed as kind and polite, worrying about the health of his mother more than himself. In the aftermath of an accident at the Komagusu family's shrine, he discovered an ability to apparently travel inside his own brain. During astral projection, when he begins to feel distinct emotions of rage and hatred, his spirit begins to transform into a dog-like apparition. This has only occurred twice, during confrontations with the apparent spirit of the man who kidnapped him and his sister 11 years ago. Recently, his form, having apparently stabilized during his astral projection, seems to have taken his human shape.
Miyako Komagusu42 fan favorites
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Miyako Komagusu is a mysterious young girl with the ability to see ghosts. She is somehow able to see Tarou's spirit during his O.B.E, as well as having been able to sense when all three boys entered the Unseen World for the first time. She lives at a shrine, which seems to have a lot of paranormal activity surrounding it, and regularly helps her father with exorcisms and the like. She acts rather mature for her age, often chiding the older boys for acting childish, and even scolding her father when he attempts to drink too much. She is shown later to have been possessed by spirits, resulting in her classmates trying to avoid her.