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Mai Taniyama || Ghost Hunt || 2/4

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Character Notes:
History:
Mai is a sixteen-year-old high school freshman. Her father died when she was very young and her mother died while she was in junior high. Thanks to school scholarships and part time jobs Mai is able to live on her own.

One day while telling ghosts stories with her classmates, Mai meets Kazuya Shibuya who is at the school researching paranormal activity in the old school building. She takes an instant disliking to his arrogant attitude and finds him very suspicious. The next morning she takes a peek into the old building where Shibuya’s equipment is set up. While examining a camera a nearby shelf falls on her. She is saved by Shibuya’s assistant, Lin. However Lin is hurt and sent to the hospital, and the camera is broken. In order to make up for the losses she caused, Mai is roped into working for Shibuya as his replacement assistant. After spending time working with Shibuya she notices how completely narcissistic he is and nicknames him Naru.

Soon after they are joined by Ayako (A Shinto Priestess), Hosho (A Buddhist Monk), John (A Catholic Priest) and Masako (A Celebrity Medium). All of them have been hired to solve the problems occurring in the old building before construction work can begin. While several attempts at exorcism fail, Naru brings forth the solution that the problems in the building are caused by shifts in the earth. However his theory is apparently ruined when poltergeist activity begins to show. While the majority of the group writes Naru off as incompetent, Mai finds herself believing in him. He returns not long after and tests everyone involved in the case. It turns out that most of the activity was caused by his initial theory of the earth shifting, but that some of it was also thanks to the psychic power of one of Mai’s classmates. With the case solved, Naru leaves just as the old building collapses completely. Just after Mai begins missing Naru and working with him, she receives a phone call from him, asking her to work for him on a regular basis. Mai agrees and begins working at Shibuya Psychic Reasearch or SPR.

The rest of the series follows Mai, Naru, Lin, and the other spiritualists that joined them on their first case as they solve other paranormal cases. As the cases keep cropping up it slowly becomes apparent that Mai has her own psychic powers. Her intuition is often very strong about certain things. This is because of her powers. She has a great instincts that often tell her who is truthful and who is lying. She also has dreams that lead to hints when it comes to their cases. In her dreams she often sees Naru who helps her with the clues. However, the Naru of her dreams is very kind and caring, very unlike his actual self.

[Spoilers Here]
This is not covered in the anime, but in the originals novels it is revealed that the Naru in Mai’s dreams is not Naru at all. It is actually the spirit of Naru’s twin brother, Gene. While trying to contact Naru, Gene came into contact with Mai instead. The series is left rather open ended about Mai’s power and her relationship with Naru and Gene.