Characters
Niiya Teiichi – Is the main character in the story, after meeting Yuuko he wants to find out the reason for her death, and why her corpse was hidden in the old school building. In the desire to find these answers he looks into various ghost stories that seem to be connected to Yuuko in some way.
Yuuko – Is the ghost that inhabits Teiichi's school, and for some reason Teiichi is the one of the few people that can actually see her. It also appears for some reason she has forgotten how she died, although see really doesn't care about finding out. The only thing she wants is for Teiichi to pay attention to her.
Okonogi – Is a journalist that works for the school paper, and she ends up helping Teiichi a lot by digging up various ghost stories that end up floating around school. Also for her own reason she wants to help Teiichi out in his investigation of ghost stories.
Kirie – Is one of the few people that are able to see Yuuko other than Teiichi, other because of this it cause a great deal of stress for her. The reason being is that she can see Yuuko feeling Teiichi up while everyone else can't see her.
Summary
What I find interesting is how they decide to start the series in about the middle of the manga. It is clear that they did this just so that they could give a clear introduction to all the major characters in the story. Also from the preview of next episode they will go back to they very beginning of the manga before all these people meet. The other thing that is interesting is that for the first half of the episode we saw Yuuko's interaction with those around her while we couldn't see or hear Yuuko. This element of the series will be interesting to see how they will use it in the future. Although I'm not sure if I would like them to play every episode out the way they did this one, where you had to watch almost everything twice. If it was just this once I guess it would be alright.
The interesting thing is how the moved on to the story about the ghost elevator. I guess it might be a little scary if an elevator that was no-long in use suddenly started to move. Also it kind of funny how it turns out that Yuuko has been using it has a convent short-cut. However it wasn't as scary for Teiichi as it was for Okonogi Since he could actually see Yuuko press the button on the elevator. It was amusing how Yuuko slowly moved behind Teiichi, just to knock him into the small elevator. Only to climb in behind him as the elevator descends, but all this was merely done so that she could get some alone time with Teiichi.
Although the episode ends with them heading to Yuuko's supposed grave that Okonogi found. Although Yuuko's corpse is back in the club-room where the door is all boarded up. This allows for them to define that things are not going to be a pleasant as they have been portrayed so far. That there is a dark-side to the story that we have yet to see. However with the way things are going, I think they are trying to go a bit a different direction than then manga is going. It should be interesting to see how things play out with it being an anime, because the same events that exist in the manga will be portrayed differently in the anime. I'm eagerly waiting to see how things will play out in the series.
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