Haunted Junction
Bandai
300 minutes
Japanese
English Subtitles
06/06/2000
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Haunted Junction
Bandai
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Mutsuki: My tamagochi is beeping, it poohed! Haunted Junction is just ridiculous. It's kinda like Bandai just decided to destroy my mind by putting a twelve episode series in one collection of two discs. "Hey Dave, you ass faced bastard... we all know you only watch DVDs in one sitting or not at all... here's FOUR HOURS of anime for your viewing pleasure! Not only that, but it's in Japanese! Have fun reading subtitles! Rot in hell you lazy bastard!" But Dave is no bitch and I rose to the challenge like a schizophrenic donkey out of Georgia.** Proving how much of a man I was I watched the whole thing in less than twice the runtime of the collection and completely burn my brains out doing it. The next day consisted mostly of me quoting things/making references from this weirdass show to pretty much everyone I talked to. |
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Eat mashed potatoes and fish for dinner? Well remember when "Bones" Suzuki, the skeleton, and Haruna Sato, the anatomical model, did the Cossack dance to try and save the school from the giant robots? No of course not, I watched the whole damn show ALONE. Yes, stuff like that does really happen in Haunted Junction were it seems like every-little-thing is possessed by some sort of "school spirit" the closest thing I ever saw that was as scary as a school spirit was when the kid in my fourth grade class pulled his pants down at recess. I cried like a ten year old girl then, which I sorta was... minus the girl part. Anyway, I don't need to see stuff like THAT. I don't need to see stuff like THIS either but it's a hell of a lot funnier and it doesn't involve (much) male genitalia. |
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This is the story of three kids who are members of Saito High's "Holy
Student Council", which is similar to a regular student council except
for the fact that they never go to class, it's their job to chase ghosts,
and they're supposed to be pretty strange. Most of them are too, Mutsuki
Asahina comes from a Shinto temple and only gives her "womanly affection"
to boys under the age of twelve.*** There's Kazumi
Ryudo, from the Buddhist temple who is in love with the sultry spirit
that inhabits many of the bathrooms in Japan, Miss Hanako. Kazumi also
has this problem of getting possessed by spirits completely at random.
Finally, we're given Haruto Houjo. Haruto's the "normal" one, son of a
Christian minister with no special powers except to bemoan his situation
and espouse his want for a normal life. All Haruto desires is to attend
a normal college, become a salaryman, and marry a normal girl. Haruto
is the one who says "Oh my God!" (Or as the Japanese pronounce it Oh MAAAAAA
GOOOOOODUUU) at the end of each episode when some calamity befalls the
school or himself.
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In a sort of way I can only attach to stuff like Urusei Yatsura
and a good amount of Ranma, Haunted Junction is completely
random and also semi-pointless, but to a greater extent. The former two
series had the viewers wondering who the lead would fall for in the end
and ran for a LONG ass time. Haunted Junction is twelve episodes
long and has no plot besides "We have ghosts in a school and three social
misfits, let's see what kind of crazy hijinks we can come up with now!"
It doesn't take a pissing Pope to realize that "filler episode" wouldn't
be appropriate to use in this show so much as "filler series". Watching
this is like watching The A-Team, nothing affects the next episode...
you're just watching it to see crap blow up as much as possible. Does
story advancement really matter when you've got stuff like a dancing giant
and man-faced sea cucumbers? It took me about six seconds to fall in love
with all the Miss Hanakos in the world and I'm seriously considering getting
on the bandwagon of Kazumi's idea to get a map to all the Miss Hanakos
in the nation. That blue haired boy is a goddamn genius.
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**So I MAY'VE taken a six hour break for sleeping after the
first disc.
***Also known as "The luckiest boys in the world", if she wants to make me wear short shorts and cartoon character underwear she just needs to ask!