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I finally watched one of the anime I downloaded awhile ago, a random horror/supernatural one I found while looking for stuff unavailable on streaming.

Ghost Hound was pretty good! It's about a group of teens in a rural town who start having out-of-body experiences, and it got really spooky and weird. It had lots of spirituality and pseudoscience to explain everything that was going on, which I enjoyed because it helped anchor the strangeness in the reality of the setting. I liked all the characters too. There was a main group of three who were each troubled in different ways. All of that was explored really well, especially the main guy Taro who had major trauma from a childhood kidnapping that killed his sister. There were lots of great side characters too, like the doctor lady or the psychiatrist. Everyone got a lot of development and contributed in interesting ways.

Still, the absolute best part about this anime was the sound design. I watch anime with headphones, which probably enhanced the directional noises. The first few minutes of the first episode featured a fly buzzing around a room. I could follow the noise moving between ears and all around the room. I've never seen that effect done so well, and that's just one example. There were lots of really harsh droning noises or an otherworldly grinding or a thumping heartbeat drowning everything else out. This anime used sound to set the mood of a scene better than anything else I can think of off the top of my head.

I got super invested early on and it held on all the way to the end... but, sadly, I thought the end was a bit of a letdown. I still have a few unanswered questions, and the answer for a couple of the big mysteries couldn't help but feel underwhelming. Still, this was a good anime overall. There was a moment in the fourth episode that was one of the spookiest moments I've ever seen in an anime. This show was worth watching for that alone!