This screenshot cements the fact that this arc is perhaps the most scary arc for ghost hunt because it kept me once again on the edge of my seat. Smartly, I have learned my lesson and watched this episode in the early evening, hence not scaring the wits out of myself.
The truth will lie from within. Mai is dead.
Or is she?
Episode summary
The assistant had reported that her hands were moving by her own and she would run away if she let go of the pen. With that, Naru reviewed the tape and found that the red words “I don’t want to die” was suddenly on the piece of the paper as it fell. Masako felt bad as she returned to the room. Naru instructed Ayako to join them as it was clear that Naru was being overly cautious. Back in the room, Masako asked Mai whether she felt anything but Mai said she did not. When Ayako came out of the bathroom and found them talking, Masako denied that they were on good terms and said that she could not have SUCH a person to be her friend. After that, Masako started to diss Mai, saying that she disliked her and told her she should know why.
The next day, it seemed that Lin was quite cold and Suzuki disappeared when Igarashi found her missing when she woke up at 7 am. It was already 10 am, but a check found that she had not left the mansion. Igarashi said Suzuki would not leave anywhere without her contacts since she was badly near-sighted. As Minami and Dr Davis came in, Igarashi asked him to help as Davis was known to be able to find people but Minami said that he was unable to do it as Davis could only detect things that was on the victim during the disappearance. It made no sense but Minami added that Suzuki might be scared and left for home after yesterday’s incident. However, she did not return.
While resting, Ayako said both Mai and Masako were important since they were the mediums. Ayako added that she was busy with finding and exorcising the spirits, while Masako replied that she was tired of listening to her grumbling anyway. Later at night, they searched for clues and Bou-san said he had never seen a spirit that asked for help. The room they were checking was slanted and they found a trapdoor. Inside the trapdoor, they found an old note with strange writing that seemed incomprehensible, as well as a towel from the old hospital.
Naru ordered everyone to remember not going around alone as Mai was grouped with Lin. It was then realized that Lin reminded Mai about the atrocities caused by the Japanese and he hated them a lot. Mai said that it was all right if she was hated but it was unfair to hate her simply because she was Japanese. Lin started to laugh and simply said that someone said the same thing. Mai asked if it was not Naru but Lin said Naru would simply say something like “so idiotic”. He then apologized for his actions and said that it was in him to do that due to the history even though he never disliked Mai.
The others returned, only for an apparition to appear in the window, only that it was Madoka. Naru lectured her that it was dangerous but she simply said that Naru would save her. Mai noted that Naru accepted defeat. She then repeated some information about the two missing people, one being a drunkard who disappeared after a party and one of the rescuers who came to find them. The previous owner had a cleaning fetish and many people rumored that there was once that he fired someone embezzled funds from the hospital while firing every other family member of the accused who worked under him in other roles.
More history came when Madoka reported that the son of this owner said that the reason for him to change the house was to prevent the spirits to come out in the house. Naru then asked her to check out about the hospital as she went out through the window again. As they went back to their room, the other assistant told the gals to be careful as Mai wondered why such a good assistant was working under Minami. A dream came as Mai dreamed of the other assistant walking toward the darkness. Minami then woke her up, only to find out that the assistant also disappeared like Mai’s dream. Even as Igarashi pressed Dr Davis and doubted him, Minami simply made up a total fuss and left, saying that they would not help them since they were doubted.
The next day, they were exploring the house when they found another hidden door in the staircase as they found a portrait. The name of the portrait triggered Naru’s memory as he deciphered the note. The note stated “the people who are here are mostly dead, with the second line being a remainder of note for someone. John proposed that there was someone who was cursing the owner, yet he was way too cowardly to ask for help and hence chased everyone away.
Masako said the answer was already revealed by the spirit who died here. Late at night, two men dragged Mai as she could not shrug them off or shout. As they moved her around to the surgery room, she was suddenly in a kimono as she was tied on the table. The knife called as she looked for help and hoped that it was a dream. The knife was a short distance away from her neck…
Thoughts
Ok, just when I thought that the first episode of this arc was fabulous, I forget about one thing. THE SECOND EPISODE OF ANY ARC IS ALWAYS BETTER. Hell, it is better and the ending of this episode is so much on a cliffhanger that I am begging JC Staff to release episode 19 as soon as possible because the wait will kill me wondering if Mai will actually suffer any mental damage. I know it’s practically impossible for Ghost Hunt to kill the main character but I do want to know how they are going to get Mai out of this trouble.
I do hope that Mai escapes with a good logical explaination in hand which will not be too surprising for the likes of Ghost Hunt since it has always used a logical and sensible plot on it. Let’s hope that it will be as good as it has held up. Yes, you can tell that I am starting to ramble a little because I was shocked at the way they realistically portrayed how Mai has dragged and eventually placed on the surgery table.
Creepy stuff there.
On a totally different topic, I wonder if Davis is really the real Davis now, considering that he hardly speaks (did he even speak) and his exit reeks of someone who is trying to escape after something out of his scope appeared. I think this episode nailed it to say that this Davis that has appeared is highly likely to be fake. I do not know but I think that there is some background conspiracy about getting the organs of the victims in the hospital, what if the two people who dragged Mai, as well as the other two assistants into the table.
On a lighter note, Masako rocks in this episode, with her countless disses at Mai for almost everything. I thought the first salvo was great because she said how beautiful and popular she is compared to Mai (of course you are). Masako also went on to say how such a person like Mai could be her friend, which is true since Masako is just about the greatest. Jokes and fanboying aside, the little spats of Masako does show that Mai is becoming a threat not only in the pursuit of Naru’s heart but also her growing ability as a medium.
To be acknowledged by Masako, it means that someone who is an accomplished medium had believed that Mai does have special power. We might see more fledgling abilities by Mai soon. For now, I am wondering about how they are going to play this since this arc should be 4 episodes if I am not mistaken. I do think that Naru will somehow find a way to save Mai, but I am clueless on this since I am pretty drained out.
I am also a bit surprised that Igarashi is practically useless compared to most of the other ghost Hunters. Why in the world did they hire such lousy experts if what they can do is panic and do absolutely nothing. Even Ayako is cooler than that old woman. Also, Madoka is definitely an instant win because she can control Naru by the back of her fingers. Her wonderful line of “Naru, you will come and save me” is a phrase that causes Naru to admit defeat. Just excellent work by the rather interesting Madoka. I do wonder if Naru has a strong moral ground to “respect his elders”.
Strange how Madoka had so much power over him, right?
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i just remembered seeing in Dexter that people were drained of blood in the same fashion as Mai is seemingly going to be killed (cut to the throat). now i wonder if this table will tilt too lol.
did anyone remember seeing a bucket under the table?
Some times you people scare me.
Because we know too much about the macabre? Or just in general?
As for organ transplants, as long as the donor recently died I think if they remove them asap and get them on ice its workable.
Probably even more in their case if they were removing them in the hospital basement and then transferring them upstairs ne?
Of course that would mean people really high up in the hospital would have to be involved, it couldn’t be just one doctor acting on his own, theres just too much to cover up you would think.
i’m almost, nearly convinced that it’s a vampire. probably not a real vampire but in the sense that it has the thirst for blood. i really can’t shake off the feeling that champagne glass of red liquid is really blood. also when you kill someone, why do it in such a bloody manner? like the method wherein there would be the most blood? the raws will be released soon so i hope our questions and speculations will be answered. or not the next ep will lead to even more speculation.
Well if there is a bucket, I would have to agree they were probably being slaughtered for their blood.
Not too sure about humans but the best way to collect trunk blood from rodents is to lop off the head and well, disgusting as this sounds pour it out.
Thankfully I’ve never had to do that, thank god for i.v’s…
If you get a good vein, exsanguination shouldn’t take all that long I don’t think, and well if you take someones head off and hit the carotid, it will go really quickly.
Trust me I know, thankfully I haven’t forgotten to clamp an artery in a while, you do it once and make a mess and you pretty much never do it again.
hey! D.J your deviantart is a guy figure look very carefully! hehehehehe
*noblsheep I think they need the head and not the organs (wow) what it would be, hek hek hek!and hey if you like to know if there’s a bucket or not that would be nice if you find out yourself,its also nice to explore your own eyes again those creepy surgical room!believe me its very interesting!
na2niet – LOL, well I blame hubby he drew it. And that’s an interesting idea I never considered that they might just want the head…
But if they did want blood and want it quick severing the carotid would be a good way to do it. That sucker can bleed, but you don’t really need to take the whole head off to do that.
D.J
P.S Episode 20 has already made me squee. But I won’t say why.
they are going to kill Mai like chicken is that so? oh neeeeee!
*D.J shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
*Psychicotaku182 who’s scaring you? D.J or Impz I’ll kill them for you!
Hey I’m not ready to die just yet, I haven’t seen all of Ghost Hunt for starters! ^-^
Don’t worry na2niet, I’m keeping stoom, but I will say the more I watch this show the more I LOVE it. ^-^
Umm…..been reading the comic up by far to the cursed house story, passing this one…
What actually happen to Mai at the point is…she was possesed by the spirit that was killed, and what she sees is the spirit memories.
If this spoils something, for someone than I must beg your pardon(^_^).
hahahaha, no problem since the raw is out. =3 Wah, I actually guessed it right that it’s an extension to her powers.
I rock >_>
Ha ha ha.
I think if they were serious about collecting blood they’re not doing it very well… look at all the pools of red stuff on the floor! Such wastage!
j/k
It is indeed, and there a happy moments for you Impz and happy moments for me. YAY!
I just watched the sub version of this episode, i totally want to see the next episode because i want to see if Mai can actually survive. But i think that she’s going to survive though…
When I was cringing through Mai’s nightmare, it occured to me that this dream-seer’s ability of hers might be very useful, but it is also very dangerous for an amateur like her. Without sufficient guidance or training, Mai might begin to lose grip on the difference between dream and waking, and if she suffers from a tremendously violent and traumatising dream…
Btw my understanding of the murders is that someone, or rather by now something, needed a lot of blood to survive. Whether it consumes the blood, injects it into its body or not, I don’t know, but my theory is that it might be using bloodbaths to sustain itself abeit barely. The corpse-like creature doesn’t look very healthy, and most vampires are known to be very rosy after meals. Another possibility may be that it is using the body parts of others to replace whatever that had decayed or malfunctioned. Those who have played Diablo 2 may be reminded of Radament the Fallen, who was pretty much doing the same thing.
Btw, when I started watching this case, the first thing that came to mind was Fatal Frame, though this one’s more like the work of a mad doctor than a group of morbid cultists.
“When I was cringing through Mai’s nightmare, it occured to me that this dream-seer’s ability of hers might be very useful, but it is also very dangerous for an amateur like her. Without sufficient guidance or training, Mai might begin to lose grip on the difference between dream and waking, and if she suffers from a tremendously violent and traumatising dream…”
That’s a very interesting point. I think at some point they are going to have to touch upon how all this affects Mai.
Holly molly O_____O
First of all thirteensugars: I don’t squeal I just get paralized. I should just hit the exit button too but i’m too scared to move. My neck hurts afterwards though cause i stiff it >
After watching 20 I went back and rewatched this episode. Ahh the clues were all there dammit.
I totally glossed over what the man was saying at the end, dismissing it as the voice of those who had died.
But now I realise the guy saying he didn’t want to die was the freak killing all those people. Minerva you’re idea is looking even more likely.
And oops I screwed up on Bathory, she did indeed bathe in the blood, supposedly, not drink it. Sorry getting my legends mixed up.
Actually hubby-sama had the Bathory figure from the Todd McFarlane collection. We got a tidy sum for that one, but not as much as the $500 someone paid for his Patrick Roy figure. But now I’m getting off the topic.
Go Mai!
Due to the fact that I cannot answer any comments (I am in lab and bored stiff yet i cannot read what is really going on), I will tell everyone that I finally got my hands on ep 20.
Hell, i want to know what happened to Mai so the entry will be out in 9-10 hours time from now ^+^
Can’t wait!!!! And bored stiff.
It’s interesting that the idea of this stories might come up from the Winchester house story, although there are no such “vampiric” creatures inside that house.
As for Mai, it would seem that her “dreamseer” ability would still be growing, from the fact that she can gave Masako her good luck charm “key” that she brought with her in her pocket while she met Masako in her dream.
And in the next story Mai can also use the Fudoumyou Mantra and Kuji that is taught to her quite nicely while the group had to repel an attack from a group of….well…”zombies” .
Hey DJ goodie I’m not too off on this. As far as it goes maybe this guy heard of Bathory or this kind of possibilities due to the western culture’s introduction to Japan. Apparently in bathory’s case was the tub and the iron maiden hung up to function as a shower.
BTw can u guys read my posts? they seem to get cut or blocked
heehee
this might be the first time that I actually finished the espisode BEFORE your entry of it came out
I’m very happy about epi 20, w/ the many “that’s what I thought!” moments. But giving out info only makes me wanna know more. I’m anxious to see what everyone else is gonna about it
)))))
whew! episode 20 is finally out! i will wait until the summary comes out before i give my comments on that ep. but all i will say for now is that many speculations are answered and there were many “sweet” moments among characters^_^ i’m bracing myself for another exciting episode next week!
hahaha, it’s up already.
For minerva, spam karma is being an idiot and I got your messages back from there. No worries, it just takes a while for me to check the very occasional failing of the comments ><
Good Lord, this one was freaky. This episode and the last one were the most scary so far. I wonder where this will go. (btw, I’m for the NaruXMai pairing, and Masako hopefully being Naru’s sister XD)
hahahaha, NO, MASAKO BEING NARU’S SISTER IS LAME.
We should just have a Naru x Masako pairing, and Mai being Naru’s sister. WAY BETTER.
Does anyone know where I can watch Ghosthunt? I can’t watch it on Youtube anymore because of copyright issues!
-Miko