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'''Naru:''' It's the Okobusama, isn't it?
'''Mai :''' H-How did you know?
'''Naru:''' Because my brain's better than any of yours. }}
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* [[Accidental Murder]]: {{spoiler|Eugene Davis.}} During an investigation in Japan, he was run over by a car as he was crossing a road. {{spoiler|However, he was still alive. Apparently, what actually killed him was when the female driver panicked and threw his body in a nearby lake, thereby drowning him}}, all by accident. This results to Naru, who was {{spoiler|Gene's younger twin brother}}, becoming the {{spoiler|[[Angsty Surviving Twin]].}}
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Among the main cast are a Shinto Miko, a Buddhist Monk and a Catholic Priest who successfully use rituals from their respective religions to interact with spirits and perform exorcisms.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: There are several things about Naru that are either vaguely hinted at or not brought up at all in the anime but are explained fully elsewhere.
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* [[Badass Unintentional]]: {{spoiler|Mai, whose main powers are powerful information gathering tools and thus allow her to find the info needed to solve things.}}
* [[Battle Aura]]: {{spoiler|Naru}} gets a white one with [[Dramatic Wind]] right before destroying a god-possessed statue.
* [[Better Than It Sounds
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Monk hits this early on for Mai, Ayako follows up soon after as a [[Cool Big Sis]]
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: If we had a 500-yen coin for every time Monk burst through a door and shouted "Naumaku sanmanda bazaradan kan!"... Unusually for this trope, though, it's usually in the middle of the episode, to show that things are getting dangerous. [[Badass Bookworm|Naru]] usually takes the lead in the finale.
* [[Bishonen]]: Pretty much every main / recurring male character in the series (i.e. Naru, Lin, Takigawa, John, Yasu)
* [[Blood Bath]]: Based on both the Elizabeth Bathory legend and Vlad the Impaler, one of the scariest villains was a Japanese Lord who bathed in the blood of numerous servants in the hope of extending his life and took up the moniker "Urado" (Vlad).
* [[Bonding Over Missing Parents]]: In the light novels, Mai asks Naru if he employed her because {{spoiler|they were both orphans}}.
** Naru admits the fact and offhandedly tells her that {{spoiler|people in similar situations should help each other out}}, and that {{spoiler|he first found out about the fact that she was an orphan from her high school principal, way before she actually told SPR about it in the Urado case}}.
* [[Breather Episode]]: Right between "The After School Hexer" (The second legitimately creepy arc in the series) and "Silent Christmas" (A bit of a [[Tear Jerker]]) comes "Ghost Story in the Park!?", the series' only one-episode arc and the only episode to contain almost nothing but [[Comic Relief]].
* [[Burial At Sea]]: After the resolution of the Forbidden Children arc, {{spoiler|Eugene Davis was found in the bottom of the nearby lake. Apparently, his murderer dumped his body there.}}
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: Several times.
* [[The Doll Episode]]: Yup, there's one.
* [[
* [[Expy]] : C'mon, when you first see [[The Stoic|Lin]] tell me you ''don't'' think of [[Fruits Basket|Hatori Sohma]] !
* [[Fake Nationality]]: John Brown, an Australian, is voiced by the very American Jason Liebrecht, whose Australian accent is [[So Bad
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Ayako Matsuzaki.
* [[Furo Scene]]: Mai has one, but it's very brief and she's only seen from the shoulders up. ''Ghost Hunt'' isn't big on [[Fan Service]].
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* [[Ho Yay]]: Invoked by Yasuhara in the episode he's introduced in. When Monk teasingly insinuates that Yasuhara and Mai like each other, Yasuhara states that he ''does'' like Mai--but he likes Naru better, and he likes Monk best of all. He then admits that he's joking.
** Later on, though, there is ''actual'' [[Ho Yay]] between them, some of it perpretrated by Monk himself.
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: Justified in that this is {{spoiler|Mai's first year as a spiritualist and she gets better as time goes by, but she has a real trouble remembering that she doesn't have "just dreams" while on cases and thus sometimes decides something vitally important isn't worth saying. Actually, this might be an Aversion of [[Instant Expertise]] that is so often seen in fiction.}}
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: One character's desire for people to notice them winds up creating a poltergeist and injuring several characters.
* [[In
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: ''Naru''.
* [[Jerk
* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: Father Brown speaks in Kansai-ben because he spent his first few years in Japan in the Kansai area and thought it was standard Japanese. In the English dub, he just has an Australian accent.
* [[Ki Attacks]]: Some of the spells manage to resemble this. Especially the one fired off by {{spoiler|Naru against a god}} in the last episode.
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: John. When Mai met the nineteen-year-old priest, she initially assumed him to be as young as ''twelve''.
* [[Old School Building]]: The setting for the first story in Mai's school.
* [[Only Known
** Monk
* [[Onmyodo]]: Lin is revealed to have this ability.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Mai.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Generally, the series is pretty good about it. However, there are a few moments where you wonder just what character X had to do offscreen for so long.
* [[Peek
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: John Brown, an Australian.
* [[Poltergeist (trope)|Poltergeist]]: Since one of the characters has a desire to be notice ends up manifesting a poltergeist that injured several of his peers and strangers.
* [[Power At a Price]]: {{spoiler|Naru appears to have no paranormal powers, but in actuality, he's an ''extremely'' strong psychic with dangerously powerful psychokinetic abilities that can easily be lethal to others. Unfortunately, Naru's '''SO''' powerful that a human body can't take the stress of wielding that much psychic energy. The one time he displays his psychokinesis to a noticeable degree (to destroy a god-possessed statue), Naru ends up collapsing from temporary respiratory and heart failure}}.
* [[Power Nullifier]]: {{spoiler|Ayako Matsuzaki seems like she's a fake spiritualist for the first 25 episodes until she exorcises eight malevolent ghosts at once. Turns out all her power comes from her affinity for trees and all their previous cases were indoors, or the trees were "dead" trees.}}
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* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: An American investigator in The Bloodstained Labyrinth. You only hear it in the Japanese dub, though.
** Said investigator was [[Fake Nationality|supposed to be English]], but since he's explicitly a ''fake'', this is not surprising.
* [[Stringy
* [[Student Council President]]: [[Badass Bookworm|Yasuhara]] who also acts as the [[Sixth Ranger]] or in this case the eighth.
* [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]]: One of the more refreshing things about this series is how deadpan serious everyone is about their particular forms of mysticism and what they're dealing with.
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* [[Team Mom]]: Mai likens Ayako to this at the beginning of the Forgotten Children manga-arch.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Near the end of episode 10, Mai muses about how it would kind of suck {{spoiler|to have psychic powers}}, and that she's glad she's just an ordinary high school student. Turns out she's an [[Ordinary High School Student]], all right.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]] (Naru)
* [[Television Serial]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Mai shows hints of this. Though she leans toward the Dere side of things.
** Naru's mentor Madoka seems to have shades of this though she also leans towards Dere.
* {{spoiler|[[Twin Telepathy]]}}: {{spoiler|Oliver and Eugene Davis.}} However, it was mentioned that {{spoiler|their [[Psychic Link]] got weaker as they grew older}}.
* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: The Shibuya Psychic Research Center is basically the Ghost Hunters (of Sci-fi channel fame).
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Naru never tells anyone what he's planning, especially late in a case, despite consistent pestering from the others. On the rare occasion he does divulge what's on his mind, he's always wrong.
* [[Violence Detector]]: Mai consistently has dreams which explain the natures of the various hauntings and the histories of those who have suffered, making it possible to solve them later.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Mai is ''not'' pleased to discover that Naru is willing to turn a death curse onto six hundred relatively innocent students (hoping that the curse would dilute itself and "merely" severely injure them rather than kill them. Maybe) just to guarantee the life of one [[Jerkass]] teacher -- his justification being that, unwittingly or not, they still invoked a powerful death curse. {{spoiler|Naru instead [[Take a Third Option|takes a third option]] and diverts the death curse to six hundred ''hitogatas'' of innocent students, leaving everyone unharmed.}}
* [[Work Off the Debt]]: Subverted when {{spoiler|Mai eventually learns that the camera she broke was insured. Naru just led her to believe otherwise because he wanted a free gofer.}}
* [[The Workaholic]]: Naru and Lin.
* [[You! Get Me Coffee!]]: Mai's occasionally on the receiving end of this joke.
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