![]() The story occasionally did surprise me, and readers of my other reviews know how much I appreciate a series that's willing to be surprising. About midway through the series the storyline takes a major shift in tone, and I was afraid that Kirie would fall prey to a familiar story cliche of this genre, but that didn't happen. Kirie is perhaps even more serious than Teichi like Teichi, she CAN see Yuko, but she's maybe more capable of a clearheaded analysis of the situation than Teichi is, because Yuko is constantly distracting Teichi. ![]() Our other member is Kirie, who happens to share the same last name as Yuko. ![]() A funny recurring bit is when Teichi wants to have a conversation with Yuko while Momoe is there- since Momoe can neither see nor hear Yuko, Teichi will simply pretend to be talking to club "president" Yuko on his cell phone. Momoe is our ditzy comic relief, a short, blonde girl with a passion for the supernatural (and for Teichi) but a complete inability to see, or even sense, ghosts. There are two other members of the Paranormal Investigation Club. In fact, the series is mainly ABOUT how far she will go to avoid unpleasant things-pretty amazing lengths, it turns out. She just doesn't want to deal with anything unpleasant. Teichi, on the other hand, is a rather serious fellow who becomes interested in the mystery of Yuko's death, which she herself seems curiously disinterested in. She wants to experience all the aspects of the life that she had prematurely taken away from her. Despite what that awful Bo Derek movie says, Yuko apparently thinks that ghosts CAN do it, or at least that they can explore the preliminaries. She's cheerful and apparently a bit of a sensualist, though that's probably understandable in a character who died young and therefore never had much of an opportunity to experience that side of life. Yuko, our dead girl, is actually a rather interesting character. I was pretty put off by the unfortunate title of this series, and even more by the title of the opening song- what the HELL is a "Choir Jail"? (Perhaps it is where you are sent when you miss practice.) And there's a bit of gratuitous fanservice here and there, including a "little sister" cafe (with nekomimi, naturally.) And just a touch of harem- three girls, two living and one dead, want Teichi, though the dead one definitely has the edge here. Teichi wants to help the ghost, named Yuko, by investigating her past, which she's somehow forgotten, but Yuko herself seems much more interested in a here-and-now relationship with Teichi. Teichi Niiya heads the Paranormal Investigation Club at Seikyou Academy, which only has three members-or four, if you happen to count the club's president, who is a ghost. Notes: Based on a manga series serialized under the pen-name "Maybe " it ran in Monthly Gangan Joker from 2009 until 2013. It is not covered here.Īlso Recommended: In short, this is in a category of its own. Related Series: A thirteenth episode was released DVD-only. Length: Television series, 12 episodes, 25 minutes eachĭistributor: Licensed by Sentai FilmworksĬontent Rating: 13+ (Mature Themes, Violence, Nudity) ![]() AKA: 黄昏乙女 X アムネジア (Tasogare Otome x Amunejia)
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