GHOST HUNT
Hi my name is Mai Taniyama. I work at Shibuya Psychic Research Center, S.P.R for short. My job is basically dealing with hauntings. Our team is made up of exorcists, medians, priests and ordinary people.
On the team there is Kazuya Shibuya or Naru, that's what I like to call him. Naru the Narcissist. He is the owner and boss of S.P.R. He has very strong psychokinetic abilities that takes a great toll on his body. He is a very cold and emotionless person.
Lin Kōujo is originally from Hong Kong and is Naru's solemn and taciturn assistant. He seems to get most of the unpleasant jobs, and works through the night. He appears to be a strong onmyoji and has a wide range of paranormal skills from exorcism to summoning spirits that he has captured and can then control familiars. Lin doesn't really talk much.
Hōshō Takigawa or otherwise known as monk. He is a 25 year old hakkaisou, a Buddhist monk who has left his position at the headquarters of the Koyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism, Mt. Koya. He claims that he left because they did not allow music CDs, and his day job is playing bass guitar in a popular band. He is like an older brother to me and has even taught me some Buddhist warding chants.
Ayako Matsuzaki is an outspoken 23 year old self-styled Shinto miko (priestess). She is confident and proud of her abilities, though her attempts to demonstrate them have almost always fallen short. She does teach me some defensive sutras and it is later revealed that her powers only work when she is around living trees as she draws power from the spirits in them. She is also like an older sister to me.
John Brown is a nineteen-year-old Caucasian Catholic priest from Australia who learned to speak Japanese with a Kansai accent, thus giving his sentences a rather odd, humorous structure. His means of exorcism is spraying holy water while reciting the first passage of John from the New Testament of the Bible. He exorcisms whenever a human being is possessed by a spirit.
Masako Hara is a 16 year old spirit medium with a popular television show and has the ability to channel the deceased. Aside from me, she is the only one who can sense spirits and their natures. Because she is always wearing a kimono, even while sleeping, she is remarked as resembling a Japanese doll. She is in love with Naru and hates me.
Osamu Yasuhara is a 3rd year top-ranked high school student and president of his school's student council. Yasuhara first appears as a client of SPR as a result of unexplainable phenomena occurring at his school. After the case is solved, he continues to help out SPR on other cases, including standing in as "Kazuya Shibuya" at the request of Naru and performing background research off-site while the others are on a case. He has no psychic powers of his own, but his sharp mind and work efficiency make him a great help to the team.
Madoka Mori is an associate and mentor to Naru. We don't see her much. But she has a fun personality and helps out yasu.
And then there's me, Mai. I am a 16 year-old orphan and first year high school student who becomes involved with the Shibuya Psychic Research centre (SPR for short) after I accidentally breaks an expensive video camera that was being used by the SPR in an investigation of an old building at my school. I get stuck as Naru's assistance. It is revealed that I has ESP abilities, which include postcognitive dreams and clairvoyance. I also demonstrate an instance of astral projection, when I gives Masako a key to comfort her after she is kidnapped by a monster.